Accession: 640.65.009
Editorial Title: Sarah J. Achorn to Mary Baker Eddy, January 26, 1885
Author: Sarah J. Achorn 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 26, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Sarah J. Achorn on lined paper illustrated with a mountain and lake scene, from Waldoboro, Maine.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy and Calvin A. Frye.
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Handshift:Mary Baker Eddygive Mrs Harris’ name
say ask her
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent
Dear Mrs Eddy:

I have been under the treatment of one of your students, Mrs Mary Poole, for the past five months and have been greatly benefitedAs Written:benefitted by it. I also have your two volumesEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and have read them a great deal. I firmly believe all that is in them. I thank God for this Metaphysical As Written: Metaphisical ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. I have been a victim of drugs and Doctors for nearly six years, and have never been benefitedAs Written:benefitted by them. but through your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and God I feel that I am getting nearer to health every day. I sincerely beg your pardon, if I seem presumptuous As Written: presumptous in writing to you, but I wish very much, to ask you a question. could you treat a woman in confinementEditorial Note: “Confinement” refers to the time of childbirth. without being present with her? Please let me know and tell me all about it. There are none of your students nearer here than Boston, that I know of. Please write me soon. May God bless you always.

Sincerely Yours.
addressAs Written:ad) Mrs. C. J. Achorn. Orff’s CornerAs Written:Orffs Cor.
Waldoboro. MaineAs Written:ME.
640.65.009
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Mary Baker Eddygive Mrs Harris’ name
say ask her
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent
Dear Mrs Eddy:

I have been under the treatment of one of your students, Mrs Mary Poole, for the past five months and have been greatly benefittedCorrected:benefited by it. I also have your two volumesEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and have read them a great deal. I firmly believe all that is in them. I thank God for this Metaphisical Corrected: Metaphysical ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. I have been a victim of drugs and Doctors for nearly six years, and have never been benefittedCorrected:benefited by them. but through your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and God I feel that I am getting nearer to health every day. I sicncerely beg your pardon, if I seem presumptous Corrected: presumptuous in writing to you, but I wish very much, to ask you a question. could you treat a woman in confinementEditorial Note: “Confinement” refers to the time of childbirth. without being present with her? Please let me know and tell me all about it. There are none of your students nearer here than Boston, that I know of. Please write me soon. May God bless you always.

Sincerely Yours.
adExpanded:address) Mrs. C. J. Achorn. Orffs Cor.Expanded:Orff’s Corner
Waldoboro. ME.Expanded:Maine
 
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science Christian Science “Confinement” refers to the time of childbirth.