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⇉ Handshift:Laurana P. Barnum571 Columbus Av
BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts
Dear Mrs Eddy
Pardon this intrusion but I am a castaway on the sea of life, without means to purchase what I so much desire to own your work on Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Now I have health, energy, and a good address, believe that I could do great things for you here. if I only had a few documents, that would explain your revelation a few copies of your Magazine and some of your pamphlets that I have seen in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois. Now would you send me one dozen of your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy on sale. allowing me a commission so that I might earn for myself a copy? I can refer you to Mrs M. H Philbrick & Miss Belle Beecher of Chicago, who have been your students and are going on to Boston to take the normal course the coming fall. I will be their student unless my finances change so that I can go to Boston – There is not a person here to represent your systemEditorial Note: Christian Science and although As Written: altho I have studiedAs Written:studed your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science as far as to almost commit the two booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to memory, (a friend bought As Written: bot them and gave me the use of them last summer.) my home is near Chicago where I have land, but cannot raise a dollar in money– If this proposition should be accepted please forward immediately both booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and pamphlets As Written: pamplets and I will canvass the town in your interest for subscribers also sell the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and forward money As Written: mony to you