Accession: 648A.67.018
Editorial Title: Emily P. Billings to Mary Baker Eddy, June 6, 1885
Author: Emily P. Billings 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 6, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emily P. Billings on embossed lined paper from Oakland, California.
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Please inform me what the lowest terms on your Metaphysical BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. would be to forward them to Oakland CaliforniaAs Written:Cala. As I have recently come here As Written: her to teach and practice also, I learned in Jackson Michigan from an able and confident Lady, here I found a woman who is introducing it in connection with magnetism she gives a lecture every Monday afternoonAs Written:after noon, and after the lecture she tells them they can join her class by paying what they can which is from ten dollarsEditorial Note: $10.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $265.16 in 2020. to twoEditorial Note: $2.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $53.03 in 2020. with a bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. (she pretends she composed herself) with the exception of a few brief idea of your ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science.

Pardon me for asking advice, would it be advisable for me to go to work in a quiet and earnest way in the midst of her influence many dislike her already although she has taken hundreds of dollars. My plan is to affect the circulation through the mind of courseAs Written:cours, is that the best, I got it from my teacher. I am anxious As Written: ancious to make a success of it, I seek the best Knowledge.

Very respectfully
Yours
Mrs. J. A. Billings
Oakland CaliforniaAs Written:Cala
648A.67.018
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Please inform me what the lowest terms on your Metaphysical BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. would be to forward them to Oakland CalaExpanded:California. As I have recently come her Corrected: here to teach and practice also, I learned in Jackson Michigan from an able and confident Lady, here I found a woman who is introducing it in connection with magnetism she gives a lecture every Monday after noonCorrected:afternoon, and after the lecture she tells them they can join her class by paying what they can which is from ten dollarsEditorial Note: $10.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $265.16 in 2020. to twoEditorial Note: $2.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $53.03 in 2020. with a bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. (she pretends she composed herself) with the exception of a few brief idea of your ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science.

Pardon me for asking advice, would it be advisable for me to go to work in a quiet and earnest way in the midst of her influence many dislike her already although she has taken hundreds of dollars. My plan is to affect the circulation through the mind of coursCorrected:course, is that the best, I got it from my teacher. I am ancious Corrected: anxious to make a success of it, I seek the best Knowels Knowledge.

Very respectfully
Yours
Mrs. J. A. Billings
Oakland CalaExpanded:California
 
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Oakland, California Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. $10.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $265.16 in 2020. $2.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $53.03 in 2020. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science