Accession: 652A.68.002
Editorial Title: John W. Bruce to Mary Baker Eddy, October 26, 1885
Author: John W. Bruce 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 26, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by John W. Bruce on embossed lined paper from Wakefield, Massachusetts.
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Wakefield MassachusettsAs Written:Mass. Oct. 26. 1885
Dear Mrs. Eddy,

I wish to enter your next class. And I will refer you to Mrs. Stetson of SomervilleEditorial Note: Somerville, Massachusetts, from whom I have received treatments. I am also acquainted with Mrs. Prescott of ReadingEditorial Note: Reading, Massachusetts, who expects to enter the next class; also with Mrs Atkinson of Reading, whom you have met.

I live in Wakefield, the largest town between BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and LawrenceEditorial Note: Lawrence, Massachusetts except MaldenEditorial Note: Malden, Massachusetts, where the scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists have no representative.

On account of the loss of my wife, & other disabilities, I have given up business, and now have nothing to hinder me from devoting my whole time to the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. I am 69 years old. Have been a member of the Congregational church for 47. years; and a deacon a part of that time.

I wish you would write me, at your earliest convenience, and state, on what day and hour I can have a personal interview with you,

and oblige
J.W. Bruce
Wakefield MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.
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Wakefield Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts Oct. 26. 1885
Dear Mrs. Eddy,

I wish to enter your next class. And I will refer you to Mrs. Stetson of SomervilleEditorial Note: Somerville, Massachusetts, from whom I have received treatments. I am also acquainted with Mrs. Prescott of ReadingEditorial Note: Reading, Massachusetts, who expects to enter the next class; also with Mrs Atkinson of Reading, whom you have met.

I live in Wakefield, the largest town between BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and LawrenceEditorial Note: Lawrence, Massachusetts except MaldenEditorial Note: Malden, Massachusetts, where the scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists have no representative.

On account of the loss of my wife, & other disabilities, I have given up business, and now have nothing to hinder me from devoting my whole time to the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. I am 69 years old. Have been a member of the Congregational church for 47. years; and a deacon a part of that time.

I wish you would write me, at your earliest convenience, and state, on what day and hour I can have a personal interview with you,

and oblige
J.W. Bruce
Wakefield Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts
 
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