⇉ Handshift:Julia L. ChildsGasport New YorkAs Written:NY. Dec 21..1885
Will you please send specimen copies of your monthly publication to the addresses which I enclose on another slip of paperEditorial Note: This slip of paper is not extant.. They are friends whom I much wish to learn something of your Christian Science. as they are all ill except myself, and I need a "tonic"
I have learned little of it as yet and do not at all understand how cures are affected. but a religion which appeals straight to the heart and reason withoutAs Written:with-out rites and ceremonies is something I am hungry for, as the churches seem to fail more and more in pure religion as years pass on
I am very fond of reading and to satisfy my own soul. I have made more than a thousand extracts from the different great poets which nearly all are in accord with your teachings though I never heard of your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science till this fall and that but little. An invalid lent me one of your magazines a few days We had thought of trying to send for your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy but had not decided yet as to that. Waiting to learn more as we have not money to spend freely for books.
I have a friend very low with consumptionEditorial Note: tuberculosis. and oh how I wish she might be cured by your As Written: you scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science or if she must depart this earthly life that her soul might be fortified for the change by what I hope Christian Science to be. Will you please tell me if there are any practitioners of your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science within reach of her
She lives at Cazenovia Madison CountyAs Written:Co New YorkAs Written:N.Y.
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Please send your samples of your publications to the enclosed addressesEditorial Note: This enclosure is not extant. and much oblige.
Give my letter, no publicity. please