Accession: 656B.69.040
Editorial Title: Ravaud H. Chittenden to Mary Baker Eddy, April 23, 1886
Author: Ravaud H. Chittenden 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: April 23, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Ravaud H. Chittenden on unlined paper from Lyndon, Kansas.
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656B.69.040
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Mrs M. B. G. Eddy
Boston MassachusettsAs Written:Mass
Dear Madam

Your Circular letter of 17th inst.Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. received & noted. I wrote you a letter Mar 4"Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. Stating that Mrs E. E. Gillin of DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado was my teacher - She was instructed by Drs Wickersham & Sherman of Denver.-, She & her Son-in-lawAs Written:Soninlaw D. F. Coon are practicing in ColoradoAs Written:Col. Springs ColoradoAs Written:Colo. If there was anything wrong or illegal in her teaching me she did not know it, nor I either. Beg pardon for asking you to remember some of my patients in your Communion As Written: Commiunion with God but in my zeal for the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science & my anxiety to make it a success I unwittingly asked what I ought not. I suppose I ought not to have taken these hard cases until I had demonstrated & become firmly established in Truth I am endeavoring to follow your instructions as laid down in S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I took a case of beliefAs Written:beleif in Cancer of the face this week & have just give him a treatment. I do not turn any cases away It seems to me that the Science of LifeEditorial Note: Christian Science would spread like wildfireAs Written:wild fire over this western country & I am Satisfied that your college will reap a large benefit, & I do not have the least desire to detract one iota from the honor due you as the progenitor of this doctrine or as the demonstrator of it. I see you do not make it absolutely necessary to practice one year before attending the Normal course- only advising it, & my object was to save the expense of an extra trip to Boston. which for wife & I would cost us nearly $200.Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,765.32 in 2021. extra & we have not got to it give- I would dearly love to get a few lines from yourselfAs Written:your self.

Yours in Life Truth & Love
R. H. Chittenden
656B.69.040
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Mrs M. B. G. Eddy
Boston MassExpanded:Massachusetts
Dear Madam

Your Circular letter of 17th inst.Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. received & noted. I wrote you a letter Mar 4"Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. Stating that Mrs E. E. Gillin of DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado was my teacher - She was instructed by Drs Wickersham & Sherman of Denver.-, She & her SoninlawCorrected:Son-in-law D. F. Coon are practicing in Col.Expanded:Colorado Springs ColoExpanded:Colorado. If there was anything wrong or illegal in her teaching me she did not know it, nor I either. Beg pardon for asking you to remember some of my patients in your Commiunion Corrected: Communion with God but in my zeal for the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science & my anxiety to make it a success I unwittingly asked what I ought not. I suppose I ought not to have taken these hard cases until I had demonstrated & become firmly established in Truth I am endeavoring to follow your instructions as laid down in S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I took a case of beleifCorrected:belief in Cancer of the face this week & have just give him a treatment. I do not turn any cases away It seems to me that the Science of LifeEditorial Note: Christian Science would spread like wild fireCorrected:wildfire over this western country & I am Satisfied that your college will reap a large benefit, & I do not have the least desire to detract one iota from the honor due you as the progenitor of this doctrine or as the demonstrator of it. I see you [?] Unclear or illegible  do not make it absolutely necessary to practice one year before attending the Normal course- only advising it, & my object was to save the expense of an extra trip to Boston. which for wife & I would cost us nearly $200.Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,765.32 in 2021. extra & we have not got to it give- I would dearly love to get a few lines from your selfCorrected:yourself.

Yours in Life Truth & Love
R. H. Chittenden
 
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This letter is not extant. This letter is not extant. Denver, Colorado The cause of Christian Science Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,765.32 in 2021.