Accession: 656B.69.041
Editorial Title: Ravaud H. Chittenden to Mary Baker Eddy, June 10, 1886
Author: Ravaud H. Chittenden 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy  Calvin A. Frye 
Date: June 10, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Ravaud H. Chittenden on lined paper from Lyndon, Kansas.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in shorthand in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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656B.69.041
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mrs M B G Eddy
Boston MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.
Dear Madam

I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Journal for June, hoping to see a notice of date of commencement of another class at the Metaphysical College – but am disappointed. I now write to you giving you my name as a member of your next class So fa r as I can foresee– Please let me know when another class commences – I am treating cases of disease Every day - by the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science with gratifying success in many of the Cases = but with other cases I do not succeed- two of the cases I wrote about in a former letter yield As Written: yeild very slowly- viz the belief As Written: beleif in Cancer of the face & the belief As Written: beleif in blindness as a result of granulated lids = When I get cases that do not yield As Written: yeild readily, I feel more anxious than ever to have your personal instructions feeling that there is something that I do not understand I study Science & healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy every day- I have been greatly benefited by the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & so have my family–

I have dismissed one case of cancer as manifested on the chin of a boy Eight years of age– after three weeks' As Written: weeks treatment Am treating now the Pastor of the M. E. church here for belief in Catarrh - Deafness - & PilesEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as hemorrhoids. & he is improving rapidly– I am greatly rejoiced at the success I am having - through the power of Life Truth & Love-

Respectfully Yours
R. H. Chittenden M.D. CS
Lyndon KansasAs Written:Kans
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyAutumn
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
656B.69.041
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mrs M B G Eddy
Boston Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts
Dear Madam

I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Journal for June, hoping to see a notice of date of commencement of another class at the Metaphysical College – but am disappointed. I now write to you giving you my name as a member of your next class So fas r as I can foresee– Please let me know when another class commences – I am treating cases e of disease Every day - by the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science with gratifying success in many of the Cases = but with other cases I do not succeed- two of the cases I wrote about in a former letter yeild Corrected: yield very slowly- viz the beleif Corrected: belief in Canscer of the face & the beleif Corrected: belief in blindness as a result of granulated lids = When I get cases that do not yeild Corrected: yield readily, I feel more anxious than ever to have your personal instructions feeling that there is something that I do not understand I study Science & healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy every day- I have been greatly benefited by the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & so have my family–

I have dismissed one case of cancer as manifested on the chin of a boy Eight years of age– after three weeks Corrected: weeks' treatment Am treating now the Pastor of the M. E. church here for belief in Catarrh - Deafness - & PilesEditorial Note: Now more commonly referred to as hemorrhoids. & he is improving rapidly– I am greatly rejoiced at the success I am having - through the power of Life Truth & Love-

Respectfully Yours
R. H. Chittenden M.D. CS
Lyndon KansExpanded:Kansas
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyAutumn
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
 
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Christian Science Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science Now more commonly referred to as hemorrhoids. There is what appears to be shorthand written here.