Accession: 662B.71.015
Editorial Title: Mrs. L. W. De Witt to Mary Baker Eddy, January 29, 1886
Author: Mrs. L. W. De Witt 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 29, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mrs. L. W. De Witt on unlined paper from Coxsackie, New York.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye and Mary Baker Eddy.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Mrs. L. W. De WittCoxsackieEditorial Note: Coxsackie, New York Jan 29th 1886
Misses Eddys Teachers in Metaphysics

I wish to know how long a time is required to learn and could I come one time as well as another and what would your special terms be to teach me Metaphysics as I am a widow with four children my husband has been worth over 75 thousand dollarsEditorial Note: $75,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $2,064,986.70 in 2020. and died leaving me penniless As Written: peniless I hope to borrow money to go to you and learn I think I am Naturally As Written: Naturaly suited to the profession As Written: proffession hoping As Written: hopeing to receive an early reply

I am Respectfully
Mrs L W De Witt

I have met several of your scholars As Written: Schollars in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois and they said no one could teach equal to you

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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Mrs. L. W. De WittCoxsackieEditorial Note: Coxsackie, New York Jan 29th 1886
Misses Eddys Teachers in Metaphysics

I wish to know how long a time is required to lear [?] Unclear or illegible n and could I come one time as well [?] Unclear or illegible  as another and what would your special terms be to teach me Metaphysics as I am a widow with four children my husband has been worth over 75 thousand dollarsEditorial Note: $75,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $2,064,986.70 in 2020. aand died leaving me peniless Corrected: penniless I hope to borrow money to go to you and learn I think I am Naturaly Corrected: Naturally suited to the proffession Corrected: profession hopeing Corrected: hoping to receive an early reply

I am Respectfully
Mrs L W De Witt

I have met several of your Schollars Corrected: scholars in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois and they said no one could teach eequal to you

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There is what appears to be shorthand written here. Coxsackie, New York $75,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $2,064,986.70 in 2020. Chicago, Illinois