Accession: 669B.73.046
Editorial Title: Ella Fuqua to Mary Baker Eddy, September 24, 1884
Author: Ella Fuqua 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: September 24, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Ella Fuqua on embossed lined paper from Knoxville, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsweredAs Written:Ans. Oct 5
Mrs Eddy.
Lynn. MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.
Dear Madam

Through Mrs. A. A. Lynde I hear of you and your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. And as I wishAs Written:wishe to learn more of them I write to you to know the prices. Mrs Lynde tells me by reading them that one can cure themselvesAs Written:themself. I have been sick for ten years and have triedAs Written:tryed all schools of doctoring but cannot get relief. they tell me that I have enlargement of the stomach, liver, and spleen, which produces Asthma palpitationAs Written:palpation of the heart neuralgiaAs Written:neauraliga and rheumatism and that I also had the kidney disease and congestionAs Written:conjestion of the womb. attended with virginal catarrhAs Written:catarah and all the mucus membranesAs Written:membrains was as raw as a pieceAs Written:peise of beef. and it was all caused from scrofulaAs Written:scroffola my skin all over me is very scalyAs Written:scaley and have been so since birth. I always have been weaklyAs Written:weekly. but not as I am now. life is so dreary. and death so dark I want to be reconciled to it but can't They tell me you are a healer are there any hopes for me. do pleaseAs Written:pleas write me a word and put my mind at ease I want to make my mind to live or die which will it be pleaseAs Written:pleas do tell me what is your pricesAs Written:prises for treatments also for your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. excuse me for occupying so much of your time. but I feel it does me good to write you and do pleaseAs Written:pleas let me hear from you and oblige

Ella. Fuqua.
Knoxville.
Knox. County
Illinois.
669B.73.046
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAns.Expanded:Answered Oct 5
Mrs Eddy.
Lynn. Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts
Dear Madam

Through Mrs. A. A. Lynde I hear of you and your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. And as I wisheCorrected:wish to learn more of them I write to you to know the prices. Mrs Lynde tells me by reading them that one can cure themselfCorrected:themselves. I have been sick for ten years and have tryedCorrected:tried all schools of doctoring but cannot get relief. they tell me that I have enlargement of the stomach, liver, and spleen, which produces Asthma palpationCorrected:palpitation of the heart neauraligaCorrected:neuralgia and rheumatism and that I also had the kidney disease and conjestionCorrected:congestion of the womb. attended with virginal catarahCorrected:catarrh and all the mucus membrainsCorrected:membranes was as raw as a peiseCorrected:piece of beef. and it was all caused from scroffolaCorrected:scrofula my skin all over me is very scaleyCorrected:scaly and have been so since birth. I always have been weeklyCorrected:weakly. but not as I am now. life is so dreary. and death so dark I want to be reconciled to it but can't They tell me you are a healer are there any hopes for me. do pleasCorrected:please write me a word and put my mind at ease I want to make my mind to live or die which will it be pleasCorrected:please do tell me what is your prisesCorrected:prices for treatments also for your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. excuse me for occupying so much of your time. but I feel it does me good to write you and do pleasCorrected:please let me hear from you and oblige

Ella. Fuqua.
Knoxville.
Knox. County
Illinois.
 
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