Accession: 674B.74.046
Editorial Title: Mary E. Hammond to Calvin A. Frye, August 24, 1886
Author: Mary E. Hammond 
Recipient: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: August 24, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary E. Hammond on embossed unlined paper from Wareham, Massachusetts.
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Mr Frye Sir: –

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. receivedAs Written:rec'd and in reply will say that I've no desire to dictate Mrs Eddy's price even if it were a much larger sum if I had it, but at present I cannot raise $300.00Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $9,724.54 in 2023. so will defer entering class hoping that the results of my labors will admit of my so doing at an early future. Thanks to Mrs Eddy for considering my application.

Yours Respectfully,
Mary E. Hammond.

N. B. I very much regret that circumstances compel me to defer and hope that it may yet terminate in good – M. E. H.

674B.74.046
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mr Frye Sir: –

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. rec'dExpanded:received and in reply will say that I've no desire to dictate Mrs Eddy's price even if it were a much larger sum if I had it, but at present I cannot raise $300.00Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $9,724.54 in 2023. so will defer entering class hoping that the results of my labors will admit of my so doing at an early future. Thanks to Mrs Eddy for considering my application.

Yours Respectfully,
Mary E. Hammond.

[?] Unclear or illegible  N. B. I very much regret that circumstances compel me to defer and hope that it may yet terminate in good – M. E. H.

 
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This letter is not extant. $300.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $9,724.54 in 2023. Onset is a census-designated place in the town of Wareham, Massachusetts. It was developed in the 1880s as a summer camp meeting for Spiritualists and was known as Onset Bay Grove.