Some time ago, Mrs. Fanny McN Potter, your friend and mine, urged me to take an interest in your work and I did so to a limited extent but had so much to do that I could give little time to any new study. Ten days ago I returned from a six months stay in Europe to find my friends in Brooklyn much exercised over the teachings of Mrs. Newman and the subject generally. I heard Mrs. Newman speak once to a gathering of ladies and was not greatly interested in consequence of her repeated Biblical quotations. I thought if there were great truths to be divulged, the women to whom she was then talking were able to bear them without support of any kind. Perhaps I was not quite just in my conclusions. Since then I have listened to several of her pupils and am satisfied that the matter of mind cure will interest the public and I propose to write about it. Will you send me any pamphlets you may have; tell me the difference between your teachings and hers (Mrs N’s) and let me know what you charge for teaching? Mrs Potter has this morning brought me your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. to read, and I told her that if I could find as much in your teachings as she reported I would urge you to come to Brooklyn, and assist us to learn. as for myself I am inclined to think that the old philosophers gave us the best rules ever propounded for the spiritual & physical man’s guidance and I hold that there is nothing new under the sunEccl 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. . But I am truly eager to learn truth and whoever has any part of it, is a messenger to me.

Let me hear from you and meantime I will look over your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. and be prepared for your letter.