It seems like presumption to encroach one moment on your valuable time, but for four years the desire has been strong upon me to write and tell you of my great love for you and my deep gratitude for what you have done for us all.

My memory of you goes back many long years, to the time when as a very little girl, I went with my mother to Dr Patterson's office, where she was having some Ddental work done. YYou were in the Ooffice and shared your love for Children by your kindness to me. The work was long and I went several times,. and I well remember how you laughed and made me say it over, when I insisted that my name was "Pocahontas" a nickname some oneCorrected:someone had given me for Hortense, and which I immediately adopted and proceeded to use on all occasions–

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⇉ Handshift:Hortense R. KelleyMany years later you came again to LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts, and stayed for some time with the family of Clark Oliver on So'Expanded:South Common St. Richard Kennedy or "Doctor Dick" as we called him, was at that time associated with you. I was constantly at the house with Mrs Oliver's daughter,, Kate, and I have listened to your talk,. in the home, and at your rooms near Shepard St. for hours.

We used to speak of you then as "Aunt Mamie Glover," and I have only to close my eyes, to see you now, as plainly as I did then. I was always called "Sis Libbey" and lived just across the Common from the Oliver home.

My Mother is still living, ,is an earnest student of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science and often talks of her old acquaintance with you. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy¶ ⇉ Handshift:Hortense R. KelleyWe went to New York while you were still at the OliversCorrected:Oliver's,, and was were gone many years. I married, lost my HusbandEditorial Note: Kelley's first husband, George Fuller, and later married again, and tThatis brings me to what I want to tell you. My husband had a severe attack of Typhoid fever, which left him with a weak heart,, and which, eventually, developed into Valvular heart-disease, in its most distressing form. — Everything was tried for him that money could procure, but without avail. His suffering was beyond description. For weeks he took no solid food, but lived entirely on liquid food with drugs and stimulants. TheA Sspecialist told me, "he might live a few weeks, and he might not live half an hour", but that there was absolutely no chance for him to be any better.

One morning, after a dreadful night of suffering, I wrote to a dear friend in ReadingEditorial Note: Reading, Massachusetts, (Mr A. E. DeMerritt, a student of Mrs Julia E. Prescott C.S.D.) asking what I could do., And, in answer he and his wife came to me. At that time we were in Paterson N. J.Expanded:New Jersey. I ought to say here that mMy husband, had been forbidden by the Ddoctors to ride on a Ttrolley Car at all, , even as far as the Doctors Corrected: Doctor's Office a distance of only three [?] Unclear or illegible  blocks, but, regardless of that, my friends returned to Reading the same day, taking him with them, for C. S.Expanded:Christian Science treatment. I consented to his going without me, never expectinged he would reach there alive. That was about Nov 1st 1902. At Thanksgiving time the same month, they sent for me, and I went on to see him. He had been under C. S.Expanded:Christian Science treatment with Mr DeMerritt about three weeks. Imagine my surprise and delight when hHe was met me at the Depot, walking without any support, breathing normally, and looking well and happier than I had seen him for years.

Thanksgiving day I attended my first C. S.Expanded:Christian Science service, and I came away feeling as though I had caught a glimpse of another world. I am making my letter too long, but I must say, that I went back to N. JExpanded:New Jersey disposed of every thingCorrected:everything there, and came to Reading to be with the dear ones there, who had come to us in our hour of need, and had brought us into the light of love, and trust in God, through C. S.Expanded:Christian Science.

The next summer we had the great privilege of Class instruction under Mrs Julia Prescott. C.S.D. And her patient love and teaching had helped us more than I can express. We are now members of both the the Reading church and tThe Mother Church,. We are now living in Malden,, have a nice little business of our own, and are well and happy.

We owe everything to C. S.Expanded:Christian Science And I have no words to express my gratitude and love. I went to ConcordEditorial Note: Concord, New Hampshire in June of 1903, to look upon your face once more, and as I stood close to your carriage, I thanked God in my heart for those memories of my childhood and youth connected with you,,– so dear to me now,,– in the light of the love and gratitude brought forth in the healing of my dear husband, through your love and labor for the good of all mankind.. (We are earnestly striving to be w [?] Unclear or illegible orthy of the great blessing that has come to us, and it is our daily prayer to be able to help others, as we were helped in our great need.

Mr Oliver passed away a few years ago. but became a convert to Spiritualism before he went. His daughter is also gone, and Mrs Oliver is an inmate of the Old Ladies Home in Lynn.

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⇉ Handshift:Hortense R. KelleyIf I have intruded too long please pardon me. I could write for hours and not tell the half of what C. S.Expanded:Christian Science has done for me.