Accession: 692B.80.010
Editorial Title: Laura M. McGavic to Mary Baker Eddy, April 2, 1886
Author: Laura M. McGavic 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: April 2, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Laura M. McGavic on embossed lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
Final Edits
Original Document
Click image to magnify
Full
Back
Close
View Document
View Image
692B.80.010
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
X

Copied document link to clipboard.

⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 6
Reduction $50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,441.33 in 2021. off
⇉ Handshift:Laura M. McGavicChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois Apr 2nd 1886 –
Mrs Mary Baker Eddy.
Dear Madam –

I am very greatly interested in your ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science having always been a believer in the power of the mind over the body.

My means are limited and yet I am most desirous of studying with you. Could I make any arrangements with you, wherebyAs Written:where by I could, upon part payment of the usual amount, become a member of your school, and pay the remainder after I had begun to practice,?

I read your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, but still I feel that I must have your teaching, and no other.

Hoping you will find it possible to favor me, I am
Very Respectfully
Yours
Mrs T. C. McGavic
1841 Wabash Ave.
Chicago IllinoisAs Written:Ill
692B.80.010
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
X

Copied document link to clipboard.

⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 6
Reduction $50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,441.33 in 2021. off
⇉ Handshift:Laura M. McGavicChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois Apr 2nd 1886 –
Mrs Mary Baker Eddy.
Dear Madam –

I am very greatly interested in your ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science having always been a believer in the power of the mind over the body.

My means are limited and yet I am most desirous of studying with you. Could I make any arrangements with you, where byCorrected:whereby I could, upon part payment of the usual amount, become a member of your school, and pay the remainder after I had begun to practice,?

I read your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, but still I feel that I must have your teaching, and no other.

Hoping you will find it possible to favor me, I am
Very Respectfully
Yours
Mrs T. C. McGavic
1841 Wabash Ave.
Chicago IllExpanded:Illinois
 
View Image
 

Back Text

Shown for development purposes only
There is what appears to be shorthand written here. $50.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,441.33 in 2021. Chicago, Illinois Christian Science Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy