Accession: 700B.82.016
Editorial Title: Francis Partridge to Mary Baker Eddy, September 21, 1886
Author: Francis Partridge 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 21, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Francis Partridge on unlined printed stationery of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, Office of Clerical Secretary, from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Halifax Nova ScotiaAs Written:N.S. Septr 21 1886
Mrs Mary B.G. Eddy C.S.
Dear Madam,

I have met Miss Josephine Lytes C.S. in this cityEditorial Note: Halifax, Nova Scotia, and have received your book "Science & Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy from her, which book has been a kind of Revelation to me. I have had conversations with her also.

It is my intention to visit BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, leaving here on or about the 2nd Oct. I shall do myself the pleasure of Calling upon you when I arrive. I am bringing my little girl to school. My object in writing now is to ascertain, (as a certain number of Clergymen are admitted to your lectures free) whether I may also come. I have no desire of practicing As Written: practising the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science as a profession, my time being more thankfully occupied now in the duties of my Office & Parish. But I would gladly know more of what it appears to me the world has been waiting for since the days of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.

I am, dear Madam,
Yours in the faith of Christ,
F. Partridge D.D.
Rector of St George's (h.

P.S. Can I get an insight into your systemEditorial Note: Christian Science in a fortnight? I am an apostle of it whether I attend your College or not.

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Halifax N.S.Expanded:Nova Scotia Septr 21 1886
Mrs Mary B.G. Eddy C.S.
Dear Madam,

I have met Miss Josephine Lytes C.S. in this cityEditorial Note: Halifax, Nova Scotia, and have received your book "Science & Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy from her, which book has been a kind of Revelation to me. I have had conversations with her also.

It is my intention to visit BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, leaving here on or about the 2nd Oct. I shall do myself the pleasure of Calling upon you when I arrive. I am bringing my little girl to school. My object in writing now is to ascertain, (as a certain number of Clergymen are admitted to your lectures free) whether I may also come. I have no desire of practising Corrected: practicing the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science as a profession, my time being more thankfully occupied now in the duties of my Office & Parish. But I would gladly know more of what it appears to me the world has been waiting for since the days of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.

I am, dear Madam,
Yours in the faith of Christ,
F. Partridge D.D.
Rector of St George's (h.

P.S. Can I get an insight into your systemEditorial Note: Christian Science in a fortnight? I am an apostle of it whether I attend your College or not.

 
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