Accession: 711P1.85.003
Editorial Title: Mary W. Siedentopf to Mary Baker Eddy, August 27, 1886
Author: Mary W. Siedentopf 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 27, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary W. Siedentopf on lined paper from Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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Council BluffsEditorial Note: Council Bluffs, Iowa August 27/86
Dear Mrs Eddy; ―

Long have I wished to send you my one-day's. lesson duesAs Written:due's, – but I had determined to pay with Money earned in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, so here I am at last – You will please accept enclosed check. $25Editorial Note: $25.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $810.38 in 2023. That money cannotAs Written:can not pay you that I know. I also know that you will understand me. if I say little and prefer to work quietly.

How am I to understand one sentence in S HEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy where it speaks of quackery by directing the patient's As Written: patients thoughts to you. Selling them. S H would do so, yet I know that is not what is meant will you please explain in the Journal, how it is meant. often when I feel As Written: feal weary I think of the moral courage you must have possessedAs Written:posessed, and I gain new hope, that I shall and can As Written: kan conquer disease and sin of all kind.

I have one patient who As Written: whoe was given up to die with belief of Cancer; who As Written: whoe intends to go to work next week. Did you forget me as applicant to your class? ―

I remain your affectionate student
Mary. W. Siedentopf

P. S. My husband and childrenEditorial Note: William “Will” F. Siedentopf, Jr. (1871-1926) and Ellen S. Haas (b. Siedentopf) (1877-1967). Both were born and died in Council Bluffs, Iowa. bid me send you their love.

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Council BluffsEditorial Note: Council Bluffs, Iowa August 27/86
Dear Mrs Eddy; ―

Long have I wished to send you my one-day's. lesson due'sCorrected:dues, – but I had determined to pay with Money earned in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, so here I am at last – You will please accept enclosed check. $25Editorial Note: $25.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $810.38 in 2023. That money can notCorrected:cannot pay you that I know. I also know that you will understand me. if I say little [?] Unclear or illegible  and prefer to work quietly.

How am I to understand one sentence in S HEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy where it speaks of quackery by directing the patients Corrected: patient's thoughts to you. Selling them. S H would do so, yet I know that is not what is meant will you please explain in the Journal, how it is meant. often when I feal Corrected: feel weary I think of the moral courage you must have posessedCorrected:possessed, and I gain new hope, that I shall and kan Corrected: can conquer disease and sin of all kind.

I have one patient whoe Corrected: who was given up to die with belief of Cancer; whoe Corrected: who intends to go to work next week. Did you forget me as applicant to your class? ―

I remain your affectionate student
Mary. W. Siedentopf

P. S. My husband and childrenEditorial Note: William “Will” F. Siedentopf, Jr. (1871-1926) and Ellen S. Haas (b. Siedentopf) (1877-1967). Both were born and died in Council Bluffs, Iowa. bid me send you their love.

 
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Council Bluffs, Iowa Christian Science $25.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $810.38 in 2023. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy William “Will” F. Siedentopf, Jr. (1871-1926) and Ellen S. Haas (b. Siedentopf) (1877-1967). Both were born and died in Council Bluffs, Iowa.