As you well know, I have, all along, been desiring and hoping to be able to study Christian Science with you, but have been unable, as yet, to meet all the requirements necessary thereto.

The pecuniary part has been the greatest obstacle, but since you have graduated a class of teachers, and their price for tuition is within my reach, the way seems open for one to study.

But notwithstanding this opening, I still feel that I would very much prefer to study with you, and before taking any further steps towards studying, I have thought it but the right and proper thing to do, to ask you plainly and frankly if I may hope to study with you, for this sum which I feel that I can pay, viz. $50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1884 is the equivalent of $1,384.45 in 2017. .

Of course, I would not urge anything that seems to you, unreasonable, in the matter, but I simply ask this, that I may feel clean and satisfied in my own mind. that I have done the best I can do for myself, in this matter of studying.

Whether your reply be “yes” or “no” I shall ever regard you with the most kindly feeling and as one through whom I have receivedAs Written:recieved great light and a grand Truth.