Accession: 720A.88.037
Editorial Title: Effie Van Steinburg to Mary Baker Eddy, January 15, 1886
Author: Effie Van Steinburg 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 15, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Effie Van Steinburg on lined printed stationery from Preston, Iowa.
Archival Note: This letter includes a shorthand notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Editorial Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Effie Van SteinburgPreston, Iowa, Jan 15th 1886
Mrs Eddy
Dear Madam

I have been reading some of Metaphysics and feel very much interested, I believe there is a good deal of truth in it. My health has been poor for some time and the last two months I have been treated by a Metaphysician and she has helped me. now for several days I seem to stand still. she seems hardly satisfied. I spoke of writing to you. and she told me to do so, my whole system seems to be out of sorts. I have tried hard to control my own body and so help to dispel As Written: dispell this belief of disease. Can you give a diagnosis of my disease withoutAs Written:with out seeing me & what will be charges for that. and also for removing disease

Yours respectfully
Effie VanSteinburg
Preston
Jackson CountyAs Written:Co
Iowa
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Editorial Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Effie Van SteinburgPreston, Iowa, Jan 15th 1886
Mrs Eddy
Dear Madam

I have been reading some of Metaphysics and feel very much interested, I believe there is a good deal of truth in it. My health has been poor faor some time and the last two months I have been treated by a Metaphysician and she has helped me. now for several days I seem to stand still. she seems hardly satisfied. I spoke of writing to you. and she told me to do so, my whole system seems to be out of sorts. I have tried hard to conrtrol my own body and so help dispelling to dispell Corrected: dispel this belief of disease. Can you give a diagnosis [?] Unclear or illegible  of my disease with outCorrected:without seeing me & awhat will be charges for that. and also for removing disease

Yours respectfully
Effie VanSteinburg
Preston
Jackson CoExpanded:County
Iowa
 
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