Accession: 722A.89.047
Editorial Title: Sarah D. Weeks to Mary Baker Eddy, December 9, 1884
Author: Sarah D. Weeks 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy  Calvin A. Frye 
Date: December 9, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Sarah D. Weeks on lined paper from Willimantic, Connecticut.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye and of Mary Baker Eddy.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsweredAs Written:Ans Dec 10
⇉ Handshift:Sarah D. WeeksWillimantic ConnecticutAs Written:Conn
Dec 9th 1884
Mrs M B G Eddy.
My Dear Madam:

My last letterEditorial Note: See 722A.89.046. intended for you personally has received no reply. I have waited long and patiently. This is the second letter that has remained unanswered. I trust this one will meet with a better fate.

Twice I have asked for samples of your “Journal of Christian Science” as I wished to try and procure subscribers, and I see you send sample copies free. But I have not received any, and I am afraid I shall get started for the “Doubting Castle of Giant Despair”Editorial Note: This is an allusion to an incident that takes place in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. ere long. I entered with enthusiasm into your new doctrineEditorial Note: Christian Science when first I heard of its wondrous power a boundless future seemed to open before me filled with grand possibilities. But this is new and like all new enterprises, people stand back and doubt and say “it is a humbug.” My friends warn me against it. But I rebel against their warnings. Still do you wonder that I demand proof.

I have my own case to be sure, but I am not healed, still I think I am better. And now when I write to youEditorial Note: See 722A.89.046. asking if you can cure my Mother of a chronic disease that has been the bane of her life and threatens to make her declining years sad and weary ones, I receive no response. What am I to think; how can my faith continue bright and steadfast when I can get neither booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy., papers, nor letters. (I admit I have had several of the latter, but my last and most importantEditorial Note: See 722A.89.046.—because it relates to one who is the strongest tie binding me to life—one remains unanswered) to sustain and strengthen it?

My mother needs help at once, Dyspepsia keeps her stomach so disarranged, that she has little appetite or strength and feels a constant need of stimulants or tonics of some kind. And Liver Complaint “numbs her brain” (To use her own words) and makes her sad discouraged and tired of life. I appeal to you as the head of your wondrous healing scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science to know if she can be healed? Medicine does not make her well, and yet “as dying men grasp at straws”, she tries this, that and the other for relief.

If you can cure her, please let me know at once, and what your terms are. It is not always convenient for me to send money in advance, because I have to wait for it myself. And there is another thing that puzzles me Why do Metaphysicians demand pay in advance when other M.D. wait for it? Dr Dorman does, I do not know if the others do. it looks as if they were afraid people would not be satisfied with the treatment received, and so would not pay at all. Well I don’t think persons are satisfied when their friends die and yet they pay the Dr. Why then do Mental healers fear?

I would like to know if you require pay in advance for a College course, and how many hours a day each session holds.

Will you please send as early an answer as you can to this, and greatly oblige

I shall look anxiously for your reply.

Very Respectfully Yours
S.D. Weeks.

P.S. I enclose 25 ctsEditorial Note: $0.25 in 1884 is the equivalent of $6.53 in 2019. in post order for the pamphlet “Christian Healing”

S.D.W.

⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyAnswerAs Written:Ans about my receiving no consultations on disease as advertised in books send curriculumAs Written:cur.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsExpanded:Answered Dec 10
⇉ Handshift:Sarah D. WeeksWillimantic ConnExpanded:Connecticut
Dec 9th 1884
Mrs M B G Eddy.
My Dear Madam:

My last letterEditorial Note: See 722A.89.046. intended for you personally has received no reply. I have waited long and patiently. This is the second letter that has remained unanswered. I trust this one will meet with a better fate.

Twice I have asked for samples of your “Journal of Christian Science” as I wished to try and procure subscribers, and I see you send sample copies free. But I have not received any, and I am afraid I shall get started for the “Doubting Castle of Giant Despair”Editorial Note: This is an allusion to an incident that takes place in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. ere long. I entered with enthusiasm into your new doctrineEditorial Note: Christian Science when first I heard of its wondrous power a boundless future seemed to open before me filled with grand possibilities. But this is new and like all new enterprises, people stand back and doubt and say “it is a humbug.” My friends warn me against it. But I rebel against their warnings. Still do you wonder that I demand proof.

I have my own case to be sure, but I am not healed, still I think I am better. And now when I write to youEditorial Note: See 722A.89.046. asking if you can cure my Mother of a chronic disease that has been the bane of her life and threatens to make her declining years sad and weary ones, I receive no response. What am I to think; how can my faith continue bright and steadfast when I can get neither booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy., papers, nor letters. (I admit I have had several of the latter, but my last and most importantEditorial Note: See 722A.89.046.—because it relates to one who is the strongest tie binding me to life—one remains unanswered) to sustain and strengthen it?

My mother needs help at once, Dyspepsia keeps her stomach so disarranged, that she has little appetite or strength and feels a constant need of stimulants or tonics of some kind. And Liver Complaint “numbs her brain” (To use her own words) and makes her sad discouraged and tired of life. I appeal to you as the head of your wondrous healing scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science to know if she can be healed? Medicine does not make her well, and yet “as dying men grasp at straws”, she tries this, that and the other for relief.

If you can cure her, please let me know at once, and what your terms are. It is not always convenient for me to send money in advance, because I have to wait for it myself. And there is another thing that puzzles me Why do Metaphysicians demand pay in advance when other M.D. wait for it? Dr Dorman does, I do not know if the others do. it looks as if they were afraid people would not be satisfied with the treatment received, and so would not pay at all. Well I don’t think persons are satisfied when their friends die and yet they pay the Dr. Why then do Mental healers fear?

I would like to know if you require pay in advance for a College course, and how many hours a day each session holds.

Will you please send as early an answer as you can to this, and greatly oblige

I shall look anxiously for your reply.

Very Respectfully Yours
S.D. Weeks.

P.S. I enclose 25 ctsEditorial Note: $0.25 in 1884 is the equivalent of $6.53 in 2019. in post order for the pamphlet “Christian Healing”

S.D.W.

⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyAnsExpanded:Answer about my receiving no consultations on disease as advertised in books send cur.Expanded:curriculum
 
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See 722A.89.046. This is an allusion to an incident that takes place in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Christian Science See 722A.89.046. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. See 722A.89.046. Christian Science $0.25 in 1884 is the equivalent of $6.53 in 2019.