Accession: 723B.89.012
Editorial Title: Margaret S. White to Mary Baker Eddy, October 26, 1886
Author: Margaret S. White 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 26, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Margaret S. White on embossed lined paper from Watertown, New York.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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Watertown
Oct. 26. 1886.
Mrs. M. B. G. Eddy:
Dear Madam:–

Mrs. L. L. Campbell from New York was here for three weeks treating people- and I became very much interested in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science.

Pardon my boldness in writing you, but I wished to know if it were possible to learn the Science. and pay for it after practicingAs Written:practising? I am supporting myself and daughter as I was obliged to leave my husband nine years ago: he became addicted to the Opium habit and it was impossible for us to remain any longer with him.

I am at present keeping house for an old Gentleman whose wife is dead, and my daughter is attending the High School here, from which she expects to graduate next June. then I shall be at liberty, and would like so much to learn the Science not only for the remuneration but for the good I could do. If possible will you please answer and tell me if there is any way I can do so, also if a woman over Seventy can learn the Science? as one of that age is very anxious to do so I have just passed my forty-ninthAs Written:forty ninth birthday

I do not know where to address you, but think possibly this will reach you if sent to the College at BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts.

Yours respectfully
Mrs. M. S. White,
#45 Massey St.
Watertown
Jefferson CountyAs Written:Jeff. Co.
N, Y.
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyHad better go to Mrs Leonard or Lathrop in N YEditorial Note: New York, New York
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Watertown
Oct. 26. 1886.
Mrs. M. B. G. Eddy:
Dear Madam:–

Mrs. L. L. Campbell from New York was here for three weeks treating people- and I became very much interested in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science.

Pardon my boldness in writing you, but I wished to know if it were possible to learn the Science. and pay for it after practisingCorrected:practicing? I am supporting myself and daughter as I was obliged to leave my husband nine years ago: he became addicted to the Opium habit and it was impossible for us to remain any longer with him.

I am at present keeping house for an old Gentleman whose wife is dead, and my daughter is attending the High School here, from which she expects to graduate next June. then I shall be at liberty, and would like so much to learn the Science not only for the remuneration but for the good I could do. If possible will you please answer and tell me if there is any way I can do so, also if a woman over Seventy can learn the Science? as one of that age is very anxious to do so I have just passed my forty ninthCorrected:forty-ninth birthday

I do not know where to address you, but think possibly this will reach you if sent to the College at BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts.

Yours respectfully
Mrs. M. S. White,
#45 Massey St.
Watertown
Jeff. Co.Expanded:Jefferson County
N, Y.
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyHad better go to Mrs Leonard or Lathrop in New YEditorial Note: New York, New York
 
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