Accession: 723B.89.013
Editorial Title: Margaret "Maggie" C. White to Mary Baker Eddy, October 12, 1886
Author: Margaret "Maggie" C. White 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 12, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Margaret “Maggie” C. White from Medina, New York.
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Enclosed please find an ExpressAs Written:Ex Order for $3.17 100Editorial Note: $3.17 in 1886 is the equivalent of $102.76 in 2023., for which return me One of your books, "Christian Science"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I looked over one of those books last Aug, I was visiting friends in LockportEditorial Note: Lockport, New York at the time, and a Christian ScientistAs Written:C. S. there, –– Miss Southworth, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for her kindness to me –– loaned it to me, and of whom I learned the price.

But my time there being occupied with other things I could not read it carefully, Some parts of it I didn'tAs Written:did n't read at all, but on my return home, to my surprise I learned that I knew enough of it, to be able to give treatments. And in some cases we have had perfect cures. Myself have been an invalid As Written: invaled for 7 years, but I think through this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science I shall soon be well, although my beliefs are strong. But when so much good can be done from what little I read of the book, what can be left undone when its teachings are thoroughly understood? Commending you to Almighty God, and wishing you unlimited success in Your work, I am Yours

Very Respectfully
Maggie White
Bx 340. Medina
Orleans Co, N. Y.
723B.89.013
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Enclosed please find an ExExpanded:Express Order for $3.17 100Editorial Note: $3.17 in 1886 is the equivalent of $102.76 in 2023., for which return me oOne of your books, "Christian Science"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I looked over one of those books last Aug, I was visiting friends in LockportEditorial Note: Lockport, New York at the time, and a C. S.Expanded:Christian Scientist there, –– Miss Southworth, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for her kindness to me –– loaned it to me, and of whom I learned the price.

But my time there being occupied with other things I could not read it carefully, Some parts of it I did n'tCorrected:didn't read at all, but on my return home, to my surprise I learned that I knew enough of it, to be able to give treatments. And in some cases we have had perfect cures. Myself have been an invaled Corrected: invalid for 7 years, but I think through this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science I shall soon be well, although my beliefs are strong. But when so much good can be done from what little I read of the book, what can be left undone when its teachings are thoroughly understood? Commending you to Almighty God, and wishing you unlimited success in Your work, I am Yours

Very Respectfully
Maggie White
Bx 340. Medina
Orleans Co, N. Y.
 
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$3.17 in 1886 is the equivalent of $102.76 in 2023. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Lockport, New York Christian Science