Accession: 938.91.033
Editorial Title: Elizabeth S. Averill to Mary Baker Eddy, September 26, 1886
Author: Elizabeth S. Averill 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 26, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Elizabeth S. Averill on embossed lined paper from Barre, Vermont.
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Barre Vt Sept 26th /86
Mrs. Mary. B. G. Eddie
Dear Madam

Please find enclosed three dollarsEditorial Note: $3.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $97.25 in 2023. the price of your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy for a lady friend of mine

I received one from you in August all right

I am very much interested in it and am going to learn the science of healingEditorial Note: Christian Science of one of Mrs Hales students I would much rather come to you but have not the means now I hope to sometimeAs Written:some time it seems a good ways to be fourth from you, but it is the best I can do now

There is no scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists in the place

My age is 53 I have a husb[*]Gap: letters.Reason: page rip. three sons all married. one daughter 14 a believe[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page rip. but I mean to persevere I would thank you for one passing thought

Yours with love
Mrs. A. B. Averill

P S Please send by express My health is improvingAs Written:improveing som[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page rip.

Mrs A B A

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Barre Vt Sept 26th /86
Mrs. Mary. B. G. Eddie
Dear Madam

Please find enclosed three dollarsEditorial Note: $3.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $97.25 in 2023. [?] Unclear or illegible  the price of your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy for a lady friend of mine

I received one from you in August all right

I am very much interested in it and am going to learn the science of lhealingEditorial Note: Christian Science of one of Mrs Hales students I would much rather come to you but have not the mensans now I hope to some timeCorrected:sometime it seems a good ways to be fourth from you, but it is the best I can do now

There is no scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists in the place

My age is 53 I have a husb[*]Gap: letters.Reason: page rip. three sons all married. one daughter 14 a believe[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page rip. but I mean to persevere I would thank you for one passing thought

Yours with love
Mrs. A. B. Averill

P S Please send by express My health is improveingCorrected:improving som[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page rip.

Mrs A B A

 
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