It is one year last fall I was induced by "Dr and Mrs Avery of ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois" to purchase two volumes of your "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy On reading felt a glow of healthful, truthful inspiration and at once put in practice some of its precepts, Which has resulted in some instances like a Charm, I commended the reading by purchasing the books, and have sold eight volumes I got from Dr Avery and was in at two or three of his lectures while at his house, since then I have persuaded some of my friends to send to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts for them giving them your address

Mrs Bloomfield of Elgin IllinoisAs Written:Ill, by giving to Mrs Howe of NundaEditorial Note: Nunda Township is located in McHenry County, Illinois. your address

Mrs. Howard Phillips of Algonquin, IllinoisAs Written:Ill

Mrs Case of Racine WisconsinAs Written:Wis (the Millionaire As Written: Millionare

Mrs J, M, Eddy of Sutherland Iowa

Making in All 18 books

And the object now of my writing is I recommend by letter to a Mrs Dean of Ohio the purchasing "Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy as a panacea to her unstrung nervous Condition, by perusing its pages, also giving her your address Instead she says as I have sold so many of the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy she desires me to send for them thinking I presume I am an Agent and can order for $3,000Editorial Note: $3.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $82.60 in 2020. which I enclose in this, And now a line for myself had I the means I should come at once to your lectures, for years I have stood on the threshold sipping drop by drop of this inexhaustible fountain, my thirst is great, my purse small

I sometimes pen thoughts better than I can express them I lack knowledge that comes by instruction sometimes As Written: some times get by induction as with the aspirational key of truth to unlock the broad seal of Jehovah's breath, in response to uplifted thought although I do not coincide with all your writing yet it may be for want of correct reasoning

But Oh I bid you God or Good Speed, The world never was in greater need of the right instruction aided by the power of truth-

Whatever lifts ills and woes from mortals and places the Magic Staff of truth to guide lives for a purpose,

You Will please send the books, two volumes "Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

To Mrs

M, E, Dean

New London

Ohio