Accession: 942.92.029
Editorial Title: Albert B. Dorman to Calvin A. Frye, September 2, 1886
Author: Albert B. Dorman 
Recipient: Calvin A. Frye 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 2, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Albert B. Dorman on lined paper from Worcester, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy. Eddy has added a metamark that look like an X to the manuscript.
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Worcester, Mass., Sep, 2, 1886
Brother Frye

Please send me one dozen S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and 1/2 dozenAs Written:doz each of the smaller works.

You should give me some discount on these small works I have always paid full retail price and then given many away and paid postage on them and they all certainly afford a good profit at wholesale. Others have had them at a discount and why not all alike.

I could do much more with them if I could get them to both wholesale and retail. My students would no doubt handle them.

Yours in haste
Bro. Dorman

Send without delay.

[*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyMake the discount to him [*]Archival Note: End floating text.

⇉ Handshift:Albert B. DormanThe prices for the works at wholesale like, C. S is not Pantheism

50¢Editorial Note: $0.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $16.21 in 2023. per dozenAs Written:doz. should be made less to us to sell again, for if we pay 50¢ per dozenAs Written:doz and then put on a cent postage they cost us then 62¢Editorial Note: $0.62 in 1886 is the equivalent of $20.10 in 2023. and we get 60¢Editorial Note: $0.60 in 1886 is the equivalent of $19.45 in 2023. for them.

The 10¢Editorial Note: $0.10 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3.24 in 2023. books we pay 1,00Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $32.42 in 2023. dozenAs Written:doz for and if we do not charge extra for postage they cost us 1.12¢Editorial Note: $1.12 in 1886 is the equivalent of $36.30 in 2023. dozenAs Written:doz. and get $1.20Editorial Note: $1.20 in 1886 is the equivalent of $38.90 in 2023., of course every practitioner is more apt to give them away than sell, or at least I am and it seems that the great good that could come out of all these small works in a greater and more free distribution it seems that they should be afforded at a less price.

It seems that Christian Healing and the Peoples God could be well afforded at 1.50Editorial Note: $1.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $48.62 in 2023. per dozenAs Written:doz. and all other small works at half the retail price.

Many more would be sold and circulated and much more good to the world realized.[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.

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Worcester, Mass., Sep, 2, 1886
Brother Frye

Please send me one dozen S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and 1/2 dozExpanded:dozen each of the smaller works.

You should give me some discount on these small works I have always paid full retail price and then given many away and paid postage on them and they all certainly afford a good profit at wholesale. Others have had them at a discount and why not all alike.

I could do much more with them if I could get them to both wholesale and retail. My students would no doubt handle them.

Yours in haste
Bro. Dorman

Send without delay.

[*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyMake the discount to him [*]Archival Note: End floating text.

⇉ Handshift:Albert B. DormanThe prices for the works at wholesale like, C. S is not Pantheism

50¢Editorial Note: $0.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $16.21 in 2023. per doz.Expanded:dozen should be made less to us to sell again, for if we pay 50¢ per dozExpanded:dozen and then put on a cent postage they cost us then 62¢Editorial Note: $0.62 in 1886 is the equivalent of $20.10 in 2023. and we get 60¢Editorial Note: $0.60 in 1886 is the equivalent of $19.45 in 2023. for them.

The 10¢Editorial Note: $0.10 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3.24 in 2023. books we pay 1,00Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $32.42 in 2023. dozExpanded:dozen for and if we do not charge extra for postage they cost us 1.12¢Editorial Note: $1.12 in 1886 is the equivalent of $36.30 in 2023. doz.Expanded:dozen and get $1.20Editorial Note: $1.20 in 1886 is the equivalent of $38.90 in 2023., of course every practitioner is more apt to give them away than sell, or at least I am and it seems that the great good that could come out of all these small works in a greater and more freer distribution it seems that they should be afforded at a less price.

It seems that Christian Healing and the Peoples God could be well afforded at 1.50Editorial Note: $1.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $48.62 in 2023. per doz.Expanded:dozen and all other small works at half the retail price.

Many more would be sold and circulated and much more good to the r world realized.[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.

 
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. End floating text. $0.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $16.21 in 2023. $0.62 in 1886 is the equivalent of $20.10 in 2023. $0.60 in 1886 is the equivalent of $19.45 in 2023. $0.10 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3.24 in 2023. $1.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $32.42 in 2023. $1.12 in 1886 is the equivalent of $36.30 in 2023. $1.20 in 1886 is the equivalent of $38.90 in 2023. $1.50 in 1886 is the equivalent of $48.62 in 2023. A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.