Accession: 946.92.014
Editorial Title: Nellie Jones to Mary Baker Eddy, October 13, 1886
Author: Nellie Jones 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 13, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Nellie Jones in red ink on embossed lined paper from Marshalltown, Iowa.
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Marshalltown Iowa
Oct. 13, 1886.
Mrs M. B. G Eddy,
Dear Madam,

In your Christian Science Journal I see advertised, a book Mental Healing, Historical Sketch, a pamphlet of 24 pages next to Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the most important work on this subject ever published, price 10 ctsEditorial Note: $0.10 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3.24 in 2023., but there is no name or address where to send for it, so I take the liberty to write to you & send you the money in stamps, & see if you will send me the book, I am hungering & thirstingMatt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. after this great Truth & have no money to buy Books or to join a class, I have begun studying As Written: studdying my bible more than I ever did. but I have no idea I shall ever reach the plane you have, but O, I do want to heal the sick,

Yours very truly
Mrs. E. W. Jones,
Marshalltown,
Marshall Co.
Box 1145, Iowa,
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Marshalltown Iowa
Oct. 13, 1886.
Mrs M. B. G Eddy,
Dear Madam,

In your Christian Science Journal I see a [?] Unclear or illegible dvertised, a book Mental Healing, Historical Sketch, a pamphlet of 24 pages next to Christian Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the most important work on this subject ever [?] Unclear or illegible  published, price 10 ctsEditorial Note: $0.10 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3.24 in 2023., but there is no name or address where to send for it, so I take the liberty to write to you & send you the money in stamps, & see if you will send me the book, I am hungering & thirstingMatt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. after this great Truth & have no money to buy Books or to join a class, I have begun studdying Corrected: studying my bible more than I ever did. but I have no idea I shall ever reach the plane you have, but O, I do want to heal the sick,

Yours very truly
Mrs. E. W. Jones,
Marshalltown,
Marshall Co.
Box 1145, Iowa,
 
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy $0.10 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3.24 in 2023.