Accession: 950.93.003
Editorial Title: Joseph Rathfon to Mary Baker Eddy, February 13, 1886
Author: Joseph Rathfon 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: February 13, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Joseph Rathfon on lined paper from Logansport, Indiana.
Archival Note: This letter includes a shorthand notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Joseph RathfonLogansport Indiana
Feb. 13th 1886.
Mrs. Eddy.

I have read the "C. S. Journal" for the past ten months. I am frank to confess that no Subject ever interested me as Christian Science has. I cannot possibly be content without Some practical knowledge of this great, glorious Subject. I have an unbounded desire to become a "Scientist," but my circumstances will not permit me to take College Course.

There Seems to be nothing immediately available but to Study "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.— Find enclosed herewith a Postal Note for three dollars and seventeen cts. ($3.17)Editorial Note: $3.17 in 1886 is the equivalent of $87.28 in 2020., for which please Send a copy of the lately revised edition of "Science and Health" to the address below. and greatly oblige an earnest seeker after truth.

I prefer a copy of both volumes bound in one if any such are on Sale.

Yours for the great cause
Jos. Rathfon

Logansport.

Indiana

Box 1222.

950.93.003
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Joseph RathfonLogansport Indiana
Feb. 13th 1886.
Mrs. Eddy.

I have read the "C. S. Journal" for the past ten months. I am frank to confess that no Subject ever interested me as Christian Science has. I cannot possibly be content without Some practical knowledge of this great, glorious Subject. I have an unbounded desire to become a "Scientist," but my circumstances will not permit me to take College Course.

There Seems to be nothing immediately available but to Study "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.— Find enclosed herewith a Postal Note for three dollars and seventeen cts. ($3.17)Editorial Note: $3.17 in 1886 is the equivalent of $87.28 in 2020., for which please Send a copy of the lately revised edition of "Science and Health" to the address below. and greatly oblige an earnest seaeker after truth.

I prefer a copy of both volumes bound in one if any such are on Sale.

Yours for the great cause
Jos. Rathfon

Logansport.

Indiana

Box 1222.

 
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There is what appears to be shorthand written here. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy $3.17 in 1886 is the equivalent of $87.28 in 2020.