Accession: 952.93.004
Editorial Title: Fremont D. Snider to Calvin A. Frye, October 8, 1886
Author: Fremont D. Snider 
Recipient: Calvin A. Frye 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: October 8, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Fremont D. Snider on lined printed stationery of The C. L. Hawes Co. from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye. The notation was apparently dictated to him by Mary Baker Eddy, indicating her answer to a question posed by Snider.
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mr C A Frye
Boston
Dear Sir

I have just returned from the West (Wyoming TerritoryAs Written:Terr.) where I have been since our classEditorial Note: Fremont D. Snider was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s Primary Class in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College that began on August 30, 1886. finished its course. I went West with the idea of going to mercantile business in one of the many fast-growingAs Written:fast growing towns. But I have changed my plans completely having very soon become thoroughly disgusted with the style of Western life, and I am instead, going to make the practice of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science my occupation. Will you please consult with our Dear Teacher and ask if she has any special place she would have us go to spread the work. Please answer me soon care ofAs Written:c/o Mrs Harvey 358- W- 7th- (her new address from 5th inst.) Coming from Kansas City to ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, I met Mr Wickersham and Mr Donehue of DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado on their way to the Normal class, and gave them Mrs Harvey's As Written: Harveys name, telling them they would meet her there, but she has not received any class call and supposed she was being left until the next, which she wished to be.

RespectfullyAs Written:Resp'y Yours
F. D Snider.
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeLove you can judge better than I of western future, Love.
952.93.004
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mr C A Frye
Boston
Dear Sir

I have just returned from the West (Wyoming Terr.Expanded:Territory) where I have been since our classEditorial Note: Fremont D. Snider was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s Primary Class in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College that began on August 30, 1886. finished its course. I went West with the idea of going to mercantile business in one of the many fast growingCorrected:fast-growing towns. But I have changed my plans completely having very soon become thoroughly disgusted with the style of Western life, and I am instead, going to make the practice of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science my occupation. Will you please consult with our Dear Teacher and ask if she has any special place she would have us go to spread the work. Please answer me soon c/oExpanded:care of Mrs Harvey 358- W- 7th- (her new address from 5th inst.) Coming from Kansas City to ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, I met Mr Wickersham and Mr Donehue of DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado on their way to the Normal class, and gave them Mrs Harveys Corrected: Harvey's name, telling them they would meet her there, but she has not received any class call and supposed she was being left until the next, which she wished to be.

Resp'yExpanded:Respectfully Yours
F. D Snider.
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeLove you can judge better than I of western future, Love.
 
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Fremont D. Snider was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s Primary Class in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College that began on August 30, 1886. Christian Science Chicago, Illinois Denver, Colorado