Accession: L14551
Editorial Title: Agreement between Mary Baker Eddy and Dorr Phillips, 1866
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Dorr Phillips 
Date: 1866 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on embossed unlined paper.
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My terms for teaching Mr. Dorr Phillips the science practiced by the late Dr. P. P. Quimby of Portland MaineAs Written:Me. I to instruct As Written: intruct him up to the point of practicing it. are– — A written agreement to pay for me one year'sAs Written:years board, commencing this year, and including fuel. One hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1866 is the equivalent of $1,627.75 in 2020. per year for five successive years after he first commences practice- not including the first year. of his instruction– That I may call on his patients as well as himself for the above named sum and that he is not to require pay of them when I do, that if they pay me, it will be the same as if he paid. me. If after I commence teaching him he should conclude not to go on with learning it, the year'sAs Written:years board and fuel is to be paid me all the same. The lease of a room for one year must be given me at starting, where I can have board with it, if I choose. A signature with his, securing me for one year'sAs Written:years board and fuel.

L14551
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

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$100.00 in 1866 is the equivalent of $1,627.75 in 2020.