New York City
415-86 St Bay Ridge Brooklyn
U.S.A.
Oct[ober]. 8. 1911
Hon[orable] A[lfred] Sir
I am taking the liberty of sending you The Time's, in which a beautiful article appears upon your life. It did me so much good to read it, feeling I could understand and enjoy all it had to say, of life here.
I was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. As a child educated there & came into this world in the year 1846. So you see I have passed through many experiences & always I wondering of the why, & wherefore, & cause of life.
So when I read of your experiences of the wonders of our blood, forming, hair, nails & all that included our bodies I feel that I know that the power is beyond us & is Supreme, & I realize what St Paul teaches us. 1st the natural body then the spiritual, lastly the Divine!
[2] With what joy when we enter into this state. Its so great to be given the treasures of wisdom & understanding and I feel this is what Christ said "I have bread to eat that ye know not of.1 This is my ideal of the Spiritual State. We are surrounded by Spiritual wonders & such visions come to us that we youth were only dreams. &[?] Sir, Gobe[?] tis[?] all thoughts to help us to tear away the veil, which has been hiding so much from us, so that the bleek thoughts we scatter bloom a hundredfold when days are done.
I was proud to read you were born on the same day & month of the year as I am the 8th of January.
Pardon me to taken[?] up your time but I felt so to write to pen these few lines to you.
I am most deeply[?] yours | Sara Jennings [signature]
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2063.1953)]
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