New York City
415-86 St Bay Ridge Brooklyn
U.S.A.
Octr. 8. 1911
Honble Sir
I am taking the liberty of sending you The Times,1 in which a beautiful article appears upon your life. It did me so much good to read it, feeling I could understand & 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 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 – This is my ideal of the Spiritual State – we are surrounded by Spiritual wonders & such visions come to us – that in youth were only dreams – Dr - Sir, [illeg.] all thoughts to help us to tear away the veil – which has been hiding so much from us – so that the blest thoughts we scatter bloom – an 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 taken up your time but I felt so to write to pen these few lines to you.
I am most resply yrs | Sara Jennings [signature]
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2063.1953)]
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