Helen Wilmans, The Wonders of Thought Force (1902): sworn testimonial of E. C. Pfeiffer, 20 Sept 1901

A pamphlet by Helen Wilmans (Mrs. Helen Wilmans Post), teacher of “Mental Science” healing by “absent treatment,” closing with sworn testimonials from patients. Found 10 Oct 2026; the page read by Claude.

“From E. C. Pfeiffer, Manager Circulation Department Buffalo Express, Buffalo, N. Y.: For more than two years from about 1898 to 1900 my wife, Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer, was almost completely prostrated by a continuously impending collapse of her nervous system. Three physicians, under whose care she had been successively agreed in stating that no medical skill could benefit her unless she went to a sanitarium, where she could be in bed at least three months, under special treatment with absolute rest and quiet. About October, 1900, my wife learning of the restorations to health which Helen Wilmans Post was effecting, stopped taking medicine and following general rules prescribed by her physicians. Although I personally did not think it possible … Mrs. Pfeiffer has gradually but surely progressed from being in a condition of almost complete collapse (Oct. 1900) to being well nigh continuously active in various ways, and restored to a condition of health, (Sept. 1901).” Sworn 20 Sept 1901 before R. F. Penton, notary public.

The years he gives, 1898 to 1900, run from her marriage through Alice’s birth (Aug 1899). In the same stretch the Seattle and Coupeville papers have her visiting, giving an entertainment with her husband (Dec 1899), and the Emerson College Magazine has her reading a paper to the state suffrage association (1900) (newspapers-seattle-post-intelligencer-holbrook-pfeiffer-1890-1900, magazine-emerson-college-holbrook-1896-1904). The testimonial puts Emil at Buffalo in 1901; she and Alice were lodging at East Aurora, near Buffalo, in 1910 (census-1910-aurora-pfeiffer). Her essay in Mind (1904) is on the New Thought, the movement Mental Science belonged to (article-mind-1904-pfeiffer).