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Editorial Title: Amos Bronson Alcott to Mary Baker Eddy, November 17, 1877
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: November 17, 1877
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Amos Bronson Alcott on unlined paper from Concord, Massachusetts.
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Dear Mrs Eddy-

Your appeal to me for assistance in the matter of Your Court trial, touches me deeply,, and I wish it were in my power to give you my presence as well as sympathy- and so further if I might the cause As Written: caus of justice But my wife is now passing from us, and I may not have her even for a night. hardly for a day dutifully-

Under these circumstances I trust you will excuse me from giving further attention to your affairs. at present. If you are wronged, those who have been dishonest, though they may contrive to get the decree of Courts in their favor, will ultimately suffer the penalties of their misdeeds, and you will be justified, not only in your own, heart, but before the law also.

Very truly yours,
A. Bronson Alcott.
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Mrs Eddy-

Your appeal to me for assistance in the matter of Your Court trial, touches me deeply,, and I wish it were in my power to give you my presence as well as sympathy- and so further if I might the caus Corrected: cause of justice But my wife is now passing from us, and I may not have her even for a night. hardly for a day dutifully-

Under these circumstances I trust you will excuse me from giving further attention to your affairs. at present. If you are wronged, those who have been dishonest, though they may contrive to get the decree of Courts in their favor, will ultimately suffer the penalties of their misdeeds, and you will be justified, not only in your own, heart, but before the law also.

Very truly yours,
A. Bronson Alcott.
 
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