Accession: 041.14.008
Editorial Title: Julia S. Bartlett to Mary Baker Eddy, 1885
Author: Julia S. Bartlett 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: 1885 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Julia S. Bartlett on lined paper.
Archival Note: An archivist note on this document reads, "1885"
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041.14.008
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Teacher

I may have been wrong or mistaken, perhaps I have made a great mistake I do not know but I want to tell you this that nobody knows what I was going through in belief - I felt as if was driven to a wall and there was no escape but to take just the stand I did - There is a very great effort to separate us but it cannot be done - My love for you - is the same - No matter how it is made to appear it is still the same — And there is no bit that can make it seem any different – Our trials should draw us closer together —

As you say God is blessing us now more than ever before

For whatever I have done that is wrong or whatever seems to be so that I am not conscious of, I ask your forgiveness —

You remember last Sunday evening I went to the College and asked to see you and you did not see me I came home went to bed and was tossing and restless all night, but in the night you came to me and you were looking perfectly well I never saw you look better and you had such a happy expression - and you gave me an approving look and was gone - I do not know what it means but I do know that what I see in this way comes just exactly as I see it - it never failed - So I feel that you can be encouraged You are learning your way and will come out strong the Master of sin as well as sickness —

If you want to see me any time please let me know - and if you do not feel like it it is all right -

Your loving student
J. S. Bartlett,

P. S. I should be glad to see you any time only I do not wish to trouble you —

041.14.008
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Teacher

I may have been wrong or mistaken, perhaps I have made a great mistake I do not know but I want to tell you this that nobody knows what I was going through in belief - I felt as if was driven to a wall and there was no escape but to take just the stand I did - There is a very great effort to separate us but it cannot be done - My love for you - is the same - No matter how it is made to appear it is still the same — And there is no bit that can make it seem any different – Our trials should draw us closer together —

As you say God is blessing us now more than ever before

For whatever I have done that is wrong or whatever seems to be so that I am not conscious of, I ask your forgiveness —

You remember last Sunday evening I went to the College and asked to see you and you did not see me I came home went to bed and was tossing and restless all night, but in the night you came to me and you were looking perfectly well I never saw you look better and you had such a happy expression - and you gave me an approving look and was gone - I do not know what it means but I do know that what I see in this way comes just exactly as I see it - it never failed - So I feel that you can be encouraged You are learning your way and will come out strong the Master of sin as well as sickness —

If you want to see me any time please let me know - and if you do not feel like it it is all right -

Your loving student
J. S. Bartlett,

P. S. I should be glad to see you any time only I do not wish to trouble you —

 
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