Accession: 075.18.004
Editorial Title: Edward H. Hammond to Mary Baker Eddy, May 3, 1886
Author: Edward H. Hammond 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: May 3, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Edward H. Hammond on unlined paper from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Your favorEditorial Note: Possibly L04552. of a date sometimeAs Written:some time past I duly receivedAs Written:recieved. It should have been answered long before but I am so much on the jump day & evening I have scarcely As Written: scarcly seen the time. My correspondence with my relatives at home is the same way, behindhandAs Written:behind hand. I am working not droning. I am having abundant practice here. The people seem to like it. The doctors are puzzled, some mad, the divines some pleased others denounce. A reporter interviewed me a few days ago: the result was in the next day's issue. I enclose itEditorial Note: This enclosure is not extant. for you to read. I have done nothing with regard to starting an Asso.Editorial Note: Association. This is a reference to branches of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. here for various reasons. I am waiting at Miss Brown's suggestion for the printing of constitution or basis on which they rest. I know nothing as to what their charter is to be, their bearing on the parent Asso. When I can get some facts so as to move understandingly I shall then be in a position to start the matter. I understand Mr. R. Sherman was on the Committee. I wrote him but got nothing satisfactory As Written: satisfacy in fact he knew nothing At present my students hold their weekly meetings which are found pleasantAs Written:pleasnt & profitable.

My students some of them are doing good work. With best wishes I am

Very truly As Written: truy
Yours
E. H. Hammond
075.18.004
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Your favorEditorial Note: Possibly L04552. of a date some timeCorrected:sometime past I duly recievedCorrected:received. It should have been answered long before but I am so much on the jump day & evening I have scarcly Corrected: scarcely seen the time. My correspondence with my relatives at home is the same way, behind handCorrected:behindhand. I am working not droning. I am having abundant practice here. The people seem to like it. The doctors are puzzled, some mad, the divines some pleased others denounce. A reporter interviewed me a few days ago: the result was in the next day's issue. I enclose itEditorial Note: This enclosure is not extant. for you to read. I have done nothing with regard to starting an Asso.Editorial Note: Association. This is a reference to branches of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. here for various reasons. I am waiting at Miss Brown's suggestion for the printing of constitution or basis on which they rest. I know nothing as to what their charter is to be, their bearing on the parent Asso. When I can get some facts so as to move understandingly I shall then be in a position to start the matter. I understand Mr. R. Sherman was on the Committee. I wrote him but got nothing satisfacy Corrected: satisfactory in fact he knew nothing At present my students hold their weekly meetings which are found pleasntCorrected:pleasant & profitable.

My students some of them are doing good work. With best wishes I am

Very truy Corrected: truly
Yours
E. H. Hammond
 
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Possibly L04552. Association. This is a reference to branches of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. This enclosure is not extant.