Accession: 327.44.001
Editorial Title: Mary A. ("Addie") Spofford to Mary Baker Eddy, October 2, 1871
Author: Mary A. ("Addie") Spofford 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 2, 1871
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary A. (“Addie”) Spofford on embossed lined paper from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Archival Note: This letter has vertical lines drawn in the right and left margins on page 2 on each side of the Wallace W. Wright quotation.
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I can only write a short letter, this time but I wanted you to know that W. Wright was on his way to MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.

When I reached home, I found my practice very much run down. I shall have hard work to bring it up again; but I don't As Written: dont regret my journey, for I gained so much, spiritually while with you.

I did not talk with Wallace Wright for I saw it would do no good. He puts a false construction on everythingAs Written:every thing I say. He said this, "I don't question the morality or Christianity of this Science, but I do doubt its application in healing the sick". You see that he is as full of conceit as ever.

Mr. E— is not the same young man he was before Wright came here. He is not going to college at present, but he is so different, I can't talk with him with any degree of satisfaction. Be with us, dear Mrs Glover and help us; for I am strangely drawn to this field of labor. One man has come out and will join the class; there are others who are hanging back. I am in hopes to get the full number this Winter. It seems to me I have all my ground to go over again here.

Please tell the Dr. I was sorry I could not see him again. I am going to write to him as soon as I have an opportunity.

I dislike to close this, for I have so much to say.

Please write as soon as possible Your letters will do me so much good.

Yours affectionately
Mrs Spofford
327.44.001
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I can only write a short letter, this time but I wanted you to know that W. Wright was on his way to MassExpanded:Massachusetts.

When I reached home, I found my practice very much run down. I shall have hard work to bring it up again; but I dont Corrected: don't regret my journey, for I gained so much, spiritually while with you.

I did not talk with Wallace Wright for I saw it would do no good. He puts a false consctruction on every thingCorrected:everything I say. He said this, "I don't question the morality or Christianity of this Science, but I do doubt its application in healing the sick". You see that he is as full of conceit as ever.

Mr. E— is not the same young man he was before Wright came here. He is not going to college at present, but he is so different, I can't talk with him with any degree of satisfaction. Be with us, dear Mrs Glover and help us; for I am strangely drawn to this field of labor. One man has come out and will join the class; there are others who are hanging back. I am in hopes to get the full number this Winter. It seems to me I have all my ground to go over again here.

Please tell the Dr. I was sorry I could not see him again. I am going to write to him as soon as I have an opportunity.

I dislike to close this, for I have so much to say.

Please write as soon as possible Your letters will do me so much good.

Yours affectionately
Mrs Spofford
 
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