Accession: 344.47.026
Editorial Title: Emma A. Thompson to Mary Baker Eddy, September 9, 1886
Author: Emma A. Thompson 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 9, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emma A. Thompson on embossed lined paper from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Mrs Eddy:
My Dear Respected Teacher

Mrs Thompson presents her compliments to Mrs. Eddy this morning and begs to ask permission if it be requisite to give the date which I find to be the summer of 1862As Written:62 to that statement I so badly made before the Class yesterday it was so unexpected to me also I intended to have stated that Dr. Quimby requestedmeto come and see him in two weeks in PortlandEditorial Note: Portland, Maine I did so accompanied by Mother then and there I saw Mrs. Eddy (I can even tell you just where you stood while Dr. treated me) I feel this so necessary to be rightly understood for this is Mrs. Roots strongholdAs Written:strong hold in trying to steal the SCienceEditorial Note: Christian Science from you. She claims in all her talks in MinneapolisEditorial Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota that you as well as she learned of Dr. Quimby and I learned when I denied her statement on the ground that my father offered one thousand dolls.Editorial Note: $1,000.00 in 1862 is the equivalent of $30,168.53 in 2023. to him to teach him his mode of healing he replied I cannot I don't As Written: dont know myself and my Mother could witness that testimony they requested me to stop making such statements as that oh if I could only talk but my calling seems to be work and that I can do me obstacle As Written: obsticaele I can'tAs Written:cant surmount As Written: sumount that requires energy and determination

I beg pardon Mrs. Eddy for taking this liberty to address you. but never did I so fully understand how you are being so wronged through As Written: thr'o envy wholly as since I came to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. I can't As Written: cant be still no longer I go to see the Rev. Stacy Fowler next week my Mother kept him from starving the two first years of his ministerial life.

I will return an answerAs Written:ans. to your request soon as it returns from Minneapolis have sent the letter or rather my ans to Mother for her to witness the statement made.

Ever Your true Student -
E. A. Thompson
344.47.026
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mrs Eddy:
My Dear Respected Teacher

Mrs Thompson presents her compliments to Mrs. Eddy this morning and begs to ask permission if it be requisite to give the date which I find to be the summer of 62Expanded:1862 to that statement I so badly made before the Class yesterday it was so unexpected to me also I intended to have stated that Dr. Quimby requestedmeto come and see him in two weeks in PortlandEditorial Note: Portland, Maine I did so accompanied by Mother then and there I saw Mrs. Eddy (I can even tell you just where you stood whitle Dr. treated me) I feel this so necessary to be rightly understood for this is Mrs. Roots strong holdCorrected:stronghold in trying to steal the SCienceEditorial Note: Christian Science from you. She claims in all her talks in MinneapolisEditorial Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota that you as well as she learned of Dr. Quimby and I learned when I whenAs Written:when I denied her statement on the ground that my father offered one thousand dolls.Editorial Note: $1,000.00 in 1862 is the equivalent of $30,168.53 in 2023. to him to teach him his mode of healing he replied I cannot I dont Corrected: don't know myself and my Mother could witness that testimony they requested me to stop making such statements as that oh if I could only talk but my calling seems to be work and that I can do me obsticaele Corrected: obstacle I cantCorrected:can't sumount Corrected: surmount that requires energy and determination

I beg pardon Mrs. Eddy for taking this liberty to address you. but never did I so fully understand how you are being so wronged thr'o Corrected: through envy wholly as since I came to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. I cant Corrected: can't be still no longer I go to see the Rev. Stacy Fowler next week my Mother kept him from starving the two first years of his ministerial life.

I will return an ans.Expanded:answer to your request soon as it returns from Minneapolis have sent the letter or rather my ans to Mother for her to witness the statement made.

Ever Your true Student -
E. A. Thompson
 
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1886 Portland, Maine Christian Science $1,000.00 in 1862 is the equivalent of $30,168.53 in 2023. Boston, Massachusetts Minneapolis, Minnesota