I wrote you yesterday a long letter but forgot to put the number & Ave on. I only put Rev Mrs B G. Eddy Metaphysical College on it I hope it will reach you, As in it you have Some of the feelings that always As Written: alway go out to your own Dear selfAs Written:Dearself from My Heart, I not only Admire you But am As Written: an lovingly fond of you As is my Daughter & I am sure Dear that your own pure Heart will by intuition tell you that E J French could never As Written: nevr think much less say one unkind word of you: I rise in all my Womanly dignity and contradict all things that are untrue or unkind As Written: inkind , said in my hearing. I will never for one moment sit still & hear anythingAs Written:any thing against My Dear Teacher without rebuking it. & wheneverAs Written:when ever I do other than this I want you to denounce me; Many thanks for your loving manner of treating the accusations, for Dear you do know I love you more than simply a passing thought for you have lived too long & seen too much of the unreal in life not to know the one from the other. How often in speaking of you I have told with pride of your meeting my Daughter who only sent up her non daEditorial Note: nom de plume, Hall [?] ThomasUnclear or illegibleThomas when you without ever having heard her name & called her Mrs Shelden. No Dear never the shadow of a word other than loving admiration has ever passed my lips of you Dear, & I feel quite proud to know that I have been instrumental in doing you some considerable justice in changing the opinions of many good people about you Because of the false As Written: faulse rumors of them would be teachers of C. ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science "I have said I was a Normal Scholar not a teacher of the Normal course: quite a difference. By the way ask Mrs Thompson who is doing good work for C. ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in Minneapolis I do hope & pray Dear that you may be kept free from all the annoying As Written: anoying things that are in the world for your life is too valuable to the world to have you annoyed As Written: anoyed so & it must not be. O that my arms were large enough As my Heart for you is big enough to even keep you from even hearing those miserable As Written: misserable , petty jealousies for they are nothing more nor less So Dear take courage in the fact that all great & good things have been attack through the persons that God ordained to give the good to the world "suffer it to be so Now" Hoping to hear soon after I reach Los, Angels, CalEditorial Note: Los Angeles, California; I start on the morning of the 8 of Dec. May He in who whose As Written: s keeping you are ever sustain you, & believe As Written: beleive me Dear yours in A Faith that has no Death.
| Accession: | 345.47.005 |
| Editorial Title: | Elizabeth J. French to Mary Baker Eddy, December 7, 1886 |
| Author: | Elizabeth J. French |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | December 7, 1886 |
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I wrote you yesterday a long letter but forgot to put the number & Ave on. I only put Rev Mrs B G. Eddy Metaphysical College on it I hope it will reach you, As in it you have Some of the feelings that alway Corrected: always go out to your own DearselfCorrected:Dear self from My Heart, I not only Admire you But an Corrected: am lovingly fond of you As is my Daughter & I am sure Dear that your own pure Heart will by intuition tell you that E J French could nevr Corrected: never think much less say one unkind word of you: I rise in all my Womanly digniyty and contradict all things that are untrue or inkind Corrected: unkind , said in my hearing. I will never for one moment sit still & hear any thingCorrected:anything against My Dear Teacher without rebuking it. & when everCorrected:whenever I do other than this I want you to denounce me; Many thanks for your loving manner of treating the accusations, for Dear you do know I love you more than simply a passing thought for you have lived too long & seen too much of the unreal in life not to know the one from the other. How often in speaking of you I have told with pride of your meeting my Daughter who only sent up her non daEditorial Note: nom de plume, Hall [?] ThomasUnclear or illegibleThomas wh [?] Unclear or illegible en you without ever having heard her name & called her Mrs Shelden. No Dear never the shadow of a word other than loving admiration has ever passed my lips of you Dear, & I feel quite proud to know that I have been instrumental in doing you some considerable justice in changing the opinions of many good people about you Because of the faulse Corrected: false rumors of them would be teachers of C. ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science "I have said I was a Normal Scoholar not a teacher of the Normal course: quite a difference. By the way ask Mrs Thompson who is doing good work for C. ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in Minneapolis I do hope & pray Dear that you may be kept free from all the anoying Corrected: annoying things that are in the world for your life is too valuable to the world to have you anoyed Corrected: annoyed so & it must not be. O that my arms were large enough As my Heart for you is big enough to even keep you from even hearing those misserable Corrected: miserable , petty jealousies for they are nothing more nor less So Dear take courage & in the fact that all great & good things have been attack through the persons that God ordained to give the good to the world "suff [?] Unclear or illegible er it to be so Now" Hoping to hear soon after I reach Los, Angels, CalEditorial Note: Los Angeles, California; I start on the morning of the 8 of Dec. May h He in whoes s Corrected: whose keeping you are ever sustain you, & beleive Corrected: believe me Dear yours in A Faith that has no Death.