Accession: 382.50.051
Editorial Title: Eldridge J. Smith to Mary Baker Eddy, November 16, 1884
Author: Eldridge J. Smith 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: November 16, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Eldridge J. Smith on his printed stationery from Washington, D.C.
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Nov. 16. 1884.
Dearly Beloved Teacher: -

Your kind (as usual) letter of the 13thEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is Received.

“There is a Divinity which Shapes our ends”Editorial Note: This is a quotation from Act V, Scene 2 of Shakespear’s Hamlet. – I have regretted more that I can express to have been obliged by circumstances which I have hastily explained to you in my former letter to relinquish the plan of publishing the Journal. Yet the thought occurs to me, it may be my place for the present is here.

Consider, I have a large circle of friends and acquaintances here - many of them of social position and influence and intelligence – the very material we want in giving the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. you and I and all who understand it, a forward and upward impetus – I have already made some arrangements to bring the subject of S.C.Editorial Note: Christian Science before a select circle of friends by a little lecture talk I have prepared.

Now what I have in view is to prepare the way – and then – Dearly beloved Teacher – to have you, if you will, Come here, for a time – and under far different auspices than when you were here before –

I was at the National Hotel to see Gen. Wisewell but he was absent in New YorkAs Written:N.Y. I will see him on his return. I will see to it that the wish you express in your letter shall be fully carried out. I may have to go to New York soon – Shall I go on to Boston and see you?

Ever faithfully Dear Teacher with love from my Dear wife and I,
Eldridge J Smith
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Nov. 16. 1884.
Dearly Beloved Teacher: -

Your kind (as usual) letter of the 13thEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is Received.

“There is a Divinity which Shapes our ends”Editorial Note: This is a quotation from Act V, Scene 2 of Shakespear’s Hamlet. – I have regretted more that I can express to have been obliged by circumstances which I have hastily explained to you in my former letter to relinquish the plan of publishing the Journal. Yet the thought occurs to me, it may be my place for the present is here.

Consider, I have a large circle of friends and acquaintances here - many of them of social position and influence and intelligence – the very material we want in giving the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. you and I and all who understand it, a forward and upward impetus – I have already made some arrangements to bring the subject of S.C.Editorial Note: Christian Science before a select circle of friends by a little lecture talk I have prepared.

Now what I have in view is to prepare the way – and then – Dearly beloved Teacher – to have you, if you will, Come here, for a time – and under far different auspices than when you were here before –

I was at the National Hotel to see Gen. Wisewell but he was absent in N.Y.Expanded:New York I will see him on his return. I will see to it that the wish you express in your letter shall be fully carried out. I may have to go to New York soon – Shall I go on to Boston and see you?

Ever faithfully Dear Teacher with love from my Dear wife and I,
Eldridge J Smith
 
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This letter is not extant. This is a quotation from Act V, Scene 2 of Shakespear’s Hamlet. The cause of Christian Science. Christian Science