Accession: 396.50.007
Editorial Title: Sarah H. Crosse to Mary Baker Eddy, August 10, 1886
Author: Sarah H. Crosse 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 10, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Sarah H. Crosse on lined printed stationery of the Hotel Garfield from Boston, Massachusetts.
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My darling Teacher. –

Bro. Frye questions me thus: Are you willing that Mrs. Eddy should select the members to constitute a Publishing Company for the Christian Science Journal? He wishes me to reply to you. It is your prerogative indisputably to make what disposition you in your wisdom deem best for the Journal. If you make a stock company of it, I would like to suggest the name of Geo. H. Bradford as a member. He is an honest man, and has the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. at heart. There is something like six hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $600.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $19,449.97 in 2023., more or less, to be turned over to the Treasurer, and, darling, I trust it will be somebody who will prove to be honest.

I have had Mr. Linfield do the mailing of the last ten issues. It has cost considerably more, but I dared not trust the subscription-book with Miss Wright, lest SmithEditorial Note: Probably Eldridge J. Smith got hold of it.

I will enclose to you a letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. I have just received from Dr. Sawyer.

Yours ever lovingly.
Sarah H. Crosse-
396.50.007
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My darling Teacher. –

Bro. Frye questions me thus: Are you willing that Mrs. Eddy should select the members to constitute a Publishing Company for the Christian Science Journal? He wishes me to reply to you. It is your prerogative indisputably to make what disposition you in your wisdom deem best for the Journal. If you make a stock company of it, I would like to suggest the name of Geo. H. Bradford as a member. He is an honest man, and has the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. at heart. There is something like six hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $600.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $19,449.97 in 2023., more or less, to be turned over to the Treasurer, and, darling, I trust it will be somebody who will prove to be honest.

I have had Mr. Linfield do the mailing of the last ten issues. It has cost considerably more, but I dared not trust the subscription-book with Miss Wright, lest SmithEditorial Note: Probably Eldridge J. Smith got hold of it.

I will enclose to you a letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. I have just received from Dr. Sawyer.

Yours ever lovingly.
Sarah H. Crosse-
 
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Boston, Massachusetts The cause of Christian Science. $600.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $19,449.97 in 2023. Probably Eldridge J. Smith This letter is not extant.