Accession: 535.57.001
Editorial Title: Addison D. Crabtree to Mary Baker Eddy, September 19, 1885
Author: Addison D. Crabtree 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 19, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Addison D. Crabtree on unlined paper.
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9/19 - 1885As Written:5
Dear Madam

Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., requesting me to defer the proposed attendance at LecturesEditorial Note: This is probably a reference to Addison D. Crabtree’s potential attendance at one of Mary Baker Eddy’s classes at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. There is no evidence that Crabtree ever studied with Eddy. to a later period, is received. You know best about that matter, and notwithstanding I received the request with regrets at the delay, I quietly deferred to your better wisdom for the decision. I have great faith in your decisions; furthermoreAs Written:further more, I believe — as I think it over more and more — that you are doing a mighty work. Did woman ever undertake a more holy and humane work? One far-reaching and so universally adapted and intended to reach and cover all mankind? How it glows and burns, in comparison with the selfish and sordid works of those Animal workers described in my articleEditorial Note: See “Mind and Matter” by A. D. Crabtree on pages 104-105 of the September 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the last Journal. That article did excoriate one, at least, of those Animal Magnetizers! "The galled jade wince"Editorial Note: This quotation is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. “Jade” refers to a worn out horse, and “galled” indicates that the horse has been subjected to an irritant. It functions as a metaphor for the guilty reaction of someone who is confronted with evidence of his or her crime. — she turned on the writer with venom of a reptile. I found out how little of Christian or Science, or even pure Ladyship she possessed. It was worth the effort I made in writing the article, to find out one hedged about with such lofty (advertised) pretensionsAs Written:pretentions, but, Oh, it is humiliating to human nature to get at the bottom of such beings and find them so debasing!

O, I must leave this and turn to the letter. I often think of you and your great work. I had to surmount poisonous insinuations which reached my ears before your guileless face reached my eyes, before your guileless voice penetrated my alert sensesAs Written:sences. I did it in all honesty and the conviction was complete– I hope to see you before long, but necessitiesAs Written:necesities I could say no less than the above and until then and ever, believe me

Faithfully Yours
Addison D. Crabtre
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9/19 - 5Expanded:1885
Dear Madam

Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., requesting me to defer the proposed attendance at LecturesEditorial Note: This is probably a reference to Addison D. Crabtree’s potential attendance at one of Mary Baker Eddy’s classes at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. There is no evidence that Crabtree ever studied with Eddy. to a later period, is received. You know best about that matter, and notwithstanding I received the request with regrets at the delay, I quietly deferred to your better wisdom for the decision. I have great faith in your decisions; further moreCorrected:furthermore, I believe — as I think it over more and more — that you are doing a mighty work. Did woman ever undertake a more holy and humane work? One far-reaching and so universally adapted and intended to reach and cover all mankind? How it glows and burns, in comparison with the selfish and sordid works of those Animal workers described in my articleEditorial Note: See “Mind and Matter” by A. D. Crabtree on pages 104-105 of the September 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the last Journal. That article did excoriate one, at least, of those Animal Magnetizers! "The galled jade wince"Editorial Note: This quotation is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. “Jade” refers to a worn out horse, and “galled” indicates that the horse has been subjected to an irritant. It functions as a metaphor for the guilty reaction of someone who is confronted with evidence of his or her crime. — she turned on the writer with venom of a reptile. I found out how little of Christian or Science, or even pure Ladyship she possessed. It was worth the effort I made in writing the article, to find out one hedged about with such lofty (advertised) pretentionsCorrected:pretensions, but, Oh, it is humiliating to human nature to get at the bottom of such beings and find them so debasing!

O, I must leave this and turn to the letter. I often think of you and your great work. I had to surmount poisonous insinuations which reached my ears before your guileless face reached my eyes, before your guileless voice penetrated my alert sencesCorrected:senses. I did it in all honesty and the conviction was complete– I hope to see you before long, but necesitiesCorrected:necessities I could say no less than the above and until then and ever, believe me

Faithfully Yours
Addison D. Crabtre
 
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This letter is not extant. This is probably a reference to Addison D. Crabtree’s potential attendance at one of Mary Baker Eddy’s classes at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. There is no evidence that Crabtree ever studied with Eddy. See “Mind and Matter” by A. D. Crabtree on pages 104-105 of the September 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. This quotation is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. “Jade” refers to a worn out horse, and “galled” indicates that the horse has been subjected to an irritant. It functions as a metaphor for the guilty reaction of someone who is confronted with evidence of his or her crime.