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Editorial Title: Hattie E. Schoonmaker to Mary Baker Eddy, April 22, 1884
Author: Hattie E. Schoonmaker 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: April 22, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Hattie E. Schoonmaker from Littleton, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye. The spelling by the author of this letter is largely phonetic. We have attempted to transcribe it correctly.
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent paper
AprilAs Written:Apr 25

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709BP2.85.003
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent paper
AprExpanded:April 25

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