Accession: 712AP1.85.025
Editorial Title: Byron M. Smith to Mary Baker Eddy, January 25, 1886
Author: Byron M. Smith 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 25, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Byron M. Smith on lined printed stationery from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Byron M. SmithMinneapolis, MinnesotaAs Written:Minn., Jan'y 25th 1886
Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy
Boston MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.
Madam

Having been an invalid now for 3 years, but having every faith in the restorative powers of Nature, I am free from all drugs, not having taken any poison As Written: poisin so far. Of late I have seen a few copies of "Mind in Nature"Editorial Note: Mind in Nature was a periodical published at the time by the Cosmic Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. Its full title was Mind in Nature: A Popular Journal of Psychical, Medical, and Scientific Information., and hence had a glimpseAs Written:glimps, of the powers of mind over matter, and akinAs Written:a kin to that. Christian Science. Have you not got the wrong name, not that I wish to depreciate the lovely and good character As Written: charactere of the Christ, for no one admires that more than As Written: then myself, but so much that is false and erroneous As Written: erronious has grown out of the name, hence my queryAs Written:quirie. I enclose you $500Editorial Note: $5.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $137.67 in 2020. will you please send me two volumes As Written: volums Life & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and any other publication to make the value of the sum enclosed, you see fit, and may life and health accompany As Written: acompany them.

Yours Respectfully
B. M. Smith
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.
⇉ Handshift:Byron M. SmithMinneapolis, Minn.Expanded:Minnesota, Jan'y 25th 1886
Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy
Boston Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts
Madam

Having been an invalid now four 3 years, but having every faith in the restorative powers of Nature, I am free from all drugs, not having taken any poisin Corrected: poison so far. Of late I have seen a few copies of "Mind in Nature"Editorial Note: Mind in Nature was a periodical published at the time by the Cosmic Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. Its full title was Mind in Nature: A Popular Journal of Psychical, Medical, and Scientific Information., and hence had a glimpsCorrected:glimpse, of the powers of mind of over matter, and a kinCorrected:akin to that. Christian Science. Have you not got the wrong name, not that I wish to depreciate the lovely and good charactere Corrected: character of the Christ, for no one one admires that more then Corrected: than myself, but so much that is false and erronious Corrected: erroneous has grown out of the name, hence my quirieCorrected:query. I enclose you $500Editorial Note: $5.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $137.67 in 2020. will you please send me two volums Corrected: volumes Life & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and any other publication to make the value of the sum enclosed, you see fit, and may life and health acompany Corrected: accompany them.

Yours Respectfully
B. M. Smith
 
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There is what appears to be shorthand written here. Mind in Nature was a periodical published at the time by the Cosmic Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. Its full title was Mind in Nature: A Popular Journal of Psychical, Medical, and Scientific Information. $5.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $137.67 in 2020. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy