Accession: 712AP2.85.026
Editorial Title: Adelaide A. Smith to Mary Baker Eddy, November 23, 1884
Author: Adelaide A. Smith 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: November 23, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Adelaide A. Smith on embossed lined paper from Vallejo, California.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsweredAs Written:Ans Dec 1

I would like to have the agency for your book. Science and Health. Revised Edition.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I think there is a good opening here for their sale. There is a lady in San Francisco by the name of Mrs Root. who studied in a class under Mrs Rice, and of which class I was one. Mrs Root has been practicing and teaching a science different As Written: diferent from yours, and has also published As Written: publised a book. some thingsAs Written:somethings in it are similar to yours, but mostly of her own conception. and so different from the science you advocate and teachEditorial Note: Christian Science. She has gone astray altogether. she teaches that for Malignant diseases or poison in the blood people must go to physicians. she also teaches that the universal mind is God. I myself am really interested in the work and am following it as closely to the letter as my mind is capable of understanding. I am anxious to circulate and teach the truth revealed by you. and believe I can dispose of a good many copies in San Francisco. I am anxious to counteract Mrs Roots influence. she is selling a great many of her books and teaching her Ideas. Now on what terms can I hear the Agency of Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. for California.

I am most respectfully yours
Mrs James G. Smith
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye1/3 off and hope you will do all you can to suppress mal-teachings
712AP2.85.026
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsExpanded:Answered Dec 1

I would like to have the agency for your book. Science and Health. Revised Edition.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I think there is a good opening here for their sale. There is a lady in San Francisco by the name of Mrs Root. who studied in a class under Mrs Rice, and of which class I was one. Mrs Root has been practicing and teaching a science diferent Corrected: different from yours, and has also publised Corrected: published a book. somethingsCorrected:some things in it are similar to yours, but mostly of her own conception. and so different from the science you advocate and teachEditorial Note: Christian Science. She has gone astray altogether. she teaches that for Malignant diseases or poison in the blood people must go to physicians. she also teaches that the universal mind is God. I myself am really interested in the work and am following it as closely to the letter as my mind is capable of understanding. I am anxious to circulate and teach the truth revealed by you. and believe I can dispose of a good many copies in San Francisco. I am anxious to counteract Mrs Roots influence. she is selling a great many of her books and teaching her Ideas. Now on what terms can I hear the Agency of Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. for California.

I am most respectfully yours
Mrs James G. Smith
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye1/3 off and hope you will do all you can to suppress mal-teachings
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.