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| Accession: | 718AP2.87.007 |
| Editorial Title: | Helena Wood Tottingham to Mary Baker Eddy, October 30, 1883 - archivist estimate |
| Author: | Helena Wood Tottingham |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | October 30, 1883 - archivist estimate |
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Helena Wood Tottingham on embossed lined paper from Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: The quote published in Science and Health that Tottingham inquires about is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. It is possible that Eddy read the quote in the copy of Pens and Types or, Hints and Helps for Those Who Write, Print, or Read, by Benjamin Drew (1872) that she owned. She reproduces the quote the way that Drew
does, which does not exactly match Coleridge.
Editorial Note: Tottingham asks Mary Baker Eddy where she got the quotation at the beginning of her
book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The quotation begins: "I, I, I, I itself, I, ...". She asks for particulars about
studying at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College and says she is reading and studying Science and Health. She has been a skeptic her whole life but has studied German philosophy and such
thinkers as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, William Tyndale, and Herbert Spencer. She
says that she can accept Eddy's explanation of Scriptures more easily than any other,
and the Christian Science concept of God as Mind and man as Mind's idea appeals to
her. Tottingham is now especially interested in Eddy's metaphysics as it applies to
health.
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