Accession: L02013
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Sarah G. Crosby, 1864
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Sarah G. Crosby 
Date: 1864 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
Editorial Note: On page 186 of his Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, Robert Peel gives an explanation for this document: “In an episode that has been variously interpreted, Mrs. Patterson simulated a trance and wrote ‘spirit letters’ to Mrs. Crosby purporting to come from Albert Baker. The most reasonable explanation, in view of her known opposition to spiritualism and of the admonition in these letters to ‘lean on no material or spiritual medium’ is that she used this rather drastic method to show Mrs. Crosby how easy it was to produce such sham ‘manifestations.’ Mrs. Crosby, on the other hand, refused to believe they were not genuine.” The alleged communications from Albert were presented as “automatic writing” written by the spirit of Albert Baker in Eddy’s simulated trance. This perhaps explains the differences between Eddy’s normal handwriting and the handwriting in these documents.
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"Dear Sarah

Do not sorrow

you shall be blessed and you will feel justified and happified in the way of wisdom that where I am you may be alsoJohn 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

[*]Archival Note: The following is written in the normal handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy. This I write from the same involuntary direction I know not what to term itEditorial Note: This is a reference to what is known as “automatic writing.”

Mary
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"Dear Sarah

Do not sorrow

you shall be blessed and you will feel justified and happified in the way of wisdom that where I am you may be alsoJohn 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

[*]Archival Note: The following is written in the normal handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy. This I write from the same involuntary direction I know not what to term itEditorial Note: This is a reference to what is known as “automatic writing.”

Mary
 
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The following is written in the normal handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy. This is a reference to what is known as “automatic writing.”