Accession: L02217
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to James Henry Wiggin, May 16, 1890
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: James Henry Wiggin 
Date: May 16, 1890 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined 385 Commonwealth Ave. stationery.
Archival Note: The year on this letter “1890” is written in another hand.
Manuscript Description: The date is an archivist estimate.
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Your interest in the work you are performing for me and mankind As Written: man kind has the rare quality of King Lear's daughter's affection, it never flattersEditorial Note: In Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, two of Lear’s daughters, Goneril and Regan, were known to flatter him, while his youngest daughter, Cordelia, refused to do so..

Now I will add no new matter to my book but that which I return with the clippings You will find this first chapter introductory, and I know its compilation will delight my students, inasmuch As Written: in as much as it makes the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science more comprehensible to the reader. May my good critic shoulder arms and I will get through sometime this severe task and he will find the general work vastly improved Please examine it all over and I will send all the pages for you to index (as you in your letter indicated) in the reading matter instead of outside of it

As ever gratefully & respectfully
M B G Eddy
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Your interest in the work you are performing for me and man kind Corrected: mankind has the rare quality of King Lear's daughter's affection, it never flattersEditorial Note: In Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, two of Lear’s daughters, Goneril and Regan, were known to flatter him, while his youngest daughter, Cordelia, refused to do so..

Now I will add no new matter to my book but that which I return with the clippings You will find this first chapter introductory, and I know its compilation will delight my students, in as much Corrected: inasmuch as it makes the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science more comprehensible to the reader. May my good critic shoulder arms and I will get through sometime this severe task and he will find the general work vastly improved Please examine it all over and I will send all the whole pages for you to index over a (as you in your letter indicated) in the reading matter instead of outside of it

As ever gratefully & respectfully
M B G Eddy
 
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In Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, two of Lear’s daughters, Goneril and Regan, were known to flatter him, while his youngest daughter, Cordelia, refused to do so. Christian Science