Mary Baker Eddy to Fred O. Ellis, December 23, 1871

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Fred O. Ellis

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December 23, 1871 - archivist estimate

Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper from Lynn, Massachusetts.

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LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts Dec 23rd

Mr. Ellis,–
Dear Sir,

I have waited a little to hear from your Mother, as I really was averse to break up your studies if indeed you have been looking over my manuscriptsAs Written:MSS. but the circumstances seem to demand it. I have a class on the tapis a good one I think this time one Dr and another minister As Written: minster has expressed their desire to learn or to join my class. The terms are all that are under settlement at present

I have thought not best to charge them, the laborer, it seems to me, deserves his hireLuke 10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. ; and if this great and glorious truth is not worth more than 300 $Editorial Note: $300 in 1871 is the equivalent of $6,364.22 in 2020. 'tis not worth anythingAs Written:any thing– and had better be let alone. I said to one of them

The manuscriptsAs Written:MSS. I shall have to give my scholars and so if you are in receipt of this and will please forward them at the earliest moment you will greatly obliged me

Give much love to dear Mrs Ellis and tell her I hope and believe she is happy

Would like to have you join my class the first of Jan. or perhaps not until later

Yours in haste & Truly

M M B Glover

P. S Came very near forgetting even an allusion to what I named to your Mother when here and then utterly forgot to refer to in my letter to her– The lecture I had thought of giving in this CityEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts. I gave it up because the Hall was so expensive and the whole thing would require too much time if I did as they thought I had better get printed handbillsAs Written:hand bills and all the etcetera of a good lecturer, which I had never dreamed of in my moods of doing things

Again Mary

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LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts Dec 23rd

Mr. Ellis,–
Dear Sir,

I have waited a little to hear from your Mother, as I really was averse to break up your studies if indeed you have been looking over my MSS.Expanded:manuscripts but the circumstances seem to demand it. I have a class on the tapis a good one I think this time one Dr and another minster Corrected: minister has expressed their desire to learn or to join my class. The terms are all that are under settlement at present

I have thought not best to charge them, the laborer, it seems to me, deserves his hireLuke 10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. ; and if this great and glorious truth is not worth more than 300 $Editorial Note: $300 in 1871 is the equivalent of $6,364.22 in 2020. 'tis not worth any thingCorrected:anything– and had better be let alone. I said to one of them

The MSS.Expanded:manuscripts I shall have to give my schollars and so if you are in receipt of this and will please forward them at the earliest moment you will greatly obliged me

Give much love to dear Mrs Ellis and tell her I hope and believe she is happy

Would like to have you join my class the first of Jan. or perhaps not until later

Yours in haste & Truly

M M B Glover

P. S Came very near forgetting even an allusion to what I named to your Mother when here and then utterly forgot to refe [?] Unclear or illegible r to in my letter to her– The lect [?] Unclear or illegible ure I had thought of giving in this CityEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts. I gave it up because the h Hall was so expensive and the whole thing would require too much time if I did as they thought I had better get printed hand billsCorrected:handbills and all the etcetera of a good lecturer, which I had never dreamed of in my moods of doing things

Again Mary

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Lynn, Massachusetts $300 in 1871 is the equivalent of $6,364.22 in 2020. Lynn, Massachusetts