In scholarship Dr Quimby was a very had [?] Unclear or illegible  scholarship ignorant man scholarly was shockingly ignorant, he was He a [?] Unclear or illegible  good, [?] Unclear or illegible  moral man, but [?] Unclear or illegible  but not very religiou [?] Unclear or illegible sly inclined. wWhereas religion whas been the chief concern of my entire life, all my years.

Dr. P. P. Quimby He manipulated his patients, he and was known as a magnetic doctor, [?] Unclear or illegible  and afeterCorrected:after his death in about 1866: his portrait hung in the window of the "Banner of Light"Editorial Note: The Banner of Light was a prominent spiritualist journal, published weekly in Boston, Massachusetts, between the years 1857 and 1907. office in Boston, having on it with his name as [?] Unclear or illegible  and title [?] Unclear or illegible  magnetic Physician.

That some a manuscripts of my own composition had [?] Unclear or illegible  may have his name on it might have them happened in this way: Sometimes wWhen he gave me his scribblings to correct I [?] Unclear or illegible  sometimes would erased his writings substituted my own views and give gave his signature to the article [?] Unclear or illegible to counteract in order to meet public opinion that scouted him. The last time I saw him he said in substance: "You have given me all the popularity I have in PortlandEditorial Note: Portland, Maine". This however was before I discovered Christian Science. After that the copy [?] Unclear or illegible  aforesaid might have crept into the hands of some oneCorrected:someone while I were getting My aforesaid copies crept into circulation, because it was then known that he treated disease ready to [?] Unclear or illegible make without drugs.; And I had not generally made known my discovery, and my students also needed time to [?] Unclear or illegible  were matureing and acquiring the practice of Christian Science. The very fact that in searching after a method of practice that my early first students who tried manipulation [?] Unclear or illegible  but could not to demonstrate Christian Science on Quimby's basis and could not do it, but did thus, and afterwadsCorrected:afterwards succeeded by through prayer alone on mine is proof that I t teach and practice taught them Christian Science as I discovered it and in no manner allied to [?] Unclear or illegible  any system but the scriptural teaching [*]Archival Note: A series of metamarks that look like Xs appear at this point in the manuscript. and practice of our great MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ. Quimby's method.

I saw all of Dr. P. P. Qumby's writings relative to his except

I [?] Unclear or illegible have read nearly all of Dr P P Quiby's scribblings and his [?] Unclear or illegible  only menuscripts & they had bore no resemblance to no connection with approch Corrected: approach to a single statement of Christian Science except for one was on one point viz viz he He wrote was one this; he said believed there is no that matter had no intelligence in matter; that was the nearest point he reached conver touching Christian Sciene but he [?] Unclear or illegible  And yet he must have had more faith mo in [?] Unclear or illegible  matter than did belive [?] Unclear or illegible  had was as real as Spirit & he made it the agent through which he healed than in Spirit for he manipulated [?] Unclear or illegible  his patients [?] Unclear or illegible  and used water as his agent [?] Unclear or illegible  [?] Unclear or illegible  as [?] Unclear or illegible  agent for the for healing disease patients and relied on matter to for healing them

treated me, he did not know how he healed the sick. Only a few months before his death I asked him why he applied water to the body and manipulated his patients and he [?] Unclear or illegible  replied "because water can convey more electricity to the body."

Mr Dresser in his pamphlet on "The True History of Mental Science" has taken my terms as used in my published works and applied them to the language of Quimby and decked his JayEditorial Note: Blue jay with borrowed plumes. I knew him better than Dresser did, and he was too illiterate to use the language Dresser employs and he depended on me to give ideas, figures and language to his simple writings up to the time of my last visit to him a month or more before his death and [?] Unclear or illegible  those MSSExpanded:Manuscripts virtually my own ideas and language as the old gentleman often said I left with him and these are those ideas that after my book "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy was published and by it Dresser had informed himself somewhat of the meaning of mental science and pretended to practise Corrected: practice it he came out with the public declaration that he had learned it of P. P. Quimby. But in a letter to me after the death of Quimby he acknowledged himself utterly ignorant of anything of the kind and said he could do nothing for his sick wife Dresser refered Corrected: referred to Dr. Evans as the able author of Mental Mmedicine. My work on Mental ScienceEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy was issued in 187[*]Gap: number.Reason: page cut. and in 1884 Dr. Evans had on his professional card Mesmerism in improved forms.

The entire contents of my letters to Quimby were the outcome of years of [?] Unclear or illegible  growth in the realm of mental di [?] Unclear or illegible scovery but even then I had not the science although I thought I had and that Quimby had but after a time my disease relapsed that I thought he had healed and I was in a worse condition than when I first saw him. I then learned that I had clothed him not only with my thoughts in a literary capacity but with my imagination, in other words that neither of us had the faintest sense of the science of MindEditorial Note: Christian Science. The first time ever Quimby used the word science to my knowledge in three years Corrected: years' acquaintance with me he repeated it after I had used it and employed the word so incorrectly that I told him how to use it and he laughed at his own blunder.

Quimby Arens & Dresser,