Accession: L10643
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to James Ackland, July 28, 1882
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: James Ackland 
Date: July 28, 1882 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
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Barton Vt.Editorial Note: Barton, Vermont
July 28.
Mr. Ackland

My dear Student,

I have so much to remind me of you when Dr.Editorial Note: Arthur T. Buswell did not have a medical degree, but in the nineteenth century, persons practicing various “healing arts” were often called “doctor.” Buswell is present, that I thought to while away a weary hour I would write you a few lines telling you in brief how I am changed. I see it in the mirror and my heart tells me it every hour. I would like more than ever to be myself again if only for one short year that I might establish our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. on a firmer foothold than ever yet it has been. But I question my ability to walk over all, only as God gives me aid that I never have had before

I love this mountain scenery and see in its rock-ribbedAs Written:rock-ribed rest a home for the raven's callow brood but not for me

The world was for others

It was not for me

I was made a lone isle

In life's desolate sea

Write me wont you? We shall return soon to the stately halls of my Boston homeEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy was living at the time in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College building on Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. but the walls whisper a secret they tell me home is not there since Gilbert has goneEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy’s husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, died on June 3, 1882..

AdieuEditorial Note: French, meaning goodbye.
Mary
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Barton Vt.Editorial Note: Barton, Vermont
July 28.
Mr. Ackland

My dear Student,

I have so much to remind me of you when Dr.Editorial Note: Arthur T. Buswell did not have a medical degree, but in the nineteenth century, persons practicing various “healing arts” were often called “doctor.” Buswell is present, that I thought to while away a weary hour I would write you a few lines telling you in brief how I am changed. I see it in the mirror and my heart tells me it every hour. I would like more than ever to be myself again if only for one short year that I might establish our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. on a firmer foothold than ever yet it has been. But I question my ability to walk over all, only as God gives me aid that I never have had before

I love this mountain scenery and see in its rock-ribedCorrected:rock-ribbed rest a home for the raven's callow brood but not for me

The world was for others

It was not for me

I was made a lone isle

In life's desolate sea

Write me wont you? We shall return soon to the stately halls of my Boston homeEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy was living at the time in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College building on Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. but the walls whisper a secret they tell me home is not there since Gilbert has goneEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy’s husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, died on June 3, 1882..

AdieuEditorial Note: French, meaning goodbye.
Mary
 
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Barton, Vermont Arthur T. Buswell did not have a medical degree, but in the nineteenth century, persons practicing various “healing arts” were often called “doctor.” The cause of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy was living at the time in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College building on Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. Mary Baker Eddy’s husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, died on June 3, 1882. French, meaning goodbye.