Accession: L13944
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Julia A. D. Adams, August 24, 1891
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Julia A. D. Adams 
Scribe: Unknown 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: August 24, 1891
Manuscript Description: Copy of a letter by Mary Baker Eddy to Julia A. D. Adams in the handwriting of an unknown scribe.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Copy of letter to Mrs. Joseph A. D. Adams.
My Dear Student.

I answer a few words at once lest I forget your letter in my varied cares.

Your letter is so wholly one-sided, and positive without one single identical proof that I receive As Written: recieve it in love and as your opinions. I told you that which was palpable. I wrote you that "if I have wronged your husband I am willing to confess it and ask his pardon" but added "I know that I have not wronged him". You know what I have done in helping him, this is proof of my love, and I know that I have not accused him falsely. Others know that I have defended him from accusations, also, they see no evidence that when I christianly admonish him he changes his ways in things which they see,- plagiarism repeated – and publishing the substance of my works which can do no good, since these works [*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut.re as incapable of a students interpretation beyond what Go[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut. has given, as the Bible which ha[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut. [*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut.een misinterpreted As Written: misinterpretted in just this way. I forgive all you say and think, which is wholly unjust to me. Now dear you would make me, and what I [*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut.m not, — a reed shaken,"Matt 11:7 ¶And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Luke 7:24 ¶And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? or unchristian, neither of which i[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut. the least corresponds with my history.

As ever with love
M. B. G. Eddy
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeMrs J. A. D Adams. Aug 24/91
L13944
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Copy of letter to Mrs. Joseph A. D. Adams.
My Dear Student.

I answer a few words at once lest I forget your letter in my varied cares.

Your letter is so wholly one-sided, and positive without one single identical proof that I recieve Corrected: receive it in love and as your opinions. I told you that which was palpable. I wrote you that "if I have wronged your husband I am willing to confess it and ask his pardon" but added "I know that I have not wronged him". You know what I have done in helping him, this is proof of my love, and I know that I have not accused him falsely. Others know that I have defended him from accusations, also, they see no evidence that when I christianly admonish him he changes his ways in things which they see,- plagiarism repeated – and publishing the substance of my works which can do no goo [?] Unclear or illegible d, since these works [*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut.re as incapable of a students interpretation beyond what Go[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut. has given, as the Bible which ha[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut. [*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut.een misinterpretted Corrected: misinterpreted in just this way. I forgive all you say and think, which is wholly unjust to me. Now dear you would make me, and what I [*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut.m not, — a reed shaken,"Matt 11:7 ¶And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Luke 7:24 ¶And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? or unchristian, neither of which i[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page cut. the least corresponds with my history.

As ever with love
M. B. G. Eddy
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeMrs J. A. D Adams. Aug 24/91
 
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