Accession: L14813
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Josephine Curtis Woodbury, October 15, 1886
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Josephine Curtis Woodbury 
Scribe: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: October 15, 1886
Manuscript Description: Draft of a letter by Mary Baker Eddy, handwritten in pencil on unlined paper by Calvin A. Frye (as scribe), from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Oct 15 1886
Mrs Woodbury
Dear Student

Such a request as yr letterEditorial Note: See 338AP1.46.007. contains surprises me! Such a ceremony might do for certain people sects or simpletons but that you could suppose for an instant I would do it is only another instance of folly that ill becomes a ChristianAs Written:Xn Scientist. My sincere hope is that you make this Institute respectable & Christian in its influence As Written: influnce that it be not a failure but success & you become worthy of the confidence I had in You

Very sincerely
Your Teacher
M.B. G. Eddy
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Oct 15 1886
Mrs Woodbury
Dear Student

Such a request as yr letterEditorial Note: See 338AP1.46.007. contains surprises me! Such a ceremony might do for certain people sects or seimpletons but that you could suppose for an instant I would do it is [?] Unclear or illegible  only another instance of folly that ill becomes a XnExpanded:Christian Scientist. My sincere hope is that you make this Institute respectable & Christian in its influnce Corrected: influence that it be not a failure but success & you become worthy of the confidence I had in You

Very sincerely
Your Teacher
M.B. G. Eddy
 
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