Accession: L14814
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Josephine Curtis Woodbury, October 17, 1886
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Josephine Curtis Woodbury 
Scribe: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: October 17, 1886
Manuscript Description: Letter by Mary Baker Eddy in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye as scribe, on unlined paper from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Oct 17 1886
Dear Student

There is always a difficulty & misunderstanding in whatever you participate. When things are smooth you disturb them & when rough you make them harder to handle I have again & again rebuked you for this & you have confessed & I well know that it all lies in your habit of telling or implying that which is untrue. You give me as the authority for you article on "Identity" being the leader in the Journal, when I had refused to correct it & returned it to you declining to push it forward I had just got through with one contest on that score & said I should not undertake another.

I have been a friend to you in need but because of this I shall not suffer you to commit & recommit As Written: recomit the offense As Written: offence of interfering with my business or using my name as authority to that to whichAs Written:wh I would not give it & unless you stop this unchristian conduct you will oblige me bring your cases of constant quarrels before the C. S. A. & the Church of whichAs Written:wh I made you a member with the earnest prayer for your reform

Your friendAs Written:frnd & pastor
M. B. G Eddy
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Oct 17 18856
Dear Student

There is always a difficulty & misunderstanding in whatever you participate. When things are smooth you disturb them & when rough you make them harder to handle I have again & again rebuked you for this & you have confessed & I well know that it all lies in your habit of telling or implying that which is untrue. You give me as the authority for you article on "Identity" being the leader in the Journal, when I had refused to correct it & returned it to you declining to push it forward I had just got through with one contest on that score & said I should not undertake another.

I have been a friend to you in need but because of this I shall not suffer you to commit & recomit Corrected: recommit the offence Corrected: offense of interfering with my business or using my name as authority to that to whExpanded:which I would not give it & unless you stop this unchristian conduct you will oblige me bring your cases of constant quarrels before the C. S. A. & the Church of whExpanded:which I made you a member with the earnest prayer for your reform

Your frndCorrected:friend & pastor
M. B. G Eddy
 
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