Accession: V00904
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Emma Curtis Hopkins, October 16, 1885
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Emma Curtis Hopkins 
Date: October 16, 1885
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. at hand, reply briefly and at once, lest it be overlooked in my many tasks. I have always felt and manifested, as many can bear testimony, a true interest in your welfare; never crossed you, or incurred As Written: incured your resentment by any act or word. Your course toward me is singular I wait the denoument You speak of doing for me more than for any friend. What do you refer to? Your work on the paper and Mag. Mr. Smith was not willing to pay you but $8.00Editorial Note: $8.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $210.85 in 2019. per week for. I got your wages raised before he came, to 15.00Editorial Note: $15.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $395.35 in 2019.. What you have done for the paper has not been done for me I never took a dollar into my hands for that periodical, and have given in writing all my right and title to it, to Mrs. Crossse

In haste as ever your friend
M.B.G. Eddy
V00904
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. at hand, reply briefly and at once, lest it be overlooked in my many tasks. I have always felt and manifested, as many can bear testimony, a true interest in your welfare; never crossed you, or incured Corrected: incurred your resentment by any act or word. Your course toward me is singular I wait the denoument You speak of doing for me more than for any friend. What do you refer to? Your work on the paper and Mag. Mr. Smith was not willing to pay you but $8.00Editorial Note: $8.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $210.85 in 2019. per week for. I got your wages raised before he came, to 15.00Editorial Note: $15.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $395.35 in 2019.. What you have done for the paper has not been done for me I never took a dollar into my hands for that periodical, and have given in writing all my right and title to it, to Mrs. Crossse

In haste as ever your friend
M.B.G. Eddy
 
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This letter is not extant. $8.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $210.85 in 2019. $15.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $395.35 in 2019.