Accession: V00961
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Josephine Curtis Woodbury, October 17, 1886
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Josephine Curtis Woodbury 
Date: October 17, 1886
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Dear Student

There is always a difficulty and misunderstanding in whatever you participate. When things are smooth As Written: smothe you disturb them and when rough you make them harder to handle I have again and again rebuked you for this and you have confessed and I well know that it all lies in your habit of telling or implying that which is untrue

You gave me as the authority for your article on Identity being the leader in the Jour When I had refused to correct it and returned it to you declining to push it forward I had just got through with one contest on that score and said I should not undertake another

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

Your friend and Pastor
M B G Eddy
V00961
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Student

There is always a difficulty and misunderstanding in whatever you participate. When things are smothe Corrected: smooth you disturb them and when rough you make them harder to handle I have aga [?] Unclear or illegible in and again rebuked you for this and you have confessed and I well know that it all lies in your habit of telling or implying that which is untrue

You gave me as the authority for your article on Identity being the leader in the Jour When I had refused to correct it and returned it to you declinging to push it forward I had just got through with one contest on that score and said I should not undertake another

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

Your friend and Pastor
M B G Eddy
 
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