Accession: V04987
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Unknown, September 20, 1886
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Unknown 
Date: September 20, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
Archival Note: The original of this letter is in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Sept 20, 1886
My darling

You will think I am boring you with my students! But this woman has a world wide name for her goodness, philanthropy, and I love her so will you. She is Prof. Elizabeth French.

Good bye dear dear one
Mary Baker G. Eddy

P.S. Ms Tilton of Tilton New HampshireAs Written:N.H. has gone the way of all the earth. I was not informed of her death or burial until after both took place and then incidentally.

She left 20000 to her neiceEditorial Note: According to Abigail Baker Tilton’s last will and testament (A11404), she left her niece, Ellen C. Pilsbury Philbrook, $18,000 ($583,472.23 in 2023). and $10000Editorial Note: $10,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $324,151.24 in 2023. they say to Peabody.

I want a ChurchAs Written:Chuch Edifice in which to tell the sick and sinner how to be well and good, but I can’t get it for I give my time and means to just such — [she] never left me a copper, [had] she done I would have melted it over as I wish I could her poor self

Lovingly as Ever

Mary Baker G. Eddy

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Sept 20, 1886
My darling

You will think I am boring you with my students! But this woman has a world wide name for her goodness, philanthropy, and I love her so will you. She is Prof. Elizabeth French.

Good bye dear dear one
Mary Baker G. Eddy

P.S. Ms Tilton of Tilton N.H.Expanded:New Hampshire has gone the way of all the earth. I was not informed of her death or burial until after both took place and then incidentally.

She left 20000 to her neiceEditorial Note: According to Abigail Baker Tilton’s last will and testament (A11404), she left her niece, Ellen C. Pilsbury Philbrook, $18,000 ($583,472.23 in 2023). and $100000Editorial Note: $10,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $324,151.24 in 2023. they say to Peabody.

I want a ChuchCorrected:Church Edifice in which to tell the sick and sinner how to be well and good, but I can’t get it for I give my time and means to just such — [she] never left me a copper, [had] she done I would have melted it over as I wish I could her poor self lovingly

Lovingly as Ever

Mary Baker G. Eddy

 
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According to Abigail Baker Tilton’s last will and testament (A11404), she left her niece, Ellen C. Pilsbury Philbrook, $18,000 ($583,472.23 in 2023). $10,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $324,151.24 in 2023.