I have just received your very esteemed favor of the 26thEditorial Note: See L01688., together with the questions and answers. I had already concluded, before receiving this communication, that you must not be disturbed any more with matters of this kind. This will be a fitting closing up of this sort of wrork. You have earned the right to retire, and Mrs. O'Brien's storyEditorial Note: Sybil Wilbur had an interview with Mary Baker Eddy for the Boston Herald on May 21, 1905. The interview was reprinted in the June 17, 1905, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel, "An Interview with Rev. Mary Baker Eddy." duly acknowledges this and makes it easier vfor us to stop this interview biusiness. You cannot imagine how hard they have pushed me. Not a hundredth part of the pressure which has been brought to bear upon me as ever reached Pleasant View, but I have never heretofore been able to reach a positive conviction that it was not right for me to pass any of these matters along to you.

There has always been more or less of the feeling that when I have sent these to you I have chosen the lesser of two evils. Perhaps I have, but, be that as it may, I have now concluded that it is time to stop it. Your time is to Corrected: too precious for this sort of thing.

It is gratifying, however, to note the demand which the public press is making for your writings. I will retain the original copy of your answers to the questions and will see that the matter is published according to copy.

I have a promise of galley proofs of Mrs. O'Brien's story. I did not tell tehem that I was going to submit it to you because I thought possibly you might not want to be held responsible for her matter; it is enough for me to have that responsibility, for to censor matter written by others and to proof it is a risky thing, for we always under such circumstances pass upon matter which we ourselves would not write. However, Mrs. O'Brien's story is very good, and I trust that you will be pleased with it. I have cut out some things which were objectionable. When the proof reaches you, you can run it over, make your corrections, and I will transfer them to another copy so that when they come go back to the HeraldEditorial Note: Boston Herald office they will not appear in your handwriting and they will not know that you have been over them, unless you think of some reason why they should know that you have gone over the matter.

I am not only to have galley proofs of the whole page but page proofs also, so that I will even have access to the heads, and they promised me before Mrs. O'Brien went to ConcordEditorial Note: Concord, New Hampshire that nothing would appear of which I did not approve.