Accession: 025A.10.037
Editorial Title: Clara E. Choate to Mary Baker Eddy, December 26, 1883
Author: Clara E. Choate 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: December 26, 1883
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Clara E. Choate on lined paper.
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Boston Dec 26, 83
Dear Teacher

The beautiful book you sent meEditorial Note: The work referred to is likely a copy of The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger. Mary Baker Eddy had given a copy to another student, Arthur T. Buswell, and highlighted pages 108-113. It was part of a chapter on the friendships of husbands and wives that included a story about Shah Jahan, his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and the Taj Mahal, which he had built as a mausoleum for her. is the most acceptable work to me and I am already deeply interested in its contents and no doubt shall learn to understand you and all your efforts in my behalf better and gain a better understanding of myself. I thank you much and am truly grateful for all your favors and will prove it in profiting by them.

Dr. Sawyer will soon be with you if not alreadyEditorial Note: Silas J. Sawyer was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on December 27, 1883. so I learn from the westEditorial Note: Clara Choate had been planning to travel to Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as there was a growing interest in Christian Science in these areas..

Hoping to see you soon I remain you loving Student.
Clara E. Choate.
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Boston Dec 26, 83
Dear Teacher

The beautiful book you sent meEditorial Note: The work referred to is likely a copy of The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger. Mary Baker Eddy had given a copy to another student, Arthur T. Buswell, and highlighted pages 108-113. It was part of a chapter on the friendships of husbands and wives that included a story about Shah Jahan, his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and the Taj Mahal, which he had built as a mausoleum for her. is the most acceptable work to me and I am already deeply interested in its contents and no doubt shall learn to understand you and all your efforts in my behalf better and gain a better understanding of myself. I thank you much and am truly grateful for all your favors and will prove it in profiting by them.

Dr. Sawyer will soon be with you if not alreadyEditorial Note: Silas J. Sawyer was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on December 27, 1883. so I learn from the westEditorial Note: Clara Choate had been planning to travel to Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as there was a growing interest in Christian Science in these areas..

Hoping to see you soon I remain you loving Student.
Clara E. Choate.
 
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Silas J. Sawyer was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on December 27, 1883. Clara Choate had been planning to travel to Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as there was a growing interest in Christian Science in these areas. The work referred to is likely a copy of The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger. Mary Baker Eddy had given a copy to another student, Arthur T. Buswell, and highlighted pages 108-113. It was part of a chapter on the friendships of husbands and wives that included a story about Shah Jahan, his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and the Taj Mahal, which he had built as a mausoleum for her.