Accession: 025B.10.005
Editorial Title: George D. Choate to Mary Baker Eddy, June 28, 1880
Author: George D. Choate 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 28, 1880
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by George D. Choate on lined paper from Bethel, Maine.
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Bethel Maine
June 28th 1880
Mrs Eddy

Where As Written: Whare art thou does not cover the ground "Are you mad." you never had nor never will have two truer or firmer friends than my wife and myselfAs Written:my self, now you talk of favors and aid taken from us you know that the less you say about that the better. You know that the houseEditorial Note: This is a reference to the house at 551 Shawmut Avenue in Boston, where Mary Baker Eddy and Asa Gilbert Eddy had been living, along with Clara and son, Warren. The Eddys were preparing to move out of the property and spend July and August of 1880 in Concord, New Hampshire. The Choates, who had signed the lease, felt that the Eddys should continue to pay their share even after moving out since the Choates had secured the lease so that the Eddys would have a place to live. (They had been evicted from previous lodgings in the Boston area.)  was taken for your especial benefit As Written: benifett so that you should not be drove out and you would not go intoAs Written:in to it unless she took a lease and you are as much bound by honor for the rent as we but we put our names to the lease taking your word without writings. now you may drive us from you if you like but have a care what you do and say you have hurt As Written: hirt my feelings without cause more than once and now if you do get As Written: git my wife into trouble in my absence As Written: asbsence you will be sorry for it, If you dare to lay such a charge as that to her it will be a bad job for you

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G D Choate
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Bethel Maine
June 28th 1880
Mrs Eddy

Whare Corrected: Where art thou does not cover the ground "Are you mad." you never had nor never will have two truer or firmer friends than my wife and my selfCorrected:myself, now you talk of favors and aid taken from us you know that the less you say about that the better. You know that the houseEditorial Note: This is a reference to the house at 551 Shawmut Avenue in Boston, where Mary Baker Eddy and Asa Gilbert Eddy had been living, along with Clara and son, Warren. The Eddys were preparing to move out of the property and spend July and August of 1880 in Concord, New Hampshire. The Choates, who had signed the lease, felt that the Eddys should continue to pay their share even after moving out since the Choates had secured the lease so that the Eddys would have a place to live. (They had been evicted from previous lodgings in the Boston area.)  was taken for your especial benifett Corrected: benefit so that you should not be drove out and you would not go in toCorrected:into it unless she took a lease and yo [?] Unclear or illegible u are as much bound by honor for the rent as swe but we put our names to the lease taking your word without writings. now you may drive us from you if you like but have a care what you do and say you have hirt Corrected: hurt my feelings without cause more than once and now if you do git Corrected: get my wife into trouble in my asbsence Corrected: absence you will be sorry for it, If you dare to lay such a charge as that to her it will be a bad job for you

in sorrow
G D Choate
 
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This is a reference to the house at 551 Shawmut Avenue in Boston, where Mary Baker Eddy and Asa Gilbert Eddy had been living, along with Clara and son, Warren. The Eddys were preparing to move out of the property and spend July and August of 1880 in Concord, New Hampshire. The Choates, who had signed the lease, felt that the Eddys should continue to pay their share even after moving out since the Choates had secured the lease so that the Eddys would have a place to live. (They had been evicted from previous lodgings in the Boston area.)