Accession: 033A.13.048
Editorial Title: Septimus J. Hanna to Mary Baker Eddy, January 30, 1894
Author: Septimus J. Hanna 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 30, 1894
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Septimus J. Hanna on unlined printed stationery of The Christian Science Publishing Society Editorial Department, from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Our beloved Leader:

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. enclosing the "wee bit" for MarchEditorial Note: The March issue of The Christian Science Journal. is receivedAs Written:rec'd. Many thanks for the graceful tributeEditorial Note: "A Great Man and His Saying" by Mary Baker Eddy in the March 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal. to Mr. Bonney. It is too true to have been left unsaid. There is one thing about your articles that amazes me,– the suddenness with which you stop. But why not, when you have said it all? Wondrous faculty! this "multum in parvo,"– wish I had it, and more of our contributors. A letter from Mr. White gives tacit consent to republication of poemEditorial Note: "A Thanksgiving Greeting." by James T. White was reprinted in the March 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal after having been incorrectly published in the January issue.. He says the most serious mistake was in using the word "dwell," which shouldAs Written:sh'd have been "well," but he wrote it "dwell" as plainly as possible, so I shall ask him to plead guilty to that count, as I have to the others. I will send him proof of it as I shouldAs Written:sh'd have done before. I have had to verify my editorial advice to others about "little things" very promptly. Good thing. Many thanks also about my birth.- You meant the "new birth" of course.

With deepest love from us bothEditorial Note: Hanna and his wife, Camilla A. Hanna.
S. J. H.

We thought Mrs. H. had destroyed Capt Linscott's original article "Scientific TheologyEditorial Note: Linscott's article, "Scientific Theology," was one of many read by some of Eddy's students for the Christian Science Congress as part of the World's Parliament of Religions at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. Hanna had helped prepare these speakers.," but it was only a copy. I have since found the original in my desk.

S J. H.

033A.13.048
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Our beloved Leader:

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. enclosing the "wee bit" for MarchEditorial Note: The March issue of The Christian Science Journal. is rec'dExpanded:received. Many thanks for the graceful tributeEditorial Note: "A Great Man and His Saying" by Mary Baker Eddy in the March 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal. to Mr. Bonney. It is too true to have been left unsaid. There is one thing about your articles that amazes me,– the suddenness with which you stop. But why not, when you have said it all? Wondrous faculty! this "multum in parvo,"– wish I had it, and more of our contributors. A letter from Mr. White gives teacit consent to republication of poemEditorial Note: "A Thanksgiving Greeting." by James T. White was reprinted in the March 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal after having been incorrectly published in the January issue.. He says the most serious mistake was in using the word "dwell," which sh'dExpanded:should have been "well," but he wrote it "dwell" as plainly as possible, so I shall ask him to plead guilty to that count, as I have to the others. I will send the him proof of it as I sh'dExpanded:should have done before. I have had to verify my editorial advice to others about "little things" very promptly. Good thing. Many thanks also about my birth.- You meant the "new birth" of course.

With deepest love from us bothEditorial Note: Hanna and his wife, Camilla A. Hanna.
S. J. H.

We thought Mrs. H. had destroyed Capt Linscott's original article "Scientific TheologyEditorial Note: Linscott's article, "Scientific Theology," was one of many read by some of Eddy's students for the Christian Science Congress as part of the World's Parliament of Religions at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. Hanna had helped prepare these speakers.," but it was only a copy. I have since found the original in my desk.

S J. H.

 
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This letter is not extant. The March issue of The Christian Science Journal. "A Great Man and His Saying" by Mary Baker Eddy in the March 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal. "A Thanksgiving Greeting." by James T. White was reprinted in the March 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal after having been incorrectly published in the January issue. Hanna and his wife, Camilla A. Hanna. Linscott's article, "Scientific Theology," was one of many read by some of Eddy's students for the Christian Science Congress as part of the World's Parliament of Religions at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. Hanna had helped prepare these speakers.