Accession: 155DP2.25.026
Editorial Title: Edward A. Kimball to Mary Baker Eddy, November 22, 1901
Author: Edward A. Kimball 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: November 22, 1901
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Edward A. Kimball on the unlined stationery of the Hotel Somerset, from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Beloved Mother,

Your letters sent by Mr MooreEditorial Note: Possibly George H. Moore are just received

The first 117. pages of copy sent usEditorial Note: Kimball and William P. McKenzie were assisting Eddy with a significant revision of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It was the 226th edition released in 1902. are in the hands of the printers - and they have begun the delivery of the first proofs.

Notwithstanding the fact that we knew that you examined the "copy" before it reached us, we ourselves submitted it to a very close and careful scrutiny. and now that you have committed to us the entire examination, we will attend to it and do it right

You need not feel any concern about our end of the work for we are both of us proceeding with great care & prudence and are painstaking and thorough.

We will be responsible for the final proof. You will not need to give it any attention whatever

If there are any rough places we will chisel them off a little and if we do not feel sure of our ground, we can easily submit any question to you, and will The book is taking on grand form, and when completed will be a great delight to all

You may depend on it that we will not disturb your meaning or the import of the work

Indeed we find very little to do in the way of verbal changes-

The composition never seemed so superb to me as it has since I have been trying to pick flaws in it

Mr Wiggin made many mistakes in his scriptural quotations but these will be corrected

Our plan of work is this-

First I take the copy and study it, with a view of detecting any necessary changes.- Then Mr McKenzie takes it and goes over the punctuation and corrects the quotations

After that we go over it together and discuss all changes of every kind and possibly make more and finally each one goes over the completed copy by himself.

When we examine the proof we shall do it just as thoroughly-

The great game of football between Yale & HarvardEditorial Note: Yale and Harvard Universities has filled the hotels this week & we have not been able to make any change

There are nothing but boarding houses in CambridgeEditorial Note: Cambridge, Massachusetts; and I feel that it would be imprudent to go into one of them anywhereAs Written:any where My best place is in a hotel

The Somerset is by far the most convenient and for that matter, the cheapest, owing to our having lived here last year but if you care enough about it to have us move, we will do so Sunday or Monday.

Inasmuch as we want to everythingAs Written:every thing about this, to suit you I wish that you would drop me a line and indicate your preference.

This labor of love is one that I am glad to be engaged in and have a very tender affection for the book and for your watchful care over it

Affectionately Yours
Edward A Kimball
155DP2.25.026
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Beloved Mother,

Your letters sent by Mr MooreEditorial Note: Possibly George H. Moore are just received

The first 117. pages of copy sent usEditorial Note: Kimball and William P. McKenzie were assisting Eddy with a significant revision of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It was the 226th edition released in 1902. are in the hands of the printers - and they have begun the delivery of the first proofs.

Notwithstanding the fact that we knew that you examined the "copy" before it reached us, we ourselves submitted it to a very close and careful scrutiny. and now that you have committed to us the entire examination, we will attend to it and do it right

You need not feel any concern about our end of the work for we are both of us proceeding with great care & prudence and are painstaking and thorough.

We will be responsible for the final proof. You will not need to give it any attention whatever

If there are any rough places we will chisel them off a little and if we do not feel sure of our ground, we can easily submit any question to you, and will The book is taking on grand form, and when completed will be a great delight to all

You may depend on it that we will not disturb your meaning or the import of the work

Indeed we find very little to do in the way of verbal changes-

The composition never seemed so superb to me as it has since I have been trying to pick flaws in it

Mr Wiggin made many mistakes in his scriptural quotations but these will be corrected

Our plan of work is this-

First I take the copy and study it, with a view of detecting any necessary changes.- Then Mr McKenzie takes it and goes over the punctuation and corrects the quotations

After that we go over it together and discuss all changes of every kind and possibly make more and finally each one goes over the completed copy by himself.

When we examine the proof we shall do it just as thoroughly-

The great game of football between Yale & HarvardEditorial Note: Yale and Harvard Universities has filled the hotels this week & we have not been able to make any change

There are nothing but boarding houses in CambridgeEditorial Note: Cambridge, Massachusetts; and I feel that it would be imprudent to go into one of them any whereCorrected:anywhere My best place is in a hotel

The Somerset is by far the most convenient and for that matter, the cheapest, owing to our having lived here last year but if you care enough about it to have us move, we will do so Sunday or Monday.

Inasmuch as we want to every thingCorrected:everything about this, to suit you I wish that you would drop me a line and indicate your preference.

This labor of love is one that I am glad to be engaged in and have a very tender affection for the book and for your watchful care over it

Affectionately Yours
Edward A Kimball
 
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Possibly George H. Moore Kimball and William P. McKenzie were assisting Eddy with a significant revision of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It was the 226th edition released in 1902. Yale and Harvard Universities Cambridge, Massachusetts