Accession: 158A.26.005
Editorial Title: Annie M. Knott to Mary Baker Eddy, January 19, 1887
Author: Annie M. Knott 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 19, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Annie M. Knott on unlined paper from Detroit, Michigan.
Archival Note: Annie M. Knott uses “ad” for “and” throughout this letter. The spelling has been normalized in this transcription. This letter also includes a notation in Mary Baker Eddy’s handwriting.
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115 Miami Ave. Detroit
January 19th 1887
My dear Mrs Eddy

I am very anxious to know if the Normal class meets early in Feby: as I have several arrangements As Written: arragemnts to make before leaving home.

We have had two of Mr Swarts' pupils come to this city lately, who advertised in his journalEditorial Note: Mental Science Magazine as Mental Scientists. Here where the field has been plowed As Written: ploued with much toil they come in, and call themselves Christian Scientists, and also represent to people that they are your students and that I do not understand Christian Science treatment at all. They have got up two large classes of students and teach for twenty-five dollarsEditorial Note: $25.00 in 1887 is the equivalent of $825.04 in 2024..

Our friends who know of our faithful work here are indignant at their misrepresentations. Their method is to go to wherever they hear of anyoneAs Written:any one ill and urge them to take treatment. I trust that the spirit of Truth and Love may so possess As Written: posess us that we shall see Good and only Good in all things.

I am so eager to come to you now that the intervening days would seem long, but for the joy that labor gives. My sister joins in much love to you and I am dear Mrs Eddy

Yours in Truth
A. M. Knott
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyWith much love from me tell her to uncover them that I take no pupils of Swarts and his teaching is moral a disease
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115 Miami Ave. Detroit
January 19th 1887
My dear Mrs Eddy

I am very anxious to know if the Normal class meets early in Feby: as I have several arragemnts Corrected: arrangements to make before leaving home.

We have had two of Mr Swarts' pupils come to this city lately, who advertised in his journalEditorial Note: Mental Science Magazine as Mental Scientists. Here where the field has been ploued Corrected: plowed with much toil they come in, and call themselves Christian Scientists, and also represent to people that they are your students and that I do not understand Christian Science treatment at all. They have got up two large classes of students and teach for twenty-five dollarsEditorial Note: $25.00 in 1887 is the equivalent of $825.04 in 2024..

Our friends who know of our faithful work here are indignant at their misrepresentations. Their method is to go to wherever they hear of any oneCorrected:anyone ill and urge them to take treatment. I trust that the spirit of Truth and Love may so posess Corrected: possess us that we shall see Good and only Good in all things.

I am so eager to come to you now that the intervening days would seem long, but for the joy that labor gives. My sister joins in much love to you and I am dear Mrs Eddy

Yours in Truth
A. M. Knott
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyWith much love from me tell her to uncover them [?] Unclear or illegible  that I take no pupils of Swarts and his teaching is moral a disease
 
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Mental Science Magazine $25.00 in 1887 is the equivalent of $825.04 in 2024.