Dec. 9– '86
This morning at breakfast time I received a letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. from you regarding [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by the author, disrupting the surrounding thought.[*]Archival Note: End floating text. Dr Sawyer, which you told me to burn. I put it in my desk as soon as I came upstairsAs Written:up-stairs, intending to do as you wished as soon as I could get a moment's As Written: moments time. About an hour after another letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was handed me, asking me to send it back to you instead of burning it. On looking the letter over a second time I found it was to Mrs Brown – was it a mistake on your part writing her name instead of mine? I will enclose them both to you, to do with them as you see fit.
I cannot agree with you regarding the doctor. I think I know him very well indeed and of all the students of Christian Science I have ever met, he stands preeminent for entire and absolute faithfulness As Written: faithfullness to the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and an unwavering, devotion to you, which in its perfect unselfishness is unrivalled. I never knew him speak of you in any but the most loving terms, and I am truly sorry that you have been so influenced against him. True friends are so very scarce, and it seems so easy nowadays As Written: now-a-days for people to be one thing to one’s face and another behind one’s back. But he was always the same. Dear Mrs. Eddy you can trust him through good reportPhil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. and ill report. He bore the action of the Pub. Com, with such christian gentleness – if it had been I whom they had so summarily deposed, I much fear I would have taken it somewhat As Written: some-what differently. My dear I know just what your troubles As Written: trouble's must be - everybodyAs Written:every body jealous of everybody else, and everybodyAs Written:every body wanting to be first in Mrs Eddy’s kingdom, but don't As Written: dont I beg of you, allow yourself to be alienated from your best and truest friends I am in the midst of a class. Science is flourishing in N. Y. Mrs Brown & Mrs Leonard & Mrs Stetson are doing splendidly Next Sunday we start a Bible Class. Everything is perfectly harmonious.