Accession: 163A.27.041
Editorial Title: Ellen Brown Linscott to Mary Baker Eddy, February 6, 1886
Author: Ellen Brown Linscott 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: February 6, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Ellen Brown Linscott on lined printed stationery from Chicago, Illinois.
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163A.27.041
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My dearest Teacher,

Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. received a few hour since, I have been working day and night, the opposition has been so great, and the consciousness that some conspiracy was being planned, and also that there was some unknown foe in the field helping to carry it out. EverythingAs Written:Every thing said in our C. S. A.Editorial Note: The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the C.S.A. in Boston, Massachusetts. has been reported to the enemy, and those who ought to know betterAs Written:bettr, have been used as tools, and running to me to make me believe (if they could) that those who have stood the strongest for the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., and for Our Teacher, were traitors, when these very ones, were playing into the hands of the enemy all the time, and I knew it, but one would think from their letters they were saints.

I think this Nat., C. S. A. a grand move. Will I have to call a special meeting and read your letter to them?

Every suggestion of yours would be carried out if I could get others to act, but they are not always ready, especially if it is going to involve a little expense –

Do you mean that each Teacher As Written: Teachr must have an AssociationAs Written:Asso- of just their own students? Forgive me if I appear stupid, and tell me just what I can do to help you, and the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. to the best advantage. Did you receive a letter I wrote you last Sunday, Jan 31stEditorial Note: See 163A.27.038? Mr Hammond is full of work in Grand RapidsEditorial Note: Grand Rapids, Michigan, and will organize there. He must. Do you think I ought to stop healing, (as I have healed successfully for nearly three years, and devote my time to study and teaching? I have opportunities to go to other As Written: othr places to teach, but am so busy here I cannot leave. The ShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman, Martha Sherman, and Roger Sherman, Mrs. Noyes, and myself, and others are enclosing the enclosed circular in our letters, and distributing them in any way that we can. I ordered 1000 struck off first, and then they took so many, that I am going to have some several thousand struck off again, Do you approve. I thought they would do much good, and indeed they have - done much good.

Your in haste and with much love to my teacher & Mother in ScienceChristian Science- May God gives us light and wisdom to stand through all the coming strife – Again with love,

I am your loving
Student
E. Brown.
163A.27.041
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dearest Teacher,

Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. received a few hour since, I have been working day and night, the opposition has been so great, and the consciousness that some conspiracy was being planned, and also that there w [?] Unclear or illegible as some unknown foe in the field was helping to carry it out. Every thingCorrected:Everything said in our C. S. A.Editorial Note: The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the C.S.A. in Boston, Massachusetts. has been reported to the enemy, and those who ought to know bettrCorrected:better, have been used as tools, and running to me to make [?] Unclear or illegible  me believe (if they could) that those who have stood the strongest for the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., and for Our Teacher, wasere traitors, when these very ones, [?] Unclear or illegible  were playing into the hands of the enemy all the time, and I knew it, but one would think from their letters they were saints.

I think this Nat., C. S. A. a grand move. Will I have to call a special meeting and read your letter to them?

Every suggestion of yours would be carried out if I could get others to act, but they are not always ready, especially if it is going to involve a little expense –

Do you mean that each Teachr Corrected: Teacher must have an Asso-Expanded:Association of just their own students? Forgive me if I appear stupid, and tell me just what I can do to help you, and the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. to the best advantage. Did you receive a letter I wrote you last Sunday, Jan 31stEditorial Note: See 163A.27.038? Mrs Hammond is full of work in Grand RapidsEditorial Note: Grand Rapids, Michigan, and will organize there. He must. Do you think I ought to stop healing, (as I have healed successfully for nearly three years, and devote my time to study and teaching? I have opportunities to go to othr Corrected: other places to teach, but am so busy here I cannot leave. The ShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman, Martha Sherman, and Roger Sherman, Mrs. Noyes, and myself, and others are enclosing the enclosed circular in our letters, and distributing them in any way that we can. I ordered 1000 struck off first, and then they took so many, that I am going to have some several thousand struck off again, Do you approve. I thought they would do much good, and indeed they have - done much good.

Your in haste and with much love to my teacher & Mother in ScienceChristian Science- May God gives us light and wisdom to stand through all the coming strife – Again wihth love,

I am your loving
Student
E. Brown.
 
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This letter is not extant. The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the C.S.A. in Boston, Massachusetts. The cause of Christian Science. The cause of Christian Science. See 163A.27.038 Grand Rapids, Michigan Bradford Sherman, Martha Sherman, and Roger Sherman