Solely because she desires to see justice done to one whom she knew and admired some fifty or more years ago in the little New Hampshire town of Groton, Mrs. Sarah C. Turner gave me a day or two ago some of the facts concerning your earlier years, as she recalls them.

Mrs. Turner is a woman of much native refinement. Most of her life has been lived in New England among the New Hampshire hills. She now lives in Vineland, New Jersey, her husband being in business there. She is not a Christian Scientist, and was until a few years ago a bed-ridden Corrected: bedridden invalid.

"I remember Mrs. Patterson well," said Mrs. Turner. "She came to GrotonEditorial Note: North Groton, New Hampshire from Franklin, New Hampshire, as a bride with Dr. Patterson sometime in the fifties. [?] Unclear or illegible  Dr. Patterson was a dentist, and it was supposed that they came to reside in Groton so that Mrs. Patterson could have her son George with her. George was living with my uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. CheneyEditorial Note: Russell Cheney and Mahala S. Cheney, having been put under their care by Mrs. Patterson's father who, with his wife, Mrs. Patterson's step-mother, was unwilling that the boy should be with his mother, who had been living before her marriage in her father's house. It was believed that Mrs. Eddy married to make a home for her son, but it developed after her marriage that Dr. Patterson was averse to having the boy with them. This was largely due to the boy's behavior and his mother's chronic invalidism. He was headstrong and wayward, and although his mother was an invalid and great sufferer from nervous troubles, the boy would sometimes, if he found the door locked, break into his mother's room through the window just to irritate her. This all seemed to be a source of much annoyance to the doctor, and it finally ended in Mrs. Patterson being compelled to give up the thought of having her son with her, and she yielded under the pressure to his remaining with my uncle and auntEditorial Note: Russell Cheney and Mahala S. Cheney, who some years after removed to Minnesota, where George finally ran away from home. He appeared to be wayward and headstrong to such a degree that he was disliked by many who knew him."

"Mrs. Patterson was a person not easily forgotten. She always impressed me as a very spiritual woman. In the Congregational church at Groton, of which she was a devout member, Mrs. Patterson frequently responded to the invitation to offer prayer, and her prayers were always uplifting and helpful. There was much dignity in her manner. Some folks thought she assumed an air of superio ority which made them feel inferior, and consequently disliked her for it. She was a very handsome woman: her deep blue eyes and rosy cheeks, with the soft chestnut hair falling in curls and ringlets to her shoulders - a fashion of wearing the hair very much in vogue at that time - made a picture which I cannot forget. Her grace of manner, together with the invariable neatness and good quality of her dress, made her a fascinating personage. Her invalidism, combined with her extreme nervousness, sometimes repelled the very young people of that day and caused her to be misunderstood by many of the younger set. This may account for some of the strange stories recently set afloat by people of Groton and other places where Mrs. Patterson made her home in those early earlyAs Written:early days, but those who really knew her have for most part passed away. As a matter of fact, there are but few left in Groton with whom Mrs. Patterson could have associated intimately enough to ube understood, and these unkind stories come no doubt from thoughtless or envious people who had no opportunity of knowing Mrs. Patterson well enough to appreciate her."

Mrs. Turner feels very strongly that the facts relating to your early life should be given close scrutiny in order that the base falsehoods now being circulated may be completely refuted. Her recol recollection of your sufferings - of the mental as well as physical anguish which you were called upon to endure while in Groton - are very vivid. In speaking of you, said she: "I am sure God raised her up to/do Corrected: to do this noble work in which she is now engaged, and I know He has never deserted h her nor will He leave this work unfinished. Did not Jesus say to his disciples: 'Ye shall drink indeed of my cup.'Matt 20:20 ¶Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. Matt 20:21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. Matt 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. Matt 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. It is no strange thing that Mrs. Eddy has been called upon to suffer these many things; it is the mark of true discipleship. Years ago I learned that Mrs. Eddy's son tried to repay his mother for her kindness to him in the early years of her success as an author by stating that he would make his mother do as he wanted her to or else he would act in a way which would greatly trouble her. He referred to his mother, when speaking to some of his old neighbors - amongst whom was a cousin of mine - in most unloving and disrespectful terms, and seemed very ungrateful to her. Only recently Mrs. Eddy's son wrote to my brother in Groton in a way which led me to believe that he wanted to bolster up some scheme or other."

"In making the effort to be with her boy by coming to live in Groton, Mrs. Patterson ultimately sacrificed her husband's profession for a time at least, there not being support enough for a dentist in that little place. As I remember, Dr. Patterson finally bought out a saw mill Corrected: sawmill which he ran for forAs Written:for a number of years."

Mrs. Turner told me many other interesting things which space will hardly permit writing down.

I rejoice that the truth is being brought out and that the malicious slanders respecting your noble and unselfish life are being so promtptly met and destroyed.