Accession: 205A.34.055
Editorial Title: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy to Mary Baker Eddy, February 21, 1893
Author: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: February 21, 1893
Manuscript Description: Typewritten by Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy on his unlined printed stationery from Boston, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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My Dearest Sweetest Mother.

Your lettersEditorial Note: These letters are not extant. are receivedAs Written:recieved; one Sunday, the other this morning. I can only judge the cause by the effect. I felt a terrific influence coming from some unaccountable As Written: unaccountible source (which is a lie) and I could not understand it until I began to meet, and not to meet, those who had been up to CEditorial Note: Concord, New Hampshire. One who never came into the building withoutAs Written:with out coming in to see me after his return from C.Editorial Note: Concord came in, took no notice of me, but said something against me to others. Others who had been kind and friendly were decidedly changed in their attitude and would stand off and look at me as if I was a wild animal that was going to harm them in some way. And the things that have been said and reported are dreadful, or seemed so at the time. One thing was that I had gone to the bad and they had got to give me up in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. That everythingAs Written:every thing I did was in opposition to you, or contrary to your wish and that I stood no longer with you, et ceteraAs Written:&c. Now if such things would not move one, and if it is the working of Truth, then I confess I am no judge. But I have risen above it by demonstration, it cannot move me, and I am stronger than before. I do see you as I "once saw you" and I love you, and I know that all the good the world has receivedAs Written:recieved has come through you. And I also know that nothing can prevent me from seeing you as you are and loving you. I will be up Saturday night unless you would prefer to have me wait.

I am as ever your loving
Benny.
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyMy bad nights last Sat. and Tuesday night
205A.34.055
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Dearest Sweetest Mother.

Your lettersEditorial Note: These letters are not extant. are recievedCorrected:received; one Sunday, the other this morning. I can only judge the cause by the effect. I felt a terrific influence coming from some unaccountible Corrected: unaccountable source (which is a lie) and I could not understand it until I began to meet, and not to meet, those who had been up to CEditorial Note: Concord, New Hampshire. One who never came into the buil [?] Unclear or illegible ding with outCorrected:without coming in to see me after his return from C.Editorial Note: Concord came in, took no notice of me, but said something against me to others. Others who had been kind and friendly were decidedly changed in their attitude and would stand off and look at me as if I was a wild animal that was going to harm them in some way. And the things that hvave been said and reported are dreadful, or seemed so at the time. One thing was that I had gone to the bad and they had got to give me up in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. That every thingCorrected:everything I did was in opposition to you, or contrary to your wish and that I stood no longer with you, &c.Expanded:et cetera Now if such things would not move one, and if it is the working of Truth, then I confess I am no judge. But I have risen above it by demonstration, it cannot move me, and I am stronger than before. I do see you as I "once saw you" and I love you, and I know that all the good the world has recievedCorrected:received has come through you. And I also know that nothing can prevent me from seeing you as you are and loving you. I will be up Saturday night unless you would prefer to have me wait.

I am as ever your loving
Benny.
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyMy bad nights last Sat. and Tuesday night
 
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