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| Accession: | 237AP1.38.020 |
| Editorial Title: | Silas J. Sawyer to Mary Baker Eddy, February 12, 1884 |
| Author: | Silas J. Sawyer |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | February 12, 1884 |
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Silas J. Sawyer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Editorial Note: This letter from Silas J. Sawyer to Mary Baker Eddy is largely concerned with what
he feels are the effects of mental malpractice and mesmerism on himself and his wife, Jennie E. Sawyer, as well as on other students of Christian Science in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas.
For example, he apparently believes that Roger Sherman is being treated by Caroline D. Noyes and that Noyes is using mesmerism in her treatments. Both Sawyer and his wife are
suffering from visible physical difficulties that they have not been healed of. They
attribute these to the mental malpractice of Edward J. Arens and Richard Kennedy. Sawyer wonders if he should teach a class in Christian Science while suffering from
illness that he himself has not yet experienced healing from. He asks about coming
to Boston to spend some time with Eddy and suggests that he might sit in on her class
that is to begin on February 25, 1884. Fannie M. Silsbee will be enrolled in that class and Sawyer believes that he could help Eddy by pointing
out Silsbee's peculiarities that Eddy might not immediately detect. He believes that
what he has to say in the letter is not prompted by egotism.
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