Accession: 321.44.022
Editorial Title: Bradford Sherman to Mary Baker Eddy, June 12, 1884
Author: Bradford Sherman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 12, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Bradford Sherman on embossed lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
Archival Note: Includes annotations in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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I ship you this day by Express one Box containing a painting of the “Isle of Wight.” Which please accept as a slight token of our regards and esteem. You may remember when in Chicago a few suggestions. of your own and Mrs Sherman’s about the painting metaphysically viz the Chalk Cliff representing the crumbling away of material beliefs As Written: beleife &c.

Since then a few Ideas have presented themselves to our minds. On the right you will observe an excavation the workman unseen and the debris thrown down shows a work going on with an understanding. “Christian Science.” On the surface of the Cliff there is an appearance of work having been done and long since been abandoned. Again there are twelve fisherman which bring to mind the twelve chosenEditorial Note: The twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. twelve lessonsEditorial Note: Primary Class Instruction in Christian Science generally consists of twelve lessons. &c. The Bath House representing purification. back of which are the “Foot-Steps of TruthEditorial Note: Footsteps of Truth” is the title of a chapter in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.” leading to a higher plane. The appliances on the wharf in the foreground belonging to the toilers of the deep. I will leave to your solution not being much of a Fisherman myself.

All wish to be remembered with kind regards and sincere wishes for your happiness and prosperity

Yours Very Truly
B Sherman

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman; Martha E. Sherman; Roger Sherman

Rev.Editorial Note: Possibly an abbreviation for Revelation.

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321.44.022
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I ship you this day by Express one Box containing a painting of the “Isle of Wight.” Which please accept as a slight token of our regards and esteem. You may remember when in Chicago a few suggestions. of your own and Mrs Sherman’s about the painting metaphysically viz the Chalk Cliff representing the crumbling away of material beleife Corrected: beliefs &c.

Since then a few Ideas have presented themselves to our minds. On the right you will observe an excavation the workman unseen and the debris thrown down shows a work going on with an understanding. “Christian Science.” On the surface of the Cliff there is an appearance of work having been done and long since been abandoned. Again there are twelve fisherman which bring to mind the twelve chosenEditorial Note: The twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. twelve lessonsEditorial Note: Primary Class Instruction in Christian Science generally consists of twelve lessons. &c. The Bath House representing purification. back of which are the “Foot-Steps of TruthEditorial Note: Footsteps of Truth” is the title of a chapter in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.” leading to a higher plane. The appliances on the wharf in the foreground belonging to the toilers of the deep. I will leave to your solution not being much of a Fisherman myself.

All wish to be remembered with kind regards and sincere wishes for your happiness and prosperity

Yours Very Truly
B Sherman

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman; Martha E. Sherman; Roger Sherman

Rev.Editorial Note: Possibly an abbreviation for Revelation.

Peabody

etc

private

valuable

 
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This painting inspired Mary Baker Eddy to write a poem titled “Isle of Wight.” It was published in the August 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal and later printed, slightly revised, on pages 392-393 of her book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896. The twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. Primary Class Instruction in Christian Science generally consists of twelve lessons. Footsteps of Truth” is the title of a chapter in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Bradford Sherman; Martha E. Sherman; Roger Sherman Possibly an abbreviation for Revelation.