Accession: 506.56.042
Editorial Title: William T. Seaver to Mary Baker Eddy, January 27, 1884
Author: William T. Seaver 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 27, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by William T. Seaver on embossed lined paper from Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: A notation on this letter indicates that it was answered on February 1, 1884.
Editorial Note: Seaver tells Mary Baker Eddy that after returning to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from studying with her in Boston, he sought out cases that had not yielded to medical treatment. With one exception, they are doing well and will soon be healed. The exception is a man named David Lament, whom Seaver describes as obscene and given to swearing but good at heart. Some believe that Lament does not even want to be healed. Seaver asks for Eddy's advice on this case and describes and asks for advice about some of his other cases. He cured an African-American woman, whom he calls "Black Ann," of dyspepsia in ten minutes, and cured a French woman of neuralgia of the stomach--a condition she'd had for eight years--in ten minutes. Other remarkable cures are giving rise to discussion of Christian Science in Seaver's community. Eddy had promised to send Seaver a photo of herself and he says that when she does, he will send her a photo of his ten-month-old baby girl. The Seavers call this child their "little metaphysical girl," as one of Eddy's students was the Christian Science practitioner on the case when Seaver's wife was giving birth to the baby.
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