Accession: 550.58.012
Editorial Title: Emma Curtis Hopkins to Mary Baker Eddy, January 14, 1884
Author: Emma Curtis Hopkins 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 14, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emma Curtis Hopkins on embossed lined paper from Boston, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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My dear Mrs. Eddy,–

I should be better pleased to see you face-to-faceAs Written:face to face for the better satisfaction of myself on this subject, but I know you have not the time to spare and can better give me the information I seek at a later moment.

It is this: what shall I do immediately to get into the practice of the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science I have been learning?

Shall I come to your college and take a room, or go to some other quarter of the city, or go to some other city?

I will abide by your advice or if you do not choose to advise will act on my own judgment.

For though you know what a deal is at stake with me in this undertaking and doubtless sympathize, still I assure you I am abundantly qualified with courage to set out for myself.

I lay my whole life and all my talents, little or great, to this work. Surely you must be convinced of that. Already I rest in the boundless ocean of God's science of himself restful as never before and have cured two severe acute attacks of friends – almost instantaneously in Truth's name.

Will you grant me just a few minutes to answer my questions relating to expense and best and wisest movements?

Just a word on another subject.

Do not take the s econd pirating of your book so to heart. No great work was ever started which had not its servile imitators and mean stealers.

What you say of that very fact in your own original and only reliable work will save you from the worst they would do.

How quickly the scholars of any age detect the spurious- And their word is law to the populace when it is published.

Pardon me for taking up so much of your time-

Believe my
Truly Yours– Mrs. Emma Hopkins
Mrs. M. B. G. Eddy
Columbus Av.}
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: The following text is written upside downAnswerAs Written:Ans. Jan 19.[*]Archival Note: End of text written upside down
550.58.012
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Mrs. Eddy,–

I should be better pleased to see you face to faceCorrected:face-to-face for the better satisfaction of myself on this subject, but I know you have not the time to spare and can better give me the information I seek at a later moment.

It is this: what shall I do immediately to get into the practice of the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science I have been learning?

Shall I come to your college and take at room, or go to some other quarter of the city?, or go to some other city?

I will abide by your advice or if you do not choose to advise will act on my own judgment.

For though you know what a deal is at stake with me in this undertaking and doubtless sympathize, still I assure you I am abundantly qualified with courage to set out for myself. an

I lay my whole life and all my talents, little or great, to this work. Surely you must be convinced of that. Already I rest in the boundless ocean of God's science of himself restful as never before and have cured two severe acute attacks of friends – almost instantaneously in Truth's name.

Will you grant me just a few minutes to answer my questions of relating to expense and best and wisest movements?

Just a word on another subject.

Do not take the s [?] Unclear or illegible  econd pirating of your book so to heart. No great work was ever started which had not its servile imitators and mean stealers.

What you say of that very fact in your own original and only reliable work will save you from the worst they would do.

How quickly the scholars of any age detect the spurious- And their word is law to the populace when it is published.

Pardon me for taking up so much of your time-

Believe my
Truly Yours– Mrs. Emma Hopkins
Mrs. M. B. G. Eddy
Columbus Av.}
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: The following text is written upside downAns.Expanded:Answer Jan 19.[*]Archival Note: End of text written upside down
 
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