I received a copy of The Daily Patriot of November 8, 1906, which you mailed me from ConcordEditorial Note: Concord, New Hampshire, and which gives a review of the much talked of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy matterEditorial Note: Beginning with the New York World, sensational newspaper reports stated that Mary Baker Eddy was dead or dying and being impersonated by one of her household staff, while Calvin A. Frye was the head of the Christian Science movement and in charge of Eddy's finances. Eddy had held a short interview with reporters on October 30, 1906, to endeavor to address the issue. However, questions and allegations continued in the press regarding Eddy's health, authorship of her books and leadership of the Christian Science movement.; and I was pleased to receive the paper and to be assured that you were still alive, and had not succumbed to the wear and tear of press interviews.

The correspondent of the New York World was here, and several reporters from the Lawrence papers, and the Boston Globe also came in and talked with me about the matter. I told them of your good character, that I had known you ever since we were children and played together in good old AndoverEditorial Note: Andover, Massachusetts, that I had never caught you in a mean act, and that I did not believe you would do a wrong thing in your present position, and I am satisfied I told them correctly.

Of course I have read the newspapers, but I have learned to put a large grain of salt on every newspaper statement, and only place such reliance upon the publications as I could with my knowledge of you and my general knowledge of the anxiety of newspapers to publish sensational articles. Stand by Mrs. Eddy until the end for she is a worthy woman.

I should be glad to see you but I suppose it is very difficult for you to get down this way, and it is quite difficult for me to get Concord, but you have my best wishes always.