Accession: 673AP2.74.005
Editorial Title: Edward Green to Mary Baker Eddy, January 12, 1885
Author: Edward Green 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 12, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Edward Green on lined paper from Lacon, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent Jan 14

Enclosed find 25cEditorial Note: .25 in Stamps Please send the 17 pg pamphlet “Christian healing” advertisedAs Written:adv. in 2nd volumeAs Written:vol. of your Science & healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I Sent to an acquaintance in Chicago who is a “disciple” of yours for your 2 volumesAs Written:vols. science & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. feeling a deep interest in the Matter, I have read what there was of the first VolumeAs Written:Vol., & thoughAs Written:tho. aware that I have hardly reached the a b c of Metaphysics, I agree with B. A. Atkinson in his letter on Page 267, where he says “Her teachings are abstract & intricate at first” etc. – I think I have got along as far as the first adjective, “abstract”. I have set out with a determination to acquaint myself with the principles if I can comprehend it

I found the first volumeAs Written:vol. incomplete Pages 141 to 164 are duplicated & 165 to 188 inclusiveAs Written:inc. omitted, as the book had to go to you eventually for correction I thought it best & cheapest to send directly to you & if you will be so kind as to exchange for a perfect Copy I will feel much obliged– You will please put the metal corner protectors you find on the returned volumeAs Written:vol. on the new one on its return – I find the “science”Editorial Note: Christian Science is growing very rapidly here in the West & I hope to be able to give a better account of it after more study. There seems to be very much that to me is contradictory & also diametrically opposite to all natural philosophy that we of the “earth earthy” are familiar with, but a more intimate knowledge may dispel the clouds

Very RespectfullyAs Written:Resptfly
Edward Green
673AP2.74.005
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent Jan 14

Enclosed find 25cEditorial Note: .25 in Stamps Please send the 17 pg pamphlet “Christian healing” adv.Expanded:advertised in 2nd vol.Expanded:volume of your Science & healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I Sent to an acquaintance in Chicago who is a “disciple” of yours for your 2 vols.Expanded:volumes science & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. feeling a deep interest in the Matter, I have read what there was of the first Vol.Expanded:Volume, & tho.Expanded:though aware that I have hardly reached the a b c of Metaphysics, I agree with B. A. Atkinson in his letter on Page 267, where he says “Her teachings are abstract & intricate at first” etc. – I think I have got along as far as the first adjective, “abstract”. I have set out with a determination to acquaint myself with the principles if I can comprehend it

I found the first vol.Expanded:volume incomplete Pages 141 to 164 are duplicated & 165 to 188 inc.Expanded:inclusive omitted, as the book had to go to you eventually for correction I thought it best & cheapest to send directly to you & if you will be so kind as to exchange for a perfect Copy I will feel much obliged– You will please put the metal corner protectors you find on the returned vol.Expanded:volume on the new one on its return – I find the “science”Editorial Note: Christian Science is growing very rapidly here in the West & I hope to be able to give a better account of it after more study. There seems to be very much that to me is contradictory & also diametrically opposite to all natural philosophy that we of the “earth earthy” are familiar with, but a more intimate knowledge may dispel the clouds

Very ResptflyExpanded:Respectfully
Edward Green
 
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