Accession: L01771
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Alfred Farlow, August 29, 1908
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Alfred Farlow 
Date: August 29, 1908
Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy, with a handwritten closing and signature, on her unlined stationery used while living at her Chestnut Hill home from Brookline, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: There is a notation "198" in Alfred Farlow's handwriting at the top of the document. See original.
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Brookline, Mass.
Aug. 29, 1908
Mr. Farlow,
My dear Student: -

Put it into the public notice tonight As Written: to-night that I forbid the publication of my historyEditorial Note: Sibyl Wilbur had written a series of articles about Eddy and Christian Science for Human Life magazine that she turned into a biography, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy. Eddy had reservations about the overly laudatory tone of the biography, but eventually agreed to allow it to go forward. or autobiography by Sibyl Wilbur or any other person without my written endorsement or consent.

Sincerely yours;
Signed Mary B.G. Eddy.
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Brookline, Mass.
Aug. 29, 1908
Mr. Farlow,
My dear Student: -

Put it into the public notice to-night Corrected: tonight that I forbid the publication of my historyEditorial Note: Sibyl Wilbur had written a series of articles about Eddy and Christian Science for Human Life magazine that she turned into a biography, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy. Eddy had reservations about the overly laudatory tone of the biography, but eventually agreed to allow it to go forward. or autob [?] Unclear or illegible iography by Sibyl Wilbur or any other person without my written endorsement or consent.

Sincerely yours;
Signed Mary B.G. Eddy.
 
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Sibyl Wilbur had written a series of articles about Eddy and Christian Science for Human Life magazine that she turned into a biography, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy. Eddy had reservations about the overly laudatory tone of the biography, but eventually agreed to allow it to go forward.