Accession: L02085
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to George Washington Glover II, October 31, 1887
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: George Washington Glover II 
Annotator: Unknown 
Date: October 31, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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⇉ Handshift:Unknown[*]Archival Note: The following text is circled.G W G[*]Archival Note: End circled text.
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyBostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 31, 1887
Dear George,

Yours receivedAs Written:rec'd I am surprised that you think of coming to visit me when I live in a Schoolhouse and have no room As Written: rooom that I can let even a boarder into.

I use the whole of my rooms and am at work in them more or less all the time.

Besides this. I have all I can meet without receiving company. I must have quiet As Written: quit in my house, and it will not be pleasant for you in Boston the Choate'sEditorial Note: Clara Elizabeth Choate and George D. Choate are doing all they can by falsehood, and public shams, such as advertising a CollegeEditorial Note: Choate Metaphysical College of her own within a few doors of mine when she is a disgraceful woman and known to be. I am going to give up my lease when this class is over, and cannot pay your board nor give you a single dollar now. I am alone and you never would come to me, when I called for you, and now I cannot have you come I want quiet and a christian life alone with God, when I can find intervals for a little rest. You are not what I had hoped to find you, and I am wholly changed. The world the flesh and evil I am at war with, and if anyoneAs Written:any one comes to me it must be to help me and not to hinder me in this warfareAs Written:warefare. If you will stay away from me until I get through with my As Written: ny public labors then I will send for you and hope to then have a home to take you to. As it now is, I have none and you will injure me by coming to Boston at this time more than I have room to state in a letter. I asked you to come to me when my husband died, and I so much needed someoneAs Written:some one to help me. You refused to come then, in my great need, and I then gave up ever thinking of you in that line. Now I have a clerk who is a pure-mindedAs Written:pure minded Christian, and two girls to assist me in the College. These are all that I can have under this roof.

If you come after getting this letter I shall feel you have no regard for my interest or feelings which I hope not to be obliged to feel.

Boston is the last place in the world for you or your family When I retire from business and into private life then I can receive you if you are reformed, but not otherwise. I say this to you not to anyoneAs Written:any one else. I would not injure you any more than myself.

As ever Sincerely
M B G Eddy
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⇉ Handshift:Unknown[*]Archival Note: The following text is circled.G W G[*]Archival Note: End circled text.
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyBostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 31, 1887
Dear George,

Yours rec'dExpanded:received I am surprised that you think of coming to visit me when I live in a Shchoolhouse and have no rooom Corrected: room that I can let even a boarder into.

I use the whole of my rooms and am at work in them more or less all the time.

Besides this. I have all I can meet without receiving company. I must have quit Corrected: quiet in my house, and it will not be pleasant for you in Boston the Choate'sEditorial Note: Clara Elizabeth Choate and George D. Choate are doing all they can by falsehood, and public shams, such as advertising a CollegeEditorial Note: Choate Metaphysical College of her own within a few doors of mine when she [?] Unclear or illegible  is a g disgraceful woman and known to be. I am going to give up my lease when this class is over, and cannot pay your board nor give you a single dollar now. I am alone and you never would help come to me, when I called for you, and now I cannot have you come I want quiet and a christian life alone with God, when I can find intervals for a little rest. You are not what I had hoped to find you, and I am wholly changed. The wor [?] Unclear or illegible ld the flesh and evil I am at war with, and if any oneCorrected:anyone comes to me it must be to help me and [?] Unclear or illegible not to hinder me in this warefareCorrected:warfare. If you will stay away from me until I get through with ny Corrected: my public labors then I will send for you and hope to then have a home to take you to. As it now is, I have none and you will d injure me by coming to Boston at this time more than I have room to state in a letter. I asked you to come to me when my husband died, and I so much needed some oneCorrected:someone to help me. You refused to come then, in my great need, and I then gave up ever thinking or of [?] Unclear or illegible you in that line. Now I have a clerk who is a pure mindedCorrected:pure-minded Christian, and two girls to assist me in the College. These are all that I can have under this roof.

If you come after getting this letter I shall feel you have no regard for my interest or feelings which I hope not to be obliged to felel.

Boston is the last place in the world for you or your family When I retire from business and into private life then I can receive you if you are reformed, but not otherwise. I say this to you not to any oneCorrected:anyone else. I would not injure you any more than myself.

As ever Sincerely
M B G Eddy
 
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