YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. of latest date came duly. That which you cannot write I understand, and will say, I am reported as dying, wholly decriped Corrected: decrepit and useless, etc. Now one of these reports is just as true as the others are mMy life is as pure as that of the angels. God has lifted me up to my work and if it was not pure it would not bring forth good fruits The Bible says the tree is known by its fruitMatt 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. Luke 6:43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Luke 6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. .

But I need not say this to a Christian Scientist, who knows it. I thank you for any interest you may feel in your Mother. I am alone in the world, more lone than a solitary star,. aAlthough it is duly estimated by business characters and learned schollars that I lead and am obeyed by 300,000 people at this date! The most distinguished newspapers ask me to write on the most important subjects. Lords and Ladies, Earls, Princes, and Marquis and Marchioness from abrod Corrected: abroad write to me in the most complimentary manner. Hoke Smith dec [?] Unclear or illegible lares "I am the most illustrious woman on the continents– those are his exact words. Our Senators ask [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:unknownEx 6
ES Cook JP [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy and Members of Congress call on me for counsel! But what of all this? I am not made the least proud by it or a particle happier for it. I am working for a higher purpose

Now what of my circumstances? – I name first my home which of all places on earth is the one in which to find peace and enjoyment But my home is simply a house and a beautiful landscape. There is not one in it that I love only as I love everybody. I have no congeniality with my help inside of my house, they are no companions and scarcely fit to be my help.

I adopted a son hoping he would take Mr. Frye's place as my bookeeperCorrected:bookkeeper, and man of all work does that belongs to man. But my trial of him has proved another disappointment. His books could not be audited they were so incorrect – etc. etc.

Mr Frye is the most disagreeable man [?] Unclear or illegible  that can be found, but this he is, namely, (if there is one on earth) An honest man as all will tell you who deal with him. At first mesmerism swayed him but he learned through my forbearance to govern himself. He is a man that would not steal, commit adultryCorrected:adultery, or fornication, or [*]Archival Note: The following text has been struck out with a large X:break one of the ten CommandmentsEx 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, Ex 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Ex 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Ex 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex 20:12 ¶Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Ex 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. Ex 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ex 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. .— I have now done, but I could write a volume[*]Archival Note: End struck text. on what I have touched upon

One thing is the severest wound of all, namely, the want of education among those nearest to me in kin I would gladly give every dollar I possess to have one or two and three that are nearest to me on earth possess a thorough education. If you had been educated as I intended to have you, to-day Corrected: today you could, would, be made [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:unknownEx 6 ES Cook JP [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy President of the U. S. Mary's letters to me are so misspelled that I [?] Unclear or illegible blus [?] Unclear or illegible h to read them

You pronounce your words so wrongly and then she spells them accordingly. I am even yet too proud to have you come among my society and alas! mispronounce your words as you do; but for this thing I should be honored by your good manners and I love you.