Accession: L02530
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Clara E. Choate, January 25, 1884
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Clara E. Choate 
Date: January 25, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
Archival Note: See L02511Click link to view L02511 document in new window, dated January 25, 1884, for the postscript to this letter.
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L02530
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My dear Student

Your mind seems calling on me so I cannot go to work till I say. Give yourself no anxiety, all shall be done as you desired. No scandal, no injury, is intended you I advised as I did for your good as well as the interest of all. I wrote you last what I did, I told it to no one and I was right in all I said. There may be a misunderstanding, and it may be this, that you thought by malpractice I meant making others sick but I did not I defined it in my letter. My students even do not seem to understand all I say. I have said and meant but one thing. It is, that Kennedy and Arens are the foundation of it all, they have different ways of operating. They may make you suffer and make a law that you cannot get over it until you take me up, they may make my other students suffer and make the same law in regard to you, now who is to blame? I can’t As Written: cant make one more than another see how it is, they all will take their own way. Now I was told this morning your husband wrote a friendly letter to Mr Buswell threatening others! I did not see the letter nor hear a word in it. I refused to do so, for he has abused me so at different times I will not enter into it; but I will defend and protect you all in my power so long as you try to do right, even if you do wrong and then have to repent. If you had wisdom you would have kept perfectly still and let others had the laboring oar on their side I tell you your faults in love to mend them, and to keep them from others, then you go and tell them to others; what for? is it to injure me or yourself? What you heard of the last meeting here was not true and I will set that right. I want to see you to tell you a very important thing I do not wish to write it. Shall I go down when I get a chance or will you come here? You are the child of my care yet

L02530
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student

Your mind seems calling on me so I cannot go to work till I say. Give yourself no anxiety, all shall be done as you desired. No scandal, no injury, is intended you I advised as I did for your good as well as the interest of all. I wrote you last what I did, I told it to no one and I was right in all I said. There may be a misunderstanding, and it may be this, that you thought by malpractice I meant making others sick but I did not I defined it in my letter. My students even do not seem to understand all I say. I have said and meant but one thing. It is, that Kennedy and Arens are the foundation of it all, they have different ways of operating. They may make you suffer and make a law that you cannot get over it until you take me up, they may make my other students suffer and make the same law in regard to you, now who is to blame? I cant Corrected: can’t make one more than another see how it is, they all will take their own way. Now I was told this morning your husband wrote a friendly letter to Mr Buswell threatening others! I did not see the letter nor hear a word in it. I refused to do so, for he has abused me so at different times I will not enter into it; but I will defend and protect you all in my power so long as you try to do right, even if you do wrong and then have to repent. If you had wisdom you would have kept perfectly still and let others had the laboring oar on their side I tell you your faults in love to mend them, and to keep them from others, then you go and tell them to others; what for? is it to injure me or yourself? What you heard of the last meeting here was not true and I will set that right. I want to see you to tell you a very important thing I do not wish to write it. Shall I go down when I get a chance or will you come here? You are the child of my care yet

 
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