Accession: L02776
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Joseph and Mary E. Armstrong, February 4, 1896
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Joseph Armstrong  Mary E. Armstrong 
Date: February 4, 1896
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Final Edits
Original Document

Click image to magnify
Full
Back
Close
View Document
View Image
L02776
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mr and Mrs Armstrong
My beloved students

I want to thank you again for your kindness As Written: kindess to me and the beautiful addition to my exquisite Chocolate setEditorial Note: The Armstrongs gifted Mary Baker Eddy a hot chocolate pot set, which included a hot chocolate pot hand-painted with six different types of flowers, along with six cups and saucers, each one painted with one of the six types of flowers. The hand-painting on the set is attributed to Mary E. Armstrong.. I think the Dr, dear man, sees now that you was not in the least to blame for his losing the chance to give mother the notes on my addressEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy delivered a communion service at The Mother Church on January 5, 1896, the first anniversary of the dedication of the Original Edifice of The Mother Church. I told him when here last Sunday that I thought they were taken by the common reporter's for newspapers and so I asked you to get them and not let them be printed till I read them Had I known who took them I should not have spoken thus Do not let my articleEditorial Note: See "Questions Answered" in the February 1896 issue of The Christian Science Journal, also found on pp. 316-317 of Miscellaneous Writings with the title "Class, Pulpit, Students' Students." in the Journal trouble you My students are doing a great, good work and the meeting and the way it was conducted rejoiced my heart But O I did feel a coldness a lack of inspiration all through the dear hearts (not for me, Oh no, they are loyal to the highest degree) but it was a stil[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page edge.ness a lack of spiritual energy and zeal that I felt. Pardon me

Now I cannot say why I wrote that article in the C. S. Journal But the dear Love that guides perhaps meant it to rebuke the caste or pride of being my student. Which you know must not be indulged in

Give my love to your dear children Give my love to Miss BrownEditorial Note: Probably Alice Seward Brown and Miss Chamberlain persons that I loved at first sight

Ever lovingly yours
MB Eddy
L02776
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mr and Mrs Armstrong
My beloved students

I want to thank you again for your kindess Corrected: kindness to me and the beautiful addition to my exquisite Chocolate setEditorial Note: The Armstrongs gifted Mary Baker Eddy a hot chocolate pot set, which included a hot chocolate pot hand-painted with six different types of flowers, along with six cups and saucers, each one painted with one of the six types of flowers. The hand-painting on the set is attributed to Mary E. Armstrong.. I think the Dr, dear man, sees now that you was not in the least to blame for his losing the chance to give mother the notes on my addressEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy delivered a communion service at The Mother Church on January 5, 1896, the first anniversary of the dedication of the Original Edifice of The Mother Church. I told him when here last Sunday that I thought they were taken by the common reporter's for newspapers and so I asked you to get them and not let them be printed till I read them Had I known who took them I should not have spoken thus Do not let my articleEditorial Note: See "Questions Answered" in the February 1896 issue of The Christian Science Journal, also found on pp. 316-317 of Miscellaneous Writings with the title "Class, Pulpit, Students' Students." in the Journal trouble you My students are doing a great, good work and the meeting and the way it was conducted rejoiced my heart But O I did feel a coldness a lack of inspiration all through the dear hearts (not for me, Oh no, they are loyal to the highest degree) but it was a stil[*]Gap: letter.Reason: page edge.ness a lack of spiritual energy and zeal that I felt. Pardon me

Now I cannot say why I wrote that article in the C. S. Journal But the dear Love that guides perhaps meant it to rebuke the caste or pride of being my student. Which you know must not be indulged in

Give my love to your dear children Give my love to Miss BrownEditorial Note: Probably Alice Seward Brown and Miss Chamberlain persons that I loved at first sight

Ever lovingly yours
MB Eddy
 
View Image
 

Back Text

Shown for development purposes only
The Armstrongs gifted Mary Baker Eddy a hot chocolate pot set, which included a hot chocolate pot hand-painted with six different types of flowers, along with six cups and saucers, each one painted with one of the six types of flowers. The hand-painting on the set is attributed to Mary E. Armstrong. Mary Baker Eddy delivered a communion service at The Mother Church on January 5, 1896, the first anniversary of the dedication of the Original Edifice of The Mother Church. See "Questions Answered" in the February 1896 issue of The Christian Science Journal, also found on pp. 316-317 of Miscellaneous Writings with the title "Class, Pulpit, Students' Students." Probably Alice Seward Brown