Accession: L03963
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to William Clark, March 12, 1898
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: William Clark 
Date: March 12, 1898 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes an archivist notation of "1898?."
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My beloved student

The opposing lies are as of old diverging God's lines – if they can

Now I return to my first grounds before I was advised to do otherwise, as I always have to if I take human dictation.

Because you are wise and do not try to help and so only hinder the harmony, I send this today As Written: to-day that you shall not be disappointed Tilling the groundGen 3:22 ¶And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Gen 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. came with the curse The garden of beauty and harmonyGen 2:8 ¶And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. was before that. You know I said at first As Written: frist only raise vegetables As Written: vegatables enough for me. Now I return to what I said Only cultivate ground enough for this end, and for my family ― and give your labor to the beautifying of Pleasant View If I have not made the sum to you sufficient I will give you $1700Editorial Note: 1700.00 per annum and you manage the rest. Now I call it 1700 to you but no garden for vegetables As Written: vegatables only for my little eaters.

You can find that your son, Ruth's father, paid 4 dollsEditorial Note: 4.00 per week and paid for fuel making it $5.00Editorial Note: 5.00 when he boarded in Concord at a common boarding house My house is in the city precincts As Written: precints

But all this leave to you. Find out if you can what Henry pays Murdoch

With love mother
M B Eddy
L03963
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My beloved student

The opposing lies are as of old diverging God's lines – if they can

Now I return to my first g [?] Unclear or illegible rounds before I was advised to do otherwise, as I always have to if I take human dictation.

Because you are wise and do not try to help and so only hinder the harmony, I send this to-day Corrected: today that you shall not be disappointed Tilling the groundGen 3:22 ¶And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Gen 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. came with the curse The garden of beauty and harmonyGen 2:8 ¶And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. was before that. You know I said at frist Corrected: first only raise vegatables Corrected: vegetables enough for me. Now I return to what I said Only cultivate ground enough for this end, and for my family ― and give your labor to the beautyifying of Pleasant View and If I have not made the sum to you sufficient I will give you $17000Editorial Note: 1700.00 per annum and you manage the rest. Now I call it 1700 to you but no garden for vegatables Corrected: vegetables only for my little eaters.

You must can find that your son, Ruth's father, paid 4 dollsEditorial Note: 4.00 per week and paid for fuel making it $5.00Editorial Note: 5.00 when he boarded in Concord at a common boarding house My house is in the city precints Corrected: precincts

But all this leave to you. Find out if you can what Henry pays Murdoch

With love mother
M B Eddy
 
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