Accession: L05190
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Septimus J. Hanna and Camilla A. Hanna, July 6, 1897
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Septimus J. Hanna  Camilla A. Hanna 
Date: July 6, 1897 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Incomplete letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: An archivist note on this document reads, "(1897.)."
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CONCORD, New HampshireAs Written:N. H., July 6
My dearly loved Students,

You have my thanks for your presence and address yesterdayEditorial Note: At the close of the July 4, 1897, Communion Sunday service at The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, First Reader Septimus J. Hanna read aloud an invitation from Mary Baker Eddy to come see her at her Pleasant View home in Concord, New Hampshire, the following day. About 2,500 people came, and Hanna was one of nine notable speakers, including Eddy, who addressed the crowd..

I had such a fire as never before so at the last moment I prepared an article to read a thing I have not done before in many years It need punctuating do not leave the words for italics that I underscored I did that for speaking not publishing

As usual send proof I am more than sorry about the mistake in the matter of the Kansas folksEditorial Note: This refers to some visitors who, due to a miscommunication, had traveled by train for two days to Pleasant View from Kansas City, Missouri. It was all my fault that I did not read the letters only signed them and did

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CONCORD, N. H.Expanded:New Hampshire, July 6
My dearly loved Students,

You have my thanks for your presence and address yesterdayEditorial Note: At the close of the July 4, 1897, Communion Sunday service at The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, First Reader Septimus J. Hanna read aloud an invitation from Mary Baker Eddy to come see her at her Pleasant View home in Concord, New Hampshire, the following day. About 2,500 people came, and Hanna was one of nine notable speakers, including Eddy, who addressed the crowd..

I had such a fire as never before so at the last moment I prepared an article to read a thing I have not done before in many years It need punctuating do not leave the words for italics that I under [?] Unclear or illegible  scored I did that for speaking not publishing

As usual send proof I am more than sorry about the mistake in the matter of the Kansas folksEditorial Note: This refers to some visitors who, due to a miscommunication, had traveled by train for two days to Pleasant View from Kansas City, Missouri. It was all my fault that I did not read the letters only signed them and did

 
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At the close of the July 4, 1897, Communion Sunday service at The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, First Reader Septimus J. Hanna read aloud an invitation from Mary Baker Eddy to come see her at her Pleasant View home in Concord, New Hampshire, the following day. About 2,500 people came, and Hanna was one of nine notable speakers, including Eddy, who addressed the crowd. This refers to some visitors who, due to a miscommunication, had traveled by train for two days to Pleasant View from Kansas City, Missouri.