Accession: L07103
Editorial Title: Calvin A. Frye to Archibald McLellan, December 3, 1907
Author: Calvin A. Frye 
Recipient: Archibald McLellan 
Date: December 3, 1907
Manuscript Description: Typewritten by Calvin A. Frye, with handwritten signature and edits, on unlined stationery of the Pleasant View Office of the Secretary, from Concord, New Hampshire.
Editorial Note: This letter includes Calvin Frye's thoughts on preparing Mary Baker Eddy's new residence, 384 Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She moved there on January 26, 1908.
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Enclosed please find check for Mr. Walker to aid in carrying out his plans and it is hoped that they will be carried on with the least possible delay.

In reply to your question Mrs. Eddy says yes, have Mrs. McLellan take the position. I think it would be well for her to call here at an early date at 2 p.m. The talk about ample closet room for bedrooms still seems to be an anxious question to the person who talked to you when last here.

Yours fraternally
Calvin A. Frye

I think there should be an iron gate to the driveway at East of the house, on Beacon Street. If there is any digging necessary to make piers to hang the gates on ought it not to be done at once, before the ground gets frozen? Also there should be a cable laid between the house and the stable for the telephones from house to stable and cottages. That ought to be laid too at this time should it not? The cable we have here has only two wires in it; and I have alway regretted there was not more wires in it. Why not have a cable with eight or ten wires in it so we can make separate As Written: seperate connections if desired. Could the wires for the Electric elevator et ceteraAs Written:&c connect with the house in that way, instead of having the wires come straight from the street to the house? It would shut off some of that loud buzzing that is apt to be during high winds.

C. A. Frye

L07103
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Enclosed please find check for Mr. Walker to aid in carrying out his plans and it is hoped that they will be carried on with the least possible delay.

In reply to your question Mrs. Eddy says yes, have Mrs. McLellan take the position. I think it would be well for her to call here at an early date at 2 p.m. The talk about ample closet room for bedrooms still seems to be an anxious question to the person who talked to you when last here.

Yours fraternally
Calvin A. Frye

I think there should be an iron gate to the driveway at East of the house, on Beacon Street. If there is any digging necessary to make piers to hang the gates on ought it not to be done at once, before the ground gets frozen? Also there should be a cable laid between the house and the stable for the telephones from house to stable and cottages. That ought to be laid too at this time sthould it not? The cable we have here has only two wires in it; and I have alway regretted there was not more wires in it. Why not have a cable with eight or ten wires in it so we can kmake seperate Corrected: separate connections if desired. Could the wires for the Electric elevator &cExpanded:et cetera connect with the house in that way, instead of having the wires come straight from the street to the house? It would shut off some in of that loud buzzing that is apt to be during high winds.

C. A. Frye

 
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