Mary Baker Eddy to Hattie Baker, March 17, 1877

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Hattie Baker

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March 17, 1877 - archivist estimate

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Lynn March 17th

Dear Hattie,

Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was received last eve.

The class meetings are in both places now on Wed. instead of Thursday and this was named in the class they tell me

Your letter surprised me! if anything can surprise me. The occasion you alluded to had no bearing on the present I sent for you the same as I would for a stranger at this time and should have paid you the same had you condescended to do my fitting The mistakes made in the fits you had before done you rectified and this showedAs Written:shewed me you could do even better next timeEditorial Note: Hattie Baker engaged in dressmaking for Mary Baker Eddy.. Your conduct is truly mysterious! when we take into consideration all things, and very unnatural, at least, it would be for me to do thus. The next class meeting is at Newburyport

My love to Mrs. Frothingham

In haste truly

M B Glover Eddy

The time you referred As Written: refered to last summer I regarded a chemicalEditorial Note: A reference to “chemicalization.” Chemicalization is a term Eddy used to refer to a temporary stirring up of symptoms or process of “fermentation” as errors of various types are being destroyed. Hattie Baker may have engaged in behavior Eddy would have ordinarily viewed as offensive in some say if she (Eddy) had not recognized it as the result of Hattie Baker “chemicalizing.” with you or I could not have overlooked it as I did

Again Yours

M B G E.

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Lynn March 17th

Dear Hattie,

Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was received last eve.

The class meetings are in both places now on Wed. instead of Thursday and this was named in the class they tell me

Your letter surprised me! if anything can surprise me. The occasion you alluded to had no bearing on the present I sent for you the same as I would for a stranger at this time and should have paid you the same had you condescended to do my fitting as for others The mistakes made in the fits you had before done you rectified and this shewedCorrected:showed me you could do even better next timeEditorial Note: Hattie Baker engaged in dressmaking for Mary Baker Eddy.. Your conduct is truly mysterious! when we take into consideration all things, and very unnatural, at least, it would be for me to do thus. The next class meeting is at Newburyport

My love to Mrs. Frothingham

In haste truly

M B Glover Eddy

The time you refered Corrected: referred to last summer I regarded a chemicalEditorial Note: A reference to “chemicalization.” Chemicalization is a term Eddy used to refer to a temporary stirring up of symptoms or process of “fermentation” as errors of various types are being destroyed. Hattie Baker may have engaged in behavior Eddy would have ordinarily viewed as offensive in some say if she (Eddy) had not recognized it as the result of Hattie Baker “chemicalizing.” with you or I could not have overlooked it as I did

Again Yours

M B G E.

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This letter is not extant. Hattie Baker engaged in dressmaking for Mary Baker Eddy. A reference to “chemicalization.” Chemicalization is a term Eddy used to refer to a temporary stirring up of symptoms or process of “fermentation” as errors of various types are being destroyed. Hattie Baker may have engaged in behavior Eddy would have ordinarily viewed as offensive in some say if she (Eddy) had not recognized it as the result of Hattie Baker “chemicalizing.”