Accession: L07914
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to George B. Wickersham, February 7, 1887
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: George B. Wickersham 
Date: February 7, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery from Boston, Massachusetts.
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My dear Student,

I feel just like taking a brief rest in answering your good letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.. First let me tell you I have given quite a little time to getting a good likeness As Written: likness for you and have signally failed. Went to the Studio last week and told the artist I should not take it. Better never think of me than to catch the keynoteAs Written:key note of a thought from such pictures. as they give of me Yes, as you said, in your letter, mental malpractice is king of the realm of evil but we are not its loyal subjects hence the fact that we have our freedom and must and will maintain it.

I hear good things of you from Denver people My heart goes out in a prayer for the prosperity of all my good students and I know such ones respond and the tie between us is strong and permanent. The CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. has those to support it and the others to stop it. Let us work and trust God

Affectionately
MBG Eddy
L07914
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student,

I feel just like taking a brief rest in answering your good letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.. First let me tell you I have given quite a little time to getting a good likness Corrected: likeness for you and have signally failed. Went to the Studio last week and told the artist I should not take it. Better never think of me than to catch the key noteCorrected:keynote of a thought from such pictures. as they give of me Yes, as you said, in your letter, mental malpractice is kin [?] Unclear or illegible g of the realm of evil [?] Unclear or illegible  bu [?] Unclear or illegible  t we are not its loyal subjects hence the fact that we have our freedom and must and will maintain it.

I hear good things of you from Denver people My heart goes out in a prayer for the prosperity of all my good students and I know such ones respond and the tie between us is strong and permanent. The CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. has those to support it and the others to stop it. Let us work and trust God

Affectionately
MBG Eddy
 
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