Accession: L07974
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Jessie C. H. Gorham, September 28, 1896
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Jessie C. H. Gorham 
Annotator: Jessie C. H. Gorham 
Date: September 28, 1896
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Jessie C. H. Gorham.
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Miss Gorham.–
My dear child,

Never excuse any form of correcting copy. [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham *Miscellaneous WritingsEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy ManuscriptAs Written:M. S. S. ReviewAs Written:Rev. [*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy I liked the words added. I never go over a copy with out changing it. You cannot be too critical. Allow me to call your attention to this in your copy. It reads, "the ferocious mind seen in the beast is harmless, proceeds from God" I corrected your [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham *I told Laura about this error. But she evidently didn't explain to Mother. From the print, I couldn't decide if it were error or a faulty elucidation of the Christian ScienceAs Written:C- S- fact that there is no error to harm- G- [*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy copy to read – is harmful and proceeds not from God. Then looked up the original copy, and one little word in pencil mark you had left out. This occasioned the loss of scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and the sense of the original.

Your copy was much better for the transposition of my paragraphs that you made.

As I said you are to have all that leaves your hands grammatically As Written: grammaticaly correct including punctuation etc. I have to revise and cannot punctuate revised sentences protracted and so mixed with the print as to make it difficult to even to read in my hurry

I send this package for you to read in order to preserve a uniform punctuation of your own. Some of the printed articles clipped from the papers and pamphlets are not punctuated to suit me. You will not rewrite As Written: re-write all of them. Some of them must be. I think you can get them all back to me before Mrs. K— returns to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. Find out if possible when she is expected to come. Send 15 articles [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham *"Miscellaneous Writings" ManuscriptAs Written:MSS.[*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy by Mrs. Sargent as soon as they are ready to be printed.

With love mother
M B Eddy

P. S. Send your bills for workEditorial Note: Eddy employed Gorham as assistant editor and literary advisor for Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. whenever you please

M B E

L07974
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Miss Gorham.–
My dear child,

Never excuse any form of correcting copy. [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham *Miscellaneous WritingsEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy M. S. S.Expanded:Manuscript Rev.Expanded:Review [*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy I liked the words added. I never go over a copy wit [?] Unclear or illegible h out changing it. You cannot be too critical. Allow me to call your attention to this in your copy. It reads, "the ferocious mind seen in the beast is harmless, proceeds from God" I corrected your [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham *I told Laura about this error. But she evidently didn't explain to Mother. From the print, I couldn't decide if it were error or a faulty elucidation of the C- S-Expanded:Christian Science fact that there is no error to harm- G- [*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy copy to read – is harmful and proceeds not from God. Then looked up the original copy, and one little word in pencil mark you had left out. tThis occasioned the loss of scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and the sense of the original.

Your copy was much better for the transposition of my paragraphs that you made.

As I said you are to have all that leaves your hands grammaticaly Corrected: grammatically correct including punctuation etc. I have to revise and cannot punctuate revised sentences protracted and so mixed with the print as to make it difficult to even to read in my hurry

I send this package for you to read in order to preserve a uniform punctuation of your own. Some of the printed articles clipped from the papers and pamphlets are not punctuated to suit me. You will not re-write Corrected: rewrite all of them. [?] Unclear or illegible  Some of them must be. I think you can get them all back to me before Mrs. K— returns to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. Find out if possible when she is expected to come. Send 1512 articles [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham *"Miscellaneous Writings" MSS.Expanded:Manuscript[*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy by Mrs. Sargent as soon as they are ready to be printed.

With love mother
M B Eddy

P. S. Send your bills for workEditorial Note: Eddy employed Gorham as assistant editor and literary advisor for Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. whenever you please

M B E

 
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The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy End floating text. The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. End floating text. Christian Science Boston, Massachusetts The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. End floating text. Eddy employed Gorham as assistant editor and literary advisor for Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896.