Accession: L07989
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Jessie C. H. Gorham, December 8, 1896
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Jessie C. H. Gorham 
Date: December 8, 1896
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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CONCORD, New HampshireAs Written:N. H., DecemberAs Written:Dec. 8, 96.
My darling Jessie,

Your last copiesEditorial Note: Gorham was assistant editor and literary advisor for Mary Baker Eddy's Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. I have examined today As Written: to-day and am delighted, delighted with them.

It is very easy for me to do my part where you interrogate. Your nice distinctions suit me. I cannot now read the MSS.Editorial Note: Manuscript without improving it a bit, and seeing where improvements could continue. When I wrote "The Scientific Statement of BeingEditorial Note: The 'Scientific Statement of Being'Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures468:8Question. — What is the scientific statement of being?
468:9Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor sub‐
 stance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite
 manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal
468:12Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and
 eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is
 God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore
468:15man is not material; he is spiritual. from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy" I stopped satisfied for once. In Mr Wiggin's proofreadingAs Written:proof reading he changed it. I was astounded, and restored my wording. I noticed in other instances his changes, and when my last revision passed under his criticism, he used the very words of mine thatbefore he had substituted with his own.

Now my loved literary Lassie, I have proposed you for the proofreader As Written: proof-reader for the C. S. Publishing House in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts What say you? Keep quiet on all these things, but tell mother whateverAs Written:what ever you list "when the back door is not agee." I shall have the type set up in our publishing House in Boston, then taken to CambridgeEditorial Note: Cambridge, Massachusetts to be printed at the University Press. I send now the last of all but one or two copies of my bookEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. The end is Testimonials

I write abominably, am in such haste.

With love mother
Mary Baker Eddy
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CONCORD, N. H.Expanded:New Hampshire, Dec.Expanded:December 8, 96.
My darling Jessie,

Your last copiesEditorial Note: Gorham was assistant editor and literary advisor for Mary Baker Eddy's Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. I have examined to-day Corrected: today and am delighted, delighted with them.

It is very easy for me to do my part where you interrogate. Your nice distinctions suit me. I cannot now read the MSS.Editorial Note: Manuscript without improving it a bit, and seeing where improvements could continue. When I wrote "The Scientific Statement of BeingEditorial Note: The 'Scientific Statement of Being'Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures468:8Question. — What is the scientific statement of being?
468:9Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor sub‐
 stance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite
 manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal
468:12Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and
 eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is
 God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore
468:15man is not material; he is spiritual. from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy" I stopped satisfied for once. In Mr Wiggin's proof readingCorrected:proofreading he changed it. and I was ast [?] Unclear or illegible ounded, and restored my wording. I noticed in other instances his changes, and when my last revision passed under his criticism, he used the very words of mine thathebefore he had substituted with his own.

Now my loved literary Lassie, I have proposed you for the proof-reader Corrected: proofreader for the C. S. Publishing House in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts What say you? Keep quiet on all these things, but tell mother what everCorrected:whatever you list "when the back door is not agee." I shall have the type set up in our publishing House in Boston, then taken to CambridgeEditorial Note: Cambridge, Massachusetts to be printed at the University Press. I send now the last of all but one or two copies of my bookEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. The end isLetters Testimonials

I write abominably, am in such haste.

With love mother
Mary Baker Eddy
 
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Gorham was assistant editor and literary advisor for Mary Baker Eddy's Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. Manuscript The 'Scientific Statement of Being'Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures468:8Question. — What is the scientific statement of being?
468:9Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor sub‐
 stance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite
 manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal
468:12Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and
 eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is
 God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore
468:15man is not material; he is spiritual. from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Boston, Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896