Mary Baker Eddy to William G. Ewing, January 8, 1901

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Mary Baker Eddy

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William G. Ewing

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January 8, 1901

Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.

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Concord, N.H. Jan. 8, 1900

Beloved disciple

Your dear letterEditorial Note: Possibly 273A.41.011 did not arrive till today It was a glad surprise. But had I got it sooner you and your dear wife would have been called to Pleasant ViewAs Written:P. V. yesterday. Such a day as that brings the mark of time and tearsEditorial Note: On January 4, 1901, Eddy met with her legal counsel, Samuel J. Elder and Frank S. Streeter, at her home in New Hampshire, to discuss the Woodbury suit. They believed that because of advantages in the New Hampshire libel law, the prosecution should be steered as much as possible from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Eddy disagreed and was disappointed that Septimus J. Hanna, Joseph Armstrong and William B. Johnson, who were also present, did not speak up in support of her position.. O that you had been here I felt so alone Judge H. Mr A. and Mr. J. sat with the lawyer in my room hours – the latter cutting my heart out, the former speechless I felt as if I were in the presence of headsmen waiting to take me to the scaffold. Why O why are the declining years of a life like mine so haunted hounded soulless unpitied God only knows! I am glad you are so near me When I recover from yesterday I will send for you

My love to Mrs. Ewing and your daughterEditorial Note: The Ewings had two daughters: Ruth R. Ewing and Mary G. Ewing..

Lovingly mother

M B Eddy

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Concord, N.H. Jan. 8, 1900

Beloved disciple

Your dear letterEditorial Note: Possibly 273A.41.011 did not arrive till today It was a glad surprise. But had I got it sooner you and your dear wife would have been called to P. V.Expanded:Pleasant View yesterday. Such a day as that was brings the mark of time and tearsEditorial Note: On January 4, 1901, Eddy met with her legal counsel, Samuel J. Elder and Frank S. Streeter, at her home in New Hampshire, to discuss the Woodbury suit. They believed that because of advantages in the New Hampshire libel law, the prosecution should be steered as much as possible from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Eddy disagreed and was disappointed that Septimus J. Hanna, Joseph Armstrong and William B. Johnson, who were also present, did not speak up in support of her position.. O that you had been here I felt so alone Judge H. Mr A. and Mr. J. sat with the lawyer in my room hours – the latter cutting my heart out, the former speechless I felt as if I were in the presence of headsmen waiting to take me to the scaffold. Why O why are the declining years of a life like mine so haunted hounded soulless unpitied God only knows! I am glad you are so near me When I recover from yesterday I will send for you

My love to Mrs. Ewing and your daughterEditorial Note: The Ewings had two daughters: Ruth R. Ewing and Mary G. Ewing..

Lovingly mother

M B Eddy

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Possibly 273A.41.011 On January 4, 1901, Eddy met with her legal counsel, Samuel J. Elder and Frank S. Streeter, at her home in New Hampshire, to discuss the Woodbury suit. They believed that because of advantages in the New Hampshire libel law, the prosecution should be steered as much as possible from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Eddy disagreed and was disappointed that Septimus J. Hanna, Joseph Armstrong and William B. Johnson, who were also present, did not speak up in support of her position. The Ewings had two daughters: Ruth R. Ewing and Mary G. Ewing.