I will first thank you for your munificent gift for building the Mother Church. Next explain. Mrs. Otis had put the money that you, Mrs L., and Mr H., gave for the land into the possession of Mr. Bowers and I regarded it as unsafe to be entrusted to him. So I got the money back and deposited it in a sound bank at 4% awaiting your furtherAs Written:furthur orders in regard to the aforenamed purchase. That was what I meant by what I wrote for the land was held at such a price I knew it was best for us to bide our time in getting it. I should never have purchased it if it had been offered to me without consulting you all as to your views of taking it at the price named. But the owner has never offered it to me at a reasonable valuation. This was why I said the money was at your order when I took it from Bowers to save losing it. Now dear one, I thank you more than ever for your sweet explanation and Christian desire to do so much for our holy Cause. And as you leave it for me to decide whether you give it for the building of our church or the purchase of the land I will say — The St. Paul's SchoolEditorial Note: St. Paul's School is a college-preparatory boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1856. works against me in getting this land and so I shall have to pay more than one of the Professors As Written: Proffessors who is talking of getting it. This I feel is not just. Hence I wait in the LordPs 27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. . Again it would be sweet to have your dear name pass with mine into history You have been loyal and conscientious in your course. But your infirmity has made it difficult for me to teach you as I otherwise could have done the absolute letter of Christian Science. I will forward your $1000Editorial Note: 1000.00 to our TreasurerAs Written:Treas. Mr Chase and he will receipt As Written: recept to you. But the $40. (forty dollars)Editorial Note: 40.00 is more than is required, and I will return that to you or do whatever you desire with it. Your beautiful proposal to give it towards furnishing Editorial Note: The Mother's Room was a room built for Mary Baker Eddy during the building of the Original Edifice of The Mother Church. A group of children called the Busy Bees fundraised for the construction and furnishing of this room. On April 1, 1895, Eddy visited the Original Edifice for the first time and spent the night in the Mother's Room. The Mother's Room was closed in October 1908. I regard with a most tender sense of gratitude and abiding sense of your unselfish christian character.— I will see you and do all I can for you as soon as I can find a single opportunity for doing this and your husband does not refuse to let you visit the founder of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S.

Now dear one, do not feel the hard touches of mortal mind, rise above them and rest calmly and peacefully in the love that never failethI Cor 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. and will reward all your good words and deeds which certainly are many Forgive me if I have ever wounded you, for I never have only as I wound As Written: wouned to heal you. My heart would not give you one unnecessary pain No! no indeed! far be that from me.

[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.Please let me trouble you to say what shall be done with the forty dollars? I must erase that on your order as I have stipulated the amount to be given on my subscription list as $1000Editorial Note: 1000.00, only.

With love to you and great gratitude and abiding sense of your goodness