I am sorry that I could not return your letter to you unopened as requested, for I had opened it, as is my custom, before your telegram was received. No one has read the letter except meyself, and the incident is closed as far as I am concerned.

I trust that you are weathering the gale successfully. We have had our strenuous time, but the matter is finished as far as we at Pleasant View are concerned. The interviewEditorial Note: The day before, October 30, 1906, Mary Baker Eddy held an interview at her home with fourteen representatives of leading newspapers and press associations. The interview consisted of Eddy responding to four preselected questions asked by Sibyl Wilbur. The intent of the interview was to counteract sensational newspaper reporting that Mary Baker Eddy was dead or dying and being impersonated by one of her household staff, while Calvin A. Frye was the head of the Christian Science movement and in charge of Eddy's finances. yesterday afternoon seemed to be fairly treated as far as the Boston papers were concerned with the exception of the GlobeEditorial Note: The Boston Globe. The position was a very difficult one for our LeaderEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy, and although I told her to step right into the room and face the newspaper people there squarely, the mental blast seemed to o beat her back momentarily when she reached the door, and so the effect was not quite so positive as we could have wished. At the last moment, too, she Mrs Eddy ordered from the top of the stairs that the portiere of the droor be drawn while she came down, which from my personal standpoint as a news paperCorrected:newspaper man seemed to me a mistake. The statement that I was anywhere near Mrs. Eddy during the interview, as made in the Globe was false, for I was outside the house b with the carriage, and all I knew of what was going on was what I saw through the partily open door.

(Lewis Strang)