Accession: V00797
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Emma Curtis Hopkins, December 13, 1883
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Emma Curtis Hopkins 
Date: December 13, 1883
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy. Three vertical lines are drawn through the document, two on the first page and one on the second.
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Dec. 13. 1883
Mrs. Hopkins
Dear Madam,

Your favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. at hand

I shall be pleased to take you for a pupil but the terms of payment that you made are impractical for two reasons I have a fixed rule to receive tuition in advance and the

rooms in the College are every one occupied

But I can and will take you in my next classEditorial Note: Emma Curtis Hopkins was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on December 27, 1883. which will commence as soon after New Years as possible

Please say nothing of this to anyoneAs Written:any one but your husband and when you are able to pay me do as it seemeth one’s As Written: ones duty under such circumstances

I have no husbandEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy’s husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, died on June 3, 1882., and no help in the arduous As Written: ardous tasks I perform but my heavenly Father whose love is the only solace of my lone life

Very truly
M B G Eddy
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Dec. 13. 1883
Mrs. Hopkins
Dear Madam,

Your favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. at hand

I shall be pleased to take you for a pupil but the terms of payment that you made are impractical for two reasons I have a fixed rule to receive tuition in advance and the

rooms in the College are every one occupied

But I can and will take you in my next classEditorial Note: Emma Curtis Hopkins was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on December 27, 1883. which will commence as soon after New Years as possible

Please say nothing of this to any oneCorrected:anyone but your husband and when you are able to pay me do as it seemeth ones Corrected: one’s duty under such circumstances

I have no husbandEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy’s husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, died on June 3, 1882., and no help in the ardous Corrected: arduous tasks I perform but my heavenly Father whose love is the only solace of my lone life

Very truly
M B G Eddy
 
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This letter is not extant. Emma Curtis Hopkins was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on December 27, 1883. Mary Baker Eddy’s husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy, died on June 3, 1882.