Accession: V00803
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Clara E. Choate, January 25, 1884
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Clara E. Choate 
Scribe: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 25, 1884
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter by Mary Baker Eddy, handwritten by Calvin A. Frye as scribe.
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- My dear Student

Your mind seems calling on me so I cannot go to work till I say. Give yourself no anxiety, all shall be done as you desire. No scandal no injury As Written: injoury is intended you I advised as I did for your good as well as the interest of all. I wrote you last what I did, I told it to no one, and I was right in all I said. There may be a misunderstanding, and it may be this, that you thought by malpractice I meant making others sick but I did not I defined it in my letter. My students even do not seem to understand all I say.

I have said and meant but one thing. It is that Kennedy and Arens are at the foundation of it all they have different ways of operating. They may make you suffer and make a law that you cannot get over it until you take me up, they may make my other students suffer and make the same law in regard to you, now who is to blame? I can't make one more than another see how it is, they all will take their own way. Now I was told this morning your husband wrote a friendly letter to Mr Arthur T. Buswell threatening others! I did not see the letter nor hear a word in it. I refused to do so, for he has abused me so at different times I will not enter into it but I will defend and protect you all in my power so long as you try to do right, even if you do wrong and then have to repent.

If you had wisdom you would have kept perfectly still and let others had the laboring oar on their side. I tell you your faults in love to mend them, and to keep them from others: then you go and tell them to others: what for? is it to injure me or yourself? what you heard of the last meeting here was not true and I will set that right. I want to see you to tell you a very important thing I do not wish to write it. shall I go down when I get a chance or will you come here? You are the child of my care yet M B G E.

About Mr Frye he is a better friend to you than he appears to your face perhaps, he defends you to others I know for I have heard him. He tells you what he does but does not explain what he means. He knows that it is others that reach him through you but think you ought to know it as well. He is honest, some others have not been, as honest with you. In haste I must close M B G E.

x x x God has sent me back to open my letter to say. Be not guided by your husband or mother or anyoneAs Written:any one in this matter take council alone of God and from what I may tell you profit thou.

A true copy attest

Calvin A Frye

V00803
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
- My dear Student

Your mind seems calling on me so I cannot go to work till I say. Give yourself no anxiety, all shall be done as you desire. No scandal no injoury Corrected: injury is intended you I advised as I did for your good as well as the interest of all. I wrote you last what I did, I told it to no one, and I was right in all I said. There may be a misunderstanding, and it may be this, that you thought by malpractice I meant making others sick but I did not I defined it in my letter. My students even do not seem to understand all I say.

I have said and meant but one thing. It is that Kennedy and Arens are at the foundation of it all they have different ways of operating. They may make you suffer and make a law that you cannot get over it until you take me up, they may make my other students suffer and make the same law in regard to you, now who is to blame? I can't make one more than another see how it is, they all will take their own way. Now I was told this morning your husband wrote a friendly letter to Mr Buswell threatening others! I did not see the letter nor hear a word in it. I refused to do so, for he has abused me so at different times I will not enter into it but I will defend and protect you all in my power so long as you try to do right, even if you do wrong and then have to repent.

If you had wisdom you would have kept perfectly still and let others had the laboring oar on their side. I tell you your faults in love to mend them, and to keep them from others: then you go and tell them to others: what for? is it to injure me or yourself? what you heard of the last meeting here was not true and I will set that right. I want to see you to tell you a very important thing I do not wish to write it. shall I go down when I get a chance or will you come here? You are the child of my care yet M B G E.

About Mr Frye he is a better friend to you than he appears to your face perhaps, he defends you to others I know for I have heard him. He tells you what he does but does not explain what he means. He knows that it is others that reach him through you but think you ought to know it as well. He is honest, some others have not been, as honest with you. In haste I must close M B G E.

x x x God has sent me back to open my letter to say. Be not guided by your husband or mother or any oneCorrected:anyone in this matter take council alone of God and from what I may tell you profit thou.

A true copy attest

Calvin A Frye

 
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