1. “Our Fourth of July,” The Christian Science Journal, August 1897,  http://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1897/8/15-5/our-fourth-of-july.
  2. Rem. Will Cooper, 4-5. Unless otherwise noted, details of the Pleasant View reception are taken from this reminiscence and the articles on the reception that appeared in the Journal.
  3. Amanda J. Baird to Mary Baker Eddy, 17 September 1897, IC355.
  4. Eddy to Baird and Members of Baird’s Association, 23 September 1897, L04620.
  5. Rem. Frances Thompson Hill, letter to Board of Trustees, The Christian Science Publishing Society, 9 November 1953. Hill was the wife of Calvin Hill, who had assisted Eddy with a number of tasks at both Pleasant View, and Chestnut Hill. To learn more about the diamond brooch, see “Mary Baker Eddy’s Diamond Cross Pin,” the Library’s September 2011 Object of the Month, posted at https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/mary-baker-eddys-diamond-cross-pin.