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Dewey Perfect Self-Filling Fountain Pen
On January 10th, a Christian Scientist named Edson Dewey wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in the hopes that she would accept an unsolicited gift…

Madame Luella A. Varney Serrao Bust of Mary Baker Eddy
One of the most intriguing likenesses of Mary Baker Eddy is this marble bust by Luella A. Varney (later Serrao: 1865-post 1935). It is the only sculpture for which Eddy posed.

The White Steam Automobiles
In mid-1908, the Boston representatives of the White Motor Company, whose offices were on 320 Newbury Street, came into contact with Adolph Stevenson, Eddy’s carriage driver and handyman.

Tokens of Recognition and Love: Gifts for Mary Baker Eddy and Calvin Frye
On July 10, 1903, Calvin Frye, Mary Baker Eddy’s longtime assistant, sent a note to William B. Johnson, Clerk of The Mother Church and a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors…

“Slight Inventions”: The Fiction of Clara Louise Burnham
The American author Clara Louise Burnham wrote 26 novels between the years 1881 and 1925.