From the Mary Baker Eddy Papers
Articles highlighting our ongoing effort to annotate and digitally publish Eddy’s correspondence, sermons, and other manuscript materials.
From the Papers: A notable Christmas sermon
See how this 1880 text introduced wording found in Eddy’s future writings.
From the Papers: Expanding on “A Timely Issue”
Here’s helpful context for Eddy’s article in the first issue of The Christian Science Journal.
From the Papers: Mary Baker Eddy’s convictions on slavery
Read what her letter to a Union army general tells us.
From the Papers: A case study in transcription
Read how routine work to digitize handwritten documents led to a unique discovery.
From the Papers: Modest means for writing Science and Health
Read new insights on how Eddy supported herself in the 1870s.
From the Papers—Part Two: Learning from Letterhead
Meet the people who wrote to Mary Baker Eddy—by taking a look at their stationery.
From the Papers: Eddy’s “Questions and Answers” column
See how she responded to requests for clarification of her teaching.
From the Papers: Mary Baker Eddy’s poetry
See how recently annotated documents provide new insights.
From the Papers: Work and parenting in 1885
Read some of Eddy’s correspondence with mothers studying Christian Science.
From the Papers: A pioneer of Black history, bibliography, and biography
Meet Daniel A. P. Murray, one of the Library of Congress’ first Black American librarians.
From the Papers: “Our new field of work”
Read how two new students of Eddy began their careers as healers.
From the Papers: “Christmas offerings”
Read correspondence between Eddy and one of her students, on the subject of holiday gifts.
From the Papers: A major revision of Science and Health
Find out what makes the book’s 16th edition particularly noteworthy.
From the Papers: Women doctors write to Mary Baker Eddy
Find out what we’ve learned from our archives.
From the Papers: Mary Baker Eddy’s support for emancipation
Find out what we’ve learned from her correspondence during the Civil War.
From the Papers: Reports of healing
Read examples of how the early church was accomplishing its mission.
From the Papers: A New Year’s exchange
See how the turn of the calendar prompted happy communication among early Christian Scientists.
From the Papers: A notable Christmas sermon
See how this 1880 text introduced wording found in Eddy’s future writings.
From the Papers: Expanding on “A Timely Issue”
Here’s helpful context for Eddy’s article in the first issue of The Christian Science Journal.
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