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 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.
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 Mary Baker 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.
Word bubbles, data visualization, and sermons
Check out a new resource for exploring Mary Baker Eddy’s use of language.
“Maj Anderson and Our Country”
See how Eddy supported Union efforts leading up to the Civil War, through this 1861 poem.
Early letters and long careers
See how some of the strongest roots in Christian Science grew out of small beginnings.
A copyist for Mary Baker Eddy
Learn about an important role in the creation of early “teaching manuscripts.”
From the Papers: How we do our work
Learn about the steps we take in transcribing and annotating Mary Baker Eddy’s correspondence.
From the Papers: Early Christian Science—a family affair
Read how three members of one frontier family contributed to the expanding church movement.
From the Papers: Letters from the western frontier
Read how the growth of Christian Science was interwoven with America’s westward expansion.