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: Requests for treatment
Read an 1884 exchange between Mary Baker Eddy and a woman in search of healing.
From the Papers: Correspondence with Ira and Flavia Knapp
Glimpse how two accomplished early Christian Scientists began to practice healing.
From the Papers: 1884 church business report
Read how the early church was adding members and paying expenses.
From the Papers: A thank-you letter
Read a letter showing the early influence of the Christian Science textbook.
From the Papers: A letter from A.C. Coates
Read an 1884 letter to Eddy that’s notable for several reasons.
From the Papers: Letterpress correspondence
Read some of the letters that Eddy especially wanted to keep copies of.
From the Papers: “following the line of duty”
Read Mary Baker Eddy’s frank 1884 letter to a student in Washington, D.C.
From the Papers: “the book that is doing so much good”
Read one of Eddy’s letters to a student practicing Christian Science in Chicago.