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 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.
From the Papers: Lynn on the Fourth of July
Learn about Eddy’s connection to a nationally popular musical group of her time.
From the Papers: Paths into the Mary Baker Eddy Papers
Check out two important visual aids in exploring Eddy’s correspondence.
From the Papers: A college for teaching Christian Science
Read about the Massachusetts Metaphysical College and its curriculum.
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: Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science, and the temperance movement
Find out what the documents we’re annotating reveal about these intersections.
From the Papers: A New Year’s gift leads to a new beginning
Find out how Camilla Hanna’s interest in Christian Science changed the course of her life.
From the Papers: A revised curriculum for the Massachusetts Metaphysical College
Find out about the evolution of this institution and its activities in the 1880s.
From the Papers: “This is my message in love”
Enjoy the heartwarming story of a letter to Mary Baker Eddy—written from the top of Mt. Washington.
From the Papers: Slavery in Mary Baker Eddy’s neighborhood
Read this examination of racial geography in 1844 Charleston, South Carolina.
From the Papers: Early Christian Science in Scotland: spotlighting the Ramsay family
Learn about growing interest in the early Christian Science movement among the Scottish nobility.
From the Papers: Celia Osgood Peterson: Christian Scientist and public educator
Read about an eager correspondent with Mary Baker Eddy and learn how faith intersected with her career.
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