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: 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: 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: 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.
From the Papers: Joseph Adams and Christian Science pastoring
Read this account of a guest preacher in Mary Baker Eddy’s young church.
From the Papers: The Chautauqua Movement and Christian Science
Read how early Christian Scientists sought heightened awareness through participation in a growing cultural institution.
From The Papers: “The sermon was beautiful”
Share the perspective of a boy from Kansas, who heard Mary Baker Eddy preach in 1888.
From The Papers: British aristocracy and early Christian Science—the Murray family
Learn how these prominent individuals influenced, and were influenced by, the growth of a new religion.
From The Papers: “Open a public institute at once”
Learn about an important early development in teaching Christian Science.
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