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: 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.