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Mary Baker Eddy and John Greenleaf Whittier

May 22, 2012

(Updated June 18, 2026) Mary Baker Eddy was a lifelong admirer of the American poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). An avid scrapbooker, she clipped his poems out of literary magazines and later quoted his words in her own published writings.  ...

The “Great Litigation”

March 30, 2012

The litigation consisted of two lawsuits: Eustace vs. Dickey, and Dittemore vs. Dickey. The first lawsuit was between the Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society and the Christian Science Board of Directors; the second was between John V. Dittemore, a...
The early years of Christian Science Reading Rooms, 1887–1910

The early years of Christian Science Reading Rooms, 1887–1910

February 12, 2012

The early years of Christian Science Reading Rooms, 1887–1910 Hotel Boylston, Boston, undated. P04159. Herbert L. Dunbar. (Updated January 2019) The beginnings of Christian Science Reading Rooms can be dated to January 1887. According to a later article in The...

Elvis Presley and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

January 11, 2012

The Library’s Research staff had heard this rumor over the years but like many rumors that come to us for authentication, we’d found no concrete evidence one way or another. Then, in the November 17, 2008, issue of The New Yorker, an article reviewed the work of the...