Learning from Letterhead

Meet the people who wrote to Mary Baker Eddy—by looking at their stationery.

On the front lines: the Vest Pocket Edition of “Science and Health”

Read about a miniature edition of the Christian Science textbook, designed for soldiers.

Picturing “Uplands at Bow”

Learn the story behind this celebrated painting of Mary Baker Eddy’s birthplace.

Mary Baker Eddy’s Attleborough lecture

Read how she looked for a receptive audience in a new setting.

“Adventures were inevitable”—the “Monitor” covers a war

Read about the challenges and triumphs of a WWII reporter on the ground in the Pacific Theater.

Newspapermaking: Printing “The Christian Science Monitor”

Check out the story behind some printing plates from the paper’s first edition.