1. Longyear Museum now owns and operates the Wentworth home as a historic house.
  2. Lucy Wentworth Holmes, “My Memories of Mary Baker Eddy,” 19 February 1936, Reminiscence, 1.
  3. “Contract, Eddy and Wentworth,” 11 August 1869, Subject File, Wentworth Family of Stoughton Massachusetts.
  4. Letter of Lucy Wentworth Holmes, 12 November 1936, quoted in Kenneth Hufford, Mary Baker Eddy and the Stoughton Years (Brookline, Massachusetts: Longyear Foundation, 1963), 4.
  5. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery (Boston: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966), 224.
  6. Georgine Milmine, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909), 121.
  7. Although the family members were supportive of Eddy overall, this was not the case with the oldest son, Horace Wentworth; he ardently opposed her work, both during her time with his parents and in later years, when he publicly attacked her. His publicized allegations became fodder for those who in subsequent decades sought to discredit Eddy and her work. See Peel, Years of Discovery, 228, and Alfred Farlow to Mary Baker Eddy, 22 September 1903, IC006cP2.05.031.
  8. Peel, Years of Discovery, 225.
  9. Lucy Wentworth Holmes, “My Memories of Mary Baker Eddy,” 2.
  10. Lucy Wentworth Holmes to Mary Beecher Longyear, 10 February 1922 (1922.008.0001). Longyear Museum Collections.
  11. Lucy Wentworth Holmes, letter, 10 February 1922, Longyear Museum collections.
  12. Alanson C. Wentworth, “Statement by Alanson C. Wentworth, Stoughton, MA Re healing by Mary Baker Eddy,” November 1868, Subject File, Wentworth Family of Stoughton Massachusetts.
  13. Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1998), 80.
  14. Celia and Sally Wentworth to Eddy, 15 March 1868, Subject File, Wentworth Family of Stoughton Massachusetts.
  15. H. L. Cobb to Alfred Farlow, 10 January 190[7], Subject File, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) – Healings – Cases.
  16. David Lee Slataper to Clifford P. Smith, 20 July 1938, Reminiscence, 2.
  17. Mary Baker Eddy, sermon, 16 November 1884, A10088.
  18. Mary Baker Eddy, manuscript, n.d., A11065.
  19. See Peel, Years of Discovery, 228–229.
  20. Mary Baker Eddy, article, n.d., A10407, 7.
  21. Eddy, A10407, 7–8.
  22. Gillian Gill, Mary Baker Eddy,184–185.
  23. See Peel, Years of Discovery, 229–230.
  24. Mary Baker Eddy to Sarah Bagley, 10 June 1869, L07798.
  25. In 1868 Eddy had briefly stayed at Sarah Bagley’s home before she moved in with the Wentworths.