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  2. Edward Young, “Night Thoughts” (London: N. Biggs, 1804), B00339.
  3. B00339, 60.
  4. Clara Shannon, “Golden Memories,” 1927, Reminiscence, 9.
  5. Gillian Gill, Mary Baker Eddy (Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1998), 29.
  6. Isabel Ferguson and Heather Frederick, A World More Bright (Boston, Massachusetts: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 2013), 14.
  7. Heather Vogel Frederick, “A Woman of Sound Education”: Mary Baker Eddy’s School Years (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Longyear Museum Press, 2020), 25.
  8. Irving Tomlinson, manuscript, 1 July 1909, A11963.
  9. Young, “Night Thoughts,” Night II, “On Time, Death, and Friendship,” 631–633.
  10. Mary Baker Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection (Boston: The First Church of Christ, Scientist), 5.
  11. Irving Tomlinson, “Mary Baker Eddy,” typescript, c. 1902, essay, n.d., A12110.
  12. Edward Young, “Night Thoughts,” (London: N. Biggs, 1804), B00339.