1. See Reminiscence File, diary of William Rathvon, entry for 3 July 1910.
  2. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Boston: The Christian Science Board of Directors), 58.
  3. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1966), 140.
  4. untitled poem, Copybook #1, entry for 20 September 1859, A09001, 60-61.
  5. Affidavit of Mary Ellis Bartlett, quoted in Georgine Milmine, The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1909), 116.