1. Mary Baker Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection (Boston: The Christian Science Board of Directors), 20.
  2. Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection, 20.
  3. See Gillian Gill, Mary Baker Eddy (Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1998), 114–115. For more information on these documents and their importance in understanding Eddy’s relationship with her son, see Jewel Spangler Smaus, “An important historical discovery,” The Christian Science Journal, May 1983.
  4. Eddy, Retrospection and Introspection, 21.