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Thanks Skip (and CAF) for the old-fashioned Christmas wish. Don't think too much of my Christmas will be old-fashioned but my kids and grandkids make all their gifts which is pretty special. Have a wonderful week!
Christmas and Christian Science
As these busy Christmas season days go by, I thought it might be of interest to see some items on Christmas in Christian Science history. One is this telegram that Mrs. Eddy sent out to Emma McLauthlin, inviting her on December 24, 1895, to her Christmas dinner the next day. Of course, one boo...
Whether Mrs. Eddy wrote "Taking Offense" or not, it is clear that she LIKED it, calling the author "wise" and adding it to the first ever Christian Science Journal, then again in a later Journal, then putting it into Miscellaneous Writings, so that's always been good enough for me!
Thanks once again, Skip, for an amazing and comprehensive list.
A Check-list of writings by Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1875
On October 30, 1875, Mary Baker Eddy (then Glover) published her first book on Christian Science, entitled Science and Health. In later years Mrs. Eddy would write numerous other books, pamphlets, and articles, but her career as a published author began long before her work as the founder of Chr...
Have you seen the book "A Most Agreeable Man" about Brackett by Peter Hodgson? He was a wonderful musicologist as far as I know - at least I always enjoyed his company at Asilomar and in Boston!
Christian Science Music
As the Christian Science movement (including churches run by students of Mary Baker Eddy) progressed into the late 1880s, the desire to have Christian Science music came to the fore, as members wished to duplicate to some extent the church experience they had grown up with, and I have made a ...
Thank you for spending your Saturdays in this way, so that I can spend Sunday morning enjoying and learning from what you have put up on Saturday! Such unselfishness - I love it!!!
Christian Science Music
As the Christian Science movement (including churches run by students of Mary Baker Eddy) progressed into the late 1880s, the desire to have Christian Science music came to the fore, as members wished to duplicate to some extent the church experience they had grown up with, and I have made a ...
WOW - what a treasure you are! This has been so much fun to read since almost all of it is new to me. I do have a few questions:
What was the print date for the first pamphlet by Lyman P. Powell on Christian Science, entitled The Anarchy of Christian Science?
Are all the letters from these catalogs now known and recorded, or are some still "missing"?
Where is the first copy of Science and Health off the press, specially bound in morocco leather, presented by Mrs. Eddy to Daniel H. Spofford?
Have you ever seen the Bible, dated 1865 from Philadelphia, inscribed by Mrs. Eddy (then Glover) to Geo. H. Allen?
Thank you again and again for sharing your life work!!!!
Christian Science and rare book catalogs
Christian Science collectors have existed to some extent since Mrs. Eddy’s days. I thought it would be interesting to provide a review of catalogs that relate to Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science as far back as 1908: Rare and Fine Books Including a Portion of the Library of Chas. Belden Van Nost...
Skip,
Where was the reply published by CAF and Buswell? Was it also in the Woman's Journal?
Louisa May Alcott and "mind cure"
In the mid-1870s Mrs. Eddy befriended one of the leading and aging figures in the transcendentalism world, Bronson Alcott, who in turn provided a level of support to her when she very much needed it. However today he is perhaps better known as the father of Louisa May Alcott, the author of ...
Me too! I'm interested in it all :-)
Is there still a good collection at 1st Church Pasadena?
A surprisingly rare first edition
Christian Scientists are generally aware of the titles of Mrs. Eddy's articles in her collected Prose Works, but very often they are not that knowledgeable about the history of the articles and pamphlets collected there. Thus the relative rarity of a particular first separate printing is not kn...
I was hoping you would have some pictures of these books so that people who are not familar with them could see how beautiful they are...
Poems by Mary Baker Eddy in various volumes of poetry
Mrs. Eddy's poems were collected over the years in various anthologies, starting in 1850 and going up to 1910, and here are I hope some of the more interesting ones: Gems For You; From New Hampshire Authors. F.A. Moore, editor. Manchester, N.H.: William H. Fisk, 1850. This is the first known b...
I've never seen "Fruits of the Spirit" but I'm fascinated by it, as the reason for the "Obnoxious books" by law. I've enjoyed going through all of the correspondence about the book and the bylaw at the Mary Baker Eddy Library. Also, the MBEL mentions the book in an article they did on copy books recently. They record that the poem "Constancy" was originally written in one of Eddy's copybooks with the title "To My Absent Husband." There are two versions in the same copybook, the second one with the heading "Written Feb 1856 during sickness." So, she did repeat it - first with no indication of when it was written and second in 1856. Less than three years into the marriage, she certainly could have been looking at Patterson's empty chair wishing he was there.
Maybe we'll never know the answer to that one...
Thanks for the discussion!
A Tale of Two Books
A recent inquiry about the following rare book by one of Mrs. Eddy’s youngest students, Elizabeth Earl Jones, led to me decide to post bibliographical and historical information on two extremely rare books, one the Jones book and the other a book by Alice Jennings, an Augusta Stetson student: Th...
Thanks, Skip (and Craig)
Reading this, I not only found out about a lot I didn't know, but it pushed me to get out "The Life of Asa Gilbert Eddy" and keep reading. I had put it down right after Christmas and not picked it up again.
So much to read as you both know...
Some day I hope there is more available, especially on the supressions.
Since I'm fairly new to all this, I've had the MBEL the whole time, for which I am extremely grateful!
An Historic Pamphlet
An Historic Spot [:] The Birthplace of Christian Science, by Mary Beecher Longyear. Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1921. The above booklet (ultra rare and little-known) is significant for many reasons, one of which is that it provides the first printing in its entirety (with some minor transcri...
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Hey Skip - Ralph told me about Google alerts which I signed up for and this came up this morning on the one for MBE. What an amazing job you did on this.
Thanks so much!
Michael Meehan’s Book on the Next Friends Suit—A Study in Bibliography
Mrs. Eddy and "Next Friends," by Michael Meehan. Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1908. The above is the ultra rare trial edition, which immediately preceded the "authorized edition" printed by the University Press. The only other copies of the trial edition that I have se...
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