ly, the want of
education among those nearest to me in kin. I would gladly
give every dollar I possess to have one or two and three
that are nearest to me on earth possess a thorough
education. If you had been educated as I intend to have you,
today you could, would, be made President of the United
States. Mary's letters to me are so misspelled that I blush
to read them.

You pronounce your words so wrongly and then she spells them
accordingly. I am even yet too proud to have you come among
my society and alas! mispronounce your words as you do; but
for this thing I should be honored by your good manners and
I love you. With love to all

MARY BAKER EDDY.

P.S.--My letter is so short I add a postscript. I have tried
about one dozen bookkeepers and had to give them all up,
either for dishonesty or incapacity. I have not had my books
audited for five years, and Mr. Ladd, who is famous for
this, audited them last week, and gives me his certificate
that they are all right except in some places not quite
plain, and he showed Frye how to correct that. Then he, Frye
gave me a check for that amount before I knew about it.

The slight mistake occurred four years ago and he could not
remember about the things. But Mr. Ladd told me that he knew
it was only not set down in a coherent way for in other
parts of the book he could trace where it was put down in
all probability, but not orderly. When I can get a
Christian, as I know he is, and a woman that can fill his
place I shall do it. But I have no time to receive company,
to call on others, or to go out of my house only to drive.
Am always driven with work for others, but nobody to help me
even to get help such as I would choose.

Again, MOTHER.

[Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON GLOVER

MRS. EDDY'S ONLY SON]

While Mrs. Eddy was working out her larger policy she never forgot the
little things. The manufacture of Christian Science jewelry was at one
time a thriving business, conducted by the J. C. Derby Company, of
Concord. Christian Science emblems and Mrs. Eddy's "favorite flower"
were made up into cuff-buttons, rings, brooches, watches, and
pendants, varying in price from $325 to $2.50. The sale of the
Christian Science teaspoons was especially p