science and health with key to the scriptures book

Books signed and inscribed by Mary Baker Eddy are rare.

Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Potter and Eddy's correspondence continued until Potter's death and Potter remained one of Eddy's biggest supporters when many distanced themselves from the religious leader and the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Eddy's grandmother, Maryann McNeil Moore' (Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery). Together they drove to the Botanical Gardens, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Congressional Cemetery where they knelt at the grave of General John McNeil, Mrs. Potter caller on several times and showed considerable interest in Christian Science. In the winter of 1882, Mary Baker Eddy visited Washington, where 'Mrs. McNeil Potter, with love from the Author, 1886.' The recipient, Frances Maria McNeil Potter was the niece of President Franklin Pierce and his sometimes hostess in the White house, assisting First Lady Jane Pierce after the death of the president's son Benny. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper in the year of publication, 'Mrs.

Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Early printing of the central text of the Christian Science which continues to rank as a best-seller to this day.

Science and health with key to the scriptures book