[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("MARK TWAIN").] EDDY, MARY BAKER. Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of the Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts. Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Company, 1899. 8vo (184 x 122 mm). Publisher's cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, front hinge started at half-title, folding cloth chemise. Provenance: Frederick W. Peabody (inscribed on the title page, "Frederick W. Peabody/ Notations of Mark Twain"); John Gribbel (bookplate to chemise, his sale, Parke-Bernet, October 31, 1940, partial lot 186); Albert Henry Wiggin (bookplate); sold The Prescott Collection: The Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, Christies, New York, February 6, 1981, partial lot 56. MARK TWAIN'S ANNOTATED COPY OF MARY BAKER EDDY'S RULES AND BY-LAWS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Sent to Twain by Frederick W. Peabody, this copy is extensively annotated by Mark Twain on about 56 of 95 pages, much of it with a typical Twainian caustic wit. On December 15, 1902, Twain wrote to Frederick W. Peabody, who shared his antipathy towards "Eddyism," "I shall take good care of the Church Manual & return it to you. I never knew, until now, who sent it to me... But I find it useful. I thought it was my own, so I have marginal-noted it, & am very sorry." According to Mark Twain: Day by Day," it was this "manual of the church... which he [Twain] used more than any other source for his book on Christian Science" (Fears, Mark Twain Day by Day, Vol. III (1897-1904), Banks, OR, 2008). Throughout 1903, Twain and Peabody exchanged letters focusing on Twain's continuing work on his Christian Science book. And on April 4, 1903, Twain again wrote, "I am most cussedly sorry I made marginal notes in your Church Manual, & I apologize ... I had forgotten it was a borrowed book until you convicted me with my own post-card. The little Manual was my text for about 40,000 words — rather a useful document...." This copy offers an important glimpse at Twain's research and writing, as well as shedding further (humorous) light on his views on Christian Science (and on religion).
[CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("MARK TWAIN").] EDDY, MARY BAKER. Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of the Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts. Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Company, 1899. 8vo (184 x 122 mm). Publisher's cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, front hinge started at half-title, folding cloth chemise. Provenance: Frederick W. Peabody (inscribed on the title page, "Frederick W. Peabody/ Notations of Mark Twain"); John Gribbel (bookplate to chemise, his sale, Parke-Bernet, October 31, 1940, partial lot 186); Albert Henry Wiggin (bookplate); sold The Prescott Collection: The Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, Christies, New York, February 6, 1981, partial lot 56. MARK TWAIN'S ANNOTATED COPY OF MARY BAKER EDDY'S RULES AND BY-LAWS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Sent to Twain by Frederick W. Peabody, this copy is extensively annotated by Mark Twain on about 56 of 95 pages, much of it with a typical Twainian caustic wit. On December 15, 1902, Twain wrote to Frederick W. Peabody, who shared his antipathy towards "Eddyism," "I shall take good care of the Church Manual & return it to you. I never knew, until now, who sent it to me... But I find it useful. I thought it was my own, so I have marginal-noted it, & am very sorry." According to Mark Twain: Day by Day," it was this "manual of the church... which he [Twain] used more than any other source for his book on Christian Science" (Fears, Mark Twain Day by Day, Vol. III (1897-1904), Banks, OR, 2008). Throughout 1903, Twain and Peabody exchanged letters focusing on Twain's continuing work on his Christian Science book. And on April 4, 1903, Twain again wrote, "I am most cussedly sorry I made marginal notes in your Church Manual, & I apologize ... I had forgotten it was a borrowed book until you convicted me with my own post-card. The little Manual was my text for about 40,000 words — rather a useful document...." This copy offers an important glimpse at Twain's research and writing, as well as shedding further (humorous) light on his views on Christian Science (and on religion).
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