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Rh Historical Facts,” in which the usual claims are made without any examination of the true history.

1907. Miss Georgine Milmine, after painstaking research, publishes in McClure's Magazine accurate life of Mrs. Eddy, which appears in book form as “The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy,” New York, Doubleday Page and Co., 1909. Miss Milmine carefully traces history of Quimby's Ms., “Questions and Answers,” showing how it has been modified by Mrs. Eddy in her “Science of Man,” and “Science and Health.”

1907. Miss Sybil Wilbur, writer, undertakes to prepare an offsetting “Life” without inquiring into the truth of the “facts” put at her disposal. The result is seen in Human Life, Boston, April, 1907, which contains a sensational report of an interview with George Quimby, trying to discredit him and doubting the authenticity of the Quimby Mss. These statements somewhat modified in “Life of Mary Baker Eddy,” New York, The Concord Pub. Co., 1908.

1907. The controversy is taken up by various clergymen, including Lyman P. Powell, “Christian Science, the Faith and its Founder,” New York, Putman's Sons, 1907, and James H. Snowden, “The Truth about Christian Science,” Philadelphia, The Westminister Press, 1920, in which the facts are impartially stated.

1921. The publication of “The Quimby Manuscripts” and a review in the Springfield Republican called forth a letter from Clifford P. Smith, which appeared in the Springfield Republican of September, 29, 1921.

After the publication of portions of the Quimby Ms., with facsimiles and the deadly parallel, in the New York Times, July 10, 1904, conclusively establishing the original source, Miss Milmine, who had thoroughly investigated the subject, wrote to George Quimby, Oct. 27, 1905, as follows:

“It is quite true that she (Mrs. Eddy) did use your father's Ms. entitled ‘Questions and Answers’ to teach from in the beginning. In fact, she used nothing else for many years, and hired a student to make copies of it for the use of each pupil. I have photographs of one of these copies, and have seen several of them belonging to early pupils who have kept them and who showed them to me. With the change of a word here and there, it is exactly your father's Ms. This manuscript of your father's was used largely to form a chapter called ‘Recapitulation’ in ‘Science and Health’ in later years; but with each new edition it was revised until the present chapter of that title is a long way off