The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-20
THE QU1mBY MANUSCRIPTS.
slbyI Wilbur FiRds a Point in sirs
Eddy's Favor.

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In the April number of Human Life,
sibyl Wilbur, who IS writing serial
story OF Mrs. Eddys life, tells Of her in
terview with the son Of P. P. Quimby'
her request TO see the much-discussed
manuscripts, his refusal 70 show them
and her conclusion that Ss.ezs manuscripts
are a tradition only, and not a fact,
The April installment says:
The Qulnby tradition. OF. more exsctls, The
Qamby manuscripts tradition. reminds one q eei-
tain Mrs Auis. who figures in fiction. she was
a beautiful myth while she lasted and very eiee
tive bat she CEASED to b. Hhen Ssiry Camp bored
aud nate listener declared az last her absolute con
getion that there no Airs- Auis- TIE picture
q 4 lads brought forward al this juncture might
have sil b0istered up the myth, but TIE so-etiisa
facsimile of a part Of manuscript D. fhineas J.
Quimby, printed 10 recent magazine cos "l'
sustain the Quimhy manuscript tradition, l-e'i'ae
if IS not the photographs Of piece u writing p1
Phlneas p ouimby and the writers q the maea-
zne article never saw a Quinby manuscript. Tbs
assertion the writer has from tHe bps 81 me nan
Who claims 70 guard and own the mueh-ii7cussea
! papers
phone from Boston 20 shcW the writer me ouma1
manuscripts.
Miss Wilbur then tells how Dir. Quinn
by produced several copybooks. neatly
written. not colored by age, with no eras-
/ ures or tnterilneations.
/ ia this gouT fathers handwriting asked Dir
QuimhY.
1T Is nol. That is my mothers believe, and
here is one IN the handwriting Of one Of the Mise
Ware
@Are none Of these in your fathers haHdgTiting'
/ We they are all coIies Of copies
But SIR Quinbs what I came % Belfast iol
/ You
/ % let me see them and / have a particular Ieas'i
/ Tor wishing 70 do 50.
These are the only manuscripts ! have slosf
I 70 any one and the cnly ones VII shoH' s4.-
Sir euimh5 Tgcing The floor
/ But there has recently been printed '.aesuailes
q your fathers manuscripts ever the date ls5, il
which appears the words Christian science.
I particularly Wish 20 zee that manuscript Il soi
/ sllosed Other magazine writers to see II, Why VII
/ sou not let me-:
Il am showing you exactly ehat showed othe
! naeazine writers. There Is the very page that VA
photographed.
and b whose writing Is thiss"
MS mothers I believe, or possibly one q Ia
I Misses War
MAY ! ask If this is the copy Of soaaethiri
/ qour father wrote eE conversation with hlu
written down here, o. did he dictate II
! Sir Ouiuhy begame strangely excited tie Ealkcs
/ up and down the room, flushing with anger ana
I speaking emphaiically.
No they are not conversations nor dictatioa' on
copies OF things ms father wr0te he used 70 srt'
4 at odd moments On Soaps Of TaIsr whatever cams
l INTO hs mind.
And You have tAOss papers novi'
I Yes, ! have.
.wnl SOU let me see a few pages Of themi''
''No, ] sou {. Nobody has seen then, and %
one shan.
When George A Qumby first saw Mrs. Eddy
thea Mrs. Patterson. he a boy Of nineteen, no
I interested in philosophy religion. bat attacae'
70 his father for the sole purpsss q looking ate
his blsiness
afr. ou.niby.s first alarm came as lad o
/ nineteen who was guarding his fathers business
[ He did lot want 10 see him superseded by a woman
Later Julius A. Dresser and Annelta 6ertfid
{ Bressar hy the success u Science and Health, Dc
cided TO write a book on mental science EANaf
I j. AreHs an early student q Mrs Eddyr had tit
60 issue similar book but had been en)olnel
The history Of this case VIII be- given later. IN
! Drsssess and Arens stirred up SIR Qunh3- Late
came lawyer who had defended rebelious sig
dent OF Mrs Eddys This lawyer had pamphis
whica be wanted 20 bolster ap VITA tAe Sui--l
wfitines Stili later, Dr. Alinot j. SaFaer. "h
had begun 20 interest himself ~ matters u psl
chicsl research, appealed % Qumb7 TO let AN
use tie manuscripts. And IN succeeding episode
this man has been appealed to again and again I
make himself a party % an attack on the aataQ
I'D .-seienee and Health" u give color TO "a
statements in penny dreadfuis CT eiabofatey seriou
literary undertaking.
II there is suy truth in mental suggestion, ]
hyunotisn or the science OF psychology. shat sol
der that George A. Quimby has cune to beiieS
that BEHIND the iron doors of bis safe lies
treasure IN some yelloHed scraps Of paper. upo
which his father wrote his random thoughts
Afrs. Eddy's agreement TO publish these papers
her own expense and give him the profits did nd
bring them forth; if the sppeSl Of 30 eminent
man as Or Savage. IN the name Of justice an
the ,rorlas record Of historic Thought did not brn
them forth: at this moment when he Is IN
focus or concentrated Vabiic attention as the al
hitrator IN sense. Of a serious intellectual IToi
lem in the history Of a modern religious movement
De- viii mot produce eFidence worthy Of the nam,
rhat must be thought Of ms contentious or hl
/ claims III his fathers name