Autumn 1970 Quarterly News

QUARTERLY NEWS MARY BAKER EDDY MUSEUM and Historic Sites VOL. 7, NO. 3 PUBLISHED BY LONGYEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY New Portraits An Association With the Past PORTRAITS of two widely known early WHEN PUBLICATION of the Quarterly seven years he has brought to it a spirit workers in the field of Christian Science News was begun in the Spring of 1964, of helpful cooperation which has more have recently been presented to Longyear it seemed natural for Longyear to turn than once reminded us of John Wilson, Historical Society. Both portraits were painted especially for Longyear and have been presented by the Associations of pupils of these workers. The likeness of Miss Elizabeth Earl Jones represents her as a young woman at about the time she was writing Mrs. Eddy that legal authori zation of Christian Science practice had been voted by the North Carolina Legis lature, as recorded in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 326 and 327. Miss Jones' portrait was painted by Miss Camille DuMond. THE PORTRAIT of Mr. Bicknell Young, painted by Linn Ball, brings into the collection a likeness of an early student who became a teacher in 1901 and a lecturer in 1903. He had the privilege of knowing Mrs. Eddy in the early years of his career as a Christian Scientist. The two portraits will be on view in the near future in the Mary Baker Eddy Museum. Announcement TO END the autumn season, the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses at Rumney and North Groton, New Hampshire, Amesbury and Stoughton, Massachusetts, were closed on October 31. The house at Swampscott remains open throughout the year. It may be visited on week-days from 10 to 3 from October 16 to May 14. to the University Press for advice - the owner of the University Press from 1879 For the rest of the year the house is open press which had for many years printed to 1896 and Mrs. Eddy's first printer from 10 to 5 week-days and 2 to 5 on Mrs. Eddy's writings. Mr. A. W. Pearson, at this Press. Sundays. Vice-President and General Manager of The University Press dates back to the University Press in 1964, came to our 1638 when a wealthy clergyman, Rev. Quarterly News Autumn 1970 aid, entering with enthusiasm into our Jose Glover, left England for America © Longyear Foundation 1970 Vol. 7, No. 3 new plans for Longyear's first regular with the intention of setting up an iron Subscription, $3.00 Annually publication. We offered him a small and industry and establishing a printing press. Sent without charge to Friends of Longyear troublesome job at the time, but for He brought with him as assistants the 105 more than a quarter of a century this press had printed the writings of Haw thorne, Emerson, Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Longfellow, Thoreau, and other luminaries of American literature in the UNIVERSITY PRESS nineteenth century, and John Wilson with -----.. Brattle House, Cam his high standards of workmanship in -......J bridge, where Mrs. Eddy brought her book printing was a worthy successor manuscript in 1881. to this inheritance. The third edition of Science and Health issued by the University Press for Mrs. Eddy was printed in a Hoe cylinder press room, the first established in this country. The type was set entirely by hand by a staff with great pride of workmanship. One thousand copies were printed for the first complete two-volume edition, and within two years two addi Stephen Daye family. Glover died on the this time, the press passed from the tional printings of 1000 copies each had high seas and later his widow married ownership of the Glover estate to Har been made. The edition bore for the first President Dunster of Harvard College. vard College, by act of the Massachusetts time the imprint on the cover of the Stephen Daye, who was an experienced Legislature, whence its name, University Christian Science seal, the Cross and the printer, and his son Matthew, set up the Press. Later it flourished for over a cen Crown, and it included the chapter, press under President Dunster in 1639 tury under the private ownership of and it became known as the Stephen individual printers. In 1896 it was re Daye Printing Press. In 1640 they printed organized into a company no longer under The Whole Booke of Psalmes, better the control of a single printer . Today the known as the "Bay Psalm Book." "Bay Psalm Book," 1640, and the Eliot The moving spirit of the press was Bible, 1663, are among the rarest and the son Matthew Daye, who died at the most valuable American incunabula in age of twenty-nine. The press then passed existence. under the management of Samuel Green. For a description of Mary Baker Eddy's He greatly expanded its facilities and long and satisfactory relationship with secured the help of Marmaduke Johnson, the University Press, we can do no better a master- printer of London, who was than refer our readers to William Dana largely responsible for the printing of Orcutt'sMary Baker Eddy and Her Books. Rev. John Eliot's Indian Bible. An Indian Not only does this inspiring volume re College established at Harvard greatly count the gradual emerging of Science encouraged the printing of the Indian and Health in its fi nal printed form in Bible which was issued in 1663. About 1911 but it provides a warm appreciation of Mrs. Eddy's association with her print ers, not found elsewhere. Mrs. Eddy turned to the University Press in 1880 in regard to the publication of her third edition of Science and Health. John Wilson, who was a master-printer as well as owner of the Press, was born JOHN WILSON, master-printer and owner of in Manchester, England, of a Scottish the University Press, 1879-1896. father and English mother. His father began his career as a printer in Kilmar "Recapitulation," a revision of Mrs. Ed nock, Scotland, and in 1786 brought out dy's early Science of Man, to be used the Kilmarnock Edition of the poems of for primary teaching of Christian Science. Robert Burns, a close friend of his. With Mr. Wilson insisted on perfect proof a venturesome heart, he came to America reading and maintained that a proof and started a press in Boston. His young reader must be a scholar, accurately son, John, was apprenticed to him and informed on cultural and practical mat in time inherited the business which had ters, a kind of "Renaissance" man. Before moved to Cambridge in 1865. Thus it the printing of the sixteenth edition was CYLINDER PRESS with William Dana Orcutt, young assistant, in center background, fourth was that in 1879 John bought the Uni undertaken, Mr. Wilson suggested to Mrs. from left. versity Press, then in its 236th year. For Eddy that she enlist the help of Rev. 106 James Henry Wiggin, one of his proof Dr. John M. Tutt, C.S.B. readers, to lift from her the burden of literary details. He was engaged by her as Eddy to have received Christian Science literary advisor. She instructed him, how from this source as the magazine article ever, never to change her meaning, only stated. to bring it out. In addition to successive On his arrival in Boston he went to editions of the textbook, the University see Alfred Farlow, first Committee on Press printed fo r Mrs. Eddy between Publication for The Mother Church, and 1887 and 1895 seven shorter writings, told him the story. Mr. Farlow laid it including the Church Manual and Christ before Mrs. Eddy who asked that Dr. Tutt and Christmas. return to Kansas City and secure an In 1892 John Wilson added to his affidavit covering the facts from Mrs. permanent staff a promising young Har Clark, the former neighbor, who was then vard graduate, who had served him as living in Kansas City. (See Historical proof-reader when a Harvard student. The Sketches by Clifford P. Smith, p. 50) duty of consulting Mrs. Eddy began to Mrs. Eddy sent him a note of thanks and fall upon this new man. William Dana Mr. Farlow offered to arrange a brief Orcutt had come first to the University visit for him with Mrs. Eddy, but Dr. Press with the full intention of working Tutt, with a sense of consideration which for only a brief time. His ambition was characterized him throughout his life, to become a writer (which he was later) said, "I did not feel I could take advantage but both Mrs. Eddy and Mr. Wilson saw DR. JOHN M. TUTT Dwight Roberts of her because of the service I had in him a gifted prospect for great service rendered." in the field of book printing. Except for Later he wrote, "I never met Mrs. EARLY IN HIS EXPERIENCE as a her generous interest and wise counsel, Eddy, but I did see her in her carriage Christian Scientist Dr. John M. Tutt was Mr. Orcutt once said of Mrs. Eddy, "I on the street in Concord. I have never lost able to render a service to Mrs. Eddy should never have remained in the profes the surge of spiritual power and dedica when her lawyers were gathering data sion of making or designing books." After tion I felt as she passed. I knew then and for the pending Next Friends suit. It was Mr. Wilson resigned from the University I know now, that virtue had gone out of late in 1906. Dr. Tutt had just arrived Press following its reorganization in 1896, her and that I had touched the hem of in Boston where he had been sent by his Mr.

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