The Quimby Manuscripts: Showing the Discovery of Spiritual Healing and the
Origin of Christian Science, Edited by Horatio W. Dresser

Published: 2nd Edition, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1921

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                          THE QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS

                Showing the Discovery of Spiritual Healing
                   and the Origin of Christian Science
                                Edited by

                            Horatio W. Dresser

                    Author of "The Power of Silence,"
              "A History of the New Thought Movement," etc.


                          Thomas Y. Crowell Co.,
                                New York.
                                  1921




CONTENTS:

PREFACE
CHAPTER 1. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
CHAPTER 2. HISTORY OF THE MANUSCRIPTS
CHAPTER 3. QUIMBY'S RESTORATION TO HEALTH
CHAPTER 4. THE MESMERIC PERIOD
CHAPTER 5. THE PRINCIPLES DISCOVERED
CHAPTER 6. THE INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
CHAPTER 7. EARLY WRITINGS
CHAPTER 8. CONTEMPORARY TESTIMONY
CHAPTER 9. LETTERS FROM PATIENTS
CHAPTER 10. LETTERS TO PATIENTS
CHAPTER 11. LETTERS TO PATIENTS AND ENQUIRERS
CHAPTER 12. MRS. EDDY'S LETTERS
CHAPTER 13. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CHAPTER 14. CHRIST OR SCIENCE
CHAPTER 15. THE WORLD OF THE SENSES
CHAPTER 16. DISEASE AND HEALING
CHAPTER 17. GOD AND MAN
CHAPTER 18. RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 19. SCIENCE, LIFE, DEATH

EDITOR'S SUMMARY
  APPENDIX
    LIST OF ARTICLES BY DR. P. P. QUIMBY
    THE QUIMBY-EDDY CONTROVERSY



PREFACE

For many years a mass of documents of interest to Christian Scientists and
to their critics as well, has been withheld from publication, although
earnestly sought. These documents were written by Dr. P. P. Quimby, of
Portland, Maine, and contain his views regarding mental and spiritual
healing. They became familiar to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy when she visited Dr.
Quimby as a patient, before the days of Christian Science, and it has been
charged by her critics that many of the ideas later promulgated in
Christian Science teachings were born of the Quimby's theories.

In order to set this controversy at rest, many attempts have been made to
gain access to the Quimby manuscripts, but heretofore without success
except in piecemeal or disjointed form. The present editor, however, has
been fortunate in securing from Mrs. George A. Quimby, owner of the
manuscripts, permission to print the documents in full. Many of them now
sec the light of the printed page for the first time. Others give a full
and authentic version of material from which only short extracts have
previously appeared.

This book is not controversial, but documentary. The editor's point of
view is that of the expositor, never critical save as the author of the
manuscripts might have criticized his own work. All subject-matter in
brackets is by the editor, also all footnotes. Italics and quotation-marks
have been introduced to a slight extent. Scriptural quotations have not
been corrected, because Dr. Quimby was in the habit of para- phrasing in
order to show how he interpreted the Bible. Some of the articles have been
condensed to avoid repetition but no material changes have been made. The
terms Science, Truth, Wisdom, have been capitalized throughout in
conformity with the usage in some of the articles in which these words are
synonyms for Christ, or God. The same is true of the general terms for
Quimby's theory, the Science of Health, the Science of Life and Happiness.
The term Christian Science is used a with reference to the growth of the
original teaching of Jesus.

The book is presented without apology or animus, and with the earnest
belief that it will throw a flood of light upon a much-discussed subject.