"About the year 1862 my health was failing rapidly; and I employed a distinguished mesmerist, Mr. P. P. Quimby, whose method of treatment was by manipulation and water. He helped me temporarily, but I returned home still an invalid. . . .
"I re-arranged a few of his short essays, and gave him also some of my own writings, which remained among his papers, and have been spoken of, by persons unfamiliar with the facts, as his own. Mr. Quimby's son has stated, over his own signature, that he has in his possession all his father's written utterances; and I have offered to pay for their publication; but he declines to publish them, for their publication would silence the insinuation that Mr. Quimby originated my system of healing."
From "Historical Sketch of Mind-Healing," 1888, p. 6, by Mary Baker G. Eddy.
