Recently, a Christian Scientist in Australia wrote a letter to a special friend of her father's—a medical doctor, who had authored a book that she felt fosters a misconception about Christian Science. The following excerpts from that letter are printed with the writer's permission.
Dear Dr. Yellowlees,
My father, Surgeon Capt. Hugh Cleave, OBE, CBE, QHS, has sent me a copy of your book A Doctor in the Wilderness for Christmas. My father expresses his friendship with you often to me and I value your kindness to him. I have read [your book] with great care. I found it very interesting indeed and am grateful for your appreciation of and many references to my Uncle Peter Cleave.Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and recipient of the Harben Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene In fact I have here my uncle's copy of his book The Saccharine Disease which he sent to me addressed thus: "To Hilary, with the admiration and the love of the author, her Uncle Peter, Sept. 1976," in the well-known spidery handwriting you mention in your book! Your ideas of natural diet and living, of course, are already well known to me as I was brought up immersed in Uncle Peter's ideas on high fibre diet and bran.
