Painting a poem: Mary Baker Eddy and James F. Gilman illustrate Christ and Christmas (Twentieth-century biographers series)

Dust jacket notes: "This book is the story of an inspired collaboration. In 1893 Mary Baker Eddy commissioned a landscape and portrait painter, James F. Gilman, to create the pictures for her poem, 'Christ and Christmas.' For the better part of a year Gilman worked under her direction to illuminate the poem's ideas and ideals. This account is told largely in their own words, taken exclusively from original handwritten letters, notes, and reminiscences. Careful analysis was made of records, letters, diaries, and other corroborative evidence in the archives of the Church History Department of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Developed from primary source material not fully available elsewhere, Painting a Poem is the authoritative account of an extraordinary spiritual and artistic endeavor - the illustrating of 'Christ and Christmas.'"