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Illuminated text study for "Evening Affirmation," a poem by Peter Henniker-Heaton, published in The Christian Science Journal (September 1950)
Illuminated text study for "Evening Affirmation," a poem by Peter Henniker-Heaton, published in The Christian Science Journal (September 1950)

Illuminated text study for "Evening Affirmation," a poem by Peter Henniker-Heaton, published in The Christian Science Journal (September 1950)

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Object Details

Title:
Illuminated text study for "Evening Affirmation," a poem by Peter Henniker-Heaton, published in The Christian Science Journal (September 1950)
Date:
c. 1950
Artist:
Medium:
Black ink on paper with guidelines in graphite and orange pencil
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (folded)
Classification
Periodicals
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[verso in graphite]: Prayer by / Peter J. Heniker- / Heaton / poet / illmntd. by / V.O.While working in the British Home Civil Service in London shortly before World War II, Peter Henniker-Heaton was diagnosed with a rare leg paralysis that left him unable to stand or walk. During his tenth year of paralysis, Henniker-Heaton, a Sunday school teacher and part-time poet, read Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and eventually regained use of his legs. He credited his recovery to prayer.

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