Eddy

July 1, 09Expanded:1909

Childhood.

When I was a child it was easier for me to write in poetry than in prose. When I first went to school I would write my compositions in poetry. One of the teachers went to mother and said: "Do you know Mary is a born poet.?" Mother said, No. but she is always making rhymes!

One day when I was three years old we had a visitor who took me on her knee and asked my age. I was silent for a moment & Mother said. Mary you know your name and give it to the lady. You know it is Mary Morse Baker

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I was named from Mrs Giddings Morse, whose husband keep a famous tavern and was the richest man in town. Aunt Gid we called her.

So when lady asked my name. I said, my name "is Molly Molly Baily."

I thought once that my mission was to write poetry but my life has had more prose than poetry to it."

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