Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta Holmes Swasey, November 1842

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L02675

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Augusta Holmes Swasey

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November 1842 - archivist estimate

Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.

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Tuesday MorningAs Written:Morn

Dear Augusta

Haven't As Written: Havnt I waited a sufficient length of time for my semi-annual visitor? How formal this seems- I am ashamed of it! But I thought I must tell the truth besides being respectful, as I have not seen you for two days. I wish I could annihilate As Written: anihilate distance and run in, and out, as I have the privilege of doing with our whigEditorial Note: The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s. neighbors!!

Dear Augusta, is there a guilt, expected As Written: expectted company or any other thing to prevent me the pleasure As Written: pleasuer of seeing you tomorrow afternoon? I hope it may be convenient – at any rate, have I not written intelligibly- I feared when I sat down I should get to sleep, or make some egregious mistake so you would not understand me! Give much love to your sisterAs Written:sis. Abby- And may I not expect you tomorrow very early

Your Semper eademAs Written:Sempereadem

Mary–

Miss E. Augusta Holmes

[*]Archival Note: There are multiple illegible marks here.

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Tuesday MornExpanded:Morning

Dear Augusta

Havnt Corrected: Haven't I waited a sufficient length of time for my semi-annual visitor? How formal this seems- I am ashamed of it! But I thought I must tell the truth besides being respectful, as I have not seen you for two days. I wish I could anihilate Corrected: annihilate distance and run in, and out, as I have the privilege of doing with our whigEditorial Note: The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s. neighbors!!

Dear Augusta, is there a guilt, expectted Corrected: expected company or any other thing to prevent me the pleasuer Corrected: pleasure of seeing you tomorrow afternoon? I hope it may be convenient – at any rate, have I not written intelligibly- I feared when I sat down I should get to sleep, or make some egregious mistake so you would not understand me! Give much love to your sis.Expanded:sister Abby- And may I not expect you tomorrow very early

Your SempereademCorrected:Semper eadem

Mary–

Miss E. Augusta Holmes

[*]Archival Note: There are multiple illegible marks here.

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The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s. There are multiple illegible marks here.