Accession: L03922
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Sarah O. Bagley, June 10, 1871
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Sarah O. Bagley 
Date: June 10, 1871 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper from Lynn, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: The date of this letter is an archivist estimate. The probable year of writing is 1871, based on an analysis of the content and comparison with dated letters of this period. The last line refers to Bagley sending an amount to Eddy, who mailed her a receipt about two weeks later (see L08312).
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Dear Sarah,

Yours of latest dateEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was received duly.

You speak of yourself as doing well – I think – although I have lost the letter and cannot recall all of its contents. I am ever rejoiced at the success of my pupils

You named being alone and lonely in your practice. Now I will name a pupil of mine who is a widow, she studied with me three weeks, had never heard the subject spoken of before she came here sick, and when my class was dismissed she went away well and commenced practice, has never consulted me in a single instance about her patients and has done wonderful cures. She was just as willing a learner as a child, accepted my instructions in every instance and carried out my directions to the letter. I never had a more confiding, openheartedAs Written:open hearted simple childlikeAs Written:child like nature, and therefore, one that I could mold As Written: mould more easily, hence her success; she loves me and leans on me in all confidence that I am right and able to teach her wisdom in all things Now Sarah she is not feeling alone although I never gave her one third of the instruction in the Science of Man that I have you, so you must take courage and know that what has been done can be done. I have been so busy I have not has a sufficient opportunity to write you before in regard to our yearly settlement, if you will remit me the amount due I will receipt to you for one year.

Yours Truly
MMBG
L03922
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Sarah,

Yours of latest dateEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was received duly.

You speak of yourself as doing well – I think – although I have lost the letter and cannot recall all of its contents. I am ever rejoiced at the success of my pupils

You named being alone and lonely in your practice. Now I will name a pupil of mine who is a widow, she studied with me three weeks, had never heard the subject spoken of before she came here sick, and when my class was dismissed she [?] Unclear or illegible  went away well and commenced practice, has never [?] Unclear or illegible  consulted me in a single instance about her patients and has done wonderful cures. She was just as willing a learner as a child, accepted my instructions in every instance and carried out my directions to the letter. I never had a more confiding, open heartedCorrected:openhearted simple child likeCorrected:childlike nature, and therefore, one that I could mould Corrected: mold more easily, hence her success; she loves me and leans on me in all confidence that I am right and able to teach her wisdom in all things Now Sarah she is not feeling l alone although I never gave her one third of the instruction in the Science of Man that I have you, so you must take courage and know that what has been done can be done. I have been so busy I have not has a sufficient opportunity to write you before in regard to our yearly settlement, if you will remit me the amount due I will receipt to you for one year.

Yours Truly
MMBG
 
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Lynn, Massachusetts This letter is not extant.