Accession: L07800
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Sarah O. Bagley, September 14, 1868
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Sarah O. Bagley 
Date: September 14, 1868 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper from Stoughton, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: Many extraneous marks are found throughout this letter, caused by ink that has bled through the page.
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My dear Sarah,

Yours of the 13th instEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is just received. I have not heard from you or Richard until this hour. Have just dispatched a letter to the Post MasterAs Written:P. M. at ManchesterEditorial Note: Manchester, New Hampshire to forward those letters you refer to.

Your advice about AmesburyEditorial Note: Amesbury, Massachusetts was too late for I had settled upon my course before. TheyEditorial Note: Alanson C. Wentworth and Sally T. Wentworth are very anxious to have me remain with them here which I had promised to do until the middle of Oct. I was sorry My dear one, that you superscribed my letter as you did for I am fixed upon my course, which is, not to be changing names. I am not such a person, and now that the Demon of Amesbury Ferry caused me to take my former nameEditorial Note: Glover I shall retain it until it is mine legally. Besides I can better explain my position before the world to be divorced for adultery As Written: adultry from my husband, this in the sight of God and man is a sufficient cause for me to return to my widowhoodAs Written:widow hood and not to occupy the anomalous position of a married woman without a husband. Also, I cannot do business unless I do while I have a husband I cannot collect a bill due me if it is refused.

With kind remembrances to Richard I am as Ever in Love and truth Yours
M. M. Glover

I love you, O so much, and appreciate all your advice but I shall return to AmesburyAs Written:Ames. if the cottage is obtained.

P. S. I am so far from Post OfficeAs Written:P. O. I cannot send promptly therefore do not wait for my answers

God is with me and I can wait on Him- I see more clearly than ever before I am to be lifted up higher As Written: higer for this

Mary

Remembrances to Moses & your Mother

L07800
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Sarah,

Yours of the 13th instEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is just received. I have not heard from you or Richard until this hour. Have just dispatched a letter to the P. M.Expanded:Post Master at ManchesterEditorial Note: Manchester, New Hampshire to forward those letters you refer to.

Your advice about AmesburyEditorial Note: Amesbury, Massachusetts was too late for I had settled upon my course before. TheyEditorial Note: Alanson C. Wentworth and Sally T. Wentworth are very anxious to have me re [?] Unclear or illegible main with them here which I ha [?] Unclear or illegible d promised to do until the middle of Oct. I was sorry My dear one, that you superscribed my letter as you did for I am fixed upon my course, which is, not to be changing names. I am not such a person, and now that the Demon of Amesbury Ferry caused me to take my former nameEditorial Note: Glover I shall retain it until it is mine legally. Besides I can better explain my position before the world to be divorced for adultry Corrected: adultery from my husband, this in the sight of God and man is a sufficient cause for me to return to my widow hoodCorrected:widowhood and not to occupy the anomalous position of a married woman without a husband. Also, I cannot [?] Unclear or illegible  do business unless I do while I have a husband I cannot [?] Unclear or illegible  collect a bill due me if it is refused.

With kind remembrances to Richard I am as Ever in Love and truth Yours
M. M. Glover

I love you, O so much, and appreciate all your advice but I shall return to Ames.Expanded:Amesbury if the cottage is obtained.

P. S. I am so far from P. O.Expanded:Post Office I cannot send promptly therefore do not wait for my answers

God is with me and I can wait on Him- I see more clearly than ever before I am to be lifted up higer Corrected: higher for this

Mary

Remembrances to Moses & your Mother

 
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Stoughton, Massachusetts This letter is not extant. Manchester, New Hampshire Amesbury, Massachusetts Alanson C. Wentworth and Sally T. Wentworth Glover