Accession: L08309
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Sarah O. Bagley, July 1868
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Sarah O. Bagley 
Date: July 1868 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy in pencil on lined paper from Manchester, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: The date of this letter is an archivist estimate.
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ManchesterEditorial Note: Manchester, New Hampshire Sat. Eve
My very dear Sister,

I receivedAs Written:receved your two lettersEditorial Note: These letters are not extant. and cannot sufficiently thank you for them and for what you have done for "the stranger once within thy gates"Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Enclosed please find a slight acknowledgement $1,00–Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1868 is the equivalent of $18.23 in 2020. O, how meager! You need not trouble yourself any farther for I have concluded not to go I want to be near you but the air is infectious with that awful family for miles around them it would not do for me. Do you can you believe me when I tell you that Mrs. Webster had written to Mrs Gale before I came here and even when she was claiming to love me in a way to prejudice her mind against me trying to make her believe I had no interest in her but to get her money! this I had from Mrs Gale's own lips May heaven As Written: heven bless my darlingAs Written:daling Sarah and her Mother

Ever the same
Mary

Dear S., please ascertain about the Editor of BannerEditorial Note: The Banner of Light was an American spiritualist periodical, published between 1857 and 1907. and Mrs W.s effort to injure me there and let me know

Those pictures I gave to the stove I pray you do the same

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ManchesterEditorial Note: Manchester, New Hampshire Sat. Eve
My very dear Sister,

I recevedCorrected:received your two lettersEditorial Note: These letters are not extant. and cannot sufficiently thank you for them and for what you have done for "the stranger once within thy gates"Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Enclosed please find a slight acknowledgement $1,00–Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1868 is the equivalent of $18.23 in 2020. O, how meagreer! You need not trouble yourself any farther for I have concluded not to go I want to be near you but the air is infectious with that awful family for miles around them it would not do for me. Do you can you believe me when I tell you that Mrs. Webster had written to Mrs Gale before I came here and even when she was claiming to love me in a way to prejudice her mind against me trying to make her believe I had no interest in her but to get her money! this I had from Mrs Gale's own lips May heven Corrected: heaven bless my dalingCorrected:darling Sarah and her Mother

Ever the same
Mary

Dear S., please ascertain about the Editor of BannerEditorial Note: The Banner of Light was an American spiritualist periodical, published between 1857 and 1907. and Mrs W.s effort to injure me there and let me know

Those pictures I gave to the stove I pray you do the same

 
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Manchester, New Hampshire These letters are not extant. $1.00 in 1868 is the equivalent of $18.23 in 2020. The Banner of Light was an American spiritualist periodical, published between 1857 and 1907.