Accession: L08903
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Daniel Patterson, March 1853
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Daniel Patterson 
Date: March 1853 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
Archival Note: The date of this letter is archivist estimate.
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I sit down to my desk to pen you a word after another sleepless night. You told me dear Dr., I must gird on strength and feel indifferent about the advice and opinions of friends. Upon reflection this I view would be wrong; besides I have a fixed feeling that to yield my religion to yours I could not, other things compared to this, are but a grain to the universe. Last night I conversed anew with my dear Father-

One thing I beg you to remember that we will be friends. O, Dr., won't As Written: wont you add one more petition As Written: petion to your prayer to remember me?- I need strength and grace for this hour- We will never meet again except as friends. I must not

Won't As Written: Wont you fulfill your promise to me to destroy that letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.

If my friends object to your fitting my future teeth- I will pay you for these I wear.

Please send me a word, and name the sum.

Farewell May God bless and protect you.
Mary -
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I sit down to my desk to pen you a word after another sleepless night. yYou told me dear Dr., I must gird on strength and feel indifferent about the advice and opinions of friends. Upon reflection this I view would be wrong; besides I have a fixed feeling that to yield my religion to yours I could not, other things compared to this, are but a grain to the universe. Last night I conversed anew with my dear Father-

One thing I beg you to remember that we will be friends. O, Dr., wont Corrected: won't you add one more petion Corrected: petition to your prayer to remember me?- I need strength and grace for this hour- We will never meet again except as friends. I must not

Wont Corrected: Won't you fulfill your promise to me to destroy that letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.

If my friends object to your fitting my future teeth- I will pay you for these I wear.

Please send me a word, and name the sum.

Farewell May God bless and protect you.
Mary -
 
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