I do not know as I shall have opportunity to send this today, at any rate it will not reach you today if started, and you here see that I have broken my resolution not to prolong this beyond one sheet–

I want you to write me whether it is disagreeable for you to read such long notes without anything interesting in them, just tell me about how many pages, or lines you have patience to read from me, and I will conform hereafter if I think it reasonable, for when I commence writing to you I think, (and truly - you will say–) that I have nothing to write, but as I progress I find much not swritten; it is much like our conversations, seemingly interminable, and so I glide on, and when done it seems a simple, useless production, not worthe Corrected: worth the time spent in reading, by one occupied by intellectual pursuits— but it is proper that you should know me thoroughly, so that when we are marriedEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy and Daniel Patterson were married in June 1853., and you leave me to visit your friends, you may not look for either a Philosophic, or a Poetical letter from your husband, and after reading my unsavory production, cry from very vexation and disappointment, and say O! that I had only had sense enough to have married a man of genius, an intellectual, litterary man, who could write me so [?] Unclear or illegible mething readable that I would be proud to shew Corrected: show my friends or, at least not ashamed to, but my Dear you will never find me better in this re [?] Unclear or illegible spect than I have exhibited myself, I probably never wrote any better letters in my life than those I have to you, I would be happy to write to you in strains so original, and enchanting as would cause a thrill of joy to pervade your whole system and give the glow of youth and beauty to your cheeks when age, and ill health shall have robbed them— but Alas! that power was not inherent, and has never been engrafted on my Intellect and I am determined that you shall not deceive yourself in this respect, as I have heard you often urge a lack of literary taste, as an objection to your late husband– and now I want you to take all my letters, (you may have reserved from the general conflagration, mentioned at our last meeting) and examine them critically not omitingCorrected:omitting all any of the [?] Unclear or illegible  Bulls, or Bears, and see if you think such common placeCorrected:commonplace scribling Corrected: scribbling will satisfy you from your Husband—

Well I am now going to return to my the narativeCorrected:narrative, of my important mission to this place— I have taken two Impressions– and made two– the two taken were for two plate jobs one of twenty five dollarsEditorial Note: $25.00 in 1853 is the equivalent of $840.30 in 2020. the other fifteenEditorial Note: $15.00 in 1853 is the equivalent of $504.18 in 2020.— those made were, the first on a gentleman by extracting one Molar for him, the other was in a Lady – O don't start it she was a grandmother, with a husband living, or rather I guess she is a grandmother for she has a daughtr Corrected: daughter married—some time since, I extracted three teeth for her to be supplied with substitutes at some future time

P, M, I have just been consulted by a young man relative to preparing his mouth for four Incisors, and some filling which he needs, and probably will have done, and now my memorandum is up to theis time

Have you been to ConcordEditorial Note: Concord, New Hampshire? If so what kind of a visit did you have?

How is your health?