Accession: 142.23.002
Editorial Title: Alice M. Sibley to Mary Baker Eddy, November 1, 1880
Author: Alice M. Sibley 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: November 1, 1880
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Alice M. Sibley on lined paper from Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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My Dear Friend.

Is it not wonderful how, at the moment when we are most needy and desirous, good always comes in some manner. As I was thinking last night it seemed absolutely twice, if not thrice the actual time since I have seen you in body. How I did wish you could have been with me last evening and heard the grand & noble lecture on Immortality by Mrs. Livermore. It seemed to lift me from this mortal & erring plain to a more harmonious realm, where naught As Written: nought of discord could prevail. But continually my thought reverted to you and I longed to share the pleasure with you as I do all my joys, for I feel that you are interested in them. I passed an enjoyable afternoon yesterday at CharlestownEditorial Note: Charlestown is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts., but one element was wanting which is supplied only by one: and not for myself alone do I speak, but there were strangers, who deeply regretted the absence of Mrs. Eddy, as did all. I am sorry you are still so unsettled, though I am not surprised for the time is not yet when error will yield the contest and submit. How I wish I had a dear little home, in addition to a heart into which you could creep, for I feel I should be as successful in enticing you into the former as I flatter myself I have in the latter. Certainly you can never eradicate yourself from the one, despite the hard labors of any to accomplish such a cruelty. My only regret is that I cannot see you oftener in person, for in spite of the beautiful instruction I have received, I am material enough to cling to that, though not as much as formerly. Oh! how little do I profit by these kind instructions. I cannot now wonder that you are indeed weary of casting pearls before swine, when I look at my own case and judge accordingly, which perhaps is not right. But I do hope I shall see you soon, (for I am actually growing thin?) though it is more than kind of you to write to me, when you have so many pressing duties. Oh! that I could assist my friend, she that has led me carefully and correctly, "out of darkness into light." And I picture you every night, plodding at your desk & work, and no little tireless feet to run for this and that, which is necessary to complete the structure. Thanking you again & again for your good kind instruction, which I sincerely hope to profit by, & trusting that if at any time it is in my power to assist you, you will allow me the privilege, I remain for always your dear child.

P. S. Please accept Mother's regards and a kiss from alice.

I have improved so fast in my voice that I am an alto soloist at school. Could you wish for more.?

Love from

Alice.

142.23.002
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Dear Friend.

Is it not wonderful how, at the moment when we are most needy and desirous, good always comes in some manner. As I was thinking last night it seemed absolutely twice, if not thrice the actual time since I have seen you in body. How I did wish you could have been with me last evening and heard the grand & noble lecture on Immortality by Mrs. Livermore. It seemed to lift me from this mortal & erring plain to a more harmonious realm, where nought Corrected: naught of discord could prevail. But continually my thought reverted to you and I longed to share the pleasure with you as I do all my joys, for I feel that you are interested in them. I passed an enjoyable afternoon yesterday at CharlestownEditorial Note: Charlestown is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts., but one element was wanting which is supplied only by one: and not for myself alone do I speak, but there were strangers, who deeply regretted the absence of Mrs. Eddy, as did all. I am sorry you are still so unsettled, though I am not surprised for the time is not yet when error will yield the contest and submit. How I wish I had a dear little home, in addition to a heart into which you could creep, for I feel I should be as successful in enticing you into the former as I flatter myself I have in the latter. Certainly you can never eradicate yourself from the one, despite the hard labors of any to accomplish such a cruelty. My only regret is that I cannot see you oftener in person, for in spite of the beautiful instruction I have received, I am material enough to cling to that, though not as much as formerly. Oh! how little do I profit by these kind instructions. I cannot now wonder that you are indeed weary of casting pearls before swine, when I look at my own case and judge accordingly, whic [?] Unclear or illegible h perhaps is not right. But I do hope I shall see you soon, (for I am actually growing thin?) though it is more than kind of you to write to me, when you have so many pressing duties. Oh! that I could assist my friend, she that has led me carefully and correctly, "out of darkness into light." And I picture you every night, plodding at your desk & work, and no little tireless feet to run for this and that, which is necessary to complete the structure. Thanking you again & again for your good kind instruction, which I sincerely hope to profit by, & trusting that if at any time it is in my power to assist you, you will allow me the privilege, I remain for always your dear child.

P. S. Please accept Mother's regards and a kiss from alice.

I have improved so fast in my voice that I am a [?] Unclear or illegible n alto soloist at school. Could you wish for more.?

Love from

Alice.

 
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Roxbury, Massachusetts Charlestown is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.