Accession: L07998
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Jessie C. H. Gorham, January 6, 1897
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Jessie C. H. Gorham 
Annotator: Jessie C. H. Gorham 
Date: January 6, 1897 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Jessie C. H. Gorham.
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CONCORD, N. H., Jan. 6
Darling Jessie

Never mind how you put up the proofs, just roll them together; it saves time. I am glad to get clean* [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham*Hand press had left "mountingAs Written:moutning frames" till a needed part came.[*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy proofs. Have changed the titleAs Written:tittle. This was the one that I first copyrighted, and have put it in place of Repaid PagesEditorial Note: Repaid Pages was Eddy's original choice for a title for Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896.. I like it better. What think you?

Lovingly
Mother

Be careful to preserve in page proofs just the order of topics in the Contents.

Mr. Barta offered to print for me 4 pagesAs Written:pp per day, but I had the Linotype for even more promise of speed. And today As Written: to-day after three weeks have only 30 page proofs of my book. Oh, I am sadly disappointed.

Mother

⇉ Handshift:Jessie C. H. GorhamBarta in full swing; we with bare linotype in a room, minus operator, printer, and all else of paraphernalia – even leads – to start with; then, just as I felt we were really started, obvious improvement demanded later chapters thrown in ahead of chapters already done and partly done, which made proof appear to be lacking, when that on hand simply had to go later, when new chapters were finished. See letter Jan 3, '97Editorial Note: See L07996..
J. C. H. Gorham.
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CONCORD, N. H., Jan. 6
Darling Jessie

Never mind how you put up the proofs, just roll them together; it saves time. I am glad to get clean* [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Jessie C. H. Gorham*Hand press had left "moutningCorrected:mounting frames" till a needed part came.[*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy proofs. Have changed the tittleCorrected:title. This was the one that I first copyrighted, and have put it in place of Repaid PagesEditorial Note: Repaid Pages was Eddy's original choice for a title for Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896.. I like it better. What think you?

Lovingly
Mother

Be careful to preserve in page proofs just the order of topics in the Contents.

Mr. Barta offered to print for me 4 ppExpanded:pages per day, but I had the Linotype for even more promise of speed. And to-day Corrected: today after three weeks have only 30 page proofs of my book. Oh, I am sadly disappointed.

Mother

⇉ Handshift:Jessie C. H. GorhamBarta in full swing; we with bare linotype in a room, minus operator, printer, and all else of paraphernalia – even leads – to start with; then, just as I felt we were really started, obvious improvement demanded later chapters thrown in ahead of chapters already done and partly done, which made proof appear to be lacking, when that on hand simply had to go later, when new chapters were finished. See letter Jan 3, '97Editorial Note: See L07996..
J. C. H. Gorham.
 
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The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. End floating text. Repaid Pages was Eddy's original choice for a title for Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896. See L07996.