Accession: L08904
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Daniel Patterson, January 1853
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Daniel Patterson 
Date: January 1853 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
Archival Note: The date of this letter is an archivist estimate.
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Oh! Dear me! What a trial I have met, broken one of my teeth this very moment (9. o'clock Friday Eve) Don’t scold I feel bad as I can endure now; my cheeks are burning — my hand trembles and I stand the image of despair!! running along this pen mechanically I can only trace – trials are never single now I must go to your Office —

But— but— but— they never were disposed right in their constitution, always ugly! Shall not the clay say unto the potter why didst thou form me thus?Isa 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isa 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? The first Mrs. Pilsbury said to me when she returned "what hateful teeth, Mary." Then I dropped them, and she screamed! Oh what shall I do dear Dr. Daniel, when I am without them my mouth is so uncomely I cry when I should laugh, and it troubles me so to talk I have to put them in when I write or my pen would refuse utterance

Now my good Dentist, will not you please fix them once more with a bicuspid and let me get them Tomorrow As Written: Tommorrow to keep th sabbath holyEx 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. . (but I did not mean this) If tis necessary for me to go to your shop please let me know it

Bon Soir
In haste
MMG.

Sat. MorningAs Written:Morn.

I open this letter to add – I have just put in my teeth and like their fit better than usual. Now they do not widen the upper lip so unnaturally. I think if you will make this minus tooth a little (less prominent 'twill feel and look all the better

Pardon gratuitous advice Yours in

Toothless Trouble

Mary

L08904
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Oh! Dear me! What a trial I have met, broken one of my teeth this very momen [?] Unclear or illegible t (9. o'clock Friday Eve) Don’t scold I feel bad as I can endure now; my cheeks are burning — my hand trembles and I stand the image of despair!! running along this pen mechanically I can only trace – trials are never single now I must go to your Office —

But— but— but— they never were disposed right in their constitution, always ugly! Shall not the clay say unto the potter why didst thou form me thus?Isa 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isa 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? The first Mrs. Pilsbury said to me when she returned "what hateful teeth, Mary." Then I dropped them, and she scream [?] Unclear or illegible ed! Oh what shall I do dear Dr. Daniel, when I am without them my mouth is so uncomely I cry when I should laugh, and it troubles me so to talk I have to put them in when I write or my pen would refuse utteranc [?] Unclear or illegible e

Now my good Dentist, will not you please fix them once more with a bicuspid and let me get them Tommorrow Corrected: Tomorrow to keep th sabbath holyEx 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. . (but I did not mean this) If tis necessary for me to go to your shop please let me know it

Bon Soir
In haste
MMG.

Sat. Morn.Expanded:Morning

I open this letter to add – I have just put in my teeth and like their fit better than usual. Now they do not widen the upper lip so unnaturally. I think if you will make this minus tooth a little (less prominent 'twill feel and look all the better

Pardon gratuitous advice Yours in

Toothless Trouble

Mary

 
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