Accession: L11153
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Martha S. Pillsbury, April 28, 1867
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Martha S. Pillsbury 
Date: April 28, 1867
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper from Taunton, Massachusetts.
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I have not delayed to answer your last letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. because of neglect, but more positively, because I were so unsettled and sad, I felt not like writing anyoneAs Written:any one. TodayAs Written:To day, I am alone, the Doct. and lady having gone out to call on a friend, I take this sacred hour to devote to you, giveing you a few statistics as the only history my life affords.

After waiting patiently as possible Doct. Crafts has at length obtained a rent in this place, in a very good location and a fine tenement. My room is in the third story, but a large and pleasant one, with this great exception, that a stove will not draw sufficiently to keep a fire without great difficulty. After I returned here (to MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.) I wrote my husband that Doct Crafts was going to leave StoughtonEditorial Note: Stoughton, Massachusetts and board awhile (as he expected to have to do) and that I was without a home! After waiting three weeks, I got a letter from himEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. saying I could go to LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts and find a board! that he was about moving somewhere. What is the result again of his pretending to locate you can see as well as I. it is of no use for me ever to hope or fear in that direction, but one experience ever awaits me. disappointment and tears! My life is just as sad as it can be. I have no joy, but a sort of martyr courage and submission to my fate. Then I have a God to love and lean upon, and hitherto He has delivered me from the "lions"Dan 6:27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. and "furnace"Dan 3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. and I must trust that unseen love and wisdom! & which I daily endeavor to do, calmly awaiting the blest moment that shall free me from the fetters of pain and sorrow which I have ever worn, and still wear in this mortality

I did attend to that written agreementEditorial Note: This agreement is not extant. immediately and 'tis dated, signed and a revenue stamp put upon it. The Doct here is just beginning As Written: begining at great expense in a new place, and of course in no way to pay me yet, and when he will be is altogether uncertain, but all that come to him sick he cures. I do wish Abi and Ellen would try him, I have no doubt but he could cure them; dear Mother must come too. This house is a large brick tenement and can accommodate As Written: accomodate many I bought me a little black and white straw bonnet, just the style and paid but 1,25Editorial Note: $1.25 in 1867 is the equivalent of $21.86 in 2020. for it, trimmed As Written: trimed with the green ribbon As Written: ribon I had, & that is all it cost me, and many have admired it.

Give much love to dear Mothr and Mrs. Tilton

Write soon I am Truly Your sister
Mary
L11153
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I have not delayed to answer your last letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. because of neglect, but more positively, because I were so unsettled and sad, I felt not like writing any oneCorrected:anyone. To dayCorrected:Today, I am alone, the Doct. and lady having gone out to call on a friend, and I take this sacred hour to devote to you, and giveing you a few statistics as the only history my life affords.

After waiting patiently as possible Doct. Crafts has at length obtained a rent in this place, in a very good locati [?] Unclear or illegible on and a fine tenement. My room is oin the third story, but a large and pleasant one, with this great ecxception, that a stove will not draw sufficiently to keep a fire without great difficulty. After I returned here (to Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts) I wrote my husband that Doct Crafts was going to leave StoughtonEditorial Note: Stoughton, Massachusetts and board awhile (as he expected to have to do) and that I was without a home! After waiting three weeks, I got a letter from himEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. saying I could go to LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts and find a board! that he was about moving somewhere. What is the result again of his pretending to locate you can see as well as I. it is of no use for me ever to hope or fear in that direction, but one experience ever awaits me. disappointment and tears! My life is just as sad as it can be. I have no joy, but a sort of martyr courage and submission to my fate. Then I have a God to love and lean upon, and hitherto He has delivered me from the "lions"Dan 6:27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. and "furnace"Dan 3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. and I must trust that unseen love and wisdom [?] Unclear or illegible ! & which I daily endeavor to do, calmly awaiting the blest moment that shall free me from the fetters of pain and sorrow which I have ever worn, and still wear in this mortality

I did attend to that le written agreementEditorial Note: This agreement is not extant. immediately and 'tis dated, signed and a revenue stamp put upon it. The Doct here is just begining Corrected: beginning at great expense in a new place, and of course in no way to pay me yet, and when he will be is altogether uncertain, but all that come to him sick he cures. I do wish Abi and Ellen would try him, I have no doubt but he could cure them; dear Mother must come too. This house is a large brick tenement and can accomodate Corrected: accommodate many I bought me a little black and white straw bonnet, just the style and paid but 1,25Editorial Note: $1.25 in 1867 is the equivalent of $21.86 in 2020. for it, trimed Corrected: trimmed with the green ribon Corrected: ribbon I had, & that is all it cost me, and many have admired it.

Give much love to dear Mothr and Mrs. Tilton

Write soon I am Truly Your sister
Mary
 
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Taunton, Massachusetts This letter is not extant. Stoughton, Massachusetts This letter is not extant. Lynn, Massachusetts This agreement is not extant. $1.25 in 1867 is the equivalent of $21.86 in 2020.