Accession: L13357
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Alice M. Sibley, March 5, 1881
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Alice M. Sibley 
Date: March 5, 1881 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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My own Alice,

More beautiful than even the freshing budding spring is the blossom of your thought correct euphonic poetryEditorial Note: Alice Sibley had sent poetry to Mary Baker Eddy. The poetry is not extant.. That word embraces to my mind all the graces. I wish O! I wish, but vainly, I had my fancy free to write you a little offering, but will some time. I have no broken wing only a folded one. Now dear Go forth into the fields, drink in the breeze, be happy and free. O the bliss of freedom! I would I were a child again, but you dear one, are now both child and woman; you are, in other words you are when I descend As Written: decend to pet names, my naughty wild girl wayward in goodness impulsive as the March wind and sunny as the flowers

Good bye. I hope you will remain at your best all the time next Sabbath and not get impatient with me because I have passed the heyday As Written: hey day of Life and have now no time for the sweet joys of friendship but must show my love for you all working at the treadmillAs Written:tread-mill of metaphysics. Alice dear, my forth coming bookEditorial Note: This is a reference to the third edition of Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health. It was published on August 17, 1881. is like a meteor of light or a clear coin taken from the old mine of my other works

There's my views don't name them please. I always do as I agree when it is practicable I promised to burn a letter once to suit my wayward girlEditorial Note: See the letter from Mary Baker Eddy to Alice M. Sibley, dated August 6, 1880 (L13359). Eddy responds to a letter from Sibley that Sibley requested her to burn after reading it. but I cannot do it this time This sweet poetryEditorial Note: Alice Sibley had sent poetry to Mary Baker Eddy. The poetry is not extant. I shall keep and share Deo volenteEditorial Note: God willing

Ever lovingly
Thine M B G Eddy
L13357
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My own Alice,

More beautiful than even the freshing budding spring is the blossom of your thought in sweet correct euphonic poetryEditorial Note: Alice Sibley had sent poetry to Mary Baker Eddy. The poetry is not extant.. That word embraces to my mind all the graces. I wish O! I wish, but vainly, I had my fancy free to write you a little offering, but will some time. I have no broken wing only a folded one. Now dear Go forth into the fields, drink in the breeze, be happy and free. O the bliss of freedom! I would I were a child again, but you dear one, are now both child and woman; you are, in other words you are when I decend Corrected: descend to pet names, my naughty wild girl wayward in goodness impulsive as the March wind and sunny as the flowers

Good bye. I hope you will remain at your best all the time next Sabbath and not get impatient with me because I have passed the hey day Corrected: heyday of Life and have now no time for the sweet joys of friendship but must show my love for you all working at the tread-millCorrected:treadmill of metaphysics. Alice dear, my forth coming bookEditorial Note: This is a reference to the third edition of Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health. It was published on August 17, 1881. is like a meteor of light or a clear coin taken from the old mine of my other works

There's my views don't name them please. I always do as I agree when it is practicable now I promised to burn a letter once to suit my wayward girlEditorial Note: See the letter from Mary Baker Eddy to Alice M. Sibley, dated August 6, 1880 (L13359). Eddy responds to a letter from Sibley that Sibley requested her to burn after reading it. but I cannot do it this time This sweet poetryEditorial Note: Alice Sibley had sent poetry to Mary Baker Eddy. The poetry is not extant. I shall keep and share Deo volenteEditorial Note: God willing

Ever lovingly
Thine M B G Eddy
 
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Alice Sibley had sent poetry to Mary Baker Eddy. The poetry is not extant. This is a reference to the third edition of Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health. It was published on August 17, 1881. See the letter from Mary Baker Eddy to Alice M. Sibley, dated August 6, 1880 (L13359). Eddy responds to a letter from Sibley that Sibley requested her to burn after reading it. Alice Sibley had sent poetry to Mary Baker Eddy. The poetry is not extant. God willing