In another letter from Warren, under date of April 24, 1864, she says:
Jesus taught as man does not, who then is wise but you? Posted at the public marts of this city is this notice, Mrs. M. M. Patterson will lecture at the Town Hall on P. P. Quimby's Spiritual Science healing disease, as opposed to Deism or Rochester Rapping Spiritualism.
In a letter dated Warren, May, 1864, she writes that she has been ill, but,
I am up and about to-day, i.e., by the help of the Lord (Quimby).
Again,
Dear doctor, what could I do without you? . . . I will not bow to wealth for I cannot honour it as I do wisdom. . . . May the peace of wisdom which passeth all understanding be and abide with you.—Ever the same in gratitude.
In one letter she describes the sudden appearance of Quimby's wraith in her room. She spoke to it, she adds, "and then you turned and walked away." "That," she says, "I call dodging the issue." She repeatedly calls his treatment his "Science"; her illnesses, her "beliefs" or "errors"; and her recoveries, her "restorations."
In May, 1864, Mrs. Patterson left Miss Jarvis and went to visit another friend, her fellow-patient, Mrs. Sarah G. Crosby, at Albion, Me. Mrs. Crosby,[1] who is now living at Waterville, Me., gives an interesting account of this visit, which lasted several months. Mrs. Patterson, she says, although in a state of almost absolute destitution, retained the air of a
- ↑ Mrs. Crosby is well and creditably known in Maine. When she was a woman of forty and the mother of five children, financial reverses came to her family. She learned stenography at night without a teacher and became a court stenographer at a time when it was most unusual for a woman to hold such a position. For fifteen years she was stenographer in the highest courts of Maine, during which time she paid off her husband's debts, and reared and educated her children.
