Exhibits Relating to the Writing of The Desire of Ages

Exhibit 34—Sunday, December, 1878, Denison, Texas, Ellen White to Mary White

Dear daughter [in-law] Mary: This week we shall commence to live in the new house. It is roomy and a very nice building.... Be sure and send me that coarse material like Emma’s dress. Please send that double paisley shawl. I have a plan for it. Send my plaid shawl, and you may send two comfortables. Send books, red-covered Jewish Antiquities and the Bible Dictionary. Is Night Scenes of the Bible* there? If so, send it. ERWDA 21.2

—Letter 60, 1878, p. 1.

* By Daniel March, published in 1869.