m-a-d

Updated: May 24, 2025

DEAR MOLLY, I thought M. E. D. made you m-a-d; but you shall have it hereafter, if it makes you "demnition" mad; no appreciation of my delicacy in leaving out the E, which stands for error, egotism, eggnog, epsom-salts, and every erroneous entity extant. Yes, the E, have it, with all its compounds.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter