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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 7 1 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Introduction. (search)
meant by Milton's raven down of darkness, which was made to smile when smoothed, he explained that it was only the fur of a black cat, which sparkled when stroked! Later in life this brother wrote of her, She has been a dear, good sister to me: would that I had been half as good a brother to her. Her earliest teacher was an aged spinster, known in the village as Marm Betty, painfully shy, and with many oddities of person and manner, the never-forgotten calamity of whose life was that Governor Brooks once saw her drinking out of the nose of her tea-kettle. Her school was in her bed-room, always untidy, and she was a constant chewer of tobacco; but the children were fond of her, and Maria and her father always carried her a good Sunday dinner. Thomas W. Higginson, in Eminent women of the age, mentions in this connection that, according to an established custom, on the night before Thanksgiving all the humble friends of the Francis household — Marm Betty, the washer-woman, wood
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To David Lee Child. (search)
e days in Boston, Medford, and Cambridge, and returned here New Year's Day. I had a variety of experiences, nearly all of them pleasant; but they are better to tell than to write. I shall have a great budget to open when you come. I received a letter and a Berkshire paper from you. Charles Sumner called to see me and brought me his photograph. We talked together two hours, and I never received such an impression of holiness from mortal man. Not an ungentle word did he utter concerning Brooks or any of the political enemies who have been slandering and insulting him for years. He only regretted the existence of a vicious institution which inevitably barbarized those who grew up under its influence. Henry Wilson came into the anti-slavery fair, and I talked with him an hour or so. He told me I could form no idea of the state of things in Washington. As he passes through the streets in the evening, he says the air is filled with yells and curses from the oyster shops and gambl
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
rrien, John McP., U. S. Senator, anecdote of, 179. Bettine and Goethe, 50, 51. Bible, anti-slavery texts from, 123-125. Bishop, Madame Anna, 140. Bleby, Rev., Henry, 134. Boston Athenaeum, privileges of, given to, and withdrawn from, Mrs. Child, 195, 264. Boutwell, George S , speech of, 168. Bremer, Fredrika, meets Mrs. Child, 65; relates anecdote of Jenny Lind, 66; her estimation of Lowell and Emerson, 66. Brisbane, Mr., 51. Broken Lights, by Miss Cobbe, 184. Brooks, Governor, v. Brown, John, letter of Mrs. Child to, 118; his reply, 119; martyrdom of, 137. Browning's (Mrs.) Aurora Leigh, 87. Bryant, William C., writes to Mrs. Child, 186. Buckle's History of civilization, 99. Buddha, 257. Burns, Anthony, returned to slavery from Boston, 72. C. Carpenter, E., letters to, 19, 22, 26. Carpenter, Joseph, letters to, 41, 68. Cassimir, a nephew of Kossuth, 162. Chadwick, John W., 242. Channing, William Ellery, discusses the anti-sl
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Standard and popular Library books, selected from the catalogue of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (search)
o, $3.000. Underbrush. $1.25. Ballads and other Verses. 16mo, $1.00. The Family Library of British Poetry, from Chaucer to the Present Time (1350-1878). Royal 8vo. 1,028 pages, with 12 fine steel portraits, $5.00. Memoirs and Correspondence. I vol. 8vo, gilt top, $2.00. John Fiske. Myths and Mythmakers. 12mo, $2.00. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy. 2 vols. 8vo, $600. The Unseen World, and other Essays. 12mo, $2.00. Goethe. Faust. Metrical Translation. By Rev. C. T. Brooks 16mo, $1.25. Faust. Translated into English Verse. By Bayard Taylor. 2 vols. royal 8vo, $9.00; cr. 8vo, $4.50; I vol. 12mo, $3.000 Correspondence with a Child. Portrait of Bettina Brentano. 12110, $1.50. Wilhelm Meister. Translated by Thomas Carlyle. Portrait of Goethe. 2 vols. 12mo, $3.00. Bret Harte. Works. New complete edition. 5 vols. 12mo, each $2.00. Poems. Household Edition. 12mo, $2.00. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Works. Little Classic Edition. Illust