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September 25th, 1869 AD (search for this): chapter 23
through the mention of the subject in this biography, is the vindication of Mrs. Stowe's purity of motive and nobility of intention in bringing this painful matter into notice. While she was being on all hands effectively, and evidently in some quarters with rare satisfaction, roundly abused for the article, and her consequent responsibility in bringing this unsavory discussion so prominently before the public mind, she received the following letter from Dr. O. W. Holmes:-- Boston, September 25, 1869. My dear Mrs. Stowe,--I have been meaning to write to you for some time, but in the midst of all the wild and virulent talk about the article in the Atlantic, I felt as if there was little to say until the first fury of the storm had blown over. I think that we all perceive now that the battle is not to be fought here, but in England. I have listened to a good deal of talk, always taking your side in a quiet way, backed very heartily on one occasion by one of my most intellectu
December 10th, 1869 AD (search for this): chapter 23
nce, and your courage to proclaim the truth when any good end is to be served by it. It is to be expected that public opinion will be more or less divided as to the expediency of this revelation . Hoping that you have recovered from your indisposition, I am Faithfully yours, O. W. Holmes. While undergoing the most unsparing and pitiless criticism and brutal insult, Mrs. Stowe received the following sympathetic words from Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot):-- The Priory, 21 North Bank, December 10, 1869. My dear friend,--. . . In the midst of your trouble I was often thinking of you, for I feared that you were undergoing a considerable trial from the harsh and unfair judgments, partly the fruit of hostility glad to find an opportunity for venting itself, and partly of that unthinking cruelty which belongs to hasty anonymous journalism. For my own part, I should have preferred that the Byron question should never have been brought before the public, because I think the discussion o
1870 AD (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 19: the Byron controversy, 1869-1870. Mrs. Stowe's statement of her own case. the circumstances under which she first met Lady Byron. letters to Lady Byron. letter to Dr. Holmes when about to publish the true story of Lady Byron's life in the Atlantic. Dr. Holmes's reply. the conclusion of the matter. It seems impossible to avoid the unpleasant episode in Mrs. Stowe's life known as the Byron Controversy. It will be our effort to deal with the matter as colorlessly han that of most folks. How often I have pondered your last letter to me, and sent it to many (friends)! God bless you. Please accept for yourself and your good wife, this copy. From yours truly, H. B. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe also published in 1870, through Sampson Low & Son, of London, a volume for English readers, The history of the Byron Controversy. These additional volumes, however, do not seem to have satisfied the public as a whole, and perhaps the expediency of the publication of Mrs
December 17th, 1856 AD (search for this): chapter 23
going to write to you from Paris more at leisure. (The rest of the letter was taken up in the final details of a charity in which Lady Byron had been engaged with me in assisting an unfortunate artist. It concludes thus:) I write now in all haste, en route for Paris. As to America, all is not lost yet. Farewell. I love you, my dear friend, as never before, with an intense feeling that I cannot easily express. God bless you. H. B. S. The next letter is as follows:-- Paris, December 17, 1856. Dear Lady Byron,--The Kansas Committee have written me a letter desiring me to express to Miss their gratitude for the five pounds she sent them. I am not personally acquainted with her, and must return these acknowledgments through you. I wrote you a day or two since, inclosing the reply of the Kansas Committee to you. On that subject on which you spoke to me the last time we were together, I have thought often and deeply. I have changed my mind somewhat. Considering the
July 1st (search for this): chapter 23
book is having, which is from first to last an unsparing attack on Lady Byron's memory by Lord Byron's mistress. When you have read my article, I want, not your advice as to whether the main facts shall be told, for on this point I am so resolved that I frankly say advice would do me no good. But you might help me, with your delicacy and insight, to make the manner of telling more perfect, and I want to do it as wisely and well as such story can be told. My post-office address after July 1st will be Westport Point, Bristol Co., Mass., care of Mrs. I. M. Soule. The proof-sheets will be sent you by the publisher. Very truly yours, H. B. Stowe. In reply to the storm of controversy aroused by the publication of this article, Mrs. Stowe made a more extended effort to justify the charges which she had brought against Lord Byron, in a work published in 1869, Lady Byron Vindicated. Immediately after the publication of this work, she mailed a copy to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
1869 AD (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 19: the Byron controversy, 1869-1870. Mrs. Stowe's statement of her own case. the circumstances under which she first met Lady Byron. letters to Lady Byron. letter to Dr. Holmes when about to publish the true story of Lady Byron's life in the Atlantic. Dr. Holmes's reply. the conclusion of the matter. It seems impossible to avoid the unpleasant episode in Mrs. Stowe's life known as the Byron Controversy. It will be our effort to deal with the matter as colorlessly . Very truly yours, H. B. Stowe. In reply to the storm of controversy aroused by the publication of this article, Mrs. Stowe made a more extended effort to justify the charges which she had brought against Lord Byron, in a work published in 1869, Lady Byron Vindicated. Immediately after the publication of this work, she mailed a copy to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, accompanied by the following note:-- Boston, May 19, 1869. Dear doctor,--... In writing this book, which I now take the li
1868 AD (search for this): chapter 23
into history, uncontradicted by friends who knew her personally, who, firm in their own knowledge of her virtues, and limited in view as aristocratic circles generally are, had no idea of the width of the world they were living in, and the exigency of the crisis. When time passed on and no voice was raised, I spoke. It is hardly necessary to recapitulate, at any great length, facts already so familiar to the reading public; it may be sufficient simply to say that after the appearance in 1868 of the Countess Guiccioli's Recollections of Lord Byron, Mrs. Stowe felt herself called upon to defend the memory of her friend from what she esteemed to be falsehoods and slanders. To accomplish this object, she prepared for the Atlantic monthly of September, 1869, an article, The true story of Lady Byron's life. Speaking of her first impressions of Lady Byron, Mrs. Stowe says:-- I formed her acquaintance in the year 1853, during my first visit to England. I met her at a lunch party
June 26th, 1869 AD (search for this): chapter 23
light every hidden thing. There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known; and so justice will not fail. Such, my dear friend, are my thoughts; different from what they were since first I heard that strange, sad history. Meanwhile I love you forever, whether we meet again on earth or not. Affectionately yours, H. B. S. Before her article appeared in print, Mrs. Stowe addressed the following letter to Dr. Holmes in Boston:-- Hartford, June 26, 1869. Dear doctor,--I am going to ask help of you, and I feel that confidence in your friendship that leads me to be glad that I have a friend like you to ask advice of. In order that you may understand fully what it is, I must go back some years and tell you about it. When I went to England the first time, I formed a friendship with Lady Byron which led to a somewhat interesting correspondence. When there the second time, after the publication of Dred in 1856, Lady Byron wrote to me t
1853 AD (search for this): chapter 23
t may be sufficient simply to say that after the appearance in 1868 of the Countess Guiccioli's Recollections of Lord Byron, Mrs. Stowe felt herself called upon to defend the memory of her friend from what she esteemed to be falsehoods and slanders. To accomplish this object, she prepared for the Atlantic monthly of September, 1869, an article, The true story of Lady Byron's life. Speaking of her first impressions of Lady Byron, Mrs. Stowe says:-- I formed her acquaintance in the year 1853, during my first visit to England. I met her at a lunch party in the house of one of her friends. When I was introduced to her, I felt in a moment the words of her husband:-- There was awe in the homage that she drew; Her spirit seemed as seated on a throne. It was in the fall of 1856, on the occasion of Mrs. Stowe's second visit to England, as she and her sister were on their way to Eversley to visit the Rev. C. Kingsley, that they stopped by invitation to lunch with Lady Byron at h
November 5th, 1856 AD (search for this): chapter 23
on for Paris, and had not yet had time fully to consider the subject. On reviewing my note I can recall that then the whole history appeared to me like one of those singular cases where unnatural impulses to vice are the result of a taint of constitutional insanity. This has always seemed to me the only way of accounting for instances of utterly motiveless and abnormal wickedness and cruelty. These, my first impressions, were expressed in the hasty note written at the time: London, November 5, 1856. Dearest friend,--I return these. They have held mine eyes waking. How strange! How unaccountable! Have you ever subjected the facts to the judgment of a medical man, learned in nervous pathology? Is it not insanity? Great wits to madness nearly are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. But my purpose to-night is not to write to you fully what I think of this matter. I am going to write to you from Paris more at leisure. (The rest of the letter was taken
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