To Mrs. S. B. Shaw.
1880.
I wish you could see Miss Whitney's Sam. Adams.
I never saw an image so full of life; not even the Minute Man at Concord.
An acquaintance sent a very human-looking doll to a little friend, five years old. When a neighbor exclaimed, “What a pretty doll!”
the child said, “You mustn't call it doll, it's a little girl.
She can't walk and talk now, but she will by and by.”
When I returned from Miss Whitney's studio, I was asked, “How did you like the statue?”
I replied, “You must not call it a statue, it's a man. It will walk and talk by and by.”