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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)
ould not be more happily situated than in Friend Hopper's family. Friend Hopper, as she called him, according to the custom among friends in addressing a person older than yourself, was Isaac T. Hopper, whose remarkable life she afterwards wrote. Whittier calls this one of the most readable biographies in English literature. During her stay in New York, which continued, contrary to all expectation, until 1849 or 1850, she wrote a series of letters to the Boston Courier, edited by Joseph Buckingham, which were published later in book form, as Letters from New York, First and Second Part. She began also her great work, The Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages. This was published in 1855. About this time James Russell Lowell admirably portrayed Mrs. Child in his Fable for Critics. He evidently admired her greatly. In 1849 she left New York and joined her husband in West Newton, but soon after they went to Wayland to live with Mrs. Child's father, the aged Davi