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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Henrietta Sargent. (search)
t over head; that I am almost ridiculously a woman in my affections. For myself, knowing the extreme superficiality of my earning, I could not help smiling at the assertion that my head was heavy with intellectual knowledge. She had better have said, full of rainbows and buttercups. I imagine that placing the mere name in the hand of the somnambulist is no criterion at all. It ought to be some Ms. bearing an impress of the author's sentiments and thoughts. I will copy for you what the Rev. Mr. Kent said when some fragmentary portions of one of my letters to the Courier, in manuscript, were given to him in a sealed and blank envelope, without the person who gave it knowing who was the writer. It was a portion of my last letter, about the circulation of the blood of the human frame. On touching it, Mr. K. (whose state is said to be similar to--'s) said: The impression of this letter is pleasant-exceedingly so. Yet it seems somewhat disconnected. (It was in fragments.) The writer
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
edits the Standard, in New York, 42 ; lives with Isaac T. Hopper's family; 48 ; interest in New Church doctrines, 43; letters of Dr. Channing to, 44, 45; her reminiscences of Dr. Channing, 48: life in New York, 50-60 ; characterization of, by Rev. Mr. Kent, 55; interview with Dr. Palfrey, 56: reads Emerson's e-says, 57; her admiration of Domenichino's Cumaean Sibyl, 57; has a birthday celebration, 59; her views on a salaried priesthood, 61; reads the Countess of Rudolstaat, 62; dislikes lettersy Theodore Winthrop, 164. John Brown Song, the, 157. Johnson, Andrew, speech of, at Nashville, 184. Johnson, Oliver, 232. Johnson, Rev., Samuel, 96, 214. Julian, George W., letter to, 187. Juvenile Miscellany, VII., 10, 256. K. Kent, Rev. Mr., characterizes Mrs. Child. 55. King, Miss Augusta, letters to, 37, 52, 56. L. Labor question, the, 199. Lafayette's observation of the change in color of the slaves in Virginia, 126. Laws of the Slave States, against inter