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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Samuel E. Sewall
To Samuel E. Sewall. Wayland, September 20, 1860.
I expect to be in Boston in a few days, and should like to look at Rantoul's speech, if you have the volume at your office ....
It seems as if slavery would be the death of me. If all I suffer on the subject counts as vicarious atonement for the slave-holders, they are in a hopeful way. My indignation rises higher than it used to in my younger days.
According to the general rule, I ought to grow calmer, but I do not. If the monster had one head, assuredly I should be a Charlotte Corday.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Henrietta Sargent
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. E. Sewall
To Mrs. S. E. Sewall. Wayland, July 30, 1868.
As you and Mr. Sewall are one, and he is too busy to read rhapsodical letters, I will write to you to thank him for The Gypsy, and I do thank him most fervently.
I think some good brownie helps you two to find out what I most want.
I have been hankering after that Spanish Gypsy and trying to borrow it, but I did not hint that to you, knowing your lavish turn of mind.
Some of my friends think I make an exaggerated estimate of the author of Adam Bede, but I have long ranked her as the greatest among women intellectually, and the moral tone of her writings seems to me always pure and elevated.
I never expected to enjoy a poem again so much as I enjoyed Aurora Leigh, but I think the Gypsy is fully equal, if not superior.
I read it through at first ravenously, all aglow; then I read it through a second time slowly and carefully, to taste every drop of the sparkling nectar.
The artistic construction cannot be too highly praised, and i
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mr. Mrs. S. E. Sewall
To Mr. And Mrs. S. E. Sewall. Staten Island, January 10, 1875.
You don't know how frequently and how affectionately I think of you, and how I long to have the light of your countenances shine upon me. Mr. and Mrs. S. go over to New York two or three times a week, and I sit alone in my little room and think, think, think.
And there is but one who occupies my thoughts more than you two dear, good friends, whom he loved so well.
Pope says, The last years of life, like tickets left in the wheel, rise in value.
It certainly is true of the last friends that remain to us. I have been eminently blest in my few intimate friends, and I think it is mainly owing to the fact that they were all sifted in the anti-slavery sieve ..
On Christmas Eve I went with R. H. to a gathering of O. B. Frothingham's Sunday-school scholars and a troop of poor children whom they had invited to partake with them of the manifold treasures on the Christmas-tree.
Oliver Johnson personated Santa Claus, and
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. E. Sewall
To Mrs. S. E. Sewall. June 11, 1875.
Finding Robert F. Wallcut very desirous of a photograph of me, and having none to give him, I went to have some taken.
A neighbor here told me wonderful stories about a spirit-photographer.
So I thought I would go to him to have my photograph taken, and, without saying anything, see what would happen.
When he showed me the negative, I said, There is no other figure than my own on the plate.
Did you wish for any other?
he asked.
I thought to myself, So they don't come unless they are bargained for!
But I merely said, If any departed friends had been reflected on the plate, it would have been gratifying, of course.
It takes a longer time to procure the photographs of spirits, he replied, and therefore I charge as much for six as I do for twelve of the common kind.
I told him I would like to have him try, on condition that I neither took them, nor paid for them, unless there came the likeness of somebody I had known.
He demurred, and
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. E. Sewall
To Mrs. S. E. Sewall. Wayland, June 17, 1879.
During these weeks, so filled with memories of our friend Garrison, I have seemed to feel the presence of you and your dear, good husband, as you say you have felt line.
I thought of you continually — on the day of the funeral, and while reading the beautiful tributes offered by Phillips and Weld and Whittier.
If his spirit was there, how happy he must have been!
The general laudation in the newspapers was truly wonderful.
If any prophet had foretold it thirty years ago, who would have believed him?
It seems to me there never was so great a moral revolution in so short a time.
It was elevating and thrilling to read the funeral services, and it must have been much more so to have heard them.
If Mr. Garrison was mistaken in his strong belief that individual, conscious existence continued elsewhere, he will never know of his mistake ; but I think he was not mistaken.
I suppose you noticed that Whittier recognized his spirit as s
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)