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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Russell
To Mrs. S. B. Russell. Wayland, May 24, 1878.
Thanks for your affectionate, cheerful letter.
I am as pleased as a child with a new (loll, to think you liked my little book
Aspirations of the world. A Chain of Opals. Collected, with an Introduction, by L. Maria Child.
Boston, 1878. entirely.
In this secluded place, where people take little or no interest in anything, I love no means of knowing what effect the book produces.
My motive was good, and I tried to write in a candid and kindly spirit.
I leave it to its fate, merely hoping that it may do somewhat to enlarge the bands of human brotherhood.
Personally I have never expected any advantage from the publication of it. If it pays its own expenses I shall be satisfied.
It would mortify me to have the publishers incur debt by it.
It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion.
They want to veil it in a supernatural haze.
They are very
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Wayland, 1879.
I think there is sufficient evidence of another state of existence, and of the possibility of communication.
But beyond this glimpse, I think it is all precarious and unreliable.
One had better spend his life in chasing shadows than in seeking for these manifestations.
But I agree with Victor Hugo, who says: To elude a phenomenon, to turn our backs upon it laughing, is to make bankruptcy of truth.
The phenomenon of the ancient tripod, and of the modern table-turning, has a claim to be observed, like all other phenomena.
Root out the worthless weeds of error, but harvest the facts.
When was chaff made a pretext for refusing the wheat?
Science pronounces it entirely illogical to suppose that we exist as individuals after our bodies are resolved into the elements.
But logic is a science extremely narrow in its limitations.
There may be phases of existence as much beyond its cognizance as birds are beyond the observation of fishes.
Since Emers
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), To Miss Anne Whitney
To Miss Anne Whitney. Wayland, June, 1879.
I am glad you had such a pleasant evening with Garrison.
He has been a singularly fortunate man. Fortunate in accomplishing his purposes; fortunate in drawing around him the best spirits of his time; fortunate in having an amiable, sympathizing wife; fortunate in having excellent, devoted children, whose marriages have suited him, and who have lived in proximity to him; fortunate in having his energies developed by struggle in early life; fortunate in later years in being at ease in his worldly circumstances; and most fortunate of all in dying before his mind became weakened.
Death will be to him merely passing out of one room filled with friends into another room still more full of friends.
It is wonderful how one mortal may affect the destiny of a multitude.
I remember very distinctly the first time I ever saw Garrison.
I little thought then that the whole pattern of my life-web would be changed by that introduction.
I was the
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. H. W. Seywall
To Mrs. H. W. Seywall. Wayland, August 25, 1879.
That Mrs.--is the plague of my life.
It is the fourth or fifth time she has been pervading my department, wanting to know.
I don't remember when the Juvenile Miscellany began, and what sort of interest can it have for the public?
An impertinent reporter of the interviewed me, and in that paper last June informed the public of the figures in my carpet and the color of my gown, to which he appended some literary dates.
Few things rile me up like this impertinent curiosity, which, after all, is only a fashionable way of earning a penny without work.
There is nothing in my personal history either new, useful, or entertaining.
I thank you cordially for the books. . . . You say you like human beings better than books.
I like some human beings better than books, but not many.
Books have one very great advantage over people; you can put them aside whenever you don't care to be with them any longer.
Moreover, I can make up a co
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Theodore D. Weld
To Theodore D. Weld. Wayland, July 10, 1880.
I thank you cordially for the interesting Memorial of your excellent wife.
Mrs. Angelina Grimke Weld. Such a benediction is rarely bestowed on any man as to have loved and been beloved by such a woman.
How dim and cold all the pictures of the old saints seem, when brought into comparison with the clear light of her conscience, and the glowing warmth of her love for her fellow-creatures.
The memory of the early anti-slavery days is very sacred to me. The Holy Spirit did actually descend upon men and women in tongues of flame.
Political and theological prejudices and personal ambitions were forgotten in sympathy for the wrongs of the helpless, and in the enthusiasm to keep the fire of freedom from being extinguished on our national altar.
All suppression of selfishness makes the moment great; and mortals were never more sublimely forgetful of self than were the abolitionists in those early days, before the moral force which e
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Francis G. Shaw
To Francis G. Shaw. Wayland, September, 1880.
I thank you for the Life of General Garfield.
I did not think I should ever again take so much interest in a political campaign as I do in his election.
I read every word of his speech on Honest money, eight columns long.
I am not well posted upon financial questions, and have had rather a distaste for such controversies.
But his statements were so very plain that I understood every sentence; and my common sense and my moral sense cordially responded thereto.
Everything I have read of his seems to me to have the ring of true metal.
I am constantly reminded of the practical good sense and sturdy honesty of Francis Jackson.
I was especially pleased with the emphasis he places on the assertion that there was a right and wrong in the War of the Rebellion; I would not have one unnecessary word said that would hurt the feelings or wound the pride of tie South.
They acted just as we should have acted if we had been educated under
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. S. Russell
To Mrs. S. S. Russell. Wayland, September 23, 1880.
My precious friend,--I have not answered your last kind letter as soon as my heart dictated, because I have waited in hopes to give a better account of myself. ... At last, by the help of my friend Mrs. S., I have found a pleasant old doctor in Weston who has made rheumatism his specialty and been very successful in curing it. He is very positive that a cure will be effected in two or three weeks. Mrs.-- has been very kind and efficient, and the neighbors very attentive.
It is a great blessing, also, that my general health has been and is extremely good ..
Some of my poor neighbors have been in trouble owing to protracted illness, and I shall make up to them the days when they have not been able to work.
The worthy young man who comes here to sleep needs some help about learning a trade, and I am going to give him a lift.
Divers other projects I have in my mind, and I expect to accomplish them all by the help of Aladdin's
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Lydia Maria