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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 24 (search)
women as Katharine P. Wormeley, the well-known translator of Balzac and Moliere and the author of Hospital Transports during the war; or of the three accomplished Woolsey sisters, of whom the eldest, under the name of Susan Coolidge, became a very influential writer for young people. She came first to Newport as the intimate frieost purely intellectual woman I know-Mrs. Trimble. She says it is smooth, strong, clear--Tremendous is her frequent epithet. I read the first ten chapters to Miss Woolsey this last week — she has been spending a few days with me . . . but she says, Far better than anything you ever have done. The success of it — if it succeedeak of mental disturbance, or what? I have the feeling that if I could only read it to you, you would know. If it is as good as Mrs. Trimble, Mr. Jackson & Miss Woolsey think, I shall be indeed rewarded, for it will tell. But I can't believe it is. I am uneasy about it — but try as I may, all I can, I cannot write slowly for <