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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 . (search)
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), chapter 177 (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. S. Russell . (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Appendix. (search)
Appendix.
Remarks of Wendell Phillips at the funeral of Lydia Maria Child, October 23, 1880.
Mrs. Child's character was one of rare Mrs. Child's character was one of rare elements, and their combination in one person rarer still.
She was the outgrowth of New England theology, traditions, and habits -the finest she bore it almost till life's close!
In religious speculation Mrs. Child moved in the very van. Her studies and friendships were with the rrowness among free religionists than among their opponents.
But Mrs. Child in her many-sidedness did not merely bear with other creeds; she n it saps independence and shuts up the over-careful hand.
But Mrs. Child's prudence never held back one needed bold word, and was only to more than she could do to wisely distribute her income, and that Mrs. Child could and should help her in that, it was like her also to change on a whole sheet when half a one would suffice.
I do not think, Mrs. Child, you can afford to give so much just now, I said to her once, whe
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), List of Mrs. Child 's works, with the date of their first publication as far as ascertained. (search)
List of Mrs. Child's works, with the date of their first publication as far as ascertained.
Hobomok: a Tale of Early Times.
Boston, 1824. 12°.
Evenings in New England.
Intended for Juvenile icans called Africans.
Boston, 1833. 12vo.
The Oasis.
Boston, 1834. 16vo.
contents.--
Child, Mrs. L. M. Brief Memoir of Wilberforce; How to effect Emancipation; Malem Boo; Illustration of Opinions of Travellers; Jamaica Mobs.
Follen, Mrs., Remember the slave; The runaway slave.
Child, D. L. Henry Diaz; Three Colored Republics of Guiana; Judicial Decisions in Slave States.
Whi aves: Tales and Sketches in Prose and Rhyme.
New York, 1856. 16vo.
Correspondence between L. M. Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason (of Virginia). Boston, 1860. 12vo.
The Duty of Disobedience t al and Selected.
Boston, 1868. 8vo.
An Appeal for the Indians.
New York (1868?). 12vo.
Aspirations of the World.
A Chain of Opals.
With an Introduction by L. M. Child.
Boston, 1878. 16vo.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
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