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Browsing named entities in Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall). You can also browse the collection for L. Maria Child or search for L. Maria Child in all documents.
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. S. B. Shaw . (search)
To Mrs. S. B. Shaw. Melrose, October, 1874.
I have just received your loving letter of the 26th, which was forwarded to me here.
I have a longing to get to you, but I have many misgivings about going to New York.
I was wonderfully calm at the time,
The death of Mr. Child. and for twenty-four hours afterward, but since then I seem to get more and more sensitive and distressed.
I try hard to overcome it, for I do not want to cast a shadow over others.
Moreover, I feel that such states of mind are wrong.
There are so many reasons for thankfulness to the Heavenly Father And I do feel very thankful that he did not suffer for a very long time; that the powers of his mind were undimmed to the last; that my strength and faculties were preserved to take care of him to the last; and that the heavy burden of loneliness has fallen upon me, rather than upon him.
But at times it seems as if I could no longer bear the load.
I keep breaking down.
They told me I should feel better
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), chapter 177 (search)
Mrs. Child's reminiscences of George Thompson.
Read by Mr. Garrison at a meeting in commemoration of George Thompson, Boston, February 2, 1879.
My most vivid recollection of George Thompson is of his speaking at Julian Hall, on a memorable occasion.
Mr. Stetson, then keeper of the Tremont House, was present with a large number of his slaveholding guests, who had come to Boston to make their annual purchases of the merchants.
Their presence seemed to inspire Mr. Thompson.
Never, even from his eloquent lips, did I hear such scathing denunciations of slavery.
The exasperated Southerners could not contain their wrath.
Their lips were tightly compressed, their hands clenched; and now and then a muttered curse was audible.
Finally, one of them shouted, If we had you down South, we'd cut off your ears.
Mr. Thompson folded his arms in his characteristic manner, looked calmly at the speaker, and replied, Well, sir, if you did cut off my ears, I should still cry aloud, he that hat