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[455] (friends)! God bless you. Please accept for yourself and your good wife, this copy.

From yours truly, H. B. Stowe.

Mrs. Stowe also published in 1870, through Sampson Low & Son, of London, a volume for English readers, The history of the Byron Controversy. These additional volumes, however, do not seem to have satisfied the public as a whole, and perhaps the expediency of the publication of Mrs. Stowe's first article is doubtful, even to her most ardent admirers. The most that can be hoped for, through the mention of the subject in this biography, is the vindication of Mrs. Stowe's purity of motive and nobility of intention in bringing this painful matter into notice.

While she was being on all hands effectively, and evidently in some quarters with rare satisfaction, roundly abused for the article, and her consequent responsibility in bringing this unsavory discussion so prominently before the public mind, she received the following letter from Dr. O. W. Holmes:--

Boston, September 25, 1869.
My dear Mrs. Stowe,--I have been meaning to write to you for some time, but in the midst of all the wild and virulent talk about the article in the “Atlantic,” I felt as if there was little to say until the first fury of the storm had blown over.

I think that we all perceive now that the battle is not to be fought here, but in England. I have listened to a good deal of talk, always taking your side in a quiet way, backed very heartily on one occasion by one


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