Metadata
Title
Mary Howitt to Sarah Josepha Hale
Creator
Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888
Date
1842-07-19
July 19, 1842
Subject
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-083
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
July 19 -
My dear Mrs. Hale,
I am making up
a packet of [?] for [?]
& must not omit to write to you
to thank you for all your great
kindness to me which I felt all
the more as it was at a time when
every thing looked dark & evil and
nothing [nothing?] [round?] [us?] but people
who stood aloof and who though
un kind a right to expect aid from
them would not [find?] it. You [a?]
str[?]nger [women?] willingly did all
you could & though this sum
which was paid was very small
yet I assure you I was very
glad of it. We hope [?][[?][?]
year will be perhaps the time of
their outbreak, but they are waiting for
the time when they hope victory will be
sure. They expect aid from America in what
shape I know not. Perhaps merely in money, if
by outward forces that can only lead to [?]
[?] America which God forbid.
I am sorry dear Mrs. Hale that I have
[answered?] so poorly for your May 10 - not at all.
But do not believe me indifferent to you & if
I only know any one who would bring but
an edition of your poems I would take them
at once out of [?] hands of [?] [?] [?]
if they would not immediately come to [some?]
definite terms.
My husband is now engaged on a newspaper
of which we are to [?] also the
literary management - we shall be
very glad in this to do any thing for
you that we can, & at Mr. Chapmans
we shall always I suppose be able to
[see?] The Lady's Books & your other works.
Will not you come to England dear Mrs.
Hale? - We should be right glad to [see?] you think
of it. I [?] had words you could write
about the "Old Country."
I am dear Mrs. Hale yours faithfully MH
My dear Mrs. Hale,
I am making up
a packet of [?] for [?]
& must not omit to write to you
to thank you for all your great
kindness to me which I felt all
the more as it was at a time when
every thing looked dark & evil and
nothing [nothing?] [round?] [us?] but people
who stood aloof and who though
un kind a right to expect aid from
them would not [find?] it. You [a?]
str[?]nger [women?] willingly did all
you could & though this sum
which was paid was very small
yet I assure you I was very
glad of it. We hope [?][[?][?]
year will be perhaps the time of
their outbreak, but they are waiting for
the time when they hope victory will be
sure. They expect aid from America in what
shape I know not. Perhaps merely in money, if
by outward forces that can only lead to [?]
[?] America which God forbid.
I am sorry dear Mrs. Hale that I have
[answered?] so poorly for your May 10 - not at all.
But do not believe me indifferent to you & if
I only know any one who would bring but
an edition of your poems I would take them
at once out of [?] hands of [?] [?] [?]
if they would not immediately come to [some?]
definite terms.
My husband is now engaged on a newspaper
of which we are to [?] also the
literary management - we shall be
very glad in this to do any thing for
you that we can, & at Mr. Chapmans
we shall always I suppose be able to
[see?] The Lady's Books & your other works.
Will not you come to England dear Mrs.
Hale? - We should be right glad to [see?] you think
of it. I [?] had words you could write
about the "Old Country."
I am dear Mrs. Hale yours faithfully MH