Metadata
Title
Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
May 24, [?]
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-110
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Cambridge May 24th
My dear Mrs Hale
I am very happy to
be able to assist you in the way
you desired. I find however that
the subject opens so fully & widely &
presents so many aspects for discussion
& consideration, that I am able only
to present very cursory views, I by no
means to cover the ground which you
indicate.
Should you find that papers
of this kind, something after the manner
of Mrs. Stowe's "House & home papers"
in the "Atlantic," are desirable for your
magazine, I will write you four of
them of 6 or 8 pages each, for $100. -
I think papers on the minor morals
as they may be called, would serve a
good purpose in raising the character of
a magne [magazine], which on the outside is devoted
apparently to fashion - By this of course
I mean, exactly what I say only apparently,
for readers of course see that your end
and aims are high for women. But
the world judges rightly only when things are palpably
thrusts under its nose. This, however
is only for your consideration.
I was delighted with the sweet
poem of your friend. But I am afraid
if it came to the practical part, & my
daughter were downright unhappy & abused
I shd [should] not have the courage or goodness,
of the poetess, & maybe, she wouldn't either.
It is best, to have a high ideal though.
I need not say that I thank
you most sincerely for your kind interest
in my religious welfare. Shall we not
be contented to let each other believe as
seems to each, right? Whatever may be
my feeling in regard to your belief, I consider
It's a matter between yourself and
your Creator, & recognize above all, the
Protestant principle of the right of private
judgment. Try to do so, with regard to me.
[DE: ?] Do you not think that in every truly religious mind,
the desire for truth will in time work the
intellect clear? [DE: ?] So let us not have the
odium theologicum - the most trying of all things
between us. Farewell - let me know if this
paper will do for you - yrs truly CAH -
Mrs. S. J. Hale.
Care of Louis A. Godey Esq.
Philadelphia
My dear Mrs Hale
I am very happy to
be able to assist you in the way
you desired. I find however that
the subject opens so fully & widely &
presents so many aspects for discussion
& consideration, that I am able only
to present very cursory views, I by no
means to cover the ground which you
indicate.
Should you find that papers
of this kind, something after the manner
of Mrs. Stowe's "House & home papers"
in the "Atlantic," are desirable for your
magazine, I will write you four of
them of 6 or 8 pages each, for $100. -
I think papers on the minor morals
as they may be called, would serve a
good purpose in raising the character of
a magne [magazine], which on the outside is devoted
apparently to fashion - By this of course
I mean, exactly what I say only apparently,
for readers of course see that your end
and aims are high for women. But
the world judges rightly only when things are palpably
thrusts under its nose. This, however
is only for your consideration.
I was delighted with the sweet
poem of your friend. But I am afraid
if it came to the practical part, & my
daughter were downright unhappy & abused
I shd [should] not have the courage or goodness,
of the poetess, & maybe, she wouldn't either.
It is best, to have a high ideal though.
I need not say that I thank
you most sincerely for your kind interest
in my religious welfare. Shall we not
be contented to let each other believe as
seems to each, right? Whatever may be
my feeling in regard to your belief, I consider
It's a matter between yourself and
your Creator, & recognize above all, the
Protestant principle of the right of private
judgment. Try to do so, with regard to me.
[DE: ?] Do you not think that in every truly religious mind,
the desire for truth will in time work the
intellect clear? [DE: ?] So let us not have the
odium theologicum - the most trying of all things
between us. Farewell - let me know if this
paper will do for you - yrs truly CAH -
Mrs. S. J. Hale.
Care of Louis A. Godey Esq.
Philadelphia