Metadata
Title
Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1860/1869-06-18
June 18, [1860s]
Edit : Likely 1863, as it mentions sympathy regarding her daughter
Edit : Likely 1863, as it mentions sympathy regarding her daughter
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-113
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Cambridge June 18
My dear Mrs Hale
I have not written
to you to say how much I
have felt for you, for I know
that silent sympathy is a
great comfort; and also because
I did not know your daughter.
My own grief too has perhaps
occupied me too exclusively.
But I have thought I might
do better than to talk to you.
That I might perhaps assist
you a little, now that you
must sometimes feel inadequate
to the perpetual tax on your
brain, of a monthly periodical.
If I can do so, in the same
measure, as I have hitherto
done, by a few fitting words for
the Editor's table. I hope you
will allow me to do so.
You will be sorry to hear
that Mrs. Salma Hale is at
Somerville, & that she will not
probably leave the Asylum again.
At her age, improvement is
very improbable, & before she
left me her intellect was much
deteriorated. She is quite happy
at Somerville: was desirous to
go there, & I think that both
George & Sarah, now it is decided
are much happier & more
comfortable about her than they
have been these last six years.
We will not talk of our own
sorrows. There are many keener
ones all around us, which can
not have the relief of sympathy,
or the blessed consolations of
memory. May God himself lay
his hand softly on your wounded
heart. He is indeed able to heal.
With the truest sympathy,
believe me yours,
CAH.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale
Care of L. A. Godey Esqr.
Philadelphia.
Penn.
My dear Mrs Hale
I have not written
to you to say how much I
have felt for you, for I know
that silent sympathy is a
great comfort; and also because
I did not know your daughter.
My own grief too has perhaps
occupied me too exclusively.
But I have thought I might
do better than to talk to you.
That I might perhaps assist
you a little, now that you
must sometimes feel inadequate
to the perpetual tax on your
brain, of a monthly periodical.
If I can do so, in the same
measure, as I have hitherto
done, by a few fitting words for
the Editor's table. I hope you
will allow me to do so.
You will be sorry to hear
that Mrs. Salma Hale is at
Somerville, & that she will not
probably leave the Asylum again.
At her age, improvement is
very improbable, & before she
left me her intellect was much
deteriorated. She is quite happy
at Somerville: was desirous to
go there, & I think that both
George & Sarah, now it is decided
are much happier & more
comfortable about her than they
have been these last six years.
We will not talk of our own
sorrows. There are many keener
ones all around us, which can
not have the relief of sympathy,
or the blessed consolations of
memory. May God himself lay
his hand softly on your wounded
heart. He is indeed able to heal.
With the truest sympathy,
believe me yours,
CAH.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale
Care of L. A. Godey Esqr.
Philadelphia.
Penn.