Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale

Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale

1860/1869-11-10

November 10, [1860s]

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879

Manuscripts

eng

text

Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

46-M-114

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My dear Mrs Hale I got your letter, & also the paper,
Having procured such information as I thought necessary
I write your article at once I hope it will suit you.
I thought you cared rather more for the statement than
any thing else. I am quite pleased with my letter to
you about domestic management. I'd no idea it was
so good. Do you ever read over something you have written
when the nausea of composition has passed, to find to

your surprise that what [DE: what] made you sick to
look at, is quite decent!
I am glad you are going away to rest & recreate
I shall work very steadily instead. But the wind is
fresh here, & the world is green, & there are worse
things in it than work. Thank you for all your kind
words & works. - Did you know that dear Mr Hale is at Somerville?
It is even so - The golden bowl is broken at the cistern
& the wheel at the fountain -

Mrs. Sarah J. Hale
Care of L. A. Godey Esqr
Philadelphia.