Metadata
Title
Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1860/1869-11-19
November 19, [1860s]
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-120
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Cambridge Nov. 19th
My dear Mrs Hale,
I wrote to you
something like two weeks ago,
enclosing a "Letter" such as you
thought might be useful to you,
for your Editor's Table. I hope
it was what you wanted, and
far enough removed from a puff
to be a probable thing to receive.
- I think it likely that my
writing for the Lady's book occasionally
& having it always on my center
table may do its circulation no
harm - & I assure you that I speak
of its high tone with much less
reserve than I write to you. Let
me know if it answered your purpose.
You asked me some time
ago, if I wished to write an article
for the Lady's book & I did not
at the time reply to this question,
because I had really nothing that I
specially wished to say that you would
care to insert. Since that, I have
written a short article, (perhaps four
or five pages [DE: on] my recollections of
Margaret Fuller, Countess Ossili [Ossoli]. It speaks
of her wonderful powers of intellect etc.
and her underlying deep, affectionateness of
character. She was with all her excentricties [eccentricities],
& with all that we do not
approve, a fine instance of womanly
ability. In Europe, her reputation is higher
than in her own country, & she is considered
one of the representative women of
America.
It has struck me that this article
might be what you want - if it is,
please let me know.
Since I wrote you last I have
been literally rusticating for a week
in the Country, in a house where not
an individual except those belonging
to it, went in or out. You cant [can't] think
what a body & soul rest it has been
to me. All day to hear the ticking
of the clock, & my only variety, driving
under the November sun through heeless [treeless?]
woods.
I have had no word from Mr.
Childs of any kind. I hope you are
very well, and I know you have reason
to be contented with yourself & that your
life has not been in vain. But a
perpetual influence is needed of conservative
good manners & morals, Your
articles in the Home Weekly are very,
very excellent. These words fitly spoken
do a world of good - & more than you
think while you write them.
I must say goodbye, & write
two more letters - a thing I used to like to
do, I hate now to do - Affectionately Yours
CAH
You would like to know Mr. & Mrs.
Wm A Howell's who live in Cambridge,
Mr. H. is Editor of the Atlantic & recently
returned to this Country from his Consulate
in Venice - perhaps you have seen his
book, "Venetian Life" which ran through
its first edition in three weeks, - He is
about as big as ninepence, & married
a daughter of Larkin Mead, formerly of
Chesterfield, father of the Sculptor Mead,
Didn't you know him? Isn't it funny
how large oaks from little acorns grow?
S. J. Hale.
Care of Louis A. Godey, Esqr
Philadelphia.
Penn.
My dear Mrs Hale,
I wrote to you
something like two weeks ago,
enclosing a "Letter" such as you
thought might be useful to you,
for your Editor's Table. I hope
it was what you wanted, and
far enough removed from a puff
to be a probable thing to receive.
- I think it likely that my
writing for the Lady's book occasionally
& having it always on my center
table may do its circulation no
harm - & I assure you that I speak
of its high tone with much less
reserve than I write to you. Let
me know if it answered your purpose.
You asked me some time
ago, if I wished to write an article
for the Lady's book & I did not
at the time reply to this question,
because I had really nothing that I
specially wished to say that you would
care to insert. Since that, I have
written a short article, (perhaps four
or five pages [DE: on] my recollections of
Margaret Fuller, Countess Ossili [Ossoli]. It speaks
of her wonderful powers of intellect etc.
and her underlying deep, affectionateness of
character. She was with all her excentricties [eccentricities],
& with all that we do not
approve, a fine instance of womanly
ability. In Europe, her reputation is higher
than in her own country, & she is considered
one of the representative women of
America.
It has struck me that this article
might be what you want - if it is,
please let me know.
Since I wrote you last I have
been literally rusticating for a week
in the Country, in a house where not
an individual except those belonging
to it, went in or out. You cant [can't] think
what a body & soul rest it has been
to me. All day to hear the ticking
of the clock, & my only variety, driving
under the November sun through heeless [treeless?]
woods.
I have had no word from Mr.
Childs of any kind. I hope you are
very well, and I know you have reason
to be contented with yourself & that your
life has not been in vain. But a
perpetual influence is needed of conservative
good manners & morals, Your
articles in the Home Weekly are very,
very excellent. These words fitly spoken
do a world of good - & more than you
think while you write them.
I must say goodbye, & write
two more letters - a thing I used to like to
do, I hate now to do - Affectionately Yours
CAH
You would like to know Mr. & Mrs.
Wm A Howell's who live in Cambridge,
Mr. H. is Editor of the Atlantic & recently
returned to this Country from his Consulate
in Venice - perhaps you have seen his
book, "Venetian Life" which ran through
its first edition in three weeks, - He is
about as big as ninepence, & married
a daughter of Larkin Mead, formerly of
Chesterfield, father of the Sculptor Mead,
Didn't you know him? Isn't it funny
how large oaks from little acorns grow?
S. J. Hale.
Care of Louis A. Godey, Esqr
Philadelphia.
Penn.