Metadata
Title
Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1860/1869-11-08
November 8, [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-123
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Nov 8th
Dear Mrs Hale
I have just recd your
kind letter with the advertisements.
I shall certainly try to do my
best to fill the department, if
only to Credit your recommendation
of me to Mr Childs. And
it is possible I may be able to
furnish something interesting.
With this, I enclose the
remainder of the Idolatry Subject.
As to the length of the essays, I
mean they shall [DE: be] Average about 2 & 1/2
pages of the Lady's Book. If they
fall short of the required amount
I suppose it will be a more
venial fault than too great exuberance.
Now- do you want a story?
A lady had brought me one to
see if it is adapted to the Lady's
Book. On reading it, I thought
it admirably adapted to that
periodical, being well written &
in a simple & effective style. But
my impression is that you have
stories enough on hand & do not
wish to buy any, however good.
Tell me please if you would like
to have her send it on to you.
I hope the cool weather
invigorates you and that you will
not get too wearied with your well-doing.
How can you, with all your
other cares undertake a department
of Mr. Childs paper? - I wish
you would send me one of his papers
I mean one he publishes now - that
I may get a general idea of the length
of the columns. Is the new paper to
be of the same size and shape?
The "Hale place" is for sale at
Keene. That lovely spot where we
have both passed so many happy
hours. Keene will never be itself
again, without that ministering
spirit. It seems melancholy now
to visit it.
Very truly Yours
CAH.
Glimpses
Hygiene
Letter from Provincetown
Idolatry.
[ED: line]
Did you ever find a purchaser
for the other essays? I am sorry
they would not suit your mage.
Thank you now & always for your
kind thoughtfulness for me!
Cambridge Oct 30th
My dear Mrs Hale,
Herewith I send you
the fourth & last of the articles which Mr. Godey
desired me to write. I suppose they are somewhere
within the limits he mentioned, vis: 2 1/2 pages.
& trust they may be what you approve. If there is
anything you don't like, strike it out without scruple,
as being probably my own sober second thought.
Now about Mr Childs. I feel very diffident about
being able to fill the department acceptably,
but I will try. When am I to begin? I will try a while leaving it to
him to discontinue it when he pleases, & reserve
to myself the right to do the same if I do not
satisfy myself. - As to the price [ED: could be piece], if you say it is
right, I presume it is so. -- Do you understand
what I am to write what will be amusing or
interesting to children, sometimes, as well as to
parents? Or that it is to be something like my
hints? -- In regard to the last book, any
alterations you would be inclined to make
I should undoubtedly be pleased with, & be
[ED: the following three sentences appear upside down at the top of the letter]
You are very kind to try to circulate my book. I wish it
might sell better than it does. But you know what a chance
a book is! --
grateful for the suggestions. I am not willing
to add to the chapter on the religious education,
because I wrote that with particular
care, & what would be too little for one would
be too much for another, if I went into any
particular[DE:s] opinions. I am for each mother instructing
her own children, & not taking my ideas on
the subject. If there is not a recognition of
religious truths & principle in the whole book,
no one chapter will give it, and besides my
book is hints for the nursery, & not education.
I think the "fortune made by the Ladys book"
looks quite fine - I omitted some particulars,
which though true would not add to the general
effect, & which really make the splendid concern
rather ridiculous - but it is as well to look at
things occasionally couleur de rose - In this stately
mansion, two lonesome beings wander up & down,
& look at their outside & inside finery. No children
are on the stairs - no rocking horse at the hall door,
No society - no company. No nothing but the
fine house - No books - no conversation, no general
culture. Only a man & woman & a house.
I thank you always for your kind interest.
with affectionate respect yrs CAH.
Dear Mrs Hale
I have just recd your
kind letter with the advertisements.
I shall certainly try to do my
best to fill the department, if
only to Credit your recommendation
of me to Mr Childs. And
it is possible I may be able to
furnish something interesting.
With this, I enclose the
remainder of the Idolatry Subject.
As to the length of the essays, I
mean they shall [DE: be] Average about 2 & 1/2
pages of the Lady's Book. If they
fall short of the required amount
I suppose it will be a more
venial fault than too great exuberance.
Now- do you want a story?
A lady had brought me one to
see if it is adapted to the Lady's
Book. On reading it, I thought
it admirably adapted to that
periodical, being well written &
in a simple & effective style. But
my impression is that you have
stories enough on hand & do not
wish to buy any, however good.
Tell me please if you would like
to have her send it on to you.
I hope the cool weather
invigorates you and that you will
not get too wearied with your well-doing.
How can you, with all your
other cares undertake a department
of Mr. Childs paper? - I wish
you would send me one of his papers
I mean one he publishes now - that
I may get a general idea of the length
of the columns. Is the new paper to
be of the same size and shape?
The "Hale place" is for sale at
Keene. That lovely spot where we
have both passed so many happy
hours. Keene will never be itself
again, without that ministering
spirit. It seems melancholy now
to visit it.
Very truly Yours
CAH.
Glimpses
Hygiene
Letter from Provincetown
Idolatry.
[ED: line]
Did you ever find a purchaser
for the other essays? I am sorry
they would not suit your mage.
Thank you now & always for your
kind thoughtfulness for me!
Cambridge Oct 30th
My dear Mrs Hale,
Herewith I send you
the fourth & last of the articles which Mr. Godey
desired me to write. I suppose they are somewhere
within the limits he mentioned, vis: 2 1/2 pages.
& trust they may be what you approve. If there is
anything you don't like, strike it out without scruple,
as being probably my own sober second thought.
Now about Mr Childs. I feel very diffident about
being able to fill the department acceptably,
but I will try. When am I to begin? I will try a while leaving it to
him to discontinue it when he pleases, & reserve
to myself the right to do the same if I do not
satisfy myself. - As to the price [ED: could be piece], if you say it is
right, I presume it is so. -- Do you understand
what I am to write what will be amusing or
interesting to children, sometimes, as well as to
parents? Or that it is to be something like my
hints? -- In regard to the last book, any
alterations you would be inclined to make
I should undoubtedly be pleased with, & be
[ED: the following three sentences appear upside down at the top of the letter]
You are very kind to try to circulate my book. I wish it
might sell better than it does. But you know what a chance
a book is! --
grateful for the suggestions. I am not willing
to add to the chapter on the religious education,
because I wrote that with particular
care, & what would be too little for one would
be too much for another, if I went into any
particular[DE:s] opinions. I am for each mother instructing
her own children, & not taking my ideas on
the subject. If there is not a recognition of
religious truths & principle in the whole book,
no one chapter will give it, and besides my
book is hints for the nursery, & not education.
I think the "fortune made by the Ladys book"
looks quite fine - I omitted some particulars,
which though true would not add to the general
effect, & which really make the splendid concern
rather ridiculous - but it is as well to look at
things occasionally couleur de rose - In this stately
mansion, two lonesome beings wander up & down,
& look at their outside & inside finery. No children
are on the stairs - no rocking horse at the hall door,
No society - no company. No nothing but the
fine house - No books - no conversation, no general
culture. Only a man & woman & a house.
I thank you always for your kind interest.
with affectionate respect yrs CAH.