Metadata
Title
Harriett C. Gould to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1863-06-14
June 14, [1863?]
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-079
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Dear Mrs Hale -
I sent you the
Christian Era - Two numbers
containing pieces I put
in the paper with reference
to Mrs Mason - She sent
us quite a long document
but I could not make
the ladies think best to print
it - I fear it would not
have done much good for
her opponents no doubt had
determined beforehand
what they would do at
St Louis - They seem to
handle our sister without
gloves - they consider her insane
& then make her answerable
for all her acts & opinions.
Do you see the Rangoon
Times? Dr Mason writes much
in that paper & at the time
of the controversy he shew up
things in their true light -
In the end I think the board
of the A.B.M. Union will be
much ashamed of Mr Crop.
Did you see by the Wachman [Watchman]
& Reflector of June 1st that
Mr Crop sent to the St Louis
meeting a letter containing
"a [?] list of heresies
taught by Mrs Mason"?
the board act to all appearance
like men carried away by one
side of an argument.
Miss Bale has requested
to write to you or Mrs Stevens,
& I felt sorry when she told
me lately that she had not
done so. Of course I do not
write officially but will just
say that she had a meeting
with reference to supporting
Miss Marston some of the
ladies think that she is working
well others think she is not
but our funds are so low that
we voted that we could
not sustain her - I do not
know if the note has been
sent to the New York Society -
we are only a branch & have
no authority about any one.
Mrs Mason writes that the Eng.
Government will aid in Miss M's
support if requested.
I regret that in Boston we
are like a few conies in the
wilderness - our society cannot
flourish - one of our D.D.s
told a member that she had
better see where her money went.
I called on Mrs Safford
Deacon Saffords widow to
see if she would not join
us, but she had too many
societies on hand already.
We are just a few baptists.
Would it not be well to insert
in your interesting magazine -
"We have accounts from time
to time of the Boston Branch
of our Missionary Society - "The
meetings are held with Mrs Gould
No 31 Boylston Street" - then
if any one wished to make
inquiries they could call
to see me. We feel much
interested in young Buttard
some money ought to be
collected to help him through
college. I was much
pleased with Mrs [Stevens?]
remark in her letter which Miss Bake read me that
she wishes she could
support the Masons - I am
glad that they have some
support from Government.
I have not written anything
worthy of your perusal
but have often intended writing
to you. Mrs Doermas wrote
Mrs Robinson our secretary to
know if we would send
a committee to meet one from
Philadel, at New York, but we
cannot do it as a society;
some one might go on as an
individual if the meeting ha
not passed. Mrs. Richardson
is the one who has had the
greatest interest in our society
from the beginning - She is a
good christian - Happy are
we if we maintain a humble
walk with God in all the
storms of life. Blessed is he
who builds his house
on the Rock of Ages -
Affty yrs
w respect
Harriet C. Gould
Should[DE:y] you have occasion
to write - tho' I would not
tax your precious time - write
in care of Dr A.A. Gould
I sent you the
Christian Era - Two numbers
containing pieces I put
in the paper with reference
to Mrs Mason - She sent
us quite a long document
but I could not make
the ladies think best to print
it - I fear it would not
have done much good for
her opponents no doubt had
determined beforehand
what they would do at
St Louis - They seem to
handle our sister without
gloves - they consider her insane
& then make her answerable
for all her acts & opinions.
Do you see the Rangoon
Times? Dr Mason writes much
in that paper & at the time
of the controversy he shew up
things in their true light -
In the end I think the board
of the A.B.M. Union will be
much ashamed of Mr Crop.
Did you see by the Wachman [Watchman]
& Reflector of June 1st that
Mr Crop sent to the St Louis
meeting a letter containing
"a [?] list of heresies
taught by Mrs Mason"?
the board act to all appearance
like men carried away by one
side of an argument.
Miss Bale has requested
to write to you or Mrs Stevens,
& I felt sorry when she told
me lately that she had not
done so. Of course I do not
write officially but will just
say that she had a meeting
with reference to supporting
Miss Marston some of the
ladies think that she is working
well others think she is not
but our funds are so low that
we voted that we could
not sustain her - I do not
know if the note has been
sent to the New York Society -
we are only a branch & have
no authority about any one.
Mrs Mason writes that the Eng.
Government will aid in Miss M's
support if requested.
I regret that in Boston we
are like a few conies in the
wilderness - our society cannot
flourish - one of our D.D.s
told a member that she had
better see where her money went.
I called on Mrs Safford
Deacon Saffords widow to
see if she would not join
us, but she had too many
societies on hand already.
We are just a few baptists.
Would it not be well to insert
in your interesting magazine -
"We have accounts from time
to time of the Boston Branch
of our Missionary Society - "The
meetings are held with Mrs Gould
No 31 Boylston Street" - then
if any one wished to make
inquiries they could call
to see me. We feel much
interested in young Buttard
some money ought to be
collected to help him through
college. I was much
pleased with Mrs [Stevens?]
remark in her letter which Miss Bake read me that
she wishes she could
support the Masons - I am
glad that they have some
support from Government.
I have not written anything
worthy of your perusal
but have often intended writing
to you. Mrs Doermas wrote
Mrs Robinson our secretary to
know if we would send
a committee to meet one from
Philadel, at New York, but we
cannot do it as a society;
some one might go on as an
individual if the meeting ha
not passed. Mrs. Richardson
is the one who has had the
greatest interest in our society
from the beginning - She is a
good christian - Happy are
we if we maintain a humble
walk with God in all the
storms of life. Blessed is he
who builds his house
on the Rock of Ages -
Affty yrs
w respect
Harriet C. Gould
Should[DE:y] you have occasion
to write - tho' I would not
tax your precious time - write
in care of Dr A.A. Gould