Metadata
Title
Julia M. Olin to Sarah Josepha Hale
Creator
Olin, Julia M. (Julia Matilda), 1814-1879
Date
1854-05-02
May 2, 1854
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-086
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
147 East 18th [St.?]
May 2d 1854
My dear Madam
I owe you an apology for not sooner
answering your letter received some days since, but I have
been very much engaged for the last week, I shall be most
happy to render you any assistance in my power, and
though my time will be fully employed during the
month of May, yet the summer months in our quiet little
cottage at Rhinebeck will give me leisure to comply with
your request.
I can furnish you with sketches of the lives of Mrs. Wesley
and Mrs. Fletcher, and I would suggest another name
[?] in the Annals of Methodism in this country. It is
that of Catherine Garrettson, daughter of Judge Livingston,
sister of Chancellor and Edward Livingston, and sister-in-law
of General Montgomery, General Armstrong [etc.] She married
one of the early Methodist preachers, having joined the Society
for Rhinebeck, when there were but two other members. She
died in 49 at the age of ninety seven - having lived for fifty
years in the beauty of holiness - She was a woman of strong mind
and great force of character, and as she was my mother's aunt
I could readily furnish you with a sketch of her history.
The sister too, Mrs. Montgomery, deserves a place in your
record
I hesitate somewhat about naming to you those who
are still living, though I believe those who have written
most are my friends and neighbors - I know they would
shrink from honorable mention being made of their names.
Mrs. Margaret Otherman Stevens, wife of Rev Abel Stevens, editor
of the National Magazine, writes easily and well, and I
will see what I can gather up of hers.
I will make some enquiries too about the wives of our
missionaries. I do not leave town till the last of May or the
beginning of June, and I shall be very happy to see you
on or before that time, and will be pleased to confer with
you on this subject. I have been very much interested in
Woman's Record and I think it a most valuable publication
and one worthy of the labor you have bestowed upon it.
With high respect
I am very truly yours
Julia M. Olin
May 2d 1854
My dear Madam
I owe you an apology for not sooner
answering your letter received some days since, but I have
been very much engaged for the last week, I shall be most
happy to render you any assistance in my power, and
though my time will be fully employed during the
month of May, yet the summer months in our quiet little
cottage at Rhinebeck will give me leisure to comply with
your request.
I can furnish you with sketches of the lives of Mrs. Wesley
and Mrs. Fletcher, and I would suggest another name
[?] in the Annals of Methodism in this country. It is
that of Catherine Garrettson, daughter of Judge Livingston,
sister of Chancellor and Edward Livingston, and sister-in-law
of General Montgomery, General Armstrong [etc.] She married
one of the early Methodist preachers, having joined the Society
for Rhinebeck, when there were but two other members. She
died in 49 at the age of ninety seven - having lived for fifty
years in the beauty of holiness - She was a woman of strong mind
and great force of character, and as she was my mother's aunt
I could readily furnish you with a sketch of her history.
The sister too, Mrs. Montgomery, deserves a place in your
record
I hesitate somewhat about naming to you those who
are still living, though I believe those who have written
most are my friends and neighbors - I know they would
shrink from honorable mention being made of their names.
Mrs. Margaret Otherman Stevens, wife of Rev Abel Stevens, editor
of the National Magazine, writes easily and well, and I
will see what I can gather up of hers.
I will make some enquiries too about the wives of our
missionaries. I do not leave town till the last of May or the
beginning of June, and I shall be very happy to see you
on or before that time, and will be pleased to confer with
you on this subject. I have been very much interested in
Woman's Record and I think it a most valuable publication
and one worthy of the labor you have bestowed upon it.
With high respect
I am very truly yours
Julia M. Olin