Letter and a portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Item Information

Title:
Letter and a portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description:
Unknown author writes to unknown recipient regarding being unable to say much to the recipient or their household. The author writes, "You are under a sort of million horse-power of intellectual steam" that the recipient has due to their publishing. The author writes, "the girls heads are running over with Cathedrals, & Theartres, and Moss-grown towers & all sorts of things-It is of no use to try to say anything when the mercury ranges at 92 degrees in the shade." The author regrets that "the moment I....saw that you expected a joke from me, my mental dog secured to me to cling his tail & hide away entirely beyond my control." The author wishes she was going to England.
Date:
[ca. 1832–1867]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Prints
Genre:
Portrait prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women educators--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Women educators--United States
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 20 cm. + 1 print (18 x 13 cm.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111612f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Place of publication unknown]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5143531
Call #:
MS Ch B 5.71
Barcode:
39999086049622