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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 7: Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852. (search)
sent to their several addresses, accompanied by the very earliest copies of her book that should be printed. Then, having done what she could, and committed the result to God, she calmly turned her attention to other affairs. In the mean time the fears of the author as to whether or not her book would be read were quickly dispelled. Three thousand copies were sold the very first day, a second edition was issued the following week, a third on the 1st of April, and within a year one hundred and twenty editions, or over three hundred thousand copies of the book, had been issued and sold in this country. Almost in a day the poor professor's wife had become the most talked — of woman in the world, her influence for good was spreading to its remotest corners, and henceforth she was to be a public character, whose every movement would be watched with interest, and whose every word would be quoted. The long, weary struggle with poverty was to be hers no longer; for, in seeking to aid
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The veterans of Waterloo. --There are still one hundred and twenty military officers above the rank of captain holding the Waterloo medal. Of these eighteen are generals, twenty-two lieutenant-generals, twenty-four major-generals, nineteen colonels, twenty-four lieutenant--colonels, and thirteen majors. Three or four years since the number of officers wearing this medal (above the rank of captain) was one hundred and fifty.
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