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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 3: Cincinnati, 1832-1836. (search)
t time this season! I don't know, I'm sure, as we shall ever get to Pittsburgh. Father is staying here begging money for the Biblical Literature professorship; the incumbent is to be C. Stowe. Last night we had a call from Arthur Tappan and Mr. Eastman. Father begged $2,000 yesterday, and now the good people are praying him to abide certain days, as he succeeds so well. They are talking of sending us off and keeping him here. I really dare not go and see Aunt Esther and mother now; they wFather stood and saw them all brought into Dr. Skinner's entry, and then he swung his hat and gave a hurrah, as any man would whose wife had not had a clean cap or ruffle for a week. Father does not succeed very well in opening purses here. Mr. Eastman says, however, that this is not of much consequence. I saw to-day a notice in the Philadelphian about father, setting forth how this distinguished brother, with his large family, having torn themselves from the endearing scenes of their hom
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)
Cabin, and showing a much brighter side of the slavery question, but they all fell flat and were left unread. Of one of them, a clergyman of Charleston, S. C., wrote in a private letter:-- I have read two columns in the Southern press of Mrs. Eastman's Aunt Phillis' Cabin, or Southern Life as it is, with the remarks of the editor. I have no comment to make on it, as that is done by itself. The editor might have saved himself being writ down an ass by the public if he had withheld his nonsense. If the two columns are a fair specimen of Mrs. Eastman's book, I pity her attempt and her name as an author. In due time Mrs. Stowe began to receive answers to the letters she had forwarded with copies of her book to prominent men in England, and these were without exception flattering and encouraging. Through his private secretary Prince Albert acknowledged with thanks the receipt of his copy, and promised to read it. Succeeding mails brought scores of letters from English men of
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
Dundee, meeting at, 222. Dunrobin Castle, visit to, 276. E. E—, letter from H. B. S. to, on breakfast at the Trevelyans', 234. Earthly care a Heavenly discipline, 131. East Hampton, L. I., birthplace of Catherine Beecher, 23. Eastman, Mrs., writes a Southern reply to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 163. Edgeworth, Maria, 247. Edinburgh, H. B. S. in, 216; return to, 222. Edmonson slave family; efforts to save, 179; Mrs. Stowe educates and supports daughters, 179; raises money to free er, 155; begins a serial in National era, 156; price paid by Era, 158; publisher's offer, 158; first copy of books sold, 159; wonderful success. 160; praise from Longfellow, Whittier, Garrison, and Higginson, 161, 162; threatening letters, 163; Eastman's, Mrs., rejoinder to, 163; reception in England, Times, on, 168; political effect of, 168, 169; book under interdict in South, 172; Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 174, 188; Jenny Lind's praise of, 183; attack upon, 187; Sampson Low upon its success