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re obliged to start without it, George remaining to look it up. Arrived here late Saturday evening,--dull, drizzling weather; poor Aunt Esther in dismay,--not a clean cap to put on,--mother in like state; all of us destitute. We went, half to Dr. Skinner's and half to Mrs. Elmes's: mother, Aunt Esther, father, and James to the former; Kate, Bella, and myself to Mr. Elmes's. They are rich, hospitable folks, and act the part of Gaius in apostolic times. . . . Our trunks came this morning. Father 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 home, et
. Sand, George, reviewsUncle Tom's Cabin, 196. Scotland, H. B. S.'s first visit to, 209. Scott, Walter, Lyman Beecher's opinion of, when discussing novel-reading, 25; monument in Edinburgh, 217. Sea, H. B. S.'s nervous horror of, 307. Sea-voyages, H. B. S. on, 205. Semi-Colon Club, H. B. S. becomes a member of, 68. Shaftesbury, Earl of, letter of, to Mrs. Stowe, 170. Shaftesbury, Lord, to H. B. S., letter from, 170; letter from H. B. S. to, 170; America and, 369. Skinner, Dr., 57. Slave, aiding a fugitive, 93. Slave-holding States on English address, 378; intensity of conflict in, 379. Slavery, H. B. S.'s first notice of, 71; anti-slavery agitation, 81; deathknell of, 141; Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry on, 141; growth of, 142; resume of its history, 143; responsibility of church for, 151; Lord Carlisle's opinion on, 164; moral effect of, 165; sacrilege of, 193; its past and future, 194; its injustice, 255; its death-blow; 370; Engli