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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)
llege plan, with a faculty of instructors. As all these things are treated at length in letters written by Mrs. Stowe to her friend, Miss Georgiana May, we cannot do better than turn to them. In May, 1833, she writes:-- Bishop Purcell visited our school to-day and expressed himself as greatly pleased that we had opened such an one here. He spoke of my poor little geography, This geography was begun by Mrs. Stowe during the summer of 1832, while visiting her brother William at Newport, R. I. It was completed during the winter of 1833, and published by the firm of Corey, Fairbank & Webster, of Cincinnati. and thanked me for the unprejudiced manner in which I had handled the Catholic question in it. I was of course flattered that he should have known anything of the book. How I wish you could see Walnut Hills. It is about two miles from the city, and the road to it is as picturesque as you can imagine a road to be without springs that run among the hills. Every possible v
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 17: Florida, 1865-1869. (search)
of attending the same communion as her daughters, who were Episcopalians. Her brother Charles did not, however, see fit to change his creed, and though he went to Florida he settled a hundred and sixty miles west from the St. John's River, at Newport, near St. Marks, on the Gulf coast, and about twenty miles from Tallahassee. Here he lived every winter and several summers for fifteen years, and here he left the impress of his own remarkably sweet and lovely character upon the scattered popued into this remote corner. In 1872 she wrote a series of Florida sketches, which were published in book form, the following year, by J. R. Osgood & Co., under the title of Palmetto leaves. May 19, 1873, she writes to her brother Charles at Newport, Fla. :-- Although you have not answered my last letter, I cannot leave Florida without saying good-by. I send you the Palmetto leaves and my parting love. If I could either have brought or left my husband, I should have come to see you
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 21: closing scenes, 1870-1889. (search)
the picture rolls back into a safe, and great doors, closed with a combination lock, defend it. It reminded me of some of the foreign wonders we have seen. Well, my course is almost done, and if I get through without any sickness, cold, or accident, how wonderful it will seem. I have never felt the near, kind presence of our Heavenly Father so much as in this. He giveth strength to the faint, and to them of no might He increaseth strength. I have found this true all my life. From Newport she writes on November 26th-- It was a hard, tiring, disagreeable piece of business to read in New London. Had to wait three mortal hours in Palmer. Then a slow, weary train, that did not reach New London until after dark. There was then no time to rest, and I was so tired that it did seem as though I could not dress. I really trembled with fatigue. The hall was long and dimly lighted, and the people were not seated compactly, but around in patches. The light was dim, except for
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
her salon, 291. Money-making, reading as easy a way as any of, 494. Moral aim in novel-writing, J. R. Lowell on, 333. Mourning veil, the, 327. Mystique La, on spiritualism, 412. N. Naples and Vesuvius, 302. National era, its history, 157; work for, 186. Negroes, petition from, presented by J. Q. Adams, 510. New England, Mrs. Stowe's knowledge of, 332; in The minister's Wooing, 333; life pictured in Oldtown folks, 444. New London, fatigue of reading at, 496. Newport, tiresome journey to, on reading tour, 497. Niagara, impressions of, 75. Normal school for colored teachers, 203. North American Review onUncle Tom's Cabin, 254. North versus South, England on, 388, 391. Norton, C. E., Ruskin on the proper home of, 354. O. Observer, New York, denunciation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 168, 172. Oldtown Fireside stories, 438; strange spiritual experiences of Prof. Stowe, 438; Sam Lawson a real character, 439; relief after finishing, 489;