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minute study of the storm.
She was on the alert to detect anything which might lead her to correct her description.
Of this new story Charles Summer wrote from the senate chamber:--
My dear
Mrs. Stowe,--I am rejoiced to learn, from your excellent sister here, that you are occupied with another tale exposing slavery.
I feel that it will act directly upon pending questions, and help us in our struggle for
Kansas, and also to overthrow the slaveoligarchy in the coming Presidential election.
We need your help at once in our struggle.
Having finished this second great story of slavery, in the early summer of 1856 Mrs. Stowe decided to visit Europe again, in search of a much-needed rest.
She also found it necessary to do so in order to secure the English right to her book, which she had failed to do on Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Just before sailing she received the following touching letter from her life-long friend, Georgiana May. It is the last one of a series that extended without interruption over a period of thirty years, and as such has been carefully cherished:--
Ocean House, Groton Point, July 26, 1856.
Dear Hattie,--Very likely it is too late for me to come with my modest knock to your study door, and ask to be taken in for a moment, but I do so want to
bless you before you go, and I have not been well enough to write until to-day.
It seems just as if I
