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interest.
The sale of your book will go on increasing.
It is beginning to be understood.
Believe me, with kind regards to your daughters,
Your faithful and affectionate A. T. Noel Byron.
To this note the following answer was promptly returned:--
Grove Terrace, Kentish Town, October 16, 1856.
Dear Lady Byron,--How glad I was to see your handwriting once more!
how more than glad I should be to see you! I do long to see you. I have so much to say,--so much to ask, and need to be refreshed with a sense of a congenial and sympathetic soul.Thank you, my dear friend, for your sympathy with our poor sufferers in Kansas. May God bless you for it! By doing this you will step to my side; perhaps you may share something of that abuse which they who “know not what they do” heap upon all who so feel for the right. I asssure you, dear friend, I am not insensible to the fiery darts which thus fly around me. . . .
Direct as usual to my publishers, and believe me, as ever, with all my heart,
Affectionately yours, H. B. S.
Having dispatched this note, Mrs. Stowe wrote to her husband concerning their surroundings and plans as follows:--
Friday, October 16th.
Confusion in the camp!
no baggage come, nobody knows why; running to stations, inquiries, messages, and no baggage.
Meanwhile we have
