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Chapter 17: Florida, 1865-1869.

  • Letter to Duchess of Argyll.
    • -- Mrs. Stowe desires to have a home at the South. -- Florida the best field for doing good. -- she buys a place at Mandarin. -- a charming winter residence. -- “Palmetto leaves.” -- Easter Sunday at Mandarin. -- correspondence with Dr. Holmes. -- “Poganuc people.” -- receptions in New Orleans and Tallahassee. -- last winter at Mandarin.

In 1866, the terrible conflict between the North and South having ended, Mrs. Stowe wrote the following letter to the Duchess of Argyll:--

Hartford, February 19, 1866.
My dear friend,--Your letter was a real spring of comfort to me, bringing refreshingly the pleasant library at Inverary and the lovely days I spent there.

I am grieved at what you say of your dear mother's health. I showed your letter to Mrs. Perkins, and we both agreed in saying that we should like for a time to fill the place of maid to her, as doubtless you all feel, too. I should so love to be with her, to read to her, and talk to her! and oh, there is so much that would cheer and comfort a noble heart like hers that we could talk about. Oh, my friend, when I think of what has been done these last few years, and of what is now doing, I am lost in amazement. I have just, by way of realizing it to myself, been reading “Uncle Tom's ”


Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1889.

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