| 1870 | Little pussy Willow. |
| 1871 | Pink and white Tyranny. |
| 1871 | Old town Fireside stories. |
| 1872 | My wife and I. |
| 1873 | Palmetto leaves. |
| 1873 | Library of famous fiction. |
| 1875 | We and our neighbors. |
| 1876 | Betty's bright idea. |
| 1877 | Footsteps of the master. |
| 1878 | Bible Heroines. |
| 1878 | Poganuc people. |
| 1881 | A dog's mission. |
In 1872 a new and remunerative field of labor was opened to Mrs. Stowe, and though it entailed a vast amount of weariness and hard work, she entered it with her customary energy and enthusiasm. It presented itself in the shape of an offer from the American Literary (Lecture) Bureau of Boston to deliver a course of forty readings from her own works in the principal cities of the New England States. The offer was a liberal one, and Mrs. Stowe accepted it on condition that the reading tour should be ended in time to allow her to go to her Florida home in December. This being acceded to, she set forth and gave her first reading in Bridgeport, Conn., on the evening of September 19, 1872.
The following extracts from letters written to her husband while on this reading tour throw some interesting gleams of light on the scenes behind the curtain of the lecturer's platform. From Boston, October 3d, she writes: “Have had a most successful but fatiguing week. Read in Cambridgeport to-night, and Newburyport to-morrow night.” Two weeks later, upon receipt of a letter from her husband, in which he fears he has not long to live, she writes from Westfield, Mass:--
