Glances and glimpses, or, Fifty years social, including twenty years professional life / by Harriot K. Hunt.

  • Hunt, Harriot Kesia, 1805-1875.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Glances and glimpses, or, Fifty years social, including twenty years professional life / by Harriot K. Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / R} TO SARAH M. GRIMKE. My Dear SARAH: You have elevated, deepened, and brightened my public life, by your high- toned principles, leading me ever to apply the touchstone of truth to every subject, reckoning nothing small. The reforms of the day, in your philosophic mind, have been so united with gentleness and tenderness, and you have so taught me to control the impulses of my nature in the withholding of great truths, until the fulness of time, when like ripened fruits they could fall into wanting and waiting hands, that I have sometimes thought you a wise ma- _ Your moral courage in living out the internal, is so blended with your relig- ious responsibilities, that harmony has a meaning when applied to you. (Heaven bless and guide your declining years.) As a woman, rare and true, you have done much for me, and also for every woman engaged in the reforms of the day. (vi
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