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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 7: Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852. (search)
and women, then about to be consigned to the slave warehouse of Bruin & Hill in Alexandria, Va., -a plea impassioned, eloquent, but vain, as all other pleas on that side had ever proved in all courts hitherto. It seemed that there was no hope, that nobody would hear, nobody would read, nobody pity; that this frightful system, that .had already pursued its victims into the free States, might at last even threaten them in Canada. Introduction to Illustrated Edition of Uncle Tom, p. XIII. （Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1879.) Filled with this fear, she determined to do all that one woman might to enlist the sympathies of England for the cause, and to avert, even as a remote contingency, the closing of Canada as a haven of refuge for the oppressed. To this end she at once wrote letters to Prince Albert, to the Duke of Argyll, to the Earls of Carlisle and Shaftesbury, to Macaulay, Dickens, and others whom she knew to be interested in the cause of anti-slavery. These she ordered to be s
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 21: closing scenes, 1870-1889. (search)
noteworthy event of her later years was the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of her birthday. That it might be fittingly observed, her publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston, arranged a reception for her in form of a garden party, to which they invited the literati of America. It was held on June 14, 188he literary men and women of the day. From three until five o'clock was spent socially. As the guests arrived they were presented to Mrs. Stowe by Mr. H. 0. Houghton, and then they gathered in groups in the parlors, on the verandas, on the lawn, and in the refreshment room. At five o'clock they assembled in a large tent on the lawn, when Mr. Houghton, as host, addressed to his guest and her friends a few words of congratulation and welcome. He closed his remarks by saying:-- And now, honored madam, as When to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea northeast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
. Birney, J. G., office wrecked, 81 et seq.; H. B. S.'s sympathy with, 84. Birthday, seventieth, celebration of by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 500. Blackwood's attack on Lady Byron, 448. Blantyre, Lord, 230. Bogue, David, 189-191. Boston osy and article for Atlantic monthly, 452; letters to H. B. S. from, 360, 409; on facts in the Byron Controversy, 456. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., celebrate H. B. S.'s seventieth birthday, 500. Houghtol, H. O., presents guests to H. B. S., on celebWestern reading tour, 497; fearful distances and wretched trains, 498; seventieth anniversary of birthday celebrated by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 500; H. O. Houghton's welcome, 501; H. W. Beecher's reply and eulogy on sister, 502; Whittier's poem at H. O. Houghton's welcome, 501; H. W. Beecher's reply and eulogy on sister, 502; Whittier's poem at seventieth birthday, 502; Holmes' poem, 503; other poems of note written for the occasion, 505; Mrs. Stowe's thanks, 505; joy in the future of the colored race, 506; reading old letters and papers, 507; her own letters to Mr. Stowe and letters from f
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Novels, stories, sketches, and poems, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. (search)
l characterized by the genius of Mrs. Stowe.... In all, there is a profound appreciation of the inner life of religion,--a wrestling for nearness to God.--American Christian Review. Flowers and fruit, selected from the Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 16mo, $1.00. A charming little book . . . full of sweet passages, and bright, discerning, wise, and in the best sense of the term, witty sayings of our greatest American novelist.--Chicago Advance. Dialogues and scenes from the writings of Mrs. Stowe. For use in School Entertainments. Selected by Emily Weaver. In Riverside Literature Series, extra number E. 16mo, paper, 15 cents, net. The selections are from some of Mrs. Stowe's most true-to-life scenes,--full of pathos and mirth. ... Nine most charming dialogues.--School Journal (New York). *** For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 4 Park Street, Boston; 11 East 17th Street, New York.