Lydia Maria Child

Résumé du livre

This collection contains sixty letters written by Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) during the period 1845 to 1880. (For letters of her husband, David Lee Child (1794-1874), see the Salisbury Family Papers, Boxes 44-45.) Fifty-six of the letters are addressed to Marianne Cabot Devereaux Silsbee (1812-1899), author and wife of Nathaniel Silsbee. Mrs. Child's letters to her friend, Mrs. Silsbee, contain information relating to her abolitionist interests and associations, as well as comments on literary figures, some political discussion, and descriptions of domestic life. The letters written after 1865 are confined almost exclusively to Mrs. Child's discussion of her home life and fondness for Mrs. Silsbee. Many letters written during 1840s contain references to the American tour of Norwegian violinist and composer, Ole Bull (1810-1880), and Mrs. Child's friendship with him.