Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, July 6, 1878
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Title
Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, July 6, 1878
Subject
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Death
Illness
Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915
Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882
Praise
Journalists/Writers
Finances
Intimacy--As topic
Mercer, Sallie
Description
Emma Stebbins thanks Anne Whitney for her kind words about the Cushman-memoir and mentions the letters of praise she has received about the book. Stebbins also asks for information about Dr. Mitchell, famous for his rest cure, and the charges involved.
Credit
Wellesley College Archives, Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4): Correspondence. 2010.Creator
Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882
Date
1878-07-06
Rights
This Correspondence is brought to you for free and open access by the Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4) at Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive.
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Reference
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[p. 1] My Dear Friend,
Since the reception of your letter, I have made a change of base as you see above, and am now established in my little cottage, with +++ +++ and my good Sallie for companions. Not better yet for the change of air, though hoping to be - I found excessive heat her as at Hyde Park and was hardly equal to the journey - The first three days were trying in many ways, living in a house which has been closed for more than a year, is not easy at first - but with time and patience, everything comes around - a delicious change of temperature has come for one thing & now it is more like the climate of the Berkshire Hills - and I hope in looking up where I may find help - which I have done before, but my decline, as I look back upon it, has been so slow but steady - that it is hoping against hope.
[p. 2] I note your suggestion about Dr. Mitchell - his method is not unknown to me. If I still continue in this +++ helpless way when the summer is over and my boy goes back to college, I will think seriously about consulting him, though I fear the expense will be beyond my present means. Do you know anything about his charges? Or could you find out for me from this friend you speak of? I should like to know if I could choose my own abiding [?] place, and have Sallie to take care of me. in that case I might do it. Thanks for all your say about the Book - I do not desire better - and you may criticise it all you will. I know well it is open to much - though it has ben mercifully praised. Osgood sent me a thick package of notices, from all parts of the country
[p. 3] and I was surprised to see how favorable they were. But the best I get is from private sources - from her friends and mine - +++ know how sweet they are. Upon the whole I am ++++ satisfied than I have been by anything of my own doing, though it has come through difficulties which you can hardly dream of. I hope you will write to me sometimes and do not let your letters be all about my only - I am interested in your doings and thinkings and yourself and am always,
faithfully yours,
ES
Since the reception of your letter, I have made a change of base as you see above, and am now established in my little cottage, with +++ +++ and my good Sallie for companions. Not better yet for the change of air, though hoping to be - I found excessive heat her as at Hyde Park and was hardly equal to the journey - The first three days were trying in many ways, living in a house which has been closed for more than a year, is not easy at first - but with time and patience, everything comes around - a delicious change of temperature has come for one thing & now it is more like the climate of the Berkshire Hills - and I hope in looking up where I may find help - which I have done before, but my decline, as I look back upon it, has been so slow but steady - that it is hoping against hope.
[p. 2] I note your suggestion about Dr. Mitchell - his method is not unknown to me. If I still continue in this +++ helpless way when the summer is over and my boy goes back to college, I will think seriously about consulting him, though I fear the expense will be beyond my present means. Do you know anything about his charges? Or could you find out for me from this friend you speak of? I should like to know if I could choose my own abiding [?] place, and have Sallie to take care of me. in that case I might do it. Thanks for all your say about the Book - I do not desire better - and you may criticise it all you will. I know well it is open to much - though it has ben mercifully praised. Osgood sent me a thick package of notices, from all parts of the country
[p. 3] and I was surprised to see how favorable they were. But the best I get is from private sources - from her friends and mine - +++ know how sweet they are. Upon the whole I am ++++ satisfied than I have been by anything of my own doing, though it has come through difficulties which you can hardly dream of. I hope you will write to me sometimes and do not let your letters be all about my only - I am interested in your doings and thinkings and yourself and am always,
faithfully yours,
ES
From
Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882
To
Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915
Location
Lenox, MA
Geocode (Latitude)
42.356475
Geocode (Longitude)
-73.2848289
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Citation
Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882, “Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, July 6, 1878,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 20, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/244.