L[ydia] M[aria] C[hild] ALS to Louisa [Gilman] Loring, April 16, 1839

will I think quite renovate me. I have not heard one new
thought, or an old one newly expressed, since I came here; except
in the sermons of Mr. Stearns; and they were rather pleasing and
soothing than exciting. You dont know how I mourn for Mr.
Stearns. He had such child-like simplicity, with the well-principled
integrity of a mature Christian. Now, my only source of real satisfac-
-tion is teaching is in teaching a merry little Irish girl, and hunting up
wild flowers, which have been brought forth thus early by the
genial weather. As for Anti Slavery, I have lost my pleasure in it;

though I am as ready to work as ever. The idea that different sects
can labor together harmoniously for universal good, must be numbered
with many other pleasing illusions of my imagination. It seems as if
the Emancipator was determined to widen the breach. What could
be more unkind than for Lewis Tappan to intimate that he courteously
suppressed some things done and said at the Quarterly meeting, because
they were too bad to be reported? I am not surprised at the result
in the Female Antics. I should consider it remarkable if it were otherwise.

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I thank Lucy Ann very much.

You do not disclaim the charge about
Philothea. Have you thus got the upper-
hands of me? If so, you are slyer than
I thought.

Carter is absolutely wild about Anti Slavery.
She will be pleased that you have
remembered her.

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Louisa Loring.
Washington St.
Boston.

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X April 39

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