[Lydia Maria Child] ALS to Ellis Gray Loring, June 17, 1841

her letter, says, "The Standard gives good satisfaction in the main."
She then goes on to express a wish that I could feel free to write
something declaring that I approved of Rogers's editing, and thought
it necessary at the time for him to publish all he did; but this I
cannot do conscientiously. I have great respect and regard for him,
but I think he showed a wonderful deficiency of judgement.

Dont fail to tell me whether you thought the
review of The Hour and The Man anything like what it should be.
Now provoking that they should have printed the "union of two
infirmities", instead of two infinities.

You bid me praise O'Sullivan and other democrats - I have
accordingly tried to find out what they have done and said. I
sent to O'Sullivan himself to inquire what were the best things
said and done by his party concering the nine-months law;
but he has not given me any information; and J.S. Gibbons does
not know where to find it.

Mr. Child regrets that I put in Hudson's account of The Hartford
Meeting. But what can I do? A great many would feel displeas
-ed if there was no record kept of these public meetings.

As for your Committee of Vigilance, my deliberate
conviction, unbiassed by the opinion of any one, is that Garrison
did right. I have no objection to Charles T. Torrey's doing as
much good as he likes in the world, and I have no objection
to praising him for it; but in the present state of things, I
should have insurmountable objections to having my name
connected with his. Such union with the old organizationists
is sought only to gain additional influence to do mischief with.

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Will you ask the Westons whether they will sell the copy of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, which Mrs. Chapman had?
I am obliged to copy every line, being unable to procure any copy of the book, but a borrowed English one, which
must not be marred by printers.

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