Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

Introbuctor iRote
These recolletions of the late Mrs. Botta are intended
for readers who take interest in the literary movement of
the age, and particularly for those who, during her lifetime, were acquainted with her, and enjoyed the attraction of her sympathy and the sweetness of her friendship.
They are chiefly composed of essays on her life and charamer, which, under the forms of letters, reminiscences,
characteristics, impressions, and tributes to her memory,
were written at the editor's request, by some of her
most intimate and devoted friends. As a series of
pen-portraits these writings reproduce to nature the
beautiful personality which their authors endeavored to
portray and revive.
The volume cannot be classified among biographies
of the regular standard; yet it answers to the principal
requirements of biographical treatment, and properly
belongs to that branch of literature which, under the
name of'Memoirs," has become so popular in our times.
The book opens with a biographical sketch in which
the principal events of Mrs. Botta's life are recorded.
This is followed by memories developing the same subjeg from the time she entered the Albany Female
Academy to the last days of her life. Some contributions present an accurate psychological analysis
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