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

Introbuctorg rote
Letters written to her bydistinguished people may be of
~pecial interest to the readers. Accordingly some of thse
have been culled from this part of her correspondence,
limiting them, however, to letters written by friends
who have already passed away. For obvious reasons,
those of surviving correspondents are excluded. The
volume closes with some of her writings, in prose and
poetry, most of them inedited.
This introducary note may be appropriately concluded with the closing lines from her "Battle of
Life":
The guardian angels are hovering near;
They have watched unseen o'er the conflie here,
And they bear her now, on their wings away,
To a realm ofpeace,- to a cloudless day.
Ended now is the earthly strife,
And her brow is crowned with the Crown of Life.
V. BOTTA.
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