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

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At a time when I was suffering severe affliction,
she kindly offered to render me any aid in her power,
and in that connection she said that she and her hus band were expecting to sail for Europe in a few days,
and suggested that the change of scene which would
be afforded by such a journey would perhaps be the
best relief I could find under the circumstances; that
if I would take passage with them, they would with
pleasure do all in their power to aid and sustain me
in my dejected condition. I accepted her proposal
very gratefully, and the kindness of the attentions
thus afforded me can never be forgotten, or the
obligation discharged.
She has been kindly and beneficent by her sympathy and soothing aid to an extent that I will not attempt to describe. She was always accessible in time
of need, always interested and sympathetic; but her
ministrations did not end there. She had strength
and the power to impart it to the depressed and
suffering,- the wisdom as well as the wish which
could strengthen and enliven the suffering and
despondent.
As advice, she adopted the words of Emerson, and
gave them to me in the following lines:
Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived;
But what torments of pain you've endured
From evils that never arrived!
The following poem was addressed to me by her
during my affliction:
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