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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BY PROFESSOR L. J. B. LINCOLN, NEW-YORK.
high a privilege is rarely accorded as is this
opportunity to crystallize into words a deep
and heart-born impression. The sweet and
gracious woman whose silence is so eloquent; the
kindly neighbor in a city where neighborhood is but
faintly existent; the sincere and gentle adviser; the
mature and ripened thinker; the sensitive poet-na ture, weaving its own garlands and its own chaplet;
the generous liver in the sense of living generously
toward other lives; the merry humorist, whose sat ire was too delicate to leave a sting, and whose conversation sparkled with healthy wit, —all these and
many more were side-lights in forming this impression of her daily life.
Coming to know her only within her last years,
this impression, produced in our first talk together,
has simply broadened and deepened, never changed.
She gave herself, with all the rich argosy of her
honored years, I sincerely believe, to any one upon
whom her attention even rested; and in this lay,
perhaps, her remarkably responsive and intelligent
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