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 F. EDWIN ELWELL, NEW-YORK.
N the first days after my return to New-York
ccity, when the studies abroad had come to
an end, and the real practical effort was to be
made,-that effort so wearying both to body and soul
at the beginning of an artist's career,- it was my lot
to attempt to create the beautiful in art in the then
rather false atmosphere of the artistic life here; in
those first days, I became acquainted with this wonderful woman, Mrs. Botta.
I do not remember when first it was, or how it
came about, —-I only know that her sphere was one I
had always loved in woman: her thought was pure
and high, and in her soul burned the unquenchable
fire of artistic genius; and had that flame been guided
into the great flowing river of modern thought and
feeling earlier in life, she would have left more public
proofs of her great power in this direction.
But to us who knew her, there was little need of
productions in marble or bronze to lead us to appreciate her artistic side. We had learned and felt
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