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 THE HON. JOHN BIGELOW, NEW-YORK.
THE career of the late Mrs. Botta was remarkable
Q in many respects; edifying and instructive in
all. While yet but three years old the death
of her father left her and her widowed mother dependent largely upon their own resources. With an
excellent constitution, a good education, and a just
appreciation of her talents, she decided to seek for
them a wider sphere of activity than was offered in
her quiet New England home, and, with her mother,
she resolved to seek such a sphere in our great commercial metropolis. It was a bold, almost an audacious experiment; but young as she was, she had
already measured her forces with some of the favorites
of fortune, and the results gave her faith and courage.
She had tried her prentice hand in the magazines,
and some of her verses had been stamped with the
approbatur of Bryant and Willis, at that time the
aristarchy of American letters.
My acquaintance with Mrs. Botta commenced very
soon after she took up her residence in New-York.
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