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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time of her death she was employed in writing a
historical work for the use of schools, and was giving
the finishing touches to a portrait bust of an English
friend. Indeed, so successful were her efforts in
sculpture that it was evident that if she had not so
early chosen a literary and educational career, she
might have won a distinguished reputation as an
artist.
The pathetic circumstances attending the sudden
taking-off of our friend were especially painful to her
associates of this club, for it was in the exposure incident to her attendance upon its social duties that
she received her death-blow; but this swift translation without the ordeal of a painful illness was what
she earnestly longed for. For her it was a blessed
gain that she passed away with no thought that her
last hour was close at hand.
The sharpness of the sudden blow was for us who
loved her, and who feel that such a loss will make
the world seem infinitely poorer for evermore. Like
its distinguished founder, she strongly impressed her
own personality upon the spirit of our club, and has
left us a legacy in the society whose interests she had
so near at heart; and it seems to me we can further
the prosperity we are so earnestly laboring to secure
in no surer way than by shaping our councils in fullest accord with the teachings of her own broad-lined,
vari-sided, forceful and beneficent life.
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