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

Resolutions
The resolutions were spoken to as follows by the
secretary:
Some one has truly said of Mrs. Botta that a sense
of her untimely taking off, as if she were too young
to go, moves those who knew her best. Perhaps
this wonderful youthfulness of hers, which was never
levity, was her most remarkable characteristic. Her
nature was profoundly serious. Always she had considered life as a trust, an experience, an agency;
never as a personal possession, to be used according
to her wish or momentary need. She felt the woes
and wants of this world of confusion and uncertainty,
and did her best to better them. Yet, withal, over
this earnestness of her character flickered ever an
almost frolic gaiety of spirit, as if she knew that
more than for its needed food and fire, so to speak,
the soul asked for light. She came of a Celtic father,
gay, humorous, full of impulsive chivalry, and of a
practical New England mother, herself of Revolutionary stock, clear of judgment, careful of the household
economy, upright, exemplary, and "facultied." In
the daughter these inherited qualities blended into a
most harmonious whole. Years ago, when she had
classes in an unremembered New-York —the NewYork "before the war"-and was overworked, and
had many persons to provide for, her modest lodgings
were beautiful with refinement, were attractive to the
best people, and constituted, perhaps, the one literary center in that crude commercial city where Mrs.
Potiphar was a leader of fashion and Mr. Solomon
Gunnybags the prototype of the honored citizen.
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