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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people was a dominant characteristic of her nature,
and she delighted in promoting and watching over
the gradual development of their mental and moral
faculties. It was for this that, from her early days
to the end, she liked to have in her house one or more
young ladies to educate and prepare for the duties of
life. Her ideas on education were rational and well
defined. At the early age of twenty she wrote a
letter to a young friend, full of practical wisdom,
advising her on the best method of study. Her influence on her pupils was good and permanent, and
in after years many of the young ladies who had enjoyed the privilege of her instruction, and had become
wives and mothers, ofteh expressed their gratitude for
the beneficent influence of her example and advice,
by which they were still inspired.
While living in Providence she occasionally wrote
for reviews and magazines. In 1841 she edited
"The Rhode Island Book," which contained some
of the best specimens from the writers of that State,
from Roger Williams down to her own time, including two of her original poems. About this time
she instituted her evening receptions, which were
often honored by Emerson, Dr. Brownson, Mrs.
Whitman, and other eminent people. Charles T.
Congdon states in his "Reminiscences of a Journalist" that the best literary society of Providence in
1843 was to be found in the parlors of Miss Lynch;
and so it continued to be after she became a resident
of New-York city.
In the year 1845 she was with a prominent family
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