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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she exacts for disobedience of her laws are fearfulfar more so than the penalties attached to the violation of human laws. Do not be so unwise as to
defy them:
She knows not wrath nor pardon;
Utter true her measures mete,
Her faultless balance weighs, Times are as nought, to-morrow she will judge
Or after many days....
A. C. L. B.
TO MRS. B. C.
NEw-YoRK, June 6, 1889.
My dear Friend: I am slowly preparing for our
departure. It is extraordinary how many details go
to make up life, and how complicated it has become.
I look back to our ancestors who lived in trees, according to the new dispensation, and wore their
furs all the year round, with positive envy. No
housecleaning or cooking, no summer outfit, no
misfit, no misfortune....
Always most affectionately yours,
A. C. L. B.
TO MLLE. BADER, PARIS, FRANCE.
NEw-YORK, April 27, 1883.
.. We who live in this Babel of New-York need
the rest of a sea-voyage and the repose of the Old
World for a season every year. You can have no
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