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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your heart to value such friendship. It is a good sign; for I
don't think there can be a sincere sympathy felt without oneness
of affection for that great bond of sympathy-the supreme life
of Christ, "our great God and Saviour."
With my great regard, I remain your friend,
GEORGE WOOD.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF HON. JOHN M. BERRIEN.
SAVANNAH, GA., March 29, 1853.
My dear Miss Lynch:... I read with pleasure your account
of the manner in which you have spent your winter. The true
source of happiness and of a mind at peace with itself is such
useful and especially such benevolent employment as that in
which you have been engaged. In a populous city like yours
there must be ample scope for the exercise of the feeling which
animates you, and I bid you God-speed with all my heart-assuring you that the homage which I have cheerfully rendered to
your native and cultivated intellect will be offered even in fuller
measure to the benevolence which prompts the enterprise in
which you are engaged. Speaking frankly to you, however, as
I am accustomed to do, I am sorry to learn that you do not find
the time you need for reading certain books which you would
enjoy. " Vis inertiae " is not a characteristic of the human mind.
It must advance or retrograde, and such a one as has been allotted to you deserves better treatment at your hands. But I
forbear, lest you should think I am going to assume an office to
which I have no claim.
Let me hear more of the school. I shall be much interested in
the issue of your winter's labors; and do tell me if you have found
in those poor children the pure and lively pleasure which I anticipated for you. With cordial good wishes,
Very truly yours, JOHN MACPHERSON BERRIEN.
SAVANNAH, GA., July 4, 1853.
My dear Miss Lynch:... That "splendid plan of intellectual culture" which has so long dazzled your imagination, and
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