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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whole countenance full of intelligent expression.
Her demeanor is dignified, graceful, and noticeable
for repose." N. P. Willis, in his "People I Have
Met," portrays her in her youth under the name of
"Jennie Eveland." "Her face is capable of most illuminative beauty, always expressive, always frank
and noble, and her form is indeed the perfection
of feminine symmetry. Never giving her movement
a thought, she walks with a lithe grace and freedom
that betray her at once as a woman of perfect make.
Her head is admirably set on, and an Indian girl bred
in the forest like a fawn would not be.more erect,
nor of more unconscious elasticity of carriage and
mien. An unusually arched instep to an exquisite
foot gives her the mark of high breeding, and her
slender and yet roundly beautiful hand with its
tapering fingers has a look of that discriminating
elegance which the most careless of her friends recognize and admire. A bright blue eye, earnest and
fearless; profuse brown hair, whose natural waves
are controlled with difficulty by a comb; bright
teeth, and one of those voices of clouded contralto
which betray the tearfulness used to keeping down
sadness, are other peculiarities which go to form her
portrait, and which share in the delightful impressions she makes on all who have the happiness to
know her."
Early in March, 189i, Mrs. Botta began to make
preparations for a festival, which was to have taken
place the 3Ist of the month, in commemoration of
the thirty-sixth anniversary of her marriage. On the
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