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

Sweet lemories
Industrial School, and other enterprises of public
interest, and also in the thousand little personal and
social kindnesses for which so many recipients hold
her in tender memory to-day.
When I came to New-York a young woman, she
was among the very first of my husband's friends to
greet me. For six years we were neighbors, and
saw each other daily, and that intimate intercourse
wove the strong bond of affection which never
weakened in all the long years, although we saw
each other less often after our home was in the
country. At the time I speak of, she had not been
very long in New-York, and was making a brave fight
to win a home for mother and herself. The effort
was courageously undertaken, and cheerfully and
successfully carried through. In a few years she had
made for herself an enviable position, and had gathered
about her a large circle of friends; and when this
was attained, it was held as a vantage-ground from
which still to enlarge her sphere of usefulness and
helpfulness.
Her thought was always aspiring, her heart always
reaching out to serve some one by deed or sympathy.
Her gifts were many, and made her a most enjoyable
companion as well as the steadfast friend upon whom
one could rely.
I inclose a sketchy characterization which Mr.
Willis wrote of her under the name of "Jennie Eveland," and published in his "People I Have Met."
If he had been here to express his estimate of her
when she left us, it would have sounded a deeper
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