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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BY THE HON. ANDREW D. WHITE, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.
NTO the pleasantest recollections of my boy~ hood is wrought the name of Anne C. Lynch.
In those days, when there was little American literature, a new poem or story brought joy
to very many families throughout the country; I
recall vividly the days when "Graham's Magazine"
and " Godey's Lady's Book" arrived and were laid on
my mother's table. Among the greatest attractions
in them to her and to me were Miss Anne C. Lynch's
sketches and poems. There was in them a purity, a
sweetness, a kindliness which seemed to bring into
the house a benediction, and in my country home, far
from the city in which she lived, she became one of
the objects of my especial admiration.
Many years later, on a winter evening in 1870,
when lecturing in the great hall of the Cooper Institute
in New-York, my attention was drawn by what
seemed to me one of the most attractive faces I had
ever seen, a face kindly, gentle, but at the same time
with deep character in every line; it was to me very
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