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 WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER, BOSTON, MASS.
prized by me, began almost forty years ago
with an incident characteristic of her frank
and generous nature. Having read a paper of mine
entitled "The Literature of Friendship," just then
published in "The North American Review," she
wrote me a letter expressing her enthusiastic approval
of the sentiments embodied in the essay, and the
delight she had experienced in its perusal. Soon
after this we met in person, and at once became
friends. From that hour, through the events and
changes of all the ensuing years, the hearty good will
and confidence uniting us have never known an
interruption or a shadow, until now, alas! the undeparting shadow of her death.
I have not known a more original and interesting
personality. She appears in my memory vividly distinguished from others by the spontaneity of her
nature, the depth and variety of the intellectual interest she took in subjects, the readiness of atten
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