Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a biographical introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips.

82 LETTERS.
but rmy good husband is so apt to like whatever I do,
that I did not consider him a very impartial witness.
It is heart-cheering to see a man ready to lay his
beautiful gifts so unreservedly on the altar of freedorn
and humanity as WT. H. Furness has done. On
various occasions I have felt deeply grateful to himn
for the brave, true words he has spoken, and what
he said on the Kansas question was worthy of himself
and the cause.
TO MRS. ELLIS GRAY LORING.
WAYLAND, October 26, 1856.
I intended to have written to you immediately after
I received your very kind and pressing invitation to
come to Beverly.... Oh, what misery it is, to feel
such a fever heat of anxiety as I do, and yet be shut
up in a pen-fold, where I cannot act! It seems to me
sometimes as if I could tear up a mountain, and
throw it so that all false Demnocrats and stiff old fogies would be buried under it forever. All the fire
there is in me is burning: and Nature gave me a fearful amount of it. You see, dear, I should be a very
dangerous and explosive guest, just at this time; especially if you happened to have any amiable apologizers about.
TO DAVID LEE CHILD.
WAYLAND, October 27, 1856.
I have thought enough about my dear absent mate,
but I have found it nearly impossible to get an hour's
time to tell him so. In the first place, there was the
press waiting for that Kansas story..... Then I felt
bound to stir up the women here to do something for
Kansas; and, in order to set the example, I wrote to
Mr. Hovey begging for a piece of cheap calico and of
unbleached factory cotton. He sent them, but said