To
Jane Grey Swisshelm
December 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(Publisher’s advertisement for Swisshelm 1880:
CU-MARK, UCCL 08607)
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I thank you ever so much for sending me the book, [&] this whole nation ought to thank you for writing it. It is the record, bravely set down, of a most brave life, an excellent life, a high [&] great life, a life with nothing in it to regret or to wish obliterated. The book sets one in the midst of the scenes it paints, [&] makes him hope, despair [&] exult by turns, [&] by turns curse [&] blaspheme. I read it when it first came out, [&] am not wholly quieted down yet; neither do I wish to be, for it is wholesome to be stirred, so I shall read it again now.
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Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:“Third Edition. Half a Century,”
unidentified Chicago newspaper, unknown date, advertisement (clipping in
CU-MARK, enclosed in Swisshelm to SLC, 19
January 1881); MicroPUL, reel 1.
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