Garret Platform,
Lawton's Valley, July 13, 1857.
. . . Charlotte Brontë is deeply
interesting, but I think she and I would not have liked each other, while still
I see points of resemblance — many indeed— between us. Her life, on the whole,
a very serious and instructive page in literary history. God rest her! she was
as faithful and earnest as she was clever — she suffered much.
. . . Theodore Parker and wife came here last night, to stay a week if
they like it (have just had a fight with a bumble-bee, in avoiding which I
banged my head considerably against a door, in the narrow limits of my garret
platform); so you see I am still a few squashes (“some pumpkins” is vulgar, and
I is n't) . . .
SOURCE: Laura E. Richards & Maud Howe Elliott, Julia Ward
Howe, 1819-1910, Large-Paper Edition, Volume 1, p. 170
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