November 22, 1859
I send you two sweet letters from Mrs. Brown and her married
daughter, Mrs. Thompson. Money seems to be flowing for them from all
directions, and that is something, because, besides their severe bereavements,
they greatly need money: though not so totally destitute as many seem to think.
I have had some queer letters about them, one from a man in Winchendon offering
to adopt one of the daughters and teach her telegraphy.
The whole thing is having a tremendous influence on public
sentiment.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 87-8
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