I need
scarcely add that our landlord is an old bachelor and of course acted
up to the light he had, though he left little enough of it for his
tenants.
During this early Cincinnati life Harriet suffered much from ill-
health accompanied by great mental depression; but in spite of both
she labored diligently with her sister Catherine in establishing their
school. They called it the Western Female Institute, and proposed to
conduct it upon the college plan, with a faculty of instructors. As
all these things are treated at length in letters written by Mrs.
Stowe to her friend, Miss Georgiana May, we cannot do better than turn
to them. In May, 1833, she writes:--
"Bishop Purcell visited our school to-day and expressed himself as
greatly pleased that we had opened such an one here. He spoke of my
poor little geography, [Footnote: This geography was begun by Mrs.
Stowe during the summer of 1832, while visiting her brother William at
Newport, R. I. It was completed during the winter of 1833, and
published by the firm of Corey, Fairbank & Webster, of Cincinnati.]
and thanked me for the unprejudiced manner in which I had handled the
Catholic question in it. I was of course flattered that he should have
known anything of the book.
"How I wish you could see Walnut Hills. It is about two miles from the
city, and the road to it is as picturesque as you can imagine a road
to be without 'springs that run among the hills.
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