I should be crazy to feel as I did yesterday, or
indeed to feel anything at all. But I inwardly vowed that my last
feelings and reflections on this subject should be yours, and as I
have not got any, it is just as well to tell you _that_. Well,
here comes Mr. S., so farewell, and for the last time I subscribe,
Your own H. E. B.
CHAPTER IV.
EARLY MARRIED LIFE, 1836-1840.
PROFESSOR STOWE'S INTEREST IN POPULAR EDUCATION.--HIS DEPARTURE FOR
EUROPE.--SLAVERY RIOTS IN CINCINNATI.--BIRTH OF TWIN DAUGHTERS.--
PROFESSOR STOWE'S RETURN AND VISIT TO COLUMBUS.--DOMESTIC TRIALS.--
AIDING A FUGITIVE SLAVE.--AUTHORSHIP UNDER DIFFICULTIES.--A BEECHER
ROUND ROBIN.
The letter to her friend Georgiana May, begun half an hour before her
wedding, was not completed until nearly two months after that event.
Taking it from her portfolio, she adds:--
"Three weeks have passed since writing the above, and my husband and
self are now quietly seated by our own fireside, as domestic as any
pair of tame fowl you ever saw; he writing to his mother, and I to
you. Two days after our marriage we took a wedding excursion, so
called, though we would most gladly have been excused this conformity
to ordinary custom had not necessity required Mr. Stowe to visit
Columbus, and I had too much adhesiveness not to go too. Ohio roads at
this season are no joke, I can tell you, though we were, on the whole,
wonderfully taken care of, and our expedition included as many
pleasures as an expedition at this time of the year _ever_ could.
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