Wesselhoeft's
watercure establishment at Brattleboro', Vt.
At this time, under date of March, 1846, she writes:
"For all I have had trouble I can think of nothing but the greatness
and richness of God's mercy to me in giving me such friends, and in
always caring for us in every strait. There has been no day this
winter when I have not had abundant reason to see this. Some friend
has always stepped in to cheer and help, so that I have wanted for
nothing. My husband has developed wonderfully as house-father and
nurse. You would laugh to see him in his spectacles gravely marching
the little troop in their nightgowns up to bed, tagging after them, as
he says, like an old hen after a flock of ducks. The money for my
journey has been sent in from an unknown hand in a wonderful manner.
All this shows the care of our Father, and encourages me to rejoice
and to hope in Him."
A few days after her departure Professor Stowe wrote to his wife:--
"I was greatly comforted by your brief letter from Pittsburgh. When I
returned from the steamer the morning you left I found in the post-
office a letter from Mrs. G. W. Bull of New York, inclosing $50 on
account of the sickness in my family. There was another inclosing $50
more from a Mrs. Devereaux of Raleigh, N. C., besides some smaller
sums from others. My heart went out to God in aspiration and
gratitude. None of the donors, so far as I know, have I ever seen or
heard of before.
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