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It was impossible for Professor Stowe to leave Lane Seminary till some
one could be found to take his place; so it was determined that Mrs.
Stowe, with three of the children, should start for the East in April,
and having established the family in Brunswick, Professor Stowe was to
come on with the remaining children when his engagements would permit.
The following extracts from a letter written by Mrs. Stowe at her
brother Henry's, at Brooklyn, April 29, 1850, show us that the journey
was accomplished without special incident.
"The boat got into Pittsburgh between four and five on Wednesday. The
agent for the Pennsylvania Canal came on board and soon filled out our
tickets, calling my three chicks one and a half. We had a quiet and
agreeable passage, and crossed the slides at five o'clock in the
morning, amid exclamations of unbounded delight from all the children,
to whom the mountain scenery was a new and amazing thing. We reached
Hollidaysburg about eleven o'clock, and at two o'clock in the night
were called up to get into the cars at Jacktown. Arriving at
Philadelphia about three o'clock in the afternoon, we took the boat
and railroad line for New York.
"At Lancaster we telegraphed to Brooklyn, and when we arrived in New
York, between ten and eleven at night, Cousin Augustus met us and took
us over to Brooklyn. We had ridden three hundred miles since two
o'clock that morning, and were very tired.
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