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If I live till spring I shall hope to see Shakespeare's grave, and
Milton's mulberry-tree, and the good land of my fathers,--old, old
England! May that day come!
Yours affectionately, H. B. STOWE.
CHAPTER IX.
SUNNY MEMORIES, 1853.
CROSSING THE ATLANTIC.--ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.--RECEPTION IN LIVERPOOL.
--WELCOME TO SCOTLAND.--A GLASGOW TEA-PARTY.--EDINBURGH HOSPITALITY.
--ABERDEEN.--DUNDEE AND BIRMINGHAM.--JOSEPH STURGE.--ELIHU BURRITT.
--LONDON.--THE LORD MAYOR'S DINNER.--CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS WIFE.
The journey undertaken by Mrs. Stowe with her husband and brother
through England and Scotland, and afterwards with her brother alone
over much of the Continent, was one of unusual interest. No one was
more surprised than Mrs. Stowe herself by the demonstrations of
respect and affection that everywhere greeted her.
Fortunately an unbroken record of this memorable journey, in Mrs.
Stowe's own words, has been preserved, and we are thus able to receive
her own impressions of what she saw, heard, and did, under
circumstances that were at once pleasant, novel, and embarrassing.
Beginning with her voyage, she writes as follows:--
LIVERPOOL, _April_ 11,1853.
MY DEAR CHILDREN,--You wish, first of all, to hear of the voyage. Let
me assure you, my dears, in the very commencement of the matter, that
going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.
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