Jewett & Co., in this country, and
by Sampson Low & Co. in London.
Soon after her return to America, feeling that she owed a debt of
gratitude to her friends in Scotland, which her feeble health had not
permitted her adequately to express while with them, Mrs. Stowe wrote
the following open letter:--
TO THE LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW:
_Dear Friends_,--I have had many things in my mind to say to you,
which it was my hope to have said personally, but which I am now
obliged to say by letter.
I have had many fears that you must have thought our intercourse,
during the short time that I was in Glasgow, quite unsatisfactory.
At the time that I accepted your very kind invitation, I was in
tolerable health, and supposed that I should be in a situation to
enjoy society, and mingle as much in your social circles as you might
desire.
When the time came for me to fulfil my engagement with you, I was, as
you know, confined to my bed with a sickness brought on by the
exertion of getting the "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" through the press
during the winter.
In every part of the world the story of "Uncle Tom" had awakened
sympathy for the American slave, and consequently in every part of the
world the story of his wrongs had been denied; it had been asserted to
be a mere work of romance, and I was charged with being the slanderer
of the institutions of my own country.
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