Very likely
your children may be selling them.
Hattie, I rejoice over this completed work. Another work for God and
your generation. I am glad that you have come out of it alive, that
you have pleasure in prospect, that you "walk at liberty" and have
done with "fits of languishing." Perhaps some day I shall be set free,
but the prospect does not look promising, except as I have full faith
that "the Good Man above is looking on, and will bring it all round
right." Still "heart and flesh" both "fail me." He will be the
"strength of my heart," and I never seem to doubt "my portion
forever."
If I never speak to you again, this is the farewell utterance.
Yours truly,
GEORGIANA.
Mrs. Stowe was accompanied on this second trip to Europe by her
husband, her two eldest daughters, her son Henry, and her sister Mary
(Mrs. Perkins). It was a pleasant summer voyage, and was safely
accomplished without special incident.
CHAPTER XII.
DRED, 1856.
SECOND VISIT TO ENGLAND.--A GLIMPSE AT THE QUEEN.--THE DUKE OF ARGYLL
AND INVERARY.--EARLY CORRESPONDENCE WITH LADY BYRON.--DUNROBIN CASTLE
AND ITS INMATES.--A VISIT TO STOKE PARK.--LORD DUFFERIN.--CHARLES
KINGSLEY AT HOME.--PARIS REVISITED.--MADAME MOHL'S RECEPTIONS.
After reaching England, about the middle of August, 1856, Mrs. Stowe
and her husband spent some days in London completing arrangements to
have an English edition of "Dred" published by Sampson Low & Co.
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