It seems almost like a dream to look back to those
pleasant days. I am glad to see you still keep some memories of our
goings on. Georgie's marriage is a very happy one to us. They live in
Stockbridge, the loveliest part of Massachusetts, and her husband is a
most devoted pastor, and gives all his time and property to the great
work which he has embraced, purely for the love of it. My other
daughters are with me, and my son, Captain Stowe, who has come with
weakened health through our struggle, suffering constantly from the
effects of a wound in his head received at Gettysburg, which makes his
returning to his studies a hard struggle. My husband is in better
health since he resigned his professorship, and desires his most
sincere regards to yourself and the duke, and his profound veneration
to your mother. Sister Mary also desires to be remembered to you, as
do also my daughters. Please tell me a little in your next of Lady
Edith; she must be very lovely now.
I am, with sincerest affection, ever yours,
H. B. STOWE.
Soon after the close of the war Mrs. Stowe conceived the idea of
making for herself and her family a winter home in the South, where
she might escape the rigors of Northern winters, and where her
afflicted son Frederick might enjoy an out-of-door life throughout the
year. She was also most anxious to do her share towards educating and
leading to a higher life those colored people whom she had helped so
largely to set free, and who were still in the state of profound
ignorance imposed by slavery.
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