Elizabeth Buffum Chace, 1806-1899 |
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Author:
| Wyman, Lillie Buffum Chace |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-71119-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.49 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: saved from their early deaths, could they have had in the critical hours such medical care as had been given to Mary. Mrs. Chace had hitherto been under the influence of the theorist who regarded food almost as the source of disease, and both Sam and Ned in their illnesses had been treated according to the...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: saved from their early deaths, could they have had in the critical hours such medical care as had been given to Mary. Mrs. Chace had hitherto been under the influence of the theorist who regarded food almost as the source of disease, and both Sam and Ned in their illnesses had been treated according to the starvation method. In her later years, she seldom spoke of it, and when she did it was without bitterness, but she did admit that she had come to believe that this denial of adequate nourishment had turned the scale and taken away, at least from Sam, any chance for recovery. London, 8th mo., 20th. Day before yesterday Mr. Clifford took us to the house of the Hon. Cowper Temple who has about half a dozen of his paintings; then to two other houses where were also some of his pictures. They are very pretty, ?portraits and groups of figures. He came last evening and took us to Christy's Minstrels I was not very much pleased, though it was quite amusing and not very bad.' Margaret Clifford To Mrs. Chace 1 Highberry Place, Kingsdown, Sept. 2nd, 1873. We are all disappointed that you are not coming to Bristol, and I, of course, especially so. I fear that I shall never go to America, but if ever I do, I suppose that one of my chief pleasures will be to come and see you in your own home. I think that perhaps the English will give themselves the chance to become a Republic some day. I used to dread it, but I am more reconciled to it now, and believe that whatever comes it will be good for Old England. I cannot help thinking that there are too many good and wise people among us for wickedness and folly to be uppermost, at least I trust so, but the English character is different from the American and I do not know how far our people are to be trusted withpower. I wonder ..