BIB_ID
193602
Accession number
MA 4599
Creator
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.
Display Date
[1836] May 5.
Credit line
Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; 1988.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
The recipient was a lawyer and professor at Harvard College.
Written during the trip that led to the publication of her work Society in American (1837).
Written during the trip that led to the publication of her work Society in American (1837).
Summary
Offering impressions of society in New York city: "I had formed rather an uninteresting notion of the place; but the literary men, the professors & lawyers, the merchants & their ladies, the old State families, & the abolitionists compose a very various & interesting society, --far more simple & far more liberal than much that I have met with elsewhere"; and describing Stockbridge.
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