Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home…
(1841)
“ I have told them that an American steamer will carry 2000 people and 1000 bales of cotton, and go down the river and up twice as fast as a Rhine steamer." He has not told them that a Rhine steamer is far superior in its arrangement and refinement to ours. These little patriotic vanities are pleasant solaces when one is three thousand miles from home—but truth is better. ”
Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home…
(1841)
“ We have been waiting for fine weather, that being an indispensable element in a party of pleasure, for an excursion down the Rhine, and this morning we set off, the girls and myself, without any attendant of mankind ”
Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home…
(1841)
“ I have not, as you know, my dear C., any vulgar hostility to those who are the heirs of the usurpations of elder times—"the accident of an accident"—but when I see a person, radically vulgar like this woman, queening it among those who are her superiors in everything but this accidental greatness, my Puritan blood and republican breeding get the better of my humanity. ”
