“ It is a work embodying the results of much study and research. She next assisted in making a translation of the French classics, and she translated About's "Germaine" (Boston, i86ot. During the Civil War she translated the writings of eminent Frenchmen who favored the cause of the Union. Among these were: Gasparin's " Uprising of a Great People" and "America before Europe" (New York, 1861) , Edouard Laboulaye's "Paris in America" (New York, 1865) , and Augustin Cochin's "Results of Emancipation" and "Results of Slavery" (Boston, 1862) . ”

“ Her work in that field won the commendation of President Lincoln, Senator Sumner and other statesmen. Among others of her translations at that time were the Countess de Gasparin's "Vesper," "Camille" and "Human Sorrows," and Count de Gasparin's "Happiness." ”