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Stowe Center buys letter author penned at age 10
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20001125
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HARTFORD, Conn. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center has acquired a letter written by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin when she was a 10- year-old girl.
She describes her safe trip to her grandmother's house from the family home in Litchfield, her new baby sister, Isabella, and a dress ruffle on which she had not done much work.
The letter, written on March 14, 1822, to her brother Edward, was found in the basement of a church. It was put up for auction and purchased by the Stowe Center for $10,000 plus fees from a small auction firm in New York.
"Dear Edward, Having now a few leisure moments to ...
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