Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-02-10
Miss Bremen.

We have been favored by our amiable friend,
Mrs. LIE Vert, says the Mobile Register, with the
privilege of extracting from letter, received from
Miss Bremen:
STOCKHOLM, 9Th December, 1854.
Thank you thousand times my sweet Octayia
for your letter Perfumed with the sweet breath
and flowers Of Alabama, it reached me amidst the
SHOWS and darkness of my own land, but brought
to my heart all the summer, light and life OF yours
God bless you-and He will, for that warm and
gentle heart Of yours that spreads its atmosphere
of happiness on all around.
Stern cares and duties dear Octavia, have filled
the thoughts and hours of the last two years from
the terrible malady of mind and body that afflicted
my poor dear mother but after six months struggle
with DEATH life has prevailed; and though pazied,
she is, thank God, free from pain. So peace is in
my heart, and can think of pleasant scenes Of
happy hands, and much loved friends. And you,
my rose of Alabama, are ever the sunniest OF my
Southern memories.
'When you were near me, the dread cholera
forbade me to wish your presence 1t left in Stock
holm alone more than five hundred destitute orphan
children, and the formation of society Of ladies,
to take charge of these poor babes has given me,
with great labor much interest and enlivening life
have also entered into similar enterprises not only
for poor children but for old and destitute women
We are also forming fund and asylum for aged
governesses needed in my land l know,
and it is SO in most"
Thus does this aimable woman ex-
ercise womanly benevolence. Fame cannot spoil
nature like hers.
The piety that breathes throughout her letter is
too pure to be paraded here but as sample OF her
domestic habits we make an other extract.
"But the quiet evenings at home are
oracious At tvilipht which comes about
three O'clock the fires lit up in the cabins, the
parlors and drawing ROOM and walk from each to
each, OR silently sit and enjoy their warming and
Illuminating flames. At seven comes my little
Gertrude-the lamp is hghted-and the good and
sensible girl reads to me until ten. One day in the
week another comes for the same purpose and
reads general history to me and Mathida; and thus
time passes on, bringing me many pleasures in the
interest take in the advancement of some good
girl The world, my dear Octavia, is rich and full
Of treasures, only we cannot or will not see them.
"The war, the great, growing, terrible war-so
near nv country-is matter of earnest interest,
and it seems universal opinion here that we shall
be in it before next summer. am sorry for us
but may be the result will be blessing to the
cause of humanity, indeed believe it, will not re-
pine but trust love and good will bloom the more
richly, and hasten on the day Of grace
"Meanwhile our Sweden has enjoyed peaceful
time-the Diet has formed good and useful laws
and erected bronze statues to our old heroes and
Kings, Christmas, too, is coming! Christmas, the
great festival of the year throughout all Sweden,
when earnest joy and charity light up every heart
God has fixed it in the midst of dreary winter that
benevolence may feel the strongest stimulus to deeds
of mercy.
"God bless you, my sweet rose of Florida! my
dear, good, and lovely Octavia: ever associated in
my heart and memory with all that charmed me
most in the sunny south of America"
FREDERIKA BREMER