The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-02
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Phoebe Cary.

Some weeks ago 1t was announced that Phoebe
Cary sister OF the Alice Cary. was at the point
OF death, at Newport II. l., where she had gone IN
quest OF that health she had lost in the care OF her
sister during long illness and through her grief at
her sisters decease. From tie first her physicians
mad no hopes OF her recovery and now comes the
announcement that she died on Monday night. She
was younger daughter Of Robert and Elizabeth
Cary, ana was born farm In the Mama Valley,
about eight miles from Cincinnati, IN 1924. Like
her sister she early devoted herself TO literary
pursuits, and III 1850 appeared her hrst
work. The last paper which we remember to
have seen from her pen was q memorial
of her elder sister, and In 1t ind this reference to
her first efforts IN verse-.In 1850. through the in
strumentaty OF DR.. Griswold, who found q pub
Usher volume, entitled Poems OF Alice and
Phoebe Cary was issued by Moss Brother, Of
Philadelphia. From the contents OF this book,
about two-thirds OF which was furnished by tho
elder sister, and which was for the most part but
the feeble echoes Of well-known poets, or at best
sentimental fancies or morbid plants Of sorrows
more imaginary than real, the only article which
ton was her Pictures Of Memory and this was
rather because OF the estimate placed upon II by
the sisters left their Western home for the nrst
time and visited some or the Eastern
e @e asn to New o Yo
determined to earn q livelihood by literary labor.
Knowing no one in this vast metropolis except DR..
Greeley they yet managed TO live without debt from
the beginning and in short time had very pleas
ant and happy home. For many years they lived
together In an unpretending house in East Twen-
tetn street, near Fourth avenue, and to the many
visitors who used to resort to IL, especially on
Sunday evenings. Phoebe was the sunlight OF
the place. she was only four years
younger than her more serene and silent sister,
and, though sharer in her sisters fame, she iell
far short OF her SISTERS abilities Neither Of them
was poet In that higher sense which rejects mere
sentiment and versication as poetry but both were
industrious workers, and each OF THEM wrote some
very pretty verses. In their religious convictions
they were Sprituallsts, believing IN the theories OF
Emanuel Swedenborg, and trusting to realize the
beautiful heaven, or Progressive Hereafter, which
sprung, perhaps, from his brilliant imagination
more probably from q diseased brain. Both sisters
always had strong sympathy with their own sex
and took more or less active part
In the work OF securing woman's en-.
REIMBURSEMENT Alice The least active
Of the two, but Phoebe ct one time under
took the work OF editing che Revolution
newspaper. Another person was nOmlnally the
editor OF the paper, and she soon retired IRON q
position where there was neither scope for her
peculiar talents nor promise OF any great results
from her labOrs. This was III the summer OF 1870.
Since then her time was mostly occupied In caring
for her elder sister, who died early in the spring,
and seeking to recover her own impaired health.
Now she follows her most gifted sister to the grave.
In lie they were lnseparable and death has long
kept them apart.