Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-13
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
A Little Story About Her Interview will
Mrs. Theodore TiltGn.

A Little story About Her Interview with
Mrs. Theodore TilfGn.
Correspondence of the Boston News.
The late interesting letter published
III your paper concerning Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe and her professor hus-
band was read to the writer of this
sketch while sitting comfortably dis
posed in the pleasant parlors of Mrs
Stoves home at Hartford, plain coun
try residence without, but elegantly fit
ted up within, and hung VITA costly
paintings and engravings brought from
over the sea- In one room are five diff
ferent pictures of the Madonna, all Of
rare merit, and beyond price. One
curious old engraving of the carpen-
ter Joseph at work at his bench,
while Mary and her son are look
ing on, is a copy of a picture formerly
owned by the Duke of Newcastle, but
destroyed by the carelessness of ser
want The Duke wrote very humble
autograph note to Mrs. Stowe, begging
permission to have copy of her en-
craving taken for him. The house is
more than full of costly bric-a-b rac. In
the hall is the cabinet containing the
memorial address presented to Mrs.
Stowe by the friends of freedom, who
congratulated her on her first visit
abroad. These immense volumes are
filed with autograph names, beginning
with the nobility and ending with COM
moners. At some future day these val
liable works will belong to the public.
There are about forty volumes.
1t may not be generally known that
Mrs. Stowe held several interviews with
Mrs. Tilton after the development of
the scandal. At the last one which
took place, as did the others, at Mr..
Abington's house, Mrs. Stowe asked
her how she could be so weak
and wicked to sign such confession if
she knew it was false. Mrs. Tilton be-
gan to cry, and said it was all Theo-
dore's fault He kept nagging at me
all the time" whined the poor little
woman; she wouldn't let me sleep at
all, but just kept nagging-nagging
about my writing it, till [ was more
than half crazy, and sometimes [ was
under the influence of strong medicine,
and my poor head all in whirl, so [
wrote anything for peace sake, just as I
should again if [ lived with him."
When Mrs. Stowe rose to leave, she
passed her arm around Mrs. I1tOn'S
waist. Mrs. T. looked at her in sur
prise. How can you be so kind to
me-" she asked, "when [ have made
You SO much trouble -
Because [ am so sorry for you" re-
piled Mrs. Stowe; q ana sorry that
any woman can be so weak as to wreck
SO many lives with her own I pity
you from my very heart. % The beauti-
full simplicity your correspondent so
touchiHgly depicts in Mr.. and Mrs
Stowe has given place to very worldly
wise shrewdness. They both understand
the value of money now, but they
spend little more for their personal
needs than they ever did. They are
both sensibly absorbed in their own
work. The old professor ambles about
like some ancient farmer, toddling and
grim. Mrs. Stowe is in a perpetual
reverie about her characters, and,
though she cordially invites her friends
and relatives to go and see her, she is
very likely to be unconscious Of their
existence, until they get up to 60 She
is literary sensualist, absorbed in the
happiness of peopling new worlds.