Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-01-14
IL RARRlET BEECHER STOWE.
3 Li'aie story About Esor Inter-
v'e" with Mrs. Theodore TY,ten.


The late Interesting letter published
IN your paper concerning Mrs. Harriet
Beecher t,owe and her professor husband
was read % the writer of this sketch
while sitilag comfortably disposed in the
pleasant rarlors of Mrs. Stoves home al
Hartford, plain country residence With.
cut, but elegantly fitted up within and
hung with costly paintings aufengravings
brought from over the sea. In one room
are Eve different pictures of the Me,
dcuua. all of rare merit aud beyond price.
One curious old engraving of the carpen.
ter Joseph at work at his bench while
Mary and her son are looking on, is u copy
ola picture formerly owned by the Duke
Of Newcastle, but destroyed by the care-
lessneS Of servent. The Duke wrote a
very humble autograph note to Mrs.
Stowe, begging permission to have copy
of her engraving taken for him. The
house is more than full of costly brick-a
brack. In the hall is the cabinet con,
tanning the memorial address presented to
Mrs. Stowe by tho friends of freedom,
who congratulated her on her first visit
abroad. These immense volumes are
filed with autographs names, beginning
with the nobility and ending with com,
moner'. At some future day these valu-
able works will belong to the public.
There are about forty volumes.
1t may not be generally known that
Mrs. Stowe he'd several interviews with
Mrs. Tilton after the development of the
scandal. At the last Que, which took
place, as did the others. at Mr.. Abington's
house, Mrs. Stove asked her how she
could be so weak and wicked as to sign
such a confession if she knew it was false.
Mrs. Tilton began to cry, and said it was
all TLeodore's fauet. "IIe kept nagglng
at me all the time" wbine1 the poor
little woman; "he wouldn't ls. me sleep
at all, but Just kept nagging-nagging
abclt my writing it, till l was more than
half crazy, aud sometimes l was under
the influence of strong medicine, aud my
poor head in whirl, SO wrote anything
for peace sake, just as should again if
lived with him.
When Mrs. Stowe rose to leave she
passed her arm around Mrs. Tilton's
waist. Mrs. T. looked at her in surprise
''How can you be so kind to me!" she
asked, when | have made you 80 mach
trouble ?"
because | am SO sorry fer youI' re.
piled Mrs. Stowe; II am sorry that any
woman cen be SO weak as to wreck SO
many lives with her own. | pity you
from NY very heart"
The Jeaatiful simplicity your cores.
poudent 20 tOuchingly depicts in Mr.. and
Ms. ssowo has given place to a very
wcidIy.T,se shrewduess. They both uu>
der:tsad tho gtlue of money now, hut
they spsnd ittc moro for their personal
needs than they ever did. They are
both aelfshly absorbed IL their own work.
The old Professor ambles about like some
ancient farmer, teddling and grim. Mrs.
Stowe is in perpetual raYerie about her
characters, and, though she cordially in.
vites her friends and relatives to come
and see her, she is very likely to be un.
conscious OF their existence until they get
up to 60. She is literary seusualist,
absorbed in the happiness of peopleing
new worlds. Cor. Boston Neus.