The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-05
Mrs. Stowe and Her Work.

Mr.. Stowe composes with perfect ia
cility, her thoughts flowing So freely and
uninterruptedlY, and her pen being. SC
obedient to their course that her manu-
script always goes to the printers in its
first draft. She never goes back to re-
wise or correct, and does not even take
the trouble to read over what she has
written. Her father was quite different
In this respect, for, with his manuscript,
he was continually hesitating, scratching
out and exchanging expressions over
and over again. Mrs. Stowe has no
regular hours devoted to literary labor,
but writes when she feels most in the
mood. When tired of the pen she re-
lieves herself by taking up palette and
brush, having decided artistic talent,
which she exercises principally in flower
painting, love for flowers being one of
her passions.
Mrs. Stowe is of medium height, with
slight figure and thoughtful face full
OF refined character, her features COM
bining strength and delicacy in express
sion. Her gray hair is almost snowy.
She dresses with extreme simplicity and
IN good taste. She has an easy, unas-
suming way; an air of genuine old New
England domesticity which shows that
her numerous papers on house and home
topics are based on practical experience.
Her regular home is in Hartford, a
place endeared to her by the associations
of girlhOod. Her house is on Forest
street. It is of brick with tastefully
plain exterior. painted light buff, and
is surrounded by pleasant grounds.
The three celebrated authors who may
be said-to form Hartford literary trio
are near neighbors, Mr.. Clemens
("Mark Twain") living next door,
while Charles Dudley Warmers home is
not five minutes away. The interior of
Mrs. Stoves house is unassumingly COM
Portable. There are many souvenirs of
travel and interesting associations, in
Guiding portraits presented her by dis
ting guished foreign friends gained by her
labors for the cause of freedom. On the
walls are also many of her flower
paintings, the clustered favorites of her
beloved New England fields being side
by side with the gorgeous flora of
Florida.
Mrs. Stowe and her family live in an
atmosphere of perpetual summer, their
winters for the past sixteen years having
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Mandarin, her Florida estate on the st.
John river. Her picturesque cottage is
shaded by the dense foliage of magnif-
cent live oaks, and from the point on
which it stands there is an uninterrupted
view for miles, both up and down the
broad and beautiful river Notwith-
standing her abolition antecedents, she
and her family have received nothing
but kindness from her Southern neigh
bors, although the press in some in
stances has been violent in its assaults.
Of the celebration of her seventieth
birthday, Mrs. Stowe says that she feels
a little embarrassed, since it will be the
first birthday she has ever celebrated.
she having been brought up in
the old-fashioned manner which made
no account of birthdays or of few other
sentimental occasions. She never could
succeed in remembering when the day
came around, and once, having made
number of good resolutions for the occa.
sion, after the manner of many other
people, she found that she had made
them on the wrong day Boston
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