Heart to Heart Letters: Being Extracts from the Letters of Margaret Bottome to a Son (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Margaret Bottome

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ISBN 10 : 1334937656 ISBN 13 : 9781334937651

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Heart to Heart Letters: Being Extracts From the Letters of Margaret Bottome to a Son

Who writes letters now? Such letters? Do you know anyone who sits down and writes long, intimate, stirring letters, to people whom they have never met, but who have begged for a letter, as they would for a cup of cold water when athirst. This was her labour of love for many years. Now the hand, often so tired, writes no more. The tender loving voice is not heard. Yet she still speaks; I would fain believe that; speaks from lips who heard her message, and translated it into their own speech and action. Here as I write these words, revisiting the city which she knew from slums to palaces, as I feel the electric atmosphere of this nerve-destroying civilization, see the faces which vibrate to the swift erratic pulse of the times, I say to myself, let me at least bring back the memory of one who seeing it as we see it now, saw also, more clearly and with abiding joy, the things which make for peace. I see the high buildings, the swift mov ing of the population, here and there; I see the wealth, and pride, and organization, and mate rial strength, but these things, great as they are, were not the source of this nation''s greatness. Those springs rose in Walden Pond and the House of Seven Gables, in Emerson''s home, in the shades of peace where Whittier and Long fellow and their little brotherhood lived, wrought, suffered and triumphed; in the little parsonages up and down the land, where the Puritan tradi tion held sway.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334937656
• ISBN 13: 9781334937651
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 139
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