Excerpt from Letters From New York I doubt not but the reprinting of these Letters in this country will be a boon to many. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child was one of those noble band of women whose heroic souls were tried in the fire of the old anti-slavery days. Her Appeal was the principal tract issued by the Abolitionists, and her friends and coadjutors were the heroes and heroines of that day. I had the privilege when in America of visiting her home, accompanied by Mr. And Mrs. Blackwell, of Boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.