LETTER: Autograph letter signed, "Susan Hale," to "Dear Mr. Waterman," April 28, 1891, 2 East 35th St., New York.
ALS, "Susan Hale," to "Dear Mr. Waterman," April 28, 1891, 2 East 35th St., New York.
8vo.; one leaf, one page.
Hale forwards a contribution to "the sinking fund," writes of her travel plans, and sends thanks for his attention.
Best remembered as the mistress of Matunuck in the summer and the unweary traveler in the winter, Susan Hale was almost seventy-seven when she died. As a girl in the family circle in Brookline, Massachusetts, and later as a woman in the Boston society of the seventies, she was a very distinct character. As she grew older, her most striking characteristic was probably a very great sympathy, which enabled her to make many intimate friends. Particularly was this the case with young people, who used to feel about her much as though she were one of themselves, called her Susan, and talked to her on their own current interests without often realising that she really belonged to an earlier generation. In that generation, however, her chief quality had been something quite different, chiefly a certain gift of brilliant cleverness in thought and expression which made her a noteworthy person among her contemporaries.
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