LETTER: Autograph letter signed, to William H. Ward.
“STRENGTH COMES SLOWLY AT 65…”
Grimke, Sarah Moore. Autograph letters signed, to William H. Ward, on page, September 22,
1871 and to Anna Brown, March 31, ca. 1857, one page.
In the first, feminist, abolitionist, and writer Grimke sends a manuscript to Ward, an editor and
clergyman. Ward joined the staff of the New York Independent in 1868 and worked his way up to
editor-in-chief. He was twice president of the American Oriental Society, the oldest (founded in
1842) learned society in the United States devoted to a single field of scholarship.
I thank you for the permission to send my man[uscript]. which I shall forward tomorrow
_ If it is too long you are at liberty, if you can spare the time to make any omissions you
think Proper.
If you reject it I will esteem it a favor if you will send it to my nephew Llewellyn S.
Haskell of Orange, New Jersey. …
In the second, Grimke consoles a friend.
I feel but poorly able to express the sympathy I feel for you in Wallie’s increased
indisposition. I know your tender maternal heart throbs yearningly over that dear one,
whose infirmity has doubtless bound you to him with added cords of love. I earnestly
hope that your cares & anxieties may soon cease, & that returning health & vigor may
soon bless your darling boy – Tell him I send him a large budget of love & good wishes.
With love to dear Sue & to all our anxious friends I am in weakness but much tenderness.
Yours S.M. Grimké
Strength comes slowly at 65.
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