(Have you given up Swedenborg?
this by the way.) Having done so, I am anxious to set you right about Mrs.Stowe.As the author of the most successful book printed by man or woman, perhaps I a little under-rated her.

The book has genius, but did not strike _me_ as it did some other readers.
Her 'Sunny Memories,' I liked very little.

When she came to us in Florence some years ago, I did not think I should like her, nor did Robert, but we were both of us surprised and charmed with her simplicity and earnestness.

At Rome last year she brought her inner nature more in contact with mine, and I, who had looked for what one usually finds in women, was startled into much admiration and sympathy by finding in her a largeness and fearlessness of thought which, coming out of a clerical and puritan _cul-de-sac_, and combined with the most devout and reverent emotions, really is fine.

So you think that since 'Uncle Tom' she has turned infidel, because of her interest in Spiritualism.