Letter from Susan Huntington Hooker to May Wright Sewall.

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{in a second hand: "Hooker, Susan H. June 29, 1914"}

My dear Mrs. Sewall,

Have you any associations with Mrs. Stowe that would give you pleasure to join with us in this loving tribute to her memory.

Yours very truly Susan Huntington Hooker [(Mrs. Horace B.)?] Rochester June 29th 1914-

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The large front window of the hcurch was reserved for a Stowe Memorial at her request, as the congregation was formed from the people of all denominations who gathered for Professor Stowe's Bible readings, but in all these years it has never materialized. It seems fitting that this tribute should be paid in the place that she loved so well and where so many pilgrims come to worship at her shrine.

The people of Mandarin are trying to raise money for this purpose, but this is a mission church and they are too poor to do this without the help of her Northern friends. The colored people whom she taught to read and write are collecting what they can in grateful acknowledgement of her efforts in their behalf. A committee has been formed and as soon as a sufficient amount has been raised for an adequate memorial they will see that it is done.

Any sum will be gratefully received, and may be sent to either

Mrs. Norman Merry, Mandarin, Fla. Mrs. Susan H. Hooker, Trustee, 15 Carthage Road, Rochester, N.Y.

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Mandarin, Florida, was the winter home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, so graphically descrived in "Palmetto Leaves." Her "house of the seven gables," built around one of the magnificent live oaks that overlook the St. Johns River, has been taken down, but the little Episcopal Church of Our Saviour that she helped to build is there.

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