[Boston—Monday, 11 March 1867]

Monday. Poor Lissie is getting better but nervous excitement over her work has made her ill more than anything else.

Lilian Aldrich is getting better and hopes soon to be in her tiny house. What wretched results of American education such women as Mrs Howells & Mrs Aldrich are.

“How hateful a thing is ignorance”! Lissie too, whose health was injured years ago by over application and her nerves fatally disordered & diseased. It is very sad; for American women are full of power to be and to do. They have a fineness of organisation which appears to me less common in other nations. But I observe this also that where that fine organisation does exist in other nations the women are quite as apt to become nervously diseased. The great wonder in the thing being so common in America, that we have but long ago studied to counteract the tendency to disease by greater care.


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