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The New Year
“I am happy, very happy tonight for my five years
work is done, and whether it succeeds or not, I shall be the richer
and better for it, because the labor, love, disappointment, hope and
purpose, that have gone into it, are a useful experience that I shall
never forget. Now if it makes a little money and opens the way for
more, I shall be satisfied, and you in some measure repaid for all the
sympathy help and love that have done so much for me in these hard
years. I hope Success will sweeten me and make me what I long to
become more than a great writer—a good daughter. And so God bless
you, dear mother, and send us all a Happy New Year.” ~Letter, to her mother from Louisa, "The New Year opens most beautifully to me with all my dear ones in good health, & each busy & happy in their own peculiar way. Father with his school duties books & newspapers, Lu, her quiet room & writing, Abbie earning her living pleasantly among kind friends & the gaity so congenial to her fun loving nature. Mother is rather lonely & finds her kitchen & workbasket tiresome at times, but is well, happy in her children’s success & happiness, & finding much comfort & rest in a home of her own." ~Anna Alcott Pratt’s Journal, |
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