Memoir and letters of Jenny C. White Del Bal

Memoir and letters of Jenny C. White Del Bal

Author: White, Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman

Year: 1868

To the Reader: Before unlocking for you the sacred door of a life now ended, and revealing its hidden treasures, we must ask your charity. We will retrace with you the blessed steps of our favored child, while our hearts are still bleeding and our soul heavily laden with grief for the loss of the departed ones. In yielding to the request and advice of many friends to do this work, we have also yielded to a voice within, that so impelled us on, that we have almost believed some other spirit than our own crushed one has guided our pen and given our soul strength to meet the demand made upon it. The following beautiful letters will explain, better than we can, the motive that moved us to this task of love and duty. As a writer, forget the author of this imperfect memoir, and only remember that a mother seeks to steal unseen to your hearthstone, and there lay down her heart's treasure, the life of a child she loved too well, and share with you its memories and its fruit Digitized by Google.