Illness of Harriet Martineau

Illness of Harriet Martineau

The numerous friends and admirers of Miss Martineau will read the following extract of a letter from Parker Pillsbury, dated Feb. 15, with feelings of deepest regret:     ‘Miss Martineau is in the last stages of life.   The affection of the heart, from which she has long suffered, seems almost to have reached its crisis – a crisis always fatal.  Last week she seemed almost gone.  She sent farewells to her friends, and arranged for her burial. …’

 (                             Liberator, Mar. 9, 1855, pg 3)