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)
