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HARRIET H0&MER. 299
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jokes perpetrated to such an excess , that Dr . iiosmer , satisfied with . having the progress 1 endeavored towards without Health , and success strength to place his child her under had made tuition , and in
daily and -weekly schools near home , determined to commit her the to the young care 1 lad of yhaving Mrs . Sed 1 been gwick expelled , of L _from enox , one Massachusetts school , and . given Thither over
as incorrigible , at another , was accordingly sent , with strict injunctions that health should still be a paramount consideration , and
that the new _piipil should have liberty to ride and walk , shoot and swimto her heart ' s content . In wiser or kinder hands the
, young girl could not have been placed . Here too she met with Mrs . Fanny Kemble , whose influence tended to strengthen and
develop her already decided tastes and j ) redilections . To Mrs , Kemblewe have heard the young artist gratefully attribute the
encouragement , "which decided her to follow sculpture as a profession , and to devote herself and her life to the pursuit of art .
Justly or unjustly , an anonymous squib _iipon Boston and Bostonians wasabout this time , attributed to Miss Iiosmer , while a
, practical joke upon a physician of Boston was the immediate cause of her being sent away to Lenox . Her health having given her
father some uneasiness , the gentleman in question , a physician in large practicewas called in to attend her . The rather uncertain
visits of this , physician proved a source of great annoyance and some real inconvenience to his patient , inasmuch as they interfered
with her rides and drives , shooting , and boating excursions . Having borne with the inconvenience some time , she requested the
gentleman , as a great favor , to name an hour for his call , that she miht make her arrangements accordingly . The physician agreed ,
g but punctuality is not always at the command of professional men . Matters were as bad as ever . Sometimes the twelve o'clock
appointment did not come off till three o'clock in the afternoon . One dayin particularDr . ——— was some hours after the time . A
play , ful quarrel toqk , place between physician and patient , and as he rose to take his leave and offered another appointment , Miss
Hosmer insisted upon his giving his word to keep it . " If I am alive" said he , " I will be here , " naming some time
, on a certain day . " Then if you are not here , " was the reply , " I am to conclude
that you are dead . " Thus they parted . The day and hour arrived , but no doctor
macLe his appearance ! That evening Miss Hosmer rode into Boston _,, and next morning the papers announced the decease of Dr . .
Popular , both in his public and private capacity , half Boston and . its neighbourhood rushed to the physician's house to leave cards
and messages of condolence for the family , and to enquire into the cause of the sudden and lamentable event .
Lenox In 1850 . Mrs , being . Sedgwick then nineteen ' s judicious years treatment of age , , Harriet _ewad the Hosmer motive and left .
Harriet H0&Mer. 299
HARRIET H 0 _& MER . 299
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/11/
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