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LETTERS. 261
tion” intends during this festive time to let every home,
in which misery and death have been guests during the
epidemic, shine, in the name of the great Physician, joy-
ously and more richly than ever before. This Association
intends likewise to distribute books for children, by native
authors, and will try to edit a special Swedish child’s litera-
ture. Perhaps I shall be able to send you next Christmas _
a budget of this kind of literature for children, for a little
son or a little daughter in your house.
Hearty wishes of joy and happiness, and all good this
year and —every year from your old friend,
FREDRIKA BREMER.
‘
“TO THE SAME.
SrockHoLM, 7th February, 1854.
It is high time that I should thank you with a few words
for your friendly letter, and especially for the sincere and
warm sympathy which you manifest for the condition of my
sex. You say that many an unmarried, middle-aged woman
would have a fresher and purer mind if she had a child
which could be the object of her heart’s tender care. I
niust, however, dissent from your opinion, as if this were the
sine qua non for her soul’s purity and health, and I beg you
will now believe a true womanly nature who could have
loved husband and child devotedly, and yet voluntarily
renounced the same, and who has since without them
enjoyed the fullness and richness of her existence, aye,
enjoys them at this momeut, with a freedom, a joy, which
not always falls to the lot of every wife and mother.
But if this happiness were egotistical, I would not speak
of it. “He, who does not love, knows not God.” The
life of the unmarried or childless woman has its own tempta-
tions and sorrows, but many of these arise (at any rate
in regard to their power over her) from the one-sided and
false direction of her education and of the literature which
she feeds upon, and which refers her almost exclusively, in
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