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Mississippi valley. And people wondered at the
stranger—reports a native writer—who talked to
the darkies as civilly as to the whites, and with
a Swedish accent so strong that, despite the purity
of her English, Hawthorne could understand only
a fraction of what she said. So when her letters on
America came out in Mary Hewitt’s translation
they were eagerly read by all who “possessed the
slightest curiosity to know the impressions made
on the Swedish novelist by the universal Yankee
nation.” Miss Bremer “lays no claim to the character
of a political philosophress or strong-minded
woman,” writes a contemporary, “but with active,
perceptive powers and heart-warm sympathies
contemplates the living phenomena around her,
and faithfully sketches such features as most
readily appeal to her interest and curiosity. Her
impressions are given with the most transparent
candor, and if she sometimes unnecessarily draws
aside the veil of private life, it is certainly not in
the spirit of gossip or scandal, but from excess of
love.”
The letters were originally written from America,
and most of them “to a beloved sister, who
was no longer on earth” when Fredrika returned
to Sweden. They were not at first intended for
publication; but the subsequent opening and
rereading of them by the author “reanimated” her,
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