Source:
Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters (1913), compiled and edited by Charles Edmund Maurice
The letter:
Norwich, July 19th, 1840.
MY DARLING MAMA, I am so delighted to know that you will soon be well and strong again, and able to lend the strength and assistance which you always have in trying circumstances.
How happy you will be, when the little ones are older, when you get beyond the merely physical part of their education. I am sure your children will all be beautiful, good and wise, for they come into the world finely organized and are watched and trained under your gentle and elevating influence.
I heartily rejoice that the baby is a girl; you will give her strength to endure and struggle with the evils which are the birthright of her sex. She will add to the number of well educated women, who, I am afraid form but a very small portion of humanity. But I forget the difference in age. This little baby belongs almost to the third generation. She will be in her bloom, when we shall be old women, if not dead. Great changes may take place before she attains womanhood.
Very affectionately yours,
LOUISA HILL.
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