HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)— The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center has acquired a letter written by the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when she was a 10-year-old girl.
She describes her safe trip to her grandmother's house from the family home in Litchfield, her new baby sister, Isabella, and a dress ruffle on which she had not done much work.
The letter, written on March 14, 1822, to her brother Edward, was found in the basement of a church. It was put up for auction and purchased by the Stowe Center for $10,000 plus fees from a small auction firm in New York.