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series which was published while R. A. Ballou was agent of the Boston House, were pending. Ballou suggested to Rev. Patterson that his wife write. There was yet a month before the close of the time when the manuscripts must be in. To finish the story already begun in so brief a time, with all the work of the home pending, seemed impossible. But there was no time to pause. It was at once decided that Rev. Patterson should prepare the dinners, and relieve his wife of all company during the early part of the day, and she would try to finish the story in the time allotted. She found the quietest corner of the house, and went to work on a Monday morning. She hung her watch in front of her, that she might not be tempted to dream over her sentences. She made from 25 to 28 pages each morning for five days in the week, giving
Saturday to domestic duties. After dinner, she ransacked great files of "The Rebellion Record," that the dates of events might be entirely accurate, and sometimes, over-weary, slept. In three weeks, the story was completed. On the fourth, she copied the first 150 pages, which were written on scraps of any sort, never thinking of the printer, and sent on her manuscript several days before the expiration of time. In that day, there were on record few equal feats of rapid writing. The committee spent nearly a year reading the manuscripts, of which there were over 30. The first prize was unanimously awarded to Patterson's story. Competent judges are of the opinion that if
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he needed the assistance of a minister, if she was able to do so. He was ill at repeated intervals, and she served in his stead several times. When his health became restored, she took care of her home, unless some sick minister or needy church or institution called for her help. Patterson had a deep interest in young ministers and in the young men fitting for the ministry. Many of the young men, while in college, stayed in her home, and about a dozen affectionately called her mother. When a class in the
Divinity School requested of her a poem for their Zetagathean Anniversary, she wrote "The Divine Call." With no children of her own to educate, Patterson was attentive upon the education of the young. Almost constantly for many years, one or more young persons lived in her home, while studying in
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recover. She was obliged to do her mental work in the mornings, even the writing of a letter after dinner often causing great prostration. Her contributions of prose and verse to the "Ladies' Repository" while Mrs. Bingham edited the magazine, were as frequent as her strength would allow. The first time they met. Patterson had in hand a story of 20 pages or more, with which
Bingham was pleased to read, and it appeared in the first number which she edited. After "Willitts and I," came " The Belle of the Prairie," "Over the Plains," "Which is Better," "The Romance of High Rocks," "My Lost Banker," and other prose articles and poems.
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shook her and her letters became voluminous, full of the passing events of the time. She scarcely wrote a poem. On a certain evening, feeling great loneliness, she began a story of the times. On other lonely evenings she took up the theme, until she had written 150 manuscript pages. The prizes of the
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she gave little to the press. An occasional poem or a brief letter was all she could provide. She took care of her house, and did what she could to help the old and sick of the parish. When an editor, who had been guest in her home, asked her for articles for his magazine, she professed to understand
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fever. Up to that time, she had suffered greatly from diffidence, dreading to face strangers and never lifting her voice even in the conference room. Face to face with death, she forgot to care what the world might say of her or her work. When her husband, after their return, was again prostrated by
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The people, who knew how shrinking she had been in the past, were electrified at her appearance in this high place. After the service, which the people said was conducted as if she had "done it a thousand times," they gathered about her, and requested that she take the place of her husband whenever
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Rundell neighborhood. Nearly every patron of the school was a Universalist. About this time, she began to send occasional poems and letters to "The New Covenant". She also published a few pieces in the "Trumpet" and the "Star." Samuel P. Skinner, editor of
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As a child, she was thoughtful and studious. She never appeared in school with a half-learned lesson. The "Log School-house on the Gore," which
Patterson memorialized in one of her stories, "Willitts and I," furnished the neighborhood an intellectual center, and in summer, when some girl acted as
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came about this time, and the sorrow of leaving old places and friends, and especially her beloved sister and her growing family, coupled with the over-strain in her work, brought on nervous prostration, which rendered her a semi-invalid for two or three years, and from which she did not wholly
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had been published as soon as it was written, and just at the close of the war, it would have circulated widely. As it was, the sale was largely within the
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and read it herself seven times. At the beginning of her religious inquiry, she found a helper, a neighbor, Benjamin Skiff, who loaned her books—the "Life of Murray," "Ballou's
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poem or a story. Friends outside her church tried to enlist Patterson in secular periodicals, assuring her that she could receive much greater compensation; but she was so consecrated a Universalist that she was never tempted to do so.
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but the death of his father rendered it necessary that Rev. Patterson sort out certain business dealings so that his mother might have financial security. The young wife lent a hand in the business endeavors.
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