Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With a Memorial of Their Lives
From beginning to end my one purpose has been, not to write a eulogy, but to write justly. In depicting their birthplace and early life in Ohio, I have quoted copiously from Phoebe's sketch of Alice, and Ada Carnahan's sketch of her Aunt Phoebe, both published in the (boston) Ladies' Re pository, believing that that which pertained exclusively to their early family life could be more faithfully told by members of the family than by any one born outside of it. Save where full credit is given to others, I, alone, am responsible for the statements of this Memorial. Not a line in it has been recorded from hearsay. Not a fact is given that I do not know to be true, either from my own personal knowledge, or from the lips of the women whose lives and characters it helps to represent. I make this statement as facts embodied by me before, in a newspaper article, have been publicly questioned. One writer went so far as to say in a public jour nal, that As she would not willingly misrepresent her, Mrs. Clemmer must have misunderstood Alice Cary. I never misunderstood Alice Cary. She never uttered a word to me that I did not perfectly understand. I have never recorded a word of her that I did not know to be true; nor with any purpose but to do absolute justice to my dearest friend. This is a full and final reply to any query or doubt which this Memorial may suggest or call forth. All who read have a perfect right to criticise and to question but I shall not feel any obligation to make further reply. Life is too short and too precious to Spend it in privately answering persons who wish to be assured that the Cary sisters were not Universalists, or who cultivate original theories concerning their character or life.
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