Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-349) and index.
Youthful correspondence : "I often feel hopelessly despairing" -- A life in transition : "an artist of sufficient merit" -- Letters to Grace : "how deeply and reverently grateful I am" -- A mother's love : "to the best of daughters" -- Work, reform, and activism : "I love to preach better than anything" -- Famous correspondents : "not a man in America whose praise... I would rather win!" -- The twilight years : "my writing... simply doesn't come" -- The final chapter : "a restful sense of finality"