Beers, Julia, Litchfield, Connecticut, to Father James Roosevelt Bayley, Newark, New Jersey, 1847 December 10
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Long ago, she told Bayley that she was half a Catholic; he was the only Catholic she had ever known personally. She is now heart and soul a Catholic and has conquered her proud heart. From childhood she had found many truths in the Catholic belief to be irresistible. She feared to stay outside the Church, lest in her precarious state of health, she would not have the opportunity of being a member here on earth. She had to let her mother go to the Protestant service alone last Sunday. She dares not think of what her father's reaction will be. Beers hoped to have been in New York this winter but her mother is not well. She hopes to be there before Easter. Bayley should tell her what she ought to do. They were disappointed not to see Bayley last summer, but Beers had a charming visit to Canada. She will tell him at some leisure time of the things that turned her heart. :: II-2-n A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.
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- Creation: 1847 December 10
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English.
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