Dear Sir: I have examined your volume: “The Physical Life of Woman,” and desire to thank you for performing a work so long needed, so difficult to perform, and now, at length, so well done by you. Every mother should have this book, nor should she suffer a child to be married without the knowledge which this work contains. Thousands have dragged through miserable lives and many have perished for want of such knowledge. It is to be hoped, too, now that these delicate topics have been so modestly and plainly treated, that your work will supersede the scores of ill-considered and often mischievous treatises addressed “to the married,” which too often serve the lusts of men under the pretence of virtue.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
FROM REV. HORACE BUSHNELL, D.D.
Hartford, Conn., Sept. 1869.
Geo. H. Napheys, M.D.—
Dear Sir: I have read a large part of your book with interest. I shrink from expressing any estimate of it as respects its physiological merit, but it seems to be a book well studied, and it is written with much delicacy and a careful respect, at all points, to the great interests of morality. It will certainly be a great help to intelligence on the subject, and ought, therefore, to be correspondingly useful.
Very respectfully yours,
HORACE BUSHNELL.