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Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888 [Where is the Utopian code of morals...]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.138 Author/Creator: Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph quotation signed Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 12.5 cm, Width: 20.4 cm Order a Copy

Howitt writes an excerpt from the Seven Temptations, p. 14: "Where is the Utopian code of morals equal to that which a few words set forth unto the Christian, 'do ye so to others as ye would they should do unto yourselves."

Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888

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