My sister had sent some verses of mine,
on request, to be published in one of those specimen numbers.
But we were not acquainted with the editor of the "Offering," and
we knew only a few of its contributors. The Universalist Church,
in the vestry of which they met, was in a distant part of the
city. Socially, the place where we worshiped was the place where
we naturally came together in other ways. The churches were all
filled to overflowing, so that the grouping together of the girls
by their denominational preferences was almost unavoidable. It
was in some such way as this that two magazines were started
instead of one. If the girls who enjoyed writing had not been so
many and so scattered, they might have made the better arrange-
ment of joining their forces from the beginning.
I was too young a contributor to be at first of much value to
either periodical. They began their regular issues, I think,
while I was the nursemaid of my little nephews at Beverly. When I
returned to Lowell, at about sixteen, I found my sister Emilie
interested in the "Operatives' Magazine," and we both contributed
to it regularly, until it was merged in the "Lowell Offering," to
which we then transferred our writing efforts.
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