Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta: By Her Friends

IN sketching some of the literary women of New-York, their salons, their achievements, their home life, Mrs. Botta naturally headed the list.

Famed editor and publisher, Horace Greeley, said of her, "Anne Lynch is the best woman that God ever made."

Edgar Allen Poe, who gave the first reading of "The Raven" in her salon said, "She is chivalric, self-sacrificing, equal to any fate, capable even of martyrdom, in whatever should seem to her a holy cause. She has a hobby, and this is, the idea of...