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Collection Reference Number GLC05508.059
From Archive Folder Collection of documents relating to religion and spirituality 1861-1944 
Title I believe in beauty and in joy…
Date ca. 18 January 1875-1885
Author Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)  
Document Type Miscellany
Content Description Cable quotes Charlotte Oliver, in part: "As to resurrection, punishment and reward, I can't see what my noblest choice has to do with them; they seem to be God's part of the matter; mine is to love perfect beauty and perfect joy..."
Subjects Literature and Language Arts  Woman Author  Women's History  Religion  
People Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)  
Place written s.l.
Theme Religion; Arts & Literature; Women in American History
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Notes: There is no basis for the dates except that Cable's best works appear in the later 1870s and early 1880s.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945