Letters to Mothers [excerpts]
By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. (Hartford: Hudson and Skinner, Printers, 1838).

"A Mother's Counsels" -- Frontispiece to Sigourney's Select Poems (1838)

PREFACE. ADDRESSED TO MOTHERS. LETTER I. PRIVILEGES OF THE MOTHER. LETTER II. INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN UPON PARENTS. LETTER III. INFANCY. LETTER IV. FIRST LESSONS. LETTER V. MATERNAL LOVE. LETTER VI. HABIT. LETTER VII. HEALTH. LETTER VIII. ECONOMY. LETTER IX. EARLY CULTURE. LETTER X. DOMESTIC EDUCATION. LETTER XI. IDIOM OF CHARACTER. LETTER XII. SCHOOLS. LETTER XIII. READING AND THINKING. LETTER XIV. EXAMPLE. LETTER XV. OPINION OF WEALTH. LETTER XVI. HOSPITALITY. LETTER XVII. RESPECT TO AGE. LETTER XVIII. HAPPINESS. LETTER XIX. ADVERSITY. LETTER XX. LOSS OF CHILDREN. LETTER XXI. SICKNESS AND DECLINE. LETTER XXII. DEATH.