My sister, Mimoli Crawford, had several times in her life wanted to become a Catholic. My mother had always done her best to prevent it. I remember at one time Mimoli wrote her a long letter with a list of “plain reasons for joining the Church of Rome.” My mother had an old friend, an English clergyman, Mr. Shadwell by name, who happened to be in Rome; a gentle, scholarly man to whom she showed this letter, asking him to answer the arguments with valid objections. All he could find to say was, “Oh, my dear friend, let her go, do not try to hold her back. They have all the Saints on their side.”
Mrs. Winthrop Chanler, Roman Spring: Memoirs (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934), 145-6.
Short Stories on Honor, Chivalry, and the World of Nobility—no. 331
