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[on National Woman Suffrage Association letterhead]
Tenafly N.J. Oct 19.
Dear Mr Underwood,
The scrap you sent me was so badly expressed “Mrs. Stanton” nine times repeated that I put the gist of it in better language so that you can say what I send yourself without quoting anybody.
My sickness to which you refer (sub rosa) was occasioned by the
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warnings from you and Judge Hurlbut to stay at home from that Albany complication. Fortunately, I had a crick in my knee two or three days at that time, to save me from misrepresentation. But I was punished for my special pleading by innumerable letters of inquiry as to my health. As I pride myself on being always well, it is humiliating to me to be considered
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otherwise. I have often thought of you and Mrs. Underwood and The Index, but I have no time to write as I am very busy proof reading and preparing material with the printers close on my heels. To read a thousand pages of proof four times after selecting from bushels of papers and manuscripts the facts we want makes the work of the last ten years a hard one for my old
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eyes and hands and specially hard now as I have passed from the political to the religious phase of this question, for I now see more clearly than ever that the arch enemy to woman’s freedom skulks behind the altar, With best regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself, sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I send you a letter from my Theodore from which you might make the extract I marked.
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I take great pride in this son, because he is a pure noble young man, who never had from birth the slightest tendency to evil. All his tastes are refined, and he is deeply interested in my life work and sympathises with me as fully as my daughters. All that he writes for various papers is high toned. I never heard him use a profane, or obscene word in his life. Contrasting him with my four other sons (though as good as the usual run of young men) he seems to me as near perfection as a young man can be. I am glad to see his articles occasionally in The Index. I enjoy the Index from week to week and the moment we can say finis to Vol III, I shall write several articles that are clammering in my brain for utterance for both The Index and North American Review.
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
[column 1]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Prs.
Susan B. Anthony
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Phoebe Cousins
Rev. Olympia Brown
Abigail Scott Duniway
[column 2]
May Wright Sewall
Ellen H. Sheldon
Rachel G. Foster
Jane H. Spofford
Tenafly, N.J. Oct 19. (1885-89)
Dear Mr Underwood,
The scrap you sent me was so badly expressed, “Mrs. Stanton” nine times repeated that I put the gist of it in better language so that you can say what I send yourself without quoting anybody.
My sickness to which you refer (sub rosa) was occasioned by the warnings from you and Judge Hurlbut to stay at home from that Albany complication. Fortunately, I had a crick in my knee two or three days at that time, to save me from misrepresentation. But I was punished for my special pleading by innumerable letters of inquiry as to my health. As I pride myself on being always well, it is humiliating to me to be considered otherwise. I have often thought of you and Mrs. Underwood and The Index, but I have no time to write as I am very busy proof reading and preparing material with the printers close on my heels. To read a thousand pages of proof four times after selecting from bushels of papers and manuscripts the facts we want makes the work of the last ten years a hard one for my old eyes and hands and specially hard now as I have passed from the political to the religious phase of this question, for I now see more clearly than ever that the arch enemy to woman’s freedom skulks behind the altar.
With best regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself,
Sincerely
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I send you a letter from my Theodore from which you might make the extract I marked.
I take great pride in this son, because he is a pure noble young man, who never had from birth the slightest tendency to evil. All his tastes are refined, and he is deeply interested in my life work and sympathizes with me as fully as my daughters. All that he writes for various papers is high toned. I never heard him use a profane, or obscene word in his life.
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Contrasting him with my four other sons (though as good as the usual run of young men) he seems to me as near perfection as a young man can be. I am glad to see his articles occasionally in The Index. I enjoy The Index from week to week and the moment we can say finis to Vol. III, I shall write several articles that are clammering in my brain for utterance for both The Index and North American Review.
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[on National Woman Suffrage Association letterhead]
Tenafly N.J. Oct 19.
Dear Mr Underwood,
The scrap you sent me was so badly expressed “Mrs. Stanton” nine times repeated that I put the gist of it in better language so that you can say what I send yourself without quoting anybody.
My sickness to which you refer (sub rosa) was occasioned by the
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warnings from you and Judge Hurlbut to stay at home from that Albany complication. Fortunately, I had a crick in my knee two or three days at that time, to save me from misrepresentation. But I was punished for my special pleading by innumerable letters of inquiry as to my health. As I pride myself on being always well, it is humiliating to me to be considered
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otherwise. I have often thought of you and Mrs. Underwood and The Index, but I have no time to write as I am very busy proof reading and preparing material with the printers close on my heels. To read a thousand pages of proof four times after selecting from bushels of papers and manuscripts the facts we want makes the work of the last ten years a hard one for my old
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eyes and hands and specially hard now as I have passed from the political to the religious phase of this question, for I now see more clearly than ever that the arch enemy to woman’s freedom skulks behind the altar, With best regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself, sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I send you a letter from my Theodore from which you might make the extract I marked.
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I take great pride in this son, because he is a pure noble young man, who never had from birth the slightest tendency to evil. All his tastes are refined, and he is deeply interested in my life work and sympathises with me as fully as my daughters. All that he writes for various papers is high toned. I never heard him use a profane, or obscene word in his life. Contrasting him with my four other sons (though as good as the usual run of young men) he seems to me as near perfection as a young man can be. I am glad to see his articles occasionally in The Index. I enjoy the Index from week to week and the moment we can say finis to Vol III, I shall write several articles that are clammering in my brain for utterance for both The Index and North American Review.
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
[column 1]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Prs.
Susan B. Anthony
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Phoebe Cousins
Rev. Olympia Brown
Abigail Scott Duniway
[column 2]
May Wright Sewall
Ellen H. Sheldon
Rachel G. Foster
Jane H. Spofford
Tenafly, N.J. Oct 19. (1885-89)
Dear Mr Underwood,
The scrap you sent me was so badly expressed, “Mrs. Stanton” nine times repeated that I put the gist of it in better language so that you can say what I send yourself without quoting anybody.
My sickness to which you refer (sub rosa) was occasioned by the warnings from you and Judge Hurlbut to stay at home from that Albany complication. Fortunately, I had a crick in my knee two or three days at that time, to save me from misrepresentation. But I was punished for my special pleading by innumerable letters of inquiry as to my health. As I pride myself on being always well, it is humiliating to me to be considered otherwise. I have often thought of you and Mrs. Underwood and The Index, but I have no time to write as I am very busy proof reading and preparing material with the printers close on my heels. To read a thousand pages of proof four times after selecting from bushels of papers and manuscripts the facts we want makes the work of the last ten years a hard one for my old eyes and hands and specially hard now as I have passed from the political to the religious phase of this question, for I now see more clearly than ever that the arch enemy to woman’s freedom skulks behind the altar.
With best regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself,
Sincerely
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I send you a letter from my Theodore from which you might make the extract I marked.
I take great pride in this son, because he is a pure noble young man, who never had from birth the slightest tendency to evil. All his tastes are refined, and he is deeply interested in my life work and sympathizes with me as fully as my daughters. All that he writes for various papers is high toned. I never heard him use a profane, or obscene word in his life.
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Contrasting him with my four other sons (though as good as the usual run of young men) he seems to me as near perfection as a young man can be. I am glad to see his articles occasionally in The Index. I enjoy The Index from week to week and the moment we can say finis to Vol. III, I shall write several articles that are clammering in my brain for utterance for both The Index and North American Review.
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