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May 27th

Dear Mrs. Darlington
I have such pleasant memories of my visit to you that I should indeed be glad to see you in the leafy month of June but I do not see my way clear just now, and hesitate to
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promise what I fear I shall be unable to perform.
Having tested your hospitality I feel assured you could make me comfortable, but my chief care is in leaving home as four of my sons are at home, and I expect three
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more children from school the last of June. I am looking over summer clothes, home cleaning, etc,etc. The wardrobes of nine persons and domiciling the same is not a small circumstance and keeping the
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peace when all together needs a governing power such as women only possess. With kind regards and my best wishes that your meeting may be pleasant and profitable
Yours ever
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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May 27th

Dear Mrs. Darlington
I have such pleasant memories of my visit to you that I should indeed be glad to see you in the leafy month of June but I do not see my way clear just now, & hesitate to promise what I fear I shall be unable to perform.
Having tested your hospitality I feel assured you could make me comfortable, but my chief care is in leaving home as four of my sons are at home, & I expect three more children from school the last of June. I am looking over summer clothes, home cleaning, &c,&c. The wardrobes of nine persons & ? the same is not a small circumstance & keeping the
peace when all together needs a governing power such as women only possess. With kind regards & my best wishes that your meeting may be pleasant and profitable
Yours ever
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.