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1890’s
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Dear Mr. Underwood
If you can squeeze my letter and resolution that I sent to the Washington Convention into The Index even in fine print I wish you would as our suffrage papers do not publish it. The resolutions both
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last year, and this were mine not Mrs. Colby’s, and have stirred up more agitation than all the rest of the convention work together.
If I can be there next year I will present and carry one stronger than ever (the shortest way to educate the women is to make them religiously free
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We have pecked away at the state half a century to no purpose. I have tried all along to show the women that our worst enemies were skulking behind the altars, and that our guns should be turned on the church but it is difficult to make them see it. No prejudices so
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strong as those entrenched in superstition. Have you seen the new Magazine called “The Forum” published in New York? I shall have an article in that on the Sunday question, in the April number. With kind regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself Sincerely ever Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
1890’s
ECS
Dear Mr. Underwood;
If you can squeeze my letter and resolution that I sent to the Washington Convention into The Index even in fine print I wish you would as our suffrage papers do not publish it. The resolutions both last year, and this were mine not Mrs. Colby’s, and have stirred up more agitation than all the rest of the convention work together.
If I can be there next year I will present and carry one stronger than ever (the shortest way to educate the women is to make them religiously free
We have pecked away at the state half a century to no purpose. I have tried all along to show the women that our worst enemies were skulking behind the altars, and that our guns should be turned on the church but it is difficult to make them see it. No prejudices so strong as those entrenched in superstition. Have you seen the new Magazine called “The Forum” published in New York? I shall have an article in that on the Sunday question, in the April number. With kind regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself
Sincerely ever,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1890’s
19
ECS. [stationary]
Dear Mr. Underwood
If you can squeeze my letter and resolution that I sent to the Washington Convention into The Index even in fine print I wish you would as our suffrage papers do not publish it. The resolutions both
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last year, and this were mine not Mrs. Colby’s, and have stirred up more agitation than all the rest of the convention work together.
If I can be there next year I will present and carry one stronger than ever (the shortest way to educate the women is to make them religiously free
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We have pecked away at the state half a century to no purpose. I have tried all along to show the women that our worst enemies were skulking behind the altars, and that our guns should be turned on the church but it is difficult to make them see it. No prejudices so
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strong as those entrenched in superstition. Have you seen the new Magazine called “The Forum” published in New York? I shall have an article in that on the Sunday question, in the April number. With kind regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself Sincerely ever Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
1890’s
ECS
Dear Mr. Underwood;
If you can squeeze my letter and resolution that I sent to the Washington Convention into The Index even in fine print I wish you would as our suffrage papers do not publish it. The resolutions both last year, and this were mine not Mrs. Colby’s, and have stirred up more agitation than all the rest of the convention work together.
If I can be there next year I will present and carry one stronger than ever (the shortest way to educate the women is to make them religiously free
We have pecked away at the state half a century to no purpose. I have tried all along to show the women that our worst enemies were skulking behind the altars, and that our guns should be turned on the church but it is difficult to make them see it. No prejudices so strong as those entrenched in superstition. Have you seen the new Magazine called “The Forum” published in New York? I shall have an article in that on the Sunday question, in the April number. With kind regards for Mrs. Underwood and yourself
Sincerely ever,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
