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[1880’s]
Dear Rachel Foster,
We must have Pennsylvania within this month. Do you know Robert Purvis and his wife I think they, Sara Pugh and the Miss Thomsons might help you to get something of the early history of the state Whether there were any heroic women there in the Revolution and what has been done step by step for women. Then we want to know something of the conventions held there
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Oct 54. See if you can get any newspaper reports of this con. or of the one in Westchester. We want some amusing incidents all we glean from then published reports are dry bones. Give us the human palpitating flesh and blood facts you can collect, and be as spry dear child as possible. We have a dozen printers on our heels, which like Achilles may prove our vulnerable point
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if some bright morning they run out of copy of which danger we live in mortal agony.
Sincerely yours
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
Dear Rachel Foster,
We must have Pennsylvania within this month. Do you know Robert Purvis and his wife? I think they, Sara Pugh and the Miss Thomsons might help you to get something of the early history of the state. Whether there were any heroic women there in the Revolution and what has been done step by step for women. Then we want to know something of the conventions held there October 54. See if you can get any newspaper reports of this con. or of the one in Westchester. We want some amusing incidents. All we glean from then published reports are dry bones. Give us the human palpitating flesh and blood facts you can collect, and be as spry dear child as possible. We have a dozen printers on our heels, which like Achilles may prove our vulnerable point if some bright morning they run out of copy of which danger we live in mortal agony.
Sincerely yours
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(Re material for History of Woman Suffrage)
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[1880’s]
Dear Rachel Foster,
We must have Pennsylvania within this month. Do you know Robert Purvis and his wife I think they, Sara Pugh and the Miss Thomsons might help you to get something of the early history of the state Whether there were any heroic women there in the Revolution and what has been done step by step for women. Then we want to know something of the conventions held there
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2.
Oct 54. See if you can get any newspaper reports of this con. or of the one in Westchester. We want some amusing incidents all we glean from then published reports are dry bones. Give us the human palpitating flesh and blood facts you can collect, and be as spry dear child as possible. We have a dozen printers on our heels, which like Achilles may prove our vulnerable point
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if some bright morning they run out of copy of which danger we live in mortal agony.
Sincerely yours
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
Dear Rachel Foster,
We must have Pennsylvania within this month. Do you know Robert Purvis and his wife? I think they, Sara Pugh and the Miss Thomsons might help you to get something of the early history of the state. Whether there were any heroic women there in the Revolution and what has been done step by step for women. Then we want to know something of the conventions held there October 54. See if you can get any newspaper reports of this con. or of the one in Westchester. We want some amusing incidents. All we glean from then published reports are dry bones. Give us the human palpitating flesh and blood facts you can collect, and be as spry dear child as possible. We have a dozen printers on our heels, which like Achilles may prove our vulnerable point if some bright morning they run out of copy of which danger we live in mortal agony.
Sincerely yours
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(Re material for History of Woman Suffrage)
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