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About it. I write
kind and playful when
I am sorry she takes it so to heart. I heard Bellows lecture last evening before the Antislavery Lyceum. It was fine, written in a beautiful spirit. I hope Susan you will feel well and strong
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Be patient.
Adieu yours in love
E.C. Stanton.-

(“I might have been born an orator - “
Jan. 3 1856
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E.C. Stanton
Jan 3.55
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Original in
Alma Lutz Collection

Fragment of a letter written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony, january 3, 1855.

About it. I note [crossed out]
Kind and playful even [crossed out]
I am sorry she takes it so to heart. [crossed out]. I heard Billins (?) [Bellows] lecture before the Antislavery Lyceum. It was fine, written ina [sic] beautiful spirit. I hope Susan you will feel well and strong
…...
Be patient, ? Yours in love
E.C. Stanton

(“I might have been born and orator - “
Jan. 3, 1856 (These two lines probably in Mrs. Blatch’s Handwriting.)

This letter was probably cut up when Mrs. Blatch and her brother, Theodore Stanton were editing their mothersletters preparatory to publishing Letter [crossed out] ELIZABETH CADY STANTON? AS REVEALED IN HER LETTERS, DIARY, AND REMINISCENCES.