Colman, Lucy Newhall Danforth. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Colman, Lucy Newhall Danforth. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Colman, Lucy Newhall Danforth

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Date

1868-12-02

Description

Handwritten letter from Lucy Newhall Danforth Colman to Amy Kirby Post, December 2, 1868.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

1753

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

Lucy Coleman to Amy Post

12.2.1868

Springfield Dec. 2^d/68

Dear Friend Amy, your kind

letter so long in the writing

reached me at the time it ought

and, perhaps should have been

answered before this __ you are

certainly a very busy woman

and will be missed, when you

shall leave this world, as much

perhaps more than any one of

my friends__ I,m [sic] glad you have

the heart to do so much for

every body, not so much for

the every body, as for the good

it brings to your own good

spirit ______well ____Grant is

Colman (this name appears from the bottom of page 4)

(Page 2)

elected, will the Nation

be saved and the wholesale

murder ceased? ___ You have

of course seen the reports of

the "New England Woman's Suf

-frage Convention" Do you

know that I had the honor

of being delegate to that eminent

ly respectable con'? There is

holden every Sunday in Spring

-field a little Free Meeting, very

like the one we used to have

in Rochester, before the days

of Modern Spiritualism, well

this little meeting sent me to

the Con, paid my expenses

& etc. The only thing objectionable

about it was its excessive

respectability ___ Stephen and

Abby Foster were there, zealous

as in former years, Abby looked

well and seemed well, and there

(Page 3)

was Paulina Wright Davis

with curls as white as Eliza

Lee Follen's used to be, in

the old Anti Slavery days __

and Lucy Stone, and Lucy

Stone's Husband, Mr Garrison

and Sam May jun (?) Col, Hig

ginson and Mrs Severance and

oh! so many others, but no

Mrs, Staunton or Susan B,

Anthony, and no body said

one word about them, one

of their Agt, stood in the

vestibule with the "Revolution"

for sale _____ well one would

think we must ^soon^ have Suffrage

I hope the Negro will be so

inured in citizenship first

Frederick Douglass and Remond, and

Mrs, Harper, and the Fosters

urged his priority of claims

but Lucy Stone saw no such

(Page 4)

need ____I said nothing but

voted with the Negro, ____ I

hear very seldom from N,Y,

because I write but seldom,

I am always so busy ___Wendall [sic]

Phillips spoke here this week

subject "Politics" ____God bless

him for his brave and noble

words for the poor and oppressed

How does your Society pros

per? and what do you propose

to do, as your special work?

How is Isaac this winter?
I can hardly feel that Sarah

A (?),O (?) Fish is dead, and Phebe Cornell

well ___ we are all growing old

we too must die ____ when shall

we overcome death

fondly Lucy N (continued on page 1)

I wish you would

write me often

your letters are

worth a great

deal to me

My Sister is

very feeble, sends

love to you

and Isaac

Father is about

as normal, is

visiting in

Hartford just

now _________

pick up rest from UR

Tags

Freed Slaves; Spiritualism; Women's Rights

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Colman, Lucy Newhall Danforth, “Colman, Lucy Newhall Danforth. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 21, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4036.

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