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Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.
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Dear Husband, <br/> | Dear Husband, <br/> | ||
− | I hardly know which is duty | + | I hardly know which |
− | Curtis has not yet spoken but is watching his opportunity with anxious vigilance | + | is duty – whether to come immediately |
+ | home or to write, we are having so good | ||
+ | a time listening to the discussions on | ||
+ | suffrage for <u>paupers</u> – <u>black</u> <u>men</u> and | ||
+ | <u>women</u> that I hardly know how to | ||
+ | [leve?], yet I know that I am wanted at | ||
+ | home. Curtis has not yet spoken | ||
+ | but is watching his opportunity with | ||
+ | anxious vigilance, yesterday and day | ||
+ | before was on his feet half a dozen times | ||
+ | but could only say <u>Mr. President</u> where | ||
+ | some other name would be announced by | ||
+ | the chairman and down he must sit. | ||
+ | Last evening Lucy Stone spoke on the same | ||
+ | rostrum to a very good audience, most of | ||
+ | the members present. I think the impression | ||
+ | she made was good. Seemed much as she |
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[Letterhead]
AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
Lucretia Mott, President
Elizabeth C. Stanton, Vice-President
Frederick Douglass, Vice-President
Henry Ward Beecher, Vice-President
Susan B. Anthony, Corresponding Secretary
Henry B Blackwell, Recording Secretary
No. 37 Park Row, (Room 17,)
New York _______1867
Dear Husband,
I hardly know which
is duty – whether to come immediately
home or to write, we are having so good
a time listening to the discussions on
suffrage for paupers – black men and
women that I hardly know how to
[leve?], yet I know that I am wanted at
home. Curtis has not yet spoken
but is watching his opportunity with
anxious vigilance, yesterday and day
before was on his feet half a dozen times
but could only say Mr. President where
some other name would be announced by
the chairman and down he must sit.
Last evening Lucy Stone spoke on the same
rostrum to a very good audience, most of
the members present. I think the impression
she made was good. Seemed much as she