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Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Isaac Post.

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anxious vigilance, yesterday and day  
 
anxious vigilance, yesterday and day  
 
before was on his feet half a dozen times  
 
before was on his feet half a dozen times  
but could only say <u>Mr. President</u> where  
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but could only say <u>Mr. [President?]</u> where  
 
some other name would be announced by  
 
some other name would be announced by  
 
the chairman and down he must sit.  
 
the chairman and down he must sit.  

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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 paupersblack 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