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Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Isabella Beecher Hooker, January 6, 1873

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I(u) at least, cannot leave my life  
 
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work to try and set them(u) right - but
 
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Rochester Jan. 6. 1873 My Dear Mrs. Hooker

Do not, I beg you, allow your feelings to be wrought upon because of another's falseness to facts or theories - it is doubtless as much better to wait the natural crisis of a moral disease, as that of the physical (u) - & if there be any truth in your old orthodox theory - it is probably Gods purpose to give all these people their wayward(u) heads(u) until they shall have filled their own cups to the brim with his wrath(u) - all the parties connected with that fearful tragedy seem to have put their heads together to lie(u) through(u) the(u) whole(u) with a perfect(u) God(u) & Truth(u) defying(u) spirit(u) - & they must go their own way to destruction. I(u) at least, cannot leave my life work to try and set them(u) right - but

TOP OF THE PAGE SIDEWISE IS SO DIFFICULT FOR ME TO READ I sure must have