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Lowell, April 25th 60

Mrs Post

Dear Lady

In reference to the question upon which I promsied to write you I think the words of Jesus "Let the dead bury their dead" particularly applicable. The [] has death with effects, [] that causes were beyond our reach to which [] we refuse to []. Let us then devote all our energies, our means to the [] and removal of causes to the [], of principles, and [] [] who deal only in effects to bury the dead, and [] effects of their mistakes. In reference to the Magdalen, there are causes which must and will [] them much [] then the concentrated efforts of the thousands save them. Just so long as woman is a subject, a servant, a defendent, just so long will she be man's [], or his slave, or his discarded jest ruling him tyrannically, till he sees fit to dethrone him, as slave to his [] for the [] of [], or outcast indeed, [], and [] whatever she touches.

"The seed of the woman [] the serpent's head." Woman with her fine [], organization, [] in a similar relation to the child, that the lens of the camera does to the [] plate. The objects placed before the lens are