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Suffragist, reformer, and editor of The Agitator and the Woman’s Journal. Small archive of seven single and multi-page ALSs written to Mrs. Fannie B. Pratt of Boston, ranging in size from 5.5 x 9 to 3.25 x 5.25 and dated between January 30, 1893, to December 16, 1904. The letter dated December 16, 1904, reads, in part: “I am getting very solicitous regarding Mrs. Howe [Julia Ward Howe], I am afraid she will fail of getting here. I wrote her that I would pay all bills, and she wrote that she would come…Now, you must help me in this matter of Mrs. Howe, won’t you, helper of women in general? Answer by telephone, 148-3. Don’t fail me”; and the letter dated December 13, 1902, reads, in full: “I had an engagement for Friday, Dec. 19, for it is my 82nd birthday. But I have arranged matters, and shall attend the Wintergreen meeting that day. If the weather is suitable. I have grown morbidly cautious, since my terrible sickness of last season, and take no risks. I would rather die than have a recurrence of it, even if I knew I should pull up from it, as I have this time. There are things more to be dreaded than death, and my awful sickness was one of them.” Accompanied by three of the original mailing envelopes. In overall fine condition, with mild handling wear and scattered light toning and soiling. RRAuction COA.
