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[aversus---?] about women voting.

We will see that you have correct information just as soon as we can make ourselves sure.

We are glad of the spirit of your little league. I wish it would make a point of getting sub= =scribers for the Women's Journal--

Covering every week. with reports of the work it creates and /keeps alive and interest in the cause & [underlined]that is what is needed to Ensure it success-A distribution of leaflets too is a means of grace--

We will come sometime to help at your league meeting. Meantime I am very truly yours

Lucy Stone

[The?] notice of your league will be in the next journal.

2nd, that those who are not now members should join our Association and help swell our ranks. We ought to have at least one thousand active members, and should have if those whose sympathies are with our movement would contribute the small annual membership fee of One Dollar.

3rd, that all whose means will permit should aid us with donations of such sums as their interest in the cause may prompt them to give. It is especially desirable that those who are willing to give a specified sum year should enrol themselves in our list of annual donors, that we may know what to expect from this source. To maintain our headquarters in Boston, to continue the regular issue and systematic distribution of leaflets and other suffrage literature, to hold meetings in various parts of the State, and to keep an agent to organize in the field, we must have funds or the work will be seriously crippled.

We enclose a blank which we shall be glad to have you fill out and return to us, and we hope that we may count on your presence at our meetings this month.

Lucy Stone Chairman of the Executive Comm. Frances J. Garrison, Treasurer

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March 21

Mrs. Rose spoke in Carver's Saloon to a small audience, not exceeding 100, 40 tickets only were sold, thus, $10 was the amount of receipts _

The smallness of the audience was attributable to the fact that the subject has never ["X" in left-hand margin] been agitated here, Lucy Stone spoke last January to a small audience, had a rainy night. Mrs. R's subject the Educational & Social Rights of Woman.

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Rainy & snowy this A.M. Mr. & Mrs. Davis left the St Charles - went to Carver's Saloon but Mrs. R. adjourned the meeting until Friday the 24th Called in Mrs Thompson's room, had a pleasant chat, then returned to our room & prepared notices for the Several Papers for Friday eve ning meeting. In the A. M. called on M. Thompson a young Lawyer from South Carolina to get Law Books, he looked surprised that a woman should desire to look over the musty Law Books -

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March 23d

Cloudy in the A. M. bright about noon, showers in the P.M. & a wind & rain storm in the [fore?] part of evening & clear at 9 o'clock. Visited the printing offices, The Evening Star, the only paper that has charged us for insertion of notices & the only one that reported Mrs. R's speech Most of the Editors seem kind & polite, willing to publish all the articles I gave them - at 1 o'clock went to the Capitol listened to three speeches from Southern [men?] - Millison of Va., Hunt of La. & Breckenridge of Kentucky

The 1st in favor of the original Nebraska Bill, but opposed to the Badger amendment, the 2d opposed to the Bill, out & out, on the ground that it is a violation of Good Faith, as plighted in the Missouri Compromise. The 3d in favor of the Bill, an eloquent speaker, & had he had truth for his founda tion principle, his speech would have been a most powerful one, his face had a fine expression,