RD07847

[1918, Feb. 16]

February 1 th, 1918.

Mrs. G. A. Purley,
Flandreau, So. Dak.

My dear Mrs. Purley:--

I am writing to thank you for
the hospitality and for all your kindness to me while
I was in your city. I wish you could know how it
warms the hearts of us who are fated to be nomads to
find a warm welcome in a home like yours.

I am wondering if you have any
more hunches on the subject of our committee. We simply
have to have one. It would be too sad to have Moody
County the only county without its committee, to report
at the Mississippi Valley Conference. When do you
think it would be best to have a worker come to you,
following the plan of which we spoke? We are getting
some new women into the state, all of whom are fine,
in fact we are trying not to have any in South Dakota this
year, who are not fine. Of course, I can say this now,
since I am already here, without seeming to be including
myself, and might send you one of them, perhaps, any way
we will find you just the right person for Flandreau.
Now when will you have two or three consecutive meetings
at which a desirable person could take some-what along
thellines that I did at the Red Cross, and then follow
up the work, until she has the other two members of the
commmittee? We will wait until we hear from you before
deciding, but dear lady don't put it off because there
are only eight months until we will be having an election
in outh DDakota and the soOner we begin this thing the
surer we are that we will never had to go through with
it again. It is fine to know that we have fine loyal
women like you to represent suffrage movement in so many
of our counties.

Give my very kind regards to Mr. Purley
and Ida, and thank them for helping you to make my little
visit to your home so pleasant.

Hoping to hear from you soon, I am

Very cordially yours,

McMahon