Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, Miscellaneous, undated (Box 5, Folder 7)

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Correspondence, and manuscripts of Mathilde Anneke, an author and woman's rights advocate, who lived primarily in Milwaukee after 1849. The correspondence, practically all of which is in German script, contains much information on the opinions and activities of German-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century.

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On my past-that I have in this way reminded you about her-and I thought that a letter of sympathy from you would be something that would certainly be gratifying to her-in this her great sorrow and despair I will add her address and ask you to pardon me for troubling you with this long letter-yours-

very cordially Sarah Hall Hallock

Mrs. Ernstine L Rose 32 St Petersbury Place Bayswater London, England

about Ernstine Rose from Milton on the Hudson Sarah Halleck Chester Co. N.Y. March 27th-

Miss Anneken?,

I saw a letter from you in the Western Woman's Journal, which recalled to my mind-hearing you address a meeting in New Yoek many years ago-soon after your arrival in this country you spoke in German and Ms. Rose translated for you into English

I write now to tell you if you have not heard that Ms. Rose has recently lost her good husband-they lived in London England-Ms. Rose died

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very suddenly in the street of heart disease-

I have had letters from a friend in LondonThey say that she is quite inconsolable, and will not be [conefacted?], for my part, I am not so much surprised, she depended so much upon him, he was the younger, and has always been the stronger. As her long avoided imbelief in a future state forbids her the prospect of meeting him in the future, they say she is very [coretsched?], and will not consent to any thing that will help her in any way that she will not ride or walk-or any thing her friends wish, and they say

She has many friends and very good ones, It is quite possible that you may not remember so much about her as I think her name is Ernestinea Rose, she is a native of Poland, but was brought up in Germany-her father was a Jewish Rabbi-she went to England [married?] William Rose-they came to America with the elder Protest Owen many years ago-and Ms. Rose was for years the most elongent advocate of Women Suffrage.

About a dozen years ago they returned to England-as they said because it did not cost so much to live in London as in New York.

I hope it may not seem too much like [illegible...]

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