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in light writing at top of page---An appeal for ???? to come to Chic. Conv. (Use this in
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Sunday; Sept. 6. 1869
Dear Madame Anneke,
It will be a very sad thing for us if you don't come to the Convention.
We have advertised you, very extensively. Every German paper in Chicago has announced that you were coming, and every American paper. And I have engaged a German reporter to take down your speech short-hand. It is too late now to contradict it. I went to the Staats Leitung and told them, but they only said, "Oh, Madam Anneke must come (double underline in original)!" Isn't it possible for you to be here? You can