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My agent writes me that I am to lecture in Milwaukee some Sunday P.M.-during the coming winter-then I hope to meet you--I passed through your C.D. the last of April-no first of May last-had [7/9?] hours there-wanted to see you very much-but found you too far off so called on my old townshouses Ms. Sarah Ford-can't remember her married name-& Mrs. Mary Stout Roddies-

All that our national W. S. association has proposed for the Centennial at Philadelphia-is a meeting of protest to be held in that city as nearly on the 4th of July as is practicable-I think on the 4th itself if we can possibly secure a place-&

Your idea of an address to the People-signed by 2 or 3 million-would be a splendid to be ready then-but if signed by only a few thousand, it would seem weak-

I have very little hope or faith in our women rolling up on immense list of names for their own freedom-if we wanted them to do the spectacular task for negro men, Irish men or any class of the superior sex-they would all, as one earnest woman, rush to the work-