Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 4) (Wisconsin Women's History)

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Chicago, 323 West Randolp[sp] St.

Dear Madame [?]

I come to ask you a service, not for me but for a friend of mine, a lady perfectly honorable--speaking French as I do and German as you do. She desires a situation for teaching or speaking and teaching the nice little works[?]. [word?] order we understand better what she wants & will tell you what she is. Born in the French Switzerland she belong[sic] to a very distinguished family She has inhabited Germany for [?illegible number] years. her husband is very [two words illegible maybe bad and] She would [illegible] in his family if she had not [illegible] two little houses here and could sell them now. But [illegible] she would loose [sic] much and cannot afford it. She would have a situation not to be far from Chicago and at the same time for [four words illegible]

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the remuneration is not a question of importance provided she is respected and considered. ??????on and ? She is distinguished and [meet?], perfectly well bred, ??? good and patient. Now if you can find her a good family you will [?] me a [?]and oblige one of the most deserving women in the world. You know our great calamity. My house furniture [sic], library clothes and manuscripts have been burnt [word?] I have not yet recovered and do not know what to do till next spring when I return to Europe. [two words unclear] as a poor leaf [?] [two words unclear] and backward by the mind, and wait the use of my brain to finish my book in America: it must be printed in Paris next [?] summer. To finish it I must go to New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington and do not know if I am better to start now or to rest