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

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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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You may write me in German. Mrs Caprile [?], Nannie's teacher, is with us, & will help me read whenever it is necessary.

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1869 Sandwich Oct 28th

Dear Madam Anneke. I get very tired, for I have been working hard, but it rests me to think of you, & lean on your truthfulness and earnestness. I meant to come to your house the day before I started & say good bye, but I am always so busy the day before I start. I spoke last Tuesday in Sandwich to a good audience. Wednesday in Newark to a still better---Thursday I was to speak in Earl but so few came out that I did not speak. Saturday in Plano. Tuesday I had a debate in sandwich with a prominent

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gentleman here. We had a cheerful time I assure you-but I beat him thoroughly-The Committee decided in my favor tho' bitterly opposed to Woman suffrage, & I carried the house by an overwhelming majority--You see I tell you because I know you are interested for sure. Did you notice my name in the list of those calling the Convention--I was very sorry for that, I have written to the Agitator of Revolution to contradict it. I hated to do it, I know they will be annoyed--but the truth must be spoken & I thought it more truthful & consistent. If we only stands [? sp] to the truth as one sees it---there he or she can rest with a quiet

conscience & light heart. I think however we had better have a delegate at the Cleveland Convention as we agreed. The only question is where to send my credentials. I can not tell just now exactly where to tell you--Next week I shall be at a Convention in ???????ville, the next week in Indiana, but I will write you soon & let you know where to send them. But let me have full credentials & not go as we did to N.Y. last Spring half ar????d. If I go to Cleveland & speak there I shall say that our Association does not send a delegate there because of wrong doing on the part of the other? ???. But because

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our interest in every movement I desire to be represented in everything leading to woman Suffrage. Isn't that right? I do not want to throw discredit on the other workers. Excuse this paper. It got soiled dragging it around in my basket & I can't help it---for I live like an itinerant vagabond or peddler. Do you ever see my brothers? or Dr. Ross now Dr. Wolcott-- does she seem happy? Give my love to her, I do try to keep our Society together however dragging & unsatisfactory the result. It is a nucleus. When I shall be back I don't know, but some day I shall drop in on you like a meteor. Good bye my dear friend. Always yours L. Peckham

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in light writing at top of page---An appeal for ???? to come to Chic. Conv. (Use this in ? Has)

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

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