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if we expect to join our cause we must avoid as much as possible shocking people's prejudices. we may advance study be pursuing our present method: I do not think the [?] rests with our organization as you [require?] but with the material we have to deal with by the circulation of our pamphlets we have influenced men and women far and near = we are by this means educating the women of England to appreciate the privilege of the vote. A most important bill has been passed this last [session?] giving women the right to vote in municipal Elections, which is but the forerunner of Parliamentary Elections. America being [?] [first?] [?] helps one Country, helps another. our meeting in July has done good for the women in the United States. Every step you make in advance will benefit us but we must be content to work differently tho' for the same object, because of the difference between American and English sentiment. Thanks for the Papers you
{next page} sent me with "the Resolution". I have certain sympathy in fact. We have thought the [few?] first [numbers?] sent us damaged our cause partly because G.F. {Train?] was connected with it and from its style. I see The [?] [?] Standard regularly - also The Radical, and North American Quarterly, and occasionally "The New Girls [?]". Mr. & Mrs. Mc[Laren?] are very intimate friends of ours - both through workers in our cause, as is her brother Mr. Jacob, her sister Mrs. Lucas is one of our Executive Committee. Mrs. Fawcett also, who is the wife of the member for Brighton, & Mrs. Stansfeld the wife of the Right Hon: James Stansfeld member of the present Government. So you see we have names of influence upon our Committee. My time is also much occupied by an Institute for poor boys & girls I opened a year [since?] for evening classes only - the pupils are chiefly the sons & daughters of very small tradespeople whose education has been [?] neglected and
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