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Nov 11th---Dear Madam---here this scribble/terrible is yet---letters are coming in from all quarters about Cleveland. I hope enough of those whose eyes are opened will go to Cleveland to speak & vote for union [underlined in original]--& that union must come in recognition [underlined in original] of workers & work [? sp] everywhere---especially of those who have been steadily [slogging? a word which means steady hard work] away the last 25 years, before most of these Clevelanders were born [underlined in original] into the thought [underlined in original] of the work---unions cannot come out of [?description? for [?]--questions---Lilie telegraphed us not [underlined in original] to publish her disclaimer about signing the call---Love to Lilie--- Sincerely yours---Susan B. Anthony
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than offer to help make up her agitator deficits [both words underlined in original] until after [underlined in original] the Cleveland Convention & to New Years---because it wouldn't do to make a break with her before [underlined in original] that Convention---but they see through her [phrase underlined in original]---one of the Committee is reported to have said---"to throw Susan Anthony overboard & take in Mrs Livermore would be jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire"---So Mrs. Livermore will have courted [?] Boston all for nothing.--- You guess rightly about Mrs. Stanton---she will not go to Cleveland----nor will Mrs Paulina W. Davis--nor will S. B. Anthony
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LaCrosse Wisc November 27th 1869
Mrs Fr. Anneke Milwaukee Wisc Mrs Elizabeth C. Stanton, ??????---rest of line illegible to me all of line two is illegible [I can only make out occasional words from the first paragraph---it rails against ignorant Foreigners.
is it not really absurd, that the ignorant German, who [drove?] at his native home his wife, yoked aside with his Ox or Cow befor [before] the plow, after comming [coming] to this Country, be allowed to Vote, and thereby be entitled, to make Laws for the refined, and intelligent Women of America!
Final paragraph on page is illegible-----might be in German?
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[in pencil Daughter of Gerrit Smith]
Peterboro March 9, 186? [6] My Dear Mrs Anneke, I have hardly the face [?] to write---[unknown word], after my long & most unaccountable neglect! I cannot explain how it was that on receiving your truly welcome letters, bringing the glad tidings that you were coming to America, & giving me yr. address in New York, I failed to reply! Through the summer I was very busy with visitors, & was at last confined to my