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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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

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