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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[in pencil---l from daughter of Gerrit Smith, expressing her mother's great affection for MFA Interesting]

Peterboro Feb. 23. 1870 My dear friend, I came here last Friday to my dear Mother who has been very ill for three weeks. At times we are greatly encouraged about her & then again we are very anxious. She has been talking so much of you this morning, that I decided to do at once what had long been in my thoughts, write you a few lines. Mother's affection for you is greater than I can describe! Her recollections of you this morning were so vivid & thrilling

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that we almost dreaded the result, in her weak nervous condition. She told us how she felt when she [bade?] you good bye. & how she had wondered like Mrs Browning in her "Portugese Sonnets" what her [?] had but so recently heard the footsteps of yours! Thursday MorningMother has passed another night of great suffering, & feels very week this morning. We are anxious & troubled about her, & yet she had lived through so many severe attacks, we can but hope she will rally once more. I think it was you who kindly sent me a German paper some weeks since containing articles on Mrs. Staunton's statement of the German woman working with the cow. She probably

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3. did not mean to give it general [underlined in original] application---but there is a lower degradation of woman than [even?] that in all countries. Have you been at all interested in the "International League" of which Mad. [E???gg] is president? She wished to establish a branch association here & has appointed Mrs Stanton as a [central?] for New York, & myself for Geneva. You probably know that Geneva is my home. It is a very conservative place---I don't know one single soul there in sympathy with the great reforms of the day. Now would it not be better for you to

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take my place. Mrs. Stanton is sufficient for this State & I should like to transfer my office to you, in & for Wisconsin. I have written Susan Anthony respecting a change, but should like, in the mean time, to know if you would be willing to take such a position. With much love from us all truly & affectionately yours Elizabeth S Miller

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Peterboro March 3. 1870 My very [underlined in original] dear friend, Your two lovely letters reached us this evening. How happy I am to tell you that my dear Mother, although quite far from well, is decidedly better. Her intense pains eased several days ago, & her [?] has become quite natural-- Is it not a blessed change? And now, my dear friend, what is your trouble? Four weeks in [underlined] bed! [underlined] That is very hard! How sincerely I hope you

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