Coneygar Villa, Bridport. Nov 21st 1893. Dear Mr. Douglass It is a very long time since I have heard from you or written to you — indirectly I have heard of you thru' the papers as speaking at the Chicago Exhibition. What an enormous undertaking that Exhibition has been! — & I suppose a very successful one — of course many have gone over to it from England — & it will have been the event of the year in the U.S. I hope that you are entering on the winter in good health & conclude that you will feelit prudent to avoid all Meetings & lecturings for the winter. I wonder whether when winter comes again you will think of crossing the ocean once more. I need no say how very glad I should be to welcome you & Mrs Douglass to Coneygar if you would come & stay and little with me — but you would sadly miss the dear friend who made our home attractive & was its joy & life. I write just now to ask whether you have received a book which I ordered to be sent to you from the Publisher's (Hogan Paul & Co) "Personal & Social Christianity,” — a selection of sermons & other papers ofmy husband's, with a short memoir prefixed by my friend Mis F. E. Cooke. As I wished to send a good many copies to personal friends,& to our Unitarian ministers, I commissioned the publisher to pack & post them for me, & understood from him that he had done so last July, to the addresses I had sent him, - of these I am sure that yours was one. I fear that by some mischance it has not reached you. If this is the case please to let me know, and I will post another copy to you. I believe the book will interest you forits own sake as well as for the writer's. From one or two other friends in the U.S. I have not heard, & cannot help fearing that the books have miscarried, which is vexatious. I suppose you hear something from Mrs Crofts- I hope that she keeps pretty well- I have not heard from her for more than a year- does she still keep school? she must be fairly strong & well mentally & bodily to do so. - I have had a long visit from Miss Amey Droz she came from Zürich, (where she lives with a nephew, a young engineer.) at the end of June. I asked to stay through the winter with me, but on hernephew's accord she thought it right to return, which she did at the beginning of October. She had been very much out of health & I am glad to say that she returned much the better for her stay in Bridport - if all be well she hopes to come to England again in the Spring & perhaps to settle here for the rest of her days. Since Miss Amy Droz left I have had several kind visits from other friends, and from nieces - one of whom left me this morning. Another is coming for a week early in December, Mrs Roscoe, one of my sisterLucy's daughters, & soon after she leaves I am going for a few weeks to my sister Mrs Blakes. I hope that all your children & grandchildren are well & prospering, - are any of them living near you? I shall be much interested in hearing any thing about them that you can tell me. I suppose that Mrs. Douglas's mother still lives with you. Miss Amey Droz spoke with very great regret of not having seen you when you were last in Europe - & of your kindness in taking some trouble to find her but in vain. With kind regards to Mrs Douglass very sincerely yours Mary CarpenterDEWOLFE, FISKE & CO., PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS, 361 AND 365 WASHINGTON STREET. THE ARCHWAY BOOKSTORE. Boston, Jan. 25th, 1893. Hon. Frederick Douglass, Anacostia, D. C., Dear Sir;- Received your request to send the copy of your book to Mrs. M. Waldo Greene. We have done so. Yours Respectfully, DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. (Dictated.)The World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. General Officers: President, Charles C. Bonney, Vice President, Thomas B. Bryan, Treasurer, Lyman J. Gage, Secretaries { Benj. Butterworth, { Clarence E. Young. Chicago, May 9th, 1893. Dear Sir: - - The World's Public Press Congress will convene in the permanent memorial Art Palace, situated at the foot of Adams Street, Chicago, Monday, May 22nd. A reception will be held in the afternoon of the same day at two o'clock P. M., and the opening session of the Congresses will take place in the large Auditorium of the Art Palace at eight o'clock P. M. We expect to have the largest audience of editors ever convened in this or any other country; and we desire very much to have an interesting Programme for the opening session in the nature of greetings and responses from representatives of Governments and Associations. I am therefore directed by Mr. Nixon and Mr. Scott, who have charge of the Programme, to earnestly request your co-operation in this behalf. You are therefore earnestly requested to make a short response of from three to five minutes on behalf of your Country. Begging the favor of a reply by return mail, if convenient, and trusting that the members of your delegation will attend theCongress in a body, in which event special arrangements will be made for seating, if you will inform me of the number, I am, with high respect, Your obedient servant, Clarence E. Young Secretary. Hon. Frederick Douglass, Commissioner, Hayti, Anacostia, D.C. P.S. In the event you will not be able to attend, I would be glad to have you designate a member of your legation in this City.Port-au-Prince, 13 Mai 1893 Mr. F. Douglas, Commissaire d'Haïti à l'Exposition de Chicago. Monsieur, Permettez-moi de vous offrir un témoignage de sympathie et d'admiration, une exemplaire des Conférences antiesclavagistes de Bruxelles où mon jeune fils a en l'honneur de porter la parole au nous de notre race. J'on espérer qu'à ce titre vous y trouverez quelque intérêt. Un autre exemplaire cet destine à M. Charles Preston, votre collègue à l'Exposition. Quand au 3e exemplaire que je vous adresse, vous voudrez bien, si c'est possible, l'adjoindre aux oeuvres intellectuelles exposées à Chicago par la République d'Haïti. Veuillez agreer, Monsieur, l'expression de mon respectueux dévouement. M. Sylvain.Englewood N.Jo: May 17 1893 Hon. Frederick Douglas His Will you give me a date. for you to lecture for my church here. There are a great many rich people here who want to hear your lecture Write me What date you can come. and what your charges areI want to raise three hundred dollars to pay off a debt on my church. So I think if you would give me a date I could make it pay well please answer soon as convenient and oblige Rev. R. S. Cottone Englewood N. J. Englewood is 14 miles from New York city June 14, 1893. My dear Mr. Douglass, Remembering my pleasant call on you in October '91, I now beg your equally kind reception of my friend, Rev. C. F. Aked, a young Baptist minister of rising reputation in his county. You will find him an earnest friend of all justice &reform & he will greatly value the opportunity of conversation with you. Very faithfully yours, R.A.ArmstrongHaytian Pavilion: Jackson Park Chicago Ill. June 20, 1893 My dear Rosa: Your letter before me is doubly welcome. I note with pleasure what you say of dear Hattie. She is a brave and noble girl and withal a girl of real, not make believe talents. You amaze me by what you say of the attitude of the Baptist Preacher and his wife. Why should they be unfriendly to her? She is one of them in faith and in church fellowship. I am proud of her as I am of all my grand children who are brave enough and industrious enough to strike out for themselves without depending for support upon others- These last few lines are written without glasses. My dear old eyes refuse to see what and how I am doing. The fact is I left my specks at home and am writing at the pavilion. I am interested in all you tell me of your children and share your hopes and your fears. I received a good letter from Annie since she went to Harpers Ferry and mean to write to her soon. I am sorry to know that she is not in health. Her husband called upona few years ago. He looked weary and [warn] worn. I am glad to be assured by [an] Annie that Morris is good to her. He is young & strong and has a future. I have had mine and am now going down hills. Amen! I am in a scrape here. Our pavilion and exhibits are not yet open to the public and money is wanted to do it- but the Government of Hayti - like colored people generally, is behind. I have had to lend that Government fourteen hundred Dollars in order to have its exhibits opened on next Saturday. Of course the Government will pay me in its own good time - and if it pays me at all it will do better than most of my colored creditors in the states. It is boiling hot here such now and as I write the persperation drops from my forehead on the paper and adds to the badness of my hand writing. We had the pleasure of a visit at the Fair grounds of Mrs. Blackall. She is much like herself - she leaves for home tomorrow. I shall be very glad to see dear Joe and his violin, if he comes to prepared to pay his own way as he told me he would if hecomes at all. I shall be glad to be you and Nathan too on these wonderful grounds. It would do you both good to see the wonders here. But with all the attractions here I would rather be on Cedar Hill than here. I am however under bond to leave Hayti during the Exposition & I am not the kind of man to break my engagements. I felt with you the full force of the dreadful accident in Wash. Poor Geo. Arnold, I shall miss him should I ever get home. He was one of the livest colored men in Washington. And his loss will be severely felt by all who are doing anything for the cause of our people. I see but little of the Lees and the Joneses. Ella Barrier is expected here on friday. I spent a couple of days at the Commencement at Wilberforce last week and was much pleased with the progress makingthere by our people. We cut no great figure on this fair. We do not seem to be a part of it. Our time does not seem to be yet. When it will come no man can tell and yet I feel sure it will come & though in seems like hoping against hope. Give my love to dear little Rosa and Herbert. Tell them to be of good cheer. They will yet make their way in the world - Your girls are good- thoughtful girls. Make my love to them all. If I could I would treat them all to a visit to the World's fair. My expenses here are very heavy - Every thing than I can drink wear & enjoy costs money. Excuse my blind hand writing. Yours lovingly - your father Frederick DouglassNational-American Woman Suffrage Association. Honorary Presidents: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 WEST 61st ST., NEW YORK. LUCY STONE, DORCHESTER, MASS. President, SUSAN B ANTHONY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, SOMERTON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Cor. Sec., RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, SOMERTON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Rec. Sec., ALICE BLACKWELL, 3 PARK STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, WARREN, OHIO. Auditors: { MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, { ELLEN BATTELLE DIETRICK. Rochester N. Y. June 25/93 My Dear Friend - Mr Foulke - Chairman of the Committee of arrangements of the Government, Law Reform & Political Science Congress to be held in the Art Palace - Chicago - from Aug. 7. to 15 - writes me has failed to get any reply from you - though I gave him your address - when in Chicago - Now - he - and I too - wishes you to speak on the race question - or race suffragebut really- What I want you to do is to write out your strongest statement on the government - the whole underlying principles or the one branch- as you prefer. What I want is that your paper shall come along side of Mrs. Stantons- - which is to be on the Philosophy & essential nature of suffrage - & on Friday afternoon August 14th - That is if you choose the whole question of popular suffrage as the basis of Gov't - What I want you to do is to write or speak right of your very soul. The best & most needed thought you have - I want you to go down to posterity in the published reports of this Congress2 as having seen & said the very wisest & truest things for the perpetuity of our government- Next to my pride that Mrs Stanton shall do her "tippest toppest" best- is my pride that Frederick Douglas shall do his - so write me - instanter- please - saying you'll do you level best to put your name & your thought by the side of Mrs Stantons in thegreat - record books of these great World's Congresses - With kind regards to Mrs Douglass - and ever so many hopes that you'll say yes at once I am Yours truly Susan B. AnthonyBISHOP BENJAMIN W. ARNETT, D. D, President of the Board of Education, Wilberforce, Ohio. REV. WM. D. JOHNSON, D. D., Secretary, and Secretary of Education. No. 529 North Lumpkin Street, Athens, Georgia. Educational Department OF THE African M. E. Church, 529 NORTH LUMPKIN STREET, GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION. Rev. R. F. Hurley, D. D., 27 Lincoln St., West Medford, Mass. Rev. R. H. W. Leak, P. E., Greensboro, N. C. Rev. S. T. Mitchell, A. M., LL, D., Wilberforce, Ohio. Rev. G. W. Gaines, 2008 Armour Ave., Chicago, Ill. Rev. H. B. Parks, Topeka, Kansas. Rev. R. M. Cheeks, B. D., 803 Madison St., Montgomery, Alabama. Rev. C. Pierce Nelson, D. D., 127 Marion St., Columbia, S. C. Rev. S. H. Coleman, D. D., Gainesville, Florida. Rev. W. A. J. Phillips, P. E., 702 East 17th St., Little Rock, Arkansas. Prof. H. T. Kealing, Waco, Texas. Rev. B. A. J. Nixon, A. M., Shelbyville, Tenn. Rev. James M. Henderson, P. E, Detroit, Mich. [Athens, Ga.,] Wilberforce O July 1st 1893 Hon, Frederick Douglass, Dear Sir, Inclosed, Please find a copy of Resolution passed by the General Board of Education of the African M.E. Church at its session held at Wilberforce June 16th, Whereas, the Hon Federick Douglass and the Governor of Ohio, the Hon William McKinley honored Wilberforce University during commencement by addressing the Alumni, Trustees and friends of our beloved institution, Therefore, Resolved, that such honor is highly appreciated by this connectional Board of Education, and that we regard the presence of these distinguished guests and great friends as of the highest value to our educational interests, And that we shall ever remember their words ofGood cheer and friendly instruction. Resolved further that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Hon. Frederick Douglass and Governor McKinley. S. H. Coleman, Benjamin W. Arnett President, Wm D. Johnson, Sec.THE HAMPDEN CO., Lessees, A. SOULE, Manager, The Hampden EUROPEAN PLAN. ELEGANT CAFE. THIRTY-NINTH STREET AND LANGLEY AVENUE. CABLE ADDRESS "HAMPDEN" CHICAGO, July 9 1893 Dear Sir, I should esteem very highly the opportunity of waiting upon you and of expressing my esteem and veneration. I enclose you a letter of introductions from my friend Ms. Armstrong of Liverpool. Last Sunday I preached for Dr. Lyman Abbott and I was Mrs. Hy Ward Beecher's guest. I go to New York in time to preach at Plymouth Church again next Sunday. I propose to come round by Washington in the event of your being at home and very kindly permitting me to pay my respects personally to you. Will you favour me with a telegram (change collected at this end) saying whether I may hope to see you on Friday next,THE HAMPDEN CO., Lessees, A. SOULE, Manager, The Hampden EUROPEAN PLAN. ELEGANT CAFE. THIRTY-NINTH STREET AND LANGLEY AVENUE. CABLE ADDRESS "HAMPDEN" CHICAGO, 189 and at what hour I shall find you least engaged? Your courtesy will be greatly valued by me, and I shall all my life, be thankful that I have shaken hands and talked with you. I am, dear Sir, With cordial and respectful regards Sincerely Yours, Charles F. Aked. The Hon. Fredrick Douglas2154, Arapahoe St. Denver, Aug.t 4/93. My dear Douglass: As sudden as a thunder-clap in a clear sky my available money was tightly closed up in a Denver Bank. And now, my ardent hopes and desires of going to Chicago, about the last of this month or the first of next, have been defeated. Although it is said that I shall not lose the money, but, just when I shall be able to get it, again, I cannot now tell. Bank Collapses, just now, seem to be universal all over the civilized, commercial world. Thanks to science and the skill of man, my eye-sight, by the aid of glasses, are still holding out As ever and always H. O. Wagoner.I forgot, in the proper place, to acknowledge, gratefully, your last letter. H. O. W. [*Waggoner*]LAW OFFICES OF JOHN W. ROBERTS. ROOMS 2, 3, AND 4 Over No. 3 South Main Street. Hutchinson, Kan., August 9, 1893. Hon. Frederick Douglas, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:- The Colored citizens of this and adjoining Counties are going to hold an Emancipation Celebration here on Tuesday, August the 22nd, and I have been delegated by the Hutchinson Commercial Club to invite you on behalf of the Colored citizens and of the Club, to be present and deliver an address on that occasion. We feel confident that if you will consent to come that you will be greeted here on that occasion by a large audience of enthusiastic Kansans. Will you please write me on receipt of this whether or not you can come, and if so upon what terms? Both the member of the Club and our Colored citizens will feel highly honored if you will consent to favor us with your presence on the date named. Hoping that we may have an early and favorable reply, I am, Very truly yours, John W Roberts (Dictated) Secretary protem.2154 Arapahoe st. Denver, Aug.t 17/93. My dear Douglass: Your letter of day before yesterday, is before me today, 10, AM. How quick the time of transit. — Well, an incident has come, at last, when circumstances and locations alter cases. While Cleveland is, I agree with you, better than Stephenson or his party, he is, nevertheless, worse to me and to the West, financially, because he is the enemy to Silver, as money, and in favor of Gold, as the single standard of coinable money. His attitude would entirely demonetize Silver, and destroy Silver mining, which is the chief industry of Colorado and the great Western States. His attitude in the cause of my money being locked up in Bank; and hence my disappointment in not being able to visit you and World's Fair. But O, there is soYou have been so long at the Fair, that, doubtless, feel like wanting to be at home again. "Home; sweet-home! there is no place like home."(2) much to be Known and said on the present Complicated financial question. But, enough of this. I often muse on the events of Chicago; the good old times when we used to meet there so often. But how, all the old familiar faces are gone, except dear Mrs. John Jones. Doubtless, you still have a distant recollection of the marked, womanly features of dear Mrs. Wagoner. She used, frequently to tell me that so many people had told her that she looked like their Mother. "Well," she would say, "i must look like a great many persons' Mothers." Many of the other time, staid women of Chicago would Counsel with Mrs. Wagoner on particular occasions. Remember me kindly to Mrs. D, and receive my best wishes for yourself. H. O. Wagoner.WATERMAN'S "IDEAL FOUNTAIN PEN 1883 Patented Feb 12, and Nov. 4, 1884. 1893 Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen. L E. Waterman Co., 157 Broadway L.E. Waterman, Pres. New York, N.Y., Aug. 22d, 1893 706 Hon. Federick Douglass, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir~ I have your very interesting note of the 19th and am very much pleased that the pen I had the pleasure of presenting you [with] in the art gallery, proved so satisfactory. I fear I neglected to send you box and filler which should go with it. The latter will be convenient for putting in the ink and the box will be necessary if you should ever have the misfortune of injuring the pen and wished to send it to us for repairs. I am very glad that I have been able to render you any service by contributing to your pleasure as a small part of what I, in common with every member of the human race, owe you on account of your efforts in behalf of liberty. Wising you the pleasure of using the pen satisfactorily many years, I am, Yours sincerely, L. E. WatermanWhitley by the sea New castle, England Sept 9 -1893 My dear Mrs. Douglass Ever since I received your very kind and welcome letter have I wished to write to you. And not until I got into this little work of the World has the opportunity been afforded me Accept then now dear Mrs Douglass my sincere thanks for this proof of your remembrance. In the absence of all communication with your good husband it is doubly welcome for I wanted to have something about you and your doings at Chicago. It seems even the great Exposition there, is not sufficient to hold Fredrick Douglass and I can well believe that his heartwill have many a yearning after his more legitimate sphere - in which it has for so many years, been wont to move. It is quite possible however that he may find Hope even there for work on behalf of his people and from the paper he sent me of which I have, as yet, only got a glimpse I rather fear it may not be all of a pleasant nature - I have not read much of his speech to the assembly but it seems flavored with the old leaves of injustice to the Negro even at the "World's great Fair" This is too bad! but what better can be expected in the present generation? Prejudice is an evil root- not so easily extricated, but there are signs of much improvement and this must go on.Our large reservoirs are said to be alarmingly low - so little rain and so much heat - but happily to day the rain is descending - although by it we are kept prisoners to the house just when we have come to enjoy out of door life We only arrived here yesterday. And now I need advent to other and sadder subjects. You already know the great loss we have sustained in the death of my dear Sister Coretta Mae Sattler What that loss is to me words fail to tell - We have been closely bound together by almost every tie and our life work has run on side by side - But she is in Heaven and I am left a little longer, more lonely it is true but thankful on her account that she is at lastI should kindly have written before reading the speech - But I am anxious not to delay any longer - I fancy you must feel rather tired with the moving world before you - and long sometimes to go back to Cedar Hill I asked one of my friends who has been there if he saw Frederick Douglass No. he said - I only, saw a small portion of it and was not in that quarter. This disappointed me But I hope his experience is not the general rule - What of the products of the Earth it is your province to them, I know not but sometime perhaps Frederick may tell me something about it. I hope you are both keeping well in health - the heat - for the moderate climate - has been depressing and most unusualBut that is not all - About a fortnight ago a much loved Niece my only sister's daughter (long deceased was taken suddenly ill in the night of english cholera and in about 24 hours she died. This came upon me as a great shock and weighed me down so that I could not write to you - as I wished You know what bereavement ails. So I need not dwell upon my own sorrows - but those who have passed through them - know how to sympathize with the stricken ones. Perhaps some may think that the aged should not mean so much as the hoped for reunion may be short - but in some respects they feel it the more because they are all the more lonelyA fish woman here - one day said to me in view of her own losses "I do not know how it is, but every body seems going away and as if we were to be left in the world alone.” The words came home to me. I must draw this long letter to a conclusion. Give my kindest love to Frederick and accept the same dear Mrs. Douglass from your friend Very truly Ellen Richardson I do not know if my address will find you in the crowd.Chicago, SEp,18,1893. For Mr Douglass. DO.B. McGhee seems to have made you a challenge, Respectfully Yours J.E. Roy 151 Nash m Lh [*SEEN BY SOUTHERN EYES. Attitude of the White Man Toward the Colored Man. Rev. Dr. O.C. McGhee, of the Methodist church south, of Mobile, Ala., preached last evening in Union Park Church, Ashland and Washington boulevards, on "The Southern Christian's View of the Attitude of the White Man toward the Colored Man." Among other things he said, What is the attitude of the white man toward the colored man socially. Socially the lines are drawn closely. The two races do not mingle in the social circle. There is a kind of half social mixing of the lower elements of the two races. The two races travel on cars, steamboats and other public convey- ances separately, with the exception of the street cars; then they travel together. They put up at separate hotels. They each prefer this. Do you ask why this distinction? I an- swer: Race prejudice. Do you ask how long this state of affairs will continue? My reply is, I can't tell, Prejudice, whether it is the work of a moment or the growth of ages, is deep rooted and is not easily eradicated. If these races ever mingle socially wherever the colored man is found in great numbers it will be after education and the Grace of God have done their work upon the hearts and minds of both races, What is the attitude of the white man toward the colored in regard to the making and execu- tion of the laws of the southern states? There is no discrimination against the negro in the framing or in the application of the law. The saying that Fred Douglass has propagated so abundantly is a slander against the white man. He says the only question that is asked when a negro is up for trial is. Has he a black skin or is there African blood in him, and an affirmative answer secures conviction without reference to character. I tell you the judges and jurors in my section are not engaged in scanning skins but in weighing evidence for or against the white man, for or against the black man. What is the attitude of the white man of the south toward the negro politically? From 1866 to 1876 the colored man and his friends, or so- called friends, had control of the government of the state. The low price of state bonds during this period will give you some ideas of the awful condition of the state financially. In 1876 the white people rallied around Houston and, to save the state from utter ruin, elected him governor. The white man once in power so drew the lines of the various districts as to have a white majority in each. Not that he might domineer over the colored man, but that he might prevent his ruining himself and his white neighbor, for what was bad for one was bad for the other and what was good for the one was good for the other. There is no mistake about the majority of the colored men voting, until recent years squarely against every interest of his section. What is the attitude of the white man of the south toward the intellectual, moral and financial advancement of the colored man? It is most favorable. Finally, let us love one another. Let us not forget that each section of our common county has its own peculiar difficulties to encounter and problems to solve, and while we are point- ing out one another's faults let us not stop until we find one another's virtues. Let Judah cease to vex Ephraim and Ephraim to vex Judah. *] Nantucket, November 8, 1893 My dear friends, Hon. and Mrs. Douglass: It does not seem possible that Lucy Stone has departed from this world. I do not believe she has! Time and eternity are one with a mystic gate-way between! The vital spark is still here in our midst, in some inconceivable way! I had my trunk all packed to attend her funeral - supposing it would be deferred longer to give friends from a distance time to reach. When I learned the hour set it was too late for me. It was in process while I was making ready. I was greatly disappointed. It will be lonesome to2 press on with the Woman's Cause without our leader; but this we must unflinchingly do until we hear the call to follow her. How often that musical call so beautifully expressed by Tennyson, comes to my memory! Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me! And let there be no moaning of the bar. When I put out to sea. &c You will perceive by the Woman's Journal that there is to be a great gathering on the 16th of December at Faneuil Hall. It will be something of a memorial for Lucy Stone it being her request just before she passed away that the meeting should be held there by the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association. Of course you will be urged to attend. If you go, how I wish it were possible3 for you to take trip to Nantucket! I have not seen you since a year or more before your life in Hayti. How much you have experienced since!!! Would I could entertain you! But the wish is vain! Were I fifty years younger and my limbs intact, it might be possible as now I have a home of my own. The Hotel when you were entertained when you were on the Island the last time, is within three or four doors of my house and we could meet every day. That would not be anything to the walks I take very frequently. Life is of course uncertain at my age and I sometimes fear we shall never meet again in this sublunary sphere! But I hope we may. I have just gotten4 out your last letter to me dated December 21- 1892 - about a year ago. I soon answered that letter but have not a word from you since as I am aware how busy- how preoccupied you always are; and of course I did not expect to hear after you got into the high tide of The World's Fair. Where you are now I do not know, but I shall risk to send this letter to Washington, hoping it will reach you after a while at least. You were so kind as to commend my efforts in the line of poetry in the Woman's Journal. I want to send you a little Booklet which I got out last Spring to put in the stores to be sold to summer visitors as a kind of souvenir. I did very well pecuniarily and I am now about getting out a new edition for Christmas5 with some more poems; one on the National flower appropriate to the book. I would [have] not write on Nantucket themes alone as there were so many books of that kind in all the stores. I thought I would choose themes appropriate to the season. I hope the high pressure under which you must have been continually brought at Chicago in speech making, entertaining &c, has not made a great inroad upon health. A full year's complete rest in some quiet nook I should think you would both need even in a measure to recuperate. How grandly the Orientals bore themselves on all occasions at The Fair! It was all grand especially the Congresses. They would more appropriately be named auxiliarythan the material display: so it seems to me. Hoping you are rested enough to drop me a line on the reception of this, I remain as ever very sincerely your friend, Anna Gardner. P.S. I have just finished a paper for our Unity Club on Lucy Stone. Forty years ago or more she spoke is our Atheneum. Nantucket was one of the first places she visited after entering the lecturing field. Since then, how marvellous is the change in public sentiment! All I can say in favor of her now will meet with a response. I am going to-night to a sociable of the Club but the literary meeting where my paper is to be read is later. Affectionately, A. Gardner.