BLACKWELL FAMILY
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL

From Grove
Macmillan's MagazineMACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE
Grove.
Lower Sydenham, S.E.
May 10 1880
My dear madam
I think you will find
very much  [?] inside of this [?].
The things the paper send home
The wrongs were -
1. A just deal had been
paid before - was quite[?]  trite
and applied as much to
men doctors as women.
2. Was too abstract.  English
H[?] are important if
abstractions and all prior
10 Statements of principles for
one fact
3. It was too eloquent - a littletoo "tall" - if you will permit
me the word - in place
It is so difficult for a
nation of one country to hit
the taste of that of another
that I come to be allowed
an insurmountable task
especially when as in your
case, the nation of a young
country is attacking an
old one. I hope you
will not think me rude,
in what I have said - I
don't mean to be so - but
as you wished me to say

what I really meant I
thought I had better do so.
Let me know if I can
[serve?] you - and please
never hesitate to apply
to me in [?]
Yours [?[
S Trove
Please let me correct one misapprehension
however. I am an english woman, my
early life was spent in Bristol - I
have lived and studied and worked so
much in England, that in
America I am considered a thorough
english woman - and I come 
now, hoping to be of some service
to my native land, with a real
feeling of home and kinship to all around me.I thank you very much for your 
 [?] + kindly letter which is just
what I hoped for - I see clearly the
faults you point out as a magazine
article - I think I shall not
attempt to publish it, although
the main argument requires urging
at present.  When there is so much
confusion of thought as to the kind
of education that women
should receive.
Evidently a spoken address
takes a different form from a
written article for I have given
the substance of this
address on two occasions to an
audience of highly cultivated men
& women, and carried them
completely with me, but then
one warms an audience
by a shared enthusiasm which might
easily seem stilted in simple reading.