BLACKWELL FAMILY
LUCY STONE
Stone, Bauman[*Bo and Sarah to Lucy Stone*]
*Bowman Stone to Lucy*
Brookfield, June 13, 1847
My dear Sister,
... I have been trying to write to you
for some time... I think, with your feelings
in relation to women's rights, you are fully justified
in the course you have taken in relation
to an appointment. As to what you had better
do after your graduation, I am not very well
prepared to give advice. I have always thought
that a person desirous of doing good could
best judge for themselves, as to the particular
kind and field of labor to which their gratifications
fit them. I have thought that if you
should commence school-teaching as your business
at first, and lecture occasionally, as you might
have opportunity, it would be better than to commence 
lecturing immediately. Prof. Walker says
you might have a good school in N. Brookfield....
I think if you lecture, you will do more good
in the Anti-Slavery Cause, than in the cause
of women's rights; not but that women is
deprived of many rights, but the slave is in

worse condition. ... If I supposed you
would commence lecturing before I see you,
I should like to give you a little advice as to
you manner of lecturing. I think Garrison,
Phillips and Mott are good specimens. ...
Your affectionate brother
W. B.

My dear Sister,
.... I belive I told you in my last letter,
I should write no more about women's rights, lecturing,
etc. I only wish now to say if you lecture for
either society, I should very much prefer to have
you to do so for the Western. The reason you can
judge for yoursef. I think you did perfectly right
in refusing to write for Commencement. I am
glad you did so. ....
Sarah