Blackwell Family
Blackwell, Lucy Stone

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE

Alger, HoratioMarlborough Oct. 24, 1856.
Mrs Lucy Stone.
Dear Madam, 
I thank you for your 
kind letter of Oct. 21. and am very glad 
to learn that you can favor us with a Lecture 
in Decr. Our course is to consist of 
eight Lectures, & was introduced last evening
by a Lecture from Ralph Waldo Emerson 
on "the Conduct of Life." T. Starr King will lecture 
for us next week, and W. R. Alger of Boston 
Nov. 13. Frederick Douglass comes on the 19th 
of Dec. - the night after his Lecture in the 
Anti Slavery Course, Boston. Wendell Phillips 
& Theodore Parker are engaged to lecture in 
our Course, but the time is not yet fixed. A 
Lecture from T. W. Higginson - if we can get 
him - with one from yourself, will complete 
our course. 
Thursday Evening is our usual Lecture 
Evening, but if some other evening will suityour convenience better we can easily change
it. The earlier in Dec. you can come,
the better it will suit us.
Yours with sincere respect
Horatio AlgerMr Alger
Marlboro
Oct  16/56

Marlborough (Mass) Sept.22/56

Mrs Lucy Stone Blackwell,
I take the liberty to address
you in behalf of the young men in my
Parish, friends of Reform, who are arranging a 
course of Lyceum Lectures to be delivered in 
our church the present season. They have
long been desirous of hearing you, and hearing 
that you would be at West Brookfield
about this time, I venture to write and ask 
if you will come and give us a Lyceum
Lecture - on any subject you please - at any
time between this and New Year, - the earlier, 
however, the better.
     Emerson, Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker
and Frederick Douglas, among others, are to lecture
in the course. We are anxious that your
sex should be represented in the course,
and our first application to a female lecturer 
is to you. I hope we may not be disappointed 
in our effort to obtain you.
     Our usual lecture evening is Thursdayevening, but if you can come any other
evening, we can change the day.
     Be kind enough to reply at your 
earliest convenience and oblige
  Yours very respectfully
Horatio AlgerRev. Horatio Alger
Marlboro



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