Anna Dickinson General Correspondance “G” Miscellaneuos [1861-97, Undated]New York Aug 6th 77 My Dear Miss Anna Dickinson I am very much dissapointed in not being able to see you as per agreement but I was detained so long here with my Lawyer that it was impossible to see you. You know Law business is imperative & apparently has no end. I do not know now when I will be over again 'Cant you write me or run over to Phila —If you come over write a day before & you shall have as much of my time as you wish - An entire day if it can be of any service to you I did not telg you becauseI thought surely I would get a chance to see you if only to apologize for not coming earlier as per appontmt Anything I can do for you I will with pleasure Yours &c C R Gardiner 5 P.M Waited until now hoping I would get time to see youWilmington 5 mo 1st 1863 My Esteem'd young Friend Anna E. Dickinson, I learn a Committee of the Institute in this place has been named to invite thee to give a Lecture here, when it may suit thy convenience, my object in writing thee at this time is to say, should thee conclude to come and give a Lecture, to request thee to make our House thy home while here, unless thee [thee] should fix the time of the New York Antislavery Anniversary, and I presume thee would wish to attend that, both my wife and self expect to attend that, If thee will write me when thee will be here, naming the train thee will be likely to come in, I will meet thee at the Depot, of which fail not at thy peril thy old friend Thos. GarrettMy dear Miss Dickinson, From the moment I heard your lecture on Monday evening My heart has been moved to make an effort for the poor lost ones in our city. What I now want is your advice. I thought it might be possible to find two persons, who, if a helping hand once stretched to them would be willing & ready to reform. I want two consciencious servants willing to learn & to whom I would give ten dollars a month to each. Why can I not rescue two, from that downward pathyou so touchingly described? I know such persons are not received into families where there are young girls just blooming into womanhood. I have daughters eight of them, if one should fall & returned repentant, would my heart be steeled to her claim for help & protections. No! Would the fear of injuring the other sisters allow me to exclude her from the family love? Those already fallen are mine if I can save them as much. as those placed in my arms by the truest holiest love ever that ever existed between man & wife. The only difficulty that I foresee is a secret from my husband. The poor girls would be happier if their history were only known to me. They would feel too deeply humbled were the man to know their misfortune. I would make them any promise that their secret should be locked in the deepest recesses of my heart They should feel that my only wish was to comfort, to heal the poor wounded soul, to save & to cherish the body. Tell me that I can do something, shut up with my family unable to go abroad to preach the great humanitarian doctrines which I first learned from my dear dead sister, & have been brought so forcibly before me by your eloquent lecture. When I took your hand,yesterday morning I felt I had found a helper. I know how your time must be occupied, but perhaps you can find a few moments to address me on this subject If you should write to me you can address your letter to Mrs CS Garrigue Morrisania New York Allow me to remain your most respectfully Charlotte Garrigue November 1st 1865.Hillside, Boylston, Mass. Feb 8th / 65 My dear Miss Dickenson, I hoped to have seen you this morning but shall be prevented. It will be well for you doubtless to be saved all necessity for talking after your effort of last eveing. I heard you for the first time then & it will be no new thing to your ear if I say it was a great pleasure to me, MrGough & I have had many regrets over our failure to have you at our home last summer. We had a house full all summer & wanted you to ourselves & our own family as we would not have had you with so much company. We were well punished for our selfish thought in losing you altogether, for in the early autumn sickness came to our home - & ever since one of my little neices has been straining for her life - while I am straining every nerve to [to] give her the benefit of the "one chance" I get out for air & business but scarcely for any thing else except our Sabbath & for my Bible Class. We do want a visit from you very much, & if no "changes" come may we not hope for one next summer? I enclose our address on an envelope to ask for your Philadelphia address - some time when it will not trouble you to write it. How wearyyou will be this morning! I have seen so much of this tiredness after public efforts, that I live it over for you, & then am content that I cannot add to this by seeing you this morning. Are you in this vicinity from March 25th to April 10th? I regretted so much that my husband could not have heard you last night — but Milwaukee & Worcester - are a long way apart as I sadly felt last night. My dear Miss Dickinson May God bless you & make your words every where a blessing. & with kind remembrance to your good Mother I am Yours Most Truly Mary E. Saugh Hillside Dec 1st /68 My Dear Miss Dickenson We were disappointed Saturday — but hope for better next time Mr. Saugh was very poorly on Monday but felt bound to keep his engagement inBoston -notwithstanding He wished me to say that he is expecting to be at home the day after Christmas (Saturday) & remain at home untill Jan 4th with the exception of the 29th & 30th of Dec. Shall we not see you here some of those days? With kind remembrances to you from us all I am Yours Most Truly May E. Saugh Esteemed frd, Thy favor long expected was recd. a few days since, and thee may think that as thee promised to write again - when thy plans were matured it does not require my reply nor should it have had but for the vanity we have that thee [sh]will visit us. Our daughters have laid off the last week in the month, for thee & will be greatly grieved if thee does not come, they also have [???? ?? ???] calculated upon having a little company to meet thee during thy stay & to arrange this sometime is required, a week or ten days at least. It has seemed to me that if thee labors anywhere in this state or Ohio this full thee [could] would wish to get at it [???] the first of [june?], so that in any case this month would close thy summer vacation & this plan to visit us & open the campaign at Lancaster and Strasburg at the same time would just be the plan & could not fail to suit whether thee went west or continued to operate in this State. My idea is that we should commence an election campaign as soon as thee left- johnson convention of the 14 inst, adjourns & "freight it through on that line" to the bitter end. From the present indications when that Convention has completed its labors we shall be able to exclaim as Cromwell did in his great battle in Ireland, "The Lord has delivered them into our hands."Things are looking wild just now in this region. The result of an attempt to introduce Stephens, Mosely, Erice, & Co into Philda to teach loyal men their duties in the coming canvass is what no one just now can foresee, some think our soldiers have learned a lesson from the tools of study Johnson in New Orleans which they will not slow to follow. As to my own views of free speech thee knows what I as an old anti Slavery man think nevertheless I am not certain that I would fault our loyal Soldiers and other [person] for refusing such bloodstained villians the right to be heard in our City of Brotherly love. Could I or no I would never [permit] permit one member of Congress who voted to adjourn to return to his seat again. & I would not [?] this rule if it did not include Chas. Sumner and many other once my idols. The time is coming and now is, when the proper "extant every man to do his duty," his whole duty & nothing short of that should save a man from utter condemnation But this is in vain to write, to act is not our work. I believe this country will be better operated this full than ever before, even our "Dutch" are forming "Gerry Clubs" a thing almost unheard of before. My wife & [?] about today, Mamma joins in kindest remembrances. Truly thine Joseph Gibbons148 E. 18th St New York Sept 13 1880 My dear Miss Dickinson: Do you feel able to submit to the exhausting ordeal of an interview regarding the great American drama? If so I would like to act in the capacity- of Herald air trump. It certainly will do no harm for me to have a friendly whack at it in advance. If you consent pleaselet me know at once where and when I can see you. The sooner the better. It should be published before the play is produced. faithfully Jeannette L. GilderOxford January 7th 1861 Most informally without preliminaries I address thee Anna, and say that I believe thy labor here was appreciated and I trust it will turn to profit. I do not hesitate to offer one, or more suggestions. Veterans in Reform like others are dropping into the grave, but thus far their place has been supplied. We know not how it will be in the future, hence the solicitude to retain those we have, [the] as long as they can subserve the cause. I think thee excitable, and an not devoid of apprehension, they, without care, thy nervous sensibility will make inroads on both thy physical and mental constitution. Thy services may be needed after thee has lived out the three score and ten years allotted to man; for should the last link of the chain of the last slave be rusted off before thee reaches that mature age there will be ample work left for the ReformersTheodore Parker believed he had as much physical stamina as his ancestors who reached four score , - perhaps he had, but he did not economize as they did and he passed scarcely at little more than half their age leaving as he said, half his work undone. Had he not worked his brain excessively he might probably have completed what he contemplated. I do not ask thee to abate a little of truth or to refrain from its emphatic utterance, but I do ask thee to take such care of Anna Dickinson as will preserve her for a life of usefulness Another thing, thee is young, thee is a female and thee has thrown thyself into the arena, the advocate of universal equal rights; for this we love that thee does it with earnestness and an eloquence peculiar to the earnest pleaders for the right; for this we admire thee, be on thy guard that neither our love nor our admiration cheat thee out of self respect and self approval. Should thee lose the latter the loss will be irreparable, and the former will soon follow. I have not written because I am old or wise, but that I have strong desire that thee should do great good in thy generation, and that the next may bless thy memory. If this reaches thee, please write and let me know it, and if leisure permits fill a sheet with any thing on thy mind at the time of writing; - thy origin and brief history will be very pleasant, Thine approvingly Amos Gilbert P.S. Russelville P.O. Chester Co during this month; Bart P.O. Lancaster Co. afterwards[*ESS?*] -na Dickinson 255 Madison street Philadelphia Pa.[*[1887]*] Prov - July 16 '7 Dear frind : - This is such an empty season, as to news or letters of interest of any sort - in these parts - The one xcitement with me has been the public announcement of my arrangement (to be engaged seems so incongruous with me) to be married to Miss Nichols - some day. I have no stage gleanings - have seen no one lately - A note from Frank Lee indicates that he is very much better than he has been. My own family are scattered - Anna, Stephen and Andy are at Seaconnett - back of Newport - Chester is at Jackson N.H- the balance are here - I am going to Pomfret shortly - Am still planless for the winter. I want to do things I can't do, and can't do things other people want me to do. If the weather your way is at all comfortable, you have something to appreciate. Here it ishot & sticky - If I hear of any bits of news, you shall have them - I shall hope to hear from Miss Susan before very long that you are getting your flesh and bones braced up - Annie and Stephen bade me send their love too, when I told them I intended dropping you a line - Until an inspiration for a letter comes to me, believe me with all the "best wishes" anybody can have, Fondly, W. B. Gladding "Continental" My dear Miss Dickinson. We have just arrived from Newark - would you give us the pleasure of a visit? My wife is very anxious to make your acquaintance, and would give herself the honor of calling on you, if she were better acquainted in Philad. I shall be busy [since] for a few hours, else I would bring her along. Truly yours George A. Glavis[*Executive Committee. M.S. Quay, Chairman. J.S. Clarkson, Vice Chairman. J.S. Fassett, Secretary. Wm W. Dudley, Treasurer. John C. New. A.L. Conger. G.A. Hobart. Samuel Fessenden. Geo. R. Davis. J. Manchester Haynes. M.H. de Young. Wm Cassius Goodloe.*] Headquarters. Republication National Committee, 91 Fifth Avenue, New York. Dictated October 29th, 1888. Miss Anna Dickinson, Everett House, New York City. My Dear Miss Dickinson: Yours of the 27th came to me yesterday, and Mr. Hobart informs me that the New Jersey Committee will be very much pleased to have you speak at Paterson on Friday, November 2nd, and on Saturday, November 3rd, at Deckertown. I hope this will be agreeable to you and that you will give me an early response, when information will be sent you how to reach those places. As to your request for a final settlement, it will be made at any time it may be agreeable to you. Col. Dudley will make his convenience conform to yours. I am sure that your wishes will be complied with in all respects. I am, with great respect, Wm Cassius Goodloe Chairman Committee on Speakers.The New Chestnut St. Opera House, G. K. Goodwin, - - Lessee and Manager, Philadelphia, Pa. No Stockholders. Octob 29th 1880 Miss Anna Dickinson Your proposition to read your new play 'Aurelian" at the New Chestnut Street Opera House on Saturday Evening November 6th 1880 for "Three Hundred Dollars" is hereby accepted by me Yours very Truly, Geo K. Goodwin.34 Blank No. 1. The Western Union Telegraph Company. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which has been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages. This message is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. A. R. BREWER, Sec'y. NORVIN GREEN, President. Dated Phila Pa April 5th 1881 Received at 4:25 PM 4:25 PM To: Miss Anna Dickinson c/ Mrs G.L. Chatfield If your objections is an account of Pauline think it can be arranged telegraph answer Glen K. GoodwinBlank No. 1. The Western Union Telegraph Company. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which has been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages. This message is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. A. R. BREWER, Sec'y. NORVIN GREEN, President. Dated Phila Pa Apl 5 1881 Received 11am To Miss Anna Dickinson C/ of Ms Genl Chatfold I do not accept Mr Stetsons release: I shall hold him to contract Gen K Goodwin 13fd flRockford Oct 10/83 Miss Dickinson Madam An outside or spirit power told me that you was the one spoken of in Eziecal 33 chap and last half of the 21 vers. If you are the one spoken of there you have a mission yet to fill Respectfully yours M. O. Goodwin Rockford Illinois Office Of The Detroit Free Press, Corner of Woodbridge and Griswold Streets. Detroit, June 25 1880 My Dear Miss Dickinson Both the letter from Cin and the books with accompanying pleasant words reached me last night on my return from New York where I had been for a month I am honestly proud of the book, proud of the good wishes of the author, proud of her achievements as a woman and proud to be reckoned among those whom a busy life must trouble some to keep in written remembrance. I shall write to you one day my opinion of the RR and send you also a book of my own which I hopeto christen within the year. I am always glad to read those enthusiastic words of you, mainly I suppose because they echo my own judgement and that gratifies, probably flatters me. The fact is I went to Whitneys that might prejudiced against you, having somehow learned to think of you as a good hater and a kind of Quilp in drapery. I came back to my work room quite revolutionized. On receipt of your Kalamazoo letter of cordial and feeling acknowledgment to a stranger I said: my God! how we misjudge public persons. The woman whom I had supposed all brains and 2 [OFFICE OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Corner of Woodbridge and Griswold Streets. Detroit, 18....] no gentleness is most human and womanly; and so it has come to pass that I quite cherish the little letters I own bearing your signature I should like to be better known of you, and will be honored by your acceptance of a photograph of myself to begin with. Mrs. Goodale bids me say that she endorses all I can say good of & for you after the rare pleasure you gave her the night of "Aurelian." Did you ever receive a letter from me addressed to you as Jackson, Mich?It was in response to yours of Kalumazoo date Have I left unsaid anything? forgotten any acknowledgments or neglected something I ought to do or write? I cannot tell the tragedy of getting into harness again appals me. I shall be in new York next May and June Sincerely Yours Geo. P Goodale Miss A E DickinsonDetroit Dec 28, 1880 My Dear Miss Dickinson I wish I could frame some phrase to fitly express my christmas satisfaction with the remembrances for Mrs. Goodale and me which the express brought tonight. The sending them is like you - like your first Kamalazoo letter - like all your sincere and thoughtful words that have found their way here. You know what busy fellows the harness men of newspaperdom are. This I say apologetically, mindful of your long unanswered letter. I have indirectly written to you these last 7 weeks seven overtimes. Did you receive seven Signor Max screeds? Some were sent to E. 36th St and other some to Elizabeth. Did you read them, and shall I send more? I write without having seen Ms. Goodale since the parcel came, but I can answer for her. Comfortable little women pur and croon always in a garniture of delicate laciness, and your offering to her is just exactly that. My book is a happy thought and it is already in commission. I thank you. Shall be in NY in May and June. Elizabeth shall see me too. Enclosed is my christmas Psalm written in the intervals of Editing reportorial, 2 views of day = fights, criminal trials, society rot, "working up" uncle Tom's cabins & the like, I do not mention these distressing interruptions as explanatory of the want of excellence in the column, because I have a conviction that it's an uncommonly good thing. I always come to a state of considerable amiability about the christmas season, and life is a very jolly thing to me; hard work almost a boon, and loss of sleep a positive luxury ¶ What are you doing in the public way? Any new plays - lectures, - schemes- hopes? Are you in health? overDoes work dismay you at all? Do you become exasperated, or are you (as it is my notion) serenely superior to the small naggings that are the lot of women who blaze in the public eye? I used to think you steely, defiant, pugnacious, - a delighter in hard knocks and a tremendous hitter yourself. That night at whitney's theater and following incidents of my still pleasanter echoes of you teach me that [very] you, like most famous persons, are more often (and cruelly) misjudged than rightly sized up. Sincerely yours Geo P Goodale Miss A E Dickinson.Everett House N.Y. City 10. 27. 88 c/ of Mr. Wm. C. Goodloe Dear Sir: -- Mr. Clarkson told me last Sunday evening that the Natl Com. had handed me over to the New York State Cin. Com. for work. -- Gen Knaff today informs me that in the live of our contract he has no further work for me. Apparentlythere is nothing more for me to do. If this is so will you so inform Col. Dudley and request him to make an appointment at his earliest convenience for the purpose of a final settlement with me for the thirty nights that according to agreement close on Tuesday next? Respectfully Anna Dickinson212 Hale St New Brunswick, N. J. April 4th, 1897 Miss Anna Dickinson Dear Madam, I am forming a collection of portraits and play bills of tragedians in the character of Hamlet and will you kindly inform me where I could purchase a photo and a play bill of yourself in that character. Yours Truly Alexander S. Graham4. 29. 1872 You ask so many questions at once, that I must answer them by rote, or the real drift of your cross-examination may be lost. To begin then -- where you left off -- permit me to guarranty, that if you will come here, after the nominations are made at Cincinnati, and make a speech, indorsing the nominees thereof there will not be found a hall here able to contain one half your audience. It would be a very auspicious place and way to open the campaign, and if you only say the word, the invitation will be at your feet -- officially -- in less than no time. As to returning the "Sun" report which you so kindly sent me, I beg you to consideris no robbery, but a fair exchange, that I send you my copy in lieu thereof. It shall appear in a S. O. Daily of the first magnitude, and a copy of that will I send in due time. But without that, I feel certain your reception in the Crescent City will be gratifying to you -- go when you will. But with it! -- Bless you, they have waited patiently -- ah! so patiently for seven years to hear some such talk from your section, and it will make them fairly crazy. Besides, it is meet and withal consistent, that those who hated their oppressions toward the slave should say something, in season against the oppressions toward themselves. Your question at The Institute "Are we to continue war methods in time of Peace?" will be a conundrum they will find no trouble in answering. It is now too warm there to be pleasant for one unaclimated. that is -- it soon will be, unless you should go before the Ides of May. But -- you are young yet, & the time will come when you must know that people. -- The St. Jo. election turned upon local and financial issues. It was claimed as a political straw after the election. The progressive young Mayor defeated the old miserly, close-fisted old fogy regardless of national politics, and -- well I am glad of it! The Mayor elect isn't Radical enough to make a rogue of him, and he is building a grand iron bridge, and pushing railways in several directions and improving the town. I have not seen the place --nor any place but this -- since we were there. Tho' I see men from there every day, & am in constant communicationand the letters I get are nearly all simply directed to St. Louis as I am the only one of the name in the city, and I have no trouble about my mail. No one else ever gets it or troubles it. My house goes on, dismally enough, for one who knows how to sit down and imagine what kind of a house he would like to have, but I banish that thought as far as a resolute Will's territory permits, yet like you, --"I do not forget." And now that I have answered all these personal questions, please Miss.-- May I ask you a few? Would you have time to read a little book if I should send it? Have you from time to time for about one year rec'd the newspapers I have made bold to send? Would you be very cross if I were to ask Am I "well"? Perfectly. In fact, in better health than ever before in my life. "At Work"? Harder than ever. and passing from one jury to another. -- very often two trials a day, and occasionally three! "Does it weary me"? Until the last fibre seems ready to give way, - but it keeps me from even thinking about myself, and there is more health and strength in what does that, than I could find in aught else. But my brain needs rest, and a breaking up of the monotony, and I have been planning a trip to the Pacific Slope for a year which I hope to carry out in vacation. Was I "very ill?" So much, that the D.M's gave me up, but I was perfectly calm. Am I "good"? No. "Happy"? No. Well-behaved"? Yes. As to numbers, and place, you have no need to tax your memory. I am well known to all the Post Office fraternity from chief clerk of carriers. and I get my mail in a lock box. without interferencewhere you will "summer"? Now there are all the interrogatories for the present as I find it takes more space to answer, that to ask questions, and as you complain of being tired. I know you will not answer at all, if the task be made irksome by being made too long. Therefore, a little, hasty careless line or two, if no more. will make me very happy, and cost you very little. May I not hope for it?Wash April 5, /70 A. E. Dickinson My dear Friend Senator Pomeroy desires me to say to you that his Carriage will be in waiting for you on your arrival Friday - and that you will be his guest while here if agreeable to you. I would not permit him this privilege were I otherwise situated. I go up to N.Y. this evening to attend the Conf. in favor of Union & in behalf of the National - Though I have not much faith in success. I shall do my best for it. I am just in recipt of letter from my Fathers in Conn - saying mydear Mother is very sick, and her recovery doubtful. I may be called from N.Y. there, in which case I could hardly reach home Friday night. But all things are in readiness for the meeting - and only the death of one so dear will keep me if kept - I hope to come down on Friday morning trains & may find you on board. Your subject is answered and another of your Chicago Mt'y published - If the sun shines we shall have a full house - Members of Cong - are invited and some will sit on the platform - Sen Pom. or Sumner will introduce the speaker - Cordially & trustingly J. S. GriffingWashington June 6"/ 66 Miss Anna Dickinson Dear Madam I take pleasure in sending you our Annual Report of the National Freedmns Relief Association, to which in its origin you so generously contributed. By it, you will see that the work has steadily grown important until, this National Capital has become indeed a "city of Refuge" to which the outcast daily comes for shelter & bread. Driven out & as they say, starved out of the Rebellious-adjoining States. they see no other "line of march", but to this city. Footsore & weary whole families are still coming. To see these women & children & old people, driven away, & hear theirstory, is enough to break a heart of Rebellion ever - and to find homes and labor for all such who come seems impossible. The supply of laborers is so much greater than the demand for work, is threatening the poor creatures with starvation when they get here. During the two past months the distress arising from want of employment, has been much greater than ever before. And it has become necessary to add to our relief in the city the finding of homes and assisting those unemployed men and women out of this Dist. The extra expense in fitting up and getting better situations for six hundred such persons since the 1st of April, has embarrassed our Treasury, and without the assistance of our friends it will be impossible for us to accomplish our good begun work. We have not on our books the names of over three hundred more, men, and some women, who have not work enough to provide themselves subsistence. The Bureau has no appropriation - and so no means for transportation - but the Sec. of War gives me encouragement that he will act in this matter, if I can find homes for them. Even deeply grateful for your most generous indowment of this association - I hope you may again consider its work & wants - and by your influence or otherwise aid us to continue till at least justice is done to this long oppressed people.You will see that our work is not merely the Christian duty of feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, but the broad field of encouragement to a higher life - instruction in the principle of Labor Law & Love - given ample scope for all means, that we can secure for the grand cause. Hoping you will see how great, and necessary is the work we are doing - and that at your leisure, we may hear from you. I remain Faithfully & Very Resp'ly, Josephine S. Griffing Agt. N. F. R. As'n D. C. No 27. 4 1/2 StNewark NJ May 13th/78 Best private box or Six good seats for Miss Dickinson and friends Compliments of Mary Anderson [?] H Griffin [*H. Griffin, Manager For Mary Anderson.*] [*Narragansett Hotel. L. H. Humphreys, Proprietor.*] Providence, R.I. May 8th 1878 Miss Anna Dickinson Dear Madame- I have the honor to invite you to attend the performance of Mary Anderson in Newark NJ. May 13th Hoping that Miss Anderson may have the pleasure and honor of making your acquaintance I am very respectfully Yours Hamilton Griffin Manager for Mary AndersonNew York, May 14th, 1878 Dear Miss Dickinson Mary Anderson received your kindly written letter and regrets that we did not go over to Newark in the morning - would have done so had we known you [woul] would be there. Our address at present is Sturtevant House we are trying to get rooms if we succeed will leave address at the Hotel - Miss Anderson and her mother would be very flat to see you and if not convenient for you to come over please give us your address and let us know what time you are in Elizabeth & we will come out to see you With assurances of the highest respect from me Am very sincerely Your's Hamilton Griffin P.S. Mary sends many thanks and much love to you GMrs. E. B. Grannis requests the pleasure of your company at a reception to be held at her home No 33 East 22d St., New York. on Tuesday, March fourteenth, 1893. from 8 to 11 o'clock. P.M. in honor of Mrs. May Wright Sewall, President, National Womans Council. Mrs. Sewall will give an address concerning the Congress of Representative Women to be held at the Columbian Exposition.No. 135 West 98th St New York 4.21.1897 To/ Mr Leander L. Graham Dear Sir: - I cannot direct you to shop a theater for picture a play bill. - tho' I suppose some of them are still strewn about the country. - [By &] [by, before very long I hope] I am Later to play "Hamlet"- again. & I will [do] [myself the] please [pleasure] myself by sendingyou picture & play bill for your collectionZanesville March 15th 1872 Miss Anna Dickinson Wishing to inquire of you's I write, to tell you my Story, that we have built a Methodist Church in Zanesville, and are Some in debt yet, and I wish to get your consent come to lecture for us one or too evenings as a donation, except your expences. Mrs Elizabeth Springer Lectures for us 28th March Subject Womans Work Please give us a call write soon yours truly John H Gray Zanesville OhioOakland for San Francisco. [San Francisco] Cal. May. 8. 1869. Miss Anna E. Dickinson. Dear! Your beautiful picture eng.d by G. E. Terine & Co. N.Y. is hanging [upon] on the wall in my office, and with admiration and Love dwells my eyes often for a long time upon it. How shall I express myself except through a keen Desire to make Your acquaintance, which gives not sufficient satisfaction through a picture or your Revolution. Accept this few lines as a token upon sincere friendship and Love, and allow me to send you enclosed Photograph of Your Servant. Please return a few lines when are at leisure. I am Yours in Love and friendship P. Wm. Poulson = Fagerstjerne M D P.S. A Spirit writes through my Hand: "She is not a woman who pays any Respect upon such matters. She tells me You are a man, who loves women to extreme, but are not in Harmonie to any for the present. She will give you an answer." Is Loves to me something likea kind of Jealousness. Answer of the same Spirit: "I am not a jealous, but a Sister to Yourself in my Reception of her Harmonie. It gives me an Idea of her Relation to a man who is her Campagnion" My answer: I dare not [norish] nourish thoughts upon such a relation, but express my Love. The Spirits answer: "Receive not Religion as a guide, but live up to your highest perceptions of truth. Religion gives only such a Result ( : Jealousy) Religion is a Damnation of your Lovelife." My answer: My Sphere is Europes Diplomats and Poetry (drama = Author). I am not aware of Religion as a curse upon me. Spirits answer: "Religion is all Falsehood. You are not in Religion, but in Spirit. Communications [who are] in such Relations. Live for yourselves, and throw all foreign Politics from your Rest in Poetry, and your Drama will be more worth as any Throne in Europe. She is not aware that you are a Prophet for this new Era, but she will know you, when you have your Poetry translated." Excuse me because I continued my letter longer as I expected. Perhaps this few lines more will be of some interesting correspondence between an unknown Spirit and me. Spirit answer: I am a unknown Sister to your disharmonie but not to your Harmonie. My name is Sophia Nielson. Yours P. W. Poulson M. D.Dickie owe this? W. H. COOK, successor to Jas. DOIT, 28 Third St., S. F.P. W. Poulson = Fagerstjerne M. D.Office "East Tennessee Union Flag" Janesborough, Tenn., Nov 9th 1866 Miss Anna E. Dickenson: Philadelphia, Penn. My Friend and the Friend of True Unionists everywhere: It has been Suggested by many of my warm friends, to address you and ask your kind assistance in behalf of our loyal newspaper. We must have some help from some source or it will perish. It has been Suggested that if we could get you to deliver onelecture upon some evening you might Select in your city - publishing the Same in the city papers - a very handsome little sum could thus be raised - enough to keep our heads above water. If this proposition meets your approbation, you will receive the heartfelt thanks of thousands of loyal East Tennesseeans for your noble assistance in this cause of humanity and Common Country. I have the honor to be, My dear Madam, your humble & obt servant- With great respect, Geo. E. Grisham Editor & Proprietor Union Flag. Let your Subject be "The Loyal Newspapers of East Tennessee."THE "EAST TENNESSEE UNION FLAG." JONESBBOROUGH, TENNESSEE. A GOOD ADVERTISING MEDIUM. The great success which has attended the publication of the "UNION FLAG," and the many assurances given the Proprietor by the loyal people everywhere throughout the country, are flattering indeed. The Large and Increasing Circulation is evidence of the great success and prosperity of the paper. It has therefore been increased to double its former size, and now ranks as one of the first class Journals of the country. Those who desire to secure the patronage of the loyal people of East Tennessee have now an excellent opportunity by Advertising their Business in the "East Tennessee Union Flag." All who desire to succeed in any undertaking or enterprise should let the people know what they are doing and where and how they may be found. People are anxious to read newspapers, and the masses are, as a general thing, governed by what they contain. Therefore Advertise, and let the world know what you are doing. We are prepared to do all kinds of Book and Job Printing in a neat and good style, and on reasonable terms. Address, Geo. E. Grisham, Editor and Proprietor. G. E. Grisham. J. L. Ross. AUCTION & COMMISSION HOUSE, BY GRISHAM & ROSS, JONESBOROUGH, TENNESSEE, Will sell at Auction, on Commission or Consignment, GOODS of every description, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Grain, Stock, and Material of every kind. Address GRISHAM & ROSS, Auction & Commission Merchants. REFERENCES: Judge S. J. W. Lucky, Hon. S. E. Griffith, Jonesborough, Tenn. Messrs. Eames & Wilds, Messrs. Logan & Logan, Knoxville, Tenn.