ANNA DICKINSON GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE LOCKE, D. R. [Feb. 16, 1868 - April 26, 1880] and undatedSHERMAN HOUSE, Chicago, Feb 16 1868 Miss Anna Dickinson, I tried to see you to at least bid you "good bye" but unfortunately you were out. I leave at 1:30 for Cincinnati where I orate Monday and Tuesday nights. I hope to meet you again, for I have many things to say to you. Good Night DR Loeke Office of Daily Toledo Blade, A.D. PELTON & CO., Proprietors. 150 Summit Street Toledo, Ohio, April 11 1868. Miss Dickinson;- May I put you to the trouble of informing me who can best arrange a lecture route (making the arrangements) in the New England States, and also what compensation should be paid for such service? I want to devote two months to New England next winter and prefer not to assume the labor of arranging routes. I wound up the last season in Rochester N.Y. Feb 27th to a spendid house. My experience was pleasant throughout and I am really in love with the platform. I shall have three lectures this winter. I am receiving invitations daily, many of which I owe to the kind words you have spoken of me. Believe me I appreciate them Your. friends Mr & Mrs Camp are well. I shall be in Philadelphia this summer. Very truly yous D R LockeNew York Oct 25, 1868 My dear Miss Dickinson As I was aroused from my slumbers at a sufficiently early hour-viz-7 AM- to take the New York train. I took it. I hesitated but remarking to myself "business before pleasure tore myself with tears in my eyes from Philadelphia. After I left you last night ( by the way my visit [last ni] was prolonged and drawn out into a visitation) I deliberately turned over in my mind the paper project. The more I consider it the better I like it. I put it in every conceivable shape & I looked on all sides of it. and I ended with the full determination to do it whether or no: that is if you hold to your dread purpose. There is money and reputationreputation for both in the enterprise and good to all the rest of man (and woman) kind I shall reach my home Friday next- I shall at once lay the matter before my partners -if they see it, well, if not I shall take it alone. Think the thing over Carefully weigh it cooly, and be ready to talk business when I meet you in Boston. Write me at Toledo so that the letter will reach me between Oct 29 and Nov 4 I start to morrow at 11 for New Haven Truly Yours DR LockeUtica N.Y. Nov 6 1868 My dear Miss Dickinson I told Mr Camp to write you at Marlboro, and fearing that he might forget it I instructed my substitute Mr McCune to do likewise. For fear both will forget it I write myself. I have withdrawn an engagement at Woonsocket R.I. that I may be at liberty Saturday the 14th in Boston. I shall be at Young's Hotel Drop me a note informing me where I can find you I have much to say to you Truly Yours DR LockeA.P. Miller, Office of Toledo Blade, D. R. Locke, J. P. Jones, No. 150 Summit Street, Miller, Locke & Co., Proprietors. Toledo, O., Dec 28 1868 My dear Mis Amne: - I arrived at home Sunday at 6 P. M. tolerably worn out but nevertheless happy, finding, as I did, my family well and my Toledo friends likewise. Mrs. Locke desires me to "return thanks" for the beautiful handkerchief you sent her. She was delighted with it not only because of its beauty, but because it came from you. She is very anxious to see you, which pleasure I hope she may have ere long. But that cloak! She didn't expect it and coming as it did she was pleased. Truly it is more blessed to give than to receive. This last remark applies beautifully to kicks and advice. I have written to Andrews to give me the 17th in Philadelphia If he does it - and the Lord knows I hope he can - I shall see you. I shall come prepared with a large and varied assortment of suggestions, and will have timeto throw them at you properly. Let us hope that we may both be benefitted thereby. Mr & Mrs. Camp desire me to send love I leave this city on Monday the [14] 4th for Pittsburgh reaching Boston on the 7th. Don't you wish you could be at Brockett's studio? Of course you do. Faithfully D R LockeS. M. Pettengill & Co. 37 Park Row Cor. Beekman St. New York 10 State St. Newspaper Advertising Agents Boston New York Jan 6, 1869 Dear Miss Anna: I shall spend Sunday the 17th in Philadelphia. Be at home if possible Faithfully yours D.R. Locke I shall see the Brocketts to-morrowFallon House Lock Haven, Pa Sunday March 28, 1869 My dear Miss Anna Capt White the proprietor of Fallon House and the head Centre of the G.A.R. informs me that you are to be here April 12. You will find Capt White a most pleasant gentleman. That he is a man of taste, the fact that he swears by Phillips & Whittier and constantly avers that "What Answer?" is the most remarkable book of this century abundantly testifies Capts. Kress & Harvey his colleagues are also good fellows. You will have doubtedly No. 4, the room in which I am writing this epistle Bythe 12th [June?] it will probably be rid of the fumes of about 35 cigars which number I have smoked in it. Lock Haven is terribly Copperhead but the Republicans are men of pluck and fight well. The Hall is detestable. I go to Hallidaysburgh Wheeling Gronville O. and thence home. Staying with my family till April 6 when I start west opening on that trip at La Fayette Ind I shall close April 30 at Kalomozoo, thoroughly and entirely worn out and used up. I left the Bracketts on the 18th inst. They were as usual. By the way, they made my stay in Boston long as it was, very pleasant. Have you noticed that Kate Field has made her debut as a lecturer in Boston? I have not [noticed] learned as to her success. I want to see you very much. I am anxious about that novel of yours, and besides I yearn to talk to you or rather, be talked to by you, about a thousand things. I shall try to find you during the summer. I shall write the comedy - in fact I have the plot and situations sketched . Shall we occupy a box at its first representation in November next? If you can find thetime drop me a line or two at Toledo informing me when you close - where you will be during the sum- mer - what your intentions are in the matter of the book and such other items as in your opinion will in- trust Your faithful friend D R Locke P.S. Did you see the cruel notice the Tribune made of me?A. F. MILLER, D. R. LOCKE, J.F. JONES. Office fo the Toledo Blade, 150 SUMMIT STREET, MILLER, LOCKE, & CO., Proprietors Toledo, O., April 2 1869 My dear Miss Anna: - L H Coolbroth Y M C A Hallidaysburgh Pa wants you badly. Bro Camp who is here, in my room, has just informed me that you are to be in Toledo on the 22d I am terribly provoked to think I can't be here, on that day. I [???] want to see you about many things - indeed I shall visit you in May if you stay this side of the great water. I have something on my mind in which you have a direct, personal interest. I closed my Eastern engagements Wednesday night, th 30th March, at Granville O. O the mid between Newark and that place! If you have not entirely forgotten me drop me a line at Rockford Illinois, I start Monday night the 5th for Lafayette Ind. Closing my season at Kalamazoo Mich the 30th. Faithfully yours D R LockeJune 27, 1870 My dear Miss Dickinson, I am compelled by telegram to leave for N.Y. Saturday, so I not deprived of the pleasure of seeing you again. Tonight I leave for Toledo or rather Put-in-Bay Jay Cooke's residence in summer. I am in pursuit of dollars and Jay Cooke hath divers and sundry which I want. Will you be good enough to take the first four days you have to share and give me in writing such ideas as you have touching on the civil service? I go home from Put-in- Bay and shall commence said lecture at once. Whether you do this or not let me hear from you. In haste, but as ever yours D R Locke Thermometer 99 in the shadeJ.H. BATES. D.R. LOCKE. OFFICE OF BATES & LOCKE, Newspaper Advertising Agents, 34 PARK ROW, New York May 5 1873 Dear Anna - What do you think of th enclosed? Pugh proposes to make a three session affair of it, winding up with a bonquet to be tendered the howlers and hooters by the much afflicted people of Philad. Will you take part in it? or will you not? Let me know. The "exercises" at the Academy are to be 15 minute speeches Only the elite of the profession are to be invited to participate Let me know what your notion is. You see by the heading of this that, I am in New York. I have opened here a branch of our Toledo business and shall in the fall moveto the village. Mrs Locke is with me temporarily and she sends all manner of kindly wishes. She is fairly impressed with the idea that you are the greatest grandest and most majestic womon on eorth, in whch opinion it is needless to say I share. Drop me a little note Faithfully D R Locke[A. F. MILLER,] D. R. LOCKE, J.P. JONES. Office of Toledo Blade, 150 SUMMIT STREET, [MILLER], LOCKE, & Jones CO., Proprietors Toledo, O. July 1[4]5 187[0]3 dear Anna - I got your telegram this P M and answered it. I am working on the play and hope I shall make a success but it is a terrible thing to make a play. I come face to face with more difficulties than I ever dreamed of What does Boucicault want? I told you not to depend upon any one man, for no one can tell in advance whether he will make a success or not, and you must have a play. Does Boucicault want a certain fixed price for his work before he commences it? Does he demand so much for his labor, whether it suits you or not? Write me all about it. Write me concerning you affairs theatrical in detail I want to know you know. I shall get the play on as fast as I can, and I have much to do and it works out slowly Write me immediately I wrote Fany to-day and Truly yours sent it to East Boston. Is she D R Locke with you?R. LOCKE J.P. JONES LOCKE & JONES PUBLISHERS OF Toledo Daily Blade, Toldeo Weekly Blade, American Farm Journal, Locke's National Monthly. Send for Special Circular to Agents. The Toledo Weekly Blade (Nasby's Paper) has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. It goes to almost every post office in the country. The NASBY LETTERS are written for the Blade. The American Farm Journal is an agricultural Monthly of 16 pages. Locke's National Monthly is a literary Magazine of 48 pages, on which the best writers are employed. TERMS Weekly Blade. Single copy, one year, . . . . $2.00 in Clubs of ten, . . . . . . $1.50 American Farm Journal. Single Copy, one year, . . . . $.75 In Clubs of ten, . . . . . $.60 Locke's National Monthly. Single Copy, one year, . . . . . $1.00 Office of LOCKE & JONES, EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, Toledo, Ohio, Dec 8, 1873 Dear Anna. In pursuance of your request I saw the great Collins - that is to say I did not see him in your matter for I had but two hours after getting your letter, but I saw his next friend. You cant get his version of the New Magdolen for a London actress has it. That I found definitely, so it was no use to bother him about it. So much for that. I do not like your London scheme, but I suppose that will make no difference with you if you have your stubborn head set in that direction. I should appear in New York or Boston (New York if possible) and make my success here, where you have dead loads of good friends to help you out. If you need it I should have a play - a good one - written and should play it here. You haveit in you and need not fear a failure The only point is a good play. if you do not want it before next fall I will undertake & agree to furnish that I go to new York again in a week or two, when I will see Collins personally and see if I cannot get him to do a play for you - not Magdalen for that is fixed for this country & England both I will do with him for you what I can I have had trouble - I am in trouble now. But a good constitution and a capacity for work that would kill a horse, and an excellent digestion that never fails me will doubtless pull me through. I have in a Methodist a never-failing reliance on which I lean. The line reads "God is the refuge of his Saints." Seriously I will do for you in this matter all that I can when I strike New York again Truly yours D R LD.R. LOCKE, President. OFFICE OF F.T. LANE, Sec. & Treas. THE TOLEDO BLADE COMPANY publishers of the Daily, Tri-Weekly & Weekly Blade, No. 152 St. Clair Street, Toledo, Ohio, April 26, 1880 DEAR ANNA:- I SEND YOU A BATCH OF BLADES. I HAD TO SEND HALF-SHEETS FOR WE RUN OUT AFTER THE FIRST SIDE WAS PRINTED. THE ARTICLE ISN'T WHAT I WANTED, BUT I HAVE BEEN SO CUSSED BUSY, THAT I COULDN'T DO BETTER. HOWEVER, IT WILL DO YOU SOME GOOD, AND AS IT DON'T COST YOU YOU ANYTHING IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEND AHEAD. I HAVE INSTRCUTED MISS BOUTON TO INTERVIEW YOU, THAT IS HEAR YOU BEFORE YOU READ. SHE WILL DO YOU PROUD. CHARLEY SHEPHERD SENDS HIS LOVE TO YOU. I HOPE TO BE HERE WHEN YOU COME BUT PROBABLY SHALL BE AWAY. BE GOOD TO YOURSELF, AND IF YOU WANT ANYTHING OF ME SAY SO. I AM NOT IN LOVE WITH YOU, BUT YOU ARE A DELIGHTFUL BEING, AND I AM DESPERATELY FOND OF YOU. FAITHFULLY, D.R.L.Pete [Ansd.?]Office of Oliver Optic's Magazine, "Our Boys and Girls" Every Week. $2.50 per Year. Wholesale Department. Enclose no Goods for us in packages to others unless expressly ordered. LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Booksellers, and Importers, 149 Washington Street, & 5 Harvard Place, (Opposite Old South Church.) Boston, Nov 186 Miss Anna The people [?] here -I must go with them To-morrow I shall be (my pen gave out here) entirely bald-headed I will call at 41 Tremont St. at about 10 AM Will see you then & there [Fondly?] Locke I will read this to you to-morrow