Anne Dickinson GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE  Mb-M2 1863-1909 undatedESTABLISHED 1838
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS...INDIANAPOLIS

April 10, 1908.

My dear Miss Dickinson:-

I am very glad to
answer the questions in your letter of the
eighth.  Mr. Howland is the head of our Editorial
Department, and we rely entirely on
his judgment of the availability of any manuscript
of plan of a manuscript submitted to
us.  His decision was doubtless dictated by the
thought that the handling of such a book as
you contemplate writing would demand some highly
specialized method of promotion which the
returns from the book would not justify. We
are unwilling to undertake the publication of
the book because we feel sure that the results
would be only a disappointment to you and a
loss to us.  There is unquestionably interest
and to some extent publicity in the memoirs, 
but it seems to us extremely doubtful whether
more than a small fraction of the reading public
could be made to realize this.

I regret very much that our decision
could not have been otherwise, and assure you
of our best wishes for your success.

Very sincerely yours
Charles W. M[?]
C.W.M.

Miss Anna R. DickinsonNo. 1065 Forest Av. 
NY City 3.12.1908.
To Mr. Charles W. Merrill
c/o Bobbe Merrill Co. 
Dear Sir: 
I address
 you formally as
 Mr. Brand Whittock
 gave me your name as 
one with whom I might 
speak. - In your
stead  I found Mr. Curtis 
and I suppose he has
 written you of our interview.
 He suggested that I send
 you a skeleton of what I shall
 put into a book. Perhaps it
 is not very well proportioned
 but you can judge of its 
relative value. = Withthe hope that your house
 may prove the open
 door to much truth. 
believe me
Sincerely yours
Anna E Dickinson

No. 1065 Forest Av. (Bronx)
N.Y. City. 4.8.1908.
To/ Mr. Charles W. Merrill,
-of Bobbs - Merrill Co. -
Dear Sir: - 
- On the 
12. March, last, I sent
through your Mr. Curtis
a letter and some 
Book - notes to you, - under
date of March 19. —
Mr. H. H. Howland
writes me of these

to you personally, Believe me always 
sincerely
AED.
matters - I presume
from the letter-head he
speaks for your firm, - but
know not.
Is he of it? - or an
employee? - Does he speak 
by authority? - or by
command?
Will you tell me
 this? - And also the exact
meaning of his communication? 
- Is it that you do not care
to put out this book now? - 
Never? - The letter says "it
would be unwise for us
at this time."
Will you say why
"unwise"? - Is it because
of the newspapers - or
because of the Prohibitionists
and W. C. T. U'S - or because 
of the Politicians, involved?
=Is it because you think 
the book would be unpopular?- I am not a super - 
sanguine person,
but I am sure - properly
launched, it would be
widely read.
It is not "recollections,"
but the [Story] History of a crime,
-it's rooted in the Past,
living and vital in the
Present.
I wish to avoid
mistakes, and so ask you
These matter of fact
questions, - will you do me 
the favor of a personal reply
as I was recommended.Washington D.C. June 11th 1867
Miss Anna E. Dickinson,
Enclosed I send
 you a copy of a Prospectus for a Monthly. 
I have secured the services of a number 
of the most accomplished male writers
in the land, I am desirous also of obtaining
aid and contributions to its columns
from the "better half" of mankind. For
that purpose I have concluded to
 propose to you to furnish either
an article each month regularly or
an occasional article as you deemed
best, I would like to have you furnish
 one article for Each number
regularly either of a political or literary
character or in the shape of a novel
as you deemed best, and I would
pay you what was fair for
your labor. If you looks
favorably upon my proposition pleasewrite me at this place as I shall remain
here some 3 weeks yet. 
Wendel Phillips and a number of
the sharpest male writers have consented
to become contributers and
I am authorized to announce them 
as such. I have not yet made
much effort to obtain female
writers but am now about
working suitable arrangements
in that direction. 
The work will be printed in
New York City. I shall at the
first commence with an selection
of some ten to fifteen thousand,
it is desirable to make it the
organ of all that is progressive,
liberal and independent in
politics and elevating and ennobling
in morals and literature,
I expect it will require a great deal
of labor and energy on my
part to accomplish a great success
lest I believe I am resolute, 

[and] self willed and determined enough
to accomplish that labor. At any
rate the experiment shall and will
be tried. I have engaged excellent
printers in New York to do the
work and we will make it the
neatest got up monthly so far as
mechanical execution is concerned
in America. 
I intend giving an engraving
of some prominent person and a
memoir in each member, In that
list the women will have place also.
If I can I shall get out an engraving
of Miss Lucretia Mott, and in due
time provided I have your consent
of Miss A. E. Dickinson, 
But I have written more than
I intended. Direct an answer to me
at the United States Hotel, Washington.
Excuse my intrusion and believe me
Your Ob't serv't
Charles E. Moss
All sortsMilwaukee Dec 12th 1866 
My dear Miss Dickinson, 
We have heard
with deep regret of your severe
illness, and can scarcely express
to you how anxious we are to
know just how you are situated.
Mr & Mrs. Austin were in a
very excited state on Friday,
longing to hear something definite,
and ready to start at once if
they could be of service. 
We know that you
are in a private family, and
of course receiving all care but
if you would be sick, why
could you not have been so inMilwaukee, that we might have
had the benefit of a longer visit,
and seen you in the new role
of invalid and convalescent? 
My dear friend, Mr. Metcalf &
myself have made a plan which
only requires your assent, viz, that
you shall get able to trevel speedily
and come to our home to recruit!
It is nonsense for you to go home
yet, thereby losing all your Western
engagements when by a few weeks
rest, you might be able to meet
some of your appointments. 
We promise you better quiet, with
nothing to annoy that we can
prevent, and think that in a
few weeks we should have you
as good as new, strengthened and
ready for your trevels. 

Will you not think seriously of my proposition, and
gladden our hearts by a speedy answer in the affimative.
If your sister is with you, I should be delighted to
have her come with you, and hope she will not
hesitate to do so. Trusting ere this, you are much better
believe me. 
Most lovingly yours
Caroline Metcalf25 Linden Park, Roxbury
Apr. 20
Dear friend:
I feel almost as
you did when you wrote
me after that supreme
loss which but my
life behind me, - as
if there were nothing
to say, & only the handclasp
of affection and 
sympathy to give to you.
This, be sure, you have.
How I have wishedthat I had a paper of 
my own again, that
I might say, with
Salvini in the play, "Meanwhile,  
la Gladiateur!"
I should so enjoy putting
in a few blows for
you, while heaven seems
to be so much absorbed
in other affairs!
     It is a shame,
with a "big, big D."
the manner in which
the press & the public



jumped to the conclusion
that you were a chronic
quarreler, & sure to be
in the wrong. - I 
have sent your card to
Murray - he will know
what every word of it
means. - Between
the last lines I read
"England." Would that 
I might see you before
you go. Command me,
will you not, for any
possible service? And know
me to be always unflinchingly 
& admiringly your friend
                                       W H Merrill
Miss Anna E. Dickinson.Boston Herald Office
July 19

My dear friend:
Fifteen years ago we
had the bones to "make fast"
but now I am again simply
an editorial writer, with
no authority or special influence.
I enjoy the freedom from
care and responsibility -
and am glad to be not
another "hands of the Jew."
I knew your handwriting
at once, and was
much gratified at the
evidence your letter

2 -
contained of your good memory
and unimpaired bones of
expression. — Life is
something of a "grind" 
for me still, but with
unimpaired health, my
good wife, one son
and four grandchildren
to keep me company
(when I can see through
all, my surviving son
living in Chicago) I
am happy and
well placed.  With every
kind wish, Sincerely,
W H. MerrillWarsaw, March 29, 74

Dear Miss Dickinson:
                                                I don't
suppose it is at all necessary,
but I cannot refrain from
sending you a word of cheer
for your really noble speech
at Chicago, - which, despite
the aggravating and peculiarly
Chicagoan "diviltry" of the reports,
I know must have been effective
and characteristic: - and I
have a theory that characteristic
 work is the best any
brain-worker does - if there be
both brains and individuality.
   The policy which you combat 
is so odiously unjust as its discriminations 
- so demoralizing in
theory and practice - and so
abhorrent to every true spirit
of either sex who loves humanity.with any of the Charity and 
tenderness of the Master, that
I am glad there is one woman's
voice - and such an one! ---
raised against it.
                       I wonder if you have
read - of course you have - in the 
grandest (I think) of Jean Injelow's
poems, that noble Sermon which
closes "Brothers, and a Sermon"?  I thought
when I read through tearful eyes
some of your passages, of the old
preacher's touching allusion to one
who was ________ "crying on her knees,
And sobbing 'Lost, lost, lost,' beating her breast --- 
Her breast forever pricked with cruel thorns
The wounds whereof could neither Galen assuage 
Nor any patience heal --- Beating her brow, 
Which ached, it had been bent so long to hide
From level eyes whose meaning was contempt."
           __________ Talk about "indelicacy" - I
was glad you warmed those
Tribune ears.  How can any man who
reveres woman, and who has known
the love of a mother, wife or sister,
object to any appeal which shall 
arouse the tender need true womanliness 
 of happy and fortunate women
toward their sinning but greatly 
sinned-against sisters.' There is 
great need for more Christian
common-sense in dealing with 
this matter -- especially (may I say!)
among women.  It was to these
the sermon appealed:
                                "O ye good women, it is hard  to leave
the paths of virtue and return  again.
What if this sinner wept, and none of you
Comforted her - and what if she did strive
to mend, and none of you believed her strife" ____
and who were reminded that
                                "Once in old Jerusalem
A woman kneeled at consecrated feet,
Kissed them, and washed them with her tears."
      — But I only meant togive you my heart felt "Bravo" for
your speech, and discover for you,
if you had not already made it
your own, a splendid poem , apropos
thereto.
We have passed
a pleasant winter, and the
household are usually well.
Mrs. Merrill joins with
me in kindest remembrances, &
wishes, & hopes that sometime
you may find or make it convenient
to pull the latch-string
what is always out, and let us
show you the summer beauties
of the valley, lake, & waterfalls
hereabout.
With the sincerest respect
Ever your friend
W H  MerrillOriental Hotel  [*1889*]
New York, May 15

My dear friend:
I saw by
the paper that the inevitable
had overtaken you
at last. For your
dear mother my thought
was: "Ended quite the
weariness of patience and
of pain" - for life must
have grown weary to
her, in spite of all
that loving care and devotioncould do for her, But
for you I can well believe
that the separation must
be grievous. We miss 
most those who have
been most dependent 
upon our love and 
care, when they have
passed beyond need
of it. As there is 
no love like the mother-love, 
so there is no 
loss like that you 
have sustained. Did


the feeling come to you that
such quenchless affection 
as hers - burning steadily
during all these years - 
could not cease and 
go out with the breath,
like a candle? If so,
Your faith in immortality,
and hope of a re-union,
must be strengthened.
I hope so - though
my own experience
in the face of the dead
dear one was, I regret
to say, not quite like that.Whatever your thought or
feeling, you have
my true  sympathy.
Dear, brave little woman!
It does seem as though
God or the [Pater?]
ought to begin to
be better to you,
right away! Do
be as good to yourself,.
as may be! Rest much
and plan a little, this
summer, & now or later
call on me for any help
it is in my power to extend to you.
With all kind wishes, your friend
W. H. MerrillOffice of the Western New-Yorker
Warsaw, N.Y., Mar.14 1879

I suppose you have become
so accustomed to "notices", gilt-edged 
and otherwise, that
any amount of burnt incense
wouldn't tickle you with
a sneeze. Nevertheless I 
enclose my brief notice of
your recent lecture here-
chiefly that you may see,
from the closing paragraph
what our people think of 
women "keeping silent in 
the churches"!  Speaking
of missions, I think it
manifest you haven't a 
call to the stage - Your
clearer duty seems to be
to continue to save rurallyceums from "involuntary
bankruptcy."
If you lecture another
season, and will come here, 
please consider yourself
engaged for any evening
you may select - only
come nearer the opening of 
the Course if convenient.
I trust your 
throat is no worse. Our
physician stopped at the 
office to put up the presecriptins,
and found himself too late.
Mrs Merrill enjoyed
your stay immensely, and 
writes in kindest wishes.
Sincerely
W H Merrill
Miss Anna E DickinsonConfidential
No. 206 Canal Street
New York April 10 '77
Miss Anna Dickinson,
Having
watched your brilliant
progress in the Lyceum and
your subsequent brave
entrance into the histrionic
art I am, although
a stranger to you, keenly
sensitive to your success
so that when I 
read your courageous vindication
of yourself in
this morning's papers
I felt you had once 
more enlisted the sympathy
of that public
which has so appreciated
you in the past.
Once the pupil of 
a well known actor and
elocutionist at Boston
and since connected with
the daily press of Bostonand now correspondent at 
New York of "The American
Cabinet maker"
I know a little of both
professions and can
perhaps in a measure
appreciate the difficulties
by which you
are surrounded.
As one of your public
permit me to wish
you God speed in the
great work you have
undertaken and accept
my assurance
of faith in your ultimate
triumph.
With great regard
I am a brother worker
though an humble one,
in the literary world.
Francis J. McAvoyNew York
#51 W. 33rd St
April 10th 77.
Miss Anna Dickinson
My dear Lady
Believing that
a kind word even from a stranger
may not be welcome at
all times, I have taken the liberty
to address you a word of cheer.
It was my pleasure
to hear you last night for the 
first time: and truly, I was
delighted beyond measure.
I was [paned?] - by the NY press - 
to hear "bad" play "badly"
acted, to use dramatic parlance.
How delightful my
surprise! how pleasant my
disappointment!
Attracted to the Theater
mainly by the announcementthat you would "criticise your
critics." I certainly was in a
cynical mood expecting to
hear nothing good, unless,
possibly, you made some
spicy remarks at the conclusion.
But what a surprise 
was in store for me! I
cannot tell when I began to
admire the play - I only
know that all at once I detected
myself in full sympathy with the Heroine
and in a perspiration of expectancy.
My very heart burned with kindness, 
and from thence forward
my soul was in sympathy with
the play; my feelings of indifference
with-which I entered the theatre
were gone - I was a living
convert to the merits of the
play and the author - the
N.Y. press to the contrary
notwithstanding. When I came



to listen to your remarks at
the conclusion, and learned
for the first time that the
NY, verdict was not the
only one rendered, I 
certainly felt that as brave
a woman must succeed.
In conclusion, dear Lady
let me remind you that "water
will find its level" - the N.Y.
press to the contrary etc. and,
your health permitting,
all will yet go well with
you. It was not my intention
at the commencement to
say one work in criticism,
but I venture to suggest
that some of the ill treatment
and seeming unkindness on
the part of the critics towards
yourself is due in part to
the unfortunate cast of
the King's part. I can understandthat any acting as execrable 
as Mr. Arnott's would 
so upset a mans nerves that 
[that] he wwould hardly say
a kindly wour for any
one, This should not be, but
fear it has exerted a greater 
influence, for ill. than you
dream of. And too - I fear the 
selection of the Theatre - to appear
in, was not a wise one.
But, your health permitting,
you will rise superior
to anything these "penny
a liners" can say - and 
as the measure of merit is
success, succeed you must
when the people leave you, like
the subscriber, they will 
honor and admire your
successful efforts
Gratefully Yours
G. S. MeigsMelrose Highlands
May 31st, 1874
Dear Miss Dickinson:
My Sister and I
not being able to see, and thank
you for your kindness in sending
such pretty presents. 
I thought I would write and 
tell you how very much
pleased we are with them.
They are valued not only
because they are so beautiful
but on account on being a
present from you to us so nearly
strangers to you. You do not
seem so to us for we have heard
Aunt Charlotte speak so often ofyou and your kindness to her that
that we feel as though we must
also claim you for a friend.
I hope that you are in better
health that when I was in
Philadelphia.
Lydia and Lizzie send love
to you.
Your true friend,
Lottie C. MendumFriday
Dear Miss Dickinson,
The Fortnightly (Woman's Club) 
of Chicago desires exceedingly your 
presence at their meeting this evening.
As I have been ill these several 
days Mrs. Dexter - the corresponding
 Secretary of the Club has gone in
quest of you this morning, hopingyour health is sufficiently restored
to enable you to favor us with your
presence _ I omitted to say to her
the most important thing of all
that I would call for you at
half past seven if you would 
graciously consent to accompany me
to the meeting. Can you make
another sacrifice to the many you
have already made for women and
favor us to-night?
Respectfully
Ella Mitchell
Vice Pres.Cincinnati, O. Nov. 27th, 65.

Miss A. E. Dickinson

My dear Girl; your "Day of Grace"
is nearly spent; at a point, in time to propose
for my Marriage with you, or some one else
on the (first) Day of January EPS.V1(,66) it
closes: & then, soon after, you take a subordinate
place (& by force) as my Wife!
But Anna, lay aside your (perceived)
Grievances (in me) & be "Wise unto Salvation,",
for yourself & the World -------
From your Experience, in (Men) & (Marriage)
you can form no correct estimate of me &
our Union; sum up your Souls Ideal, in
these & with (us) comes its realization----
One item (only) I will touch, of the (promise) of
yourself with me, as indeed, every Husband - the
fetter & tug & big of (Babies) & "Heaps upon Heaps"!
And with me thier (number) or (cypher) is
mine; & by innocent & healthful prevention, their
number, on cypher, is told. And too, with
me, the (Sexual) of Life, is but a (secondary)
(over)not a (primary) as with most Men-
& you will not be made a martyr
for the New Race
And (again); you are young & I 
am old enough to be your Father. But,
too, I am young, in all but years, & (back
I come) in them & met you; then on
in eternal youth, we both journey together,
the (Adam & Eve) of the "New Earth" # # # #
Yours ever
E.P. Minier
PS And do not delay
your answer even one day.
(And you are on a lecturing
tour; & I am glad to hear it - 
& I hope that this will reach
you early.)
And marrying (me) must not
stop your lecturing, if it is
your choice to follow it, for a
time, long or short.



And let us be married, if you
please, in Philadelphia City, at
9 oclock, A.M.  January 1st, 66.
And on the day following, we will
start for Cincinnati.
But, soon, I shall fix my quarters
in Philadelphia & there live, until
I build up the New Jerusalem
Center (& my palace) of course.
E.P.MBellefont Center Spt 20, 1878
Miss Annie Dickinson
I hope you
will pardon me for my bold
attempt to address you but I have
been anxious to see you ever since
you took the stand and it seemed to
me that it was me you spoke of, so I
cannot help to presit this before
your eyes impresments I have suffered
more than once and prisence more
than twice and I am not dead yet. I
have been in at herefore more than
fifteen years to hold my position as
A woman as you be live in, and
at last been turned out today in
the streets, you can say without
a friend or one dollar to help myself
even my clothes shut up so
that I have to look perfect ridiculouscan not make my appearance any
where I would loved to Call on
you but I can not make and
atempet on Acount of my Clothes
this is A move of some of the arrostocricy
of this town and vicinity and I
have been advised to hand this
subject to some of you lectures for
A long time and as this is the
first time I have had A chance
to rite you I take it and on Acount
of ignorence to use the pen and
spell as I should as you spoke of
that girl I will not try to give
Pticulars as I should fail and not
knowing whethe it would be etcepted
I could have addresed you long before
this but I new you ware traveling
and I did not know how to address
you that it would reach you I 
am glad to know that there is A
woman in xistanse that knows



what others of thair sex has
to in dure,  it is A fearful fact
that woman are shut up in
thare one house or get to stand
Just whare the men put them
so that they Haidelly know what
theare sister is doing, I have not
done anny thing onely refused to go 
out of the house when they come
to put me out and then is when
they shut my clothes up and tooke
me to Prison for A dangerous
woman and things weare brought
against me that was as falls as 
knight is dark [but my Religone]
and I could Pove that it is as
false as it is true they swore to 
it, but what good would it do me
to imprison them be cause they imprisend
me my Religous opion
fights me on that question I hand
this [quest to] you confidencial unlessyour wish to make it A subject
and even then untill you get the
full circumstance of the case and
if you do Pleas give me your address
and if you do not, would you be
kind enough to hand it to some
one that would spend A week
or two to know the real supstance 
of the case to begin with
Yours With Respect
Massy J Miles
MilesBOH
Ohio W. U. Delaware Ohio
April 22d 186[4?].
Miss Dickinson, 
The elect Lady,
I would esteem
it, a great privilege, to call upon, and
pay my respects, to genius, worth, and
a true woman. But the Committee informs
me, that you not only prefer, but really
need, rest, and quietude. But I amreally un willing, to allow you, to depart,
without expressing to you, the rare comfort, &
encouragement, your lecture, last evening
afforded me.  I have not, so enjoyed a
lecture, since I heard George Wm Curtis,
about seven years ago.  Of course,
all such words, of cheer, commendation, and
Good speed, & God speed, from strangers, are
needless, while, you listen, to the
music, of an approving Conneissur, and
enjoy, the smile of the Great Master, 
But, there is one thing, you can not knowVassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY

June 9
My dear Miss Dickinson
Mr. Corning has
asked me to tell you
that he could not be
in Po'keepsie, on the
24th, the time of our
commencement.
I think there was
some arrangement
about your coming,
connected with his
church, but I do
not remember what
it was. I hope you

unless I reveal it to you. It is this, you
have stirred an errant soul, whose belief
in prayer, to pray, must devoutly &
sincerely, that your health may be
preserved, your life greatly prolonged,
once, that your labors may be
crowned with marked success.
Henceforth, in all your life journeys, I
follow you, with the deepest
interest. But I have said enough.
Yours sincerely,
L. Dm Cabe
Prof. Phil.
O.W. [?]
President M[?] introduced myself & wife
to you the first after your lecture Cartwrightwill be here at that 
time. Tickets will be 
sent to you.
With pleasant recollections
of your descent
upon us, I am
yours
Maria [M???????]Telephone 5300 Beekman

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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson,
1065 Forest Ave.,
New York.

Dear Madam:
Not having a late photograph of you on file in
our collection of noteworthy individuals whose pictures
are from time to time sought by publishers, we are enclosing
you an order on our photographers, for a photograph
to be made at our expense, hoping that you will
favor us with an up-to-date portrait of yourself at your
earliest convenience.
We have on hand several half-tones of you
but publishers insist on recent pictures and it would be
doing a great favor to us as well as to yourself if you
will place us in a position to supply them. Hoping that
you will act favorably upon our request, I am, 
Respectfully yours,
E S Millard
Manager.Hartford March 28 1863
Miss Anna E Dickinson -
There was an incident at the
Hartford Post Office a few days since that may
be of service to you in your thrilling speeches.
Please drop it in your own unequalled language
and use it for what it is worth.
The day after the New Hampshire Election a bulletin
of the following import appeared in from of the Times &
Post Office. "the democracy have called the Governor &
a member of Congress. Among this crowd were some 
half doz Irishmen. Two or three of them were so much
intoxicated that they could not stand except by holding on
to each other. One of them asked for the news and on being
told that the State had gone Democratic, said in a tremulous
drunken tone we have given them H- H- Hell an an ant us.
On this much drunken expression, there was deep moral
and melancholy truth that weighs heavily on every true
patriots heart. True to the letter they are giving the Government 
Hell and distruction in the most desperate and ungrateful form.
They who have sought and received bread repose wealth and
protection under [of] our fair equal and benign Government.They who have not only been fed here by the large
hearted benevolence of the American people & Government,
but the same hands have loaded Ships with food and
wafted them to their lonely starving homes on their own
emerald Isle in the day of their starving extremity; and
is this the way the once full souled Irish pay their debts
of gratitude by turning traitors to a Government, that has
not only fed nourished and protected them, and above all
bestowed upon them the full boon of freeman and elivated
them in the scale of manhood, and after all this
will they now drink deeper of the dregs of ingratitude
and blast all that is grateful and generous in their nature
by giving their votes to sustain Treason Tyrany Anarchy and
Oppression. Though the crime of Treason and infidelity to
Government stands first in the catalogue of crimes, still the
acts of these untrained Irishmen will be purity compared
with these infamous partizen politicians who under the guise
of fiendish falls democracy  persuate these men to proove falls
to the Country of their adoption. --
No! No to the men that will raise party above Country, and
advise these [untrained] untaught men to give their adopted
Country Hell and distruction by giving their votes to oppose
and paralize this just war for independence union freedom
and right

What language can express the crime of that man
who in his daily walk about our streets urges these
men to vote for Seymour and there will be no draft
which in substance is saying elect Seymour and he
will resist the Government.
May our heavenly Father forbid! Still should that
dread day come when this blessed Government is to be
distroyed - first among the causes will be written -- That
crafty designing party politicians played upon the prejudices
and simple credulity of these unthinking men under
the guise of some deceptive popular name to induce them
to vote for the death warrant of these Heaven born
institutions.
Res &c yours J. G. NixApr. 29th 1891.
Miss Anna Dickerson
Dear Miss Dickerson,
So many people 
will seize the present moment
to satisfy their love
of Hero worship that I hesitate
to address you.
You have been my one
idol of the past that
produced such vital
minds as Sumner, Greely
Lincoln, Senard, Chase
Your name is linked by
the mighty force of your
genius with the awful
birth of the Republican Party? When the party was
young its nurses were the
best of the nation but
how sadly has it wandered
since those infant days.
I called upon you one
evening at the Everett House
just after you had had
your trouble with the
men who controlled the
election and was very much
impressed with your 
history of your wrongs.
Since then I have remembered
your remark
"I was called to whip the
old party men back

into the party from the
Prohibition party. Several 
times have I heard this
sentence used by Frances
Williard and too well
I know why you did not 
appear on the platform at
Washington, but your can
make for yourself a name
resplendent with deeds if
you will only take up the
cause of the people and
organize them in every
hamlet and dell.
If you will you can organize 
both men and women
who by the fire of your
eloquence will vote formen rather than party.
It is of no moment now
for us to weep over the 
old Republican Party all
we can do is to create 
a new party of the People
with Equality and Equal Rights
You can throw your soul 
into it for you can cement
the Negro party and the
wage workers into one
vast array of voters
that will donn both
Rebulican & Democrat
Probationers & Farmers Alliance
Think of it call a meeting
preside yourself and

remember what I say
you alone in this nation
can do this thing.
The Sentiment is ripe
for a leader.  Nominate
your man one free from
all parties and unite
the people. You do not
need to dwell upon your
own wrongs. Every man
or woman who has done
anything in this world worth
remembering has suffered.
There can be no question 
in regard to your genius
and it will though crushed
to Earth rise again and
you for you a name thatwill live long after those 
who have made you suffer
are forgotten.
Had I been one of your
early friends how gladly
would I have come to you
in your hour of need.
Think of what I have written
you and let me see
in your next lecture a
turning toward a new
Platform a new People.
Truly Yours,
S. Miller
103 W 14th847 N. 20th St.
Philada 6/19/92
My Dear Miss Dickinson,
I have read with great delight
and appreciation your "reminiscences" 
in the Sunday Press of
this date, and have noticed with 
much interest and satisfaction 
the evidence of your old time
force and vigor contained therein.

After the seed twice comes
the harvest, and now you must
see that the seed planted by you
in the years agone has sprouted,
blossomed, and grows into a mighty
tree, "whose leaves are for the heating
of the Nations."  After all thetoil and fever of strife, for conscience
sake, in which you have
borne so gallant a part, surely
your friends and well  wishers
must cherish the hope that the 
peace which remains for the faithful
shall descend upon and 
brighten your life until its end.
yours sincerely
Anne E. McDowellAED
No. 14 E. 15 St.
N. Y. 8.23.77
My dear boy
The play
is admirable! - Characters
clearly & Charly
defined, the human 
nature, human, the 
situations pathetic, 
picturesque, intense, 
the movement continuous
& rapid, the climax
of each act effective,
the dialogue crisp talk,
the love making refreshingly
genuine — in 
a word, the whole thing 
is a live creature, &\2
a very wholesome & beautiful 
one - not a machine.
     It is the 
very best [*AED*] transcript of
ye old life of California
that has been made
in play, or story, or poem,
& as vivid in color as
it is keen in outline.
     For the sake of the 
tender hand you have
put upon the "camp outcasts" 
remembering they
too were women.  I hope
some lovely girl will put 
her arm about your
neck & kiss you.
     As for me I take
your hand in both of
mine & shake it
cordially while I
congratulate you upon



\3
the double good
fortune of artistic work
& popular [*AED*] success,
& am
Sincerely Yours
Anna E Dickinson
To/Ivaquin Miller.

- My rooms are
as marked at the head
of this screed & I shall
be glad for you to find
them when you come
back to town.Dear Miss Dickinson,
My Mother has been 
ill for three weeks, but
we hope is recovering -
among the little things
she fancies is an
 "atomiser" which you
showed her in Oswego - 
She had one with a 
long India rubber tube &
two bulbs, but it is not 
your kind. You will
oblige us greatly if you 
will send us the maker's 
name & address, that 
we may be sure of 
procuring the very thing.
Father is about
leaving for Syracuse
to attend a Temperance
meeting
Yrs. truly
E. S. Miller

Petersboro
N. Y. 
Feb. 22. 1870 -
Treasury Department
Jun. 26, 1870.
Miss Dickinson
This morning I neglected to perform
a duty I alike owe to you and to myself.
A month ago I assumed the
position of "Correspondent of the
Attorney Evening Journal" - In my
endeavors to obtain a seat in the
"Reporters Gallery" of the Senate I
found much difficulty; and by
those in the "ring " was inform-ed 
that it was useless to try, unless
I had political influence-
Not having that (having received 
my appointment upon my war record)
I determined to seek other mediums: -
At the close of your lecture 'Men's Rights"
I discovered that you[r] and the
The Vice President, and wife were
aquainted, this brought to mind theRob. W. C. Mitchell,
CORRESPONDENT ALBANY EVENING JOURNAL,
WASHINGTON, D.C.

the pleasant fact that I enjoyed
the friendship of Mr Edward Wade
of Albany, a relative of Mr Colfax;

A day or two after I made 
bold to write Mr Colfax, stating 
my wants as Correspondent
requesting a seat, and referring
to Mr Wade personally and to yourself
professionally (?)!  The next day
the authority for a seat came
to hand; and thereby I am
under great obligations to you
for the use & strength of your
name, although presumingly
used without your authority
That's all, Trusting I may 
expect your pardon and assuring
you that "I'll never do so any 
more" without "proper authority"
I am very respectfully
Your obdt Servt
Rob. W. C. MitchellOpened October 1st, 1872
1882  Miskler's Academy of Music,    1883
ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE AND ELEGANT THEATRES IN AMERCIA.
No Female Minstrels, Gift Shows, or Inferior Entertainments book01.  The only Theatre in Reading that does not book every attraction offered, limits the number and is the favorite and
largest Theatre--A comparison of Diagrams will show this. Approved as entirely safe by the City Building Committee. RECEIVES FOR THESE REASONS TWICE
AS MUCH RENT THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THIS CITY FROM LOCAL ENTERTAINMENTS. LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY, at
the junction of the only two street railways. Large exits on the two principal thoroughfares. 1200 seats. Rent, $50, includes License,
Ushers, Stage Hands, Police, Heat, Gas and Ticket Seller. Companies played on shares if preferred.

Season of 1878-79: Academy of Music, open One Hundred and Two Performances. Opera House same season, Ten performances, Season 1879-80:
Academy of Music, open One Hundred and Two Performances    Opera House, same season, Thirty-two Performances. Season 1880-81, Academy of Music open One Hundred and Two performances   Opera House open Thirty Performances. Season 1881-82. Academy of Music open One Hundred
and Three Performances.

Reading, PA., has a population of 45,000, third largest city in Pennsylvania. extensive mercantile and manufacturing establishments of 
all kinds, and is the centre of a rich agricultural district. Its railroad facilities are unsurpassed, thirty-nine passenger trains arriving and departing day. Distances are--Philadelphia, 58 miles; New York, 128; Pottsville, 35; Allentown, 36; Lancaster, 42; Wilmington, 72;
Harrisburg, 54; Williamsport, 140; Lebanon, 28; Scranton, 136; Wilkesbarre, 116. Three newspapers--"TIMES," morning; "EAGLE" and "NEWS," after-
noon, Bill Porter, JAMES SCHAEFFER.  Offices, Second Floor, Academy Building.  Bill Boards are prominently located, exclusively for the Academy. A first-class orchestra. Hotels--Keystone, American, Merchants', which entertains the profession at reduced rates. Tobias Barto, at depot, on arrival of all
trains, hauls baggage.

THE MISHLER CIRCUIT,
Established 1873, comprises ALL the BEST Show Towns of Eastern Pennsylvania.

During the past eight years I have carefully kept an account of all the business done in each town, the desires of the amusement public, pay days,
preferable evenings, and such other information of incalculable value to managers and agents, as to enable me to book routes for ONE, TWO, or THREE
WEEK of mutual advantage and profit. During the season of 1882 and 1883, I will have the honor of presenting FIRST-CLASS ENTERTAINMENTS at
the Academy of Music, Reading; Academy of Music, Pottsville; Fulton Opera House, Lancaster; Opera House, Wilmington, Del.; Academy of Music,
Scranton; Music Hall, Wilkesbarre; Opera House, Lebanon; Academy of Music, Williamsport; Opera House, Harrisburg; Music Hall, Pittson; Opera
House, Plymouth; Opera House, Danville; Opera House, Shamokin; Opera House, Columbia; Opera House, Pottstown; Academy of Music, Allentown;
Opera House, Ashland; Opera House, Bloomsburg; Academy of Music, Shenandoah; Opera House, York: Opera House, Bethlehem; Music Hall, Norris-
town; Concert Hall, Mauch Chunk. I have at all times at my office, Reading, Pa..all open dates at these towns, and will book entertainments at either one of them, on rent or sharing terms, which will be a great saving of time and money, making READING THE GRAND CENTRAL OFFICE. Inside of an hour you
can ascertain: all the open dates in the Circuit.

PLEASE STATE WHERE YOU WILL BE BEFORE AND AFTER PLAYING THE CIRCUIT to arrange towns
to avoid unnecessary travel. On sharing terms I will fill furnish theatres lighted, heated, cleaned, licensed, all attaches on stage and in 
front of house, police, orchestra of not less than five pieces, (rehearsal not included unless specially mentioned,) advertising in each
daily newspaper, 2 inches five times, distributing and bill posting (bill board tickets to be furnished by Company not above eight to a Town.) Managers or Agents will save time and trouble by erasing all that is not here mentioned when sending contracts, as I never
furnish anything else, upon any terms or conditions.

Permanent Address:      John D. Mishler, 
                                          SOLE MANAGER
Reading, Pa.
Reading, Pa., July 8th 1882

Miss Dickinson,
Your sister and others have written
requesting one to have you deliver at Scranton
your letters "Joan of Arc" and if you think
favorable of the idea and time and terms
can be arranged satisfactory to make it an
object to you and I we could try Scranton--
Wilkes Barre--Williamsport--Harrisburg-
Reading and Lancaster. It would not do
to have the lectures before September, say
weeks 4th or 11th as so many persons who














attend lectures are out of town and the weather
is too warm. Give it your careful consideration 
and write me fully your views. 
Yours Respectfully,,
Jno D MishlerDepartment of the Interior.
Washington.  April 17, 77
Dear Miss Dickinson:
I have read with profound
feelings all that has been said about
your "Crown of Thorns" & your acting
and my heart goes out in urgent
profound sympathy to a brave
battling woman.  Some of your
earnest friends have written me
& I wish I knew where I could
strike effectively for you & your
cause.
I hope you will go on
determined and womanly
resolute rising up petulant  
malignant enemies and strong
even though slow to act--friends
that are utterly crushed 
I have no doubt.
If you were not Anna
Dickinson you would not 
have been so attached;
but for that reason don'tbe none the less the sterling
woman you have been.
I with others, not prejudiced
by empty friendship, have 
faith in you and if you
will go on closing your
eyes to attacks [that] whos
hurt you will never
know unless you look for
the wounds, all will
be grandly well in the
ripeness of time.
I feel that you make 
a mistake in acknowledging 
her force-or rather
raising it to public attention
[by] of your carpers and
gravel flingers.
Be brave and circumspect- 
even cunning and
the end will be well and
full of satisfaction.
Your friend
R.W.C. MitchellOmaha June 27th 80
Dear Miss Dickinson-
I am so  good a friend to you that I
always regret that I am can, & 
not prove the fact in ways
that would do you good.
Tom's addressed from Cincinnati 
I find on my return
to Omaha.  I congratulate you
on you courage and tenacity
under difficulties, as not less
warmly as your success.  I 
shall direct publication in my little
paper of proper notices of what you
are so kind as to send me.
Why do you not come out to Omaha
?  It is a much larger place than when 
you saw it, and Anna Dickinson is
no stranger here.  Most Truly Yours,
George L Miller
To Miss DickinsonMy dear little Anna
If you have "Josephine"
--the play I brought you to
read the other evening--
please send it down.
And shall I come up?
Or shall I have to wait
till a more [?]
season as the subject's
[?]?
Jacque MillerBellevue 17 Beacon St
Boston Mass.

My dear Miss Dickinson
I have a little
play coming out in
N Y the 20th Inst.
I shall not be there
but should be glad to
have you look in and tell
me what you think of
it if you offer to
[to] in turn on two
evening. If you
think you would find
any diversion for
you too [?]
mind in folowing
my friends on the houses
let me know where to sendyour tickets. I send
this to the 5th Ave
Hotel : as I could not
find your address
when last in the
city.
I am hard at work
here seeing my new
books through type
but hope to be in N Y
early in Sept. and
shall see you - if not
at  your home at
least before the [?]
it is your "Crown of Thorns"
With Sincerest
regards my dear [At??]
[all?] [letters?]
[?] Yours
Jos D MillerNew York, May 3, 1892

My Dear Miss Dickinson!
I regret to hear of
 your illness; may it prove a
 passing cloud.
The heart of your “King” goes
 out to you in its allegiance.
Among your many 
great accomplishments your 
“Queen” made a lasting delightful
 artistic impression on
 me.
Yours in Earnest,
George W. MiddletonRoom 44, Insurance Bl'dg, Sixth Locust,
St Louis, Mo., Feby 23 1876.
My dear Miss Dickenson.
I received both your very welcome
letters in due course, but my desperately
dilatory disposition has
hitherto prevented me the pleasure of
replaying. Perhaps I might, to any
one else, plead the unceasing demands
on my time in the newspaper as an
excuse, but to a worker like you this
would be eminently too thin; I am
simply the most dilatory man in
the United States, and my friends
have to take me as I am.
It gave me sincere pleasure to receive
your last, enclosing clipping from
the Albany paper; I hope you will
find this an indication of the turn
of the tide. By the enclosed, whichI wrote hurriedly on receipt of the
Albany clip, you will see that my
faith in your future is still unshaken.
On the contrary; the stedfastness you
have displayed amid the cruel and
disgraceful storm of abuse with
which you have been assailed has
given me stronger assurance than
ever of your ultimate success. I
cannot find terms to express my disgust
and indignation at the conduct
of those "smart writers" who are
now the curse of the American press
and who seek success through avenues
the walls of which, founded in ignorance
and conceit, are built of blocks of
sarcasm cemented with the venom of
groveling minds. These same popinjays
know neither courtesy or kindness,
and conscience scholarship or study

they laugh at as obstructions to successful
journalism!! I could not write
at length, as I would have done, about
you when you were here; the G-D
is not the paper on which such
things can be done; it is in control
of a "smart writer".
Now to the future. Do you intend
to give the Cockneys a chance to judge
your merits? I hope you do, and wish
I could go along to help. They are
a terribly critical lot, but they are
fair. The newspaper writers are mostly
men of liberal education, and on the
higher class of journals they must be gentlemen,
as a sine qua non for obtaining
and retaining their positions. If you
dare make the venture - and I think
you dare anything - you will at
least get what you have as yet failedin obtaining here; a fair hearing
and [a just judgment] an unprejudiced
judgment, while your very defects
of information will but serve to add
a piquancy to your acting, as
Fechter's broken English helped to
make his Hamlet famous.
I was talking to Neilson when she
was here and she said your ["Cr??"]
was identical with Tom Taylor's "Anne
Boleyn". Is that so? I cannot believe
it, and only mention the matter that
I may be prepared with an answer
should I hear the assertion made again.
I have never seen Taylor's work.
If you write me again, and I beg you
to do so if I can be of the slightest service,
address me as above. I have just resigned
my position on the [?]-Democrat.
So you see I did make the
first use of my leisure to answer
your letters. Yours faithfully
George Mills[?] [?]
Dear Annie Dickinson,
I should love to pen you
a pretty sonnet and tell
all my love to you as
Petrarch did to his
lovely Laura. 
But if you were here
I'd inundate you
with my high regard
for just such as youI am a better woman,
every woman in the world
too, for having had your
influence. I say this
in no pen flattery,
for I know you've had
showers of this kind of 
stuff. Your picture is
upon my study table, -
asked me not when I
obtained it. I've had it
for many years--.
Now and then I look
at it & it flashes a
word at me, so sharp

a glance that makes
me scent powder &
hear the rattle of musketry
with the command
of "forward, march!"
and I obey with the
alacrity of the soldier.
O how you do look
at me often times,
I've tucked you away
in a book, but you
will out,
I'm wondering why you
are in that great awful
New York?This I'm saying to the
picture before me with
the sparkling diamond
cross upon the breast.
Yes, that great jaw devourer
of human loves
and lives!
O if my purse was only 
long, deep & wide as is
my heart, I'd build you
a castle just- over-
yonder, and I'd look
out that it should stand
apart from the worlds'
"Ignoble Strife", and
then you should have
room enough for your

great beautiful soul
to expand in,
I'd run up the stairs
sometimes to see you
and [?] in the buttons,
give you a little kiss,
wonder if you'd let
me?
Good night, Moon of
woman & of women,
Very sincerely & I
know it could be
with love.
M. Jessie Miles,
Akron Ohio, April 7th

Miss Anna Dickinson

Will you pardon the liberty a stranger
takes in addressing you, when I tell you that, having
listened to your eloquent lecture last evening, I feel
an irresistible desire to express to you in some way
my hearty sympathy with your position, and my gratitude
for your work in behalf of our common womanhood
You need no words of praise from me as a lecturer
you have won and can hold your position surely,
and the land is full of ready tongues to accord
you your rightful praise. But it is to the woman
I long to speak a word of sisterly greetings: the woman
whose tender hand I yearn to clasp with a heartfelt
"God bless you"- There may be a pleasure in the
consciousness that the faculties with which God
endowed you are having their full and harmonious 
play; that you are doing your life work well andnobly as he meant you to do it- that you are
doing battle in behalf of the weak against old
wrongs, and that your voice will be heard and
felt in society - yet, after all, there is the
shrinking womans heart; the flesh that must
sometimes feel too weak for the string spirit.
I feel sure that the woman's craving for
warm and tender sympathy must sometimes cry
out within you, and that its sincere expression
cannot be unwelcome to you. So I say to you, that
fully recognizing all it must cost any nature to
walk where you walk today. Yet the love and the
honor of all time hearts must follow you, and
 your own hands will yet gather at least the first
fruits of the harvest for which you toil. There are
some wrongs that tower like Titans, and take 
deep root in the social soil - there are others
that are only like last year's leaves upon the bough;
too dead to fall, and needing only a vigorous
shaking. Most of the social wrongs of women are,
I believe, of the latter class. With the best wishes
and the most cordial regard I remain-
Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller.210 E. 40th New York
April 7/77
With infinite pleasure
I listened to your rendition
of a character that from
my early girlhood. I have
ever admired. Years have
passed since I met you
or listened to your voice-
I have followed your career
with interest as like
the flash of a meteor
your brilliant light has
illuminated first one city
and then another. I am
as ever-proud of you as 
a woman- as an Americanas a sister whom fate is
dealing,  or who [this] ever
we may designate-it
has forced before the public-
I have always thought
 that I understood the
grandeur-purity - nobility
of womanhood as presented
in yourself but acknowledge,
that even to me an
humble admirer-you
surpassed yourself yesterday
afternoon-your acting
is marvelous, where from
but the gold mines of your
richly endowed soul
did you dig that wondrous 
gem of mother love, when
you are not a mother
how waked you that fervor
of devotion that is
only equalled [score?]
excelled in the love
of Christ for man -
I regreted being so far
away that I could not
catch every word, and each
expression, of your face.
[but] While the years since
last I saw you have brought
you success, - for which
I am thankful -  they have
brought me but sorrow
following close on sorrow-
disaster, and defeat, and
yet I am not willing
to give up, and think
perhaps the spur of fate
that has driven me on
to the verge of despair in
such hot haste with
such unswerving vigilance
may yield yet, and going
back to paths of success
I may pick up by the
way the fragments of
broken hopes, dissevered
bonds, and strangled opportunities, 
that were held unsatisifyingly 
almost within my reach
and from them build up
something that may be worth
having lived and suffered for.
Your long time friend
and ever wellwisher
Mrs [????more] [ m??]
formerly of Cleveland, O'

Pokeepsie NY. Dec. 12th 1868
My dear Miss Dickinson,
I had the pleasure of
hearing you speak in St Johnsburg
W. the 3d. On the following day, I
rode with you sixty miles, in the
cars and ventured while you were
asleep (though I felt unworthy to do
it) to lay my hand on your head
in blessing. I felt while near
you, and while observing you
closely, that though you give
advice to the world, you needed
a caution yourself. Do not
think me impertinent. It is
because I feel and feel so strongly
that we had better lose thousands
of other women than you that
I venture to as you to guard
your health with the greatest
care.  To be careful lest frequent
exposure endanger a life, whose
loss I cannot for a moment
contemplate.
"The Lord bless thee and keep thee
the Lord make his face shine
upon thee and be gracious unto
thee.  The Lord lift up his
countenance upon thee and 
give the peace.
Respectfully & Affectionately
Charlotte Monill
Miss A E Dickinson
Philadelphia 
Penn.Baltimore Jan. 14th/68.
My Dear Friend, Miss Dickinson;
I am
expecting to leave New York city
for New Orleans, about the 23rd of
Jan. I should have left before
but having to go to Norfolk,
Washington and this city, I have
lost much time which should have
been spent there. Though it
will not be to late to do much
good for the poor freedmen of
that place. Gen. Banks, is to go
back, and when he dose so he
promises to do much to assist
me in working for the Freedmen
He has given me several letters
to [the] persons there who are in
power:  one is to Gov. Hahn:
requesting him to assist mein my labors there.
After I get there I will
write to you and let you know
as near as possible what the
state of things are.
Please address me at
[No. 819 Bond St, New York?]. as
it will not be in any power
now to stop at Philadelphia. 
What ever you send will
be given in your name to
those for whom you have
done so much: by giving you
voice, and influence, in
this age when a friend was
needed most. God bless you
may your days be many
and full of happiness.
Truly Yours,
[Louise D. Mortil?]
[Anne E. Dickinson?]
State of New York
Executive Chamber
Albany
October 29, 1895
Miss Helen E. Stewart,
408 Smith Street,
West Hoboken, N.Y.
Dear Madam:
Governor Morton is in receipt of your letter of 
October 28,referring to the engagement of Anna Dickinson as a
 campaign speaker in 1888.
I beg leave to say in reply to your inquiries, that if 
any obligation exists towards
Miss Dickinson arising from the
 engagement of her services in the National campaign of 1888,
 it is a matter resting with the National Committee, and not
 with the candidates in that election. The subject has been 
agitated for several years in the newspapers by the parties
 who are best informed as to the facts.
Very Respectfully,
Ashley W. Cole
Private Secretary.State of New York
Executive Chamber
Albany
November 15, 1895
Miss Helen E. Stewart,
408 Smith Street,
West Hoboken, N. J.
Dear Madam:
Governor Morton is in receipt of your letter of 
November 7, and has noted contents.
In his previous letter to you, he did not state, as you
 seem to suppose, that "the National Committee is responsible
 for Miss Dickinson's services remaining unpaid." Neither is 
Mr. Bliss, to whom you refer, the partner of Mr. Morton. Mr. 
Morton's partner is not a lawyer, but a banker. The Bliss to 
whom you refer is, probably, Colonel George Bliss who is a 
lawyer and is actively identified with republican politics.
Very Respectfully,
Ashley W. Cole
Private Secretary.MARION BOOTH,
"THE LILY AND THE ROSE"
CHAS. MORTIMER,
MANAGER
Oct. 6. 1893.
My Dear Miss Dickinson:
The hastily launched Company
I spoke to you of, is and has
been demanding more attention than
I anticipated. I was therefore compelled
to break my appointment
yesterday, and will be forced to do
so again to-day. I leave with
the Company this P.M. and will
not return until next Thursday
morning, on which day I shall
hasten to see you and hope to
bring you good news.

Hastily Yours,
Chas. MortimerThe Western Union Telegraph Company.
21,000 Offices in America. Cable Service to All The World.
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Recieved at the western Union Building, 185 Broadway, N.Y. Oct 5 1893
Dated * W 23rd st New York 5
To Miss Anna E Dickinson
47 Forty Seven West 12th
Twelfth St. City
Regret being unavoidably detained. Will call at four oclock 
tomorrow
Chas MortimerOct. 3. 1893.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson.
City..
My Dear Madam:
Your kind favor and "J.M."
Monthly with enclosed notices duly
recieved and same surpassed my
expectations. Will retain for few
days for further inspection and wish
to call Thursday P.M. about 4, as
per appointment, to see Photograph
and have further discussion. I am
much interested - am doing everything
in my power to further the developement 
of plans discussed in our
interview - and earnestly hope that 
I may be able to report some favorable
indications. I have every reason to hope
for the best.
Most Truly
Chas. Mortimer

40 W. 28.
N. Y.A.S. Office 3/5/62
Dear Anna
                   I have just
learned of thy prospect of
giving a lecture at Concert
Hall on third day eve
next - I am at the
same time informed 
that Charles Ames of Illinois
has been solicited to deliver
lecture on the same
evening -- Now if these
be the facts, it will be
an injury to both, as the 
same class of persons
would wish to attend
both, being on the same
great subject of the present
crisis or war
Now I suggest as heis a stranger & cannot
remain in the city that
thy lecture be postponed
to a future time, & let the
people hear his, as those
who have heard him
were much pleased &
interested.________
J W White the dentist
in Arch St. is interested
in Ames lecture. I will
try to see him before I
leave the city, & get him
to see E. Longshore, so that
no[t] conflict may occur
Sincerely
James MottAnna E Dickersen 
Madison H.Grand House
Jefferson Heights.  A.J. Grant, Proprietor.
Catskill, N.Y., July 1th 187

My dear Miss Dickenson
I almost despair 
of this letter reaching 
you but I left
home so hurriedly 
that I forgot to
bring you address
with me and 
I cant remember
the number.
I shall remain
here until the
25th of this month
when I shall returnto New York and
hope to hear this
play read which 
is to make both
our fortunes.
Let me hear 
that you have
received this 
with kind love
yours affectionately
Katherine [Moyers?]STORAGE
FOR FURNITURE
of all kinds.
Pianos, Mirrors, Ornaments
Trunks and Baggage,
ALSO
PRIVATE CARRIAGES &c.
ABSOLUTE SHCURITY
FOR
Diamonds, Jewelry, Silver Plate
Stocks, Bonds, Valuable Papers,
and all Articles of extra Value.
SAFES OF ALL SIZES TO RENT
BY THE MONTH OR YEAR.

OFFICE FOR WAREHOUSE DEPT 106 E.32.D ST
OFFICE FOR SAFE DEPOSIT DEPT 475 4TH AVE.

John H. Morrell's
First Class
Storage Warehouses
with
Safe Deposit Vaults
and
Fire and Burglar Proof Safes,
(built expressly for the purpose)
102 to 126 East 32d. Street.
extending to 4th Ave.
New York.

ARTICLES WILL BE RECEIVED FROM, OR FORWARDED TO ANY PART OF EUROPE OR AMERICA.
Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to inspect the premises.
New York May 21, 1878.

Memorandum List

a/c Miss A. E. Dickinson
Goods remaining on
storage
Six Cases.
Six Boxes.
One Trunk.
Rate per month $2.50
J.H.M
[Hunfeld?]New York, 189
[M
Bought of G.G. Ackley,
FRENCH BREAD AND ROLLS,
A SPECIALTY.
Plain, Pound, Citron and Raisin Cake, Macaroons, English Plum Pudding,
Families Supplied with Bread and Rolls at their residence.
ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER.]
222 NINTH AVENUE,
TERMS CASH.  Bet. 23d and 24th Sts.

To Hon. Levi P. Morton
Many thanks to
you for your
prompt attention
and I take the 
liberty of troubling
you again. You
tell me in your
letter that the 
National Com.
is responsible for

New York, 189
M
Bought of G.G. Ackley,
FRENCH BREAD AND ROLLS,
A SPECIALTY.
Plain, Pound, Citron and Raisin Cake, Macaroons, English Plum Pudding,
Families Supplied with Bread and Rolls at their residence.
ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER.
222 NINTH AVENUE,
TERMS CASH.  Bet. 23d and 24th Sts.

Miss Dickinson's
campaign services
remaining unpaid. 
Talking
with  a friend about
the matter, I was 
told that Mr. Harrison
had said that
Anne Dickinson
was the only speaker
he wished employedI remarked, well
what Mr. Harrison
said doesn't touch
Mr. Morton in
any way. "Oh!
but how about
Mr. Bliss, who is
Mr. Morton's partner
he was the National 
Com. lawyer; [whom]
Miss D in the trial

of Anna Dickinson
against the N. C.
and it was he
who, when he found that
the Jury were
about to give her
her case, without
leaving the
box, brought 
forward an old
law 50 yrs oldwhich he said
made it impossible
for them to
spend more than
$5000 in any
Campaign, thus
making the
contract of the
N. C. an illegal
one. I asked

them if Miss Dickinson
had done
any talking to
the Newspapers
about the Repub.
Party. - No - Miss
Dickinson took
the matter in
court where it
belonged. He 
told me alsoNew York, 189
M
Bought of G.G. Ackley,
FRENCH BREAD AND ROLLS,
A SPECIALTY.
Plain, Pound, Citron and Raisin Cake, Macaroons, English Plum Pudding,
Families Supplied with Bread and Rolls at their residence.
ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER.
222 NINTH AVENUE,
TERMS CASH.  Bet. 23d and 24th Sts.
that he himself
would [hav] rather
have paid it
from his own
pocket for the 
credit of the Party.
[I regret exceedingly
I am more than sorry to have
troubled you again, but I]

New York, 189
M
Bought of G.G. Ackley,
FRENCH BREAD AND ROLLS,
A SPECIALTY.
Plain, Pound, Citron and Raisin Cake, Macaroons, English Plum Pudding,
Families Supplied with Bread and Rolls at their residence.
ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER.
222 NINTH AVENUE,
TERMS CASH.  Bet. 23d and 24th Sts.

I beg your forgiveness
for having
trespassed so long 
on your valuable
time, but I am
very anxious to 
know just what
this difficulty
really is. May
I hope to hear
from you againNew York, 189
M
Bought of G.G. Ackley,
FRENCH BREAD AND ROLLS,
A SPECIALTY.
Plain, Pound, Citron and Raisin Cake, Macaroons, English Plum Pudding,
Families Supplied with Bread and Rolls at their residence.
ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER.
222 NINTH AVENUE,
TERMS CASH.  Bet. 23d and 24th Sts.

telling me more
explicitly what I
wish to know. As
I believe you
must know
how the matter
really stands.

Very Resp'y
Helen E. MortonSpringfield Ohio. Nov 12 

Dear Miss Dickinson, 
Pardon 
me the liberty I take in 
writing you - But - having heard 
you plead the Cause of 
woman and knowing it to 
be your mission to and by 
word and deed the unfortunate 
and aspiring ones 
I feel less timid about 
troubling you. 
God has given me a 
talent for Dramatic Reading. 
Several who have heard 
Fanny Kemble and myself 
read the same piecesSay ( strange as it seems 
to me ) that we read them 
equally well. 
how. Low can I get before 
the Public? A few months 
ago I sent - fifty dollars 
and my few press notices 
to the American Secretary Bureau 
of New York City - But altho 
have written several times 
have heard nothing from 
them lately & have no faith 
that it will amount to 
anything. 
I tried to see you 
when you were here last 
Winter- but I send up my 
name without letting you 
know my object in calling,
 and like a sensible woman 
you refused to see me. 

The last time I read 
for benevolent purposes 
a gentleman in the Audience 
who had traveled over Europe 
said he had heard the 
best talent for Reading but 
never anything that excelled 
mine. Excuse me for 
mentioning it but I wanted 
you to know the encouragement 
I have , and all friends including 
my Husband make 
the flippant inquiry - Why 
don't you Read ? - 
How anxious I am to commence 
my life work none can tell. 
If you are able to give me 
any suggestion as to the manner 
of getting started in this Career 
will it be asking too much 
for you to do so. 
Your Respectfully -
Nettie Priest - MoffatP.S Please accept my
photograph - I have had 
your in my Album for
years.
N. M -                     1401 N. Seventeenth St
                     Phila. November 19th 1895.


My Dear Mrs. Everest,
         Your note came to hand
this morning and interests me
very much.  I am delighted 
especially that some one has
attacked the speaking voice and
feel sure Mrs. Everest will be
quite successful.  There is a 
broad field in Phila.  Perhaps
you saw the article from the
World which I enclose.  I do 
not know Miss. Dennison, or
in the crowds I meet do not it.
Call her.

          Sincerely yours,
                  Mary E. Mumford

Oh dear!  I can't think of you as a grandmother!Philadelphia, 4.3. 1892

My dear Ms. M. 
I see no 
possible reason why you 
should not call here, since
you are in no way responsible 
for my being here. 
What you have said to Mr. 
[Ris?] had nothing to do 
write my action. 
However, of that you 
must judge for yourself. 
Still, I do not see how we
are to straighten our 
business without [your] calling 
as I do not care to make 
it open talk in the 
theatre, & Mrs. C is not 
here - nor to be here. 
[Do you send the][carriage for me or shall 
I make arrangements 
this evening?] 

Do you make arrangements
 for the carriage — or 
shall I attend to it myself? 

What is the route 
as marked ? [not simply planned] 
Did Mr Magle
speak to you of Miss 
Joyce? 
And , since business
 is business , will you please
 to send me a receipt for
 the money [that went
into your hands] exchanged
 hands last week. 
Truly yours 
Anna Dickinson70 Park Avenue 
Chicago , Jan. 29 1885


My dear, sweet Anna Dickinson

I never can see you 
or hear anything definite
 of you and so I am going 
to comfort myself by writing 
to you. 
I think you were just 
dreadful, to be here so long 
and not let me have a 
look at you! I was pining 
away to see you but did not 
get up courage enough to 
go and call upon you until 
after you had gone. I madea desperate effort however to 
hear you lecture. I planned 
to go to Englewood, and Oak Park,
but failed in both. A few 
days ago, I dined at Dr. Pratt's 
in Wheaton, and was driven 
to despair by hearing of your 
lecture there, at which time 
and place I could have gone 
perfectly well. I think you 
might advertise a little any way! 
I do want to hear you make 
a speech once before I die, or 
before you die. I want to hear 
a real live, great, American 
orator once again. 
I wonder how you have been 


all this time, you bad, sweet, 
little Joanna! You are so 
very , very sweet notwithstanding 
in spite of your greatness ! 
I have been so anxious about 
you, for you took no part in 
the campaign, and I was 
sure you would if you had 
been well. You could have 
saved the country! I cannot 
rest easy about you, you 
must get well. 
I hope you are having 
milder weather wherever you 
are. If is fearfully cold here 
and has been for a long 
time. It is something of astruggle to keep alive and warm.
My mother and sister Ella 
have been very ill indeed, but 
are recovering now. Father 
really seems to me much 
better this winter than for 
some years before. And I, 
myself by taking good care 
of myself am thriving 
remarkably well. I am able 
to do a little something and 
have been out in the "gay 
world " a little. Yesterday I 
attended an elegant reception 
at Mrs. Phil. Armour's, it quite 
seemed like the time when 


I lived in the world before. 
And yet, with all, I carry 
a sad heart. I haven't any 
lover now at all. my latest 
ancientest one I never see any
more. I occasionally call at 
the house and see the stately 
daughters and inquire after 
their father, but they don't 
invite me in to see him, and 
I do not dare to ask to see him. 
I am faithful to him but 
the name of "Beecher" has 
no longer any charm for 
me. After a life long devotion 
to "Henry " I have turned 
against him at last. I sawMiss Beecher the day after the 
election and told her, not 
knowing but my head would 
come off, that I wanted to choke 
that uncle of hers and she 
said she did too. I think 
the family pride has received 
another terrible blow. My 
Mr. Beecher voted for Blaine. 
I have attended some of 
the women's suffrage meetings. 
I am afraid I am getting 
a little womens rightsy. I 
cannot help observing how 
capable women are and I don't 
know but they could manage 
things as well as men. I have 


given the subject more thought the 
the last year for I have met 
some such uncommonly fine 
women, now don't be flattered 
I don't mean you at all. You 
are something all by yourself. 
I am inclined to tell you 
something that I read in some 
newspaper- and yet I am afraid 
without knowing the state of 
your health, that it might 
be too much of a shock. 
Still, I will run the risk, 
you [with] have been through 
with a great deal. It was 
something like this that 
" Ben Butler is going to marryDr. Mary Walker." No, no, I have 
it wrong, it was that "Mary 
Walker is going to marry Ben Butler"
that isn't so bad is it? for of 
course he couldn't help that. 
Just think, I have earned some 
money this Winter! Not enough 
to set up independent for myself ( The immense sum of one 
hundred dollars ! )
 I don't want to do that at this 
late day when "I don't have to". 
but enough to trouble me to 
know what to do with it. 
I would like to put it to 
some good use. I wonder if 
the Woman's Temperance Union 
doesn't need some funds. 
I am going to send you 


an article from the last Weekly 
Magazine which if you have 
not read may possibly interest 
you, it did me. 
I am one of those who 
rejoice in your "return to the 
platform" I think that is 
the place for you. I shall 
also rejoice when you return 
to the stage. I know you 
are the very best actor in 
the world. But last Winter 
you acted the worst of any 
one I ever knew when you 
got up from your bed and 
walked away from it, not like 
the good young man in thebible who took his bed along with 
him and had it convenient 
when he needed it. 
I am appalled at myself 
for writing so much to you , 
when I write very little even 
to ordinary people. I am really 
innocent of writing this with 
any idea of receiving any thing 
from you , for I know that 
even if you had the inclination 
you have not the time or 
strength to spend on me. 
I have written more freely 
because I was told that you 
did not begin to read all of 
the letters you receive - and 
so I thought I would relieve 
my mind, and perhaps 



not do you the slightest harm 
And now with ever so 
much love to you , lovely 
creature! I will stop. 
Yours very sincerely
Anna. C. Matson

P.S. Upon later thought, I have 
decided not to send that article 
[about] for I am sure that any
thing so good about you would 
find its way to you in some
way. and I want to keep it 
myself too much to have it 
wasted. 
A. M.My dear Miss Anna. 
Mrs. M . has 
just given me her letter to 
inclose and I find it impossible 
to resist saying just a word 
on my own account before 
posting it. I know twill 
be of no sort of use to scold 
you for getting Sick away 
from Milwaukee; but now 
that you've gone and done it, 
and torn my best Sunday 
feeling all to pieces, the 
best recompense you can 
make us And me in particular 
will be to Come to 
our house and get well -
These are my sentiments - and 
if you only knew what an 
angelic nurse my wife is and 
what gorgeous ideas shehas on the grand question
I know you wouldn't hesitate 
half a minute -
And I will endeavor in
my poor way to be an example 
to you of patience
and resignation and kindred
graces - 

             Let us hear from you
as soon as possible and bear
in mind that we are to
put the finishing touches
to your recovery - I likewise
am solicitous to make the
the acquaintance of your
sister whom we learn is 
now with you - With best
wishes for your speedy restoration 
I am as ever Yours
              AHM
Tuesday Evening