Anna Dickinson GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE R, Misc. 1862-95 & undatedChicago Jan'y 18th 1868 Miss Anna You are a trump. The flashing eye the black hair pushed back with the diamond hand The royal red lips closing sharp and firm over the manly plans are still dazzling my vision. But you are round shouldered and tightened. Straighten and loosen up. We can't afford to lose such gritty girls. There are few in the Republic that high hey, run up on the last of sentencs is too methodistical and tiresome. Never attempt those cheap stories, bah A Queen dealing in Irish vulgarisms. It's weak. Will do for common politicians. But you are to elevate the platform. Eh? Admiringly Yours, A Republican Raugh. P.S. Men don't beg pardons for imprudent annoymous scribblings.My dear Miss Dickinson, Will you go to the Shakespeare Dinner to night at 7 o'clock at the Columbia 48 E. 14th St. Will send carriage for you. Do so if you feelyou can spare the time. I think you will enjoy it. There will be about 25 choice spirits and you will be my guest. Tell me you will go. This affair is gotten up at a days notice. I wasill in bed all day yesterday when I expected to see you. I want you meet a bright little Chicago newspaper woman who will say a good thing for you. Well heaps of love as ever. Yours, Anna Randall Diehl I shall offer this sentiment- as a toast- to you, it is appropriate _ = When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory, Yet- hath a woman's kindness overruled. Henry VI. Part 1 overThe Chicago woman is Miss [??slie] of [Ch] the Evening News.Portsmouth N.H. Feb 9th -1864 Miss Anna E Dickinson Madam I learn that the citizens of Boston are again to have an oppertunity of listening to your eloquent words. The citizens of this city are desirous to have the same privilege and nothing would afford them more pleasure than to welcome one that has done such valuable services in the time of their country's peril. Will you therefore favor us with your lecture on "Words for the Hour", An early answer is desired, stating terms. Hoping to receive a favorable reply I am Yours Resp John S. RandJan 5th 1863 My dear Annie, It is a long, long time since I have heard from you, my dear, and I want to know what you are doing with yourself. Have you given up lecturing, or are you still following that prosperous avocation? Will duty or pleasure lead you to New England this winter, if it does come up here I promise you rare fun. If you could only experience my ache and ails you would know what it was to be lame every muscle, every fibre of my poor dwelling place is so stiff but don't be alarmed it isonly the result of last weeks skating. Did you have "a merry Christmas and a happy New Year" I spent both days on the ice, and enjoyed both days, very much. How are all the Philadelphians do you see Mr Crowells people often? What has become of Mr. Jones? Where is Mayor Plumly? &c What are they playing at the theatre that is one thing we miss in the country : if they play any thing good go and see it for me. I believe you owe me a letter instead of my owing you one but knowing your many cares and my comparitively quiet life I have written again. to prompt your memory and assure that there [there] will always be a corner in the heart and at the fire side that I own for thee. Good bye get along as easy as you can but for Heavens, and your own - sake never try to maintain yourself by scribbling I assure you it's a hard life to lead between editors, critics and the public a poor innocent scribbler may be glad if he escapes scot free. love to all and much to yourself Please write [Linie?] M RandallCharleston S.C. Aug 28th, 1866 Miss Dickinson, Thinking that it might afford you some gratification to come and, in person, deliver a lecture to those whose cause you have so earnestly and ably plead, we extend to you an invitation to deliver a public lecture under the auspices of the Young Men's Literary Association of this City, some time this fall, if it may be your pleasure so to do. Please let us know your terms. In coming so far you might desire to lecture more than once. You can deliver several if you would wish with increase of salary. You can do a great debt of good by coming, and we are confident that you wont ever regret it. Yours most respectfully B.F. Randolph Cor. Ser. T.M. S. A. Philadelphia, 12.7.45 My Dear Miss Anna, Enclosed please find a formidable document from our "friends" - Marian, with a note appended showing balances due the committee of $21.00/100 for which, (as explained yesterday) with the unexpended balance of the appropriation ($200.) I get to hand you herewith check on the National Bank for $221.50/100. With most sincere thanks, and acknowledgments, for the great services you so freely volunteered, and so ably ? I remain very truly, Your obedient servant Grace Randolph for the ? Miss Anna E Dickinson 17111 Locust Mews St Louis Ms Jany (January) 24, 841 Miss Dickinson, Dear Madame: - I am casting about to try to make a great Journal, and any writing to several parties - and such current subjects as you may deem worthy of ? attentions - and will be in the ... people please let me know.2 from your and somethings may come of it. I hope your agent will succeed at Des Moines - Your return to the lecture field is your best hold, but it will take you a year to reassert yourself. The lecture business has gone down the last ten years - but will revive - I have written to Anna Bessant, to know if she will write for me. She is a remarkable 3 remarkable woman. The more remarkable on the other side of the ocean I met her - It is has great to her great discredit that she is an Atheist and under the wings of Bradlaugh who is an infamous scoundrel - Give me your lowest rates - If I can arrange with you it will do you great good. Fraternally yours L. N. ReavisWashington, D. C., January, 21, 1871. I would be pleased to have you witness the formal unvailing of my Lincoln Statue, on Wednesday Evening next, at seven o'clock, in the Rotunda of the Capitol, and to have you visit my Studio at your convenience. Very respectfully, Vinnie Ream. No. 12 North B Street.Dayton, O.____________________ 187___ Miss Dickinson, I must apologize for troubling you at so early an hour, but I am a schoolgirl where time is not her own. I heard you lecture for the first time last night and am so delighted with one whose thoughts are exactly my own, but can tell them so beautifully that it must beg the privilege of a talk with you. If you do not leave town today, would it be too great a sacrifice for you to take a ride with me this afternoon and answer a few questions? I know you are dreadfully bored by people coming to see you but if you would do it I should be so delighted. I shall be here for your at four oclock, and you may decline or accept by telling the boy.- yes or no. Yours hopefully, Lottie E. Reeve Rachel House March 17, '73Established 1793 Gazette Editorial Rooms Cincinnati, July 8 1872 Miss Dickinson, I shall take pleasure in getting the information for you. but it exceeds our reportorial statistics, and will have to be gathered, and it will be several days before I can send it. For instance, I asked a leading store manufacturer for the figures of the strike of the moulders (the largest and the most disastrous to the work-men) and he told me the manufacturers were to hold a convention on Wednesday and then he could get the facts much easier. The strikes herenot been extensive. Except the moulders, the leading trade union have not gone in. The devil is at work among them. (I appreciate it is the devil) and there is much distrust as to the future. Truly yours Sam Rockwell ReedRooms of the Union Soldiers' club, Lebanon, Pa. Sept. 11/63 Miss Annie Dickinson. My dear Miss, The returned soldiers of our town having organized themselves into an association, under the above title, for the purpose of promoting the cause of the Union candidates, and sustaining the National Administration, desire that the issues should be fairly presented [before] to the people. They desire that the cause of Truth, Justice and Liberty be fully vindicated. With this view, I write, to ask whether you will address the citizens of our town? What you will charge? and when can you come? This month would be preferable to the Club. We would like to have a few weeks time, in order to give it proper notice in our county papers. Will you, if you please, answer the aboveinquiries, when we will let you know further in regard to the matter. Hoping to receive a prompt and favorable reply, I remain with highest esteem & regard Yours very truly J.H. Redsecker In behalf of Executive Com. Union Soldier's Club.Lebanon Pa. Sept 11 / 13 Gentlemen, Not knowing the address of Miss Dickinson, I saw the letter to you, requesting you, if you please, to send it to her address, and greatly oblige a reader of the Press. Yours respectfully J.H.(?edseckey) On behalf Union Soldiers' Club The Pilot Editorial Rooms. 8th Sept 1879 Dear Miss Dickinson, Many thanks for the book - more for the sympathetic feeling which prompted the gift. The Harpers had not sent me a copy. I shall read it with pleasure. I trust sometime to have the pleasure of knowing you personally. Will you not give me a chance, when next you come to Athens? Yours very truly, John (?) Reilly Miss Anna DickinsonOffice of the Western Reserve Chronicle Warren, Trumbull Co. Ohio May 4 1867 Miss Anna E Dickinson Esteemed Lady- Perhaps our little town and your late visit here, are almost if not quite forgotten, by you. I am glad to say that all here are not inclined to dismiss you and your noble cause thus summarily. You know the parable of the sower - some seed fell on good ground, and some on stony ground, &c. I hope it will be in some degree, however small, grateful to your good heart to learn that your lecture here has awakened considerable interest, and will doubtless be productive of permanent good. True, you have drawn out some stubborn opponents to the cause, but that is more than counterbalanced by the zeal and earnestness of those awakened into active sympathy by your inspiring appeal. When this people once get earnestly hold of a question involving moral and natural right, they do not relax their grip readily. I anticipate considerable discussion on the points involved in thequestion of Woman's Sphere and privileges. I take the liberty of enclosing you a clip published in this week's Chronicle from the pen of a gentleman of fine education and culture, yet rather pedantic, and miserably befogged by antiquated prejudices. The article is by no means formidable, sane, perhaps, in the estimation of its author. I gave place to it, desiring to secure a wider discussion of the question. I think there will be a sharp pen or two after him. If possible, the discussion will be continued as a means of enlisting a greater amount of public consideration to the subject. Mr. Phillips says that one of the great educators of the American people, is "Agitation." You, I have no doubt, will say "Amen". Mr. Phillips and you are model agitators, to my mind. I feel indebted to both of you for much of the earnestness I feel prompting me to strive to do something positive on the side of Right and Good. Had I heard each, of either of you, sooner, I believe I should have felt the monitions of stronger convictions, and been a more zealous worker than I have been. Do you ever reflect how surely the great flame of your soul is setting kindred spirits in a blaze all over the land? That is the office and mission of genius. Believe me, your work does not pass by "as a tale that is told". Please excuse this tedious, presumptuous letter. I have felt blessed by having heard you talk. However I do not desire to do anything that might lead you to suppose I thought it possible to in any degree compensate you by trespassing on your time and patience with complimentary epistles. No, no. I am sorry to annoy you, but I feel I should give you my little word of cheer, and am vain enough to think that perchance a few words from this far-off field of your labors, telling you that minds have been stirred up and hearts encouraged by what you have said to us, might not be distasteful to you, and that it might, even in a trifling degree, console you for your sacrifice of the comforts of home and friends, while spending many weary days and nights among strangers on your great mission of doing good. I shall pray God to bless you, render you more influential and useful, and to preserve your life until you shall have seen the cause you so ably advocate, cover the land with the glory of its triumph. Believe me truly your friend, Wm RitezelNational Cemetery Salisbury, NC. Sept. 30, 1877 Miss A. E. Dickinson Philadelphia, Penn. Kind Friend: I have waited some time, since receiving the books in the 17th inst, in order to find words in which to convey to you an idea of how much I feel indebted to you for your continued kind remembrance of me. And how highly flattered I am by the gift. Perhaps I shallhave the pleasure of again seeing you, and then, I shall try to tell you in spoken words, what I cannot in written ones, in the mean time, please accept my most earnest, sincere thanks for your kindness. I wish I could show you how much the Cemetery has been improved Since your last visit, you would see substantive evidence that the nation has not forgotten, and does not neglect the memory of the men who fell in its defense. The grounds have been levelled and graded and numerous trees set out, the rough cart road over which you were obliged to travel at the time of your visit - in that vehicle with the "uncompromising step" has been converted into a macadamized road over which a carriage can pass with scarcely a perceptible jar, the wooden Headboards have been replaced with marble blocks and slate, the old Lodge has been torn down, and have been replaced by a handsome brick structure at the entrance gate. Ivy and Honeysucklevines have been planted at the foot of the enclosing wall, and in a few years, I hope it will be covered with a screen of green foilage. I have intended to send you a photograph of the grounds, but unfortunately, I know of but one artist in this state who can do good work, and at present he is in a different part. I can offer you one consolation however about the delay, that the place will always be approaching nearer to completion. I know you will join me in saying, that no outlay of money that the [jail?] can mark will be too great. I am not a spiritualist nor a disciple of [S?bury], and don't want you to understand me as implying that [m?.] E. S. Shreps, is either one of the other, but, I sometimes think that Aunt [U?], in "Gates afar" may be nearer right than we generally suspect, when she tells [May?] that her Curtiss, who was killed at the wilderness, is conscious of her love for him. it is a comforting [bit?] of theology, even if not orthodox, and I like to thinkthat "the boys," see and know that they are not forgotten. "Tears for the living, when God's gift -- (The friend of man to be) -- what is like the shattered spars that drift upon the unknown Sea! Tears for the wreck who sinks at last, No deed of valor done; But no tears for the soul that past When honor's fight was won." "Mourn not: in life and death they touch This thought -- this truth -- sublime; There's no man force, except he reach Beyond the verge of time!" "So beckoning up the stony slope They bid our souls to live; and, flooding all the world with hope, Have taught us to forgive." I have mounted my hobby, and he is in a fair way to run off with me, So I'll dismount, but I am now tired of talking of "the boys." I have written you quite a long letter, I hope you will not find it unconscious, will you be kind enough to send me your address in Philadelphia; (street and no.) again thanking you for yourkind remembrance, I am very Respectfully Your obedient Servant W.V. RichardsonBoston Feb. 20/63 Miss A. E. Dickinson Concord, N. H. Yours of the 18th is received. Sorry you cannot come the 1st sabbath, as I have but a short time left to engage some other in your place. The 2nd + 3rd sabbaths are already engaged. We have engaged about every Sunday up to the 1st of July next except the 4th + 5th of next month which, I left open for a friend. if however you will speak for us the 4th sab. of Mch. we shall be pleased to hear you. I should reallylike to have you come. Please write me as soon as possible whether you can come or not that Sunday as I must give that day to some other one if you cannot come. All the friends in Quincy are as well as usual. Wife and boy would like to see you. [Hoping?] you are well + awaiting your answer by return mail I remain Yours for humanity L. S. Richards P. S. If possible write by return mail Yours scl, L. S. R.Quincy Ms. Jan. [y?] 20/65 Miss Anna Dickinson Boston, Mass Are you engaged to speak the first Sunday of February next? if not will you speak for us on that day? Please inform me as soon as possible whether you can come or not, as I must engage someone else if you cannot come immediately. Perhaps it would be well to speak on some subject other than the woman's rights as you have spoken on that both times you have been out. All in Quincy are as well as usual. Trusting you are the same I await your early reply. Yours for equality, Lysander S. Richards Quincy Oct. 23/62 Miss Anna E Dickinson I wrote to you a month since to enquire whether you would speak for us in Quincy the last sabbath of this month (next sabbath) thinking you might possibly be on this way about this time, but have never received an answer. I have one now however engaged for that sabbath and write now to enquire whether you will speak for us the last sabbath (the 5th sabbath) of next month, November? Our terms as before. Please informme by return mail whether you can come or not, as I must engage some one else if you cannot come. Two services during the day, morning and afternoon. Awaiting your favor I remain Yours for humanity L. S. Richards5. 21. 186[6?] Mr Rosenberg -- he of the illegible name has carried about your letter like it is a spectacle and finally consented to allow me a sight of it. By reason of my meaningless document & long delay you have doubtless err this decided me a harmless lunatic, -- let me defend myself. I spoke in New York friday -- the something of May, saw Brooklyn the following Monday Mr. Beecher was to, & did preside in his own Church. -- was to, & did write a note to Mrs. Curtis, I believe, requesting him to preside in New York, -- Mr. Rosenberg was to see Mr. Beecher, sicure his note, and forwards it with mine to your hands. Mr. Rosenberg thinking it a trouble to go over to Brooklyn concluded one letter would do as well as two, and sent the one accordinglyaccordingly- of course my poor little epistle might as well have been written in Choctaw, for any meaning it conveyed, as to come to you without an interpreter. As it is I am content. You might not have been willing, or able to have said n some proper in Steinway Hall. "Ladies and gentlemen this is Anna Dickinson, " in which case I should have been woefully disappointed, - now I hold your friendly little letter in my hand, and look at its pleasant face and say - of course he would have consented! The result- a tangible good- the letter, and a secure feeling (as the time is past) of enjoyment that if "he didn't do it, he would have done it." and tho' that isn't exactly the rose it is near it & smells quite sweet and I am Gratefully & Faithfully Yours AED G.[H?].C.Chelsea, Mass, May 5th, 1872 Miss Anna Dickinson, Madam, The views expressed by you, in your Lecture, "Workingmen and Demagogues" have occasioned much remark. The severity of some of this criticism would have been mitigated if the speakers could have had your personal experiences with the mining communities. The writer has served as a soldier in company with Regiments of Pennsylvania miners, and has personal knowledge of the repulsive characteristics which have provoked your indignation. He feels nevertheless, that many whom he sincerely respects are striking blows in the dark, writing, and saying, things which they would not, if the facts and their terrible impact were more clearly discerned. Moved by this impulse, a Lecture was written last summer, a copy of which will accompany this note. Will you be so kind as to overlook its literary defects, and allow its obvious truths to influence your conclusions. Very truly yours Edwd H. RogersBANK OF THE Manhattan Company New York, Dec. 10 th. 1867. Miss Dickinson-- I was unable to see you this morning to bid you good bye, as I had hoped to do. Business prevented. I wanted to thank you for the good your lecture did me. I had been halting between two opinions, but now am convinced that your position is the true one to hold. I am converted. You seem to possess some magnetic power which carries your audience with you, even against theirwills. I hope it may not be with such as it was with the Scotchman, "a man convinced against his will, of the same opinion still." I believe that you are doing a gread and good work, and pray God that he may be with you to the end. If you will not consider it an impertinent request, I should like to have your autograph. Yours Respiy, John J. Ross, Jr. (Prest. of the Clayonian.)State House Boston Feb 11 1867 I have had the honor to mail to your address today, a copy of the Reports of the Commissioners on the Hours of Labor. I have never had the pleasure of listening to you, but I have read with profound interest the reports of your lectures; I infer from them that you have sympathies not only for, but with Labor. Without claiming originality in the conception, or presentation of the views concerning Labor as Capital, I wish to draw your special attention to them as affording the only escape which I can see for your sex, from their [present]burdens. Under our present heathenish ideas, the weakest must take the wall, and American civilisation will utterly fail of its mission, unless the gospel can get an entrance to the counting house, the mill, and the workshop. As a Soldier, and a Sabbath School Teacher, I have mingled with the freedmen, and I am deeply impressed with the conviction, that the inevitable drift of this whole matter is in to Politics in the comprehensive manner indicated by Genl Banks, in his Lecture before the Rumford Institute at Waltham. The African character is essentialy feminine in its tenderness to the emotive and ideal, as a whole they cannot have a healthful, and complete developement under present customs, the disorders and losses which must ensue, will draw public attention, and pecuniary interests will force the adoption of more liberal views than those now prevailing. Aristocratic northern congressmen in a solid phalanx have decreed the ballot to the negro in the District of Columbia and as I am forced to view the question, I regard it as the first step toward the recognition by law, of the doctrine, that the laborer whether a woman, or a recent slave, enters by divine right as a creator, into the results of of their labor, and are entitled to a share ofthe proceeds, in a manner which wages alone will always fail to award them. I have been moved to the freedom which I have exersised in this note, from a conviction that you are likely to exert a special and commanding influence in the solution of this great question which I trust will excuse the liberty I have taken very truly yours Edward H. Rogers Rep from the City of Chelsea Miss Anna Dickinson Philadelphia21 Shaw Nut St. Thursday Dear Miss Dickenson: you will like to know that Miss Purvis is in Cambridge, unable to write, but anxious, from fear that you have not fully recovered from your late illness. She has given up going to Nantucket-is too feeble but will remain somefour weeks at Miss Parkers, Garden Street, Cambridge. Faithfully yours Eleanor D. RockwoodDear Miss Dickenson Mr. Purvis promised to see you and let you know how we were disappointed in not being with you on Friday night. I am sorry it so happened & hope you will allow it to be a good time, only postponed. I had a delightful time at Lucretia Motts. Hattie& to that sister who has genius enough for any platform. With delight that I have seen you in your own home Faithfully Yours, Eleanor D. Rockwood Saturday morning- Purvis is all you painted her in your " What Answer." The time has gone so pleasantly with me that I shall remain another week. Especially when Mr. Purvis is so kind & Dr. Furness wishes to take me to see some fine statuary - Remember me with love to your dear Mother Hartford April 16th 77 Miss Dickinson I am sure you would pardon the liberty I am taking if you knew of the interest have felt in seeing you become successful as an actress & of the moral courage you have displayed in defending your self against these unfeeling critics & I hope in defiance of them are to see you shine forth a bright particular Star. My objectin meeting you I hope you will not regard as a selfish one, but I do want to consult you regarding stage life & its requirements. I am, & always have been very anxious to follow this profession, I am young & my friends think me talented & I can give you refere[nces] you to the first peoples in the city some that you know, regarding my standing &c. & I should like very much to see & talk with you will you grant me this priveledge? I expect to go to N.Y. the first week in May & if you are there will you grant me an [I]interview by so doing you confer a great favor upon Yours Very Respectfully M.J. Robins 4 Village St. Hartford Ct Care of Mrs. E D Smith.Mrs ODonovan Rossa's compliments to Miss Dickenson if not too late would feel particularly flattered with just a minutes interview with a lady for whom the writer has the highest esteem and admiration. Pater House Room 66 Sunday nightThe Boston Times, 338 Washington Street. Boston, 18 Mr. Robinson- I will not wait, I leave it all with you -You perhaps better than any one else in the world knows how I feel about this. [Frank F. Robinson Editor of the Boston Times] It seems as if the lights had gone out & everything a blank —The Boston Times, 338 Washington Street. Boston, Feb 9th, 1881 Miss Anna Dickinson Dear Madam Can I make any arrangements with you to write for my paper? I want a social story or something that will circulate and which will be advertised. Refer you to Miss Lillian Whiting or Mrs. Sally Joy White. Will meet you to make a contract where-ever you may desire. I am in honest earnest and sincerely anxious for a favorable reply at fair prices. Invariably Your Friend Frank T. Robinson Editor TimesThe Boston TImes 333 Washington Street, Boston, April 22, 1881 Dear Miss Dickenson Will you pardon my unfamiliar knock at your door? I thought I would come in a moment & place my big hands in yours and with a firm pressure and steady gaze into your honest eyes say- My dear Miss Dickinson don't be alarmed at the bellowing of a brute that is tied by the rope of ignorance & whose nibbling ground is so limited. Your sincere letter to me in answer to my request for a story from you will be one- of many perhaps - of the best 2 evidences of how your heart was set upon the fulfilment of your engagement and you can have it if you desire- to be returned to me, as I greatly value it's Expressions. I love your ardor, and the anguish of your soul draw sympathy from mine. Your realm is not commercial and the mediums who control business know nothing of genius, and when they try to market it they deal with something they know not how to handle. Curiosity is always lying in wait for every [dearest] secret. The inquisitiveness of the child to hear, runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain. The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such3 speed in the mind to catch this expected fact and in our daily intercourse, we go with the crowd, alas, lend ourselves to low fears & hopes and often become the victims of your own arts & implements and disuse our resort to this Divine Orical Curiosity be hanged!! please don't let the world, which hobbles on crutches at your door to sympathize with you, steal your secrets. You[r] are in your own citadel and like a castled knights, who is in the right, you can "laugh a siege to scorn". "Fear not each sudden sound & shock tis of the wave & not the rock" I wish to extend my high esteem for you, my gratitude for the joy you have given me in my life and be assured that what power in me 4 lies, those be devoted to make your future bright & happy. I would dearly love to meet you and offer whatever aid I can. If you feel as though you could write for me I will come on and talk it over with you now. But I presume your spirit is disturbed and you feel more disposed to rest & quiet. I wish I could say something to comfort you, something that would make you immensely happy, but if you will feel that I am sincere that will be of value, wont it? I am Invariably Yours, Frank T. Robinson [*Elizabeth N.Y. 4.28.81 My dear Sir; I thank you for what*][The Boston Times 338 Washington Street, Boston................188] You say to me in your first letter & yet I think I would do so far more cordially had there not come under my eye the comments of the Times upon what I intended to do & have done at Philadelphia. I have asked Miss Whiting to show you the letter sent to her by this mail, as it will answer your second & it is but justice to me you should see it. With every good wish for your success & happiness know me to be truly yours Anna Dickinson To/ Mr. Frank T. RobinsonThe Boston Times 338 Washington Street, Boston, April 23d 1881. Dear Mrs. Dickinson If you could have seen the quivering lip and heard the tremulous voice of Mrs. Lillian Whiting, the best & truest friend and advocate you ever had or will ever have you would have been surprised and dumbfounded. She showed me a letter from you in which you address her coldly and it has wrung from her all her vitality, she sees not the bright shiny sun nor hear the new birds sing. Why do you not love this great girl any more? She is eminent now as a writer & is becoming a valuable woman to literature. I know her to be your best friend, 2 would to God I had such a one. For the love that is in your heart, pour it out on this dear woman. The sigh of her weary heart is terrible to hear. Enclosed is a note she left on my desk. I am Invariably yours Frank T. RobinsonJohn L. Rupe, Chairman. Everett A. Richey, Secretary. Abner D. Bond, Treasurer. Rooms of Republican Central Committee, Wayne County, Ind. Richmond, Ind. Oct, 10. 1888. My Dear Miss Dickinson I have rec'd your kind note addressed to me from Michigan inclosing note to Mr. Blodgett. I know delivered the note to Mr. B.. I have been pleased to notice the favorable accounts of your meetings in Indiana and I need no better evidence that they have been effective than the fact that the Democratic press have given you so much attention. We will have a hard fight in Indiana but we hope to win. I am glad of my good fortune to live in Richmond even you have said that "Richmond will hold a spot in the centre of my heart forever." I beg to assume you that you hold a like position in the heart of all our good people, and you will always have a cordial greeting when you come among them I thank you most cordially for the very kind expression in your letter personal to myself. I shall always remember your visit to Richmond pleasantly, and shall feel interested in, and gratified by your success in the future. With sincere regard I am Truly your friend John L RupeNo. 405 - West 22st New York 12.31.1895 To/ Mr. Homer Ruggles Dear Sis: - I do not wish the year to go out without at least saying to you for the dawning one "A Happy New Year!" & may it bring to you & yours, peace, prosperity & [happiness] good cheer. = I was so busyin many ways after my return to New York last spring as to compel me to neglect much I would gladly have attended to : - one [thing] matter being a letter of thanks to you for your most manly & friendly help. — I take for granted you have heard from Mr. McLean [?] - If you have not it is doubtless because he purposes holding all accounts together till the trials are through. I hope you are well & that all is well with you, & with sincere regards [??] Mrs. Ruggles & yourself belev me most truly yours A.E.D.Caracas August 9, 1874 Dear Sir: You may have forgotten me, but we have not forgotten the pleasant hours, which we spent with you. Now, I wish to introduce the person whom of all Americans you ought to know. Miss Dickinson is the ablest of our female orators. In the crisis of the war, she saved two doubtful states to Republicanism, and prevented the triumph of Democracy & Slavery. She has studied the labor question as few have studied it- on the spot & at the time of a colliers' strike, that was almost a war. You will like each other, and will have much to say to each other. With kind remembrances from all my family, I am Yours Very Truly, Thomas Russell Charles Reade Esq. (over)P.S. It is a triumph for you that the "immoral book" should have taught virtue to Mr. Tilton. T. R.Custom House, Boston Mass., Collector's Office July 22, 1872 Dear Mr. Reade, I take the liberty of introducing the brightest woman in America, my friend; Miss Anna E. Dickinson. I regret, that she will not appear in person, because she dreads the sea as much as you do. But if you will answer her inquiries, and put her in the way of learning something about strikes, trade-unions & the labor-question generally, you will do a favor- to her and to me. I think, you willbe glad to help an author and speaker; who can do justice to one class, without doing injustice to any other class, and who sees both sides of the greatest question now open in the world. With pleasant memories of our interviews, and with thanks for very many pleasant hours spent with your characters. I am Yours Very Respectfully Thomas Russell Charles Reade Esq.11 EAST 55th STREET. Monday Evg Dear Miss Dickinson I was unable to see [at] your friend yesterday as I have been very busy cleaning my house for the summer & as a consequence am far from well - I leave in a day or two and do not expect to beI can well be of service to you - as suggested in your note - Very truly Jane C. Russell. back in the city until some time in December next - Under these circumstances and as my house will not have anyone in it in the interim, I should not like to leave anything very valuable in it, so under the circumstances do not see how THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST The AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. Connecting with all the Southern, Eastern and Northern Lines of Telegraph. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terms and Conditions on which this and all Messages are received by this Company for Transmission. In order to guard against errors or delays in the transmission or delivery of messages, every message of importance ought to be REPEATED, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent. 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No. [*11*] COMPLAINTS SHOULD BE SENT TO THE SECRETARY. Dated. Boston 1863 Rec'd, 8th 1863...o'clock...min. M. To Miss Dickinson Care John Olmstead Will you address Music Hall Society Sunday next Thos Russell 8/25 THE AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST The AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. Connecting with all the Southern, Eastern and Northern Lines of Telegraph. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terms and Conditions on which this and all Messages are received by this Company for Transmission. In order to guard against errors or delays in the transmission or delivery of messages, every message of importance ought to be REPEATED, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent. 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No. COMPLAINTS SHOULD BE SENT TO THE SECRETARY. Dated. Boston 1863 Rec'd, 13th 1863,....o'clock,....min. M. To Miss Dickinson Care John Olmstead Will you speak in Music Hall next Sunday - Thos Russell 35 Court St 8/25Dear Mrs. Russell I hope you are very much better than last week tho' I do not yet know how ill you have been or are. The lady friend I sent to you did not understand whether you were too [sick] sick to see her or whether the poor life were in some unusual distress - what ever the [trouble] afflictions I hope from my heart it is mending. That I [was] myself [much] was not well enough to come out, was why I sent by proxy a very beautiful & [costly little] unsigned work of art I wished you to see; from which it would - not [part] be well for me to part absolutely as I am expecting it to be copied by Prang toGrand Union Hotel Opposite Grand Central Station Ford & Company Proprietors. New York, 1893 my future profit, but which I thought you might do me [wittingly] the great kindness to hold in trust for me. I [thought] expected then to leave town Saturday night but came up here to visit a friend for a day or so. - I would [of it will] like very [possible for me to see] [either] much to see you[rself] or failing that Mr. Parsons at present concerning this? [in] Can you tell me when it will [it] be possible [for me] to do so? [again] with [sincere] affection regards Anna E. DickinsonMontreal December 21st 1873 Dear Miss Dickinson, Friday brought me a telegram. Need I say that the telegram took me away from Boston on Saturday? Surely not! You know how often "the finger of Providence" (whatever that may be" points the wrong way. From eight in the morn'g (on Saturday) until eleven at night, I was[?] on the railway. Today, I rest. Tomorrow I "read" here. Friday I read atToronto. Then I go to Buffalo (with Niagara a prospect) - then I go west. Where? you will naturally ask. I can only reply that "where" must be the subject of a future letter. "Where" is not revealed to me yet. I know nothing — except that I am really sorry not to have met you on my return to Boston. With this I deposit my apologies at your feet and remain Vy trluy yours Wilkie Collins My address is care of Naylor & Co 6 Oliver Street BostonPavilion July 29. Au. 1. Dear Anna, I venture to write a word on business, and this is the business- the chairman of the trustees of the School Ship would like to have you join in a trip to Nantucket, Cape Cod, New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard. It will be a delightful expedition. The ship will visit many places on the coast besides those I name, but she will visit no place, when the people will not be glad to see you. Several ladies will be of the party,- among others Mrs. Eldridge who is almost as pleasant and kind as her husband. Unfortunately, this voyage begins on the day, when our good friends commence their raid on the trout and I have very little faith that you can be persuaded to lose that expedition. But if that should be delayed by any accident, or if you could divide your time between the words and "the inspiring sea", itwill afford great pleasure to many boys and men (including women) and I think, it would be for your health and comfort. - Then, think of the chance of meeting a pirate. - At least, you will think about this, and we will talk it over in the studio, when you come. I can't write even a business note, without one word about victory. One month since, I could only think of Luther's prayer: "Why hearest thou not, oh my God, art thou dead?" And, now, after Gettysburgh, Vicksburgh and all the others, the boys are crying the Capture of Sumter. But, that may not be true yet - only last week, it was reported, that George Lunt of the Courier disapproved of the destination of the colored orphan asylum. Papers will lie. I hear of you, and your work every - where, and have a thousand things to tell you, besides a thousand, that I cannot tell you. Good Bye Yours Very Truly T. R.111 East 25th Street Thursday. Nov. 14. 1870 [*[1870?]*] Just off for the cars, I say one word to you, to curdle your blood. I've lost all my cash. I can't find in New York a Wiegand's Lozenger. I am going home to my house to sleep a fortnight and think the thing over. Yours faithfully T. R.Olive and Anna. Denver News The lecture of Miss Olive Logan on Saturday evening suggests a comparison between her and her great contemporary Anna Dickinson. The two, while laboring for the same end, the so called emancipation of woman, differ widely in every particular, and present so great a contrast that it cannot fail to be noticed even by the least observant of lecture-goers. A western paper observes that “what light comedy is to earnest oratory Olive Logan is to Anna Dickinson.” The remark is about correct, and in the different effect of “light comedy” and “earnest oratory” upon the public will be found the difference in the impressions created by the two ladies whose reputations as speakers and lecturers are as wide as the nation itself. Olive Logan wins the favor of an audience, please it, and excites most kindly feelings of friendship by her wit and humor, and her general sparkling manner. Anna Dickinson creates the most profound respect for her rare intellectual power, and her earnest logical oratory, but rather repels than wins her audience. We are pleased with the brilliancy of Miss Logan, and involuntarily admire her, while on the other hand we only acknowledge Anna Dickinson’s greatness, and almost positively dislike her. This difference in the two women cannot be disguised or avoided, and is the result of their natures, dispositions and training, which seem to be as different as their methods and their manners. Miss Logan’s manner of approaching an audience while it lacks all fear is modest and winning. Miss Dickinson approaches her audience with a brazen boldness that even the warmest advocates of woman’s rights cannot admire. If the former finds an audience stolid, she will gain the mastery over them in a manner as playful as it is irresistable and her sway is at once acknowledged. Anna Dickinson, under similar circumstances, would proceed to abuse them roundly and would frighten them into submission, gaining the mastery more by force than by persuasion. Possessing by far the greater intellectual power, Anna Dickinson’s manner is less attractive, and is cold, cross and crabbed compared with that of the more winsome but less intellectual Olive. If Miss Dickinson possessed Olive Logan’s manner she would be irresistable, but without, she must yield in a great measure to her accomplished and more fortunate rival. Olive would win votes for woman’s suffrage where Anna would excite a more determined opposition, for the one is a true woman, and the other is masculine and assumes a role she cannot carry out. That “more flies can be caught with molasses than than with vinegar,” is an old saying, and it was never better illustrated than in the different methods taken by Miss Logan and Miss Dickinson to catch votes for female suffrage. Denver News “Girls” Denver News Olive Logan’s Lecture Last Night. One of Denver’s best audiences filled the Denver Theatr e to overflowing las evening, and gave a most cordial welcome to Miss Olive Logan. The fair speaker was most happily introduced by his excellency, Gov. McCook, and as she came forward to the front of the stage, her commanding presence, her graceful and winning manner, and the taste and elegance of her dress, all combined to gain for her the immediate attention and favor of the audience, and to render her reception by it worthy of her fame as a lecturer, and her excellence and worth as a woman. Her conquest was not a short one, for from the first to the last sentence of her lecture she swayed all by that marvelous power of eloquence, which she possesses in such a remarkable degree, and which is at once recognized by the people, in all who possess it, be they men or women. To review Miss Logan’s lecture on “Girls” is not our purpose, neither do we propose to give even a resume of what she said, but we wish only to express our admiration for her lecture, and to give her a full measure of praise for the delightful entertainment. Quoting a western journal, we can say that “it was not a lecture in the sense that Beecher, Phillips, Anna Dickinson, Whipple and others lecture, who pour out for an hour streams of concentrated thought. It was more like a free and easy speaking. as instructive, amusing and rather graceful parlor conversation of a finished talker, such as might have been expected from Madame de Stael Coleridge, or Margaret Fuller, plus Olive’s marvelous facial capacity of expression, and unique and often exaggerated gesticulation. Miss Logan has a most useful capacity of blending in admirable proportions, amusement with intellectual and moral instruction - throwing in her lecture the moral of a sermon, the solid thought of a lecture and a dramatic amusement of a theatrical after-piece.” Differing most decidedly from the woman suffrage opinions which she laid down, we would at the same time congratulate her in her manner of uttering them, so different from the cold, crabbed, scolding, overbearing manner Anna Dickinson. Miss Logan is one whom every one is pleased to hear, and whom the “Girls” of America may love and respect as a noble advocate and a true friend. April 10th Miss Anna Dickinson My Dear Madam Have just read the account in the Herald of the incarceration of your realease from the Asylum let me congratulate you and hope and pray that you may find kind friends in N.Y. That will assist you in punishing The whole victims, and if it was, my sister I would put a rope around her neck and throw her in the North River, and I only wished I had means Iwould assist you in bringing the guilty parties to justice I never shall forget your lovely lectures I used to hear you deliver and have always had the highest regard for you. and you have my heart felt sympathy for your down fall. and do hope that New Yorkers will come to your rescue. When I read the account in the papers they had placed you in an asylum I felt very bad and said what a lovely woman to be place there, in such a horrible place I am glad you have expose them and you have my earnest prayers that you may bring the guilty parties 3 to justice please excuse me for taking the liberty to write you but I thought I must and I do not care to sign my name as I do not know you. only by always attending your sweet lectures. Yours Respt Mrs, M, M, R I would never regonize my sister for she is not worthy of a dog.My dear Miss R: Your letter of Jan. 11th has been received in reference to Miss Dickinson. I would like your interview with her and story about her. Therefore arrange it if possible Yours ElaGeo. Bannister Lincoln P. M. of BrooklynForm No. 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions, limiting its liability, which have 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, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is nor presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message. This message is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, General Manager. NORVIN GREEN, President. NUMBER 27 SENT A REC'D BY 2 CHECK 18 Paid Received at 7.06 PM July 21st 1887 Dated New York To Miss Anna Dickinson Honesdale After letter posted had call from Susan rejoiced to hear directly can I help any with much love C R240 Fifth Ave., 7-21-87- My sweetheart - Thank you, from my heart, for your telegram of sympathy - Mamma & Lew are also very grateful for your thought of them - If you know anything of the weather here since the first of the month you must know how I have suffered - I have been completelyprostrated, really ill. Yesterday was endurable, today is not. Are you better? My last report was dated July 3rd. You are a tropical creature, &, I believe, would have almost enjoyed this awful weather. I wish I could have a “long talk” with you. It isn’t possible I suppose? If there were a good hotel in Honesdale & you would see me — Why I might — but “Miss Sue” did not give me any encouragement when I suggested this before. There is no use my trying to write all I want to say, so I must content myself with notes to draw forth bulletins of your health & trust to luck, to see you soon. With a heart full oflove and longing to speak with you, I am as ever, Your own loving “Little Girl” Does the enclosed represent the Luzerne Co. Standard of veracity? C.R.Form N. 44 NIGHT MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have 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 Night Messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to then times the amount paid for transmission; nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after sending the message. This is an UNREPEATED NIGHT MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, General Manager. NORVIN GREEN, President. NUMBER NY 1 SENT BY Gs REC'D BY H CHECK 10 Paid nite Received at 815 A Dec 14, 1884 Dated New York To Miss Anna Dickinson Luz Co Pa. Letter forwarded to you relieved by your telegram have written C.R.