ANNA DICKINSON
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 
Stone, Lucy
[Dec 10, 1867 - April 28, 1881]
4 LettersNewark   Cor.  70th St. & Sussex Av.
Dec. 10 1867

My dear Miss Dickinson

    I am more vexed 
than I can express that I 
missed hearing your lecture
here.
    I don't know how the
notice escaped me but I did
not see it, and now how shall
I ever have a chance, to
hear that one lecture, which
I wished to hear above every
other!  But I hear it very 
highly spoken of, and it will
do all the rest of the world
just the same good, that it
would have done, if I had heard 
it .I "counted" so much upon 
seeing you, - had invited 
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
 to tea with us - had been to
 my conservative  neighbors, 
and begged them to hear you. 
(this was for the 4th) and then
 after all to miss it! Well
 well!  there is nothing be done,
 but I am sadly vexed.
For this at least I am glad
 that you are not compromised 
by the spectacle Miss Anthony
 is making of Woman's cause,
 by parading through the country
 with such a man as Train. 
It seems to me, she can be
 scarcely less crazy, than he
 is - she used our names


 to help her get up this most
 extraordinary lecturing tour, 
while we knew nothing about
 it- the executive committee 
are very indignant, and 
justly so- while dear Lucretia
 Mott says, "she cannot be
 Prest. of a soc. where such
 acts as this, with Train are 
possible"-
But it is not necssary 
that I should trouble you with 
this.
You have done wisely for 
yourself by keeping away from 
us.  I mean from our organization.
Will your "Idiots and Woman" 
be given in N.J. this winter?

Very truly yours,
Lucy Stone168
N. J. City P.O. Box 299 Mar. 5

My dear Miss Dickenson
 I received your 
pleasant letter at the right
 time, and have been glad 
to see since, that you find 
your accustomed greeting
every where. All the time my
hearts says, God speed to you.
 I write now to ask that you 
will speak at our next 
anniversary of the American 
Equal Rights Ass. if you find 
the internal prompting to do so.
Your work is so good, all by 
itself, that I am sure, none ofus, will feel hurt, if you 
think best to keep it so.
 Since the "Train" admixture, 
I cannot urge any one to join
us, yet I know that every one 
of the Committee, will be very 
glad, if you give us a short
speech, at our anniversary.
 It occurs on the 14th of May.
the next day after the meeting
of the Anti Slavery Society -
 Please let us know early, as
we shall wish to announce
the names of speakers.
What a blessed thing it is, that 
"Andy" is to be impeached at 
last!
Very Truly
Lucy Stone
P.S. I forgot to say, that      
I think we shall only be      
able to pay your expenses. OFFICE OF
The Woman's Journal,
No. 5 PARK STREET.

Boston, Apr 22 1881
 My dear Miss Dickenson
  I have put a little bit
into the Woman's Journal for your 
sake this week which I will have
sent to you.
  You must not get discouraged
nor worried dear Miss Dickenson.
Your honorable record will help
out at any point at which you
wish to come. But you may have to 
wait for it. "God's times are very long."
I hope it is a misunderstanding with 
Mr. Stetson.  But whether or no you
may be sure of large sympathy
from your own sex.  And I think
also from man, meantime, "Be sure
you are right" and then hold to it.
  Excuse me, and believe me
always your friend  Lucy StoneElizabeth N.J.
4. 28. 81
Dear Lucy Stone,
I am glad
you feel as you do towards
me, and that you write as you do
out of that feeling, because 
it is a good thing to realize
there are such natures, here
& there, as decency and kindliness.
Outside of my own
small circle of personal friends
I have had, and have, a fair
opportunity to forget it.
{I hope all prosperity
& happiness]  Do not, tho' taxyour time & strength to rouse 
these for me when I have
renounced not only all expectation 
but also all desire to find them.
I hope all prosperity
comfort & happiness are yours,
& I am as you know
Sincerely your friend
Anna E Dickinson