Anne Dickinson Legal File Correspondence Dailey, Bell & Crane, 189 92-96DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Nov 24th 1892. My Dear Miss Dickinson: We are sorry we are not to have the pleasure of your company today. Old letters and old papers are forcible reminders of bygone days, and are apt to be poor appetizers for thanksgiving feasts. While everything is wonderful, we are more wonderful than any other things. (For such we are) and are wonderfully related to the past and future though ever living in the present. These [?] come to me as I see you pouring into the service of years gone by. So in writing you, relative to tomorrow; I give you my thoughts of today. I find that I am more than likely to be trying one of Mrs Gallanver's courses tomorrow morning, and it will likely take until one o clock. That will leave me from 2 to 4 to devote to your service. I do not wish you to make any needless journeys so I write you that you may have time. Mrs Dailey joins me in kind regards. Yours faithfully A.H. Dailey[*A copy*] Dailey, Bell & Crane Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Abram H. Dailey. James D. Bell. Frederick E. Crane. Telephone, 841 Brooklyn December 2, 1892. To the Goshen Sanitarium Company, to Frederick W. Seward M.D. and to all persons and agents of persons or of the Sanitarium usually called Interpines at Goshen N.Y. You and each of you are hereby required to surrender possession of and to deliver up to Mrs. Sally Ackley and to Miss Phebe C. Hull, and to either or both the said Ackley and Hull, all of the personal property, goods, chattels and effects which are my property, and which was brought to said Sanitarium during my residence there. And you, and each of you, are hereby forbidden to make delivery thereof to any other person or persons without my authority unless it be to myself. For failure to comply with this demand you and each of you, will be held responsible in damages, and amendable to such redress as the law affords. My attorneys and legal advisors are Messrs Dailey, Bell & Crane, office and post office, 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Yours &c. Anna E. Dickinson Kings County, ) City of Brooklyn, ) On this 2nd day of December, 1892, before me personally came Anna E. Dickenson to me known and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument in writing, and acknowedging to me that she had executed the same. AH Dailey Notary PublicDailey, Bell & Crane Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Abram H. Dailey. James D. Bell. Frederick E. Crane. Telephone, 841 Brooklyn December 19, 1892 My Dear Miss Dickinson: Yours containing memoranda is at hand. I will see my partners and get them to get up the papers as soon as you or Miss Hull let us know who are to be the bondsmen. You had better send directly to the office, address to the the firm. I am sorry to inform you that I have been very ill ever since you were here. I am confined to my bed, can see no one and attend to no business. It will be a number of days before I shall be able to attend to any business, and I feel that the outlookfor work this winter is not very encouraging. Seeing people and attempting to do business since I have been sick, has set me back. A few callers yesterday produced a sleepless night and a delirious brain and there is nothing left for me to do but to positively stop. Whatever is done for you will have to be done through Mr. Crane whom I will put upon the work and you can see as occasion acquires. I am as ever Faithfully Yours. A. H. Dailey per J. S.Daily, Bell & Crane, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM M. BAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE 841 BROOKLYN December 19, 1892. My Dear Miss Dickinson:- Yours containing memoranda is at hand. I will see my partners and get them to get up the papers as soon as you or Miss Hull let us know who are to be the bonds men. You had better send directly to the office, address to the firm. I am sorry to inform you that I have been very ill ever since you were here. I am confined to my bed, can see no one and attend to no business. It will be a number of days before I shall be able to attend to any business, and I feel that the outlook for work this winter is not very encouraging. Seeing people and attempting to do business since I have been sick, has set me back. A few callers yesterday produced a sleepless night and a delirious brain and there is nothing left for me to do but to positively stop. Whatever is done for you will have to be done through Mr. Crane whom I will put upon the work and you can see as occasion requires. I am as ever Faithfully Yours A.H. Daley.Miss Dickinsonvs. Law offices of A. H. DAILEY, 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, Jany 4th, 1898. My Dear Miss Dickinson: I suppose you have not yet obtained that other bondsman. I wish you might do so. I will see if I can persuade someone. What is the name and residence of the attorney in Penn. of whom you spoke to me. in whom you had some confidence. I will write him and make an appointment to either see him or have Mr Crane see him unless you object. Please let me hear from you & oblige. I hope and believe the New Year willbe a brighter and better one for you. I have recovered so as to work nearly all day now, and hope to pull up with my business. Yours faithfully AH DaileyCopy Dailey, Bell & Crane Attorneys and Counsellors Phoenix Building 16 Court St. Brooklyn N.Y. Abram H. Dailey James D. Bell Frederick E. Crane Telephone, 841 Brooklyn January 6, 1893 Hon. Will L. McLean 21 So. Franklin St., Wilkesbarre, Penn. Dear Sir;- For several months past I have been devoting a great deal of time in the examination & investigation of the affairs of Miss Anna E. Dickinson of New York City, as her legal adviser. I have been very thorough in doing so, in order that I might be well informed as to what, if any, remedies there are for the wrongs which she claims, and I believe she has suffered.It is time that something is done to right the wrongs of this woman. If the matter is delayed much longer, the statute of limitation will bar her rights. I understand from her that you have kindly rendered her some assistance in her affairs, and she has come to me, through friends who have known her long & well, & after hearing her statements, & examining into the facts of the Case as thoroughly as I could do so at this distance from the locality where her chief wrongs were inflicted, I have concluded to take hold of her case or cases & do what I can to assist her. She is now without means, but has lost none of her old time energy or ability, but is in the position of person who has lost the confidence of the community through plottings of enemies, adverse circumstances and misapprehensions, based upon assumption of facts which have no 3/ foundation whatever.— In other words, she would believe that Anna Dickinson was a raving maniac, &, as such, properly confined in the Danville Asylum for the Insane, & that she is intellectually impaired thereby. It seems to me, that a woman with her remarkable ability & capacity for doing good in this world, is worthy of the efforts of the best lawyers of both Pennsylvania & New York to restore to her, if possible, that which has been so wrongfully taken from her. I said she was without means, but she is perfectly willing to obligate herself when she is once placed upon her feet, to repay her friends for all they may do for her, & I am satisfied that there are persons in Pennsylvania, who can be made to respond heavily in damage, who are responsible for the wrongs they have done her.now, the object of this letter to you is to ask you if you are willing to co-operate with our firm in bringing such action or actions in Pennsylvania, as shall be essential upon these conditions, & like ourselvs, depend upon her compensating you for what you may do or expend, if we shall fail to get sufficient compensation from other sources. Any action taken, will, I presume, be brought in the United States Court, & we shall effect to give for all the assistance posible, & I can assure you that Miss Dickinson will be one of the most remarkable witnesses, as well as clients, that you have ever seen. She has the details of her matters in all barings fully digested, & will, when necessary, go with me or by hersilf & see you if you decide to become interested in her behalf. Please give me an early reply, & consider this in the strictest manner as confidential. Yours very truly A.H. Dailey.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Jany 6th 1893 My Dear Miss Dickinson: Please read and return the enclosed to me I sent the original on today. I have a friend who will for some reasonable compensation if Miss Hull will indemnify him go on that bond with her. The Goshen party is too far away and it will make too much trouble. I can see you from 11 to 12 tomorrow but not longer I want the correct name of that institution, the Corporate name at Goshen. If Miss Hull can come over with you she can sign the bondwhile here. I am not worried about a copy of that commitment paper. The defendants will want it more than we shall. Yours as always, A.H. Dailey I will drop a postal to Miss Hull to see you. tomorrow mornig CWilkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 11th 1893. A. H. Dailey, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Sir:- Your letter of the 6th inst. relative to the affair of Miss Anna E. Dickinson, at hand and contents noted. My first impulse was to decline the co-operation which you suggested, owing to the heavy pressure of my business here, but after consideration, I am willing to co-operate with you, upon condition, however, that if at any time Miss Dickinson's business should materially interfere with my other business, that I be permitted to withdraw from the case. Hoping to hear from you as to whether this is satisfactory or not. I remain, Yours respectfully, William L. McLean. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors Phenix Building, 16 Court St. Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM. H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. January 13, 1893. My dear Miss Dickinson:- I enclose a copy of the answer I received from Mr. McLean. Unless you think I should do otherwise, I shall gladly accept his proposition. I am rather pleased with the tone of it, and I feel that he is evidently a man of sterling qualities. The Replevin papers were returned to the Sheriff yesterday, with the additional security, which he thinks he ought to have. We will now hear the cat scream in Goshen. You will pardon me for making one suggestion: We must not frighten Mr. McLean by coming down upon him with an avalanche of details. Can we arrange to go to Wilkesbarre and have a prudent talk with him? I could probably arrange to go on Friday the 27th if I can get back Sunday the 29th, or I would go the 29th, if I could get back Tuesday the 31st. This depends upon the running of the trains on Sunday. Otherwise than that some one else would have to go before that time. It is barely possible that I may be able to get away next week Friday. I can tell better the last of the week. Yours very truly, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Jany 18th 1893. My Dear Miss Dickinson. Tomorrow evening at 6.30 at Morelos Nos 214 W. 29th st is to be the annual banquet of the Medico-Legal Society of N. Y. Other friends as well as myself would like you to attend. The company well be quite select and the entertainment I hope pleasing. We anticipate about 40 or 50 present. Quite a number of ladies will be present, & among them my wife and daughter. If you will go we will call for you about 6.15. I think if you feel able to attend thatit would be a good thing for you to do so. and in the course of the evening you feel able make a few remarks, say occupying 15 minutes. I hope you will go. I have several things I would like to tell you and hope to be able to do so there. Telegraph to my house 451 Washington ave Brooklyn whether you accept. Yours in Sincerity, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Jany 25th 1893– Dear Miss Dickinson: I have written Mr McLean to telegraph me if we can see him on Friday of this week so we can return on Saturday afternoon. The N. Jersey Central rout seems the best. Excursion tickets with no stopovers are $7.15. The train we would mean to take leaves N.Y. at 8:45 a a.m. I can see you at two p.m. tomorrowand we can make our final arrangements. I think it will make little difference whether people know you are in town or not, and none as to whom you may run against. I am glad you are better. Yours sincerely, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN January 27, 1893. My dear Miss Dickinson:- It is now 4 P.M., and a telegram just came from Mc. Lean, saying he had just received my letter and could see us at any time we would fix by telegraph. It is too late to go now. I will write him to come here as you suggest, and if he cannot do that, I will go there the first of the week. I have arranged so as to have a complaint ready so we can proceed immediately against them when it is approved by the attorney there, and if he suggests any changes they can be quickly made, and all your papers be served by next Saturday night. As to the criminal actions, I can have nothing to do with them, as they should be at once in the hands of the District Attorney. If you will remember I explained this to you some time ago. The laws of Pa. prohibits an indictment I find, after two years, and no one but yourself can be the complainant in your case. No one knows the facts but you. . I hope you will attempt nothing of the kind, but if you do, go at once to the District Attorney of that county. I cannot tell you where he lives, or who he is. Mr. Mc Lean may know. You can make a complaint for a simple assault before any magistrate. I must stop to write Mr. M. Yours &c., A. H. DaileyForm No. 285 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. 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I wrote to stress two or three matters for him one was that the “Herald” statement (if he read it) he would find full of errors, that it was taken “by ear” alone, with out notes, & that while I was absolutely provided the “proof” I never saw the matter till it was in the paper the next —I also asked him if it would not be well for [???ly]reasons, & others, & take action against [Oliver] & “Scranton Republican" & the people of the Phila circular. I wonder if you care to say any thing to him about these? —I do not want to tax nor to crowd you but I think you will see that no one who had struck me a blow, means to undo his or her work unless compelled to. —I have not seen all the papers yet, but I hear that some of them are repeating the stuff they have before printed, & the Tribune talks of my “alleged forcible” removal &c. Is there no way to square accounts with that paper? If not for libel, then for statements that have been ruinous to me & my business? You do not need advice from me. I know that well but I know the New York papers of old. & that you will only get good, out of any of them by [bating] them! - I see the “Herald” says I was taken from Danville by “friends”— would it be wise in what you give to the “Eagle” to tell anything of the[tribute] of this, & so open on [Seward]? I want to see you, please, before the final explosion! I hope you are well. and that Mrs. Dailey is well. Will you give her my love, & my regards to Mr Crane. & know me Always faithfully yours Anna E. Dickinson What a good letter Mr. McLane’s isDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. February 7, 1893. Dear Madam:- To your first question we would reply that the Sheriff's fees are payable instanter ,and that he might have asked for them in advance. And further that the person to pay them is the plaintiff in such an action as the present. To the second question:There is an action now pending against the Goshen Sanitarium Company, and that action may proceed to judgment regardless of any action to be now taken by Dr. Seward or the defendant. When judgment is taken in favor of the plaintiff the costs including such fees and expenses as are taxable will form a portion of the judgment in plaintiff's favor. In regard to the question as to what is to be done to recover articles missing, we would say that the Sheriff has under his replevin proceeding complete authority to take any articles whatsoever that are mentioned in the replevin papers, and does not need any search warrant to enter the place where they are. If, on the other hand he is unable to replevy the articles mentioned in his papers, the plaintiff is entitled to a judgment for their value. In regard to the use or injury of the articles there is no doubt that the defendants might, in the proper case, be held liable for such. In regard to the other question the Sheriff will undoubtedlydeliver the goods replevied by him to any person authorized to receive them by the plaintiff or her attorneys. Yours truly, Dailey, Bell & Crane Miss Anna E. Dickinson Dickinson v Goshen Sanitarium Co. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. -- TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. July [1] 1893 My Dear Miss Dickinson I enclose a copy of a letter just recved from Mr. McLean and think it will do your & [???] good. May your [pre?] [?] [?] also. Yours DaileyWilkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. 4th, 1893. Gentlemen:- Yesterday I brought suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania against Underwood, Oglesby, et al. I herein enclose you copies of the pleadings filed in each case. I took out the statement in the Underwood case the count in trespass vi et armis. As you recollect, it contained two counts, on in case and the other in trespass vi et armis. A joinder of counts like this, in one declaration, is not permissible in this State. However, I named Underwood, as one of the defendants, in the trespass vi et armis case, and in that way we can get the benefit of the count that you inserted in the complaint against Underwood alone. Our process is returnable to next March. The Prothonotary's fees were $15, which I paid, and when the Marshall serves the process and returns me his bill if correct, I will pay it and send you a bill for one half the amount so paid. I am very positively of the opinion that Miss Dickinson has good cases against all of the defendants. I think her own testimony will aid us very materially. I will get certified copies of the papers made out by the Asylum authorities, while she was in their custody, and send them to you. The little book left with me I desire to keep for a few days longer, for the purpose of fully acquainting myself with the facts. I trust the complaints as filed in Court will meet with your approbation. Yours very respectfully, William McLean To Messrs Daily, Bell & Crane.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. - TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. July 6th 1893. Dear Miss Dickinson: I enclose copy of letter & inventory just rec'd from. Sheriff. I want your friends to raise this money for Sheriffs fees and see the property stored. I think Miss Hull is willing to do it. I want at once you to state what is gone. I can see you tomorrow at 3 P.M. I have written Miss Hull. You must humor her frailties Yours A.H. Dailey DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. -- TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Feby 1[8]th 1893. Dear Miss Dickinson: I learn you have been to Goshen and have returned with an ocean of cold. I am sorry. be [?orred] and hope it has got a weak hold. Will that do for Monday morning? I want to see you as soon as you can come over. I have three actions in readiness to have the papers served. and I want to know about drawing the complaint in the [replevin] suit. areneed your lists, which I hope you have ready. All fairly well. Yours Sincerely AH DaileyDailey, Bell & Crane, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Abram M. Daily, James D. Bell, Frederick E. Crane. Telephone 841 Brooklyn. February 15, 1893. Miss Anna Dickinson, 44 West 12th Street, New York City Dear Madam:- We need the memoranda of list of goods damaged in the Goshen Sanitarium case, in order to make up our Complaint. You will please call and see Judge Dailey as soon as possible this week, so that the Complaint will be prepared for service. In regard to the libel suits Judge Dailey does not intend to start [in] any (??) at present, except the three Complaints which you were shown yesterday. He is anxious that you should come down immediately and look over them so that we can start the actions at once. Yours truly, Dailey, Bell, & Crane451 Washington Ave. Brooklyn Feby 15 1893. Dear Miss Dickinson: Miss Hull today informs me that you have not received my letter written last Monday. asking you to call at your early convenience and to furnish a list of property lost or missing or damaged by interference while at Goshen. We want that list to make out our complaint which ought to have gone out before. Again I wanted to see you about the complaints against the papers. and have you satisfied with my views about which and how many to sue. I told Mr Beatty to write you but since coming home with a sore throat I thought it best to write you myself. I do not advise more therethree actions for the reasons already stated. Four as the outside. You will see the wisdom of this later on. We are anxious to make all the money for you and our selves we can, and if we thought more actions advisable you may be sure we would bring them. If I am well enough I shall be in court trying a case tomorrow, So it is not likely I can see you before 5 p.m. and then only for a short time. I am sorry you took such a cold in Goshen. I am anxious to hear all about the trip. Mrs. Dailey joins in love Yours faithfully A.H. DaileyForm No. 1 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. 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 the 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 I’m any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This 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. DELIVERED FROM 854 BROADWAY NUMBER 20B SENT BY sd REC’D BY AR CHECK 10 Paid RECEIVED at the WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, N.Y. 17 Feb 1893 Dated 369 Fulton St. Bklyn NY 17 To Anna E Dickinson 44 forty four west 12th St new york Come to my house this evening I have invited Ackley H DaileyNo 44 W. 12th St New York 2. 1[5]. 1893 To/ Hon A. H. Dailey Dear sir & friend, I do not know why Miss Hull said I had received no letter from you. — I said I had received none making an appointment. Sunday afternoon receipt of yours on the asking me to come as soon as I could get over & finding you I went to the office had gone home, I proposed to see you there, but was forbidden by Mr. Crane who told me you had left the office with a headache.— I explainedto him, the condition of the goods as well as I could discover it in their confusion & in a very cold room.— To my surprise, after what you had said to me, he informed me that Dr Seward had the legal right to break open my trunks and boxes, use, sell or destroy the contents with out having sued me or recovered judgment. I was sorry not to have seen you. Mrs Ackley knows even more of the affair than I. & will tell you it I take for granted you have been notified of the "sanatarium Suit against Anna Dickinson." I am anxious to know the specifications. =Mrs. Ackley came in last evening, but has sent word she is in her bed today at the Grand Union Hotel, You can & wishes to see me, am going to the Hotel now.— Will you please telegraph at what timetomorrow or thereafter you to see us. =Thanks for the inquiry about my cold, It was a Slight matter of a day.— I trust your throat is quite well again. Always sincerely yours Anna E DickinsonDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. April 5th 1893. My Dear Miss Dickinson: Many thanks for your kind words as Easter Greetings. What a deal of misery there is in this world of ours! Could our wishes and prayers be answered in the good things we wish for others, what a change we could make: and Earth would be full as a finely cut diamond with reflected light. for the glorious sunshine which we could pour into the hearts and lives of others. I am home yet, not well enough to go away. to the country though I hope to be able to do so soon: I hope you are quite well. I enclose a copy of the complaint in the action up against you from which it appears that it is for extras. They will likely claim your goods by virtue a lien in the replevin suit. The answer has not yet come in. I do not think I will go away before Friday. and if you come over tomorrowto my house about 3 p.m. we can get up the answer. I hope this finds you very well indeed. Mrs Dailey joins in love. Yours faithfully A.H. Dailey. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. April 13th 1893 My Dear Miss Dickinson, I send a copy of the answer which came in yesterday. I am going. but go to the country today to remain until Monday, I hope you are quite well Yours hastily A.H. DaileyNo 44 W. 12th St New York 5. 9. 1893 To/ Hon. A. H. Bailey Dear Sir & friend, As you suggested, I wrote to Mr. McLean & after sometime received a line saying he had been absent from Wilkes-Barre. & had on his return written to the Clerk of the Court & would send me his reply on the receipt.— Here is the reply (or rather its copy.) & also a copy of the answer accompanying note from Mr.McLean. I cannot make any understanding of them & so write to you that with your usual kindness you will take the time to explain to me. = 1st. why & how were the cases entered at Scranton? All though it has been said they all to be tried at Pittsburgh, Erie, or Williamsport,— are they not entered when they are tried? —2nd Scranton, I thought, had no U. S. Court, &, in any case it lies, as I understand, I’m the Eastern District, & first last & altogether [struck through] it was absolutely settled that no suit (unless criminal) would be brought in what is the enemy’s ground.— The reason for Mr McLean’s objection to criminal suits was that they would have to be tried here. 3rd What does it mean that “No pleas have been filed as fit”?— The papers of January said “the writs [were, struck through] are returnable at the March term of the Court.” line of Mr. [Colborn’s] Does this mean that no answer has been made to the Complaints? and if so what does this signify as to action, delay &c? 4th Do you know how long this term lasts?— I takefor granted it is still in session. Can not something be done to compel speedy action on the part of those people in Pa? 5th [All this, struck through] Surely, cannot portend that nothing in the way of relief from this intolerable [?] is to be looked for, for more than a year to come? =I note there [are, struck through] is no mention of a lawyer from Danville.— Oglesby had his paper served all right— had he not? =I have not answered Mr. McLean, & will wait with anxiety & hope of your reply. I think you will cast some light on these dark places. =When do the newspapers have to make their answer? = I see by Joe. Howard's Column in Saturday's (Monday's) "Recorder" that "Pulitzer & Gordon Bennett are on their way home." [I have not the paper by me, struck through] [or I would send it to, struck through] [you., struck through] I suppose that is intended to say they are already on the [sea]. = How are you? I hope getting quite well & really strong again.— Do you go down for a breath, now & then, to Huntington?— May it give you all you seek there! When do you get to yourlong vacation? — I wish Mrs. Dailey is well & happy.— My love to her, please.— & to you always my faithful regards Anna E DickinsonDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building. 16 Court St. Brooklyn N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. May 10th 1893 My dear Miss Dickinson: I am somewhat surprised at the news from Pa. I can only answer your questions as follows: 1st, The cases evidently were not entered at Scranton , but at Pittsburgh. Scranton is one of the places where the circuit is occasionally held. We cant help that. I suppose the reason the pleas have not been filed, is that the lawyers for the defendant have obtained a rule of the court extending their time. I can conceive of no other way it has been delayed. Probably the parties have joined together in getting lawyers. I would as soon try the cases in Scranton as Pittsburgh. We will try and have an impartial jury. I dont know how long this term lasts. It is probably over now. Yes, you will have to wait. Cant be helped. Oglesby, I was informed was served with the rest. I was informed that the defendants were all served. The defendant newspapers have not answered me are losing no time by their not answering. They obtained from us some extensions as is usual in such cases. Then we refused more and they then got extensions from the court. I am much better. Thanks. Mrs Dailey is in bed with rheumatism but will be out today I think. Yes I get a little fresh air now and then, but my illness has piled up my business and I doing all I can to get it reduced. Vacation in August. Hope you are well. Your [?] friend A.H. Dailey. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building. 16 Court St. Brooklyn N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. May 16. 1893, My dear Miss Dickinson: I enclose acopy of the complaint and of the answer in the case of sanitarium vs Wm Hall correct you can sign the answer and swear to it before a notary in N.Y. and return it to us, or bring them over & swear to it here. We are in court most of the days now, so you may not see Mr Crane or me unless early or late. Mrs Dailey is ill in Huntington with tonsilitis. Hope you are well. Yours as ever, A.H. DaileyNo 44 West 12th St New York 12. 5. 1893 To Hon A. H. Dailey Dear Sir & friend:-- Miss Hule has just come in with a note from Mrs. Ackley saying "I have a man for bondsman Charles Hulse. Miss D. knows him." =I do not know if he has a middle name. =He is, if I place him aright, the leading baker in [the place] Goshen, & is in some way connected by marriage with Mrs. Ackley.Concerning Wilkes Barre & lawyers.— Wm. L. Mc Lane 21 South Franklin St Wilkes Barre Pa is the address I have written in my note book. I do not know him.— Louisa suggested him to Dr. Seward & he wrote to him for to secure the [Com.] papers [from, struck through] & he got them. I do not know whether he sent them to me or to Dr. Seward. The first time I saw them was the night before I went to New York to speak (I think April 25th) open, in Dr Seward's room by others [I suppose he thinks, struck through] I am a poor client., struck through] I suppose he thinks I am a poor client. If you have him work for you I hope he will in the end find it to his profit & will have no reason to regret what he has so kindly done. [Louisa knows whether, struck through] [he is Dem. or Republican., struck through] =Ought [struck through] not the letter to be written at once for a first copy of the Com. papers? [the examination, struck through] [And, when an, struck through] [appointment is made, struck through] [with him to make one, struck through] withto not know what Seward wrote to him or he to Seward — & cant say surely that Seward wrote to him at all but I think he did, he may have been H[ummell]. =He also gave the order on Hibbs for my (at Pittston Susan’s lawyer) [trunks] the first time Mr. Ackley went to Pittston. =Miss Hull told you he had “volunteered”. No.— It was Heverin of Phila who did that.— In the confusion of the time & moving in the dark as I did I do not know what has been said or written to him — I would suggest that you impress on Mr. McLane the sense of silence.— He I was told was on good terms with Mr. Palmir who was Susan Dickinson’s advisor in Wilkes-Barre — & he may think his is a “false start” after the fashion of [Hummel] & Heverin, & not act in such fashion as you would wish him to unless heknows he has a better man to deal with. = I think the [com] papers have to be secured through the office of the [Sec] of the Board of State C. & Corrections In that case ‘til the creature whose false words are in the papers of April 12. Dr. [Harry] Neal Mr. [Matherill] of Phila. You will see that makes a longer delay. = I know how ill you have been & how far from well now, but I hope & pray you can push Pa. immediately. & that you will be well enough to go, with some one with you to see these people & get evidence yourself. — Wilkes Barre is a first class inland City with admirable hotels, — on [??????]of this if you want me^will you please telegraph appointment. It is needless for me to say what you know that the backbone & the life of this business are in Pa. & that they [are] to be broken before anything here [is done, struck through] can be done to profit —& that they [have to, struck through] [seem to] have be ^entitled before Feb. 25th. You know the proverb concerning “the eye of the master,”DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Decr 6th 1893. My Dear Miss Dickinson: I have not a word of news for you. I have heard nothing from Wilkesbarre. The only thing that I can think of for you to do is. to from some source, find out what is being done in Pittston & vicinity by the [enemy] if possible. You ought to have our friend in the place to Spy out and report. One of your actions will come up before very long in N.Y. and we must get our evidence together. Someone should go to P.a. and see what can be obtained. I am glad you are well. I am home today with a cold but expect to be out tomorrow. My health has been remarkably good this winter and fall. Mrs. Dailey is about as usual. Mrs. Dailey wishes to be kindly remembered. Yours faithfully A. H. DaileyP.S. the only time this week you would likely find me in my office is Saturday. I expect to be in most of that day, and if I can say or do anything which will be of service I will be glad to do so A.E.D. No. 47 W. 12 st. N.Y. 12.9.1893 Hon. A. H. Dailey Dear Sir & friend; As you do not say in either of your notes that you specially wish to see me & the day is so vile, I do not try to go over. I have a bad cold, but I would take it & myself to your office if there were a definite appointment; - I have nothing of moment to narrate. I had hoped you might have somewhat of importance to tell, When you have you will, I know, send for me. =You speak of a new York suit that will come up before long - of course it cant be a newspaper. It must then be Goshen. - Which one? = I thought Mr McLean was to gather & sort Pa evidence. = I am glad the winter is so far treating you well - May it so continue! - Please give my best regards to Mrs. Dailey, & know me always sincerely yours Anna E DickinsonDAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Decr 8th 1893 Dear Miss Dickinson: If you call tomorrow call about 2 P.M. If I am out please wait. I will soon be in. Yours faithfully A.H. Dailey No. 47. W. 12 St. N.Y. 12. 12. 1893 To/ Hon. A. H. Dailey Dear Sir & friend: - The inclosed has just come to me & I fulfill orders as nearly as I can by forwarding immediately through the "hand" of the P.O. - & I have written to Mr. McLean to that effect. =I hope you are well & that all goeswill write you. Sincerely yours Anna E Dickinson =I see various names in this. bill of the [U. S] [M.] mine included, are spelled incorrectly— Is that a matter of moment if they are so in the law paper? a No. 47. W. 12 St \Copy N.Y. 12. 15. 1893 To/ Hon A. H. Dailey Dear sir & friend, I am writing this in the supposition that “tomorrow may be as today.” —In which case what time Monday will best suit your convenience for me to come over? =Pardon my lack of knowledge of the “Case in the Common Pleas.”— Will you kindly tell me which cases In the Common Pleas, & then I will know what I am to “dust around” about! If I can see my way across tomorrow, well & good. You will tell me then. But if you have to write, will you state explicitly what the case is & whether I am to bring you any stuff concerning it? I [believe] the matter will not give you a cold, I would [??????] annaDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. December 14th, 1893. My dear Miss Dickinson:- Your letter with Mr. McLean's was duly received,and I shall give it attention to-day, which I could not do before. Yes, your case in the Common Pleas will be reached in a very few days, perhaps ten days or less, and we must be dusting around about it. Those cases I referred to in my letter to you. You had better see me on Saturday morning. I am in great haste or I would write more. Yours truly, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. December 16th 1893. My dear Miss Dickinson: Yours without you, came today. I have waited until evening before writing you thinking you might come over. The case in the common Please is against the Press, and will likely be called on the calendar by next Tuesday, and it is a disappointment not to have seen you today. Under the circumstances, if we can do so, we will have the case go to January for trial. There certainly is required some evidence from P.a. and yesterday and today I could have devoted considerable time to arranging about procuring it. I do not blame you for not wishing to come out such miserable weather. I am sorry you are not well. I have had weeks of hard labor and this week closes one of great fatigue. Mr. Crane was married in Montreal last Wednesday, and where he has disappeared to, I do not know. I have had more to attend to than was proper, but I have stood the labor quite well. On Monday I expect to go into a long trial of a case which is a forlorn hope, and immediatelydirectly after that another one of the same kind. So I have not a day that I can tell you of with any certainty that we can have an interview. in, of any proper duration next week. This is a matter I cannot help. The cases are coming up sooner than I anticipated. The one in the Superior Court will soon be up. You know I cannot go around looking up evidence. I anticipated you would have friends who would assist in this work. I so understood it, and it is a work which requires peculiar qualifications. There have none of the defendants in these cases, done any thing towards taking depositions of people out of the state. We are no worse off than they, in that respect. We will likely be able to keep the cases in abeyance until we are ready to try them; but to prepare our evidence must not be delayed. The week between the holidays we had better devote a portion of to this matter. My wife joins me in kind regards Yours sincerely A. H. DaileyDear Miss Dickinson: Will you please accept from both Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Dailey, these most friendly greetings, with the assurance that it is their hearts' desire that from the embers of December, you may behold the opening before you, of a new era of prosperity and happiness. Brooklyn December 31: 1893.Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. 181 [Ezra] 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 Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This 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 SD Number 17 Sent by [Cr] Received by B Check 7 pd RECEIVED at the WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, N.Y. Delivered from 854 Broadway 1893 Dated B369 fulton [sw] Brooklyn NY To Anna E. Dickinson 44 forty .four west 12 twelfth st NY Come over with Phebe hull early today. A. H. Dailey.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Jany 5th 1894. My Dear Miss Dickinson: The case at Goshen is off the terms. We will now see if we can get a settlement, and when we have news will inform you. Yours faithfully A.H. DaileyBrooklyn Feby 3rd 1894 Dear Miss Dickinson: Yesterday I had a letter letter from Mr McLean asking if we will be ready to try those Pa. cases in March. The court convenes March 5th at Scranton. Much requires to be done to get ready, but if it is attended to at once I presume we can get ready. I am home today with a bad cold but think I will be out tomorrow. The Clerk of the court wants to know at once if we will be ready. Could you call over at 4.oclock Sunday tomorrow to my house & we will talk it over. If not then let it be Monday sometime in the forenoon to my office. Yours Sincerely, A.H. DaileyBrooklyn Feby 7th 1894. My Dear Miss Dickinson: I think it pretty certain that if you call at my office next Saturday at 2 P.M. you will find me in, and able to devote the required time to your matters. Yours hastily A.H. DaileyDaily, Bell & Crane Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Abram H. Daily. Brooklyn, N.Y. James D. Bell Frederick E. Crane. Telephone, 841 Brooklyn February 10th, 1894 My Dear Miss Dickinson: Yesterday I had a letter from Mr. McLean asking me to telegraph him at what time he could see me at my office Monday. I replied. Probably all day particularly between 4 & 6 P.m. I have heard nothing since I suppose he will be here. It may be important to confer with you, and it would be well for you to be where You can be seen if required. I am sorry I do not know at what time he is to be here. Hope you are well. Yours hastily, A.H. DailyForm No. 1 87 113s [V] 1140 75 B copny 22 Paid & Sh Deby 14 E, THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 1122 INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability to what 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 the case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. SD [?] NUMBER 75 SENT BY B copy REC’D BY CHECK 22 Paid & Dh Dely 14 Ex RECEIVED at WESTERN UNION BUILDING, 195 Broadway, N.Y. Feb 12 1894 Dated 369 Fulton St Brooklyn Ny Feb 12 via 104 W 125 st ny 12 To Anna E. Dickinson 44 West 12 St Ny Mr McLean is here come over at once A.H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors Phenix Building, 16 Court St. Brooklyn, NY ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. February 15th 1894 My Dear Miss Dickinson, It was Mr. McLean’s conclusion that it is best for you to go to Pa. yourself and see those who will be friendly to you and of service on the trial. He will send on subpoenas to you, or to me for you and you can write in the names of those you will want. Therefore I would like you to come over to dinner next Sunday, and we can arrange about it. If you wish to bring Mrs Ackerly with you, you can do so. I am much pleased with Mr. McLean and he is very confident he shall gain our cases Yours faithfully AH DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. February 20th 1894. Hon. William S. McLean, My dear Sir:- Yours of the 19th is at hand, and I return the subpoena which you sent me, and am glad that you approve of Miss Dickinson's ideas about subpoenaing the witnesses. I sent immediately t o Danville, as I informed you while here, but have had no acknowledgment or reply whatever to my letter. It do es not look well for the integrity of an institution of that kind to not reply to such a request. I am glad to know that Miss Dickinson's cases will likely come up at the commencement of the Term, and I am arranging my matters so as to be with you during the first week, which I hope will be sufficient to dispose of all her cases in Pennsylvania. Mr. Bell has gone to the Grand Army Encampment at Rochester. Mr. Crane wishes to be remembered. I am Very sincerely yours,Dailey to McLean July 20th 93DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. July 22. 1894. My Dear Miss Dickinson: Mr McLean approves of your views relative to your not going to Pittston. You should go on, on [Friday] morning. to Scranton certainly. and I will come on, on Saturday morning. If you think better to Thursday all night. Yours faithfully A. H. Dailey. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Feby 27th 1894. My Dear Miss Dickinson: Yours of yesterday is received. The closing of that discussion was very exciting and interesting. The Rev. Dr. lost his temper. unfortunately for him. Now as to Scranton. I think you should go there Thursday and I will go Saturday morning You should have two days exclusive of [Sunday] in which to make preparations. and [Friday] in which to pray &c &cThe snow will add to the trip considerable attraction if it holds possession so long. We are all as well as usual, and I am anxious for the fray. Yours Sincerely, A. H. DaileyWilkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. 28th 1894. My Dear Judge:- This forenoon Mr. Ferris, of counsel for the defendants in the Anna E. Dickinson cases, saw me at my office and stated that on Monday morning next he would make an application to continue the cases on the ground for the sickness of Doctors Underwood and Oglesby. Oglesby, he says, is very seriously ill from a heart affection and will not be able to be out of the house for some time. Underwood is quite ill, seriously he says, from the grip and other complications. Mr. Ferris states that he will have certificates to present to the Court on Monday morning of physicians certifying to the sickness of these gentlemen and their inability to attend Court, and that they are material witnesses in the cases and that they cannot go to trial without them. I have no doubt that if the certificates are presented, Judge Buckingham will continue the cases over until next Fall. I will go to Scranton on Monday morning and have an order made that the cases are not to be continued hereafter on account of the sickness or absence of either of the Doctors mentioned. I am very sorry that we cannot try our cases. I have had all the witnesses subpoenaed at some little expense, and made arrangements to have my causes for next week continued over, and I have no doubt that you have made all of your necessary arrangements to go to Scranton and will feel about as much disappointed. With respects to the firm, I am, Yours very respectfully, William S. McLean To Hon. A.H. Dailey, Phoenix Building Brooklyn Dear Miss Dickinson: The foregoing is a copy of Mr McLean's letter I am terribly annoyed over the affair, but it cannot be helped. Yours &c A.H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. March 1st 1894. My Dear Miss Dickinson; I wrote you to come over yesterday but you did not come. I rec'd a telegram from Mr McLean saying that [Defd's] were going to ask to have the cases continued and that he had written me. I have received no letter, and am in a quandary as to what I am to do. I wrote you expecting you would go to Scranton today. I cannot understand why I have not heardfrom you. I hope you are well and that I will know what to do very soon. Yours &c A.H. DaileyForm No. 45. NIGHT MESSAGE. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. Receiver's No. Time Filed Check SEND the following night message subject to the terms on the back hereof, which are hereby agreed to. Brooklyn N.Y. [?] /1894 TO: Wm S McLean 21 Direct [???]; Wilkes-Barre Pa Miss Dickinson will go on tomorrow and wants the case pushed and force them to take depositions rather than have continuances - she discredits their sickness. Will write you tonight A.H, Dailey READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK Form No. 1. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. 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 of delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 85802 MID 12 Paid 25. RECEIVED at 990 Sixth Ave, N.Y., bet. 55th and 56th 8ts May 3 1894 Dated 369 Fulton St Bklyn NY To Anna E. Dickinson 3 101 West 54 St. Wanted to speak tonight at Mrs Hackstaffs two Eighty Two Jefferson Ave A.H. Dailey CABLE OFFICE. Open until MIDNIGHT, including SUNDAYS. DIRECT WIRES.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Abram H. Dailey. James D. Bell. Frederick E. Crane. Telephone, 841 Brooklyn. May 7th 1894 Dear Miss Dickinson: Can you address the Bedford League (Women's Suffrage) either on Thursday or Friday eve of this week? Let me know as notices are to go out tomorrow. I don't know which day will be chosen. Yours in a hurry. A.H. Dailey DAILEY, BELL & CRANE. Attorneys and Counsellors. Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Abram H. Dailey. James D. Bell. Frederick E. Crane Telephone, 841 Brooklyn. Oct 17th 1894 My Dear Mrs Ackley If you know where Miss Dickinson is will you kindly forward the enclosed to her or deliver to her the same. Her case in N.Y. city against the Goshen Sanitarium will soon be reached and it is very important to her that she be here to testify and you also will be required. Yours &c A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. October 17th., 1894. My dear Miss Dickinson:- I have been trying for some time to get in communication with you. I addressed a letter to you at the place given me in New York by you some time ago, and get no answer. It is important that you should know that your case against the Goshen Sanitarium is about to be reached on the calendar in the court in New York City, and we shall be ready to try the case unless it can in some way be adjusted. A few weeks ago they were willing to have both suits discontinued and you take the property you have if you would pay their lawyers costs. We did not consent to this, and since then I have heard nothing. Please communicate with me at once where you can be reached so that you may be in court if needed. I am sending this on perhaps on a goose chase, not knowing whether it will reach you. Please give my compliments to Mrs. Ackerly if you see her. Sincerely yours, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Nov 23rd 1894. My Dear Miss Dickinson: I expect Messrs O’Neil & Royce at our office Monday next also Dr Seward at 10.30 a m to arrange terms of settlement. I want you here before that hour, to confer with as to the same. Could I see you tomorrow some time it would be well. at any rate early Monday. Yours hastily A. H. Dailey DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Dec 13th 1894 Dear Miss Dickinson: Why do you not answer my letter written early in the week informing us that O Neill & Royce had agreed to settle both cases upon the terms stated. releases to be given each party. I asked your consent to a settlement on those terms. I enclosed a copy of their letter in mine. It is very unfortunate that we have not an answer at once. as they should know how to act. Please let me hear from you at once & oblige. Yours hastily A. H. DaileyNo 101 W 54 . NY 5.8.1894 To Hon A. H Dailey Dear sir & friend, Thanks for the invitation which came - however too late for me to work you by answer today. I say thanks "for your good-will but not for the invite that lies behind it. - There is nothing at present that can be of any service to me while waiting"the law's delay's: but money - & money there is none in these faild intertainments. If this sounds mercenary I can only say that I have been forced to keep step with the spirit & music of the age When I see my way to some proper work & reasonable pay I will go quickly to "fill the bill," but I do not care to spend time & strength, brains, & money for suitable belongings, fir naught but "empty math,"& I shrewdly suspect very little of that. I hope you are far better than when I saw you, &, with sincere regards to Mrs. Dailey am - as you know always faithfullt yours Anna E DickensonDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. February 2nd., 1895. My dear Miss Dickinson;- I enclose to you a copy of a letter this morning received from Mr. McLean. It will speak for itself. I will see Mr. Hummel and find out what he can do to assist us. It is very strange that we do not get the release from the Sanitarium Company. They wrote me that Dr. Seward was in New York, and as soon as he returned they would get the release and send it down. I am anxious to have that matter ended and you in possession of your property. I will write again and see what I can do about getting it closed. Trusting that you are well, and with kind regards to Mrs. Ackerly, I remain, Sincerely yours, A. H. Dailey.No. 226 East 50th [??] N. Y. 2. 27. 1895 To/ Hon. A. H. Dailey Dear sir & friend, In the first place here is a copy of the letter written to Mr. McLean —after my talk with you.— [struck through, I tried to make it conform to your suggestions, I have had to fit] There is, [at] [first], noanswer, = I wanted to know if I had [better] write to Mrs. Davis (I have had no communication with her in these four years) - & I also wanted to know what he thought of Mrs. Black as a witness , & whether it would not be a good thing to [use some] find what is the opinion in Morris (her 2 home) as to her "mental capacity") (past & present, He may have written [to] you about the person [of whom] to me unknown in Scranton. The name written [in] on an envelope has the initials only of the first and middle names so I could not [say] if it was with himthat of a man or a woman & I further stated that I would write him or tell you of it - When I next saw you Here, too, is a copy of my letter to Mr. [Winterstein] (mailed with this) You will see I have not gone into any extensive [“reminds] [????s”]. And now 3 here is a list of some of the matters you may care to write her. It was the afternoon of Feb. 25th 1891 I was brought to the place. Mr McLean says in his letter which he had [???] that he misled me to remind her of this = she was on duty in the - supper room that evening whenMrs. Frost (the woman supervisor [of the floor] or whatever her title may be) came to the door to have me [called] sent out - into the ward. [to see some one] (This was when Oglesby was waiting & when [I] he had [my] his short interview with me. Of course I did not know who he was. After wards [him or them] I asked her in a [???????] 4 & she told me he was Dr. Oglesby who lived in her town of Danville. &c &c (there was a little talk that led up to this. & was not abruptly asked [?? ??????] =She showed me at all times what decent treatment she could. I suppose she was compelledby orders to subject me to the atrocious outrage of the two forced baths [on the Thursday the day after] on the 26th of Feb. & the 5th of March, [She] Her manner was not that of Mary & Annie (The other attendants) who were engaged in & Mrs. that enterprise Black afterwards reported to me, that She heard Miss 5 [Sister] say she had never done anything in the place which [she was more] made her feel so sorry. —She may also remember that against an absolute rule of the place, on the ensuing Thursdays when all the patients were through & the bath roomcleaned I was allowed to go in & take my bath alone—(with no attendant present.) = She let me have needle & thread a number of times &- She let me have paper (wash lists) on which I wrote my notes of “divine & sundry “—& at 8 last told me, she could let me have no more. If I wanted any paper I must ask Dr. Schultz for it. =She was present when I questioned Mrs Frost (who took my telegrams on the evening of the 25th) to Dr. Schultz to the non-[????ing] of them (Mrs. Frost) with [?????] & she answeredthat it was not her fault, [&] I would have to ask Dr. S??ully &c. & I said "That is what I wished to know (ie. that they had not been sent.) - "Now I have the answer in the presence of a witness [pointing?] at miss [Qutlir?] = She may be able to tell why 7 I was exempt from my chamber work. Why I was never sent our of the ward while there & never [sent with] put to [the work patients] [to] in the sewing room the patients of the ward daily going there. [She will probably recall our talk about a walk] when = She will probably recall our talk about her life in the place - that she had been there four years. Was in the violent ward at first. & was not disturbed by those about her at all, but now she had grown so tired & nervous that so small a disturbance 8 as the loud laughing & talking of a girl (by the name of Flora [Fowlerston] from Williamsport in this quiet "C" Ward) [had to be put] which compelled her [into] another ward removal to like this make me tremble [in her room] =I was asking her why she [staid] did this sort of work & telling her of what a nurse wakeman had [by] narratedWme of the father's life & that people of sensibility were in danger of becoming like unto their [unhappy] unfortunate charges. After this the talk was taken of more than once The sum of her answers being that the de 9 & I asked her why she did not study to be a trained nurse. - She said it would cost too much money. - that she staid because she could earn higher wages that at any thing else She could do, - & be [that it ? ? ]near her home, & that she could not have to go far away from her mother. [She did me the Rudeness (for it was that) to let me sit] It was she to whom I went in my morning agony - after I had been in the place for a week 10 to beg her to open [my] the door of my room & she said with much feeling she could not, unless I said to the Dr. I was sick. on which I refused (you may want to know more of all this [& of my reasons tho] I suppose shegot permission afterwards, or was kind enough to take the responsibility for she let my room stay open in the mornings as late as she could or opened after locking after letting me each morning have a tin basin from the drying room, which 11 I afterwards returned to her & she put away. And she would unlock the room door for me in the afternoon, to change my wrapper for a dress, & more than once asked me to stay in as short a time as I could, [?? ?????] the reason that she wasnot acting in accordance with the rules of the place. _& I suppose though there would be trouble for her or me or both, = There are [a] "heaps" more of things -- in regard to the people in the ward - Here's names of some of them 12 time in regard to them, incidents of all sorts, Do you wait these? = [She] Also is there anything to be written about [my l] the 2nd of April? -- [About Louisa? & Dr Heilman? & My being sent] or to my quitting?[?Mr. McLean spoke of this. Also he says in his letter that he does not wish me to let her known the nearness of the suite & you will see I say nothins about them. - =I would have written you before this but was, in a Sort, 13 to hear again from him. Have you any word from Goshen? You know Dr Seward has office home here in New York twice a week? = Mrs. Sissie Winterstein Mill St. Danville Pa is the address sent by Mr. McLean. Another of Mrs. Oakley's [(M] - = Mr. Edward Bialty who has [had] been deputy sheriff of Orange Co., & had a [deal] to do with law & detective Walters was in this afternoon. He had business on hand in regard to a murder case in Scranton & I is associated in 14 it with Mr. Berring who has a detective agency in various places (New York office Equitable Building, Rome (I think) 56 & 57) & who lives in Scranton. If you want any one for this sort of thing would he not be a good person - Mr. Bealty said ifyou wanted [he] it Mr. Berring certainly would be the cheapest person you could employ [since they] = When you want to see me will you let me know? = Lou had a bad time at the City Hall yesterday. I hope it did not inconvenience 15 you in any way, & that every thing goes well with you & yours. Please give my love to Mrs. Dailey. Always faithfully yours A. E. D.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Abram H. Dailey. James D. Bell. Frederick S. Crane. ____ Telephone, 841 Brooklyn. March 1st., 1895. Mrs. Jessie Winterstein, Dear Madam:- A letter from Miss Annie E. Dickinson to you will, I hope, already have acquainted you with the fact that I desire the favor of such information as you may be able to give to me, touching your knowing of Miss Dickinson's condition, actions and conduct, from the time she went to the Danville Asylum until she left it. I am informed by her that you were there as an attendant, and she speaks very kindly of the considerate manner in which you treated her in contradistinction to some other treatment which she did receive while in that institution. First then, will you kindly tell me in your own way, by letter, when and where it was that you first saw Miss Dickinson, and what hour of the evening, if it was in the evening, your attention was called to her? Second. What did you notice about her actions and conduct that to you seemed strange or different from what your own actions would be, assuming that you believed yourself to be perfectly sane, were seized and put into such an institution as an insane person as was Miss Dickinson? Third. Particularize as far as you can, what Miss Dickinson did and said the first night she came there, and who saw her and held interviews with her? Fourth. Did she make any application for anything by which ^ she could hold any communication with her friends, and if so, what did she say and what was done in response thereto? Fifth. Did you notice her attempt to do any act of violence towards any person the second, third or fourth days after she came there; and if so, to whom and what were those acts. If to this question you say you observed no such acts, will you please tell me what her general demeanor was towards others in the place? Sixth. Did you at any time while she was there, observe her do any act of violence towards any person, and if so, what were those acts, and to whom did she show them. Seventh. During the whole time she was there, did she use any violent language to any person? If so, recall as far as you can what the language was, and to whom it was addressed. Eighth. If you recall no such language, will you please state if you ever heard her talk in any manner while she was there, otherwise than as a rational person would talk? Ninth. What facilities were furnished her for writing letters and for sending out the letters during the time she was there? Tenth. To refresh your recollection, I will inform you that Miss Dickinson was brought to the Danville Institution February 25,1891 in the evening, and that a Danville physician was called in to see her to certify to her insanity that night. if you recollect about it, you will please so state, and also be particular to state how long he was with her, and if you heard the conversation, between them, what was said. She says that you were on duty at the supper room that evening when Mrs. Frost, the lady superior or matron, came to the door to have her sent out into the ward. Did you observe this, and did you see Dr. Oglesby there? Where was he sitting, how long was his interview with her? Eleventh. Did you know this Dr. Oglesby? If so, how long had you known him, and how frequently did he come to the asylum.? Twelfth. What do you know about Miss Dickinson's taking two enforced baths? State who gave them to her, and what was done to compel her to take them, one on the 26th of February and the other on the 5th of March. Thirteenth. Do you remember having said to Mrs. Black in connection with that matter that you was sorry to have had anything to do with it, or anything of the kind? And do you remember another occasion when, after all the other patients had taken their baths, Miss Dickinson was allowed to take one alone with no attendant? By whose kindness was this permitted to her if not by yours? Fourteenth. Do you remember letting her have a needle and thread a number of times and paper for her own use? Fifteenth. Do you remember of telling her that you could let her have no more paper, and that if she wanted any paper she must ask Dr. Schultz for it? Sixteenth. Do you remember of being present when Miss Dickinson questioned Mrs. Frost about taking her telegrams to Dr. Schultz on the evening of the 25th of February? Seventeenth. Do you remember that Mrs. Frost told Miss Dickinson that it was not her fault that the telegrams were not sent; she must ask Dr. Schultz, and that Miss Dickinson said that was what she wanted to know, whether they had been sent, or words to that effect? Do you remember anything about that? And do you not also remember that Miss Dickinson pointed to you and said "Now I have a witness present." Eighteenth. Can you tell why Miss Dickinson was exempt from her chamber work and was not required to do it herself? Ninteenth. Do you know why she was never sent out of the ward while she as there, and was never put to work in the sewing room? Every patient of the ward daily going there. Twentieth. Do you recall a conversation had with Miss Dickinson about your life in the place, in which you said you had been there four years, and had been in the violent ward at first, and was not disturbed by those about you, but that now you had grown so tired and nervous that so small a disturbance as loud laughing and talking of a girl by the name of Flora Tomlinson from Willimasport in this quiet sec[ane] ward, compelled her removal to another ward, and that it made you tremble? Twenty-first. Do you recall her telling you about a Miss Wakeman and how that sensitive people were endangered of becoming insane by their unfortunate changes upon one or more occasions. Twenty-second. Do you remember of her talking to you about becoming a trained nurse, and that you said you could earn higher wages there than anywhere else? Twenty-third. Do you remember of telling her that you did not like to go far away from your mother? Twenty-four. Do you remember of her going to you after she had been there about a week, and begging of you to open the door of her room, and that you replied that you could not do so, unless she said to Dr. Schultz she was sick, which she refused to do? State all you remember about it. Twenty-five. Do you remember opening the door yourself from time to time of her room, and furnishing her with a tin basin from the dining room, which she afterwards returned to you? Twenty-sixth. Do you remember of telling Miss Dickinson when permitted to go in[to] her room at certain times, to stay in as short a time as possible, as you were not acting in accordance with the rules of the place? Please write out anything else that you think will be of interest and benefit to Miss Dickinson, and when you write, just say as follows:- "In answer to your first question, I answer,"-- Then write the answer out. Also to the second until you have finished it up. I fully appreciate that this may cause you some annoyance and loss of time, but please remember, that by complying you will do good deed, which will be duly appreciated. I enclose an envelope stamped and addressed for your reply. Please give me as early an answer as possible, and greatly oblige, Yours respectfully,No. 226 E. 50th St. New York 3. 6. 1895 To/ Hon. A. H. Dailey Dear sir & friend, This will be read by you with less tired eyes than those of yesterday & I would not [burden, struck through] tax you with any reading or questions what ever if I didnot ear that a "delay" might "prove dangerous." If Mrs. [Jessie] were a [sp??e] bright person she would be able to [see] make correct a typographical error, but she is a plainly educated ordinary sort of being & may need some help. - If you will refer to your copy of your letter to her you will see two words " dining" &, if you read to me aught "changes" that will certainly puzzle her. She will know what a "basin from the drying room" means [just peradventure] while she may stick on the other = You hesitated a moment, yourself, over "change"& it may not be so written. If it is, will [you please say that to her] it not be will to say that our reference to your copy you see are error that is [probably] doubtless in hers. The word is "charges." & I will amplify a little on the context as it stands [she spoke to m] in my letter to you. No. 226 East 50th st. N.Y. 3. 5. 1895 To J. F. Black, Esq. Dear Mr. Black, Mr. McLean has forwarded to me your letter of Feb 28th, & I read with sorrow the information it conveyed.- questionless you have lost somethingincalculably dear & the world is the poorer for the absence of a brave unselfish & lovely woman. To say that I sympathize with you profoundly is small comfort to you in your grief but I must say it. = I wrote her long since asking if she ever came to New York & if she could not stop at Goshen by the way but never heard from her afterwards, & I have often wondered if she received the letter- or replying, I failed of the answer? = It was like her, to be faithful to her trust, & Ithank you in turn for the care - Judge Dailey ( my senior [counsel] lawyer) will send with this a line as to some formalities to be observed in forwarding her letters- you will see why. Kindly [forward] send them to me at the above address. I was talking in her own room with her about doing something else, [studying to be a trained nurse- to grow small fruits- &c.] anything to take her away from the [place] sort of work she was [doing] engaged in since it had grown toaffect her so much as she showd it had by this incident- of Flora I said, in effect,"I once knew a Miss Wakeman whose father was a member of the Board of Charities in ??? time- a very ?? man was appointed (may have heard of him?) to look after Flatbush. [ He did ut the Leverd] no? he was [a quite ] well known [& able] clear headed man & he didn't neglect his work. nor relegate it to others . He was conscientious & kind hearted & he was so shocked by what he saw & so profoundly moved to compassion & desire to aid those unhappy ones that he spent his [time &] thought & time on them till at last he himself went mad & died.- so his daughter told me - & that people were either brutalized by their [helpless charges] work with the insane or, if they possessed sensibility & goodness of heart - as you certainly do - they go [are liable] mad - like their unfortunate charges - & in the end, take the places of those they have cared for." It was a half hour [at least] or so I spent in her room having gone in to ask her for some small matter, & this talk she would be apt to remember since it was almost wholly about her -self. She had helped to take Nora out of the ward and was nervous over the [uproar] [noise] uproar she had made for a day or so [& the extra] & the disturbance at night. In this talk she told me of their number of hours they were on duty &c, & I will tell you [more] of this when I next see you but if the word is as you read it I am afraid she wont understand, & so I write you this. May you be rested! & may you win your Judge's case with flying colors!! Always [sincerely] truly yours A E D [*& may you have some more [obituaries!!?]*] & believe me, With renewing expression of sympathy yours nost truly Anna E Dickinson No. 226 E. 50th st N.Y. 3.8.1895 [To. Hon A. H. Dailey Dear Sir & friend; I send you with this a letter dated April 16, 1891 written by Mr. Sou?? Aldrich for the Actor's Fund of America to Mr A. H. Humms concerning my law-suite still pending. You will note the offer therein contained if you decide to avail yourself of it will you please let Mr. Aldrich Know that you write for it in my behalf Yours very truly A.E. D.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN March 19th 1895. My dear Miss Dickinson:- I supposed in answer to my letter that you would call here yesterday, that we might arrange about going to Wilkes-Barre next Friday, and what train we will take. Mr. McLean wants me there on Friday evening; accordingly I will arrange my business to go early enough on Friday so as to see him that evening, and would like you to accompany me, unless you prefer to go by yourself. Your familiarity with the trains, time-table etc. will enable you to inform me in all matters desired. If you receive this in time to call over here before half past four o'clock, please do so. If not, I could see you between three and four to-morrow probably. I am very busy in collating everything that I think will be of use in the trial. Faithfully yours, A.H. Dailey"The Wyoming" Scranton Pa April 16, 1895 To/ Hon. A.H. Dailey Dear sir & friend; After all, I send you our blessed Irishman's own letter that you may have its own spirit, & not a copy. Will you please take care of it for me when read.—I wrote at once thanking him. & sent to him,- (as to all of the eight,) a Sunday "Republican" & "News") & said to him if he had any answer to make to the Juryman's letter. Would he send it to you before putting it in print.— You will see I had more than one reason for so doing.— I said I did so at my own suggestion as you have at your house in Brooklyn. = What a kind manly letter it is!— & what a revelation of the Jury room. =How are you?— & Mrs. Dailey?— I hope everything is well with your work, & that you are rested.— My love, please, to Mrs. Dailey. Always faithfully yours Anna DickinsonBrooklyn Sept 18th 1895 My Dear Miss Dickinson: Since my return I have been more than busy. I have been rushed to a room, when I needed rest. This will explain my silence. I was glad to hear from you and that you are to read Jean de Arc. I know you will make it effective. Please make no reference to your case, and it will be a circumstance which will draw many to you. I thank you for the papers sent. They are interesting. The letter from the Irishman is good. Remember me to Mr & Mrs Ackerly, and with much love to yourself. I will resume the rest until I see you. Yours as ever A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN April 22, 1895. My dear Miss Dickinson:- I am delighted with the paper received this morning announcing your great success in Scranton, and the complimentary notices in the papers. I knew well enough when I came away that you had gained prestige enough out of that law suit to substantially put you on your feet, but we could not meet and contend against favoritism, and whatever else may have operated upon the four jurors to keep them from a verdict in your favor. The enclosed letter came here, and I would have forwarded it, but thought perhaps you might be in the city again before it could reach you. When do you return? Tell me what your plans are. Now is a good time to seize upon to get yourself started again before the public, and every success will strengthen you for the future, and I firmly believe all is dependent upon yourself. You can drive your adversaries and your critics into the shadows by simply leaving them alone, at least for the present, and polishing up your armor and weapons so that they shall gleam before the world with their old-timed luster. Mrs. Dailey joins in love to yourself and Mrs. Ackerly. Hoping to hear from you soon, I am, as ever, Faithfully yours, A.H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors Phenix Building, 16 Court St. Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. May 9th 1895. My Dear Miss Dickinson: Yours received. The scrap Book is at my office, and is at your disposal. I have heard nothing from Mr McLean. I am glad you have written him, and am sorry you did not do so before. I am just back from Albany whither I went in the interest of some ladies striving to have our laws see. a time to the commitment of the alleged insane very much changed, but as yet nothing definite in the matter. I am feeling pretty well and so is Mrs Dailey. I expect to be in the office from two to three p.m. tomorrow but if you call and I am not in I will leave the book on top of the case by the mirror. I will have to find some other place for your papers as my safe is too full to be useful. I hope you are well. Please remember me to Mr & Mrs Ackerly. Yours faithfully A.H. Dailey.DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. September 4th., 1895. My dear Miss Dickinson:- We reached home yesterday morning after a pleasant ride across the country and give your letter present attention. It is needless for me to say that I find myself seriously embarrassed by your matters which are now in my hands. The result of the long trial in Pennsylvania, while virtually a vindication of yourself and your mental condition ^ it was not so absolutely decisive as to make it of a desired value in the other litigations against the newspaper. Now to go back and collect our evidence together again ,and go to the expense which must necessarily be borne, is an undertaking from which I must confess I naturally shrink. I have consulted with my partners in relation to it, and they are utterly opposed to my going on further in these matters. The trial in Pennsylvania last Spring, threw over a number of my cases which I was anxious to try and expected to try before the summer vacation. I certainly cannot afford to sacrifice the interests of my clients here as I did before, and am inclined to think that you would fare better with some attorney in Pennsylvania than with a lawyer from this state. I have heard nothing from Mr. McLean since I saw you. He is a good lawyer ,and might feel to suggest to you some proper man in Pennsylvania,to take up the trial of the case. We will gladly give substitution to any one you may select in all of the cases ,and relinquish any c laim we have to any compensation for the services rendered. I am sorry to say this to you ,for it will likely be something of a disappointment, but when you calmly look it over, I think you will agree that I have done all that I am able to do in this matter. I am as ever, Faithfully yours, A. H. Dailey.No. 405 West 22 St New York 9. 27. 1895 To/ Hon. A. H. Dailey Dear sir & friend, Will you please to let me know at your early convenience whether you have informed Mr. McLean of the subject matter of your letter of Sep 4th to me? — I trust youare well, & am always truly yours Anna E. Dickinson No. 405 West 22nd St. New York 9.29.1895 To/ Hon. A. H. Dailey Dear sir & friend, Will you please to look at your copy of your letter to me of Sep. 4th. With mine to you of Sep. 27th & you will see why I write to you for a fuller reply than that you sent me yesterday. I am sorry to tax you but [my position is such as to] am compelled [me] to do so. = What answer did Mr. McLean make to you? = Did he objectto his sharer of expense to be borne? =Did you tell him of the offers made you in the Wourt Room at Scranton to share the necessary output in this matter? (=Were they such as would still hold good?) =You said one was from a prominent lawyer have you had any communication with Mr McLean concerning him. (=And will you kindly send me his mane?) =Did you say to Mr. McLean that you thought I would fare better with some attorney in Pa than with yourself? = And that you would give substitution in all the cases? What did he say in answer to all the [on so much of this as you wrote? =Did he tell you that he ??d Any how did the entire matter stand between you when you wrote to me Also will you] And did he [say][that] suggest to you that he had in hand a proper man in Pa. to associate with himself in the trial of the case[?]. There is a great deal in your letter, that is why I have to ask many questions - I am sure you will do me the kindness of a speedy reply at your convenience. I trust you are quite well & am always truly yours, A. E. D. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16. Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM. H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Sept. 30th, 1895 My Dear Miss. Dickinson: Answering yours rec'd today, will say Mr. McLean did not object to praying any portion of the expenses. He never sent me an account of his disbursements and I did not send him an accounts of mine. I wrote him stating that I paid for the jury's hotel bill, so he would not do the same thing. He asked me to let me know my entire disbursements and me would even them up. There the matter has rested, as I thought I had paid more than he otherwise I would have written him again. I do not recall the name of the lawyer who was willing to share expenses. His cousin was a juryman I am quire sure. I do not remember whether I told Mr. McLean of the offer or not while in Scranton or elsewhere than had no correspondence with Mr. McLean about another lawyer to try the case nor about your faring better with a Pa. lawyer, nor about my willingness to give up it cases to one. I have only said that to you. I only told him I could not understand such a task again I hope this is explicit and satisfactory, Yours Sincerely, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, PHENIX BUILDING, 16 COURT ST., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. --- TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Sept. 30th 1895. My Dear Miss Dickinson: Answering your letter will say that? soon after the trial I wrote Mr McLane saying that I did not feel able to make another expenditure of strength, money and time no better pay than we had the last time. That is all I recall. I hope you are quite well. I am Sincerely yours A.H. Dailey DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, PHENIX BUILDING, 16 COURT ST., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. --- TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. Jany. 4th 1896 My Dear Miss Dickinson: Yesterday I was called on the phone by the N.Y.Press attys. and was asked if we purposed to try your action against that association, informing me that if we did, they were going down to Penn. in th e retainer if the defendants there to help them, and if you were not going to try your case against the Press they had no interest in the Penn. action and would do nothing in it, but desired you to discontinue your action against the Press. They said attorneys for the Penn people were there and asked me to write you and let them know your decision the first of the week. I accordingly write you and will convey any communication you may desire to them - the Press - you may send. Please get some one to be substituted in our place in all your actions and oblige without unnecessary delay. I hope you are quite well and my regards to Mr. & Mrs. Ackeley I am faithfully Yours A.H. DaileyNumber 405 West 22 st New York City 1.13.1896 To: Hon. A. H. Daily Dear Sir & friend:- Pardon the delay in acknowledging your letter letter of Jan 4th. It did not reach me till three days after mailing & since then I have been very much from home [& busy]. = I regret this less as I presume the lapse of time is of no movement to you since there are no questions in your letter. [to be answered]: - When you entered for me the action against the "Puss" it was entered to be tried. I do not doubt their desire to have it discontinued: I would if I were in their place but our side has no interest in their desires. Certainly no one on this side can be expected to answer questions that [?] [tend] move towardsthe personal convenience or supposed profit of our adversaries but if the Press attorney is going to Pa to help his criminal friends their reach the truth so be it [As Mr. Howard said a day ???] I have enough in my hands now to hang them all. If he is going with the purpose of adding his quota of [flt] [foul] filthy lies he can be told I am not again going to serv as a target for that sort of action. In its silted I will furnish him with enough vile truth concerning [the] his chief employer - the acredited head the "Press" & his mortal Complications as will disable employee and employed together & I do not doubt your satisfaction in conveying the message since he seems to [desire] need one of some kind. Mr. & Mrs Ackley desire their best regards to you & Mrs. Dailey in which I join They hope that you are you are well & prospering. Believe me Truly yours A.E.D. DAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys & Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY JAMES D. BELL FREDERICK E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. January 25th, 1896. Miss Anna E. Dickinson, My dear Friend: - It is with great regret that I write you, informing you that owing to my condition of health, I find it impossible for me to longer carry with justice to you, and due regard to my s trength, the litigation I have had in hand for you for some time past. I spent nearly two weeks last Spring at Scranton in connection with Mr. McLean in the trial of the action against your persecutors, and really wish that it was possible for me to assist in trying the case again. There was a failure of the jury to agree, but we are well satisfied, influences were at work which brought about that disagreement, which was impossible for us to anticipate. I think upon another trial, with the knowledge we now have of the situation, a like result will be prevented, and that you will come off victorious. Your actions against the newspapers are so dependent upon success in Pennsylvania, that that litigation should be brought to a termination, and then your actions here pushed forward. I hope you will secure the ablest counsel to assist Mr. McLean if he does not wish to attempt the trial alone, that the country affords, and I will furnish to your counsel, any information or assistance that I consistently can, and hope you will have the success you soabundantly deserve. My firm will be ready and desire to give substitution to whom so ever you may employ to represent you. Yours very truly, A. H. DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE, Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. BAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERIC E. CRANE TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN Jan'y 25, 1896 Dear Mr McLean: Miss Dickinson informs me that you have notified her that her action in Penn. will be up for trial in March. I have informed her that I am physically unable to undertake the trial again, and to see or correspond with you about other counsel to assist you than myself. I regret exceedingly that I am so situated, and hope that she will find a way to have her case tried again and with better success than before. I have suggested that Lawyers residing near the scene and practicing in Penn. may be more efficient that those coming from another state. I give her this letter that she may have from me to you this statement of my conclusion. I hope you and your family are quite well. I am faithfully yours AH DaileyDAILEY, BELL & CRANE Attorneys and Counsellors, Phenix Building, 16 Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ABRAM H. DAILEY. JAMES D. BELL. FREDERICK E. CRANE. TELEPHONE, 841 BROOKLYN. July 24th, 1896 My Dear Miss Dickinson: It is impossible for me to fix a time when I will certainly be able to see you. Tomorrow at 4 would be as likely as any time to find me in. I am today having an attack of lumbago, and am lame, but feel better than I did this morning. I hope you are well. Yours faithfully, A.H. Dailey March 28th 1896 Dear Miss D. Can see you tomorrow, Saturday morning at office before 12 oclk. Yours hastily A.H. Dailey Mistake [?] [?]Postal Card - One Cent United States of America Feb 28 1030 [?] 96 This side is for address only. Miss Anna E. Dickinson 405 W. 22nd N.Y.