NAWSA    GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE    Ames, Mary C.


Private
Mary Clement Ames
Brooklyn
Oct 14 / 72
91 Cumberland St
Brooklyn N. Y.
Oct 14. 1872
Mr. Blackwell
Dear Sir
Your
letter requesting my name
for the Massachusetts 
Womens Call had just
strayed around to me
and altho' I am not


by birth a Massachusetts
woman, and have never
yet allowed my name
to go to any public
call whatever, believing
such an act would involve
new responsibilities -- while
those devolving on me
already, are more than 
I am able to do full
justice to -- never the less
had I received your
letter in season I

should have given you 
my name believing that
after my public utterances
I could not in justice
have withheld it, and
not wishing to do so in
a cause which I have
so honestly and earnestly
at heart.  I write to say
so.  Also to tell you for
all future time that I
am in no wise "a Bohemian"
but a steady householder



and that save during
the sessions of Congress I
am never in Washington
and that any lines
addressed to the [?]
ing this letter will reach 
me from the beginning
of the year to the end,
without delay.  With
affectionate remembrance
for your wife, Sincerely,
Your friend
Mary Climmer Ames


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