NAWSA              GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE                        Hazlett, M. A.

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[*Hist?*]
Mrs Hazlett in the Upper Peninsula
leader
We make the following extracts from 
a private letter of Mrs Addle M
Hazlett of Hillsdale Mich, who has
just returned from a lecturing tour
in the Upper Peninsula.

[Hillsdale, Mich
Aug 24th, 1874
Col [Terry?]
Dear Sir,
Arrived
at home last night
Rec'd your letter in Chicago.
It is too bad you are
so deserted by those who
should stand behind you
with substantial help.
You say you are glad
you sent me to the Upper
Peninsula. So am I, for my
meetings have been a Great
success. Not once, since 
I wrote you from Houghton
has it been possible]

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to seat all my hearers
though the largest
attainable Halls have
been used.
¶ At Ishpeming, scores
of people probably hundreds
could not get in at all
& had to go away. Negaunee,
Menominee, Escanaba,
& Marquette also turned 
out [????] houses.
At Marquette I collected
$44 for the State Society, at Ishpeming $25 
& some money at other places
making in all at least
$100. [Have not yet looked
the account all up with
expenses & cannot today
as I have to go next train
to Toledo to look after business,
suffering from my long absence.]

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[Will send account in 
two or three days. I spent
$75 before collecting a cent,
& you may be sure I was
happy when I began to reap
the result of some hard
work]. ¶ If  I have done no
more I have set everybody
talking on suffrage. At Negaunee
men were in knots on the
street after my meeting discussing
the question excitedly till 2 o'clock
next morning. At Escanaba
an opponent sent a challenge
to the platform for discussion
with other parties for next evening. (it was
known I had an engagement 
for Menominee.) next evening
A lawyer & a doctor accepted &
the next evening I hear the
house was crammed full &
the discussion was as

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continue the following evening.
If two good speakers could
now follow me over the 
same events & do events freely
circulated we should carry the
Upper Peninsula. I had the 
pleasure of knowing I made
some votes among Irishumie
& Ermans. I send a Mequett
paper containing Inspiring & [Nyannie?]
Items. Also J. Endon the
vacancies & addresses of persons
to whom documents may be sent.
[I would advise tick] Let letters be
written to each of these parties
accompanying documents.  [Oh I
am half dishearted over one
want of means.]  I shall go
to work Sept 1st, [as you brief]
& will do my very best. Don't be
[much] discouraged. Thousands of men
are going quietly to the polls to vote for
Woman Suffrage [are] who now do'nt say anything at all
Hastily. M. A. Hazlett.

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