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{in a second hand: WHITTIER, JOHN G FEB 1 1890}
Amesbury Mass Feb. 1 1890
My Dear Friend
None can more heartily congratulate thee on thy three score and ten years of a life nobly devoted to the welfare of humanity -- to unremitting labor for Tem perance, for the abolition of Slavery, and for Equal Rights of citizenship irrespect -ive of sex or color. To have lived, to see
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the end of Slavery, and I hope that thee will live to see Prohibition enforced in every state in the Union, and sex no longer the condition of citizenship.
God bless thee, and give thee many more years made happy by works of love and duty!
I am truly thy friend John G Whittier