Letter from Isabella Beecher Hooker to May Wright Sewall.

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HOOKER ISABELLA BEECHER

Tuesday Morn

Dear Friend

In reply to yours recd yesterday evening, let me say I will do my best to get a song for Auld Lang Syne but the time is short - especailly since I had given up going to [Wash.?] at all - after I found that my name was not in the programme of Woman's Journal for even a fifteen minutes speech. I wrote Susan on Sat'y that I was not going to [W?] to be ignored by [?] with the same cool insults that

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had been offered me for merely years past. She telegraphed me 'you must come - telegraph me title of your speech". [?] the telegraph boy in waiting I answered "The Centennial of 1892." & now I have two or three days to prepare both speech & song - & I am only two years younger than Miss Anthony. In haste

I.B.Hooker

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