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THOMAS M. LOUISE JAN 12, 1889
680 Lexington Ave. New York Jany. 12-1889
My dear Mrs. Sewell,
I want your prompt attention and help in a somewhat personal matter. I will enclose a letter which [?] explain the matter in hand. Return it to me when you are done with it and tell me how I can best carry out the plan. Send [?] by return mail a list of every bona fide Woman's Club in the country, [?] too, if you can who in was [?] first proposed the calling to together of such a convocation, when it was proposed, and where? I heard it first in Washington but cannot recall which [?]. Mrs. Croly was very angry when I stated this in our meeting and declared that she, and she alone had first proposed it, that the Chicago Women know this, and that they have begged her as the
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proposed and orginator to take the [?] charge of such a convention for [?] Chicago I [?] you to tell me, or if you do not know, to ascertain for me how much of this is true. Let us have the truth by all means, first of all. We are quite ready to call the meeting but the time is very short and I wish you to help me all you can as my term of office expires by [?] on [?] 21st [b?] [?] in March next. If you would send both these letters to dear Rachel Foster and ask her to help me also, I will be glad.
I have been busy every minute since I saw you - driven to death. I have moved from my old [?] home and am scarsly settled yet in this new one, but feel that I shall be able to do better work for the charge after awhile. Lucy lives just around the corner in
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[36th?] St. Only the [?] house between and the coming in of the[?] childen brightens the days for me.
Our trunk build [?] the [?] and [?] in the West Point [?] disaster October 16th [?] [?] day before yesterday, but we have not yet learned its condition. I fear it has suffered by the storage!
Yours faithfully, M. Louise Thomas
