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ARMSTRONG, Wm Feb 27- 1900
No. 22 Willow St. Brooklyn - N.Y. Feb 27th 1900.
My Dear Mrs Sewall:
You have often been in my thoughts, and I hope you have remembered me. Often I have been on the point of writing, and some one of those busy interruptions would sweep in and keep me from it.
I am delighted that
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lecture some here during lent. It may be that I go abroad next summer. In such event do you think it could be arranged for me to lecture at the Exposition on "The Work of American Women in Music" and subsequently on "Music in America" ?
The subjects are both very near to me. If I go I shall lecture
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in London - and have been asked to speak in Brussels.
I want to do what I can in the world and feel sure of your sympathy, which has already been so nobly helpful to me. Both my mother and sister are in Philadelphia. Sister is on The Editorial staff of the North American. I am very proud of her.
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I knew, though, that she needed mother more than I, but it was hard to give her up. So now I am obliged to be content for a little with fleeting vists when they send for me to come to Philadelphia to review important musical performances for the North American.