Colby--Series: Correspondence - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1887-1902, undated (Clara Bewick Colby papers, 1860-1957; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Box 2, Folder 10)

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I think the Woman's Journal will publish this week as it is an open letter to the N.A W.S.A you can publish it too if you wish. Striking out a few sentences it would do for the committee which you could read also

I think I answer all the objections you mention you shall have it in type to morrow. I end both speeches with the "royal hen" guarding the ballot box Susan does not see

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eye to eye with me this time neither does my daughter Hattie but I am right Six states have an educational qualification & many southern states are discussing it This minimum [illegible]

snobbery by the thousands will compel us to pass such an amendment to our National constitution

I am slowly losing my eye sight a cataract in both eyes. so you must guess at half the words yours ever Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I cannot read what I have just written. My hand has not lost its cunning & executes my will without the direction of the eyes. My hands play on the piano what I learned when young though