Colby--Series: Correspondence - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1887-1902, undated (Clara Bewick Colby papers, 1860-1957; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Box 2, Folder 9)

[Postmark, NEW YORK, N. Y. REG'Y. DIV., 1-4 1890]

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Verein der Lehrerinnen und Erzieherinnen in Österreich.

WIEN

I. Wipplingerstrasse Nr. 8 (Altes Rathhaus).

WIEN, am 17. 12. 1889

My lady,

I beg your pardon, first of all, if my want of speaking well English is the cause that I should commit a fault against the formalities dues to a lady of your rank. Yet I congratulate myself to be at least in as much able to communicate with you.

I am a member of the "Society of female teachers and governesses in Austria," and I was charged to inform myself of the right of election concerning ladies in the United States of America. I

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went to this purpose at the embassy of the United States in Vienna. The secretary gave me your direction, my lady, and councilled me to write to you, he told to me that you would be so kind as to give me all informations about the object in question, and that perhaps you would send to me a pamphlet relative to it. So I beseech you to be as kind as to impart to me of what sort are the "elections-laws" respective to the female citizens of the United States in America. I should like to know too what was done on the side of female

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citizens to acquire the right of elections.

Hoping that you will favour my humble request with a gracious answer I sign respectfully

Louise [name?] von Schewitz city-school teacher