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Joseph A. Dugdale correspondence on women's suffrage, 1870
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-field & others, and also to visit your city and attend convention; but I must deny myself that pleasure I think, and leave the good cause in other hands. I can hardly afford the trip. Should I call a convention here I immagine the friends at Mt. Pleasant would think the distance too great to come, would they not? I have not written to the friends in Des Moines, because I supposed you or Bell Mansfield would do so if you thought it desirable. It is now too late I fear, to do anything farther, I have waited to hear more particulars of your movement before corresponding with the friends who were ready, with me, to call such convention in the early fall. We had planned it all some time ago and were only waiting. Have you the name of Major O'Connor? He is a warm friend. So too is Frank Palmer, I think. With many good wishes for
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-field & others, and also to visit your city and attend convention; but I must deny myself that pleasure I think, and leave the good cause in other hands. I can hardly afford the trip. Should I call a convention here I immagine the friends at Mt. Pleasant would think the distance too great to come, would they not? I have not written to the friends in Des Moines, because I supposed you or Bell Mansfield would do so if you thought it desirable. It is now too late I fear, to do anything farther, I have waited to hear more particulars of your movement before corresponding with the friends who were ready, with me, to call such convention in the early fall. We had planned it all some time ago and were only waiting. Have you the name of Major O'Connor? He is a warm friend. So too is Frank Palmer, I think. With many good wishes for
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