Correspondence with Miss Dyer, Oct. 12, 1889, "Josie", Feb. 2, 1895, and Mrs. Oliver, Melrose, Dec. 14, 1897, Mrs. Banlett, Boston, Dec. 29, 1878, Mr. Bacon, Feb. 1, 1901, Mrs. Fannie Pratt, Jan. 30, 1893-Dec. 16, 1904, Jno. C. Maker, Melrose, June 25, 1893, Bro. Dearborn / Mary A. Livermore. 1878-1

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Correspondence with Miss Dyer, Oct. 12, 1889, "Josie", Feb. 2, 1895, and Mrs. Oliver, Melrose, Dec. 14, 1897, Mrs. Banlett, Boston, Dec. 29, 1878, Mr. Bacon, Feb. 1, 1901, Mrs. Fannie Pratt, Jan. 30, 1893-Dec. 16, 1904, Jno. C. Maker, Melrose, June 25, 1893, Bro. Dearborn / Mary A. Livermore. 1878-1904.

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Note to Miss Dyer replying to a request for an article on "Dress", putting it off until after Christmas because she is busy with other literary work. Note to her cousin Josie enclosing Cong. Draper's response to Livermore's request to obtain her cousin's son a place at the Naval Academy. The reponse in not enclosed here. Reply to Mrs. Oliver's offer of hospitality explaining the age and ill health of members of Livermore's family (she was 77 at this time) Note to Mrs. Banlett, sending a book and referring her to find the others; mentions starting west for three months, reluctantly. Livermore describes the beginnings of her famous lecture "The battle of life". Six letters and a postcard to Mrs. Fannie B. Pratt, of Boston, concerning meetings of the Wintergreen Club and Livermore's activities and health. In the latest letter Livermore is concerned with getting Mrs. [Julia Ward] Howe to come. Letter to Maker thanking him for his note about the Melrose school being named for her and agreeing to provide a gift for the building. Letter to Bro. Dearborn asking for a "good word' in the Boston Journal for "John Baker," a lecturer and victim of the Czar, [1879?]

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