Letter : [Concord, Mass.] to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, [1879] Aug. 4.

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Letter : [Concord, Mass.] to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, [1879] Aug. 4.

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Writing as chairwoman of the Concord Suffrage Society asking Higginson to join Dr. Peabody and the Hon. Geo[rge Frisbie] Hoar at a public meeting in Concord - "... people are very slow to move & need a good rousing... only twelve women have registered as yet..." Forms part of the Higginson/Fields Autograph Album.

1 item (4 p.), in album ; 38 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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