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Letter, January 3, 1885, Julia Ward Howe, New York, to Ellen Call Long, Tallahassee, 6 pp., recalling their meeting at the New Orleans World Exposition and requesting her help ''in my efforts to forward and organize the industries of women.'' Also discusses ''what has become of papers and reports which, to my certain knowledge, have been mailed to you. . . We are settled here for the winter . . . Our object is to be near an older married daughter of mine . . . We regret our Boston, and our New Orleans too, and try to make the best of our residence here. This is my native city, but I have lived out of it for forty years . . . Did I write you of . . . getting a Woman's Exchange started in [Jacksonville]? . . . Can't you do something to help such an enterprise? . . .''
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CALL FAMILY PAPERS
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Correspondence, 1884-1889
for the winter, my dear Maud and I. Our object is to be near an older married daughter of mine who lives not far from this city. We [???] our Boston, and our New Orleans too, and try to make the best of our residence here. This is my native city, but I have lived out of it for forty years and more, and have now no near tie here except the neighborhood of the daughter just mentioned, who has a fine family of children growing up. Her husband is a lawyer, and I will give you
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