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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
his name and address, in case you or yours should ever need legal assistance in these parts. He is Mrs. David T. Hall, of 32 Liberty St., New York. Did I write you of a Mrs. O. {???] Jinn [?] of Jacksonville, Fla. who wrote asking me to interest myself in getting a Woman’s Exchange started in that place? I wrote to Mrs. Alex. Whitehall, who, you know, has a winter residence near that place. Mrs. W. responded very amiably. Can’t you do something to help such an enterprise? I wish that I could write longer on this theme, but my hand is weak today, and I feel in a “gone to pieces” condition, for me a very unnatural state. So, dear [end of letter written perpendicular to the main text on page 1]
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