ttend your Convention in October. It is quite
impossible for me to leave England now, but I am deputed by
our London Committee for Woman's Suffrage to express their
sympathy with your movement, and the hope that the efforts
you are making will be crowned with success, and that Mrs.
Lucretia Mott will live to see the fruit of some of her good
and noble work.
Believe me yours truly, M. TAYLOR.
FROM LADY AMBERLY.
RODBOROUGH MANOR, STROUD, July 14, 1870.
DEAR MADAM:--I thank you much for your invitation to attend
your second decade meeting of the Woman's Suffrage
Association. I regret that it will not be in my power to
accept it. Much as I enjoyed my visit to America, it is
rather too far to undertake a second journey there. You
must, indeed be glad, after twenty years of work, to see the
great advance in public opinion on this question. It seems
now to be progressing very fast. I have just aided in
establishing a committee at Stroud, and we hope soon to have
one in every borough in England for female suffrage.
Yours truly,
Mrs. P. W. DAVIS. KATE AMBERLY.
280 PARK ROAD, SOUTH HILL, LIVERPOOL.
DEAR MADAM:--Mrs. Butler regrets very much not to have been
able to write to you before, and begs you will kindly accept
her apologies as well as her thanks for your invitation to
your Decade Meeting. I have the honor and privilege to be at
present Mrs. Butler's Secretary. She is overwhelmed with
work, and would be thankful for your sympathy in it. I wish
I could give you a clear idea of the battle she has to
fight, but it is very difficult for me, as a German, to put
it in adequate words.
Mrs. Butler's introductory essay to "Woman's Work and
Woman's Culture" only gives a faint idea of her character
and strivings, compared to the grand reality of her life.
She has devoted more than fifteen years to the rescue of
"fallen women"--a work that requires more active charity and
self-denial than any other. The Engl
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