N. 1710 Locust St

Phila. 29. April 1867.

How are you dear friend?—Well through the winter's hard work & at home?— How did'st bear the western travel & fatigue?—I have heard & read a thousand good & charming

things about you, & I hope you are thinking as well of the people whom you have seen as they are evidently thinking of you.—

Are you too tired for a fresh effort?—My friend Mr. Pugh tells me that he has written to you begging you to speak here on the 14. of May, & asks me to second his request which I do very gladly.—

You couldn't come here under better auspices than his,—he'll treat you well.—get up the meeting beautifully (I speak from experience, he always gets up mine)—pay you whatever you may desire.—put you into our beautiful Academy,—give you a comparitively fresh set of people to talk to;—do come if you can.—

It will be Friends Yearly Meeting week too.—& there will be a multitude of

the out of town Friendly's who will be only too happy to hear you. In addition I want you to come to 1710 & let us make much of you.—

If you can't possibly come will you so write him.—if you can will you do him the kindness to telegraph him at once at his expense.—Again I repeat, do, dear old boy come if you can.—

MotherDickinson, Mary Edmundson

Mary Edmundson Dickinson (1799-1889), a Quaker abolitionist, was married to John Dickinson, a cousin of Founder of John Dickinson. They married in 1832 and had three children, including Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Papers of Anna E. Dickinson; Delaware Gazette and State Journal, 16 May 1889) & SueDickinson, Susan Evelyn

Susan Evelyn Dickinson (1832-1915) was an American journalist and the older sister of abolitionist Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. desire their love sent to Frederick, & I with her wishes am always faithfully yours Frederick Douglass

Anna E. DickinsonDickinson, Anna Elizabeth

Philadelphia-born and Quaker-educated Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932) began her career as a working woman, employed first as a copyist, then as a schoolteacher, and finally in the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. At the age of eighteen she first appeared on lecture platforms as a feminist and anti-slavery crusader. After she lost her job at the mint in December 1861 for accusing General George B. McClellan of treason, she became a full-time lecturer. Throughout the Civil War, Dickinson delivered Republican campaign speeches in New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania, and on 16 January 1864 she spoke before a distinguished audience of statesmen and military officials, including President Lincoln, in the hall of the House of Representatives. At the end of the war she joined the lyceum lecture circuit, speaking on behalf of Radical Republican Reconstruction measures and women's rights, and against Mormonism, large corporations, and craft unions. In the early 1870s Dickinson's popularity as an orator waned, and her attempts at comebacks, first as a playwright and actress in the late 1870s and early 1880s and then as a political orator during the 1888 election, proved unsuccessful. She spent the last forty years of her life in obscurity. Giraud Chester, Embattled Maiden: The Life of Anna Dickinson (New York, 1951); NCAB, 3:109; DAB, 21:244-45; NAW, 1:475-76.