(SUFFRAGETTES) WILLARD FRANCES E Two Autograph Letters Signe

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(SUFFRAGETTES.) WILLARD, FRANCES E. Two Autograph Letters Signed, to President Cleveland's sister Rose E. Cleveland. The first, sending an enclosure [not present]. 1 page. The second, asking that she write an introduction for her book, How to Win. 3 pages, written on two separate sheets. Each 8vo, "Woman's National Christian Temperance Union" stationery. Evanston, May 25; June 29, 1886

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May 25: "I have avoided intruding upon You but the enclosed seems to demand it . . . ."
June 29: "I have read of your engagement to edit Literary Life with unfeigned pleasure: 'What a good thing for women.' . . .
". . . I am going to print for a holiday book . . . 'How to Win'--for girls. It is a need of mine to make a little money. Twelve hard years work leave me not a penny in bank . . . .
"May I ask . . . you will give me a brief word of 'Introduction'? . . . The Poet Whittier 'introduced' my little book 'Nineteen Beautiful Years' and I should prize 'beyond telling' your help in this emergency."