Note 35 — Chapter XVI · (continued 2)
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CORRESPONDENCE.
To Miss Anna E. Dickinson, Philadelphia, Pa.:
Miss Dickinson:—Heartily appreciating the value of your services in the campaigns in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New York, and the qualities that have combined to give you the deservedly high reputation you enjoy; and desiring as well to testify that appreciation, as to secure to ourselves the pleasure of hearing you, we unite in cordially inviting you to deliver an address at the capital this winter, at some time suited to your own convenience.
Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 1863.
Hannibal Hamlin,Ira Harris,James A. Garfield,
Charles Sumner, and sixteen otherHenry C. Deming,
Henry Wilson, Senators.R. B. Van Valkenburg,
Benjamin F. Wade,Schuyler Colfax,A. C. Wilder,
John Sherman,Thaddeus Stephens, and seventy other
James Dixon,William D. Kelley, Representatives.
H. B. Anthony,Robert C. Schenck,
Gentlemen:—I thank you sincerely for the great and most unexpected honor which you have conferred upon me by your kind invitation to speak in Washington. Accepting it, I would suggest the 16th of January as the time, desiring the proceeds to be devoted to the help of the suffering freedmen.
Anna E. Dickinson.
Truly yours,
1710 Locust St., Phila., June 7, 1864.