Letter from Fanny Garrison Villard to May Wright Sewall.

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VILLARD F. G APR 4, 1917

April 4th 1917

Dear Mrs. Sewall:The letters that come to me these days are seldom like yours, I can assure you. Indeed, I have had very trying experiences everyday - to my great amazement, I must confess. Truth to tell, I am thinking of the Anti-Slavery struggle and of what the

[top margin:] Most Gratefully Yours, Fanny Gamison Villard.

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abolitionists endured and of Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone & Elizabeth Cady Stanton and what they and the Grimke Sisters endured in the way of ostracism and ridicule.

But it is well worth while to be in a minority for the sake of a righteous cause and I do not complain.

I have had a cold and have staid in doors to 2

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day, and I have not seen Miss Balch or Miss [Secoror?] anyone who was in Washing ton. The Pacifists were despised and rejected of men there and must have had an anxious time of it. President Wilson has no true moral courage else he would have prevented the war. This fine phrases really mean nothing when put to the 3

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best.

I am hoping as you are, that a revolution may take place in Ger many, and help us in our difficulty. But the loss of liberty & democracy is worse than the loss of money & that cannot quickly be made good. No one has been as true to the cause of peace as yourself and together we must hold fast to all that

[right margin:] is good. I know no how to express my thanks to you for lovely lettter

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