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HOAR, GEORGE F FEB 5 1890
Washington Feb 5. 90
Mrs. May Wright Sewall
My dear Madam
I do not think it will be in my power to attend the dinner to be given to Mrs. Anthony, Feb 15th. I shall feel great interest in its proceed ings. My personal aquantance with Miss Anthony is slight; but I know her great earnestness in every righteous cause is finally that most righteous of all causes, the cause of woman's suffrage. I hope that cause may revive a new impulse from your gathering.
A I grow older I feel
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arrived, year by year. That the granting suffrage to woman will remedy many evils which now are attenant on popular goverment; and if we are to dispair of that cause we must dispair of the final establishment of furtive as the controlling power in the political affairs of mankind.
I am faithfully yours Geo F Hoar