Letter from Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery to May Wright Sewall. (May Wright Sewall Papers)

Letter from Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery to May Wright Sewall.

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NOT MATTER, BUT MIND.

THE WOMAN'S BRANCH OF THE AUXILIARY

MRS. POTTER PALMER, PRESIDENT. MRS CHARLES HENROTIN, VICE-PRESIDENT.

WOMAN'S COMMITTEE ON A CONGRESS OF REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN: MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, CHAIRMAN, Indianapolis, Ind. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, SECRETARY, Somerton, Philadelphia, Pa.

SARAH HACKETT STEVENSON M.D. FRANCES E. WILLARD. JULIA HOLMES SMITH M.D. ELIZABETH BOYSTON HARBERT. MRS. JNO. C. COONLEY. MRS. WM. T. BROWN.

CHICAGO, U.S.A., Dec. 17. 1892

9.25 P.M. Union Depot.

My dear, dear May,

My hitherto carefully restrained emotions must be allowed some vent -- so I indulge myself by acting upon your suggestion that I write you soon. I permit myself the extravagance of using a sheet of the Aux. Cong. of Rep(robate) Women paper, in order to feel that at least one sheet of it bears its heading of "Chicago U.S.A." appropriately and honestly. I shall feel that in the eyes of all true Chicagoans this will justify its having been printed in this way - one letter from the modern hub of the universe outweighing in weight (in scope and value, so to speak) all the rest of the correspondence concerning the W. C. of Rep. Women.

When you said tonight that I was funny

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I might have honestly replied [that?] just then I would willingly have been a clown to secure a smile from you and to hear your voice with its usual and natural cheery ring - I could not however, take to myself the credit of producing these symptoms of a return to your usual serene frame of mind, for I knew them attributable to the fact that you were in a car on a track which reached to Indianapolis, [?] and home - and I appreciated your feeling - the same adventatious combination of circumstances (Phila and [Wilm?]) being substituted in the trio of attractions) would probably make me smile too, even tho the metaphors of the person to whom I was listening were as inextricably mixed as are the plans of the Lady Board in connection with the Woman's Bldging and the ideas of the W. Cong. Aux. in relation to the World's Cong. and the [N.?] C. and I. C. W. What could be more so?

You need not file this even if it is on this precious paper. Believe me with deep and abiding love, boundless admiration of your ability and limitless faith in yourself. Yours. R.F.A.

Train leaves in 5 minutes

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