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

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

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Title: Letter from Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery to May Wright Sewall.
Description: A note to Sewall during the planning of the World's Congress of Representative Women. Sewall is chairman of the Woman's Committee, Avery is secretary. "My restrained emotions must be allowed to vent," she sarcastically writes. "I permit myself the extravagance of using a sheet of the Auxiliary Congress of Rep(robate) Women." Apparently the "Lady Board" is engaging in a struggle for power over the Congress. A very moving letter. Rachel Foster Avery was Corresponding Secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association and later Recording Secretary then Auditor of the NAWSA.
Correspondent: Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-1919
Date: 1892-12-17; 1892
Time period: 1890s (1890-1899); 19th century;
Subject: Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920; World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Genre: Correspondence;
Theme: Women; Education;
Collection: May Wright Sewall Papers
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Copyright information: This item is in the public domain.
Physical repository: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Indianapolis Public Library
Repository collection name: May Wright Sewall letters
Digital publisher: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Date digitized: 2005
Repository: The Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections
Source: From: May Wright Sewall Papers
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