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The creation of public sentiment is always a slow work, and many fall off before the victory is one. I happened to be near you at the Woman Rights World, convention in New York, 1854. When [Florence?] Greely was introduced to you, and remember his sayings to you (in reference to woman) that you found there were still wrongs to [redep?] were in a free country. [Florence?] Greely, afterwards woman, most bitter opponent then recognized the country; lack 4 justice and made of consistency in regard to her. He fell out the battle rid her [naming?] [defiantly?] him in the ambition of his life, and a most eventually every one he crushed who stands before the wheels of progress.

Firmly your friend
Mathilde Joslyn Gage