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Sept 9, 1890

My dear Mrs Stanford

Your note of yesterday
was under my plate this A.M.
at breakfast. I am awfully
sorry I ventured to make my
request of the 4th and brought
such an added humiliation to you
in your position as equal and yet
not an equal in that great [corpora ?-]
tion and yet perhaps it is well for
you to be made fully sensible as to the
extreme length of the rope for a
woman member - as compared with
that for a man. I am just