Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, Miscellaneous, undated (Box 5, Folder 7)

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On my past-that I have in this way reminded you about her-and I thought that a letter of sympathy from you would be something that would certainly be gratifying to her-in this her great sorrow and despair I will add her address and ask you to pardon me for troubling you with this long letter-yours-

very cordially Sarah Hall Hallock

Mrs. Ernstine L Rose 32 St Petersbury Place Bayswater London, England

about Ernstine Rose from Milton on the Hudson Sarah Halleck Chester Co. N.Y. March 27th-

Miss Anneken?,

I saw a letter from you in the Western Woman's Journal, which recalled to my mind-hearing you address a meeting in New Yoek many years ago-soon after your arrival in this country you spoke in German and Ms. Rose translated for you into English

I write now to tell you if you have not heard that Ms. Rose has recently lost her good husband-they lived in London England-Ms. Rose died

very suddenly in the street of heart disease-

I have had letters from a friend in LondonThey say that she is quite inconsolable, and will not be [conefacted?], for my part, I am not so much surprised, she depended so much upon him, he was the younger, and has always been the stronger. As her long avoided imbelief in a future state forbids her the prospect of meeting him in the future, they say she is very [coretsched?], and will not consent to any thing that will help her in any way that she will not ride or walk-or any thing her friends wish, and they say

She has many friends and very good ones, It is quite possible that you may not remember so much about her as I think her name is Ernestinea Rose, she is a native of Poland, but was brought up in Germany-her father was a Jewish Rabbi-she went to England [married?] William Rose-they came to America with the elder Protest Owen many years ago-and Ms. Rose was for years the most elongent advocate of Women Suffrage.

About a dozen years ago they returned to England-as they said because it did not cost so much to live in London as in New York.

I hope it may not seem too much like [illegible...]