Elizabeth Oakes Smithto Stanley

Extent:

3 p.

Scope and content:

[Says she is recovering from illness; longs for snow while suffering through North Carolinaweather; tells him that [Appleton] is clearing woods and trying to repair the yacht in which he was almost wrecked; hopes to escape the fevers next autumn by going away; says she has been elected "Worthy Chief Templar" by the local lodge and she is also superintendent of the Sunday School; describes poverty of the local people; the flag at the lodge is at half-mast because of Vice President Henry Wilson's death; talks about the mischief done by Northern scalawags to the colored people; feels that the colored are seeing through it all; stresses that the colored are in need of schools and instruction of every kind; she and her group are enrolling coloreds in their own lodges; believes that the Negroes are unwilling to work and do so only when driven by necessity.]

Names:

Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Henry Wilson

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