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^ 253 November 1898 to debate a bill requiring that sleeping car companies segregate passengers into separate cars. (Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina Passed at the Regular Session of 1898 [Columbia, S.C., 1898], 777–78; Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, Race Distinctions in American Law [New York, 1910], 216–20; Linda M. Matthews, “Keeping Down Jim Crow: The Railroads and the Separate Coach Bills in South Carolina,” South Atlantic Quarterly 73 [Winter 1974]: 117–29; Washington Post, 13 November 1898.) ••••••••• 106 • ECS to SBA [New York, c. 4 December 1898] 1 Bob Hattie & I read last night until after eleven. I feared it might be prosey, but it is fresh & breezy. Miss nMrsp H. has done well & so [in margin] have you Y AN, Ida Harper Woman Suffrage Scrapbook 3, Rare Books, DLC. 1. This note probably falls after 3 December 1898.On that date,SBA remarked in a letter to ECS, “You do not report receiving the Advance sheets,” meaning pages of Ida Harper’s biography of SBA. This seems to be a response. See Film, 38:963–64. ••••••••• 107 • SBA to Ida Husted Harper Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1898— My Dear Mrs Harper Your letter of last Saturday came yesterday—and I read & re-read it— and was going to argue the question of newspaper work—but this mornings despatches of the Hawaian Commissions report for nthep provisional government of that new U.S. territory to be based on sex regardless of intelligence—instead of on intelligence regardless of sex—so roused me that I said if Mrs Harper can hold her pen from pitching into such a brutal proposal—at the close of this war—at the nveryp opening of the 20th century — 1 If her soul is not so fired that all other work—in Mexico or Europe fades out of sight with her—it is of no use for me to talk—she must choose 2 december 1898 ...

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