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51 Letterto elizabeth Cady stanton for the nationalWoman suffrage association Convention of 1880 May 15, 1880 London, England Rose wrote from England to Stanton in the spirit of their shared decades-long experience as founding members of the early women’s rights movement. She devotes her letter to the significance of suffrage as a human right, one that will serve as a “moral elevator” to bolster self-respect in women, and encourage higher aims in the improvement of society. n London, May 15, 1880 Dear Mrs. Stanton, You know me too well to require my assurance that it would give me great pleasure to be with you at your meeting on the second of June. But as that is impossible, I send my voice across the Atlantic to plead for Human rights without distinction of sex and to swell the grand chorus in the demand of Justice to Woman by declaring her right to the suffrage and proclaim her a citizen. But the suffrage is not only a badge of citizenship but a mental and moral elevator that prepares the possessor of it to self-respect and dignity and prepares him for greater usefulness and higher and nobler aims in the progress of Humanity. Success to our cause and love to the Friends devoted to it. Yours affectionately, Ernestine L. Rose p.p.s. I would have written more but was too ill and could hardly write what I did. My address is, in care of Mrs. A. Biggs, 19 Notting Hill Square, London ...

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