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Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs."

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08000 Author/Creator: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Place Written: s.l. Type: Typed document Date: May 1905 Pagination: 10 p. : Height: 26.5 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs." Opposing women's suffrage." Let it be here distinctly understood that no sensible man has fears of injury to the country on account of such participation. It is its dangerous undermining effect on the characters of the wives and mothers of our land that we fear." With autograph corrections and interlinear insertions.

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

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