WCP7168

[1]

Hartford Conn.

July 7. 1889

My dear Mr. Wallace.

By postal of June 18^th I learn that you have moved & also that plainly you have never received a letter from me dated Feb. 3. in which I asked you seriously to consider coming to this country in case you should decide to leave Godalming. I kept a copy in part of that letter & now enclose it to you, wondering greatly where it has been traveling all these months. I will send also by same mail the speech referred to, & some other printed matter which will show how hard we have been working for political equality in the interest of law & order. My letter was in the same large envelope with my pamphlet & I paid the postage myself in order to make sure of accuracy. Again I wrote Mrs John Riddulph Martin of London about these places of benevolence & education in which she is deeply interest & sent her a copy of my letter to you (to Mrs Wallace rather in acknowledgement of her New Year's Card) in the hope that she might confer with you in regard to coming to this Country & joining us in good work. As she has not replied I am led to conclude both letters are [2] lost — since they were mailed by me most carefully at the same time. Mrs Martin is the noted Miss Victoria Woodhull — a spinster[?] [illeg.] — a medium & a noble woman & I really thought from a conversation I had with her last summer she would soon feel called to [illeg.] a great work[?] in this country in which <she> could be of great assistance & that she would be drawn to you as a trustworthy agent — & even now I cannot quite give up the hope that something is to come of my dream.

Your book came in due season & I have eagerly read & assented to the last chapters keeping the back of the book for my summer vacation, which has only just begun & I am very tired of thinking & working out problems. I determined on absolute repose for a few weeks. It is amazing & comforting to see how the world is waking up to higher thought & purpose in so many directions. I could write much of this in our own country but will not allow myself at present. When you have read my former letter & speech perhaps you will write me again — and when you do please tell me which of your books contains that original suggestion that evolution must in the future proceed in the line of the spiritual. I remember you showed it me but I have forgotten the title & I must have it. With much interest in every one of your family & a strong desire to see you all again

I am faithfully yours

Isabella B. Hooker¹ [signature]