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Title	June 21, 1869 Letter from Frances Willard and Kate Jackson to Sister Fuller and Professor
Date	June 21, 1869
Creator	Willard, Frances E. (1839-1898)
Recipient	Fuller, Spencer R. (1829-1870), Fuller, Sarah H. (1838-1913)
Description	Letter written from Paris where Frances Willard and her good friend, Kate Jackson (who was one of Willard's friends from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, NY), have gone to visit, study and learn. Spencer Fuller was the minister in the Black River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. There is also a note of Willard having an article accepted into Harper's Magazine. In August of 1869, Harper's published an article written by Willard titled "A peep at Finland."
Physical Description	27.9 x 21.6 cm.; 4 pgs total, 4 pgs text
Location	Archive Box 1730C
Address From	Paris
Country From	France
Transcription	Paris, June 21, 1869 “Sister Fuller” and “Professor”: My dear Friends: Having had the pleasure of reading your kind letters (that I shall reply to in a manner far less interesting than Kate is capable of) it becomes me to express personally the obligation under which I feel myself for them. Dr. and Mrs Latimer of Rochester, N.Y., sail for home on Monday next, and we wish to send off a bundle of letters by them. It is my turn to put you in our debt, and Kate is busy with a translation of a French story for Mrs. Sewell’s “Little Corporal.” She has got on famously this winter and you would be surprised to hear her handling of the language of Parisians. We have spent six pleasant and profitable months of study, have seen the chief marvels of this marvellous city, have learned much about French literature and are tolerably at home with the language. Kate speaks quite as well as need be and I can say anything I please and understand all I hear, but make mistakes often on gender & in tenses. We have commenced studying Italian which is not as difficult and hope to get a fair knowledge of it before our return. For all, we are not idlers, but are turning our advantages to the best account we know how. We have made some very agreeable American acquaintances – among others are Dr and Mrs Latimer – very intelligent persons and delightful company. They came abroad last September & it is astonishing how much they have seen & at low little expense. He has visited Greece, Egypt & Palestine, while she was studying music at Leipzic and they have both been to Italy. Mrs. L. tells … that “Herman” with whom there was so much trouble at the Ge … college when we were at the Seminary has become religious and has preached since quitting college but is now at the head of an institution in some New York town. I was glad to hear of his mending his ways She knew nothing of an engagement between him and Roy Brodie… [Part of this letter is torn away and much damaged]… …what marvels of luxury and art there are at Paris. Everything that one can learn, can desire for mind or heart or body abounds on every side. We have seen much of French people – Catholics, Protestants, liberal thinkers (these last most numerous of all). The national traits of which we read are very evident – the courtesy, kindness, grace, superficiality, instability, combined with great intelligence, quickness of skepticism and fondness for the amenities of life in all their forms. But faith counts for little here – in private life, in politics, or in religion. The calm, broad basis on which the sacred home life of America reposes is almost entirely wanting. You have perhaps read of riots in Paris, in connection with the recent elections. They amounted to very little and in our quarter of the city were only heard of through the journals. Paris is so large, nothing save an tremendous revolution can ever move it from center to circumference & this quiet, intelligent progressive party do not desire. “We have shed blood enough,” they say, “now has come the war of ideals, and sooner or later we shall win.” It seems strange that the daily papers must all be examined by government agents before their publication, to make sure that they contain nothing “incendiary” – that certain ones were not allowed to be sold upon the street but must be sought at a bookstore that… …. Tell me about politics, I beg you, and how Grant and the Republican party bear their victories. Tell me about the reforms of the day, the Temperance question, the suffragettes, the “Woman.” You don’t know how hungry I am to know what happens in the world at home. My dear Mother writes often and sends the local news, but aside from that we know less of American by far than you of France. Newspapers we have told our friends not to send us as there is so high a tax that we must dispense with that luxury and we are too busy to go to the banker’s, miles away, and read… /s/ Frank Willard
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Library	Bridwell Library
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of Bridwell Library
Decade	1860-1869