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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Lucy Stone writes to Samuel May giving him "an account of my recent meetings" at Cummington and Chester Village. Stone says Charles C. Burleigh could not attend the meetings "by reason of illness in his family" and so she spoke alone at the meetings. She describes being picked up and taken to Cummington in "an open wagon with only one seat and a large barrel in front filled with bottles of mead." While traveling, "we were overtaken by a severe shower, which ... poured into the wagon such a quantity as to give us a delightful foot bath." Stone says she met the Staffords at Cummington and they held their meeting in the "little red schoolhouse [as it] was the only place we could have ..." She describes the local congregational minister, "Mr. Chapman," as a member of "the association and hoped he could do good by staying in it." Stone then discusses her meeting the following day in Chester Village, where "both meeting houses there were closed against us and the Hall was occupied by the Sons of Temperance so that there was no place for a Sat[urday] evening meeting." She tells May that on Sunday they managed to hold a small, but "pleasant, good meeting, both then and in the evening" but the later meeting was "somewhat disturbed by the crackers which had not all been spent on the 4th."

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