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SEPTEMBER · I 897 From Blanche Kelso Bruce Washington D C Sept 8/97 My dear Friend Washington, A thousand thanks for your telegram. It shall be acted upon as soon as the President arrives. I had a pleasant talk with the Secretary of the Treasury today, and feel that he is my friend. I shall push things with vigor now. Mrs B. starts to Nashville Saturday, lath inst. where she will meet Mrs Washington. I trust our ladies may accomplish more in their conventions2 than we men have thus far done in ours. Sincerely yr frd B. K. Bruce ALS Con. ~4 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Lyman Judson Gage (~836-~927~. 2 The third annual meeting of the National Association of Colored Women met Sept. ~5-~7, 1897, at the Howard Congregational Church in Nashville. Mrs. BOW was chairman of the executive committee, and Mrs. Bruce was on the resolutions committee. The sixty-three delegates represented twenty-six clubs. BTW made a short speech on the second day. Among the resolutions adopted were condemnations of both rapists and lynchers, a call for humanization of the convict-lease system, commendation of the WCTU, and a petition to state legislatures to repeal the Jim Crow car laws. (Nashville American, Sept. ~6, 1897, 8; Sept. ~7, 1897, 5; Sept. 18, 1897, 5.) From John Langalibalele Dube Brooklyn N.Y. Sept. Both '97 My dear Sir: Can I use your name as indorsing my work. I have recently visited your establishment. I shall be pleased to hear favorably. Yours very truly John L. Dube ALS Con. ~7 BTW Papers DLC. 327