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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND. OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MoYLAN. PA.

PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAIJGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY,
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CORRESOJNDING SECRETARY, MARY WARE BENNETT. -AL'CE STONE BLACKWELL
505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY 45 BOUTWELL AVENUE. DORCHESTER. MASS

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PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARQ SHAW. MOVLAN. PA.

IST VICE~PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
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VALICE STONE BLACKWELL

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505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMIrrEE MISS CAROLINE l. REILLY.

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“’ AUXILIARIES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE. CHICAGO. ILLS.
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PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PA.
FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND
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r’RESIDENT. MRS. MACKAY. l MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

TELEDHONE 6855 BRYANT

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 505 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK

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July 27th. 1911.

Dear ”ember of the Official Boa‘d:-

I am sending you a copy of a letter just received by
Vise Ashley and me from Miss Gordon, also copies of our replies. I felt
it was wise to do this for fear there might be some other members of the
Board who are feSling as Wise Gordon does in regard to Mrs. Belmont’s
pledge and the sooner that sort of feeling is laid aside the easier it will
be for us to do our work and there are surely enough problems to meet

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WJiCh are necessary without our going out of our way to find them.

I have also-another vote to send you. You know at the last
Convention ”rs. Upton, ”re. We Cullooh and I loaned the Association $1000
to be used in the campaign in Oklahoma. If the campaign won the debt
was to be caneelled, if not it was to be returned.

Now comes a demand fromICalifornia for assistance and,
if there is enough money in the Susan B, Anthony Fund, I feel we should
utilize it as far as we can to aid present campaigns and I also feel that
since that thousand dollars was part borrowed for campaign purposes it
should come out of the Susan B. Anthony Fund, If the Association will
pgy this €1,000 back to the three trustees . I have submitted a vote
to them asking them to contribute it to California on the same conditions
as they did when it was contributed to Oklahoma, hoping that California .
will win and that the debt “fill be calcelled. I ask you to vote on this.

Faithfully yours,

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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRLSIDFNT. ANNA HOWARDVSHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

151' VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAIJGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEYI
EVANSTON. ILLS. SOS FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
2ND VICE‘F’REZSIDENT, KATE M. GORDON. LAURA CLAY 189 NORTH MILL STREET,
1600 PRYTANIA STREET. NEW ORLEANS. LA. AUDITORS ‘l LEXINGTON KY
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT. ALICE STONE BLACKWEU-
505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEw YORK CITY 45 BOUTWELL AVENUE. DORCHESTER. MASS

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5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE. CHICAGO, ILLS. AUX'L'ARIES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

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PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PA.
FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
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AFFILIATED SOCIETY

THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
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VOTE SENT OUT BY THE PRESIDENT July 55TH. 1911.

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Are you willing thafi the One thousand Dollars borrowad for fihe
Oklahoma campaign from:Mrs. Upton, Hrs. Me Culloeh and Wins Shaw
as Trustees for wary S. Anthony shall be repaid out of the Susan
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PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.
IST VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHERINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANSTON ILLs. 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
9ND VICE-PRESIDENT. KATE M. GORDON. g LAURA CLAY. 189 NORTH MILL STREET
1800 PRYTANIA STREET. NEw ORLEANS? LA. AUDITORS LEXINGTON. KY.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE BENNETT.
505 FWTH AVENUE. NEw YORK 45 BOUTWELL AVENUE. DORCHEsTER, MASS.
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COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE.
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FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION.
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR MARYLAND

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August 30th. 1911.

Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond, Ky.

My dear Miss Clay:~

The House of Governors is to meet in New Jersey early
next month, and you were so successful in securing a Hearing before them
last year, Mrs. Bennett is very anxious to know just what process you
went through to be permitted to speak. I presume it will be a little
more difficult to get permission here in the East than it was with you,
asnthetmen in =our part of the world are a little more courteous to
wooen han Ea ern men are, perhaps you have not made as many demands
on them as the Eastern women have and so they have not got hardened d
able to refuse you anything. ‘ a“

. Will you let us know immediately as we want to start '
arranging for the Hearing here. Mrs. Blatch has secured all the Govggnors
of the five enfranchised States to speak at the meeting in Cooper Unio
for the benefit of the California campaign fund. That is a splendid n

thing and I am glad that she was able to do it.

I have your letter in which on s I'

phrases in the vote which I submitted and which izgktzftgge fiizzgder-
standing on your part in regard to the fund to which I referred I accent

your criticism as all right because I did make that mistake I did not :
have the Thomas-Garrett fund in my mind at all because I knew that that
was used for special purposes which were usually specificall desi* t d
and therefore I had only in mind the one fund which was at ogr disggga: ,
I'am sorry I made the mistake, I will try to keep the distinction in .
mind, although, alas, we will not have to make the distinctio my
as the memorial fund soon expires. * n very long

Most of the members of the Board f
. . eel that I have
tgzrguggetimzhiggr the business committee meeting, and they objectatiogtd
1 won d be well for us to put off omm" ’
until the 17th October and I our'c l tee meeting
. . , shall so inform the Board I think
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and sorted out, we shall be able to get through in a much shorter time
than I feared we might.

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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MoYLAN. PA.

IS‘T VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH. . TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANSTON. ILLS. 3 ' 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT KATE M. GORDON. LAURA CLAY. 139 NORTH MILL STREET.
1800 PRYTANIA STREET. NEW ORLEANS. LA. .. - AUDITORS“ LEXINGTON, KY.
[ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

CORRESPONDING SECRI‘TARY. MARY WARE DENNETT.
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505 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITv ,
CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE MISS CAROLINE I. REILLY.

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RECORDING SECRETARY, ELLA S. STEWART. _ .
S464 JEFFERSON AVENUE. CHICAGO, ILLs. AUXILIARIES 505 HFTH AVENUE. NEW YORA CITY

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PA.
FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND
AFFILIATED SOCIETY

THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT. MRS. MACKAY. I MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

TELEPHONE 6855 BRYANT

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 505 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK

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August 30th. 1911.

Dear Member of the Official Beard:-

. I have heard from all of the Members of the Official
Board with the exception of Wise Clay and I“’iss Gordon, in regard to
the Vote sent out August 24th., and I presume their vote will be in in'a
day or two, but as I am going to leave tonight to go to Cumberland, Md.
to speak before the State Teachers Association to~morrow and cannot be
back until Thursday, and I am anxious that this letter should go out,
I will send it before waiting for the replies from the two members, as all
who have replied are practically unanimous.

And now I will explain my reason for sending out this
vote at the time I did. I feel that September and October are splendid
months in Kansas, because we can get at Farmers' Meetings, Fairs and all
that sort of thing, and that a campaign worker could do excellent service
then in laying the foundation for getting invitations to different com-
munities organized later on, and that, if we had the money, it would be I
well for Miss Gregg to go, since the State Association had asked for her.
I asked the vote on the ground that she should go if we had the money to
send her. At that time I was in correspondence with a lady who had
offered me quite a large sum of money to be used in suffrage work, and '
she wanted it left entirely in my own hands as to how it should be used.

I was particularly anxious that it should.go through the National treasury
and, as far as possible, be used in accordance with the judgment of the
Official Board, and so I wanted to know just how you'felt as soon as
possible and did not wait until I received the meney. But now that the
money has come and I have it in my poesession to be used according to the
suggestion of the lady who presented it and my judgment of the needs
of the work. I am greatly impressed with the need of Kansas, that the
women who have the work in charge there are not at all experienced, they
have got to have some help and the sooner they get it the better, for I
hgie : giiat fear that we shall have a hard task to carry Kansas if we carry
a c

In correspondence with the Congressmen from that State
they have shown a very reluctant spirit and claim that the women of Kansas
do not want the ballot. NOW we have got to meet that as early as possible
and so long as the State President wants Miss Gregg a1d is inexperienced in

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managing cmngaigns, I uilnk the sooner she goes Lie bester.

I an perfectly willing, out of this find in my hands, to
yln e in the Tational TreeSury each month, Lhe amount of Vise Gregg‘s

s levy, which I can do for the whole year yrovided it is Wise to keep her
in Venses the whole year or mhe Kansas peoole wish for her.

As all ihe Votes have been yes wifihout any qualifications
in regardto Y'iss dregg, except that of Wise Blackwell who says “If the
Fetional Convention or the new Board agproves", Of course neither the
Vacional Voard, nor any individual member of it, would desire to have .
V’iss iregg remain in Kansas unless it was the wish of the Kansas Association
I shall, Lherefore, write the President of the Stems ihat the Official
Foerd will pay the salary of Ties Gregg so long as it is mutually agreeable
U

c have her remain in the %iato.
Ehere is a difference in opinion in regard to miss irimm,

”iss Shaw voting to pay her salary for the month 3f October and then wait
further developments. ”rs. ”c Culloch thinks that Illinois will want
Vise frimm same of the time and that she might work alternate months in
Illinois and in isconsin. That does not seem to me like a very economicdl

or wise way no plan the work, but perhaps, if she renains during the 4
month of October,we may be able to decide later on after Lhe Convention.

T hope when we come to the Official Board meeting we will
have some convenient plan thought out as to just Wham the atfi‘tude 0f the
National Association is co the campaign States, evd'just how far we feel
we ought, in justice Lo the whole work, assist than.

The money which has been placed efi my disposal will
enable us to do more work than we could otherwise hays done, and I feel
deeplu grateful that it has come to us at this iime, I am not permitted
to give'bhe name of the donor, she specially requested that it should nos
be known he anyone but herself and me, nor does she wish the amount
which she has given.me to be known. But I can assure the Board that when-
ever there is anything to be done for the campaigns, which they think
ought to be done, I shall be very glad he co—operate with them and,
through the National Treasury, furnish sufficient money, if it appeals to
me as a wise thing.

Faithfully yours,
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Rear miss fhaw, I
Your latfiors of Aug.24th are at hand.
mag. PAEKHURST. I would be aelighted to have mr9.?ankhurst, and I am wil-
ling that the Program Commitfiee Shoula make almost any arrangement to
help pay expenses. But I hava always thoughfi ifi a wrong policy to make
delggatns either 1039 part of the attractions and inopiration of the con-
vention u§§5§§§§h§§gynid entrance fees. Therefore, I must giVe my vote
that if tickets are gagingighdelagate must be given a free tickét.0nall
fine other fiqtails of the arrangemenfis of the onening I would rather have
our Clouisville Committee give a vote xathnx fihan myself. 1 have peru
fact confidance in their business judgmenfi about such matters, and they
have tho aavnntage of bring on the ground.
MISS GRfiGG. I am very much infavor of paying the salary of Kiss Gre 86 for
the whole Kansas campaign after the convenbion. Of courag, this Board
cannot actually promise to do this. as our administration will be over.
for the future
But as has been our custom in inknrz promisea We make it undnrotooa that
we pledge our influence and our vote where we have one. I approve of your
suggestion that we promise only the salary, ana tho stone must provide
tho GXPBHSQSc I will repeat again,that we should tell.the Kansas people
that we will not takn any reaponaibilii;v about the campaign; that we do-
natg miss Gregg's galaxy at their request, but that we will eXerflifie no
control OVar her work. but leaVe that to the Kansas authorities. 1 am
sure We can trust 3189 Gregg's loyalty to the Rational.
OREGOH. I find Mrs.lron5' lettnr most interesting. But I am in favor of
'deferring any positiVQ promise until affix: the convention. By thafi time
we will know the issue of the California campaign. If it is successful,

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in spending Association money; but i have no doubt we could arrange that
suitably. If Jalifornia does not carry,-at present I am of the opinion
that we had better spend all our strength on more central states, as a
campaign in them is worth more to the general cause than in a far Western
state. If the vote should carry, however, to promise help to Oregon now,
I think we should attach the same conditions as we attach to Kansas.

I send my votes on your slip, though I am copying them on this sheet.

Sincerely yours,
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VOTES SWNT OUT BY TH? PRWSIDWNT AUG.24th, I911.

I. Provided the money can be secured, are you in favor of paying Miss

Gregg's salary in Kansas from the close of the national Convention until
the vote is taken on the amendment the following year?

Ans.Yes. I wish that the Board, however, should make the Kansas
suffragists understand that it assumes no responsibility for the man-
agement of the campaign.

2. If money can be secured to provide Miss Grimm for Wisconsin for
six months or hanger, and the Wisconsin people desire her services, are
you Willing that she should he offered to the state for that time?

Ans. Yes; provided that the Hisconsin people consulted about it
shall include_the officers of our auxiliary in Wisconsin; and that if
they object, their objection must be decisiVe.

Laura Clay.

Aug.26tn, 1911.

 

 NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUEFRAGE ASSOCIATION

MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

IsT VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH MC‘CULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANsTON. ILLS. 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT. KATE M. GORDON. ' LAURA CLAY. 189 NORTH MILL STREET,
1800 PRYTANIA STREET, NEw ORLEANS. LA. AUDITQRS LEXINGTON. KY.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

‘IST VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY,
EVANSTON. ILLS. 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
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1800 PRYTANIA STREET. NEw ORLEANS. LA. AUDITORS LEXINGTON. KY.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT. ' ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEw YORK CITY 45 BOIJTWELL AVENUE, DORCHESTER. MAss.
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 Near Richmond, Kentucky.
Aug.25rd, 1911.
Dear Kiss Shaw,
1 am enclosing the ”Call”, with a few little changes
indicated,which 1 would like to have made. when the idea of ”rebellion”
is a little modified I thoroughly approve of it.

In looking over the return of votes in your letter of hug.11th 1
observe that mine in regard to the employment of Iiss Gregg have been
overlooked. Also, my votes 5 and 4 of July 26th. The phraseology
misled me as to what fund you meant in putting out that vote. You
asked if we-were in favor of contributing any portion of the SusanB.
Anthony Memorial Fund to the campaign in California? I understood
by that you raferred to the Thomas~Garrett fund, which is technically
called by that name; thilst the other fund is technically called the
S.B.A.Joman Suffrage Fund. I hope next time the difference will be ac~
curately marked. 1 might have understood if it had been called the S.
B.d. Campaign Fund, 1 think.

I note your letter of Aug. 12th, setting the time of the Board
meeting in Louisville for Ionday morning, Oct.I6th. The time seems
very suitable to me.

I have just received a letter fromfliss Ashley ,sending a receipt
for the hundred dollars I pledged to the rent of headquarters till flee.
Ist. She remarks,” I will ask the pleasure of the Board regarding the
$100 for rent. Personally I think under the circumstances we should
not accept it”. I am sorry she is going to the trouble of having a
vote taken on it. I do not desire a release from the pledge; and 1 do‘
not know of any circumstance which would justify the Board in giving
one. In the first place 1 made the pledge to Dec.1st without any con~
ditions which have not been fulfilled except the one in regard to Hrs.
Belmont's $500, which is still uncertain as far as has been reported
to me. But I expressly waived that in my vote Sent to Mrs.HoCulloch
and repeated the statement and the pledge in my vote sent to you Aug.
4th. As far the rents which may come in from the flew Eork issociation
or other sub-rents, we all had sufficient information regarding the
possibility of them, as Kiss Ashley points out in her letter to Hrs.
EcCulloch of Aug.2nd. In fact, the opinion of those members who exp
pressed themselves in reply to your letter of Aug.9th seems to concur
with mine,~that we ought to have all the donations promised for help
on the rentand all the sub-rents we can get; and if we have the good
luck to receive more than the rent it should be turned into the general
treasury, where it certainly is needed.

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Chicago,AUgust 15,19ll.
my dear T185 Shaw :~

- Your leLLer about Mrs. Belmont's check is at Uand.
I had hoped she had waived all conditions,but if she has not, the
honest thing L0 do is Lo wriLe her Lhat the Board haa only iade

a lease fir si :: m nths,and ask her if she will not waive the
condition and allow yoU L0. {cap 11w Check anyway.
TU“ leLLer sf $1.33 1.02 3., Thoflas to Migs Gordon,dmted

IU If 1, I stil _. in ~w* $3088 Lon. In ”flan? figs Gordon

L; cast her vsLe for Lhe UroU SVECL l“RS8 Miss TUQUas made no
condition as L0 L19 paygeui of the 140) 00, escerL LhaL TTU.
Bennett SMOUld Lake'oare of the 3orrnfihoagpn 3 and liLe ature for
Lhe Collage league and she said Mrs. DenneLL promised to do it.
is we have had considerable isowssion aboUL oLUer conditions,

{a ahoU'Ld n01 imawine any condition was intended unlesg clearly
riiuad. l suppos.e Lhat Mrs.'DUUnoLL or some one of our employ as
is taking: care of 1,333: oorrerapondence and li-Ler‘atnré 03." 1,1363 Col-

‘18? ; n,ague,and BO earning Lhm_monoy. If Us can suble1_Lhe rest
of twe floor so our rent will be nnLhing or even so we can make

monehr 1hUL will be a wise afrUUUUmenL. We shoUld not begin to
me generous Uniil all our c?.ob Ls are paid. '
My cal; unjaction Lo the Hoard -eeiin bngi QLU‘ on
onfiay Oct.lfi, i3 1h.aL it Lahes up L30 We time. Thr€3 8 days
ayzd 8. 1113.1... 1‘ 1‘31‘5386 am" the 5:130:31; 1V8 5.1.2:wa 63 "Line than should
be spent. I: we liUiLed our speeches 10 LL; minutes on every
mat on we 0 Uld do all necessary business in one day afid a half,
which would let us begin ‘Udlproax. I hope SHLG one on the Board
will back ma up in my desire to rU Gh MUS 3.ness. The UKUGUSU
'is alga immortanL. While we are on thaL subjeoi,, cannot-we
of 1he Board economi 26 on UUF hULel bills so 1anL we can reduce
Lhe amounL we geneiallv pay for en 3rtainium the Beard ?
ism Ashley's .‘all has the merit of brevity and yet

11 says all L33UL is Uecefisary. I am suggesting 0U_y a few
Clangea_511 Tirlinrn "Rfilnllirvi" and “revolt"‘will probably
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