Will the next generation learn to write—any more than learn the alphabet?
With Love to all yours
Truly & always
E. E. Hale.
This next letter was called out by the death of Major-General Rufus Saxton, distinguished for his first arming of the freed slaves:—
Washington, D. C., Feb. 29, 1908.
Dear Higginson,—I have been reading with the greatest interest your article on Gen. Saxton.
It has reminded me of an incident here—the time of which I cannot place. But I think you can;—and if you can I wish you would write & tell me when it happened—and perhaps what came of it.
I was coming up in a street [car] when Charles Sumner came in & took a seat opposite me—The car was not crowded.