Please write Your Autograph & Enclose in the Accompanying Envelope I appreciate
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to Add to My Already Good Collection that I trouble you—Please
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Greatest Admirers.
Correspondent:
Anna Tolman Smith (1840–1917) was
an American writer and educator who wrote reports for the United States Office of Education for more than
thirty-five years (American Association for the Advancement of Science, General Program of the Meeting
[Washington: The Association, 1969] 40:77). She was the author of "Progress of Education for Women," which
was published in the Annual Report of the Department of the Interior
(U.S. Government Printing Office, 1871).