Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland

Newsy letter in response to one from Emily Howland's niece Isabel. Sympathizes with her dislike of an interpretation of Faust. Isabel was a student at Cornell, and Emily references a portrait of Prudence Crandall, one of our heroines and martyrs," given to "your library" by Samuel May. Much sickness in Philadelphia ascribed to foul air. Emily also refers to the "Lib. League of New York" as dangerous people. Regards from Mrs. Stanton; Florence Kelley is improving. Reference to Marietta Allen Benchley as having written her own obituary.