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Personality and Last Days

last the disease attacked her in a violent form which laid the foundation for the pneumonia that afterwards caused her death. When she left for the West in the spring the tenants of the different rooms stood together in tears at the head of the stairs, as she bade them good-bye to go to the train. It was her plan to go to Oregon and establish her home at Eugene, employing herself in giving interpretations and readings of Whitman and in lecturing along the Pacific coast. She visited Portland and seems to have been most cordially received. She wrote of receptions which were tendered her, of lectures that she had given, of having opportunities to present the aims of the Federal Suffrage Association and of making preliminary arrangements for future lectures. She then went to Eugene where she remained some weeks making arrangements for her work of the approaching fall and winter. But the disease of the previous winter had left its effects on her constitution and she was attacked by pneumonia. She lingered several weeks in great pain. Her sister, Dr. Mary B. White, came to Eugene and took her to her home in Palo Alto, California, in the hope that with kind care and surrounded by comforts she might recover her health. The journey, however, proved a great tax on her system and when she arrived at Palo Alto she was overcome

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