Dugdale, Joseph and Ruth to Janney, Samuel M., 1870 1mo 15

From Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Dr. J. Holmes and Nathan Thomas travelling in Illinois; Dugdale invited to sit in Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting (Orthodox); he requested that the shutters be lowered, and the request was complied with. He has been invited to take some part in the services of "the spirit moves." Appointed meetings at the Prison Reform School and the Insane Asylum near Clear Creek. Orthodox Friends in Lee County sometimes "break forth into singing," awakening some anxiety. Concerned over the state of the "deeply wronged Aborigines" but especially about disenfranchised women; Indiana Yearly Meeting has appointed a woman member of Meeting for Sufferings.