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Memories and Anecdotes

CHAPTER I
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I remember Somersworth, New Hampshire, and Burlington, Vermont.

I lectured twice at the Insane Asylum at Concord, New Hampshire, invited by Dr.Bancroft.

After giving my "newspaper wits" a former governor of Vermont came up to shake hands with me, saying frankly, "Miss Sanborn, your lecture was just about right for us lunatics." A former resident of Hanover, in a closed cell, greeted me the next morning as I passed, with a torrent of abuse, profanity, and obscenity.

She too evidently disliked my lecture.

Had an audience of lunatics also at the McLean Insane Asylum, Dr.Coles, Superintendent.
I think I was the first woman ever invited to make an address to farmers on farming.


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