Office of
The Woman's Journal,
No. 5 Park Street.
Boston, May 8th 1882Mrs. Sarah F. Hamilton
Dear Madam
I have to rejoice with you, in your good beginning. "It is the first step that cost[s]," it is always said - and if that is so, you are on the high road, to many keys of improvement, which open out as you go on.
I hope the good list of subscribes to Woman's Journal will also be a help to your club. Let us hear from it, postal card communications now and then. I am glad you call it the Diaz Club.
Yours for progress
[Excerpt from this link:
Sarah Fairfield Hamilton, 1831- 1909, was a founder of the local chapter of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and led that organization to create Saco's first kindergarten, a nursery for mill workers' children, summer park programs, and other progressive reforms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
On a trip to Boston, Sarah encountered Mrs. Abbey Diaz on a horse trolley and introduced herself to the well-known speaker on domestic issues and promoter of women's reading clubs. Sarah invited her to speak in Saco. Her lecture at City Hall was an instant success. From this initial encounter, the Diaz Union was formed by a group of Saco women, and after a later visit, they joined the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union, an active benevolent association based in Boston.]