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8vo. 24 pp. Self-printed softcovers, sewn at spine (slight age toning, very slight dustsoiling), still NF copy. First edition of the second scarce Women's Suffrage tract published by the pioneering Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) in 1871, subsequent to their second Annual Meeting held in 1870. This tract features the extended letter to Chicago, IL suffragette, and editor, Myra Bradwell from Judge Howe of Wyoming, detailing women serving as jurors on a murder trial jury after the passage of the Wyoming Territory's 1869 Suffrage Act, and that they discharged their duties with skill, and also refutes the spurious claims that the men and women jurors had been improperly sequestered together for 4 days and nights. Following the publication of this tract, Howe was replaced as a judge in the First District by Joseph Fisher, a Union Army veteran who refused to recognize women being in the jury pool, or allowed to set on juries, even though they did have the right to vote. Isabella has also incorporated suffrage reports from the National Society for Woman Suffrage in England, including specific mentions of petitions before Parliament in 1869 & 1870 on the admission of women to the suffrage by Lydia E. Becker, along with excerpts of speeches by Mill delivered to the London Society of Woman Suffrage.Hooker closes with a report on a proposal by the Executive Committee to send women to meet with small local committees to "obtain signatures to the petitions for a 16th Amendment, and to circulate tracts on the subject of Equal Suffrage." See: Jessica Jenkins, The Long Road to Women's Suffrage in Connecticut, Connecticut Explored, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring, 2016); Kim Viner, Women on the Jury: Wyoming Makes History Again, Wyoming Historical Society Encyclopedia (Jan. 23, 2020).…