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Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Home Protection Manual: Containing an Argument for the Temperance Ballot for Woman. New York: “The Independent” Office, Broadway, 1879. Original printed wraps. 32pp. Wrappers considerably chipped and torn, tear to p. 5/6 with loss to two lines of text. Published the same year Willard became the second president of the W.C.T.U., and listed on the title page as president of the Illinois chapter, the pamphlet reproduces the petition presented to the Illinois state assembly calling for a vote to determine prohibition of the sale of alcohol, and for women’s right to vote on the issue.