BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL AREmbajada de la Republica Argentina Washington D.C. April 14 th. 1921 Miss. Alice Stone Blackwell Bostn, Mass. Dear Madame: Your letter to the Argentine Embassador has been handed to me to answer. I am very sorry to say that as far as we remember there are not any poems written about the Christ of th Andes,at least not by any of the well known poets. I regret also not to be able to send you any book. The best known Argentine poets (our classics) are: Esteban de Luca, Juan Cruz Varela, Vicente Lopez y Planes, E. Echeverria (La Cautiva) , J. Marmol, Juan Maria Gutierrez, Juan Chassaing, Luis L. Dominguez, Ricardo Gutierres,O. V. Andrade, probably the best known and considered a master in Spaim,his "nest of the Condor" is considered one of the best descriptions of the Andes.;Carlos Guido Spana,P. B. Pa[?]acios,J.Hernandez, Rafael Obligado. Some of the younger poets are: Carlos O. Bunge,Diego Fernandez Espiro,Alberto Ghiraoldo, Marcelo del Mazo,Enrique Banchs, Evaristo Carriego,Cires IrigoyenArturo Capdevila,Ricardo Rojas Manuel Ugarte, Carlos Ortiz,Angel Estrada Hijo) Leopoldo Lugones There are many Argentine Antologies published,where there is no doubt you will find somo of the best poems of the best known Embajada de la Republica Argentina Argentine poets. Yours very sincerely Carlos Vallejo Attache Argentine Embassy Argentine Embassy w bit of poetsEl Argentino Direcciòn La Plata Septiembre 10 de1931 Senorita Alice Stone Blackwell Boston De mi consideracion, contesto su carta April 21 que llega con gran retardo. El articulo de Gabriela Mistral a que Vd. se refiere, no fur publicado por causas agenas a nuestra voluntad. Tengo entendido que le publico "El Pais" de Cordoba. Se titula "Antologias indo-espanolas en Estados Unidos". Quedo de Vd. Atentamente y S.S. Director Ramon GarciaJewish Daily Forward Worlds Largest Jewish Daily One Stewart Street Boston 16, Mass December twentieth 1945 Managers Office MIss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge 38, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell, As we are now about to usher in Christmas, 1945 and the New Year of 1946, I am sending you Season's Greetings with the hope that the coming year will be a healthy and happy one for you and yours. Sincerely yours, Leon Arkin Jewish Daily Forward Worlds Largest Jewish Daily One Stewart Street Boston 16, Mass September thirteenth 1945 Managers Office MIss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell, I join your host of friends to greet you upon your eighty-eighth birthday. I pray that I shall have the occasion to greet you many more years to come. Cordially yours, Leon ArkinJewish Daily Forward World's Largest Jewish Daily One Stuart Street Boston 16, Mass. Managers Office September fourteenth 1944 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell: As a newspaperman I know that you are today celebrating your Eighty-Seventh Birthday. I join your host of friends who are rejoicing your birthday, and wishing you many happy returns of the day. I hope that I will be able to send you such greetings for many more birthdays to come. Cordially yours, Leon Arkin LAVGM Telephone Oregon 3-0370 Cable address Armatcam, New York Armenian Affairs Quarterly Journal on Armenian Studies Published by the Armenian National Council of America 144 East 24th Street New York 10, N.Y. March 22, 1950 Mrs. Maud Wood Park The Alice Stone Blackwell Fund Committee 21 Ashmont Street Melrose 76, Massachusetts Dear Mrs. Park: Thank you for your letter of March 16. We have felt very deeply the loss of Miss Blackwell, with whom we have been in touch for many years. Just now we are in a position to publicize the biography or a biographical sketch of Miss Blackwell among Armenians and Americans throughout the country and abroad. We are, therefore, sending you a copy of our new quarterly publication, Armenian Affairs, to give you an idea of the medium through which we will try to make the sketch available to the public. It is our plan to include such a sketch in the next issue of our journal, which will come out within the next four or five weeks. Any material on Miss Blackwell's life, especially that which relates to the Armenians, will be of extreme value in the preparation of the biographical sketch on Miss Blackwell. We shall be very happy to receive any material that could be used in this connection. Sincerely yours, Charles A. Vertanes Editor Telephone Oregon 3-0370 Cable Address Armatcam, New York Armenian Affairs Quarterly Journal on Armenian Studies Published by the Armenian National Council of America 144 East 24th Street New York 10, N. Y. [*send copy of B4 release*] April 12, 1950 Mrs. Edna Lamprey Stantial 21 Ashmont Street Melrose 76, Massachusetts Dear Mrs. Stantial: Thank you for responding to our request for material on the life of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. We are planning to put to full use the entire material together with translations of biographical material from the Armenian, all of which will be published in the next issue of Armenian Affairs. We will also put an appropriate notice on the memorial fund for Miss Blackwell. Our own organization, the Armenian National Council of America, is also planning to have a part in that fund. I hope to be able to write you later on this matter. Sincerely yours, Charlie A. Vertanes Editor CAV/hb [*sent P and D [Sands?] speech*] Telephone Oregon 3-0370 Cable Address Armatcam, New York Armenian Affairs Quarterly Journal on Armenian Studies Published by the Armenian National Council of America 144 East 24th Street New York 10, N. Y. [*Blackwell papers*] June 5, 1950 Mrs. Edna Lamprey Stantial 21 Ashmont Street Melrose, Massachusetts Dear Mrs. Stantial: Thank you for your most interesting letter of May 31. We shall add an introductory passage to our Symposium on Miss Blackwell in which we shall incorporate some of the points you have made in your letter. It appears that the name of [Miss] Mrs Maude Wood Parks as the author of the first article in the Symposium escaped your attention. Her name appears as author immediately under the title of the first article which is, "A Biographical Sketch." The best place for the duplicate copies of Miss Blackwell's papers would be in Matenadaran, the great manuscript library in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia. This institution does not only have the largest Armenian manuscript collection in the world but is actually one of the largest manuscript libraries in any field in the world. I can think of no better place to have these duplicate papers filed. I happen to be the Secretary of the Committee for Cultural Relation with Armenia and it will be a pleasure to transmit that material for you to the Matenadaran. Regarding the periodicals and other printed matter relating to Armenia in Miss Blackwell's library, I would suggest the library of the Armenian National Council of America which, while yet modest, is being built rapidly and will probably eventually become one of the best and [and] certainly the most used library. Increasingly the library is being used by students throughout our country who are writing theses on Armenian subjects. It has also become the most handy reference in the publication of Armenian Affairs. I shall be in New England this weekend and if you so wish I will make an effort to see you and discuss these matters further in person on Monday, June 12, or if that is not possible on Saturday, June 10. Sincerely yours Charles A Vertanes Editor CAV/hbTelephone Oregon 3-0370 Cable Address Armatcam, New York Armenian Affairs Quarterly Journal on Armenian Studies Published by the Armenian National Council of America 144 East 24th Street New York 10, N. Y. July 19, 1950 Mrs. Edna L. Stantial At the Stonewall Chilmark, Mass. Dear Mrs. Stantial: As soon as the second issue of our journal is out one copy will be sent to your address at the Stonewall, Chilmark, Mass. and the other six copies to the Ashmont Street address. We shall be very happy to receive two or three copies each of Miss Blackwell's poems and her biography of Lucy Stone. It may interest you to know that we [have] included in the issue now in the press one of the poems, "The Lake of Van," by Raffi. Sincerely yours, Charles A. Vertanes Editor CAV/hb P.S.: The poem by Raffi referred to above was taken from Armenian Poems Rendered into English Verse by Alice Stone Blackwell. In the place of publisher it is stated on the title page "For Sale by Robert Chambers". In view of this relation of Dr. Chambers to Miss Blackwell I am wondering if any of Miss Blackwell's friends would have information on Dr. Chambers which may be used either as a separate article or incorporated in the basic biographical sketch of Dr.Chambers, enclosed, which we intend to publish in the next issue of Armenian Affairs. Any assistance in this area will be greatly appreciated. We want to make the pages of Armenian Affairs a medium through which we can express appreciation to our American friends. CAV The Ladies Aid Society of the Armenian Apostolic Church 3476-21st Street San Francisco California Miss Alice Stone Blackwell My dear Miss Blackwell You are so familiar with the history of the Armenian church that the following explanation is almost unnecessary. The Sunday of the blessing of the grapes known as [Assumption] has been known as Mother's day in the Armenian church. This year the Ladies Aid Society of the Armenian Apostolic Church of San Francisco has planned to have exercises befitting the day. There is to be a community dinner at which time the oldestto this your ripe old age. Again expressing to you our heart felt gratitude and wishing you health we remain Respectfully and gratefully yours The members of the Ladies Aid Society of The Armenian Apostolic Church of San Francisco, Calif. [Armenian] Arm. Apostolic Church Ladies Society San Francisco, Calif. P.S. We are exceedingly sorry for the delay, we ordered the sweater and it was not ready to send in time for the occasion. 2 Mother is to be presented with a golden cross. We are not unmindful of the motherly interest and care you have shown to the Armenian cause over a period of years and years. So our organization was [anscious] [anxious] to show their appreciation to you also, by a small token of gratitude. Although we live in sunny California, the traditional land of perpetual sunshine we know that a warm sweater would not go amiss in the coming cold days of New England. We have sent you this sweater to keep you warm physically as the love you bear your fellow human beings, has kept you warm spirituallyBirthday Greeting by Western Union BW214 38 SC=BOSTON MASS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL= :1010 MASS AVE CA= :THE ARMEN[D]IAN DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL PARTY WISHES YOU A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON THIS NEW ANNIVERSARY MAY YOU LIVE LONG CHERISED BY ALL OF US WHO WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR COURAGEOUS CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE ARMENIANS AND THE ARMENIAN CAUSE= :A D L DISTRICT COMMITTEE.1942 SEP 14 PM 2 10 TIME RETURNED 1942 SEP 14 PM 4 19 BY MESSENGER NO. 165 [R]EASON [?] [*Armenian*] Armenian General Benevolent Union 287 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. January Three 1928 My dear Miss Blackwell: Are we imposing too much upon your kindness and goodwill by inclosing a free translation of the "Song of the Flag", which will be the official song of the Armenian General Benevolent Union to be used at their meetings and official gatherings to revive interest and enthusiasm in our work and country. It has two stanzas and a refrain, with ten syllables to each line. An eminent composer has volunteered to write a tune to it. For the benefit of our Americanized members, we should like to have this song in its English form, and we could think of no one who has both the genius and the love for our poetry than you to whom to entrust this task. Your name will always remain associated with our literature, and we would very much like to have it now linked with our Union by asking you to sign it to our "Song". Very sincerely your[sm] ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION Vahan Kur[f]kjian Vahan Kur[f]kjian General Director Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 8 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Mass.Vahan KurkjianJunior League OF THE ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION 381 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK MURRAY HILL 4-1260 July 16, 1937 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 29 Wendell St., Cambridge, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you very much for your letter of July 15 and the many kind thoughts expressed therein. I know that I speak for all of our Junior League members from coast to coast when I express gratification for your kind wishes to the Junior League. As you requested, we are putting the name of Mrs. Bertha Papazian on our mailing list to receive future copies of the JUNIOR LEAGUE NEWS. I shall also see to it that you receive this paper as it is published. In the meantime I hope to avail ourselves of your very kind offer to contribute to our publication whenever it is convenient for you to so honor us. I shall certainly be looking forward to a copy of your enlarged edition of "Armenian Poems". With cordial good wishes. I am Very sincerely yours, Robert [Sarkissia?] General Secretary RS:AK[Armenian] THE TZAIN HAIRENIATZ AN ARMENIAN WEEKLY 309 Washington Street Room 52 ADDRESS: Armenian Publishing Co. P.O. Box 1731 TELEPHONE, 7029 MAIN Boston, Mass., Jan 30, 1907 Dear Miss Blackwell: I have received your letter and your card. I cannot possibly come to see you earlier than at the end of the next month. However I want to write few lines. Had your coolness towards me permitted the publisher of "Arax" change your correspondence? And then how could you feel cool towards me since two months without first discovering if the charges against the policy of "Tzain Haireniatz" had any foundation or not? You say the things you have heard about the policy of Tzain Haireniatz "have really made one feel a coolness towards you". That is without hearing my side you have condemned me, and then give me [and then you want to give me] a chance to plead guilty or not guilty. [Armenian] THE TZAIN HAIRENIATZ AN ARMENIAN WEEKLY 309 Washington Street. Room 52 ADDRESS Armenian Publishing Co. P.O. Box 1731 TELEPHONE, 7029 MAIN Boston, Mass., Jan. 30, 1907 It would be fair to give me a chance after the accusation, and not after the condemnation. I was condemned and would remain thus, if I had not written to/you about that [trifle]. It is a pity that you cannot read Armenian, and there are unscrupulous persons who avail themselves of this fact. Why they are not gentlemen enough to write their criticism right to Tzain Haireniatz, which has given liberty to its readers to discuss and criticize whatever they dislike in its columns? Instead of doing that they resort to calumny. You can do me a favor if you just ask these gentlemen to point out the objectionable article or editorial in "Tzain Haireniatz". I will have it translated into English by Mr. A. Diran, or translate it myself, and[Armenian] THE TZAIN HAIRENIATZ AN ARMENIAN WEEKLY 309 Washington Street, Room 52 ADDRESS: Armenian Publishing Co. P.O. Box 1731 TELEPHONE, 7029 MAIN Boston Mass., Jan 30 1907 Submit to your judgment. I am very sorry, because I could never expect that you might cherish a coolness towards one on groundless charges. Yours very sincerely D.M. Arshag P.S. Did you write anything about the contents of "Armenia"? Perhaps you are too busy. I know you are.D. M. [ARSHAG]Armenian 40 Melendy Ave. Watertown, Mass Jan 5, 1917. Miss. Alice Stone Blackwell. Dear Madam, Our Society will have a public meeting to celebrate the Armenian Christmas on Sunday Jan 28, 1917. at 2 p.m. in Franklin Union Hall, corner Berkley & Appleton St. Boston. Our Committee has the pleasure to invite you to be our guest of honor on that occasion, and make an address of ten minutes.On "the duty of the Armenian woman in her national cause" We hope, therefore, that you will kindly accept our invitation, and help our audience to realize the duties of the hour in this great national emergency. Your Respectfully Armenian Women's Patriotic Society Secretary L. [Karafian?] Chairman M. [Calusdian?] Boston, 1915 Armenian Women's Patriotic Society G.S. Kindly answer soon so that we may prepare our program. Sam.Arm. Women's Patriotic Society Ans, 1740 Ridgewood Terrace Maplewood, New Jersey January 1, 1925 Dorothy Arnold Dear Cousin Alice, Thank you very much for the nice Christmas remembrance. I was very glad to get it. I suppose you've been wanting real cold weather up there. We've had hardly any snow, but we hadhad some pretty good ice skating. I do hope it snows so there will coasting! A very happy New Year! Your loving cousin Dorothy ArnoldCHRISTMAS THOUGHTS and all good wishes for HAPPINESS in the NEW YEAR to Alice Stone Blackwell from [Ed] & Kate Arpee Lake Forest, Ill.214 Brownie Copyright 1949