BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE BeTHE LITERARY REVIEW New York Evening Post TELEPHONE BARCLAY 4200 20-24 VESEY STREET, NEW YORK I am just going out of town: will send paper when I return: it was a very brief note My dear Mrs. Blackwell. - Evidently I have been too previous. When I was talking with Brentano's publishing department of the time "The Man of Gold" appeared, they told me about your book which they expected to bring out in the fall. As I had read your translations again & again to my lecture classes - I mean those of Chocana's verse especially - I was delighted that these admirable translations were to be made accessible to the public. (I have lent the one about the boaconstrictor to be copied, over & again) When I saw the book listed in Brentano's Catalogue (in[*ML Becker*] the Publisher's Trade List Annual for 1920) naturally I thought the book was on the market, and hastened to recommend it. If you wish, I will put this into a sentence or two, and print it in The Guide. I think I'd better do that anyway: I am writing to my correspondent who asked me about South American literature. I hope we may have the poems: they must have a large sale, but they will be a fine contribution to [mutual?] understanding. Yours sincerely May Lamberton Becker 145 West 78th St. November 13, 1921 [*May Lambert Becker*]Dear Miss Blackwell - May I please join with the many friends who are sending best wishes on your ninetieth anniversary. What changes you have seem through the years. I think I have seen a few myself but you and Dr. Samuel Elliot (85) and others have seen so many more. I have recently completed some research work on the records of the Arlington Street Church going back to 1782. It has been interesting. It seems that the same type of problems have existed through the years with each generation.People were first as particular as they are now. However the written expression is different but characteristic of the period or Era. Business letters to-day are very different than they were back in the Civil War Days. The same idea is present often, but expressed differently - however the spirit is just the same. We are certainly living in interesting times. I hope that life will continue to shed its bounties upon you. Happy Birthday to you. Sincerely yours- Margaret Bancroft Beatley. 460 Huntington Avenue, Boston - 15 - For September 14, 1947A Prayer for Easter - O, Thou Eternal One, surrounding us all with Thy Loving Presence - we thank Thee again at this Eastertide for the renewal of Life. As the world is emerging from its desperate difficulties in the worst war in history we begin to take heart again at this Eastertide for the renewal of Life. As the world is emerging from its desperate difficulties in the worst war in history we begin to take heart again. The budding trees, the return of the songsters, the lengthening days with its softening showers and the morning rays of the sun hearten us and remind us of thy constant presence in our lives. Our Father, we thank Thee for all thy manifestations in these trying days and we would thank Thee most of all for that perfect Life - the Christian world is now celebrating. May the sufferings of his last days on earth help us to bear our own lives with equanimity and serenity as we contemplate on the triumph of the Risen Christ through his victory on the Cross. May that Life serve always as an inspiration to a better way of Life as the years roll on. In humble gratitude and humility we beseech Thee to hear our prayers and grant them in accordance with thy wishes. Amen - Margaret B. BeatleyBessie Beatty WOR, 1440 Broadway, New York City Apr. 3rd, 1944. Dear Alice Blackwell, How dear of you to send such beautiful poetry in your Easter greetings. Your own words are most inspiring and so too are the others. With warmest regards, Bessie BeattyAt Home. Monday - My dear Miss Blackwell- I was very glad to see the letter in the Herald the other day, also the account of the birthday. I know that now while it is over a message of greeting from an old friend will be welcome. I always have one or two myself that come in the day after. True this is not they day after. I had thoughts of you on Saturday and also felt that there has something else about the day which had come to mind earlier in the week. However I did not recall it. I called up Mrs. Bancroft Beatley late in the afternoon and she reminded me it was their 22nd wedding anniversary and to-day is Ralph & Florence's 24th. Timecertainly flies and both these wedding days seem a long time ago. A year ago last May 30 I cam out of school for a year, reporting last week. I hope now that I shall be able to resume my school duties as I have planned. It was a good year to serve and to do some odds and ends. In December I started working as a volunteer in the Sorting Room (rough dry) of the Children's Hospital Laundry - working through V-E Day. It was wise to stop then. I worked one afternoon in August and with schools postponed[?] over on Friday p.m. and all day Saturday. About March first I was awarded the Hospital Volunteer Service Pin given on completion of one hundred hours of works. On Friday I was surprised to discover that I had earned the Service Bar Pin awarded by the Children's Hospital to anyone who [gives one hundred] works seven months in a given twelve. It has been a most interesting experience. I had also a family genealogical problem handed me to work on - something one could work on forever, and I had the rare privilege of cataloging the records of the Arlington Street Church. I feel as if I know it now almost as well as the Church of the Disciples. It was very worth while however after having poured over the years of 1729-1945 I feel very much now the need of living in the present - the living present. I feel that we educators have a task in educating children for peace timeliving children of kindergarten have no memories of peace - also some of these slightly over. All children under ten have surely had a good dose of war. We all wish them to grow up as useful citizens and the school will play an important role in this capacity. Will hope that the home will do its part. I say "will" because in poor sections I see much where help is needed. With all good wishes - I am - Sincerely yours, Margaret Bancroft Beatley 460 Arlington Ave. Boston, Mass. [*Lucy Stone Home at 45 Boutwell ? Dr*]Miss Alice S. Blackwell Doutwell Ave. My dear Miss Alice: Without intention, I have missed your companionship today, but it has been so cool that I have walked with comfort; and I hope you liked Mr. Saltonstall. He sometimes preaches more eloquently, but this morning's sermon was was a good exposition of the drift of the preaching, and we who know him, knowHarriet R. Bean 210 Seventeenth Street N. E., Canton, Ohio May 27, 1941 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania My dear Miss Blackwell: First I should like to thank you for your book, SOME SPNAISH AMERICAN POETS, which I have enjoyed reading very much. It helped me greatly in a paper which I gave before our P.E.O club meeting recently, on Literature of South America. I feel much closer to the people of the continent to the south of us since reading these poems, realizing that we have the same experiences, the same longings. You have done a splendid service for us in the preparing of this book. Now I should like your permission to quote from this book in a broadcast for which I am scheduled soon, over our local station, W H B C in Canton. I should like to speak on South American poetry, reading several of these poems. I should give credit, of course, to this book and you as its author. Thanking you in advance for your permission, I am. Very sincerely yours, Harriet R. Bean Mrs. J. W. BeanPoetry Vespers of Canton Poetry Society Canton, Woman's Club Sunday, May 25, 1941 - 7:30 P.M. Invocation ....................... Rev. J. B. Barker, D.D. President's Greetings ................... Mrs. W. H. Rukenbrod Trio ....................... Genevieve Richards, Josephine Brong, Evelyn Chenot Violinist, Thelma Earle Director Accompanist, Mrs. Clark Wehl "Lady of Shalott" ..................... Alfred Lord Tennyson A bow shot from her bower caves He rode between the barley sheaves And flamed upon the brazen greaves Of bold Sir Lancelot "Wedding Feast of Hiawatha" ..................Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Then they said to Chibiabos To the friend of Hiawatha To the sweetest of all singers To the best of all musicians Sing to us, O Chibiaos! Address: "This Thing Called Beauty" ............ B. Y. Williams Cincinnati, Ohio Ushers Gayle Bayless Susanne Deal Jane Albright Lyrell BressonOther Features of Poetry Week Youth Poetry Tournament Tuesday, May 27, 7:30 P.M. First Presbyterian Church Judges for Youth Tournament Dr. F. S. Manchester Miss Flora Schneider Miss Mildred Jones National Poetry Week Banquet. Speaker.......................Professor John Crowe Ransom Kenyon College Awarding of Prizes Banquet - Friday, May 30. Memorial Day, Silver Maples, 6:30 P.M. Judge for General Poetry Contest .................. B.Y. Williams Canton Poetry Society Officers Mrs. W. H. Rukenbrod..................President Mr. E. C. Roberts...................Vice President Mrs. M. A. Cossaboom.............Secretary Miss Mabel Campell...............Treasurer Committee for Poetry Week Miss Grace Long, Chairman Mr. E. C. Roberts Mr. E. C. Cochran Miss Esther Ann Cox Miss Ruth Lehmiller Miss Jane Albright Mrs. J. W. Bean Mrs. M. A. Cossaboom Mrs. Beth ShorbFrench Dyeing and Cleaning Works B. G. BEDIG, Proprietor LADIES GARMENTS GENTS' GARMENTS REPAIRED FRENCH DRY CLEANED CLEANED AND PRESSED 929 J. STREET PHONE MAIN 471 FRESNO, CAL. April 17, 1906. Dear Miss Blackwell, I [?] it is over a year since I have written to you or you have to me. Many of times I have desided to write to you and find out how you & Mr. Blackwell geding along but on account of lazy- ness I have let it go by. I hope you and Mr. B are well & happy. I suppose Mr. B. is not as healthy as he use to be. I have written to harry and harry and his mother spend the Easter Sunday with us and Harry went yes- terday, but we did not let his Mother go She is going to stay with two weeks. I am in [xxx} town Last two years and doing Cleaning & Dyeing business and are doing well, I have a share in the [rench?] yet, but we are not successfull in [rench?] business. My boy is growing very big now and I have another one about2. 8 month old The younger one is more healthy than the older one. I am geding so Lonesome I wish I could see Mr. B once more and your garden. often I am thinking how much more hapier I was when I was working for you than I am now. ofcourse I have no reason to be unhapy now for I have everything [and] comfortibly. And like the climate very much. I suppose it is natural to be the way am. person always seeking for the past no mater how much hardship we had then. We are all well I hope you and Mr B. are the same. Miss Blackwell I should like to Subscribe a Womens Journal will you kindly tell how much it is so I can sent you the money for all year. remember me to Dear Mr. Blackwell I wish you would write to us when ever you have time. I know that you are very busy but dont forget us. All together how is Mrs. Porcey? Harly was telling me that Mrs. Porcey's house was burn. I am very sorry for poor old woman. Please also remember me to her. My Wife and mother are sending there best regard to you and Mr. Blackwell. How is your new man? Garden horse & Cow. have you got the same horse yet? Please give me news about everything Effectionately yours BGBedigBarsam BedigFresno Calif. December 25/44 Dear Miss Blackwell: I am mailing you a package of fruit under seperate cover as a Christmas gift for you. It is full of different kind of fruits raised here in our City of Fresno & our State of California. I hope that you will enjoy every bite of it. We are having our cold weather here in California now.duty again. I Pray that all the boys come home safely & also my dear Son. How are you getting along? I hope that you are fine and in the very best of health. I and my family are all well and are only worried about our Dear Son. Please drop me a few lines when you have time as I would enjoy hearing from you. Hoping this letter finds you at your best as it I do hope that by next year this dreadful War will be over so that all our loved ones will be home with us. I guess all we can do is to pray that the good Lord watches over all the boys and returns them home to us. I also have a boy fighting in France he is 23 yrs. of age and was hurt in France on D. day and I received a letter from the Government and he is back in active leaves me. I remain as always with all my kindest regards and best wishes. Your Unknown Friend [Sahag Bedrosian?] 741 SOCIAL MESSAGE WESTERN UNION BQ47 16=WORCESTER MASS 14 906A MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL= DONT PHONE DELIVER 700P DAYLIGHT TIME CARE J JELAL INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE HOUSE 190 BEACON ST= HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR NOBLE ACHIEVEMENT MAY GOD GRANT YOU MANY MORE YEARS OF USEFUL SERVICE= REV AND MRS K BEDROSIAN.1932 SEP 14 AM 9 18Fresno, Calif Dec. 24, 1920. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monodckock Street Dorchester, Mass. Dear Madam: You will receive a box of dried fruits, from your unknown friend Sahag Bedrosian. We all hope that you are happy. Accept this as a token of graditude. All the members of my family are well and happy. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell We are really sorry to say -2- [?hat] When the war was over, But seems to me that nothing was done, many promises was made by every powerful nations for the freedom of small nations but none kept there promises, still the small nations are suffering, but we hope that they will not suffer for ever. And we hope that God will set them free by his will. I have three daughters and one son, the oldest was 14 yrs this December, and my son was -3- nine yrs October. I am teaching them when you grow up to be men or women always follow the example of Miss Alice Blackwell which always believed to fight for freedom of the people as Abe Lincoln. I do hope that your dream will come true for the freedom of Armenia. I am very thankful for the card you send and also wishing youSabay Bedrosian you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year Hoping to hear soon Yours Sincerely Sabay Bedrosian 856 Broadway Fresno Calif#116 South Street. Ware Mass 1/5=1930. Dear Cousin Alice:= I want to thank you for the money for the children. It is very kind of you to remember them each year. I only wish you could find some way of getting out here and getting acquainted with them. Of course we are very proud of them and we had them all home for their holidays and it seemed more like old times. You see since Evelyn went to college it leaves only Louise and Leonard with Eva and me. Sheldon is in his Junior year at R.P.I. at Troy N.Y. and seems to be making good there even though everybody tells us what a stiff course they have there. He works so as to earn his board and room and that helps out a lot. Francis and family are about as usual. We see some of them every day when they bring the milk so keep in touch with them. His girls are in High School at Warren and getting high marks there in spite of helping him with the farm work. That Mrs Hinds who lived over toward Warren and had been such a burden on Marion and Francis, bringing all her troubles and ills to them and demanding the Marion come down to put drops in her eyes or do some other thing for her when she was sick, has finally passed away and they will not have to be tied down to her any more. I told them they were too good to her but Marion is wonderfully good hearted and could not say No. Well since writing the first of this letter I have been over to West Brookfield with our Minister and took Louise and Leonard along as they had Boy and Girl Scout pictures at the Town Hall there and Louise has just joined the Girl Scouts here in Ware. Leonard is too young yet but expect soon he will be joining the Boy Scouts as he is interested in sports and outdoor things. He is a big boy now and I can hardly realize that our baby is so big. We were all sorry to hear about your sprained ankle and hope it is all well by now. I have been using my spare moments filling up a chart of my ancestors back to the ninth generation. Do you realize that you have 256 ancestors in the ninth generation if there is no intermarriage? I have the first six generations all filled out and when I get to the ninth have almost a hundred names, some of them are duplicated as I have three lines to Richard Williams of Taunton also two lines to the Beeman line. I wondered if you would be interested in a chart containing the Stone and other ancestors of your Mother? I could leave the other side for you to fill in what you have of the Blackwell ancestors. Leila was here when I was working on the chart and I am going to fill one out for her and she paid for six of the blank charts so I could fill one out for you and the other cousins if any of you wished for it. Leila's girls are both at Mt. Holyoke College. Audra is a Senior this year and Dorothy is a Sophomore. Francis' girls are in High School in Warren and are getting good marks even if they do spend a lot of time helping at home both indoors and out. We will be glad to hear from you whenever you can find time to write and hope you can get out to see us next summer at your convenience as we are home and glad of company at any time. With love, Bowman Stone Beeman May 17 1935 Ware Mass Dear Cousin Alice; - I had intended writing to you before this telling about the funeral but this has been a very busy week. I am inclosing a clipping from the Ware River News contributed by Miss Harding who is a distant relative of Maria — I was sorry that none of you were able to get out here for the funeralBowman Beeman3 unable to do so and the minister read the poem. She had also asked that I act as one of the bearers and I was glad to render this last service for her. Her grave is on a sightly knoll in our Aspen Grove Cemetery and the service at the grave was impressive. I am sending you a snapshot we had taken Easter Sunday when all the children and "in laws" were here except Sheldon and wife. You will see that all our children are pretty well "grown up" now. Leonard is taller than I and has been working in a grocery store after school and Saturdays, 2 but I realize it would have been a big effort and for a short service. I thought [?] Maria looked very peaceful and happy as she lay there in her front room and surrounded by flowers. There were about thirty friends and neighbors there and Rev. Mr. Handamian conducted the service and spoke very nicely of her life and character. She asked in some memoranda she left that a quartette of men should sing "Crossing the bar" but the men she named wereLouise helps the minister's wife after school so all our children are busy. I hope you will be able to get out here to see us some time this summer preferably a week end when I would have time to visit with you- Your cousin Bowman L. Berman(?) Miss Maria Barlow (Contributed) - The recent death of Miss Maria A. Barlow, at her home 98 Church street, Ware, has taken one who carried with her, wherever she went, the graces and virtues of a Christian woman. Miss Barlow had a genius for friendship. And although her presence has vanished, she has left behind a train of pleasant memories, which those who knew her best, will tenderly cherish. Miss Barlow, loved the out-of-doors, woods, fields and flowers. Annually, spending a holiday, by returning to the old farm, where she passed her childhood. While her days were passing, she met life's evening, with a smile. A life has been garnered in. It is not, death. It is Victory. Miss Maria A. Barlow, 86, died at her home, 98 Church street, early Monday, after several months of poor health. She fell and sustained a fractured hip several months ago. Miss Barlow was born at New Braintree and came to Ware with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Barlow, 69 years ago and had lived in the house where she died since. She was a charter member of the Social Science club, organized here in 1885, she being one of 52 women who applied for the original charter. She was a lifelong member of East Congregational church. She has no near relatives, but leaves a half cousin at West Brookfield. The funeral will be this afternoon at 2 in the home. Rev. K. A. Handanian of East church officiating. Burial will be in Aspen Grove cemetery. (Picture) Left to right- Front row Eva Beeman Marjorie B. Van Vranken Louise Beeman Evelyn B. Tracy Back Row Bowman Stone Beeman Wayne Van Vranken Leonard Beeman Richard Tracy Picture taken, Easter Sunday 1935 (Mr. Bowman says "Sheldon & wife missing from picture")Miss Maria Barlow (Contributed) - The recent death of Miss Maria A. Barlow, at her home 98 Church street, Ware, has taken one who carried with her, wherever she went, the graces and virtues of a Christian woman. Miss Barlow had a genius for friendship. And although her presence has vanished, she has left behind a train of pleasant memories, which those who knew her best, will tenderly cherish. Miss Barlow, loved the out-of-doors, woods, fields and flowers. Annually, spending a holiday, by returning to the old farm, where she passed her childhood. While her days were passing, she met life's evening, with a smile. A life has been garnered in. It is not, death. It is Victory. Miss Maria A. Barlow, 86, died at her home, 98 Church street, early Monday, after several months of poor health. She fell and sustained a fractured hip several months ago. Miss Barlow was born at New Braintree and came to Ware with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Barlow, 69 years ago and had lived in the house where she died since. She was a charter member of the Social Science club, organized here in 1885, she being one of 52 women who applied for the original charter. She was a lifelong member of East Congregational church. She has no near relatives, but leaves a half cousin at West Brookfield. The funeral will be this afternoon at 2 in the home. Rev. K. A. Handanian of East church officiating. Burial will be in Aspen Grove cemetery. (Picture) Left to right- Front row Eva Beeman Marjorie B. Van Vranken Louise Beeman Evelyn B. Tracy Back Row Bowman Stone Beeman Wayne Van Vranken Leonard Beeman Richard Tracy Picture taken, Easter Sunday 1935 (Mr. Bowman says "Sheldon & wife missing from picture")Ware, Mass. Aug. 10, 1931 Dear Cousin Alice: I have fully meant to write you all about the call here, a few Sundays ago, of President Holt and his sister but company and a lack of time to succeed each day in finishing my allotted tasks is my only excuse. Do please pardon my not writing you! We asked Eva for the enclosed clipping as it was in one of her papers and then I failed to send it. Mr. Holt took a stone from the mall near the big flat stone where I did know her now. Harold & Leila have returned from a delightful trip to California, Canada and Alaska. In her last letter she speaks of Dorothy's engagement to Maxwell White, a very fine fellow taking his degree at Chicago University. I'm sure you are wondering why we failed to meet our note but as the enclosed clipping will show the final account of the public administrator will be the 18th of August instead of July 15 as he had hoped, & it was this cash we were to use to pay you. If it isn't satisfactory to you will you please tell us, frankly, and Francis will try to borrow it somewhere. We do thank you very much for the loan anyhow. it was dear of you to do it after you (2) Your Mother used to warm her toes when she went for the cows. You remember it is on the right as you walk from the house toward the top of the hill leading to West Brookfield. We had a pleasant call & think the idea a splendid one. Cousin Maria Barlow & a Miss Bannister called early one morning, soon after, so we could tell her about it & we had a very interesting half hour hearing a bit more of Cousin Kitty's life & her association with Cousin Maria as a girl. You know I've never seen Cousin Kitty, but have heard so much about her that it seems as ifhave done so much for us. Lovingly, Marion. Creggaudarroch Blairmore, Argyllshire, (by Dunoon.) 27:3:42. Dear Miss Alice, I hope you are keeping well - We have had a severe winter, with lots of snow, and Miss Kelly has had bad chilblains; but now the weather is getting milder and brighter, and it should help everyone to "carry on." I have not been very well, and we have all had colds - Miss Mitchell is well, except her sight which is failing- I saw her busy in her garden the other day when I passed in the bus, going to Kilmun - Dr. Eliz. Blackwell's grave looks so nice with the border of snowdrops all round. I pulled a few, and enclosed 3. With love & all good wishes, Yours sincerely, H. L. N. Bell --will attend to plants for grave later on. TNBHotel Creggandarroch, Blairmore, Argyllshire . 13th January, 1942. Dear Miss Alice, I have to thank you for your letters and Christmas Card received the other day: and also for the money which I got from back at Dumoor(?) for the care of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's grave. I received £12-6-5. and have put £11. into Deposit Receipt meantime, in my name & my brother's name. The cost for digging plot and planting the flowers has been 16/- per annum. It may come to a little more this year, so I have £1-6-5 in cash= more than enough for this year. Please let me know what you wish me to do with the D. R. My brother (whos is here) knows about it. I see Miss Kelly frequently, and she is well, and always interested to hear about you. I also see Miss Mitchell, whose sight is not good, but she is able to knit for the Forces. Our old maid and I are going to have tea with Miss Kelly one Sunday soon. Miss Barry Blackwell used to enjoy going to "Burnbank" to have tea with Mrs. & Miss Kelly. Lately we have had some cold, frosty days, but wind has not been so bitter as last winter. Trusting that you are well, and with every good wish. Yours V. sincerely, Helen L. N. Bell .Hotel Creggandarroch (?) Blairmore, Argyllshire (?) (By Dumoow?) 25:9:41 Dear Miss Alice, It is a long time since I wrote to you; but as you will see from about address, we are still living at Blairmore, which is quite near Kilmum (?), and I have attended to the order for plants on Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's grave last summer and one day when I was there, I washed parts of the stone which were green (a wall being near) and took that off. I have her autobiography here, and send it to many people: and lately a friend gave me two copies of The New York Times Magazine (July 20th and August 10th 1941) with articles on "women who helped mould America", and : "The famous Blackwell family"= Which are most interesting. Miss Kelly's dear mother passed away on 18th January in her 92nd year. Miss Kelly was very "run-down" as that time, after nursing her, but she is now very much better, and has had a few relations, also paying guests with her this summer - She has lots of people going to her wee shop for tea, but often she had no biscuits to put on tea table, nor sweets to sell! But these are to become more plentiful soon. Miss Mitchell also is well, except for her eyesight, which is growing dim - She had a few p. guests in summer. We are comfortable here, but are home-sick. Our aged maid is not fit for stairs now, and so we have to remain out of town, although the nights of Blitz were noisy here, and it was terribly sad to see Greenock burning. Hoping to hear soon that you keep well, & with kindest regards, yrs sincerely, H.L.N.Bell -BEN LEDI, STRONE, ARGYLL. Scotland. August 4, 1940 Dear Miss Alice, I should have acknowledged before this date, your kind letter of June 28th with money order enclosed which was re-addressed to me here. I wished to send back to you the surplus money (14/-) but at Dumoon (?) Post Office they advised me not to so so at present: so instead, I shall keep it in an envelope, and it will be in reserve for putting Dr. E. Blackwell's grave in order next spring. It is looking very pretty this Summer with the bright red begonias across top of grave, and the blue and white flowers all round the plot. I saw it today, as we were at the Service in Kilmen Parrish Church. It is so nice to be here among friends. I am staying with Miss Agnes Mitchell, and I often see Miss Kelly. Trusting you are well, and with kind regards and thanks, Yours very sincerely, Helen L.N. Bell Hotel Creggandarroch (?) Blairmore, Argyllshire (?) 22nd Nov. 1941 Dear Miss Alice, I enclose (as a Christmas Greeting Card) a Czech Scottish card designed by my friend Miss De C. L Dewar, with best- wishes. You will notice the silver leaf of C-S intertwined with the thistle of Scotland. I trust you are well, and that you received my letter which was posted some weeks ago= and in which I mentioned that I had seen to Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's grave in Spring. And I also told that Mrs. Kelly passed away in January. Miss Kelly and Miss Agnes Mitchell are well, but Miss M's eyesight is failing. Weather is now cold and stormy- Excuse a short note, and with kindest regards and best wishes, Yours V. sincerely, Helen L. N. Bell IN - DEFENS SCOTLAND CZECHOSLOVAKIA PRAVDA VITEZI LIBERTY'S IN EVERY BLOW LET US DO - OR DEE. Burns NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT Dr C. L. Dewar ZNAKY SKOTSKA A CESKOSLOVENSKA Brooklyn - May 9th 1925 My dear Alice - You will probably be surprised to hear from me after all this time. (I think it is twenty years since we last met) But you surely must remember Fanny Benedict of the old Dorchester-Harris grammar school I write to you now for information. I was talking to a friend who is one of the compilers of "Who's Who" - and you were mentioned. I said I had known you and your Father wasyou had as a girl - Kindly let me hear from you at your earliest convenience - Very truly yours - Fanny Benedict Ohara Mrs. F. B. Ohara 54 Lefferts Pl - Brooklyn - N. Y. Dr. Blackwell, so we looked it up and in the account of "you" he is not noted as Dr - though I remember when we were girls in school together in Dorchester - he was always spoken of as Dr - Blackwell - Will you kindly let know whether he was an M. D - or what, for my own satisfaction - also if I am right that the correction may be made in the next issue of the book - I trust all is well with you - We certainly are getting on in years - though I do not feel it and I doubt if you do either - particularly if you still keep some of the vimTammy Benedict AddressesHanover, Conn. Dec., 18, 1927. Dear Miss Blackwell: The Christmas Greeting, within, is the work of Mildred Fenner Douglass of New London - my niece - Designing and coloring all her own. I think it all very dainty and beautiful - and I know you will agree. Don't feel that you must reply to this - I appreciate, very much, your kind thought of me all these years. How many times I've wished I might see you and thank you - Sincerely. Ella S. Bennett.[*Mother R Alice Mrs. Ernest Benninghoven RDI Box 42 Wright's, Cal.] SKYLAND SANTA CRUZ COUNTY VIA WRIGHT'S P. O., CALIFORNIA March. 17, '30 Dear Alice Stone Blackwell; It is years since I have seen thy name in any publication. But the other day I read a short letter from thee in the Los Angeles Open Forum and was so glad to know that thee are still in the flesh and are still helping with the work of freeing the bound ones as did Lucy Stone Blackwell, thy blessed mother. I am a Boston or a former Boston woman. I lived there many years and used to be a writer on the Boston papers, beginning with the Boston Traveler when Colonel Worthington owned and edited it and when Lillian Whiting was the literary editor. MY mother xxxx lived at Reading and died there, just out of Boston. I married a German nobleman and have lived much in Europe but have made my home here since I902 when I became disullusioned with the Gentile scheme of commercialized, apostate life and became a recluse, repudiating it all. I have been in Europe since then but have been apart from the world ever wi since i902. My husband died in I921 and I have since been trying to live by writing and teaching the great things that have been revealed to me from the high powers of heaven. I am not a spiritualist and have never been connected with them and do not know any of their methods. I am an illumined woman and along the line of Anna Kingsford and Thomas A Kempis, and what is called a " Mystic " The othodox world xxxx is empty and the political world of today is a pitiful farce. I am taking the liberty of sending to thee a copy of my just-issued magazine , A Martyr's Vision . I beg thee to read it carefully, also, the m s mss, enclosed which is most unusual and will, I believe, stir thee as thee have never been stirred. I wish thee to get a hearing for these things wherever thee can do so in case they interest thee and I cannot believe they will not. There is one exception I must make. I do not want the Bahai people to have my writings nor my mss, They have pirated, for many years, my revelations and used them as their own. V Because I have been here in the (over.)Timber alone, most of the time, and fasting and seeing the great angels, they have foolishly believed that I would not know what they were doing with my things. But God has give me the outward proof and I have the spiritual evidence of what they have boldly and unscrupulously done. Pardon this, but I have come to the point where [sef selfs] defense in necessary. May I expect [a] an early reply from thee? With the best of all good wishes for thee, and, IN the Interest of the Brotherhood of men and Nations, I remain Faithfully, MOther, R. Alice von Benninghoven (JUdaistic - Christian Mystic.) Addendum: I am English-Irish-American; of the old colonial stock who helped to fight the Revolutionary war in 1777 and the Civil War in the [60] sixties. I sometimes get homesick for Boston and want to go back there, but the cold climate after so many years in california, would be too much for me, beside I live high in the mountains and in my own timber tract, with five Collie dogs for [freid d]friends and protection. I have one of the most beautiful locations in the whole world. I have freedom and absolute quietude and warm sun and the solitude, so dear to the heart of the spiritual student and recluse. I have several cottages on a place nearer to the open place, and rent the these in the summer to students who come to take my teaching. Address Wright, Rt. 1, Box 42, California, as [?] is not an office now, the R.D. having supplanted it. THE FIAT FROM THE MOUNTAIN- TOP. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KIND FRIENDS ADVISE ME TO NOT WASTE MY SMALL SUBSTANCE IN PUTTING FORTH MY INSPIRED WRITINGS. THEY SAY " YOU ARE RIGHT BUT YOU ARE WEAK, FINANCIALLy and THE ENEMY HATH ALL THE MONEY: MOST OF THE PUBLIC INFLUENCE AND THEY CONTROL THE PUBLIC PRESS WHICH IS UNITED AGAINST THEE AND THY GOD: AND THEY HAVE . AS SERVANTS. THE CONTROLLING POWERS OF CHURCH AND STATE OF ALL CHRISTENDOM. The world and the press bow to Baal [?], not God. THE TASK IS TOO MIGHTY FOR THXE ONE WITH NO HUMAN ORGANIZ/ARTION, [*TION], NO GREAT WEALTH BEHIND ONE." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - sublette THE ANSWER. - - - - - - I reply, from my mountain-top , " From small acorns grow mighty oaks. A growing tree is able to split the strongest confining force known. History proves that the courage of the martyr is not to be trifled with by corrupt forces, whether political, ecclesiastical, financial or social. STAND BACK, I SAY, AND GIVE ME GANGWAY.. Editor of A Martyr's Vision. ) Called the "Female Martin Luther." x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x GOD AND THE HEAVENS. - - - - - - - - - - ( Note ; Some excerpts from this revelation, seen by critics, are already [xxxxxxxxxxxx] causing it to be hailed as the forerunner of the outward Dispensation of God upon earth." - - - - - - - - - - - - - At last : the New Revelation; an authoritative, definite, unchallengeable [able] world - rocking record of the storied kingdoms of heavenly Light. [by one who hath visited them, in spirits, and returned o tell hthe story. ----------------------------------- Staggering new evidence that [will] the old brutal, earthly [earthly reli] religious and temporal processes of life are now, by divine decree, ending [and the new spiritual creation, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] and the new heavenly way, opening. - - - - - - - - - -2 A Vision of great power seen in the heavens in July 1903 which proves that the time is here for physiologic birth to cease, and, for the new spiritual creation, existing before the "Fall of Man," to s supplant it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A prodigious warning witnessed in the sky, three consecutive times, in May I910 of the D 0 0 M of the planet earth and her peoples within a few xxxxx hundred years. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It is a record xxxx from God that will hush the hot clamour for wealth and material power of the mis-led, duped many and chill to impotence, the arrogant spirit of sensuality lurking within, and behind, the ecclesiastic and secular authorities, who for centuries have profited by it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It will unite those ---- regardless of creed, race or circumstance, now in the flesh, who have been hounded, persecuted and impoverished by certain, evil governing powers , because they dared to renounce the way and belief of the majority, and adopt the way and God-inspired belief of the suffering submerged, spiritualized, minority. - - - - - - - - - - - A record voicing the crushed hopes, the crucified ideals, the snuffed- out-lives of the trampled, inarticulate, honest, plain people of the earth. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Inspired by the God-Christ of the Ages. - - - - - - - - - - - - Disapproved by the plutocratic, orthodox ecclesiasticism of the groaning earth, and interdicted by the mammon-ruled, matter-drugged, withering secularism of the Gentile world. - - -- - - - - -- - A personal record by an American woman who hath been caught up into the third heaven, in spirit, and returned to the body to bring that which is a " sign and a witness, " of God, and the Hosts of heaven to confused, perplexed, hungering - - - - - - - - - - - | A description of infinitely beautiful spiritual kingdoms ; staggering in their immensity; stupendous in creative power ; overwhelmingly great in radiant light, glory and consciousness of love; compared to which the earth planet is but a worm-eaten, [---] musty clod and earth-life but a dark, fleeting, pitiful shadow. - - - - - - - - - - - It is, at once, an understandable record of divine life and conditions of the various heavens, so profoundly sincere, so evidently true, sublimely beautiful and awe-inspiring that doubt is immediately silenced; criticism stilled and the atheistic mind bowed in awe-stricken reverence and humility. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 In height and depth of, hitherto, undreamt-of knowledge it staggers the imagination. It reveals divinities of an appalling strength and power; prodigious in their macrocosmic vastness ; ineffable beauty, tenderness and mercy. - - - - - - - - - - - By its profoundity and exaltation it shames a world of selfishness, xxxx greed, and mammon-worship. It flays, with lightening-like strokes, and penetration, human sensuality and physical indulgence. - - - - - - - - - - - -- By its judgements of evil in high places, and the method of private control, for selfish ends, of the common resources of the earth and its industries, it leaves no foothold. - - - - - - - - - - By its piercing, all-revealing Vision it uncovers secret wrongs whose magnitude rock the foundations of all governments classed today as civilized, and shows why an apostate ecclesiasticism hath kept the people in darkness. - - - - - - - - - -- The why and wherefore of birth, death and spiritual resurrection, definitely and conclusively, answered. - - - - - - - - - - - IN addition, the new revelation will reveal the exact nature of the, hitherto, unfathomable phenomena ( those rarely seen wonders that the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx spiritually-dead faculties of scientific and scholastic mankind cannot grasp and dare not to even attempt to grapple with ) such as the suns' corona, the zodiacal light ;the nature and cause of Sun spots and the various nebula seen throughout the Universe; the sudden disappearance of stars and suns; and other stupendous heavenly phenomena. - - - - - - - - - - - - The key that unlocks the prodigious mysteries of our own existence, here a and hereafter; our divinities, microcosmic and macrocosmic ; our sun and solar system, also, unlocks the mysteries of all other creations, suns and their systems. - - - - - - - - - It explains the colossal phenomena of the Milky Way ; gives unchallengeable proof of the nature of the spots upon our moon; the marks and polar caps upon Mars; the crimson spots upon Jupiter and the changes in the rings of Saturn; the wobbling of Neptune; the uncertainties of the movements of Mercury, within recent years; also, the cause of earthquakes and volcanic action, problems [t] the hemm of whose garment science hath not even touched. - - - - - - - - - - - - In magnitude and gravity, the New Revelation leaves the human mind dumbfounded. Its almost incredible wisdom; unassailable rectitude and sublimity; vastness of outlook, at once, places it above and beyond anything, sacred or profane, ever written in any language, at any time. - - - - - - - - -- Finally, it proves that, not through science and scholasticism, with their processes of cold, inductive reasoning, but through REVELATION, will come that condition of life wherein the saveable element of the human race,4 will be freed from bondage to the outer Santania rule and the Evil Principle of outer creation, when the long-hoped-for state of moral, spiritual and physical equilibrium of the earth and her forces, will have been, at last, attained and divine rule again restored. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It may be said here without fear of contradiction, that this revelation will stir to life the blind-of-soul and bring, for the first time [in history] in the history of man, truths of a magnitude and import, that will rock to their foundations all established human beliefs and cause religious, scientific, political and economic upheavals such as a mankind hath not dreamt of. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By a Pilgrim, spokeswoman of the plain people, who thirty years ago repudiated Gentile civilization and became a recluse. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Not a spiritualist, but a spiritually-illumined, God-inspired ascetic and mystic. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Price $5.25 a copy, post paid. GUarantee given that book will be delivered by July 15th, or money returned, Address Mother, R, Alice von Benninghoven, Wright, Rt, I, Box 42, california, U, S, A. FOREWORD. - - - - - - - - - Libraries, the world over, are filled with costly volumes about the travel of various people in more or less remote lands and little known corners [o] of the world and the wonders witnessed and discovered by them. Africa, South America, China, Aegypt and other vastly interesting place of our earth, have been explored and written about until there is now almost no unknown corner left. Descriptions of countries, peoples, customs, laws, manners, dress and the surroundings of the inhabitants, are profusely printed, copiously illustrated, handsomely bound, and, when put before the [e] people, are greedily devoured. This [k] is so because the average human craves knowledge of the world in which he lives, even for so short a time, and its peoples The average human craves, even more eagerly, true knowledge of the mysterious, supersensual worlds, in some of which he will, sometime, live for a very long time. [Sewdenborg gave a slight glimpse of the smallest corner] But, up to date, nothing concerning the real heavens, their location, nature, conditions, God and the laws and the inhabitants, of a definite, worth-while character, hath ever been given to the human race. This, in spite of the fact that the colossal problem of the after-life and [k]its various altitudes of consciousness, is the most absorbing of all earthly problems. Sewdenborg gave a slight glimpse of the smallest corner of the natural spiritual world, surrounding the earth, but he did not rise into the high and holy heavens of the Sun of the Sun, or even the highest heaven of our own planet sphere, nor did he bring back to the human earth a clear, concise, understanding of the intangible worlds, or of what lies back and above the reach of mortal consciousness or the carnal faculties of mankind. 5 A very few great visions of saints and prophets have shown a vague, indefinite picture of limited sections of the heavenly kingdoms and the holy beings who inhabit them. But there are, practically, no really reliable records or revelations, of even the lowest heavens of our own planet, capable of acceptance [of the] by the reasoning faculties of scientists, theologian and the plain people. THE REASON WHY. ( subtitle. ) - - - - - - - This is true because knowledge of the heavenly abiding places, their inhabitants and the why and wherefore of reaching them, is not known to mankind, religious or secular, and civilization hath not produced the type of spiritual being able to comprehend, or to rise, spiritually, into the life of these holy places. Earthly things, people and the mud-scarred methods of operation, false ideals and aims, are all that present spiritually-dead human creatures, in spite of religious and ethical institutions, really know. The place where humans, deified, or simply carnal, will dwell throughout eternity is, unquestionably, a matter of supreme, pulsating interest. The place where the holy angels and the never-embodied deities and great herarchs, who, [b]in great communal action, direct the destinies of our world, its races and [t] the entire Universe, is of greater interest than any other subject, human or divine. But of all the holy people who have entered these blessed realms above, none have returned to tell the inhabitants of the earth of the indescribably great wonders and glories they have discovered., until the writer of this revelation. Those who, have gone above know, but they cannot [convery] convey to the matter-drugged faculties of the animalized[d] humans upon earth, even to its most exalted [specirme] specimens, the all -important, heavenly information. X X X X X X X X X X X X X Mankind, today, is really more concerned with the unrevealed truths about the future life, the heavens and the divinities, than any other problem. Those who never hope to attain to the heights of spirituality which will entitle them to entrance into, even the lowest of the seven-fold heavens of our own earth planet, not to speak of the kingdoms and queendoms of the [six] higher Celestial heavens, are, within the depths of their souls, more deeply concerned with the problem of the next life, what it means, where and how it is to be lived and what must be done to insure rest and peace there, than they are in the problems of getting-on in material life. No other question holds the mighty drawing power that is held by even the simplest question concerning heaven, God and the future life. This is proven by the fact, that in spite of everything, the Bible is the best seller. Many men, disgusted with orthodox greed and stupidity; disillusioned with the visible results of the weak, selfish, impotent power of what is called [r] religion, today, have, lacking a personal inner illumination, repudiated it all and, blinded by the sensualism of the worldly life, try to believe that the creature is merely a physical organism and that bodily dissolution ends it all. (Subtitle.) But in his innermost consciousness no man believes this to be true. 6 Something, he knows not what, will refuse to let him believe the xxxxxx monstrous lie that is taught in some Europe an Universities and some cults in the United xxxx States, namely, that the highest, final result of human creation is to furnish perfectly good fertilazers for the soil of the earth. No matter how deeply engrossed he may be in some material achievement; how blinded to the finer things of mind and spirit,; how, apparently, xxx indifferent to the question of the continuity of life after separation of the spirit from the body, something, within some hidden chamber of his soul, however animalized it may be, will, at times, xxxxxx writhe and wrestly, mightily, with the personal, intimate and all-important problem of lies beyond. No one hath yet proven to him that there is another world or a beyond-- a supersensual world---- yet, even the dumbest brute of a man that walks the earth, knows, instinctively, that there is another life---- another world--- beyond the present, mud-scarred, sorrow-seared, heart-breaking, hope-deferred existence, known as embodied human life. (subtitle) THIS INSTINCTIVE KNOWLEDGE CAN NEVER BE KILLED IN HUMAN KIND. - - - - - - - - - - Always, above and beyond the common interest, the everyday beliefs, the bread and butter side of life, there is a desire, frequently stifled and inarticulate, to be sure, but nevertheless, there, like a voice in the night, the certainty that a future life---- a squarer deal--- lies somewhere ahead. Atheism, rationalism, humanism, or any other sordid, debasing, damning belief, is but another name for some form of thwarted hope, xxxxxx unfulfilled happiness, and, perhaps failure, or unvoice pain. NOT ONLY IS THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE ASSURED TO THE HUMAN CREATURE, BUT TO THE ENTIRE ANIMAL WORLD, OR TO ALL SENTIENT THINGS. Why, the reader will ask, hath this, the most profound, the most fateful, the most intimately beautiful and enthralling of all human problems, been neglected by the governing powers of the Christian world ? The answer is a simple one and lies in the fact that the custodians, political and ecclesiastical, of the human race, have been, for seventeen cenguries, and are, as a whole, today, largely spiritually-blind or spiritually-dead and are so because of the false standards of living of a false civilization which inculcates, mainly, ideals of an animalized, inverted spiritual nature which hath made of all of them, and nearly all mankind, creatures more animal than man. Science and philanthropy spends hundreds of millions, xxxxxx yearly, investigating the nature, habits and abodes of ants, bugs and eels, but almost nothing upon an intelligent investigation of the giant truths now available, of the future life and the great intangibilities of the spiritual worlds. The carnivorous habits of life have held the consciousness of the humans, unable to rise above them, in a darkened, spiritually-atrophied state where knowledge of anything but the tangible things of life is difficult, if not impossible. Orthodox religion, like science and scholasticism, hath not helped, but hindered or confirmed, the low standards of the material order of life, and enchained, not delivered, humanity from the bondage to material ideals. 7 Bodies, bodily propagation, bodily sustenance, interests and adornment have, in the main, occupied the attention and efforts of the majority of the human race, which cannot, honestly, claim to be civilized. These things, then, have been lived and alone xxxxxxx properly comprehended. By carnal laws and decrees, made by the matter-drugged blinded, custodians of life, the great mass of the plain people, those without time or opportunity to attend to aught but the grossest animal needs, have been herded, animal-like, to the lower spheres of operation, where they have been deliberately kept on a low plane mentally and spiritually, through hard, embruted labour, in order that they might better serve the ends of their masters--- the privileged classes, the "higher -ups"--- who, today, possess the earth and the increase thereof. God said that, in the reconstructed, divine order of life, which is now beginning, that the lowly should be exalted and that those in high places should be dethroned, or unseated, and made lowly. The process of unseating appears to have begun in what is known today as the "Red movement " of the world--- that movement condemned by all orthodox and Gentile authorities. The Reds are, xxxx seemingly, executing upon earth Gods decrees, but the spiritually-dead of the plutocratic world are unable to realize it. The "Reds" are busily dethroning the autocratic, apostate Jesuits of the xxxx Church in Russia, and as this is the time for the destruction of what St Paul called " That Man of sin " and the apostate religion, which hath so long cursed the earth, they are world benefactors, not rebels, as the capitalistic class would have us believe. - - - - - - - - - The " Higher-ups", although personally interested in the after life, have always kept the masses under their control, in a darkened state, seeking to hold them, even to the belief of servility in the after life, as well as in the physical life. That the masses of the plain people, have , within the past thirty years developed personal, new ideas of freedom, strangely at variance with the ideas of mental, physical and spiritual subordination of the socially and financially humble, to their masters, and have, in certain localities and under certain conditions, exhibited profound disregard for the beliefs, wishes and even the needs of the posssossing, whip-holding classes, who have, hitherto, xxxxxx regarded them as so many " dumb driven cattle," is exceedingly strange. That this revolting, down trodden element, in addition to open repudiation and defiance of the economic needs of their erstwhile, masters, should, also, overthrow belief in the religious processes that made slaves of the many for the benefit of the few, is, a surpreme shock to the sensibilities x of the posssessimg classes, therefore, they naturally resent it and work against it. Naturally, the chain-breaking process and the prospect of a levelling down of the age-old rule of worldly possessions and worldly authority is not pleasing to the master-driven-class. Wearied of the chain-gang step, the economic prisoners, feeling their new freedom, sprang up the ladder of revolt, as the only way out, and, because of that sudden climbing, which bridged the gap made by many oxx terrible years of sorrow and terror, the foundations of that false civilization by which they were held, through violence and militeraristic rule, so completely and so long, is now crumbling about them.8 [This, then, is why, nowhere, is there a reliable, authentic record or proof of a future life--- nothing to which the outer faculties of the plain people can look for the truth] This, then, is the real cause why the vast industrial classes have turned, and no longer xxxxx believe the teaching of a religion that gave them not bread but a stone. This, then, is why nowhere, is there reliable, xxxxxx authentic record or proof of a future life--- nothing which the outer faculties of the plain people may look for spiritual relief or help. It is well know that orthodox Christianity is now and always hath been the refuge of the rich and the [guardhouse] of the poor. It is, also, an acknowledged fact that when Moses and the great Christ came to earth, it was the plain people who became the first disciples of both Christianity and Judaism. When Christianity [and Judaism], after years of success, became the state religions, then they became the popularly accepted beliefs of the wealthy persons and the aristocrats of the xxxx Gentile earth. New and truly holy things are never espoused by the wealthy, possessing classes [until they became popular] and they are ingored and frowned upon [?] for the reason that espousal of that which is unaccepted might endanger their own strongly-entrenched financial position. Lacking a spiritual belief in a spiritual help, of which an apostate religion hath bereft them, the plain people now take matters into their own hands and build creeds based upon purely [human] needs, desires and ambitions which are all their civilization, by precept and example, hath taught them. Thus, we have at the present time, a multitude of groups of humanists, rationalists, atheists and other materialists and pseudo psychic cults, all due to the paralyzing , fraudulent results of a counterfeit, materialized civilization--- a Christless xxxxxxxx Christianity---- which for seventeen centuries, hath exalted the material, in the place of the spiritual, ideal of life. In this process of overturning the ancient decree of God is plainly seen operating and the xxxx failing, xxxxxx discredited authority of those long-seated in high places; the revolting hordes of earth, whether of India, Russia, England, or the Americas--- the " Rider of the Red Horse of the Apocalypse," is seen following the lead of the "Rider of the White Horse of the Apocalypse, which is the White Christ, and thus, are they , the plain people the down-trodden masses--- but fulfilling their God-ordained, fully determined, xxxxx irrevocable destiny---which, as in the beginning, is freedom of conscience, the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness and the right to serve God in their own way (a priviledge denied to them by orthodox Christianity today ), guaranteed by the rule of the Rider of the White Horse of the Apocalypse. " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A CALL TO THE SPIRITUALLY AND ECONOMICALLY SUBMERGED. (subtitle) We are making a drive, beginning with this issue, for iooo subscriptions to this great book of revelations. There is money for everything that kills mans' soul but little for that which will save it. Awaken, stir thyselves, and, with the Editor, who many times goes hungry that the printer may be paid, sacrifice something, and send, immediately, the price of this book, all of.which goes to the printer for the printing and binding of the first edition of 3ooo copies. No liberty-loving person can afford to miss [the privilege of keeping] in the process of the "borning" of this [book] with its fire-soul, which is the forerunner of a civilization in which JUSTICE AND GOD will have their innings. We remain, the [Mother, R. Alice von Bernninghorn,] Editor and Associates of A MARTYR'S VISION. RT, I, BOX 42, WRIGHT, CALIFORNIA, U. S.A.THE GOTCHNAG AN ARMENIAN WEEKLY 331 FOURTH AVENUE. NEW YORK TEL. GRAMERCY 5-4812 May 10, 1935 My Dear Miss Blackwell I wish to thank you for your article which appeared in the mother's day number of the Gotchnag. It was very appropriate for the occassion to present to our readers your mother's life and I have no doubt that it will be very helpful to many Armenian mothers. We are sending you a copy of the Gotchnag which contains Your article. Sincerely Yours H.G. [Beuveyan?]PATRONS ARE REQUESTED TO FAVOR THE COMPANY BY CRITICISM AND SUGGESTION CONCERNING ITS SERVICE 1201S CLASS OF SERVICE This is a full-rate Telegram or Cablegram unless its deferred character is indicated by a suitable sign above or preceding the address. WESTERN UNION NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT J.C. WILLEVER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT SIGNS DL = Day Letter NM = Night Message NL = Night Letter LCO = Deferred Cable NLT = Cable Night Letter WLT = Week-End Letter The filing time as shown in the date line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, and the time of receipt at destination as shown on all messages, is STANDARD TIME. Received at 460 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 1932 SEP 14 PM 4 00 B Q2 10 40 DL = MS NEWYORK NY 14 339P CHAIRMAN ALICE STONE BLACKWELL = DELIVER 8 PM INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE 190 BEACON ST= PLEASE CONVEY TO MISS BLACKWELL THE HEARTFELT FELICITATIONS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF GOTCHNAG WEEKLY AND OUR PROFOUND ADMIRATION FOR HER LONG YEARS OF NOBLE SERVICE TO THE ARMENIAN CAUSE STOP WE EARNESTLY WISH HER GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LIFE = H G BENNEYAN 52, Clarendon St., Boston August 4th My dear Miss Blackwell; I am sending you a book from my friend, Miss Rose Farncomb, who very much desires your notice or review of it in the Womans Journal, and I told her I would ask the favor. Will forward it (the book) to you.Miss Farncomb is a lonely soul. She left her home in Canada to take up volunteer work among the City poor. She has done much to brighten and help all classes. Among the Jews and Gentiles alike. She worked until she broke down; even then she continued until positively unable to walk and forced to go home. She wrote this book on a couch of pain. She is better—heroically starting to get well, and back to her beloved work. For some years she has written articles in the Advocate—a Canadian periodical,—called "The Quiet Hour." over the signature of "Hope"—a name she bears out to the full. I sent a notice to Courier. But she will meetmany better names than mine in the in the Circular In the English book sellers. She hopes to get out an American Edition (this is between ourselves) sometime. If you do favor us with a review, would you kindly send either her or myself a copy of the same? You will find her address on the wrapper of the book sent to you in my care which I now forward. May I have Miss Dyers address, please? She sent me to her, hoping - or I did - for a notice in Congregationalist. Miss Bates gave me her address once, but I have lost it. I hope sometime we may meet. Perhaps when Miss Farncomb comes back, we can call together upon your! Very Cordially Miss [*Anna B. Bensel*] Granada, Minn., Apr 22, 1927 Dear Miss Blackwell, I want to thank you for remembering me on Easter with that poem which I enjoyed. The lad did some nice printing. The news of the sentencing of Sacco and Vanzetti has saddened this household. Will the people in the "Cradle of Liberty" allow these innocent men to be murdered by the state? I have had many beautiful letters from Vanzetti and I feel this deeply. At the same time that I read in the paper about Sacco and Vanzetti I also had the good news that H. D. Suhr after 13 in years in prison has been paroled to his relatives in Nebraska. Last winter he was paroled to a man in Calif. but now he may be with his friends. I hope you are well this spring-time season, Sincerely your friend Irene Benton Granada Minn Irene Beuton 131 Dwight St. Jersey City, N.J. May 16th 1914 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Dear Madam, In reply to your recent force beg to take the liberty of enclosing two prose translations from the Yiddish. I trust that some will be found of use, and surely want no pay for my work, would only ask [?] [?] a copy if its verses be published some time. Very respectfuly yours Harold Berman. If they are not found to be of any use, pray destroy them and pardon the intrusion.328 West 86th Street New York City May 23, 1935 Dear Mrs. Brown: I am enclosing a check for five dollars as a contribution to Alice Stone Blackwell fund. In blazing a trail for the participation of women in the affairs of government, she has made possible the careers of all of us who have come after her and I consider it a privilege to help, even in so small a way, the work of the Fund Very sincerely, Pearl Berns Ve[??]April 9, 1943 My dear Miss Blackwell, I am very appreciative of your Easter thoughts. In the years since I have seen you, my son has reached his nineteenth birthday and it happened that on this day donned his uniform. And I know that "parting is not separation." I also have a very lovely daughter who is thirteen years old. There have been many changes in the world since I met you when I was a student at the Boston University Law School, but would that Society had learned to use these many changes for progress rather than for the destruction of War. With you I hope favorably for the dawn of a new era of peace and justice. I do hope you are well. Sincerely, Rebecca T. Bernstein[Mrs. Israel Bernstein] Jan 11th 1906 To Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Dear Madam— To day I received notice to come befor Clerk of money order Dep. of Post office Station A. As I went the said Clerk told me to notify you on accound the "one Doll." I send to you in the month of Oct. was not called for it might be a mistake on [theyre] their side as I received yours you stated the receiving of[*Ernest Besselman*] said ammound and oblige Yours Ernst Besselmann 1408 Bush st San Francisco Cal.Wishing you real Christmas Gladness and Good Cheer throughout the New YearDear Miss Blackwell I have asked that our Public Library order a copy of your Life of Lucy Stone, and hope that it will be soon here. My children join me in affectionate greetings to you at this Christmas Season. Faithfully yours Mattie M. Betts 272 Angelus (?) Memphis TennSeptember 17, 1939 117 Summer St. Malden, Mass. Dear Mrs. Blackwell- It was such a pleasure to read in the paper of your birthday last week. May I add my felicitations to those already received. I hope the day was a very happy one. My husband and I3 round up a few sturdy souls among us. Instead, I just did an extra good days work at the office and came home zestful enough to do some housecleaning and baking before going to bed. Certainly a worthy result if not far reaching. I wish there were more people like you driving at the rest of us a little harder. May your coming years bring 2 feel that we, too, are to be congratulated. In our case because we had the opportunity of meeting you and having a little visit in your home last spring. It seemed like seeing you again to read your comments on world affairs. Your challenge to American womanhood made me feel like grabbing up a flag and tearing all over the country to see if I couldn't[*4*] you many blessing. Please remember that I should consider it a favor if in any way I can be of service to you. Most sincerely— Beatrice Fendian Beverly P.S. This note is just for your reading and not intended at all to put you to the inconvenience of correspondence. June 14, 1939 117 Summer St. Apt. 28 Walden, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell.— Very recently I saw the interesting play "Lucy Stone ". Although I had been brought up on stories of your parents' lives, I obtained a copy of your book, "Lucy Stone", from the library and had a very happy and instructive 2 to my husband too to see you face to face and hear your voice. I realize I am presumptuous and have nothing to recommended me to you except the most earnest desire to avail myself of the rare opportunity to meet a personage of your accomplishments, which have real meaning for me. My father was an Armenian and my great-aunt was Mary A. Livermore. In my own right I have nothing to offer except 2 time with it. Since then, and since seeing you at the play have been consumed with a desire to have the great privilege of meeting you. So much of your background was narrated to me as a child and so deeply have I held you in esteem, that I am taking the liberty of asking if you ever find it possible to grant this favor in these busy days. It would mean muchmy admiration for you and a terrific interest in the work of your father and mother and yourself. In any case, please accept my best wishes for your continued health and happiness. It shall always be a satisfaction to me to have seen the "Lucy Stone" play and received your official greeting as one of the audience. Most sincerely,— Beatrice Fendian Beverly (Mrs. Ralph. E.)W.C.T.U ORGANIZED 1887 For God and Home and Every Land OF ALBANY COUNTY NEW YORK "And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."—Gal. 6–9. President, Mrs. Allura J. Van Buren, 237 Westren Avenue, Albany, N. Y. First Vice-President, Mrs. I. D. Van Valkenburgh, 166 South Swan Street, Albany, N. Y. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Euretta C. Henderer, Castleton, N. Y. Recording Secretary, Mrs. Mary Mary E. Beckett, 343 Hamilton Street, Albany, N. Y. Treasurer, Mrs. Sarah F. Kenney, 508 Saratoga Street, Cohoes, N. Y. Y. Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Van Auken, 821 Twenty-Third Street, Watervliet, N. Y. L. T. L. Secretary, Mrs. Annie V. Couse, Slingerlands, N. Y. March 8th 1907 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Editor, Boston Woman's Journal, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam,— I include money order for twenty-five cents for three month's subscription to Woman's Journal containing the speeches of the National Suffrage Convention—to be sent to Mrs. Warswic and Miss Ludovic—of the Albany Morning and Sunday Argus— Mrs. Warswic has charge of considerable of the Sunday Argus—and Miss Ludovic her assistant has charge of the social column in the daily morning Argus—I never separate them as one assists the other. I have written an article for the Sunday Argus copying the "Man Suffrage" poem by Jane Campbell from the Journal and hope to see it. Our hopes do not give much space for debate and there has been very little reporting of speeches or the time of the hearings—and if any, likely to be favoring the "Antis." The date of hearings this year came when I had to be out of townso I could not do as last year - After seeing the meagre report and so one sided with nothing from the excellent speakers for us - I drew up a report and it was excepted and sixty-papers were supplied me by the office - from which I cut the clipping and sent to as many assemblymen and senators - In the Third class cities franchise - It had its effect. The "Antis" used, so our state worker said - the old set of arguments written for them by some man - minister - I believe - We are asking the Albany Journal for your article I sent directly to them - in case they cannot give it space, as our Political Equality Club would like it for reference - If I get, I'll try to get it in the Press Knickerbocker & Express (morning papers) which supplied the legislature last year for me because of my article I read your letter to Mrs. R. N. Thompson who acts as president - for our club - The Elected officer - because of an infirm father not being as free as she would wish, and not living in town, and she also advised my signing my name to the excellent article which you sent me on Franchise in England. The other one I expect to use later on - We are very grateful for the facts, and hope that the papers will not shut down on giving suffrage articles because of the strong "anti pressure upon them calling it now a dead issue. To forestall these comments as W. C. T. U. ORGANIZED 1887 FOR GOD AND HOME AND EVERY LAND. OF ALBANY COUNTY NEW YORK "And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." -Gal. 6-9. PRESIDENT, MRS. ALLURA J. VAN BUREN, 237 WESTERN AVENUE, ALBANY, N. Y. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, MRS. I. D. VAN VALKENBURGH, 166 SOUTH SWAN STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, MRS. EURETTA C. HENDERER, CASTLETON, N. Y. RECORDING SECRETARY, MRS. MARY E. BECKETT, 343 HAMILTON STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. TREASURER, MRS. SARAH F. KENNEY, 508 SARATOGA STREET, COHOES, N. Y. Y. SECRETARY, MRS. F. A. VAN AUKEN, 321 TWENTY-THIRD STREET, WATERVLIET, N. Y. L. T. L. SECRETARY, MRS. ANNIE V. COUSE, SLINGERLANDS, N. Y. ________________________________________________________ 190 much as possible, I have crowded these other articles and hope also to receive yours from the Journal unless they decide to insert it themselves - Again thanking for your valuable assistance and counsel, I am with - the best wishes of our club also to mass-suffrage society. Sincerely Yours, Mrs. Mary E Beckett PS. Because of last year's work with the papers more space about the hearing was given by all the papers- than ever before - M. E. B.-Mrs. Becket Albany, N.Y.