BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Hi13 Park Hill Moseley Sep. 7, 1924 Dear Miss Alice I cannot tell you how kind I thought it of you to send me that most interesting account of our dear [Friends] life "ways." and health --- dear Kitty -- I so of her often wish I could see her - Please tell me if you meant me to send your "circular" to any one - because you did not mention it in your letter With many thanks Yours faithfully Mary Hickman My hand prevents my writing more - & I must stop - Give my very fond love to our dear Kitty. Moseley Dec-18- [*1924*] My dear Miss Alice It is most kind of you to write and tell me the news of our dear Kitty- and we often speak of her. I have had rheumatism in my hands from the cutting wind that has been raging here and to keep on a straight line writing I have purloined a book of Alan's - He sends many kind messages to dear Kitty - He has bad rheumatism since this fever but I trust it will leave him -- He is always busy and the time passes swiftly. The new Irish dog is very turbulent. I cannot call him peaceful, but he is lovable. He came into Alan's possession being his mistress wanted a fox terrier - so if Alan did not take him poor Mick was to be drowned. I called her a cruel old lady but he is happy here & well looked after. -- Give my love to dear Kitty and Iwill write to her soon -- May be the wind will change & leave my hand to peace I liked Kitty's Halloween card With much love to her & very many thanks to you for your kindness in writing Very sincerely yours Mary Hickman Perhaps you will not be able to decipher this - 13 Park Hill Moseley Mar 4, 1922 Dear Miss Alice It is so kind of you to send us news of our dear Kitty. Tell her how she lives in our hearts. I should have written that I have been in a nursing home for 3 weeks - I hurt my sides & now I have very bad rheumatism & can scarcely walk sometimes with my left knee. I hope my hand may let me write a letter soon - but my thoughts of love travel right over to Kitty & gratitude to you your kindly sending "the letter" from our ever dearest friends. Alan sends fond love also. Your faithfully Mary HickmanPark Hill Moseley June 1924 My dear Miss Blackwell, I have not been well and my eye seems getting worse - so please forgive these short lines. I have no one to do anything for me - and Alan I hardly ever see. I trust my dear dear friend Kitty keeps better. Tell her she always lives in my heart. Fondest love. With many thanks for your kind letters. Always sincerely yours, Mary HickmanMEL Hickman[*Sp Am Poets*] Lake Placid Club Essex co N Y Aug. 27 1934 My dear Miss Blackwell, I was so delightfully reminded of you this morning where Prof. Holmes, giving a lecture here on Spanish American song and History, read several charming poems that had been translated by you, especially those of Gabriella Mistral - We have regretfully left Latin America for the time being, myson Lawrence having been tranferred to Norway - I hope that this past year has been a happy and serene one for you Always Cordially Marion L. Higgins[*M L Higgins Lake Placid Club*] October 20th,1921 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Boston 25, Mass. Dear Madam: In reply to your letter of October 19th I wish to inform you that the address of Mr. Jose Santos Chocano is as follows: - Señor Jose Santos, Apartado Postal No.1145, San Jose de Costa Rica, Costa,Rica. Yours very truly, Eduardo Higgman Consul GeneralAllen Hinckley AMHERST CLUB LEXINGTON AVENUE AND THIRTY-SIXTH STREET NEW YORK Dear Miss Blackwell, My mother passed away the latter part of January. The end came very quickly and painlessly - the doctor pronounced it a clot of bloodto the heart. I remember you largely from hearing my father and mother speak of you and quite likely you recall me as a small shaver. I owe you an apology for opening your letterIt was done by mistake. We felt that my mothers going was somewhat of a release as she had suffered for years with Rheumatism and latterly had not left her room. I trust she may see her husband and daughter in some future Existence of which we know little. I like however to think this - at least it is optimistic which would be in accordance with my fathers teachings and beliefs. Very Sincerely, Allen Hinckley (her son) 1201 Linwood Blvd Kansas City Mo. My dear Alice, I was very much surprised to receive a Valentine card from you and at first could not understand why you sent it, but as I came to study the card I concluded that fat little girl with the dark hair and the colored dress reminded you of my Mabel and the days so long past when you used to come flying down to my house to play with my big Newfoundland puppy and my fat little baby. Times have changed. You have lost your home, I have lost mine, the puppy is gone, the babyis gone, the baby's father has gone, and I have wandered far away to this young Western city where I know no one, and sit alone with my memories. Some of the pleasantest of the centre around you and your family. The present you I know nothing about. It is so many years since we have met that you have formed new friends, new associations and the only thing we can do is to go way back into the past to find some common ground on which to bridge the distance between us. And yet if Fate should cross our paths again there are some principles of life which are always the same and we might take pleasure in each other's society something as we did of old. I have changed physically very much, grown feeble in body and forgetful in mind, but I feel as if the real me was much as it used to be and still interested in all new things which tend to the growth and improvement of the world. My son Allen is giving private singing lessons here, and slowly making a place for himself. He has one child a boy eight and a half years old. Not at all like any of us but more like his mother's family from what she tells me. She was a Scotch Presbyterian which is not so veryunlike a New England Puritan. At the present time they are completely wrapped up in their music. What the boy will become remains to be seen. He has a very lovable nature, and it is the joy of my life to watch his development. I should be very glad to have a letter from you, but do not write if you are very busy or if it is any burden to you. With kind thoughts and happy memories of the olden time, Very affectionately yours Elizabeth C. Hinckley [*Lizzie Hinckley Rec'd March 5, 1923*][*Miss Hindman*] [*H*] Columbia S.D. August 12th 1890 Dear Mrs. Stone, When I sent the short article to the Journal a few days since I stated I would answer your private letter to me of a few weeks past. That letter did not reach me for some time after it was written and I doubted not you had from others, who doubtless keep you informed on all matters, all the information you asked of me in that note before it could be answered by me The action of the Committee appointed by the Huron Convention July 8th you know now. Jan said you feared the result of the action taken would be to retard the work. I think such has been the case. But as what has been done can never be undone, and what has been said can never be unsaid the best thing to be done now is to do all in our power to further the cause; working in the way that is to us the best and wisest way to accomplish that which must be done if we wish to gain the victory.2 So work together as best we can and throw no obstacles in the way of any who will work. It has been a most unfortunate state of affairs. I suppose it is as true today as it was eighteen centuries ago when [whe] announced by the Savior, that "It needs be [that] offences come, but wo be to them by whom they come" And all than can be said will never change the offense nor remove blame from the offenders. I see by the papers that Mr. Blackwell will be at the Mitchell Convention and I doubt not he has come to remain some time. I expect to be at the Convention and will meet him. Many think the Republican party will put in its platform a plank endorsing woman-suffrage. If the Independent party, which is composed chiefly of farmers, had not split off from the Old parties and nominated candidates for office[rs] the Republican party might possibly have taken up woman suffrage as it did Prohibition last year and we would have won without a doubt. It will not feel strong enough to do for us what it did for the Temperance people. Such is my opinion. Time will show what they will do. If we had votes we might with 3 certainty ask any party to help us carry any measure we desired, but for a helpless, powerless class to ask aid is only to be laughed at and treated with more or less disrespect When the Republican party treated Miss Willard with disrespect the U.C.T.U. had its revenge by throwing all its influence to aid the Prohibition party defeat the party that could so wantonly misuse them. They accomplished what they undertook and put Cleveland in the Presidential Chair. But our women have time and again been treated by both the Democrats and Republicans with equal if not more contempt and disrespect, but they do not have spirit enough to stay away, but meekly return each year to be insulted anew, as they were in the Democratic State Convention in this State in June. Now they go again to the Republicans where they will not be openly insulted but with double dealing and subterfuge the[y] party will try to make believe [they] it will do something. It is not by appealing to organized parties we will get anything, but by converting a sufficient number of voters in the party who can demand4 of their party that justice be done the women of the State. Men are more interested in carrying out measures they deem expedient that those which are just. The President of the local organization here last evening when I was through said he did not ask that women be enfranchised because, as the speaker had stated, it is right but because he believed it expedient. It would be an advantage to the nation as the lady (I) had shown." I asked if he [aske] would demand suffrage for himself on the grounds of right or expediency, he immediately answered on the ground that it is my right. He is a lawyer and quite as good and earnest a suffragist as you generally find among men, but that is the way a large number of men regard this measure. Strange crookedness of mind prejudice brings. The sentiment in favor is very strong among the younger women of the state. I will be happy to hear from you when you have time to write. Yours Matilda Hindman HISPANIA A QUARTERLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE TEACHING OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GEORGE T. CUSHMAN, ADVERTISING MANAGER THE CHOATE SCHOOL, WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT February 13, 1950 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell: The May issue of HISPANIA is in preparation and we hope to include in it an advertisement from you. Your announcements will receive the usual careful attention and wide distribution. Copy for this issue should reach the editor by March 1. Thank you for your cooperation. Sincerely yours, George CushmanHISPANIA FOUNDED 1917 A QUARTERLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF TEACHING OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE EDITOR HENRY GRATTAN DOYLE THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON 6, D.C., U.S.A ADVERTISING MANAGER DONALD D. WALSH CHOATE SCHOOL WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT June 21, 1947 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 1010 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell: The August issue of HISPANIA will be a Cervantes Quadricentennial number, with a number of scholarly papers dealing with Cervantes or his works as well as tributes to him on his four dundredth anniversary. I should like very much to use your admirable translation of Ruben Dario's "Soneto a Cervantes" as a sort of keynote to this special number, and write to ask your permission to do so. I should also like to use it in other ways in connection with the Quadricentennial, for I have been appointed national chairman of the celebration by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Care will of course be taken in every case to see that due credit is given to the gifted translator of/a gifted poet writing in tribute to the greatest literary genius of the Hispanic race. Sincerely yours, H. G. Doyle Henry Grattan Doyle Editor, HISPANIA The George Washington University, Washington 6, D.C.The Library of Congress Washington The Hispanic Foundation August 20, 1941 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell c/o University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Miss Blackwell: The Hispanic Foundation has undertaken the preparation of a record of investigations in progress in this country in the field of Latin American humanistic and social science studies. What we envisage is a record of all serious investigations actually in progress by the scholars of the country -- not only doctoral dissertations, but also private researches. We hope to publish it so that scholars may be put in touch with one another. In accordance with the plan of our record, we are enclosing a form on which we ask that you submit to us information concerning the present status of your investigations. If your interest in Latin American subjects is only incidental to your studies of a large discipline, we ask that you list only your research and publications that relate to Latin America. We hope, when our material has been assembled, to send a complimentary copy of the record to each of the investigators who has supplied us with information. In this way, we hope to receive suggestions and corrections for later editions. With best thanks for your cooperation in the preparation of this record, I am Sincerely yours, Alexander Marchant Editor. AM:eg enc.