BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE HOA-HOLDaniel W. Hoan Milwaukee, Wis. July 9, 1930. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Upham's Corner, Boston, Mass.. My dear Miss Blackwell: Your kind letter of recent date duly received. In reply will say that the Socialist Party even in the hey-dey of Bob La Follette, Sr., has never failed to put up a candidate for Governor. What you have in mind is that after all the persecution against him during the war when he ran for U. S. Senator, the Socialist Party did not put up a candidate against him so as to make sure his return to the U. S. Senate. He, himself, during his last years felt the need of a party independent of the two old parties and permitted his name to be used on the independent column. The Socialist Party of America has never faltered from the proposition that it is seeking independent political movement and the only way to achieve it is to put up a list of candidates and get a larger and larger group of voters to support these candidates. We can not agree that we are saving time to vote for an occasional good man for office who is surrounded by a bunch of backsliders. Such a policy delays the development of a new party. More than this, the placing in the field of a candidate by the Socialist Party can not have any possible influence on the selection of a stalwart candidate. The real fight in Wisconsin is in the primary election held in September. It is wholly within the ranks of the Republican Party. It is there that the forces decide who shall be the candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket and who shall be eliminated. If the Socialist Party did not have a candidate for Governor in this election it certainly would be entirely eliminated as none of its candiates would get the required number of votes to appear as an official party and for this reason we have not participated in the factional fights of the Republican Party. In brief, by putting up our candidate for Governor, we are doing nothing different than we have done for the past 20 years. While we probably will not elect our candidate for Governor, we have always elected a goodly number to the legislature who are strong supporters of stalwart legislation, in fact, leaders of it. Without a candidate for Governor, the Socialist Party could not hopt to win these members of the legislature. I therefore trust that this explanation will allay your fears. Yours very sincerely, Daniel W. Hoan 20 The Colleges of the Seneca Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva , New York The President January 18, 1949 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: It seems very natural to be writing to you, the closest surviving relative of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, for we are now making final preparations to celebrate at a Special Convocation on Sunday afternoon, January 23rd at 3.30 o'clock the 100th anniversary of the graduation of your distinguished aunt from Geneva (now Hobart) College. We have been greatly delayed in completing our plans for this celebration due to radio commitments, hence the delay in informing you of it. I know, however, that you will be interested in what we are seeking to do. We have obtained the names of ten leading women doctors of the United States and Canada by polling the deans of the Class A medical schools of the two countries, and one each from England and France through the embassies of these countries. Hobart and William Smith Colleges will confer a special citation on these twelve worthy successors of your aunt at the Convocation on Sunday afternoon. The citations will be conferred in the name of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell for the varied and noteworthy achievements of each of the women in the field of medicine. For your information, and confidential as yet as the names will not be released to the press until Sunday morning, Jan. 23rd, they are: Dr. Florence R. Sabin, Denver, Colo.; Dr. Alice Hamilton, Hadlyme, Conn.; Dr. Helen B. Taussig, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Martha May Eliot, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Gerty T. Cori, Webster Groves, Mo.; Dr. Priscilla White, Boston, Mass.; Dr. Helen V. McLean, Chicago, Ill.; Dr. Margaret D. Craighill, Topeka, Kansas; Dr. Helen MacMurchy, Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Elise S. L'Esperance, New York. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell -2- January 18, 1949 In addition, Dr. Helen M. M. Mackay, London, England, and Dr. Therese B. Fontaine, Paris, France. The Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial Convocation will be broadcast over Radio Station WGVA, Geneva, at 3.30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 23rd. It will consist of a transcribed introduction by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the conferring of the citations by myself as president of the colleges, and I hope, a response for the women doctors by Dr. Priscills White, of Boston. Mrs. Roosevelt will make an announcement of the Convocation but will not reveal the names over the American Broadcasting Company network at 7.05 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21st. In addition, there will be a follow-up on the Convocation over the Mutual network News Roundup on Monday evening, Jan. 24th. The interest of the press, magazines and radio in this the centennial of the graduation of the first woman doctor has almost overwhelmed us. LOOK Magazine is doing a feature which will appear in its March 1st issue, due on the stands Feb. 15th. CORONET Magazine has a feature article on Elizabeth Blackwell in its February issue which will be on the stands January 23rd. The Associated Press, the United Press, and Women's National News Service have all asked for feature stories, as well as the New York Herald-Tribune. I want most sincerely to extend to you our most cordial invitation to be with us at the Convocation, although I realize this may be impossible. We could have no more honored guest than yourself, and if it is in any way possible for you to travel to Geneva, both Mrs. Brown and myself would be deeply honored and gratified to have you as our house guest this weekend. If it is possible for you to come, please let me know when we may expect you so that arrangements can be made to meet you. I am Very sincerely yours, Alan Willard Brown [?] Alan Willard Brown President AWB:vfHobart Medical College Had Good Record Founded in 1835, Hobart Medical College had distinguished history during its 38 years of service By John Ponturo, '43 In the years when American statesmen were beginning to fidget over the slavery question and when American pioneers were pushing the frontier gradually westward, there flourished in Geneva, still a backwoods town, one of the best medical institutions in the country, Hobart's all-but-forgotten Medical College. When travel on the continent was a matter of days and weeks, not hours, by stagecoach and canal, not automobile and railroad, and through Indian-infested territory as well, students came from outlandish places like East Florida, Michigan Territory, Oregon Territory, Canada West, Upper Canada, —even England,—to the village of Geneva. In this "little town in the West," on a high bluff overlooking Seneca Lake, was a small cluster of buildings, Hobart College. And here was the magnet with the strange power of attraction for would-be physicians and surgeons all over the land, the Medical Institution of Hobart College. Housed in what was called one of the best college buildings in the United States, the Medical College could boast that "no institution in the country is better supplied with all that is necessary for a full and complete course of medical instruction," and no other medical college had a "course of instruction as extensive and thorough." The Medical College made of Geneva "a seat of science," as its first Dean said, "sending forth her sons to enlighten distant parts of our hemisphere." If her sons were all like Moses Gunn, Class of 1846, a man who is recorded in encyclopedias as one of the "greats" in the field of medicine, they must have done an impressive job of enlightment. Gunn, editor of medical journals and leader in medical organizations, started the first medical school in Michigan, a school which later became one of the colleges of the University of Michigan. Elizabeth Blackwell, another "son", is famous, one of the greatest women of the last century, pioneer in women's rights in medicine, the first woman M.D. To teach at the Medical College came men like Willard Parker, founder of the New York City Board of Health and of Bellevue Hospital there. Another was Frank Hastings Hamilton, called the foremost authority of his day on military wounds, forerunner of our modern plastic surgeons, originator of many methods now common in setting broken limbs and other operations. The beginning of the Medical College was in 1835, when the New York State Legislature gave Hobart College a charter authorizing the "most ample university powers" and authorized the granting of "any such degree or degrees as are known to, and usually granted by, any university or college in Europe." Specifically, the charter empowered Hobart to appoint a faculty of medicine, and to establish a Medical Institution under the immediate government of its professors. Edward Cutbush, M.D., who from 1830 had been Professor of Chemistry and Minerology at Hobart, was appointed the first Dean of the department. Bolstering this humble beginning came another act of the Legislature six years later: "The people of the State of New York, represented in the Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: the Treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the Comptroller, the sum of five thousand dollars a year for three years to the trustees of Geneva College, to be applied for a site and the erection of a building thereon, for the use of the Medical Institution, for the purchase of a library, chemical, anatomical, and other apparatus, and for the improvement of the museum of the Medical College." In 1841, on the exact site of M. S. Sandford's home on South Main Street, the "large and substantial" building for the Medical College was begun. In the cornerstone was a rose, hermetically sealed in a bottle, "presented to the prettiest girl who may be living in this country in the year 4000." There was also a sample of wheat, "staple of agriculturists of western New York in its natural form;" white mulberry Old Medical College Building on South Main Street 68 Hobart Alumni Quarterly, May, 1940 Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., '49 leaves, "dried and pressed to show the different kinds"; a list of "current prices of all the necessaries of life in this village"; coins of the United States, pamphlets, newspapers, hymns, etc. All these articles, meant no doubt to reach the ages, destined to destruction within half a century! The new Medical College building, with its valuable library and museum, its many lecture and dissecting rooms, laboratories, scientific collections, made the next decade the period of greatest prosperity for the Medical College. Even the high requirements could not keep its enrollment from growing over twice that of the rest of Hobart. Students admitted to the Medical College were required to be 21 years of age, of a "good moral character", and must have studied for three years under a "respectable practitioner." The course was 32 weeks long, a remarkably long course in an age when the American Medical Association was campaigning among other medical colleges for the institution of a mere six-months course. The Civil War came, interrupting the prosperity, levelling down the enrollment. And after the Civil War came a new age. As Milton Haight Turk, H '38, former Dean of Hobart, wrote in his book, "Hobart, The Story of a Hundred Years,": "Geneva did not maintain the position of influence and importance which it had held when the College was founded. The development of the Erie Canal and still more that of the railway traffic and altered completely the early situation. Syracuse on the one side, and Rochester on the other, rapidly outstripped the old gateway village of western New York. With their growth these cities were- naturally selected as college sites. Hobart thus had to reckon in her later career with two competitions, backed by denominations much more numerous than that with which she was connected, and with the powerful local support which large cities afford . . . The elder daughter of the days of stage-coach and canal looked soberly upon these strapping youngsters of the railway age." In 1872 the Hobart Medical College was moved to Syracuse University. In an official announcement, "It is deemed expedient by the trustees of Hobart College to discontinue the Medical Department of that institution in view of the far greater facilities that an enterprising and growing central city like that of Syracuse would afford for the clinical study of medicine and surgery." At that time the old Geneva Gazette wrote what is a lasting tribute to the Medical College: "In view of the past history of the Medical College, an institution deservedly honored for its age, the number and character of its alumni, now scattered throughout our vast domain—to say nothing of the early and venerated members of its faculty—now also "gone the way of all the world", with here and there a solitary exception—it is with no ordinary feelings of sadness that we see its spacious halls forever closed to the noble object for which they were so generously erected." On November 20, 1877, the Medical College building, which had been vacant since the institution had been moved, was destroyed by incendiaries. Today there is only a lonely metal sign, planted in commemoration by New York State, to show the place where the building stood. The sign might just as well read, "Here Lies Hobart Medical College." Professor Willard Parker, M.D. Hobart Alumni Quarterly, May, 1940News About the College Hobart alumni bring honor to the college with standing of 13th among all institutions in nation. Hobart College stands in thir- fifteen places in percentage of graduates represented went to typical liberal arts colleges, in no case with a total enrollment of more than 1,000. Only five larger institutions were included in this group, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins and Virginia. Complete tables of percentage representation for the first 79 institutions are reproduced herewith. Institutional rankings 1. Harvard 5.81 2. Amherst 5.55 3. Randolph-Macon 5.52 4. Hampden-Sydney 5.46 5. Yale 4.31 6. Wesleyan 4.21 7. Williams 3.90 8. Trinity (Conn.) 3.88 9. Princeton 3.65 10. Johns Hopkins 3.60 11. Haverford 3.56 12. Virginia 3.54 13. Hobart 3.48 14. Wabash 3.37 15. Bowdoin 3.23 16. Hamilton 3.11 17. U. S. Military Academy 2.94 18. Vanderbilt 2.67 19. Brown 2.53 20. Washington & Lee 2.20 21. Franklin & Marshall 2.12 22. Lafayette 1.96 23. Earlham 1.95 24. Dartmouth 1.92 25. Allegheny 1.90 26. Union 1.88 27. DePauw 1.82 28. U. S. Naval Academy 1.80 29. M. I. T. 1.76 30. Mercer 1.73 31. Beloit 1.71 32. Gettysburg 1.70 33. Colgate 1.67 33. Grinnell 1.67 35. Wooster 1.63 36. Knox 1.62 37. Cornell College 1.60 38. Denison 1.57 39. North Carolina 1.51 39. Washington & Jefferson 1.51 41. Oberlin 1.49 42. Rutgers 1.48 43. Worcester Polytechnic 1.36 44. Albion 1.35 44. Emory 1.35 46. Ohio Wesleyan 1.34 47. Rochester 1.27 48. Bates 1.25 48. Swarthmore 1.25 50. Stevens 1.23 50. Stanford 1.23 52. Colby 1.20 53. Duke 1.17 54. Chicago 1.15 55. Cornell 1.14 56. Vermont 1.06 57. Lehigh 1.01 58. University of Pennsylvania 0.96 58. Indiana 0.96 60. Tufts 0.95 61. Michigan 0.90 62. Georgia 0.86 62. Wisconsin 0.86 64. Kansas 0.80 65. Western Reserve 0.72 65. Vassar 0.72 67. Missouri 0.62 67. Bucknell 0.62 69. Cincinnati 0.57 70. C. C. N. Y. 0.55 70. West Virginia 0.55 72. Iowa State 0.51 73. Ohio Northern 0.48 74. Smith 0.43 75. Illinois 0.39 76. Kansas State 0.36 77. Purdue 0.35 78. Toronto 0.27 79. Northwestern 0.26 New publications Two new members were added to the Hobart-William Smith publications family this year as The Speculum, Hobart Literary Quarterly, and The Twig, William Smith weekly newspaper, made their debuts. In addition to the Neutral News, two-year old news organ of the Neutral Body, the publications go to make up what is a formidable array of student literature turned out by the college duplicator. The Speculum, which first made its appearance last December as a thirty- page magazine, is almost entirely a product of Hobart freshman. Its purpose was to provide a medium of literary expression for all students on the campus, and students in the English department especially. In the recent March issue were included a one-act play, two short stories, six poems, three articles, and a book section. An editorial proclaimed, "The Speculum, we warn you, is here to stay." The Twig, William Smith weekly newspaper, was launched in November, the combined efforts of eleven undergraduates. A three-sheet, three- column affair, The Twig contained Hobart Alumni Quarterly, May, 1940 Springfield Gardens; Clarence Clemens, Hornell; Robert Beinert and Peter Bender, Brooklyn; Kenneth Leader, Phelps; Leo Grygiel, New Hartford; Herbert Welker, Ridgefield Park, N. J.; Roy Weber, Kenmore; William Sims, Williamsport, Pa.; and Manager Robert Spears, Attica. The Hobart team was undefeated this year and is one of the few undefeated and untied teams in the country and should have a strong claim to the mythical championship of the Northern lacrosse league this year. Veterans on tennis squad talk it over Tennis team The Hobart tennis team opened their 1940 season by travelling to Buffalo and losing to the Windy City squad 7-1. The Hobart squad composed of captain Cal Faunce, Rog Frost, Mike Bullen, George Demetriou, Bill Sterling, and Ed Burke were helpless against the onslaught of the Bisons. The math was played indoors on the Dunlop Courts and most of the Statesman squad were handicapped by the poor lighting and inexperience at indoor play. Bill Sterling won the only match for the Statesmen, winning 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. Playing their second game of the year against the University of Rochester squad at Rochester, the Hobart netmen again went down to defeat 6-3. Mike Bullen was the only Hobart member to win a singles match, while he paired with Sterling, and Demetriou and Burke both won their doubles. Colgate was the next opponent to face the Genevans, and the boys from the Chenango Valley were too strong for Hobart as they won easily 8-1. Hobart lost all their singles matches and were able to salvage only the third doubles when Frost and Burke downed their opponents in a match that went to three sets. Two efforts to play off the return match against the University of Buffalo were ended by rain, and the final match against U. of R. in Geneva is May 18. Members of the 1940 Hobart golf team Golf season Their first match of the year against Buffalo cancelled because of inclement weather, the Hobart College golf team opened their 1940 season on April 27 against the University of Rochester linksmen and lost 12-0. The Hobart team did not score a point, in the match played at the Oak Hill Country Club. Captain Bill Brewer, Ed Bryant, John Macarthy, and Bob Adair composed the Hobart squad. The Genevans also dropped a match to Niagara but have defeated the golfers from the University of Buffalo twice, once in Geneva and once in Buffalo. A final match against Rochester is May 18. 1940 Football Schedule Sept. 28—Amherst Amherst Oct. 5—Union Geneva (Home-Coming Day) Oct. 12—Hamilton Clinton Oct. 19—Trinity Geneva Oct. 26—Kenyon Geneva Nov. 9—Buffalo Buffalo Nov. 16—Rochester Rochester Hobart Alumni Quarterly, May, 1940 67 [*Mr. Park*] The Colleges of the Seneca Hobart And William Smith Colleges Geneva , New York March 2, 1949 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge 38, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: I am sending you herewith a copy of the Alumni News of Hobart and William Smith Colleges carrying the story of the Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial Convocation. I thought you would like to have a copy of this for your information and for your records. Cordially yours, Erle E. Snelgrove Erle E. Snelgrove Secretary for Public Relations EES/vf Inc. THE ALUMNI NEWS of Hobart and William Smith Colleges Volume XIII Geneva, New York, February, 1949 Number 5 Colleges Mark Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial Wide Publicity Achieved In Radio, Magazines And Newspapers For Program The editors of the Alumni News believe that alumni and alumnae will be interested in the wide-spread coverage received by the colleges for the Blackwell Centennial, and present below a partial list. Radio Friday, Jan. 21—"Headline Editions", national network of American Broadcasting Co. Sunday, Jan. 23—30-minute program over WGVA, Geneva Monday, Jan. 24—Mutual News Reel of the Air, 533 stations of Mutual Network Saturday, Jan. 29—Station WCBS, New York, Margaret Arlen Program (Also news broadcasts over many stations) Newspaper 700-word feature story over A-wire (Cross- country trunk) of Associated Press, released Sunday, January 23 200-word follow-up story of Convocation on A-wire for morning newspapers, Monday, Jan. 24 Feature and news stories on United Press Feature story on Women's National News Service 200 words on Reuter's British world-wide news service Editorials in many newspapers, including N. Y. Times, N. Y. Herald-Tribune, N. Y. Sun, Chicago papers, Providence, R. I.; Memphis, Tenn.; Rochester and Syracuse, and many others. Feature story, with pictures in N. Y. Herald- Tribune on Sunday, Jan. 23 Magazines Look—March 1st issue (on stands Feb. 15) Feature and news stories in Hygeia—health magazine of American Medical Association Canadian Hospital Magazine Journal of the American Medical Association Medical Women's Journal Forth—(Magazine of the Episcopal Church) The Churchman New England Journal of Medicine American Journal of Public Health Bulletin of the Colorado State Medical Society The Psychoanalytic Review The Illinois Medical Journal New York State Journal of Medicine Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges Archives of Pathology In addition Coronet magazine also carried a feature story on Elizabeth Blackwell. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, 1849 New Alumni-Alumnae Directory Published The new alumni-alumnae directory is now in the hands of Hobart men and William Smith women. This is the first combined directory in the history of the colleges. The last Hobart directory was published in 1940, and the last William Smith directory in 1941. The steady growth of the colleges in indicated in a comparison of the new volume compared with the last editions. Here are some interesting figures: New Directory Old Total known alumni addresses 3145 2488 Total known alumnae addresses 1461 1129 Total alumni names 3469 2733 Total alumnae names 1602 1146 Grand total, alumni-alumnae 5071 3879 At the time of publication of the new directory there were 324 Hobart alumni for whom no address was available in the alumni office, and 141 William Smith alumnae in the same category. The cost of the new directory, mailed free to all alumni and alumnae, was 46 cents per copy plus mailing. In spite of every precaution and care used to prevent mistakes, some errors have already (Continued on page 4, column 3) Citations Awarded Twelve Leading Women Doctors At Special Convocation Here Twelve leading women doctors of the United States, Canada, England and France were cited by Hobart and William Smith Colleges at a Special Convocation on Sunday afternoon, January 23rd, marking the 100th anniversary of the graduation of Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor. Dr. Blackwell received the first degree of doctor of medicine ever conferred on a woman from the medical department of Hobart (the Geneva) College on Tuesday, January 23, 1849. The Convocation and the honors paid to the women doctors received wide publicity from the press, radio, and magazines. Beginning with an initial national radio broadcast by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on Friday evening, January 21st over the "Headline Editions" program of the American Broadcasting Company, the story and name of Hobart and William Smith Colleges was brought to the attention of millions of readers and listeners not only in United States and Canada, but practically throughout the civilized world. This last was accomplished with a story on Reuter's the world-wide British press agency, and through the foreign coverage of the Associated Press and the United Press. The Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial citations were conferred by Dr. Alan W. Brown, president of the colleges, following a transcribed radio salute to women in medicine by Mrs. Roosevelt. The half-hour program of the Convocation in Coxe Hall auditorium was broadcast by Station WGVA, Geneva, a Mutual Network affiliate. On Monday evening, January 24th, the Mutual News Reel of the Air carried highlights of the program to the 533 stations of the network. Honored by Colleges Women doctors cited were: Dr. Florence R. Sabin, Denver Colo., for medical research; Dr. Alice Hamilton, Hadlyme, Conn., for industrial medicine; Dr. Helen B Taussig, Baltimore, Md., for clinical medical research; Dr. Martha May Eliot, Washington, D. C., associate chief, U. S. Children's Bureau, for public health; Dr. Gerty T. Cori, Webster Groves, Mo., for work in biochemistry and pharmacology; Dr. Priscilla White, Boston, Mass., for work in the field of diabetes; Dr. Helen V. McLean, Chicago, Ill., for psychiatry; Dr. Margaret D. Craighill, Topeka, Kansas, Chief of Service, Medical Care of Women Veterans, Winter Veterans Administration Hospital, (first women commissioned as major in Army of United States) for military medicine; Dr. Helen (Continued on page 3, column 1) Stoneham, Colo Dec 24, 40 Dear Cousin Alice - I have been so nervous and upset for so long, letter writing is one of the thing I can never settle myself down to do. I certainly do appreciate your greeting cards and always find courage and inspiration in them. The clipping I am sending you is from a recent Saturday Evening Post, an article about Raymond During who comments on European news over the radio. Perhaps you know her Lucy was here just about the time Raymond called on you. We had talked about you, I knew Raymond had carried your address from the time he joined the Navy including to call if he ever had the chance. Lucy was awfully flustered when she got your letter saying he had been here, she sent me a copy; the original to go into Raymonds personal treasures. He is in the Hawaiian Islands now and expects to be where some time. Lucy is just as sweet as she always was. When she was here she wore her hair low and looked very much like one of the pictures we have of Aunt Lucy. I am glad you have had so many good friends to keep you thru financial troubles. Conditions are still pretty bad here. Do you still go to Marthas vineyard. Is it one of my ambitious. Have a neighbor here who worked in a Govt fish plant at Woods hole after he was discharged from the army in World Wars. Very best wishes for a Happy New Year and lot of love. Bertha Stone HoffmannGOD Bless Us Every One Dickens To wish you All the Joys of the HOLIDAY SEASON The inner joys of the spirit which are independent of condition are circumstance. 1943. Dear "Cousin friend" Alice, a heartfelt Christmas greeting to you from my new home. [niche?] 1085 Bella Vista Ave Oakland 10. It is a Unity Rest. Home one of the right sort, with sun porches & a lovely garden. [?] I am good. [F?y] closed the dining room & [?ater] were adrift- Hotels here turned into hospitals for government use little to choose from for home seekers. I am very fortunate & very grateful. Hope you also have found a right place. Thanks for your Easter message in which I found myself quoted A friend once gave me a [*Stone*] 5X283 McNICOL BOSTON U S Ahelpful slogan to live by. "If there isn't a bright side, brighten the dark side." and I'm passing it on to others these tragic days. All our available family boys are overseas or in war work here & so it is with many many others the world over. I often remember gratefully how I came to Boston a stranger and were so kindly taken in by the friendly circle that met regularly at your and Aunt Isabel's offices, this lead to my acceptance as a summer campfire, and how much this all meant to me. I cannot express in words. There are now only a few of us left on earth til us. Keep in truth with one another. I believe in spite of postings our circle remains unbroken. As one of the Egyptian Pyramids was inscribed these words centuries before Christ in memory of a King - "Ho King Unis! Thou didst not deport dead Thou didst deport living". Faithfully ever, Cousin Bertha Mrs. Charles S. Holden 752 North Main Street Attleboro, Massachusetts Darling Old Rascal I hope you saw the picture of your "proud old head" in yesterday's "Boston Herald". It is really an excellent likeness of you & I do not like to part with it but yet I'm going to send it to Hattie to enjoy. I was glad but not surprised to have you appreciated. I'm afraid I was ungrateful enough not to acknowledge your Easter card but I did appreciate it. Perhaps you and Hattie and Ican arrange a Rendering before you go to the Vineyard. Aren't you glad the , ed winter is past and summer well on its way. Farewell my dear Cadge May Four [*Cadge] [*Maria Holland 1895 H] Summer Camp Elint Me. Dear Maria Blackwell, your cordial invitation to hear Jim Greene did not reach me until the hour had passed- our change of address having delayed your note . I should have greatly enjoyed hearing him, and hope he will have the opportunity to speak after to the unconverted. My interest has not flagged, though lately I have been prevented from attending any of the gatherings With a friend's help I was able to send Mr. Vrooman fifty copies of the letter you wrote me about. If every one would read the convincing article in the Arena there would be plenty of signers. I am taking my vacation in a tent, pitched, with fourteen others, an a bank, by the Piscataqua River. There never was anything so restful without being monotonous. I have a vacant cot, which I wish you might occupy, but suppose your plans are laid. Mr. Blackwell can tell you howlovely it is and perhaps you will come when he comes to speak . With sincerest regards, Maria Holland [*ASB*] Lunatic April- 9/1906 Miss Blackwell; Dear Editress Seeing your name in a Woman's Journal, while I was in Phila - I write to ask you will you aid in a Public Cause for Women and children? If you can aid in securing Nationalin New York State women and children have no rights whatever - Judges & Lawyers under the Mask of the Law- rob & intimadate wherever they can to control property- I am the woman who stayed the execution of the man Patrick - because I positively know he is not guilty Laws to protect innocent and helpless, men women & children, from the Bribery Perjury and treachery and Collusion of our New York State Judges - will you let me know, and I will give you many facts-? Through the Forgery of the deed of my house, I have learned thatI have found also that the men connected with the District Attorney's Office & Judges dare not let this man Free- because he will expose the net work of Villainy of New York State that leads to Washington The Senate & The White House - The man Platt of New York State controls the corruption of The United States- (2) Knowing full well now, this man Patrick will get no Justice in New York City- I have written to many in Texas & especially to Mr. W. W, Dexter- President Humane Society Houston- Texas- I have forwarded his grand & noble reply to Recorder Isoff but even so- Recorder Isoff is chained byof Texas & demand at Washington that the man Patrick will have Justice- and bring to Justice the Judges, & Senators of New York State and any other State who are using their Public Positions to blackmail the unfortunate- I will come to Boston for a few days- if you think you can the Corrupt Politicians and the man Patrick still a Prisoner- I wrote last week to President Angell of 19 Milk St Boston- As I subscribe for the grand little Paper Dumb Animals I feel sure, this man, Editor of such a noble Paper will come forward & for humanity's sake- Join Mr Dexterinterview President Angell & do any good- Surely we must not sit bye & see our Country being sold. The Simplicity & truth of the Constitution is the Safeguard of This Country & Flag. Very [Respily?] Elizabeth M. Holmes 570-9-St Brooklyn N.Y. 464 Riverside Drive New York City March 5, 1931 My dear Miss Blackwell: There seems to be a misapprehension in your kind reply to my request for leave to print Los hombres lobos in my forthcoming anthology. As the initial misapprehension was mine, I am the more desir[i]ous of setting things right. I did not observe that your book was copyrighted in your own name, or I should have written directly to you in the first place. As my book is to be a collection of poems and stories and the like in the original Spanish, I naturally cannot make use of your translation of Los hombres lobos. What I want to reprint is the Spanish version, and I should be grateful if you would tell me if there is any need of securing Arevalo Martinez' permission to do this. In other words, is his poem secured by a copyright, and did you have to get permission? If you did not, I suppose it would not be required in my case either. - I had to copy this poem from your book, as I had no access to the works of this poet. Yours very gratefully, Henry A. Holmes Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock St.,Boston P.S.-In case of need, have you A.M.'s address?Henry A. HolmesGreetings Dear Miss Blackwell, I am sending 400 of these with a dozen or more of your poem enclosed & 30 in some. So glad to circulate it. Thank you for the fine poem to Cora Wilson Stewart. All my best wishes, Yours in haste, EAH 12/15/45 May The Peace and Blessings of Christmaside Remain with you throughout The New Year Mr. and Mrs. Erwin A. HoltChristmas and New Year Greetings Though all the world is darkened With wreckage left by war, Still CHRISTMAS lights a candle That sheds its beams afar. The CHRISTMAS bells are chiming, A song of joy and birth; They bid us speed the brave new day That yet shall bless the earth. -ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Her eye sight has been failing for several years. She was 88 last September 14th. "Those who are gone would not wish themselves to be a mill-stone of gloom around our necks. -ERNIE PYLE. "MAKE THE WORLD BETTER"- LUCY STONE'S DYING WORDS TO HER DAUGHTER. 1945HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY INCORPORATED 1 PARK AVE. NEW YORK April 10, 1931 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Boston, Massachusetts My dear Miss Blackwell: WHAT I OWE TO MY FATHER, to which you so graciously and gracefully contributed, has now been published, and a copy sent to you. There are so many contributors that we cannot send to each the usual ten author's copies, but of course you are entitled to author's discount of fifty per cent for any copies you may order for your own purposes. I hope that you are as enthusiastic about the book as we are. We expect much of it. Even if your modesty forbids you to think well of your own part in it, the book as a whole will so delight you that you will help us direct it to its rightful public. Faithfully yours, Gilbert Loveland HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Incorporated GL:ER [*18 4.50][*Henry Holt Aus*] 805 East St, Walpole, Mass My dear Mrs. Gregg, Sometime ago I saw an appeal in the Outlook for clothing for the Russian children. I cannot very well send the clothing, but I enclose my check for $2.00 which may help a very little. Perhaps later I can give a little more. Sincerely, (Miss) Gertrude Halway$5 January 29, 1924 Dear Miss Blackwell = In response to your letter in this mornings Herald am enclosing $5.00 to aid in Madame Breshkovsky's work with the children With all best wishes Very truly yours Alice A. Holt No acknowledgment is needed - so sent no address-Alice G. Holt