BLACKWELL FAMILY GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Mac-Mar ALICE STONE BLACKWELLDear Mill Mayo: Miss Barry never stirs out now. She had not been anywhere for more than a year. All good Christmas & New Year wishes to you, from Alice Stone Blackwell. Christmas and New Year Greetings from ALICE STONE BLACKWELL With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. - British Weekly. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. Progress is not automatic. The world grows better because people wish that it should, and take steps to make it better. - Jane Addams. I refuse to believe that human intelligence and spirit cannot rise above the law of the jungle. - Dr. Mary E. Woolley God be thanked that the dead have left still Good undone, for the living to do— Still some aim for the heard and the will And the soul of a man to pursue! - Own Meredith We give thanks in our hearts today to all who have shown us kindness; to all who have given us inspiration, by word of pen, or by the example of noble living; to all, far or near, who are working to make the world better. Fallington, Pa. 4-12, 95. To the Editor of the Woman's Column: Will you please inform me the price of Mr. Green's book suggested as a help to ministers, in preaching on the subject of the Armenian troubles. Also where to obtain it. Very truly Harriet McClossy.Harriet McGlossy Arm. bookEmma need not return. I have acknowledged contribution, Alice. Sullward Indiana Jan. 10-1918 My dear Miss Blackwell, Am enclosing a draft for two dollars one for my subscription to the Woman Citizen for Sept. 1917 to Sept 1918. The other dollar is a donation to the cause, to which you have given your life. I wish to say, as this year is the centenary of your dear mothers birth and I do hope that it will be celebrated and one of the things that will aid in the celebration is the passage of the Susan B Anthony Amendment. Would this not be great? Your mother was such a good and wonderful woman. Her parting words to you, I have made the slogan of my life, "make the world better" This is all that makes life worth the living, the good we can do for others Service is the key note of life Wishing you a happy prosperous year and a long useful life, I am. Yours very truly, Maude W McCornnell M.D.Dr. Maude W McConnell407 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE June 2, 1937 My dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you so much for sending me the delightful translation with the charming inscription which you were so good as to add on the frontispiece. I am delighted to have the book and appreciate greatly your thinking to send it to me. I often think of our old belligerent suffrage days! How wonderful you always were, and what should we have done without you! It must be a great satisfaction to you now to think of how early you began the struggle and how heroically you carried it through. With my constant gratitude and indebtedness, Sincerely yours, [??] Leo Leo Powerick (Mrs. Stanley McCormick)MAC CUTCHEON BROTHERS NEWS AND MAGAZINE AGENCY Save Time, Trouble and Money by Ordering Magazines and Papers from us. **** Second Year We Handle Subscriptions for Magazines and Newspapers Printed in any Language Goldenbridge, N. Y. Feb. 6, 1906 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Dear Madame, I am taking the liberty of asking you to give me a few moments of your time - as we are both W. C. T. U. women - both suffragists and because we were both members of a "Model Convention" once, (while going from Boston to Chicago) where I had the Question Box and you the Poem of the day in which you asserted I had been the light of half a dozen dark places (as a Methodist ministers wife) Now I am in a tight place - We have two sons They are through Prep. School - through State Normal College and are now in the Sophmore Class of Columbia University - working their way through - The course they are taking requires double hours - twice as much as the reg. literary course & is much more expense - They have a fine position for vacations but help themselves out by their News and Magazine Agency - They used to send their subscriptions to Grumiaux - but they found that he sent his own Catalogs out six weeks before he sent them theirs, and thus covered all their territory long before they had any chance, so this winter they send directly to publishers, but some things they do not yet understand and and knowing (over) [*Mrs. Mc Cutcheon*]that you were in the Catalog - have promised them that I would see if you would explain matters a little. They are in the midst of half yearly exams. In the first place who publishes the Catalogs of Grumiaux Hanson Moore [and] Cottrell and Kenyon - Are there any other subscription agencies - Do you send your prices to someone or do they send to you - Is there any rule as to price paid publishers - for instance Womans Journal is $1.60-1.40-1.30-1.10- who establishes these prices and who establishes the Basic prices of all classed magazines - for instance the Agents price of Review of Reviews to Agents is printed as $2.25. The Basic price is $1.00 and yet they charge us $1.60.Can you tell us who makes these Basic prices? Grumiaux does not like it, because our boys send directly to the Publishers. Could he in any way forbid their using the whole sale rates and whole sale Catalogues - I edited & published for three years a paper for the temperance women of two counties but knew nothing of this wholesale agency business - Another thing. 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Gil Borges Director General Assistant Director Pan American Union The Pan American Union Argentina Haiti Is the international organization Bolivia Honduras maintained by the twenty-one Brazil Mexico American republics for the development Chile Nicaragua of good understanding, Colombia Panama friendly intercourse, commerce Costa Rica Paraguay and peace among them; controlled Cuba Peru by a Governing Board composed Dominican Salvador of the Secretary of State of the Republic United States and the Diplomatic Ecuador United States Representatives in Washington of Guatemala Uruguay the other republics; administered Venezuela by a Director General and Assistant Director, chosen by this Board and assisted by a staff of international experts, statisticians, editors, compilers, translators and librarians Washington, D.C., U.S.A. January 21, 1927 My dear Miss Blackwell: I am hoping to publish in the next edition of the Bulletin a group of your translations of Spanish verse into English, among them, “The Prayer of the Barren Rock,” “The Sower of Stars,” and “For One Unjustly Slain.” As I am very desirous of running with the English translations the original Spanish of these poems, I would greatly appreciate if you will send me your copies of the originals. These will be very carefully handled and returned as soon as the typed copies can be made. Thanking you in anticipation of your generous cooperation, I am, with the best wishes for your health and prosperity in this new year, Very sincerely yours, Isabel K. Macdermott Managing Editor Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Upham’s Corner, Boston, Mass.[I K Mac] Dermott Isabel K. Macdermott M Lansing, Mich. Feb. 26th 1923 Dear Miss Blackwell - I took "The Woman's Journal" for a number of years and became interested in many things because of it. Is Katherine Breshkovsky still living? I would like to get data concerning a certain strike in Mass. when women & children were prevented from leaving so the "powers that be" might starve them out. Also the strike in Colorado when 1000 women sent a com. to compel Gov. Ammons to send to Wash D.C. for help. Where can I learn aboutThe strike at Houghton, Mich. My husband and I are interested in a young man from the reformatory at Ionia - a young Ann Arbor student who, for a prank, was put in with men who were worse than beasts. You remember there was a riot, and we have the boy's testimony as to the humane (?) methods used by the State Militia. Few women know anything about our jails so I am preparing an address on the subject. People are doubtful as to the truth of these facts so I must prove every word I utter. Our city jail is full of bed & bugs, etc. etc. If you will kindly send me the information I have asked for and anything else that may help I will certainly appreciate it. Thanking you now for any help I am Very sincerely yours, A. J. B. [MacDiarmid?] (Mrs. W. H.) 529 N. Washington Ave. Lansing, Mich.Various questions Friday, Sept 14, 1945 My dear Miss Blackwell, I congratulate you on your 88th birthday. I am sending you the cycle of your birth. You were born on a Monday, Sept. 14 1857 and showing when Sept. 14 fell and will fall again on a Monday: 1857, 1863, 1868, 1874, 1885, 1891, 1896, 1903 1914, 1925, 1931, 1936, 1942, 1953, 1959, 1964, 1970, 1981 and on goes the cycle through the ages. I see where you had long delays in waiting for those dates to fall on a Monday You had 3 five years leap; 5 six years leap and 3 eleven years leap. Your next birth day to fall on a Monday takes place on Sept. 14, 1953. It is one of those broad jumps or eleven years leap. I wish you very good luck. Walter McDonough 2 Glines Ave., Rox. 19. Mass.Saturday, Sept 15, 194522 Sewall St. Dorchester June 5, 1923 My dear Mrs. Blackwell I am very sorry to inform you that I must move before the first of July, as my present landlord wishes to make his home here. I am having great difficulty in finding a house since rents are so high. I met with a serious accident three months ago and am not able to get around very well as yet.As you know it is very hard to leave a house that has been my home for near eighteen years. Your kind offer to assist me should I come to this difficulty will now be very greatly appreciated. Hoping that you are well, and thanking you for your kindness. I remain, Yours very truly, Mrs. Catherine [McGilvery], M. McG.[*Mrs. McGilvrey*] [*(copy)*] 3 Monadnock St., Upham's Corner, Boston, Mass. March 13, 1929. Dear Miss MacKinlay: We were so glad to hear from Miss Bell that your room is like a florist's shop. It would be still more so if all the loving thoughts that hover about you could take visible shape as flowers. Those that Cousin Kitty constantly sends to you across the ocean would take form as roses, red and rich and glowing, and full of fragrance. Her heart is tenfold warmer than most people's, and all her old friends are held very close within it. Her body is in America, but her heart is still on the other side of the sea, and always will be, I believe. It is a constant satisfaction to her know that you are under Miss Bell's wing, and that every possible care will be taken of you. Cousin Kitty herself is very well, except for the eyes and ears a rather large exception. She did not like her Venetian story very well, the one that Miss Hoogs got from the library at random. It was picturesque, but the people in it seemed to have no sense of right and wrong. Now, at Miss Hoogs's request, to which Kitty cheerfully assented, they are reading "Our Mutual Friend" over again, and they are thoroughly enjoying it. It is pleasant to hear the hearty laughter which comes out of Kitty's room. We are having a week's visit from my cousin Florence Mayhew, one of Kitty's old friends, and one who has a good clear voice, that carries well to Kitty's ears. She has brought a whole pocket-full of family and Martha's Vineyard gossip with her, and they have good times together. Once a week our nice little friend Mrs. Atwood comes over and spends several hours in helping Kitty to sort her photographs and her old letters, of both of which she has a great accumulation. Kitty has had them on her mind a good deal, and she has been worried how to dispose of them before she goes hence, because, as she truly says, in case of her death before she has settled what to do with them, I should not know what her wishes about them would be. Mrs. Atwood is an ideal helper in work of this kind, and Kitty finds her a great comfort. Kitty has decided to entrust the family letters and diaries to Howard's wife, as a good and trustworthy custodian. This morning she had a visit from our Welsh cousin, Mrs. Rogers, a handsome, gifted and spirited woman, of whom Kitty is very fond. She made Kitty a present of two hats, both of which are becoming to her. One of them she made for Kitty, being very clever with her fingers. The other belonged to Mrs. Rogers, but her daughter-in-law thinks it does not suit the shape of her face, so she has presented it to Kitty, whom it does suit. Kitty says it is a joy to her to hear Mrs. Rogers's "British accent." Kitty also has a new knitted blouse, what we call here a sweater, a name to which she strongly objects. But, though the name may be ugly, the thing is pretty, of a color which they call the queen's brown, and it is also warm and comfortable. She wore it to Cambridge last Sunday. She has unearthed from among her packing cases a real treasure, a diary kept by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell when she was a girl of about seventeen. It described very graphically the migration of the family from New York to Cincinnati, largely by canal boat, the settling in the new place, and her father's illness and death, and the struggles of the family to earn a living afterwards. The bedbugs have been exterminated. As Mrs. Boyer expresses it, we "no longer keep a zoo." Jock is courting again, but does not generally begin to howl till about 6A.M. Kitty has had several letters lately from England and Scotland, which she has thoroughly enjoyed. With much love, dear Miss MacKinlay, and hearty wishes for your continued improvement, Iremain Alice Stone BlackwellMy dear Miss Blackwell I was very much interested in the inclosed clipping taken from Boston Post of Sept 26-last, and am taking the liberty to ask you, at which club the play was enacted, so that I may inquire of them where I may procure the text, as yeColonial Club of Marlboro are looking for a little play to take place in the afternoon of their annual hospital day in which we meet to sew for the hospital and it seems to me the one you speak of would be just the thing. If you can give me the desired information andwill kindly return the clipping. I will greatly appreciate your efforts and beg to remain Most Cordially Yours Hallir F. McLeod Marlboro (Mrs. E. B.) Mass Dec 2-1930 America for Americans V VAnn Arbor Mich. Apr 12 1898 My Dear Madam, Yours of 10th rcd a few days ago, I was in charge of the exchange [exhibit] department at the time when the extract from the Campus appeared to which you refer. The article struck as an exceptional production, to say the least, for a college paper; but, having no suspicion of its not being original, I had no hesitation in clipping it! Especially as the Campus stands well in the college press. Of course editors -- and especially editors of college papers -- are not expected to be conversant with all the current literature of the day & so I will make no apology for nothaving seen the form in the Independent. I am much obliged to you for notifying us of the mistake we have made & trust that hereafter we shall be more fortunate. I will insert a notice in the next Chronicle informing our readers of the discovery - you have made from us - With great respect I am Very Truly yours Newton MacMillan Alice S. Blackwell 20 Beacon St. Boston Lucy Stone School Lucy Stone School Regina Road Dorchester Center Boston, June 2 1924 My dear Miss Blackwell, We shall be very much pleased to see you on Wednesday morning. At Lipham's Corner take a Washington Street, Dorchester car Stop at Park Street. Regina Road is on the left hand side of Washington street as you face in the direction your car is going, one block further out than Park Street. We hope nothing will occur to prevent your coming. Very sincerely yours Mary A. McNaughtFILE VOTES FOR WOMEN 1 Jones Place Yonkers. Dec. 29 My dear Miss Blackwell I delivered your Christmas gift to Mrs. [Head] who is spending a few days withMrs. Larkin. She was very grateful and Happy because of your remembrance She asked to tell you that she is praying constantly [for] suffrage and wants to live until the women get the vote in this State. She is very feeble and unable to do any work. I intend to have a talk withMiss Larkin and find out just how Mrs. Head is living. I did not care to speak before her the other day. With sincere wishes for a happy and prosperous year Very sincerely yours Sara McPike Mrs. Larkin's address is 118 High Street Yonkers Mrs. James C. Mace 6948 Prospect Ave. Ben Avon, Pa. Oct 1 / 30 Dear Miss Blackwell In looking over the New York Times for Sunday Sept 28, I noticed your article to the Editor, on "America for Americans" My husband & I were very much interested and as I am on a program as chairman of Drama Day in the "Travellers' Club of Western Penn" to put on a play this winter I thought your play would be splendid. Will you tell me how I can obtain it & where and the cost if any, I amalso [c??s], Sect of the Congress of Clubs in Pittsburgh we have a membership of 1500 and a Club affiliation of 10,000, and we have a Drama Department of 100 members, so you can readily see how your article attracted my attention. Hoping to hear from you I am sincerely (Mrs J.C.) Bertha Mace EL MAESTRO (picture on the side] REVISTA DE CUL- TURA NACIONAL 1A GANTE 3-APTDO. POST.105BIS-TELS. ERIC. - MEX.2363 NERI-MEXICO, D.F. Mexico, D. F., 25 de febrero de 1921. Sr. Alice Stone BlacKwele. Monadnock St. Upharn's Corner. Boston, Mass. U.S.A. Muy dstinguido senor mio: La Universidad Nacional, por acuerdo del C. Presidente de la Republica. va a fundar el l[0] de abril proximo la Revista "EL MAESTRO," con las mas amplias proyecciones educativas. Se trata de realizar, en una publicacion de maxima importancia por su circulacion, la obra de cultura mas intensa y eficiente. El Gobierno pretende estimular la educacion de todas las clases sociales del pais, creando un organo capaz de interesar al mayor numero de personas, asi por su texto de inmediata aplicacion a cada una de las actividades sociales, como por el estudio y dilucidacion, en forma breve, sencilla y clara de los problemas concernientes a las actividades personales y a las obligaciones de organizacion social de un pais, que con plena confianza en su porvenir, cree tener derecho a trazar la huella de sus destinos. Estimando en cuanto valen los meritos de usted, me honro invitandolo a colaborar en esta empresa de alta cultura. Seguro de contar con su valiosa cooperacion me permito rogarle se sirva escoger el tema o temas que desee tratar de acuerdo con las mas amplias ideas y en la forma antes anunciada, para lo cual hallara usted adjunta la lista de las secciones que contendra el sumario de la Revista. Sirvase usted aceptar mi anticipado reconocimiento y la atencion de S. S. EL RECTOR. J. VasconselesEL MAESTRO REVISTA DE CULTURA NACIONAL 1A GANTE 3-APTDO. POST. 105 BIS-TLS. ERIC. -MEX. 2363 NERI-MEXICO. D.F. SECCIONES QUE CONTENDRA LA REVISTA "EL MAESTRO" Un artículo de Orientacion social mexicana Un artículo de Educaión Moderna Una Semblanza histórica o Narración anecdótica mexicana Un artículo sobre problemas Escolares Universitarios Un cuento Unartículo de Orientación obrera Un artículo literario Un artículo de interés agrícola, fabril y comercial Un artículo de Extension Universitaria Un artículo sobre Arte Mexicano Un artículo sobre problemas de Organización familiar Un sección de interés para los niños Un artículo de sobre las verdaderas actividades feminas Una semblanza de algun hombre notable por su ciencia, su bondad, su auténtico heroísmo. Un comentario sobre algún punto importante de Derecho Constitucional Mexicano Sugestiones sobre Auto-Educatión. Una leyenda Un artículo sobre Higiene Personal y Social SECCIONES INFORMATIVAS I. Actividades de la Universidad Nacional II. Centros de Extensión Universitaria III. La Camapaña de la lectura IV. Encuestas de la Revista V. Respuestas de interés general que dé la Revista, a las preguntas sensatas de los lectores VI. Concursos para estudiantes, obreros, agricultores, mineros, artistas, escritores, etc. VII. Estadística educativa, comercial, obrera, agrícola, editorial, ferrocarrilera, etc. Los artículos y las secciones llevarán, los dibujos, fotografías, etc., que les puedan dar el mayor interés.[*El Maestro Mexico*] [*M. N. Maisel*] M. N Maisel BOOKSELLER A SELECTED STOCK O ENGLISH, GERMAN FRENCH & RUSSIAN BOOKS Always on Hand. 194 E. Broadway New York Sept. 18 - 06 Dear Madam, I send herewith: Kallayeff, a little book about him and gvong also all his known poems. Lernouoff 3 little volumes of his poems, all I have on hand. I do not know of the existence of such a book as the Poems of [Gersh??s].. I enclose herewith a check for 2.00 which together with the 50 c for the books you will kindly accept in payment for the 5 copies of your beautifull colections of Russian Translations. Yours for Russian and Universal Freedom M. N. MaiselI have on hand now the first three numbers of a new and the only Russian Magazine Published in Paris. Among other good stuff, they also contain a series of Poems, by Balmont, Russia's greatest living Poet, the celebrated translator of Shelley. — These poems are all revolutionary in tone, and constitute a new departure of this poet's work. They cost 50￠ a number. Shall I send them to you? Yours, M. N. Maisel [*M*] 41 Mulberry Street Springfield Mass Dec. 21st 1946. My dear Miss Blackwell All these years I have hoped to go to Boston and see you, but I have not made it. It is wonderful all that you have accomplished and I hope you will carry on for many years. I would like to sendyou a nice box of candy but you might not be allowed to eat sweets so I wish you will get some little gift from me you could enjoy. For 13 years I have been alive and have not much faith in people now day. you can't cope with them. Have avoided people the past few years and I am happy and the days & night fly by, I know nothing of writing verses, but I have had several descriptive verses that have come to me. I had no help and they are uncorrected and I would like to have them read to you, if you feel able. They describe the "Memorial Cathedral of Living Trees" I gave to the Springfield College Camp in 1935 for my Father & Mother, and this 1946 Easter, eight verses about the Habitat Groups at the Museum of Natural History. I took the one and Itold just what I wanted - Birds on the Atlantic Coast of Maine, and they made a beautiful Marine with 12 varieties of birds in memory of my husband Louis Eaton Mallory. Perhaps you would tell me how to improve, but they just came to me, & I am told it is more difficult to describe than to use words regardless of what is there. Have not been feeling very well, but I brace up once in a while. Did you know Brown Landone? Many happy years from your friend Minnie Taylor Mallory Mrs. Stella Archer Maloney, General Missionary, is feeling happy that the Life Line League has secured a house numbered 22 Bulfinch Street, directly opposite the Bulfinch Street Unitarian Church, for the better prosecution of their work, this being, as is well known, centered on rescuing girls from the pitfalls and evil influences of great cities. Mrs. Maloney has done years of faithful, intelligent work among Boston's unfortunates and is by nature and education especially fitted to labor in cure of souls. She realizes, as no inexperienced partisan can do, the need of shelter, food and clothing; of a vigilance that must fairly pursue the erring; of the patience that must be called into requisition at least seventy times seven. For the past three or four years she has labored under many discouragements but with unfailing interest, and now that several prominent people have thrown their influence and labors with her, she will find fresh impetus. Mrs. Maloney together with the house missionary will reside at East Cottage (the name given to this home) and lend her efforts toward making its atmosphere helpful and protective. It is hoped that the work of this organization will find an interest which will extend through all New England.item 2419 Wabash Ave. Chicago Oct. 31, 1895. Misf Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Mass. Mademoiselle, Accompanying this letter please find a little Armenian Story. Some time ago I was notified that you have kindly suggested to some Armenians I have Armenians patriotic stories translated for publication in America. This story I send you here with in based upon a story which I had heard years ago. "Raffi" our great Armenian writer has many good historical romances but they are mostly prepared for Armenian [writers] readers. In those the reader is led to see the shortcomings of the Armenians as a nation and in some cases they are intendedto arouse the patriotism of the Armenians. I believe some of the revolutionary movements are greatly due to his (Raffi's) writings. To publish them in English I am afraid will not help the Armenian cause unless they have been carefully remodelled. I hope You will find this brief story interesting and informative of the Armenian question in one particular line. Any compensation for the work will be appreciable and will encourage me to put forth my effort in [introducing] giving [the] an insight of the Armenian situation to Americans. If desirable I can send You soon another story on Sassoun. This last one is yet in the Armenian language but can translate it into the English language as soon as I hear from You. Being out of Chicago, this last Summer, I have not seen any copy of the Woman's Journal in which You thought my paper on the Women of Armenia was to be published. Will You kindly send me a copy or number of copies of the Journal if my paper is publishedIf you have saved the original copy of the Women of Armenia please kindly send it to me & oblige me. Your beautiful translations of Armenian poems are highly appreciated by all who have read them. Is it not advisable to have them all published in a small book ready for the Christmas season. They can be made a souvenir book with the portraits of one or two of our Armenian poets. In case You decide to publish the story please use my assumed name ["Guro"] because I expect to go to my pastorate before long. Hoping to be favored I am. Good friend of the Armenians. Yours with Profound Respect G. M. Manavian Postal Stamp for sending back the manuscript if not used or for the paper on the Women of Armenia GMM.G.M. ManavianVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NASHVILLE 4, TENNESSEE May 4, 1948 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell: In your volume of poems and translations, entitled Some Spanish-American Poets, there are two translations which I should like very much to use in a text-book which I am preparing for American students. I should like to use your "Horn of Plenty" and "The House on the Mountain," with the original Spanish poems. If you can grant me this permission I shall be very grateful. Your translations from the Spanish have been a great inspiration to me. In my classes in Spanish literature I refer constantly to your beautiful interpretations and your subtle art in catching the mood and the poetic feeling of the originals. I myself, have attempted poetic translation, but have found it to be one of the most difficult of the arts. My colleague here, Professor Araucaniad, which was published two years ago by the Vanderbilt University Press, and our second volume, a translation of Arauco Domado, published by the New Mexico University Press, will appear in a few weeks. Could you tell me if permission to publish translations must be secured from the original authors, that is, the author of the poem from which the translation is made? If it is a recent poem, is permission generally secured from the poet or from his publisher? I should appreciate greatly hearing from you at your convenience. Sincerely yours, P Manchester P.T. Manchester, Professor of Romance LanguagesFairmont W. Va. Jan. 15th 1931 Dear Miss Blackwell-- I would like to get in communication with Mrs. Catt and do not have her house address. Enclosed find stamped envelope. Could you place in it a card with her address and mail to me? My mother still lives at the age of 99 but is very feeble at this time. She retains her memory and wishes me to tell you she remembers you and always held you in highest esteem. Your card remembrances come to us regularly, andwe appreciate them very much. Hoping you are well and happy, I remain as ever Jessie G. Manley Since writing this I have sent my message to Mrs. Catt in Washington. You need not send her N.Y. address. I am sending you this letter thinking perhaps you might like to hear of my mother who was one of two women who started the Woman Suffrage ball to rolling in West - Virginia. The other being her sister Miss Ellen W. Harn who died in Kenesaw, Neb. last April at the age of 101 years. J. G. M.[*Jessie G. Manley*] Nutrition Clinics Incorporated Boston, Mass. 163 Hemenway Executive Committee Dr. William R. P. Emerson, Chairman Mr. J. Colby Bassett, Treasurer Mrs. Howard M Hanna General Committee Dr. William R. P. Emerson, Chairman Miss Caroline F. Anderson, Brookline S. Prentiss Baldwin, Cleveland J. Colby Bassett, Boston Mrs. John W. Blodgett, Grand Rapids William H. Burnham, Ph.D, Worcester Eugene H. Clapp, Boston Jacob D. Cox, Cleveland Miss Frances Curtis, Boston Prof. Irving Fisher, New Haven John Galt, Honolulu Courtenay Guild, Boston Howard M. Hanna, Cleveland Mrs. Ethel M. Hendriksen, New York Mrs. John F. Hill, Boston Pres. Ernest M. Hopkins, Hanover Dr. H. R. M. Landis, Philadelphia Mrs. Augustus P. Loring, Boston Prof. Graham Lusk, New York Frank A. Manny, Boston Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, New Haven Dr. E. V. McCollum, Baltimore Francis J. Moors, Boston Dr. John Lovett Morse, Boston Mrs. Charles Peabody, Cambridge George E. Peabody, Boston Mrs. Harry Boone Porter, St. Matthews Dr. William Rice, Boston Dr. Rene Sand, Brussels Walter S. Schmidt, Cincinnati Miss Mabel Skilton, Brookline George F. Smith, Boston Mrs. Stewart B. Sniffen, White Plains Dr. A. Warren Stearns, Boston Mrs. Walter S. Wyatt, Philadelphia 12/20/00 Dear Miss Blackwell I wonder if you can suggest how I can locate information concerning Hannah S. Andrews a physician who went to Bridgton Maine in 1816 and died at San Francisco in 1866. She is buried in the Masonic Cemetery at S. F. The University of S.F. is acquiring the "Theodore Roosevelt was a delicate child."[*Frank A. Manny*] Cemetery and wrote to secure information concerning Dr Andrews who was probably a member of one of my ancestral families at Boxford and its Colony Bridgton I am enclosing a copy of a ballad reproduction - the original I found at Boxford where it had been laid away for a century We have had a good time with you Lucy Stone - I am writing a notice of it for the Boston Breeze Sincerely Frank A Manny[*M*] Broadview Manor, Wilton, Conn. 4/17/"28- Dear Alice, I beg a thousand pardons for troubling you! I only thought you might be in the way to know of a reliable lawyer, who could advise me. And who could be dependedbefore consulting any one else - I am offering to pay $10 000 outright to my brother or to make any arrangement with my heirs that the judge would consider fair and equitable! But every thing was refused! - This is only to humbly beg your pardon for troubling you in regard to it and to say I am upon to protect a woman in her rights, only in her rights financially - nothing else - not a penny more! _ In justice to myself - allow me to say - I am such an ardent - "peace" devotee, I used every means to settle this affair peacablyhoping to be able to leave that sum - $10,000 in my will to the Peace League. Believe me, as ever. Yours sincerely, Clarissand Mansfield Newark N.J. Oct 31 1895 Dear Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, I received your lovely letter in Stafford Springs, Conn. I was very glad to hear from you, and also to know that you are trying heartily about the Armenian question. But I am sorry that I could not answer as soon as possible. I came to New York after leaving Stafford Springs and I would like to see Mrs. Barrows, But I could not know that where she live I came here two weeks ago. Last week I made about 21 dollars I hope that I will do better this week Now my birth place, Marash in a very horrible and terrible condition Armenians are fighting with TurksAdonna, Jaitoon, Parsus and etc, are justly same, I am very very sorry these days, and I am thinking always about my lovely parents and I don't know how they can get free. I feel very bad but what can I do. I don't know when shall we be free? Please tell me. When. When. shall we get free from the wreched and immoral Turks.? Oh. When shall we take the Armenian flags upon our soulders and sing Hurra... Hurra? My heart is filled with sad and I can't write anything els. I have been very much obliged for that songs. those you sang to me. is it composed any time for them? At the present time my address is 42. Franklin st, New York c/o Mr. Haig. Iskiyan Please give my best regards to your father. Mrs. Barrows Mr. Gulesian and Miss. A. E. Clapp I shall be very glad to hear from you. Sincerely your friend Spiridon MarashlianSpiridion Marashlian Spiridion Marashlian Sept 12 1898 Providence, R.I. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and Mrs. Barrows, Dear friends, I am very sorry that I did not write you till now. Probably you will think that I forgot you. But it is not so. I can not forget you and your sympathy and friendship, and I believe that you do not forget me too. I wrote a few weeks ago to Mr. Gulesian about my work. I was been in Coney Island about five or six week.s After leaving that place I went to Syracuse state fair and from there to oswego, N.Y. and now we arrived here three days ago. Fair will open next monday and closedup 20th of Sept. and after we will go to another place. I think then we go to St Louis. In regard to my application to the Somerville Mc Lean Asylum. I had received a letter which explains itself. that is "your application is received, But is not favorably considered. I cannot offer you a situation". I am very sorry about this matter. But what shall I do. I know only this, that I am unfortunate, and my life is a struggle. But I do not fear and I do not be discouraged It is true that I am poor and I have no rich friends. But I am proud that I have best noble and true friends like you. - I believe that you love me heartily and want help me in every condition. I met here to an Armenian friend who read every time about the Armenians and he has big collections all about Armenia. The St. James Jacksonville, - - FLA J. R. Campbell, Prop'r. now this gentleman wants No.14 of the Woman's Journal. I promised him. Please sent me that paper as soon as possible Please give my regards to your family andd to my friends. With best wishes, sincerely Spiridon S. Marashlian At the present time my address is Spiro. Marashlian State fair Ground. Street of Cairo c/o Otto Schmidt Providence, R.I.Dec. 30th 1905 Miss Alice Stone Blakcwell 3 Part sh. Boston Dear Madam: - Please find a check for $1.25 for a book called "Armenian Poems", to be sent to Mr. G. S. Basirgan 355 Columbus ave. Boston Mass. Kindly put in the book the enclosed card. Very respectfully Julia R. Mavdick Arm. Poems out of print V(Copy) New York, Sept. 25, 1920. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Mass. Dear Madame:- I heard that you are helping the Armenians, and I would like to place my story before you. I am Aurora Mardiganian, whom you have probably read of in the papers. Perhaps you read the story in the Boston "American" and perhaps you have seen the picture - "The Auction of Souls or Ravished Armenia," for which I posed. I escaped to New York and went to work in a factory, and as I had a brother here in this country whom I had not seen for some years, I inserted a little ad. in the New York "American" inquiring for him and a reporter on that paper read the ad. and came to me and got my story, and through some manner unknown to me his wife was appointed my guardian. This man's name is H.L. Gates and my guardian's name is Mrs. H.L. Gates. She signed a contract with a picture concern - Selig Co. - for me to appear in pictures, in which my guardian got $15.00 a week. In posing this picture I broke my ankle and they did not give me anything for my injuries. They also had me travel around with the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, in which I spoke from the stage to the people about my experiences, and my name was widely used by them from one end of the country to the other. I appeared in Boston last year, and I am awfully sorry I did not know about you, or I would tell you about my troubles. I had a terrible experience in Buffalo. My chaperon was intoxicated and she insisted on my delivering four lectures a day. For the first seven months of my engagement I received 2. no money whatsoever. I wish you would try and find out what it all means as I had terrible experiences in Armenia and I thought the Americans would be kind to me. My guardian is away and does not care what I am suffering. I brought my sister here from Armenia and put her in a school in Springfield, Mass., and I wish you would investigate this whole matter, as I am lost unless I get good honest Christian people to help me out. My guardian tried to cause me a lot of trouble. She writes awful letters to my lawyer. I have a lawyer, but I don't know what kind of a lawyer he is, as I found him myself. Perhaps you know a good, honest lawyer who will investigate this matter for me. The experiences I have here are worse than I had in my own country. I hope I will hear from you soon, as I am suffering greatly. Yours very truly, Aurora Mardigarian Address: 14 West 107th Street New York City. Apartment 20. P.S. Two years ago they published my story and they made a book out of the story, of which they sold 90,000 copies. But I did not receive a cent for this.Emma Marean MRS. MAREAN 5 CRAIGIE CIRCLE March CAMBRIDGE Twenty Five 1 9 3 2 Dear Miss Blackwell: It is always good to hear from you, and I am happy to think that the condition of your eyes is somewhat less serious than you feared; It is my experience that Doctors are as encourageing as the facts warrant, Dr. Derby told me he did not think I should be absolutely blind; but I knew all the time that it was because he thought I should not live to be what I call really old; my mother was nearly 96, when she died, and my father up against the 90s. and I am sure he did not reckon I should live as long as that. Braille is slow business at best, unless one begins it as a child, and I find it difficult to believe the stories Ihave heard, about the facility it is possible for blind people to acquire if they begin young enough; I read with the fore-finger of the right hand, but I am sure I can train other fingers if necessary. I am sorry you have been ill in bed, even though I profited by the opportunity it gave you in writing letters. Do keep well and active, for it is terrible to think of you as anything else. Mr. Mussey was good enough to send me his story of Mabel,s illness; If you have extra copies, and can easily spare one, I should be very glad to have another, but do not think of sending me one unless you have others for distribution; I was sorry I could not go to the Memorial Service, but of course I could not; I called up Frank Clapp later, that I might hear something about it. I hope that before you and I are both blind we may have a chance to see each other again, when warm weather comes, perhaps I may be able to manage it. In the meantime I think of you with the old admiration and love, and I wish you all the good in the world, Your loving friend. Emma Marean MBL.Mrs. E.E. Marean Emma E. Marean The Christian Register REV. GEORGE BATCHELOR, EDITOR 272 CONGRESS STREET BOSTON, MASS. April 5, 1907 My dear Miss Blackwell, We have just had a letter from Miss Rosa S. Allen, Medfield, Mass., who wishes to find a boy or young man to do outdoor work such as chores about the place and the care of a garden, to receive in return for his services some opportunity to study. Miss Allen and her sister have been teachers, and they feel that they can help anyone who wishes to study and work both. They are two ladies living in an old homestead. They have thought of some foreigner like an Armenian or a Japanese who wishes to learn English. Of course, this makes me think of you and I wonder if the supply of Armenians has given out. If you are trying to find a place for anyone now and this looks at all promising, you might communicate directly with her. I hope you are well and that everything is going all right. Edith and Roderick ([Stebbens?]) have been visiting the Goodriches in Santa Barbara, and Edith's letter, received this morning, glows over the lovely surroundings and talks about sitting on the beach in the sunshine. I had a bit of a walk and talk with Gertrude Jacobs the other day. I wish we could all see each other oftener. Cordially yours, Emma E. Marean Dic.E.E. MareauE. E. Marean Pleasant word 5 CRAIGIE CIRCLE CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS May 1, 1931 Dear Alice Blackwell: I have not begun a letter to you yet because I wanted to read every word of the book before I begun to write. Hardly a life has been more familiar to me in all these years, than the life of "Lucy Stone," but I feel as if, I had read it now, almost for the first time and the thrill of it has not vanished. I think I told you that I can no longer see for myself, but I have had an interested and sympathetic reader, and I have enjoyed the book more than I can tell you. I am very glad to have had the book from your own hands, and I shall take pains to give another copy to someone who will enjoy it in the same way.Your Mother,s name is blessed for ever and your own name stands besides it Your Friends Emma Endicott Marean. EEM/L5 Craigie Circle, Cambridge, December 29, 1931 Dear Alice Blackwell: Your letter means a great deal to me, I cannot tell you how sorry I am to know you are having trouble with your eyes, or how eager I am to know more about it. I cannot read a word of your letter, but Mrs. Locklin, who helps me out with my correspondence, tells me that she thinks it is in your own handwriting. Are you sure that your eyes are giving out? and that you must come to need the Braille? if you do begin while you can still see the pin pricks, that make up the letters; of course the main thing is to develop the sense of touch, which comes only by practise. It is astonishing how a finger can seem to develop a private brain of its own; so far I have trained properly only one finger, though I certainly intend to train the others, because one finger, if it does all the work, gets numb and tired and refuses to play the game. It is however a great help to learn the alphabet while one can still see; it comes [p] printed on a card and is not at all difficult. A Braille primer gives you five letters at a time, with combinations of them underneath; the best thing about it is, that it is interesting from the beginning, and when one begins to read a book, it is a rival to cross-word puzzles. One thing is sure, the State does its best to help us out; It provides a teacher without pay, and mails books to and from us without postage; I have had most of my books from Perkins Institute, but I get many of them now from Washington, where there is a greater variety. I hope sincerely that you may not have to learn Braille at all, but if you do I am sure you will do muchmore with it than I have; I tried writing Braille, only enough to write a single letter or two, to my teacher as I seemed to have no use for it, I might try it again if you learn it also. my teacher was a Miss Thompson, who lives at 5 Hancock Street, she is sent out by the State, and since she is blind, she is always accompanied by her friend Miss Stewart, she (Miss Thompson) is a bright brave woman, and has learned to make the best of things; Her fingers can tell her much more than mine tell me, as I can still see enough to go about house comfortably, after a fashion, but I say again that I hope you will not need it. Mr. Mussey sent me his letter about Mabel; during the summer she went to Detmold, and visited there the old friend of my girlhood Anna von Michels, who has written me about it, Mabel wrote me about it also, and I am sure they were glad to meet; I think it is remarkable that Mabel's last days were in some respects so much like the deaths of both her mother and father, so brave and serene, you and I knew the family at its best. Do let me hear from you again, Your devoted friend, Emma E. Marean MBL [*MSL90*] [*E.E. Marean*] ARMADA NACIONAL REVISTA DE SANIDAD NAVAL HUÉRFANOS No. 1249 TELÉFONO No. 63836 CORREO 15 — CASILLA 244 V. SANTIAGO DE CHILE Santiago, Septiembre 3 de 1931. — Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street, BOSTON, Mass. Distinguida señorita: Por este mismo correo me permito remitirle un ejemplar de mi libro de poemas "LOOPING" que dedico y envío a su conocimiento en atencion a la gran obra de vinculación literaria entre ese pais y los paises de habla espanola que Ud. viene realizando.- Por la indole y la construcción de algunos de mis poemas, me atrevo a creer que ellos pudieran interesar al público notreamericano.- (Yanquilandia, Looping, Boxing, etc) En este sentido me permito autorizar a Ud. para su publicación en esa o para su traducción en caso que alquien se interesara por hacerla.- En este caso me agradaría conocer las condiciones detalladas y materiales de la traducción complete del libro al inglés.- La referencia suya me ha sido dada por mi amigo el Sr.Ernesto Montenegro a quien agradezco profundamente la ocasión que me ha brindado de ponerme en relación con Ud. La Saluda con toda atención y camaraderia inteletual, Dr. Juan Marin Dr. Juan Marin R.Mrs. Wilson Marsh 211 Upland Road Quincy, Massachusetts My Dear Miss Blackwell - Thank you so much for your kindness in sending the cards so promptly. Our friend to whom I showed it said before she finished reading it through that it sounded like Charles F. Dole and then remembered that she had read it - Your Alliance when she was it's finished. Please accept the enclosed bill to help in such propaganda of peace and good will. Sincerely yours Alice Haynes MarshMrs. Wilson Marsh JAMES MOTT (1788-1868) LUCRETIA MOTT (1793-1880) Who knows, but that if woman acted her part in governmental affairs, there might be an entire change in the turmoil of political life. It becomes man to speak modestly of his ability to act without her. Lucretia Mott _____ Lucretia Mott and another celebrated speaker were at an anti-slavery meeting. The celebrated speaker had spoken, then came Lucretia's turn. After his wife had begun to speak, James Mott leaned over and whispered to the other speaker, "If she thinks thee is wrong, thee had better look it over again!" ____ Equality of rights before the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Alice PaulWestport, Essex Co., N.Y. March 5, '43 Dear Miss Blackwell: Under separate cover I send you my Lucretia Mott sketches from the Congressional Record. This is my belated New Year's Card. I did and do appreciate your Xmas Card...Please note my permanent home address above. Yours affectionately, Jeannette Marsh Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge Massachusetts Deposited July 24, 1930 Still River, Mass. July 6, 1920 My dear Miss Blackwell, Enclosed is my check for five dollars [to] for the fund for Armenian relief. I would like the volume of your translation of Armenian poems; I have mislaid the address of Miss Papazian, who has not so long since advertised it, and hope it will not too greatly inconvenience you to attend to the matter. Cordially, (Miss) M. Alice Marshall16 Hubbard street Concord, Mass. July 4th, 1932 Dear Cousin Alice, Although you asked me not to bother to write you, I dare to disobey because I want to write very much. Such a splendid present calls for far more than a letter could convey, so I must hope that you will somehow feel how much I appreciate my gift, not even to mention your good letter which preceded it. George was no less delighted than I when he saw "our" new possession.Thank you, too, for copying out Cousin Kitty's dictated letter. I am more than proud to have one from her all to myself. Concord is perfectly lovely. I am here at the Surette School of Music and am enjoying the remarkably simple atmosphere. The tome itself is so charming and the spirit of the school is one of well-rounded study. Not only music but many other aspects I particularly am enjoying reading Emerson in my leisure hours A heart full of love Ethel he shall be most interested, of course, in reading about your father, but how nice to be able to look into the lives of others fathers as well. Thank you for the affectionate inscription inside the cover. I prize that highly, as well as the one in "Some Spanish American Poems" or is it "Poets"? I am ashamed to have forgotten When I was with Madame Hopekirk, my piano teacher, last Saturday, she asked me if George were related to Alice Stone Blackwell, upon which I replied proudly "Oh yes she's our cousin!" Madame then said "Really? I admire her very much" a thing which she seldom says!Ethel Martien16 Hartington Place Edinburgh 10th Feb 1907 - My Dear Miss Blackwell I have never had the pleasure of hearing from you since I returned to Scotland, but I know what a busy strenuous life you lead. I have recently been in London to address a meeting of the "Friends of Armenia". & bring before them various subjects, (1) The wonderful progress of the Armenians in America under a civilized Government; (2) Mr. Reynolds' proposition for a German Protectorate over Armenia and (3) the suggestionto hold an International Armenian Conference in London This [next] spring before the Hague Conference. I wrote you about this in a letter from New York, which I hope you received. I brought up all those subjects at the meeting and also during interviews with members of Parliament and other influential people. Unfortunatel, the majority do not think that the proposal for a German Protectorate would be favorably received by the British Government. (I suppose it is the old hateful international jealousy) All were deeply interested in hearing about the Armenians in America, and all were much interested in the suggestion to hold an International Armenian Conference in London. If that is arranged I do hope you will be able to come for you are above all one of the best of the friend of desolate Armenia. But it was thought that a Conference would only be of value, if it could be called for some definite purpose. So I have been asked to find out (and have already written to Mr. Reynolds) if the American representative at the Hague will bring up the subject of Armenia at the Hague Conference. If so, the International ArmenianConference would be called to pass resolutions to support America in her action. It is felt that America can act more independantly than other European powers owning to her position outside European jealousies. I notice in the speeches made at Mr. Reynolds' Banquet in Boston, that it was proposed by various speaker that Secretary Root should be memoralized on the subject of Armenia being brought up at the Hague Convention. Could you take any action in this matter - I mean in getting up memorials to President Roosevelt, and Secretary Root, asking that the Annie Marshall you know, and I would be glad if you could give me the names and addresses of people whom you think should be invited to an International Armenian Conference. It would be most interesting if an American delegation could come, and It would be the first time that America and Britain have joined hands on work for Armenia - I have most pleasant memories of my meeting with you. My only regret was that I could not see you again. But perhaps the future holds that pleasure - With all good wishes - Yours very sincerely, Annie C. Marshall2 subject of Armenia be brought up at the Hague Conference by the American delegate Now is the time to act and agitate before the Hague Conference takes place. And I feel specially curious that an International Armenian Conference should be held this year, while President Roosevelt and the British Liberal Government in power - with Mr. Bryce in America as British ambassador and with the Hague Conference coming on. [If any] It has not yet been decided whether an International Armenian is to be held - a sub. Committee was formed for further consideration - if anything further is decided I shall let10 The Tribune THE TRIBUNE CO., PUBLISHERS. FOUNDED JUNE 10, 1847. ENTERED AT CHICAGO (ILL.) POSTOFFICE AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. TERMS' OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL IN ADVANCE Postage paid in the United States (outside of Chicago city limits) and in Canada and Mexico. 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It has been customary to speak of Mr. Aldrich as one of the few remaining connecting links between the former brilliant literary set of New England and the active writers of today. This is largely true not only in point of years but also with respect to literary service. For while in age he followed a quarter of a century behind the memorable group which passed away with Dr. Holmes twelve years ago, he was still in sufficient touch with the passing and the coming men of letters and played well his part as conditions demanded. To assign arbitrarily any man's position in literature is almost impossible at his death. That will be settled by the serener judgment of time and the mellower influences of a distant retrospect. What was true of Charles Lamb may be true of Aldrich. A writer who was indifferently regarded while he lived may be a vital literary force in after years, and on the other hand a poet extravagantly admired and praised by his personal circle may be the smallest ripple on the literary waves. It is only the commanding genius, the widely recognized possessor of the power beyond the general conception, who fits at once into the place he is destined to fill. A present consideration of Thomas Bailey Aldrich would invest him with all the delicacy, grace, charm, and finish of a minor poet or man of letters. Not minor as compared with the present generation of New England writers, to whom he was in nearly every aspect vastly superior, but as contrasted with the dominant spirits of the literature which made New England famous fifty years ago. Mr. Aldrich himself took his own gifts tolerantly, He was pleased when critics likened him to Herrick and he smiled when told that some fruitful poem suggested the society verse of Austin Dobson. To all appearances he was content with the way the world treated him, and he went through life singing his songs of the heart, writing the sketches that brought such deserved popularity, and from time to time going more deeply and earnestly, as the mood seized him, into the more serious question of the literary impulse. His muse might have been more generous had not fortune made him independent and less alert long before his mental activity could have been impaired. As a man Mr. Aldrich was esteemed for the qualities lovable to his friend, likable [?] nance that stands between the public and a gross abuse cannot be too quickly tested or too rigidly enforced. --- MAYOR DUNNE'S CAMPAIGN SUIT. The board of education has filed a bill in chancery praying that the lease of the school property occupied by THE TRIBUNE be declared null and void. This action attacks the validity of every lease of school property made since 1880 in which the revaluation clause has been waived or in which the term exceeds thirty years. If the validity of THE TRIBUNE lease were attacked solely on legal grounds, no matter how technical, THE TRIBUNE, believing in its legal rights, would silently leave the matter to the arbitrament of the courts. But when, as in this bill, its honesty is impugned and the charge is made that it is robbing the school children through a lease which, it is alleged, it obtained by discreditable means, THE TRIBUNE will not remain silent. It owes it to the community to answer the charge and not await the slow processes of the courts. The public shall have all the facts at once. THE TRIBUNE made its first lease of school lands I 1867. There was a definite stipulation that at the expiration of the lease, about thirteen years later, it could buy the land if so inclined or the school board would buy the improvements. When, in 1880, the time came to exercise the option the contract was repudiated by the city council on the ground that the school board has no authority to make it. THE TRIBUNE was unable to buy the land and the school board would not buy the building. THE TRIBUNE had to choose between sacrificing its building and remaining a tenant of the school board on the severe conditions imposed by it. It chose the latter, but the conditions became increasingly onerous. At last a point was reached where it was necessary to abandon the site unless a final working agreement could be reached. The board of education was anxious to have THE TRIBUNE put up a new and large building, that it might get the benefit of an increase in taxable values throughout the whole block. So, after a reappraisal of the land, the board struck out the unjust and intolerable revaluation clause, which no tenant could endure, and gave a straight lease on condition THE TRIBUNE would erect a building to cost $300,000. It has put up one costing $1,750,000, or nearly six times as much as it agreed to expend. A valuation of the ground was made to determine the ground rent. Itt was made by three appraisers, none of whom was chosen by the Tribune company. It regarded the appraisement at the time too high, but it did not demur, and pays a ground rent of nearly $50,000 a year for the space it now occupies. It has been alleged that the valuation made by the school board's appraisers is too low and that that means low rent and a loss of revenue to the public schools. It is said that the valuation is not so high by the front foot as that of the property on the other corner of Dearborn and Madison streets. This is an attempt to compare things which are not comparable. THE TRIBUNE pays rent on the average valuation of a corner lot and several inside lots, the whole space being 120 feet by 144 feet. The valuation given for the Hartford building and the Inter Ocean corner is in each case that of a narrow shallow lot - of a "corner of a corner," of the very cream of the property. The Inter Ocean corner measures only 20 feet by 40. The value put on the Manierre building on the northeast corner was a scarcity value. It had to be obtained to round out the holdings of the Boston store, and that meant a forced price. The valuation of the property THE TRIBUNE occupies is not too low. Neither is the rent it pays. The school children lose nothing by the lease the board of education is attacking. THE TRIBUNE stands prepared to prove in court that there is no equity in the prayer that its lease be canceled. It is ready to prove that it is both legal and equitable and that the interests of the public schools have been promoted, not injured, by it. 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It has been customary to speak of Mr. Aldrich as one of the few remaining connecting links between the former brilliant literary set of New England and the active writers of today. This is largely true not only in point of years but also with respect to literary service. For while in age he followed a quarter of a century behind the memorable group which passed away with Dr. Holmes twelve years ago, he was still in [?] touch with the passing and the coming men of letters and played well his part as conditions demanded. To assign arbitrarily any man's position in literature is almost impossible at his death. That will be settled by the serener judgment of time and the mellower influences of a distant retrospect. What was true of Charles Lamb may be true of Aldrich. A writer who was indifferently regarded while he lived my be a vital literary force in after years, and on the other hand a poet extravagantly admired and praised by his personal circle may be the smallest ripple on the literary waves. It is only the commanding genius, the widely recognized possessor of the power beyond the general conception, who fits at once into the place he is destined to fill. A present consideration of Thomas Bailey Aldrich would invest him with all the delicacy, grace, charm, and finish of a minor poet or man of letters. Not minor as compared with the present generation of New England writers, to whom he was in nearly every aspect vastly superior, but as contrasted with the dominant spirits of the literature which made New England famous fifty years ago. Mr. Aldrich himself took his own gifts tolerantly, He was pleased when critics likened him to Herrick and he smiled when told that some fruitful poem suggested the society verse of Austin Dobson. To all appearances he was content with the way the world treated him, and he wen through life singing his songs of the heart, writing the sketches that brought such deserved popularity, and from time to time going more deeply and earnestly, as the mood seized him, into the more serious question of the literary impulse. His muse might have been more generous had not fortune made him independent and less alert long before his mental activity could have been impaired. As a man Mr. Aldrich was esteemed for the qualities lovable to his friend, likable to his acquaintances. As a writer he took literature for the joy it gave him and for the impulse that was in him. He believed in literary form and finish and delighted more in a graceful line than in a powerful one. It rejoiced him that his friends spoke enthusiastically of his little "songs" as he called them, and any tribute to his delicate humor amply repaid him. The world will doubtless take him much more seriously than he took himself, and his literary reputation may be safely trusted to the world that loves grace and sprightliness and beauty. --- NO DELAY OF A TEST CASE. In obedience to popular demand the city council has passed an ordinance believed to be sufficiently comprehensive and forcible to put an end to theater ticket speculation except on a small scale on rare occasions. It has met the approbation of the mayor and has been signed, with the expectation that it will be enforced. --- MAYOR DUNNE'S CAMPAIGN SUIT. The board of education has filed a bill in chancery praying that the lease of the school property occupied by THE TRIBUNE be declared null and void. This action attacks the validity of every lease of school property made since 1880 in which the revaluation clause has been waived or in which the term exceeds thirty years. If the validity of THE TRIBUNE lease were attacked solely on legal grounds, no matter how technical, THE TRIBUNE, believing in its legal rights, would silently leave the matter to the arbitrament of the courts. But when, as in this bill, its honesty is impugned and the charge is made that it is robbing the school children through a lease which, it is alleged, it obtained by discreditable means, THE TRIBUNE will not remain silent. It owes it to the community to answer the charge and not await the slow processes of the courts. The public shall have all the facts at once. THE TRIBUNE made its first lease of school lands I 1867. There was a definite stipulation that at the expiration of the lease, about thirteen years later, it could buy the land if so inclined or the school board would buy the improvements. When, in 1880, the time came to exercise the option the contract was repudiated by the city council on the ground that the school board has no authority to make it. THE TRIBUNE was unable to buy the land and the school board would not buy the building. THE TRIBUNE had to choose between sacrificing its building and remaining a tenant of the school board on the severe conditions imposed by it. It chose the latter, but the conditions became increasingly onerous. At last a point was reached where it was necessary to abandon the site unless a final working agreement could be reached. The board of education was anxious to have THE TRIBUNE put up a new and large building, that it might get the benefit of an increased in taxable values throughout the whole block. So, after a reappraisal of the land, the board struck out the unjust and intolerable revaluation clause, which no tenant could endure, and gave a straight lease on condition THE TRIBUNE would erect a building to cost $300,000. It has put up one costing $1,750,000, or nearly six times as much as it agreed to expend. A valuation of the ground was made to determine the ground rent. Itt was made by three appraisers, none of whom was chosen by the Tribune company. It regarded the appraisement at the time too high, but it did not demur, and pays a ground rent of nearly $50,000 a year for the space it now occupies. It has been alleged that the valuation made by the school board's appraisers is too low and that that means low rent and a loss of revenue to the public schools. It is said that the valuation is not so high by the front foot as that of the property on the other corner of Dearborn and Madison streets. This is an attempt to compare things which are not comparable. THE TRIBUNE pays rent on the average valuation of a corner lot and several inside lots, the whole space being 120 feet by 144 feet. The valuation given for the Hartford building and the Inter Ocean corner is in each case that of a narrow shallow lot - of a "corner of a corner," of the very cream of the property. The Inter Ocean corner measures only 20 feet by 40. The value put on the Manierre building on the northeast corner was a scarcity value. It had to be obtained to round out the holdings of the Boston store, and that meant a forced price. The valuation of the property THE TRIBUNE occupies is not too low. Neither is the rent it pays. The school children lose nothing by the lease the board of education is attacking. THE TRIBUNE stands prepared to prove in court that there is no equity in the prayer that its lease be canceled. It is ready to prove that it is both legal ad equitable and that the interests of the public schools have been promoted, not injured, by it. In accusing THE TRIBUNE of using dishonorable means to obtain the lease the school board assails not merely THE TRIBUNE but the board of education which made the lease. Of that board Mr. D.R. Cameron was president. None save the reckless "reformers" who control the present board would dare to cast a slur upon the integrity of a man of Mr. Cameron's standing. As for itself, THE TRIBUNE denies that it resorted to underhanded methods to get its lease. Its dealing with the board of education have been irreproachable. It has kept all its agreements, but the board has not. It is paying full rental value for the land it occupies. Its occupancy and improvements have given an increased value to adjacent property. It is contributing more than its fair share to the support of the public school system which the board that assails it is endeavoring to destroy. The board of education is the worst enemy of the public schools have had to contend with. It shall not be permitted to divert the attention of the community from its misconduct by attacking the reputation of others. THE TRIBUNE is ready to meet the board of education's charges in and out of court.Perry & Martin, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Room 411, 84 La Salle Street. (Private) Chicago, Ill Mar 22 1907 Dear Miss Blackwell, Enclose Chicago Tribune statement in regard to its lease of school land. It accords with the facts as I understand them and I have followed the matter in a general way since the discussion began in the eighties It was the Tribune trouble principally that called attention to the difficulties & dangers of long term leases, to the owner of improvements and particularly when the landlord is the public, governed by a continually changing body of men. I send this as you may know the other side, having published the changes. I do not send for publication. The local press reaches all necessary in Chicago - Yours very truly Ellen A. Martin (Private)Ellen A. MartinDear Miss Blackwell, Your many friends are thinking of you this Christmas. Though for a little while your outer eyesight is sleeping, we know that your "inner eye" is still filled with beauty and the broad vision of one whose "heart is wide". Lovingly yours, Mabel F. Martin No. 44 586 Made in U.S.A.(Mabel) Florence MartinMay the Star that led the wise men guide you to health and happiness MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR Mabel Florence MartinGonzalez Martinez México, (7a. Magnolia, núm.1965) marzo 16/1919 Señora Alice Stone Blackwell. Boston. Muy distinguida señora mía y bondadosa amiga: recibí con algún retardo la muy grata de used fecha 22 de enro; pero la tardanza quedó bien compensada conel envoi de sus preciosas traducciones. No solo no tengo observaciones que hacer á la interpretación de usted, sino que estoy admirado de la forma irreproachable en que ha encerrado used mis verses, fiel, harmoniosa y artísticamente tradicidos. Llega ga usted a la perfección en este género. Mucho le agreadezco el interés que se ha tomado por dar a conocer en los Estados Unidos mis poemas. Los dos libroas de la encantadora poetisaClive Tilford Dargan llegaron a mis manos contoda oportunidad, y comprendo por su lectura la magnífica impression que en su país han causado. De muy Buena gana habría yo traducido el poema Sorolla que usted me recomienda: pero estoy en una época de enorme trabajo escolar y no me had sido possible consagrarme a la tarea seriamente. Dos veces he intentado hacer la version del bellísimo poema, y en las dos ocasiones he fracasado. Procuraré más tarde obsequiar los deseos de usted a quien mucho agradezco las indicaciones que me envía. Mi libro PARÁBOLAS ya fur deoisitadi en el corredo, y espero que haya llegado a sus manos, Me alegraré que lo encuentre usteda su gusto. No sé si el tono de la obra le parezca demasiado severo. Atentamente me permito rogardle que se sirva acusarme recibo del ejemplar mandado para repetir el envio en caso de que se extravíe el paquete. Con la más alta estimación, quedo de usted muy atento amigo y devote Q.B.SS.PP. Enrique González Martínez CC.P. 10 Guatemala República de Guatemala Guatemala febro 1921 Muy querida señorita: !Qué grata me fué su peticion, trasmitida por nuestro ministro en Washington! Adjuntos le envio, certificadas, las libros pedidos El que me agradaria ver traducido al ingles es "El Hombre que parecia un caballo". Pronto marcho a San Francisco Cal. en su patria, a un sanatorio de neurostenicos Pero en la direccion arriba indicada mi padre queda encargada de mis cartas. Espero tener pronto noticias suyas. Crea, senorita, que soy su amigo y que la estimo, y pida a Dios por la salud de R. Arevalo Martinez P.S Pronto le enviare "la rosa de Engadeli, reversos en prensaR. Arevalo Martinez