BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE MAS-MAXGRACE, MERCY, PEACE GRACE - Is a state of mind when a Christian is in a vision to act as superman in high Ideals, to serve humanity, forgetting self and becoming pliable, endowed by a special grant from God in appearance, speech, and action. MERCY - Is a Free Gift to those who are guilty of and deserve punishment but are pardoned, even restored to Freedom from life sentence or hanger's noose, as exemplified by the Saviour Christ. PEACE - Is a state of tranquility of heart and mind, putting aside all physical and earthly cares, content with what little we have to eat or enjoy life, remembering that this life is a fleeting short space of time. Therefore continuing our communion with the Divine Power which will prepare us for coming eternal life and strengthen us to endure the vicissitudes of present earthly life. These cardinal virtues correspond to the Divine Trinity of Grace of God Mercy of the Son, Jesus Christ Peace of the Holy Ghost This is the advancement with God through prayer. Amen. 1948 J. P. Masoian To the grand Poet + Lady of Literature. Alice Stone Blackwell. the friend of [? Armenians]. rather friend of all. Thanks for the two greeting cards. my presents are two poems inclosed. sure you will like it. it is in prose. J.P. Masoian Aug. 5, 1945 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. Dear Friend of [Armenians?] - of Mine. It gaves me a great pleasure, reading in the July 21 copy "The Armenian-Mirror-Spectator" of confering upon you Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities, by University of Boston, Mass. on May 21, 1945, on your 87th year of Humanitarian service, with your fair picture. It is equally a great delight and previledge to me as an Armenian, to congratulate you for receiving this high honor, though a kind of late. I have followed in "New Armenia" and ["Gotchnag"?] and other periodicals of your exalent translations of anchient Armenian Church hymns and poems. Showing the world the Christian Spirit embodies in the character and rutual of Armenian church. It was surprise to me to know you are in that advanced age, though I am yet 76. Dear friend, I congratulate you heartily for this honor, which if within my power, I would confered upon you long long time ago, because you have been a real friend and champion of the Armenian people for over half a century. God bless you and keep you. His face shine upon you, and His Grace be with you. Amen. One of admiring + gratefull Armenian friend. Peacefully J.P. Masoian.[*Sacco Vanzetti file*] The Commonwealth of Massachusetts DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION STATE PRISON CHARLESTOWN, William Hendry Acting WARDEN December 21, 1922 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston 25, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: I am in receipt of your letter of the 20th instant, asking permission to send book entitled - "The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution," to Bartolomeo Vanzetti. You may do this, and when sending same, kindly send it in care of the writer. Very truly yours, William Hendry Acting Warden[*Wm. Hendry*] The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education State House, Boston DIVISION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES CHARLES F. D. BELDEN, DIRECTOR E. KATHLEEN JONES GENERAL SECRETARY E. LOUISE JONES FIELD LIBRARY ADVISOR EDNA PHILLIPS LIBRARY ADVISOR WORK WITH FOREIGNERS April 10, 1930 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Uphams Corner Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you very much for your interesting letter which I am glad to have even though you tell me you are not in direct touch now with the people about whom I inquired. The Armenians were not on my list. Mrs. Putnam herself is choosing the representatives for the groups with the largest numbers. I know Mr. Haraszti, and agree with you that he would not be just the one to represent the Hungarians, partly because he is a scholar rather than a leader of people, and partly because he is of the Jewish race. I am glad to know of Mrs. Howard, as it seems very possible she would have good suggestions. My list is about complete now, but the appointments will be very important ones, and I am anxious to get all the light possible on the names I shall suggest to Mrs. Putnam. You may be interested to know that I included your new anthology among the books on which I commented in a talk I gave this week at the Conference of the Department of Inter-Racial Unity of the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs. Sincerely yours, Edna Phillips Supervisor of Library Work with Foreigners Division of Public Libraries EP: H [*Sp. Arm Poets*]Massachusetts Department of Education Division of Public Libraries A SELECTION FROM SIGNIFICANT MODERN BOOKS OF INTER-RACIAL INTEREST AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH Ask for these books at your public library. The library may supplement its own collection by borrowing from the Massachusetts Division of Public Libraries, through its department of Work with the Foreign Born. The selection is made for club women, librarians, teachers and others who are interested in world literature but whose reading time may be limited. Hence, from the more serious writers of non-friction the compiler has chosen brief illustrations which at least indicate the character of their genius. Authors of the Jewish race are included under the language in which they wrote. Czechoslovak Capek, Karel. RUR. Doubleday, 1923. The play, showing robots doing the work of men, is an arraignment of our mechanistic civilization. Masaryk, Thomas. The making of a state. Memoirs and observations, 1914-1918. Stokes, 1927. A story told with epic grandeur, about a state created against terrible odds. Dutch Ammer-Kuller, Jo van. The rebel generation; tr. by M. W. Hoper. Dutton, 1928. Four generations of Dutch families shown with humor and consumate skill. Couperus, Louis. Small souls, tr. by A. T. de Mattos. Dodd, 1901. Character studies of Dutch family life. Finnish Kallas, Aino. White ships; Estonian tales; tr. by Alex Matson. Knopf, 1924. Stories of primitive life in Estonia; some of them little short of masterly. Kivi, Alexis. Seven brothers; tr. by Alex Matson. Coward-McCann, 1929. Though just made available in English, it is a classic beloved of the Finns. "Rollicking, gorging, fighting bears and wolves, fire and frost in so joyous and primitive a fashion that even to read of it one has to have vigor". French Claudel, Paul. The tidings brought to Mary. Yale Univ. Press, 1916. A representative play by a poet, dramatist, and mystic who is French Ambassador to the United States. Dimnet, Ernest. The art of thinking. Simon and Schuster, 1928. A sparkling essay filled with epigrams worth remembering. Hémon, Louis. Maria Chapdelaine. A tale of the Lake St. John country; tr. by W. H. Blake. Macmillan, 1928. An epic of French Canadian life. Maurois, André. Disraeli; a picture of the Victorian age; tr. by Hamish Miles. Appleton, 1928. Witty, sympathetic and vivid interpretation that "rescues all the magic in the career of the Hebrew conjurer." Rolland, Romain. Jean Christophe; tr. by Gilbert Cannon. Holt, 1913. The greatest modern French novel. Author awarded the Nobel Prize "As homage to his exalted idealism, and also to the sympathy and truth with which he has drawn different types of people". Vallery-Radot Life of Posteur German Kaiser, Georg. The coral (in Tucker, S. M. Modern continental plays. Harper, 1929.) An expressionist who aims to "distil the essence of reality and to present it in terms of the universal". Keyserling, Herman A. Travel diary of a philosopher. 2 vols. Harcourt, 1925. Chiefly a review of the spiritual cultures of the world. Mann, Thomas. The magic mountain; tr. by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Knopf, 1927. A psychological study of sanatarium life in Switzerland. Thought by some critics to be one of the most enduring novels of our age. Remarque, E. M. All quiet on the western front. Little, 1929. Its simplicity and power of selection make it one of the greatest war novels. Hungarian Jokai, Maurus. The room with forty-eight stars (in Lieber and Williams, eds. Great stories of all nations, Brentano, 1927) The greatest novelist of Hungary, whose works have been translated into 25 languages. Molnar, Ferenc. Liliom (In Tucker, S. M. Modern continental plays. Harper, 1929) This love story in play form is the masterpiece of the leading dramatist of Hungary today. Italian D' Annunzio, Gabriele. Francesca de Rimini. Stokes, 1902 (and also in Tucker, S. M. Modern continental plays, Harper, 1929.) Considered the greatest of the many poetic treatments of this immortal love story. Doledda, Grazia. The mother. Macmillan, 1923. Nobel prize. An emotional tale of life in Sardinia. 2.Pirandello, Luigi. Three plays. Dutton, 1922. Pirandello is noted for putting the intangible in the form of the actual. Jugoslav Cankar, Ivan. Yerney's justice; tr. by Louis Adamich. Vanguard Press, 1926. The touching story of a serf's attachment to the estate to which his labor had been given, by the foremost Sloven novelist. Polish Reymont, L.S. The peasants. 4 vols. Knopf, 1925. Nobel Prize. Readers who cannot find time for this modern classic on account of its length will find a briefer example of Reymont's literary genius in his story "Twilight" (in Lieber and Williams, eds. Great stories of all nations. Brentano, 1927.) Russian Blok, Alexander. The twelve. Viking Press, 1920. The mood of the poem epitomizes the tragedy of Russia. Gladkov, F.V. Cement; tr. by A.S.A. and C. Ashleigh. International publishers, 1929. Widely read in Russia and elsewhere as a powerful story reflecting the Revolution. Chaotic and brutal. Gorky, Maxim. Twenty-six and one (in Graham, Stephen, Great Russian short stories. Liveright, 1929) Scandinavian Bojer, Johan. Great hunger. Century, 1919. The determined fight of an engineer for an education. Great difficulties surmounted by spiritual victories. Lagerlof, Selma. Gosta Berling's saga. Doubleday, 1928. The exploits of a reckless hero. The Nobel Prize was awarded the author for "noble idealism, wealth of fancy, and spiritual quality". Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter. Knopf, 1929. 3 vols. Emotional power, epic intensity and all-embracing humanism. Hamsun - growth of the soil Spanish Benavente, Jacinto. la malquerida (in Tucker, S.M. comp. Modern Continental plays, Harper, 1929) "The most versatile and unexpected of living dramatists". Prof. R.E. Rogers. Nobel Prize. Blackwell, A.S. tr. Some South American poets. Appleton, 1929. An anthology in Spanish-English form. 3. Santyana, George. Sonnet (in Hunter, Irene, comp. American mystical verse. Appleton, 1925) A brief example of the art of a writer born in Madrid of Spanish parents, though much of his life has been spent in America. Unamuno, Miguel de. Solitude (in Pritchard, F.H., ed. From Confucius to Mencken. Harper, 1929) John Erskine has said that the the three writers of our age who will be immortal are Unamuno, Anatole France, and Santayana. Books treating of racial matters in America Jensen, Carl. An American saga. Little, 1925. An immigrant biography that will live. Lasker, Bruno. Race attitudes in children. Holt, 1929. A revealing study of the origins and growth of race prejudice. Rolvang, O.E. Giants in the earth, Harper, 1927 and Peder Victorious Harper, 1928. Epics of the Norwegians in America. Siegfried, Andre. America comes of age. Harcourt, 1927. Books about books Boyd, Ernest. Studies from ten literatures. Scribners, 1925. Drake, W.A. Contemporary European writers. John Day, 1928. Macy, John A. The story of the world's literature. Appleton, 1925. Richardson and Owen. Literature of the world. Ginn, 1922. Rose and Isaacs. Contemporary European literature. Lincoln MacVeagh, 1929. Collections and anthologies Pritchard, F.H., ed. From Confucius to Mencker; the trend of the world's best thought as expressed by famous writers of all time. Harper, 1929. Tucker, S.M., comp. Modern Continental plays. Harper, 1929. Van Doren, Mark, ed. An anthology of world poetry. Boni, 1928. 4. Edna PhillipsThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education State House, Boston DIVISION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES CHARLES F. D. BELDEN, DIRECTOR E. KATHLEEN JONES GENERAL SECRETARY E. LOUISE JONES FIELD LIBRARY ADVISER EDNA PHILLIPS LIBRARY ADVISER WORK WITH FOREIGNERS October 9, 1930 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Chilmark Martha's Vineyard, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you so much for your information about the play, which I am ordering at once. I no doubt will have opportunities of making it more widely known among librarians. I am glad to know that you have made English renderings of Hungarian poems. We tried to have the Hungarians included in the Exposition, and I had a great deal of correspondence and many telephone interviews with that in mind, but it did not prove to be a possibility, due to insufficient numbers and lack of adequate leadership for so large an undertaking. Sincerely yours, Edna Phillips Supervisor of Library Work with Foreigners Division of Public LibrariesEdna Phillips vV[*Tribute*] WESTERN UNION W. P. 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Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE BA237 1949 SEP 14 AM 11: 37 B.LLS085 PD=BOSTON MASS 14 1058A= :MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL= :1010 MASS AVE CAMBRIDGE MASS= :BIRTHDAY GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES FOR YOUR CONTINUED HAPPINESS AND HEALTH FROM THE LEAGUE OF WOMENS VOTERS OF MASS= THERESA J MORSE PRESIDENT=MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS BOSTON, MASSACHUSET LAFayette 3545 3 JOY STREET May 19th 1947 Dear Miss Blackwell, At our recent convention in Worcester the delegates passed a vote of appreciation of all you did to make the League an actuality, and it is my pleasure to convey their appreciation to you. The convention was a great success and a minor triumph, I shouldsay for democratic government. With kindest regards Believe me Sincerely yours Helen A Peck Mrs. Charles R. Peck Secretary Greetings MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTs LAFayette 3545 3 JOY STREET September 12, 1947 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell: As September 14 approaches, League members throughout the country are thinking of you. The officers and directors of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts today voted to extend to you Birthday Greetings and wishes for your continued happiness and good health. Sincerely, Miriam Hutchinson Mrs. R. G. Hutchinson, 3rd Secretary H:BMASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 31 MOUNT VERNON STREET, BOSTON TELEPHONE LAFAYETTE 3545 Affiliated with the National League of Women Voters My dear Miss Blackwell, It is with great pleasure I send to you the greetings of the Board and the Massachusetts League of Women Voters on this your eighty-eighth birthday. There are many of us today whom you do not know, but all of us know you as the pioneer and distinguished leader of an organization which we are proud to serve. Please accept our best wishes for your health and hapiness today and always. Cordially yours, Ruth M. Lurie, Pres. MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 31 MT. VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. MRS. WILLIAM HEALY, PRESIDENT MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, HONORARY PRESIDENT TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 1106 Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, First Vice-President Mrs. Robert E. Stebbins, Second Vice-President Mrs. Roland M. Baker, Third Vice-President Mrs. Willard D. Woodbury, Fourth Vice-President Mrs. Charles Peabody, Fifth Vice-President Mrs. Guy W. Stantial, Treasurer Mrs. Edward Scott O'Keefe, Secretary DIRECTORS AT LARGE Mrs. William Scott Keith Mrs. William E. Towne Mrs. Milton J. Rosenau Mrs. Robert C. Sweetser Mrs. Carroll L. Chase Mrs. Edward E. Wise COUNTY DIRECTORS Miss Clara J. Hallett, Barnstable Mrs. C. F. Garniss, Plymouth Mrs. Jessie C. Dunbar, Norfolk Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie, Suffolk Mrs. Frank S. Elliott, Middlesex Mrs. G. Milton Friese, Essex Mrs. Philip H. Duprey, Worcester Mrs. Robert E. Stebbins, Hampden Miss Miriam B. Clark, Hampshire Mrs. Elwyn L. Taber, Franklin Mrs. Richard A. Ruether, Berkshire Mrs. True Worthy White, Secretary of Political Education Miss Elizabeth Bridge Piper, Executive Secretary Mrs. Louis C. Hunter, Field Secretary September 10, 1929 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Chilmark, Massachusetts My dear Miss Blackwell: The Chairman of Literature and Library Extension of the General Federation of Women's Clubs is, Mrs. H. B. McCahan, Kirskville, Missouri. I do not doubt that your translations will be of great interest to the Federated Clubs. Very sincerely yours, Martha E D White Mrs. True Worthy White, Secretary of Political Education MEDW/LAddress of Fed Chairman attend to MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 31 MT. VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. MRS. MARY TENNEY HEALY, PRESIDENT MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, HONORARY PRESIDENT TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 1106 MEMORIAL AND ANNIVERSARY PLAN COMMITTEE Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman, Chairman Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie, Acting Chairman Mrs. Frederick P. Bagley, Vice-Chairman Mrs. Guy W. Stantial, Treasurer Mrs. Henry Randolph Brigham Mrs. Harry S. Griffin Mrs. Mary Tenney Healy JURY ON SELECTION OF NAMES Mrs. Charles M. Baker Mrs. Francis Peabody Magoun Miss Heloise Meyer ADVISORY COMMITTEE Miss Mary Ware Allen Mrs. Oakes Ames Dr. Fannie Fern Andrews Miss Jean Bascom Mrs. Horace L. Bearse Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Mrs. H. Addington Bruce Mrs. Sewall Cabot Mrs. Howard J. Chidley Mrs. Bancroft G. Davis Miss Katherine Fay Mrs. George R. Fearing Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes Mrs. Margaret Hatfield Miss Eleanor Hinkley Mrs. Franklin W. Hobbs Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson Mrs. J.M. Lasell Mrs. Charles Masury Mrs. Samuel Eliot Morison Mrs. George C. Morton Mrs. Lucian Newhall Mrs. George Howard Parker Mrs. Daniel B. Ruggles Mrs. Henry E. Russell Mrs. Robert G. Shaw Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman November 10, 1930 My dear copy for Miss Blackwell The National League of Women Voters has established this year, in celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, a National Roll of Honor on which are to be permanently recorded the names of as many as possible of the leaders whose work for political equality and equal educational opportunities has brought to the women of this country a new day of partnership in its public life. In connection with this permanent Roll of Honor, a Memorial Fund is now being raised. The principal of this Fund is to be held intact as a permanent Memorial and the income is to be used to carry forward the work of the National League of Women Voters. The states have all had a part in this undertaking. Massachusetts pledged $5000 in memory of Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore and Maud Wood Park. Of this sum $1500 remains to be paid. Miss Blackwell has consented, as her contribution, to autograph numbered copies of the biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, which has just been published, the profit to benefit the fund. A minimum price of $10.00 each will be asked for the first 150 copies. Because you are on of those who has always been interested in helping to bring to women wider opportunities for service in public life, and because you were associated in the early days with those pioneers, we are giving you this opportunity to contribute to the Fund. Lucy Stone and the others, though living in Massachusetts, were women whose work was of national significance. Sincerely yours, Alice W. DeNormandie Acting Chairman Memorial Committee copy Please send copies of "Lucy Stone - Pioneer of Women's Rights", autographed by Alice Stone Blackwell. I enclose my contribution of $ for the Memorial Fund of the National League of Women Voters. Name Address Circular about biog MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 31 MT. VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. MRS. MARY TENNEY HEALY, PRESIDENT MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, HONORARY PRESIDENT TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 1106 MEMORIAL AND ANNIVERSARY PLAN COMMITTEE Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman, Chairman Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie, Acting Chairman Mrs. Frederick P. Bagley, Vice-Chairman Mrs. Guy W. Stantial, Treasurer Mrs. Henry Randolph Brigham Mrs. Harry S. Griffin Mrs. Mary Tenney Healy JURY ON SELECTION OF NAMES Mrs. Charles M. Baker Mrs. Francis Peabody Magoun Miss Heloise Meyer ADVISORY COMMITTEE Miss Mary Ware Allen Mrs. Oakes Ames Dr. Fannie Fern Andrews Miss Jean Bascom Mrs. Horace L. Bearse Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Mrs. H. Addington Bruce Mrs. Sewall Cabot Mrs. Howard J. Chidley Mrs. Bancroft G. Davis Miss Katherine Fay Mrs. George R. Fearing Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes Mrs. Margaret Hatfield Miss Eleanor Hinkley Mrs. Franklin W. Hobbs Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson Mrs. J.M. Lasell Mrs. Charles Masury Mrs. Samuel Eliot Morison Mrs. George C. Morton Mrs. Lucian Newhall Mrs. George Howard Parker Mrs. Daniel B. Ruggles Mrs. Henry E. Russell Mrs. Robert G. Shaw Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman November 10, 1930 The National League of Women Voters has established this year, in celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, a National Roll of Honor on which are to be permanently recorded the names of as many as possible of the leaders whose work for political equality and equal educational opportunities has brought to the women of this country a new day of partnership in its public life. In connection with this permanent Roll of Honor, a Memorial Fund is now being raised. The principal of this Fund is to be held intact as a permanent Memorial and the income is to be used to carry forward the work of the National League of Women Voters. The states have all had a part in this undertaking. Massachusetts pledged $5000 in memory of Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore and Maud Wood Park. Of this sum $1500 remains to be paid. Miss Blackwell has consented, as her contribution, to autograph numbered copies of the biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, which has just been published, the profit to benefit the fund. A minimum price of $10.00 each will be asked for the first 150 copies. Because you are on of those who has always been interested in helping to bring to women wider opportunities for service in public life, and because you were associated in the early days with those pioneers, we are giving you this opportunity to contribute to the Fund. Lucy Stone and the others, though living in Massachusetts, were women whose work was of national significance. Sincerely yours, Alice W. DeNormandie Acting Chairman Memorial Committee copy Please send 1 copies of "Lucy Stone - Pioneer of Women's Rights", autographed by Alice Stone Blackwell. I enclose my contribution of $10 for the Memorial Fund of the National League of Women Voters. Name Maud Wood Park Address Eastland Hotel Portland, MEDear Mrs. Stantial, Thank you very much for your letter. It was stupid of me to bother you about that small package. It happened that another posted the same day had not been heard from and I feared they had both gone astray. I enclose check for dear Miss Blackwell's book. I had bought it before your letter came and have an extra one for a friend - hid now. I'll keep autographed copy for my self - I might have taken another piece of paper if I had realized how much I was about to write - Hastily,, cordially M. W. ParkLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS 3 JOY STREET, BOSTON 8 TELEPHONE LAFAYETTE 3-3545 Affiliated with the National League of Women Voters May 15, 1950 Mrs. Guy W. Stantial 21 Ashmont Street Melrose 76, Mass. Dear Mrs. Stantial: On behalf of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, I am herewith enclosing the Resolution in fond memory of Alice Stone Blackwell passed at the 29th State Convention of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts on Wednesday, May 10, 1950. In addition, Mrs. Parker of Cambridge spoke beautifully of Miss Blackwell. The entire membership of the League of Women Voters extends its sympathy and greetings to you, and wants you to know that we shall ever honor the memory of one who did so much to inspire the work we are trying to carry forward. Very truly yours, Theresa Morse Mrs. Alan R. Morse President M:B LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS 3 Joy Street, Boston, Mass. May 16, 1950 The death of Alice Stone Blackwell should serve to remind us that the many opportunities now open to women have been made possible by the work of two generations of devoted and inspired women, a goodly company to which Miss Blackwell belonged. For thirty years a member of the Boards of the Massachusetts and Boston Leagues of Women Voters, her capacity for clear thinking and courageous action helped build the organization which we have today. Therefore, be it resolved, that the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts in convention assembled in Cambridge, May 10, 1950 records its appreciation of Miss Blackwell's great service to the League, and to the community of which this League is a part.LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS 3 JOY STREET BOSTON 8, MASSACHUSETTS LAfayette 3-3545 May 14, 1948 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell: On Wednesday, May 12 the delegates and visitors to the Twenty-eight Convention of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts were thinking of you, and asked that our greetings be extended to you. The Convention was, as always, a stimulating, wonderful experience and as always thoughts turn to those who, through faith and determination in earlier days, made such a gathering possible. We thank you with a deep sincerity. Sincerely, Miriam Hutchinson Mrs. R. G. Hutchinson, 3rd Secretary H:B MASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 31 MT. VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. MRS. ROLAND M. BAKER, PRESIDENT MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, HONORARY PRESIDENT TELEPHONE LAFAYETTE 3482 May 25, 1932 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Massachusetts My dear Miss Blackwell: The Massachusetts League in Convention assembled passed a resolution expressing the regrets of the League at your absence from the Convention. I would like to tell you, too, how very much I missed your presence there. Sincerely yours, Katharine Ernst Katharine Ernst Executive Secretary KRM Res. 74MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION FOUNDED 1890 INCORPORATED 1924 "Your Library on the air!" 21 May 1940 Dear Miss Blackwell I was very pleased to receive your card, in fact I was quite thrilled. [The?] name is quite a familiar one to me and I wonder... are you the daughter of Lucy Stone? I also wonder are you the Alice Stone Blackwell who worked with me for a short time in the Charlestown Branch Library sometime about 1922? Please write to me and let me know, soon. I am at present in the Neponset Branch Library just about two blocks from the Homestead occupied by Lucy Stone at the time she lived in Boston. I have read a great deal about this famous woman and thank her many times for opening the paths of progress for women in America. Please excuse the informality of this letter and accept it as a token of my enthusiasm. I am leaving for Cinncinati tomorrow morning to attend a Library Convention. I will return on June 5th and will hope to have a letter from you. My secretary will mail your [script?] later. Sincerely yours, Elizabeth B. Boudreau Chairman — Radio Committee. THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS THE AMERICAN HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY THE ANGELL MEMORIAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL 170-184 LONGWOOD AVENUE BOSTON, MASS DR. FRANCIS H. ROWLEY, PRESIDENT ALBERT A. POLLARD, TREASURER GUY RICHARDSON, SECRETARY AND EDITOR OUR DUMB ANIMALS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BOTH SOCIETIES COUNSEL PEABODY, BROWN, ROWLEY & STOREY TRUSTEES OF PERMANENT FUNDS JOHN R. MACOMBER, CHAIRMAN OF HARRIS, FORBES AND COMPANY CHARLES G. BANCROFT, VICE - PRESIDENT OF UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORP PHILIP STOCKTON, PRESIDENT OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON NEVINS REST FARM FOR HORSES AND ANIMAL SHELTER METHUEN, MASS. July 31, 1931 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Chilmark Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell, When I wrote you that you had been receiving Our Dumb Animals I wrote you under a misapprehension. Upon receipt of your letter I had the inquiry made and gathered from what I was told that you had been receiving the paper. Now they tell me that what they intended to convey to me was that instead of your having been on the list that they supposed you had been on the list for years, so now I am going to put your name on the free list and it will be sent to you through July and August at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard and the rest of the year at your winter residence, 3 Monadnock St., Upham's Corner, Boston. I will see that the last two copies are sent you. You will be interested to notice perhaps a few things with regard to that horror of all time, war. At the earliest possible time we shall be glad to use your article on Sir Walter Scott's love of animals. The next issue of our paper is just now in the press. With very kind regard and every good wish, I am Sincerely yours, Francis H. Rowley President[*Francis H Rowley*] MASSACHUSETTS STATE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS MRS. AZEL A. PACKARD, President Department of International Relations MRS. CHARLES E. FRENCH, Chairman 62 Holyrood Ave., Lowell, Massachusetts My dear Miss Blackwell: I am enclosing final program to you, and looking forward to meeting you on the 29th. We shall begin very promptly, so if you could arrive perhaps at 1.20 it would give you time to register and get your breath. As I wrote you, Mrs. Packard will introduce you. I hope your ankle is quite all right now. Cordially yours, Helena Stacy French. Jan. 29, 1930.[*Mrs Chas French for x mas card*] Dr. Efrén N. Mata. Mariana R. del Toro de Lazarín No 6..- altos 2. )México,D.F. ------- Jefe de la Sección Técnica del Depto. de Ens.Prim. y Norm. Secretaría de Educ. Pública.-México,D.F. México, a 21 de mayo de 1927. Sta. Alice Stowe Blackwell. 3 Monadnock Street. Uphan's Corner.- Boston Nass. U. S. A. Dilecta y fina amiga: Me permitirá usted que me arrogue este derecho, pues como tal me considero al pensar que ambos bebemos en las fuentes del Arte. Esta sirve para testimoniarle mi admiración y para felicitarla por la elegante y justa traducción que ha hecho usted al inglés de los poemas "El Lago" de mi caro amigo D. Juan B. Delgado y al mismo tiempo suplicarle me permita entablar esta amistosa correspondencia y enviarle algunas de mis poesías. Beso a usted las manos y quedo con todo respeto su devoto y amigo. [?] M. Mata[*India*] Springfield College Springfield, Massachusetts 29th January '30 Dear Madam, Perhaps this letter may be a surprise to you. This is just to convey my word of appreciation for your article to "The Republican" entitled 'India's [wrongs?]' — I earnestly hope that our efforts, in whichever way it might be, will see the dawn of Independent India' in the near future. Thanking you again for the [sympathy?] and kind words for India's cause. Yours faithfully P. C. [M?????] (of India)[*P. C. Mathew*] [*(Pleasant word)*] July 4,, 1931 39, DREWSTEAD ROAD, STREATHAM, S.W.16. Dear Madam; I have forwarded your letter to the firm interested in the Maxim Inhaler and requested them to communicate with you. The firm is J. [W.?] Edmonds Co. 55 Hollow Viaduct London E. C. 1 - Yours truly L. Maxim - (Lady Maxim) [?????? returned] To Miss Blackwell 3 Monadanock St Upham's Corner Boston - Mass[*Lady Maxim*]