BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE POPoetry POETRY WORLD Edited by Published by Henry Harrison Dorothy Quick Gertrude White A Monthly Magazine Parmenia Migel Sold by Subscription Jeannette Chappell Only at Three Dollars A Year Carol Phyllis Schmid A Year - - - - - 19 Stuyvesant Street New York Jan. 11, 1930. Dear Miss Blackwell: The editors are pleased to accept THE TREE and IN THE VESTIBULE for the International number of Poetry World. It will doubtless be some months before we get this number together, so we hope for your patience. In the meantime, won't you send us as many more translations from any language as you can? And may I suggest (the editors agree with me) that you might change the "thee" manner in your translations to "you" since in translating, one should bring a foreign thing into the contemporary speech that the poem[s] is translated into. Cordially, Henry Harrison publisherHenry HarrisonTHE POETS' GUILD CHRISTODORA HOUSE, 147 AVENUE B NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE, ALGONQUIN 8400 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE POETS' GUILD WILLIAM ROSE BENET ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE HAROLD PULSIFER CHARLES HANSON TOWNE MARGARET WIDDEMER C.I. MAC COLL, HEAD WORKER OF CHRISTODORA HOUSE MEMBERS WILLIAM ROSE BENET, SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH DANA BURNET WITTER BYNNER PADRAIC COLUM GRACE HAZARD CONKLING, ENGLISH DEPT., SMITH COLLEGE T.A. DALE PHILADELPHIA RECORD FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS PROF. JOHN ERSKINE, COLUMBIA UNVERSITY ROBERT FROST, AMHERST COLLEGE HERMANN HAGEDORN, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, HALL OF FAME THOMAS S. JONES, JR. PERCY MAC KAYE EDWIN MARKHAM ANGELA MORGAN YONE NOGUCHI GRACE FALLOW NORTON ROBERT NORWOOD, RECTOR, ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PRES., POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CALE YOUNG RICE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SARA TEASDALE RIDGELY TORRENCE, THE NEW REPUBLIC CHARLES HANSON TOWNE, HARPERS' BAZAR DR. HENRY VAN DYKE FORMER MINISTER TO THE NETHERLANDS MARGARET WIDDEMER HAROLD PULSIFER, THE OUTLOOK JOHN G. NEIHARDT, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MRS. GEORGE WOOD BACON STEPHEN P. DUGGAN, DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF INTERATIONAL EDUCATION HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK MRS. ARTHUR CURTISS JAMES DR. ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON REED LEWIS, DIRECTOR, DOREIGH LANGUAGE INFORMATION BUREAU MRS. SETH MILLIKEN MRS. DWIGHT W. MORROW MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS MRS. J. ROSS STEVENSON January 1, 1930 Dear Miss Blackwell, Thank you so much for your letter and for permission to use your poems, with due acknowledgement. Miss Branch is delighted. The International Unbound Anthology is to consist of poems representative of the various countries, along the same lines as the domestic series, of which I enclose a booklet. I don't know how long it will be before we get the international series finished up, but of course a set will be sent to you at that time. You don't know how grateful we are, because it looked almost hopeless, getting the Latin-American material. Sincerely Yours, Elizabeth Onativia [?] INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL [*Elizabeth Oñatevia *] THE POETS' GUILD CHRISTODORA HOUSE, 174 AVENUE B NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE, ALGONQUIN 8400 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE POETS' GUILD WILLIAM ROSE BENET ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE HAROLD PULSIFER RIDGELY TORRENCE CHARLES HANSON TOWNE MARGARET WIDDEMER C.I. MAC COLL, HEAD WORKER OF CHRISTODORA HOUSE MEMBERS WILLIAM ROSE BENET, SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH DANA BURNET WITTER BYNNER PADRAIC COLUM GRACE HAZARD CONKLIN, ENGLISH DEPT. SMITH COLLEGE T.A. DALY PHILADELPHIA RECORD FANNIE STEARNS DAVID PROF. JOHN ERSKINE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ROBERT FROST, AMHERST COLLEGE HERMANN HAGEDORN, AMERICAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, HALL OF FAME THOMAS S. JONES, JR. PERCY MAC KAYE EDWIN MARKHAM ANGELA MORGAN YONE NOGUCHI GRACE FALLOW NORTON ROBERT NORWOOD, RECTOR, ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CALE YOUNG RICE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SARA TEASDALE RIDGELY TORRENCE, THE NEW REPUBLIC CHARLES HANSON TOWNE, HARPERS' BAZAR DR. HENRY VAN DYKE FORMER MINISTER TO THE NETHERLANDS MARGARET WIDDEMER HAROLD PULSIFER, THE OUTLOOK JOHN G. NEIHARDT, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MRS. GEORGE WOOD BACON STEPHEN P. DUGGAN, DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK MRS. ARTHUR CURTISS JAMES DR. ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON REED LEWIS, DIRECTOR, FOREIGN LANGUAGE INFORMATION BUREAU MRS. SETH MILLIKEN MRS. DWIGHT W. MORROW MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS MRS. J. ROSS STEVENSON Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, c/o B. Appleton and Company New York City Dear Miss Blackwell, Regarding your kind permission to use some of your translations from Spanish-American poems for our "Historical Anthology"- may we further ask whether or not we sustain any financial obligations to the living authors of these poems? Also, can you tell us what the relationship is between the translator and the author (Mr Dean) of Spanish-American poetry? Does the translator have to get permission to translate, and does he have to pay the poet a share of the proceeds? We would deeply appreciate any information which you can give us in this matter. Again thanking you for so kindly granting permission to us to use some of your translations. believe me - Sincerely yours, (Miss) Ethel Lyman for the Poets' Guild. April 15, 1930.2. 4 Month Place Hastings Nov. 1st-1929 My dear Miss Blackwell, Many thanks for kind thought - to send me the delightful verses, re Miss K. Barry Blackwell. its a special pleasure to me to have the verses as I know her so well & that its quite true of her character and nature. I have always regretted her leaving Hastings as we both-she was part and parcel of [Exemouth?] Pl. but I am thankful to know she has fallen in such kind and devoted hands. I am [??oh]- sure if you are the young lady who slept at No 2. years ago but I presume you are. I entertain Mrs. Manson occasionally, and she brings Miss K. B. Blackwells letter so I keep in touch with my old neighbour. Mrs. M. keeps well for her age. Of course every year tells, when so advanced. Trusting you are well & Family I remain Yours very gratefully, B.E. PooleP.S I am having verses typed so that I can distribute same among ol- friends that- would like to have them. B.E.P.Emily Poole Chilmark, Mass., March 1, 1938 Dear Miss Alice: Everett and I thank you for your kind letter of sympathy on the passing of our beloved brother. It has been a terrible loss to our entire family and we are all finding it rather hard to readjust ourselves but we must go on and finish our own lives. But Everett and I lost more than a brother when Chester went: he was a father to us as well. You speak in your letter of his suffering. Yes, he suffered terriblySincerely, Emily H. Poole. for some days, then when the result of his illness became definate, the doctor and his nurses kept him as comfortable, and in as little pain, as opiates would allow and his passing was very quick and peaceful, just slept, and then --- Heaven and his Maker. He was only ill about two days and for that his family is thankful. I am enclosing a copy of a bill which we found in Chester's effects and which I think you will find to be correct. Please make your check payable to his estate. Thank you.The Parsonage FIrst Congregational Church Upton, Mass. 1924--I--17. My Dear Miss Blackwell;-- The important item in my letter of the 15th was omitted, I regret to say, and may I tell you now that your translations were more than admirable; for though I do not know Spanish, and have not seen any of Gabriela Mistral's poems, your renderings were revelations of her meters, her ideals, and even of herself. I am additionally grateful for your note of the 16th naming the date of the gifted lady's birth. Senor Montenegro differs as to the place, however; he says is was La Serena, and I think he quoted Cuba Contemporanea as his authority. Yours with much esteem, [??? G. Pool.?] Rev. Wm. G. Poor Wm. G. Poor84 PHILLIPS AVENUE PIGEON COVE, MASSACHUSETTS Dear Miss Blackwell Thank you for your dear Easter remembrance. It means much to me lying in bed for many months ready for the end, perhaps I may see your dear mother, whom I reverenced more than I can now speak of. May I say good bye though perhaps son. My thoughts of you are many and with love. Yours, Edith D PopeEdith A. Pope 84 PHILLIPS AVENUE PIGEON COVE MASSACHUSETTS November 18, 1933 Dear Miss Blackwell, I wish you had had more in answer to your appeal in the transcript and I wish I could send a good sized check but I really cannot send more than the enclosed. Please call me "Anonymous" when you acknowledge and do not think of writing personally. Yours very sincerely, Edith A. Pope Kate G. Pope in clippings Leonminster, Feb. 23, 1906 My dear Miss Blackwell;- The enclosed pieces came out in the Fitchburg Sentinel this evening. There is a very rich woman in Fitchburg. Miss Lucy Fay, who is an Anti, and who has had Mrs. George at her home several times. Recently she had her there, and invited several Leonminster people to be present. I am told that Mrs. George made quite a favorable impression.Now I would like to answer this in the Sentinel, and I thought you would do it so much better than I, being an old soldier at this work, and knowing just what to say; et al - if you will answer it, I will see et al - is goes in, either in your name or mine, as you think best. The Fitchburg papers have a large circulation here in Leonminster, and I feel sorry to have these pieces of the Anti appearing, when we are making an effort to increase registration. It may make a difference unless I can offset it by the other side. I felt after what you said today, you would be glad to do this for me, and I'll put it in just as soon as I receive it from you; if you are willing to do it. It is late and I have scrawled this in great haste so Mr. Pope could take it in the morning. Very sincerely, 4 Blossom St. Kate G. PopeDr C V Porter DR. C. V. PORTER VIROQUA, WISCONSIN Viroqua Dec. 13, 1930. Dear Miss Blackwell. On the eve of my departure for Florida for 3 months I wish to thank you for the gift of that beautiful biography of your mother. I should have done so at the time but was waiting for a good photograph of the marker which I intend to send you. I told the artist to make a picture but he has not done so yet. The book you sent is being read by Miss Glennwhom Editor Goldsmith of the "Censor" will have write half a column perhaps, of a notice concerning it. Miss Glenn is a University graduate capable of writing a good review. An old lady who read the book was surprised to learn women had such a struggle 80 years ago as your mother had. I was a "Medic" in Mich. Univ. in 1872-3; one classmate was M. Louise Call first graduate of an American State University. Some of the men were really insulting to her. Two or three years later Julia Ward Howe and Miss Mary F. Eastman at a great meetingin Denver, on their return, were asked by Dr. C.H. Brigham the Unitarian minister at Ann Arbor to stop off there and speak on Suffrage &c in his church. An audience largely of students had assembled to hear them. Mrs. Howe was sarcastic and the students hissed her. She declared it was the first time she was ever hissed. Miss Eastman followed and in five minutes had the students applauding vigorously. I send you a Sparta clipping from today's paper. "The life of Lucy Stone" was Miss Morrow's subject of one paper. Again I thank you for the fine volume which Miss Glenn will pass around while I am away. Sincerely C. V. PorterLA CROSSE TRIBUNE SPARTA POSTOFFICE INSTALLS NEW GAS BURGLAR EQUIPMENT --- Banks Take Precaution to Prevent Holdups in Future SPARTA, Wis. - (Special) - Sparta is taking every precaution against any further bank robberies or trouble at the Sparta post office. William Pitts of Chicago has been in the city this week installing a new tear bomb on the door of the vault at the federal post office. It consists of a net work of wiring that covers the entire door so closely that no matter where an attempt might be made on the door with the acetelyn torch or any like that instrument it can not help but cut a wire and set off the system that releases the tear gas. It is so penetrating that it is impossible to go near the vault for twenty-four hours. The bank of Sparta is having bullet proof glass put in throughout the bank. All the front windows to the inner portion of the bank are already in. A net work of steel rises nearly to the ceiling, which would prevent any access to the room from this quarter. It is also bullet proof. The Monroe County Bank is about to put in bullet proof windows and take all precautionary measures for protections. It is said that the bank at Tomah is going to do the same. The Literary club was pleasantly entertained Monday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Spencer D. Beebe. The general subject for the evening was "Biography." Miss Mary Morrow gave a paper on "The Life of Lucy Stone"; Mr. Hughes gave a biography of Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven; Dr. Spencer D. Beebe gave a paper on the life of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Nestingen entertained a company of friends at a six o'clock dinner Wednesday evening. Mrs. Carl Melgard [?]Millicent Peirce Potter 1894 Class Secretary Wellesley College Mrs. Alice Stone Blackwell, Oct 2-97 Dear Madame:- In a recent issue of "The Vineyard Gazette" I noted an interview with you. Your name brought up memories of other days, memories which, I think, will interest you. They refer to what we were thinking about and hoping for, fifty years ago. I was a Freshman at Wellesley and an ardent worker for Woman's Suffrage. One day I noticed in the "Boston Transcript" a line telling of the funeral services for Lucy Stone. I said to my two intimate friends, "We must cut our afternoon classes + go into Boston. There are funeral services for a very famous woman and we should attend." We dared a real threat by cutting classes and going into Boston unchaperoned then. Also we didn't know Boston or how to get to places in it and, so, we landed in the wrong church. We walked + we walked + by dint of asking anyone + everyone we met, we arrived just in time for the services. We thought that the audience should have been larger but we agreed that it was made up of the right kind of people. We thought the service was dignified and the ministers words of praise almost adequate. The church, itself, seemed lofty and somber + bare but we noted with pleasure that theCity of Boston had sent delegates to place palm leaves on the casked, as the latter was moved toward the door. We got back to college too late for supper but that was nothing to our satisfaction in having seen so famous a woman and one whose efforts for women had been so great. That was long ago and since suffrage came in we three have never been absent from the polls and have served on School Committees + on Alms Boards, Registration work etc. etc. My ideas on freedom for women began early in my home in No. Adams, Mass. My mother was a girlhood friend of Susan B. Anthony. She used to come to our house, walking the five miles from Adams and studying her Latin by the way. After supper, mother used to walk back part way with her, so as to shorten the five miles. I also helped in a drive for funds to buy the Anthony place in Adams. In my junior year (1892) in college I wrote certain things in favor of suffrage + they were printed in the home paper. In vacation I was called on the carpet at a meeting of the three old deacons of my church (Congregational) and I was asked, 'why I was so bold. It was a pity that I should make myself so common for my mother was a very nice person.' I suppose we can laugh now but I was furious then. You + I, rejoice, do we not, that life has opened so many opportunities for women today and we remember whose hard work made this possible. Yours truly, Mrs. Millicent P. PotterNY 955 LEXINGTON AVENUE My dear Miss Blackwell I want to thank you for the privilege it has been to me to read your book - I never really knew before how very great the debt of each of us was to Lucy Stone andhow infinitely much we owe to her - and I feel that I have only one of the very many who must feel full of gratitude to you for giving us so clear a picture of so unusual and so beautiful a life - I have passed your house at Chilmark so many times in the last few years but I never knew till one day late summer that the daughter of Lucy Stone lived there, and there, only through the accident that one of your neighbors happenedto sit next to me on the boat from New 'Bedford - Again, I thank you. Very sincerely yours, Virginia Potter April 30th [*Virginia Potter*] Pleasant word (?)The Light of Christmas Oh! bright are the stars as they gleam on high And shed their soft rays from the summer's sky, But Christmas stars sparkle with lustre rare When carol and chime fill the frosty air for shining afar To our hearts they say "Remember the Star Of the Christ's birthday Love is the light of Christmas!" Oh! gay are the tapers that shine to-night On gift-laden Christmas trees all alight, But never a radiant tree would stand If Love had not for the glad time planned, So each tiny flame With its golden ray Helps the stars proclaim On the Christ's birthday "Love is the light of Christmas." Emilie Poulsson To my friends: I wish you a Love-lit, shining Christmas and the same bright happiness through the coming year. E.P.Shady Oak Home Hopkins, Minn. April 13, 1949 Dear Miss Blackwell: How good of you to keep me on a your remembrance list when you send out your inspiring holiday greetings! I'm so happy each time to know that you are still with us, carrying on so courageously and vigorously. Yesterday I sent in the nomination of your dear mother as a candidate for election to the Hall of Fame, as I repeatedly include her in the use the expression "The Four-Square" of the woman movement. In gathering the data, I used your biography of Lucy Stone and the early volumes the History of Woman Suffrage - reading the impressive Memorial Service in 1894. Among my statements on the nomination blank, I included her last admonition to you - "Help make the world better." The percentage of male electors is so great that no woman has been elected to the Hall of Fame since 1920. - Susan B. Anthony leads all women candidates. May you have a peaceful satisfying Easter - and many active days ahead. Most Sincerely yours, Rose Arnold PowellDear Alice Stone Blackwell: Your Christmas and New Year Greetings card arrived yesterday, and brought your usual holiday inspirations. I'm so glad to know you are still carrying on courageously, despite your handicaps. You are a splendid example to all your friends, I am sure.I find myself urging younger women to carry on my work, as I have spent myself to the point where I must slow up. I am at present in the country, trying to overcome some physical difficulties. May the New Year keep you with us and give you peace and health. Most sincerely yours, Rose Arnold Powell Shady Oak Road R.R. No. 2, Box 556 Hopkins, Minn. January 28, 1948 Centennial year at last has dawned but I am sorry to note that women generally don't know about its deep significance. Those who know, haven't done much to arouse gratitude. I have tried to bring out Lucy Stone as one of the "Four Square" pioneers of the Woman Movement in my effort with the N.E.A. editorial staff, urging them to have a story of the Seneca Falls meeting in 1948, and leading pioneers.May 8 Clare Powers Rohm-Blackwell Reusner Mrs. C.S. Powers 22 High Street Spencer, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell Yours rec will Hasten to answer Mrs Robson is in very Bad shape can Hardly walk Dr was up last evening said he was afraid it would Breake in the Inside of it did you know what that means she has been a very sick woman about her Pension I got it a few weeks ago she had to get it here as she has ben here off and on ever since she left 31 she has ben with me six years steady she could not go down so the gentlemen came up to the House and helped us out very nice of them to do it I did not drop you aline she gets [5?] a week [better] she has the Dr 3 times some weeks others times 2 so you see it takes all of that why dont you drop Dr a line he can tell you more then I can as he dont tell his patients he dont think they ought to know she has no other means of help it was very nice of you to offer to help she thanks you a thousand times Enclosed you will find Dr card hope you have ben well this winter lot sick up around here Yours [sin?] Mrs Powers Mrs Robson send love also Mrs Powers316 Beacon Street, Boston 17, Mass. Feb 14, 1933. Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock St., Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell:- In response to your appeal in "The Transcript" for "Family in Distress" I am enclosing check for five dollars. Yours very truly, Madeleine D. Fouras (Mrs. George H.) [*$10*] 316 Beacon St., Boston 17, Mass. April 26, 1933 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Kennebunkport, Maine. My dear Miss Blackwell:- I am enclosing check for ten dollars to aid young consumptive for whom you appealed through the Transcript. Please acknowledge in the newspaper by initials M. D. P. Yours very truly, Madeleine D. Powers (Mrs. Georgro H.) D.Elsie Pointer 6 School St Andover About LS May 8- P 6 School Street Andover Massachusetts Dear Miss Blackwell - I am mailing your glove today; Saw Sullivan brought them in last night and I thought they would be yours - I was so glad to hear by your letter, that you had a comfortable trip home and were warm enough to becomfortable. We are so grateful to you for coming and every one was so delighted to hear your wonderful story of your mother, what a wonderful woman she was! With every good wish, Sincerely Elias Pittius Poyutes1306 South 35th Avenue Omaha, Nebraska September 28, 1930 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Martha's Vineyard, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you very much for your prompt response to my inquiries. I intended to [exee] express my appreciation sooner but in the rush of preparing my daughter for College, she entered Vassar this year, I have neglected my correspondence. Your suggestions are very helpful and I shall act upon them as soon as possible. You are very kind to take so much trouble for a stranger. I have worked [?twice] in the Library of Congress, but did no know about Miss Spofford. I have also done a little work in the Boston Library but with no help. I have found quite a bit of material while State Historical Library at Madison, Wisconsin. Last year I went to Oswego and interviewed one or two of Dr. Walker's relatives and an old neighbor and are getting papers and letters from them but they know little about her life away from home, and so much of it was passed in other places. I hope that your eyes are feeling better. Very sincerely and gratefully yours, (Mrs. Charles W. W.) Leda Poynter.About Dr. Mary Walker From 1306 South 35th Ave. Omaha, Neb.