BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL RYAN, AGNES E[*ANSWERED, AUG 29 1913*] Dear Miss Ryan: Most of these are not musts; nor is Mrs. Pankhurst. Please tell Mr. Stevens there were two series of editorials which must go in this order - Tillman Sheaks,Refuted by Experience, Suffrage & Divorce, Divorce & Oatmeal, Two Examples. These are one series. The other series is Judge Lindsey's Case, Only Are Women, & Denver Bades[?] the Judge. But I don't care which series goes first. In great haste A.S.BTHE NEW WILLARD WASHINGTON Saturday A. M. Dear Miss Ryan: I mean to start for home so as to get there Tuesday. I must look up the trains; I think there is one leaving Monday at 4.30 P.M. My trunk ishalf full of Journals- those that you send out to [the] 3 Monadnock St. Shall I take them home, or leave them here, & if here, with whom? Mr. Stevens has sent the last Journal, & I think the convention is well covered. I am going over to the Congressional library, to cram up for my talk on the Pioneers, but a line left here atthe Willard would reach me. I hope you are feeling pretty well now. Please give my kindest regards to Mrs. Wiley. Sincerely Alice Stone BlackwellChilmark, Mass. Aug. 17, 1913 [*ANSWERED AUG 19 1913*] Dear Miss Ryan: I have sent each batch of stock certificates right on to Miss Wilde, with request to sign them & return them to you immediately. I am very willing to give my approval to having the Mass. W.S.A. welcome Miss Freeman & the others. It might be a little stretch of my authority as president to do it all sole alone, but if Mrs. Park approves I don't think there is much doubt of her being able to get the subcommittee to consent. A subcommittee of three was appointed to have charge of Mass WSA affairs during the summer while the Board were scattered, & I think Mrs. Park was one of the three. Certainly, I approve heartily. I suppose you or Mrs. Stevens saw the report in the N.Y. Times about the draping of a ribbon [of] over 2 my mother's portrait on the platform at Washington by a representative from each enfranchised State & Alaska. Mrs. Lockwood's article about my mother is full of mistakes. We could not use it without a running commentary of corrections. I will make a little synopsis of it to insert in our report of the meeting, & if you will send me Mrs. Lockwood's address I will return her the MS with a polite note to the effect that there was [so much] a great deal of immediate & modern interest to report at this time, and that I thought it best to give a synopsis only. Enclosed is some stuff3 for the papers. The two articles are not musts, nor are [the] all the items. Mr. Stevens will see that some are timely & others could wait. I hope we shall have a good report of the Washington doings, & especially of Jane Addams's speech. I should like to give also as much as possible of the testimony from the women of the enfranchised States as to the effects of suffrage. The Wash. Star probably reports it. And I should like to give Mrs. Pankhurst's interview in the NY Times- next week if we have not room this week. I will cut it out & send it [*in my next . I am sending eds direct to Grimes. In haste, sincerely A S Blackwell*]Aug. 18, 1913 Dear Miss [Reilly] Ryan: I am just sending off my editorials to Grimes. You had better not use the one I sent in last week, too late, about Mr. Rupp. I hope you will have a good notice of the suffrage edition of the Chicago Examiner. Please ask Mr. Stevens tobegin the editorial page with "The Victory in France". I don't care in what order the other editorials come, but "Babies as Fat as Ever" should be immediately followed by "They Are for Suffrage", and "The White Slave Act" by "Women Hold the Key." If there are too many eds, leave out some. In haste, sincerely Alice Stone Blackwell. Aug, 25, 1913 Chilmark Mass Dear Miss Ryan: I can't come up to the Lindsey meeting, but as soon as I got your letter I wrote to Mr. Garrison & asked him to preside. I asked him to send his answer to you. I am very busy writing editorials: some of them about Lindsey. I send ltr'sup by Mr. Rogers. You & Mr. Stevens must use your own judgment about the paper, but I should think it would be best to let Sylvia Pankhurst's article wait & use her mother's, if I succeed in finding it. I have mislaid the clipping. Lots of interesting things going on, anway; no danger but we shall have an interesting paper! In grt haste, A. S. B.Chilmark, Mass. Aug. 27, 1913 [*Answered Aug 29 1913*] Dear Miss Ryan: I have sent Mr. Grimes permission to throw in most of those things that we had kept for possible leaflets. I saved out the school suffrage one & Prof. Fisher's answer to Mrs. George, which I still think would sell, if we should decide to print it. Miss Foley was to speak at the County Fair on this island today, but it has been pouring cats & dogs & thundering. I wonder whether you have had such weather while at the printing office this afternoon! (over) In haste, sincerely, A.S. BlackwellP.S. A review of "A Sunny Life", by Paul Kellogg, editor of the Survey, has just come to the Woman's Journal, or will come in a day or two. [pl] Please get it in next week without fail. It is to be printed with Mr. Kellogg's signature.Aug.30, 1913 Chilmark, Mass. Dear Miss Ryan: Your has just come, enclosing copy of Judge Lindsey's letter, which I have read with great interest & warm indignation. Please give him my cordial regards, & tell him that we will open a subscription for him in the Woman's Journal. I had already thought of doing it. That is, we will keep standing for some weeks an invitation to people to contribute to the expenses of his defense these false accusations, & we will forward to him all money received for this purpose. I wish someone would take notes of his main points, so that we might publish them A Mr. Wm. Haskell, [*a shorthand writer,*] and old friend of ours, used to take reports of legislative speeches etc. down for [us] us in shorthand, & do it gratis, or take his pay in Woman's Journals to be sent3 to his friends Unless he is strongly opposed to the Progressive Party -- in which case I should not like to ask him -- he might be willing to take down Judge Lindsey this time. (Of course Lindsey's speech will not be a hasty one [??] I had a note of congratulations from Mr. Haskell lately on my recovery, which gives his address as 806 Barristers' Hall, Boston. If you think it worth while, you mights communicate with him, telling him the Journal 4 is very hard up, & asking him (at my suggestion) whether he could & would help us out by reporting this speech. Paul Kellogg has sent the review of "A Sunny Life" to me & it has been forwarded from 3 Monadnock St. It is splendid. We are having wind, rain & thunder down here, but are none of us hurt. In haste, sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell People tell me I look wonderfully better since coming down here. I expect to get home next Thursday Sept.4.Chilmark, Mass Sug. 20, 1913 Dear Mrs.. Ryan, [??] Certainly, I will write something about our bound volumes. Enclosed is the check from Mrs. Hilton & another for $100. which Mr. White has sent. His is not to pay for a share of stock, but is just a gift. Im haste, sincerely Alice Stone Blackwell. Hotel Manhattan, N.Y. May 2, 1913 Dear MR. RyanL On the journey I finished correcting the report of the Mississippi Valley Conference, & mailed it to Grimes before 4.30 P.M. I am not sure that it would not go into our regular edition. You see how much it makes when set up. Have not yet decided whether to come home Sunday or Monday. It is a fine warm day. I hope you are all getting on well. Remember me to Mr. Stevens & all the office force. P.S. I think we had better go ahead & have Grimes print the tickets for the May Festival - 200. -------------------------------- May Festival New England Woman Suffrage Association Twentieth Century Club Rooms May 22, 1913 6 P.M. -------------------------------- That is what they should say. Perhaps the street & number should be added. I think it is 3 Joy St. but you can easily get the number. (Dictated) New England Hospital Roxbury, Mass. July 13 - 1913 Dear Miss Ryan:- I want to send my thanks and acknowledgements to the young ladies in the office for the magnificent armful of carnations which they have been so kind as to send me. The nurse has put then into a great round glass jar where they can spread out and show their full beauty, and they stand on a table near the foot of my bed and look perfectly splendid. When Dr. Smith came in this morning and saw them, she was astonished. She cried" Why why. What's this ? An aquarium, or a horticultural exhibition?" She said she had thought of gong to see the sweet peas but now she didn't know that she should need to. Please thank each and every one of the girls for me. The great bouquet lights up the whole room and make it fragrant too. I have read Mrs. James Bennett's letter. We will publish it on the sixth or seventh page, and you can use the same heading that was set up for her first article. You see, Mrs. Bennett is so anxious to have it go in that she offers to pay for it if necessary. I cannot let her do that after all the kindness that she and her sister Mrs.. Laura Clay have shown me in the past, but if you think it worthwhile you may let her pay for the cancelling of her first article since that is an expense which we shall be put to in consequence of her changing her mind and it is really only fair that she should pay it. It is a small matter, however, and I should be willing to pass it over. I know, however, that you have to count the pennies very closely during the summer and if you think best to charge her for it, all right. Send her back the proof of her first article, so that she may see we really have it set up in type. I have been over her second article and punctuated and fixed it up. She had signed it Mrs. James Bennett but it is contrary to all propriety to sign a letter in that way as Mrs. John Smith or its equivalent, so I have transferred the Mrs. James Bennett to the beginning of the article. As it has been delayed for some time I should be glad to get it in this week if we can. Yours sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell. There is such a high wind today that I am wondering if you & Mr. Stevens are good sailors! If not, your Provincetown trip will be an uneasy one.Dorchester, Mass. Aug. 9, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: Mrs. J.R. Carpenter, Peace Dale, R.I. wants the Woman's Journals of Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9, Nov. 16 and Nov. 30, 1912, if we can furnish them. She wants them because they (with Oct.19, which she has) contain answers to Mrs. Grace Duffield Goodwin's book against suffrage. If anybody else should call for the answers, these are the issues containing them. I have just looked them up. If we have not changed Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson's free copy of the Journal from Washington, D.C., to Cornish, N.H., we ought to do so; & please be sure that they change mine from Dorchester to Chilmark. Sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell Changed [?]The store here has no black ink! Chilmark, Mass. August 10, 1913 ANSWERED AUG 11 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: Here are a lot of clippings about Miss Freeman's expedition. By this mail I am sending Grimes a batch of editorials dealing with the defeat of the child labor bill in Georgia & the recent statement attributed to Prof. Starr that women had never invented anything, etc. -- about 2400 words or 2 broad columns. I shall have some more. Enclosed are some Notes and News, which might be handed to Mr. Stevens. Perhaps some of them have been covered already. I shall have more of these too. I am getting well, & Miss Reilly is delighted with everything. Remember me to everyone in the office. I fear you are all [?]. Sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell P.S. I have just had another letter from Miss Catherine Wilde, saying that she does not get her paper. Please let one of the girls roll up one each of the last four issues and mail them to her, care Mrs. S.B. Taylor, Duxbury, Mass. What a lot of attention our carrier pigeons have attracted! That was a bright idea. Now I guess we shall hear of their trying it in other states, for suffrage expeditions.Chilmark, Mass Sept. 1, 1913 Dear Mr. Stevens: I have sent part of my editorials to Grimes & am sending the rest by this mail. There is a series, which comes in the following order: Dr. Sargent on Women, As to Specialization, Difference Good & Bad, The Charm of Weakness, Business & Ballots, Athletes and Militancy. Then there are eds on Germany's Birthrate. Asquith's Chivalry, and one about Mrs. Marshall's many social calls, the title of which I have forgotten. I want to write something about Lindsay, and invite people to contribute to the North American's fund for him, but perhaps that had better wait till next week. Please lead off Page 4 with the editorials answering Dr. Sargent. And at the beginning I speak of 2 him as writing in the New York Times" Since then, I have learned that it is a syndicate article. So please make it read "in a recent article." Paul Kellogg's review of "A Sunny Life" was sent to me at 3 Monadnock St. & forwarded down here. I mailed i to the printers. He had put at the very beginning the title of the book, its author, publisher & price. I crossed that out, & meant to add it as a footnote, but did not have time. Please make it a footnote. A Sunny Life. biography of the Hon. Samuel J. Barrows, by Isabel C. Barrows. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Price Now, this review will take more space than I thought. I reckoned it at 1500 words, but I misestimated it; it will nearer 3000. If you use it, put it on Page 6; but if you cannot conveniently get it in, with Judge Lindsey, the3 [hikers?], & that letter from Dr. Shaw which was crowded out & which really ought to get in, & the other news, then you can put it over till next week; but in that case please send a proof of it this week to Mrs. Isabel . Barrows, Georgeville, Province of Quebec, Canada. She is a dear friend of mine & very ill -- may pass away almost any time -- & I want her to see it before she goes; but a proof would answer the purpose just as well. I think Mr. Kellogg made a mistake just at the beginning of his review of "A Sunny Life." 4 He called Mr Barrows "prophet of fortune." I am sure he meant a soldier of fortune, so I changed it; but I have written him that if he meant prophet, he may telegraph you in care of Grimes, & you will change it back. He has also, or his stenographer has, misspelled a word which I meant to correct but forgot it. Agazzi should be Agassiz. If my article which came too late last week, about the bishops' protest against the Cat & Mouse act, was marked to be set either narrow or wide as would suit best. If you set it wide, you can use it to fill out with if you need it. And the thing I sent in about Tacoma was not a must. My present plan is to come home Thursday, & then I hope you and Miss Ryan can get a little rest. Sincerely, Alice Stone BlackwellTuesday A.M. Dear Mr. Stevens: I may have to send in a few short things or, as to reach you Wednesday A.M. but most of my stuff is now in. Some of my editorials hang together. 1. Georgia Child Labor 2. Child Labor Needless 3. Sentimental Legislation The foregoing are really one editorial in three sections. So are"Women as Inventors" and "Genius & Suffrage." The last two could stand over if you have more material than you need. In haste, sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell P.S. Please ask Mr. Stevens if he has not already had Mrs. [?] letter in reply to Mrs. Catt set up, not to do do till he hears from me. Sept. 11, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: Enclosed is the lease. I have signed it because I go by your business judgment; but I signed with serious misgivings. To take a lease for two years seems to me a very risky proceeding, in view of the uncertainty of the Journal's future & the difficulty of subletting rooms in this particular building. Alas, I though Mr. Clark was only going to keep his desk till this autumn. There are various minor points that I object to, such as releasing all claim for damages if any of our people should be hurt in the elevator through the negligence of the owner of the building. That is utterlyunfair and unreasonable. However you think it best for me to sign, & I have signed. Yes, I expect to come home next week whether there is to be a board meeting on Friday or not. I have engaged a conveyance to take me down the island on Wednesday, so as to have a day's margin in case there should be a hard storm. There will be no need for anyone to meet me; & on Thursday you & Mr. Stevens will have the paper off your hands & be comparatively free, so that we can talk over matters. The friend who fell ill in my flat has gone to the hospital, so that there is nothing in the way of my coming home earlier, if it will be any accommodation. It has grown pretty cold , almost everyone has gone home,& I feel like the last rose of summer, though no doubt the fine air continues to do me good. As for your attending those Western conventions, it may be a ten strike unless Miss Shaw attends them also, as she is apt to do If she is there, her influence will undoubtedly be used against the giving of any money to the Journal. Would it be a help if I came home next Tuesday instead of Wednesday, so that Mr. Stevens & I could get the paper out, & give you more time at the other office? I would just as soon. My health seems to be doing finely. Twice in the last two days I have climbed Panorama Hill, the highest in this neighborhood, which last year I didn't dare go. Miss Caroline Reilly means to stay in Boston for a few months , partly resting & partly helping me, free of charge. She is a brick. In haste, sincerely, Alice Stone BlackwellChilmark, Mass. Sept. 14, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: It is no matter about the postponement of the editorial about Mrs. Pankhurst. Yes, the front page picture was a nice one. I have decided that it will be better not to reprint either Mrs. Catt's letter or Mrs. Blatch's though I am sorry to cancel matter which is perhaps already set up. But the publication would be sure to make ill feeling. Look for me at the office Thursday A.M. I expect to take the 9:20 A. M. boat Monday if we can get packed, if not the afternoon boat. Sincerely, Alice Stone BlackwellPoet's House 391 Lafayette Avenue Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. ANSWERED, APR 18 1913 February 25th, 1913. Dear Miss Ryan, Thanks for your very kind and obliging note. I inclose my copy of "The Tryst," - it is a beautiful little thing. Justice is not done to our poets, and I am trying to do what I can do to recognize them. I remain Very Truly Yours, Julia Ditto Young. To Agnes E. Ryan.Telephone 1791 Haymarket Office of The Woman's Journal No. 6 Beacon St., Room 1018 Boston, Mass., Oct. 25 1903 Answd Nov 29 Dear Miss Ryan: I am so sorry you have had such a trying time. You cannot have had much rest. Do not hurry back, but stay at your brother's till you are rested up, if you find conditions there are restful. Mr.Stevens and I are getting on all right. No doubt the business end is not as well attended to as if you were but we are not getting worn out or in danger of breaking down. Mrs. Antoinette L.B. Blackwell has just sent us $100. In haste, sincerely Alice Stone Blackwell. Chilmark, Mass. Sept. 15, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: Do not use this week my left-over editorial about Miss Josephine Roche. Senator Helen Puig Robinson has sent some corrections which we'll have to be worked into it after I get home.Chilmark, Mass. Sept. 15, 1913 Dear Miss RyanL Do not use this week my left-over editorial about Miss Josephine Roche. Senator Helen Ring Robinson has sent some corrections which will have to be worked into it after I get home. You will have more than enough editorials this week, I thin, & can leave some out if necessary. "Truly Modern Dreams" would be just as good next week, & so with some of the others. "Prisons for Grandmother" should be followed by "Housecleaning Needed." They go together. But I do not care in what order the editorials come, only I would not lead off with the one about New Jersey, or about Mrs. Pankhurst. Hope to see you soon now. Sincerely, Alice Stone Blackwell P.S. I would not publish any announcement of the amounts sen to the Lindsey fund.Chilmark, Mass Answered Aug 18 1913 Aug. 16, 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: enclosed are a couple of checks which came yesterday. Mrs. Avery says her $50 is for my personal expenses, but I shall tell her it was more needed for the Journal. I was on the point of writing & asked her for a contribution for the Journal when her letter came. I wrote yesterday to Miss Whitney & Mrs. Emma Blackwell, and am going to write to a few more. Please see me addresses of our subscribers in Fresno Cal. There are only three or four. There is one woman there who used to express an interest in the Journal's finances. I forget her name, but shall know it if I see it. Were you to write to Mrs. Armenia S. White or was I? I have just learned to my dismay that the 6:30 P.M. mail at Chilmark is not an outgoing but an incoming. I had understood that it now went out at that time. You must have got a lot of stuff from me about noon on press day, instead of at 9 A.M. I hope you did not put yourself to trouble to get it in. I shall try not to let it happen again.Chilmark, Dukes Co., Mass Aug. 11, 1913 ANSWERED AUG 15 1913 Dear Miss Ryan: Here is some stuff for the paper. Most of it is not necessary to be used this week. I have made a little x in red ink against the things which I think should go in this week unless they are covered by something which you already have. There have been so many interruptions this afternoon that I have not been able to finish a could more editorials that I have in mind -- one about Mr. Asquith & one about the need of better fire protection; but if I send them to Grimes by the noon mail tomorrow. I guess they will be in time. It seems to me 2 we should put in Theodore Roosevelt's latest utterance on the woman question, though not in a very conspicuous place, as partisan feeling runs so high -- perhaps on 6th or 7th page. I am glad you are feeling so well. I seem to be getting on nicely. Miss Stone of Lexington is not the lady who was kidnapped and ransomed. I wrote to P.A. Dirfsky, at the address given, & my letter came back to me through the dead letter office. The thing was evidently a deliberate hoax, with no other purpose than to cause us annoyance.3 I enclose some more newspaper notices of Miss Freeeman's expedition & a check for $10 sent by Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw,(Dudley House, Petersham, Mass), in answer to the appeal in the Journal. She wants it used to help buy a share of Journal stock for the Mass. W.S.A. The Journal's financial outlook is not hurting my health or keeping me awake nights, but I think of it with a good deal of concern. However, I am hopeful that you will find a way out. Please have an item in the Journal about Mrs. 4 McCulloch making a call at our office. I am so sorry not to have seen her, & so is Miss Reilly. The children are dears. Miss Reilly is delighted with everything, especially her tent. Please remember me to Mr. Stevens & all the office force, & to all mutual friends. In haste, sincerely Alice Stone Blackwell