BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Se[*Loo See*] Cambridge Vt. Aug. 19, 1881 Alice, Your last letter was a god send. I gained I don't know how many pounds if there is any truth in the adage: "Laugh and grow fat." That idea of fixing the caramels is a capital one! I mean to try it sometime when I have a particular spite against any body. I presume you are still in camp, having no end of fun; but to be safe I shall direct to Dorchester. You must write about every separate and individual frolic, for I am immensely interested. I am glad that terrific grey land proved to be a delusion; but I hope you will be able to leave off your goggles before hope you will shower upon my benighted mind a few droppings of wisdom, whenever your [schedule?] permits. With kind remembrance from all of us Yours aff'ly Loo See contrary to cat nature, refused to touch, even though we rubbed her nose in it after these and manifold other benefits, she basely and treacherously " cleared out," without so much as leaving a P.P.C. card. I brought her back twice; but it was of no use; she declined to stay. The last time I saw her she maliciously jumped up on a trunk for the express purpose of scratching my hand, the scars of which remain to this day. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless cat." I have been walking since you were here. Last week Abbie and I walked to the Centre and over a mile beyond, one day, and another we went to Bald Hill and mounted it.I see you. I have sad and crushing news to relate. Birderella "erasit, errupit, deserecit." (I don't believe these are right. She hire Öcero uses the present, but my narrative is not sufficiently animated for that. Deserecit does not seem to be the last one; but I don't think of any other.) Her base conduct is another proof of the innate depravity of created things. After the tenderest care; after I had endured the discomfort of her sitting in my lap and pulling my work without pushing her off once; after we had secured a paper of catnip for her which she, peruse by, and Abbie says it is worse than Mansfield to climb. I am resting this week, and next I expect to go to Montreal and Quebec. I have been rereading "A Chance Acquaintance" as a preparation, and I feel that I should like to meet Mr. Arbuton up there, and punch his head." He is too exasperating. Mother has received the "Woman's Journal" every week. Your mother. She is very much pleased with it, and we all read it with interest from father, down. We have no paper that I enjoy more. I earnestly hope that the "persistence of force" does not persist in agitating your mind. Do have a good jolly time and hang philosophy. That is bad slang; but I can't help it.Cable Address, Selian, Boston Codes Used A. B. C. 5th ED. Liebers Private W. Union Telephone Main 6752-1 Connections Alexandria Baghdad Constantinople Damascus, etc. Selian-Howard Co Importers Exporters and Commission Merchants 33 Broad Street Boston, U.S.A. March 25, 1907 Dear Miss Blackwell Dorchester Mass. Your letter of 22nd inst received. I saw Mrs. F. Harrian 155 Milk St. Boston she will be glad to go to Newton Women's meeting with several Armenian young ladies and sing please drop her a line and make an appointment she will come and see you and take the necessary particulars. We are all well and thank you for your regards and send their best regards to you and Pa. Yours sincerely A B SelianA. B. SelianSalomón de la Selva 115 West 97th New York Feb. 18, 1916 Dear Madam: Your address has been given me by Sr. Pedro Henríquez Ureña of Las Novedades, the Spanish newspaper in which I have seen several of your interesting translations from the Spanish. I have also contributed to Las Novedades, and you are doubtlessly acquainted with my name. I am now preparing to publish in a little book, together with an essay on the poet, those of Rubén Darío's poems that have found English translators. Your versions of Los pins and Canto de Esperanza are bits of very fine work and I would be obliged to you for permission to include them in my little collection. Perhaps you have also translated other poems of Darío than those I have mentioned and which you would care to let me have. I take this opportunity to congratulate you on the excellence of your translations and to thank you, in the name of Latin America letters, for your great and charming interest in our poetry. Yours Very Respectfully, Salomón de la Selva Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Dorchester, Mass.Salomon de Selva '16Haworth N.J. Poetry Jun 30th 1916 Dear Madam: I thank you very sincerely for your interest and kind suggestions. I have already written on your poet. In 1911 I delivered a lecture on his work in a course I gave on modern European literature at the University of Leon. Just now I am especially interested in the work of English & American poets. My list includes: Amy Lowell, Arensburg, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, and, of the British, Yeats, Hodgson, Brooke, & De la Mare. Have you the article on Darío in The Poetry Reviews for June? I wish you would write to that publication correcting Mr. Baxter's inaccuracies & miss translations. The Poetry Magazine (Chicago) for July brings an article of mine on Darío. If you are in New York next Autumn I would be delighted to have you come to my lectures at Columbia University on modern poetry. Sincerely Salomón de la Selva Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Chilmark, Mass.Salomon de la SelvaBox 166 Haworth, N.J. June 17 1916 Dear Madam: My city address is now 128 West 98th St. New York. However, this summer I will be here most of the time, where you may address me. It shall be a pleasure to do anything I can for you, at all times. Believe me, Respectfully yours Salomón de la Selva Miss Alice Stone Blackwell I beg to return your card; it was very kind + thoughtful of you.See Mrs. Simon Casady, 715 Prospect Road Des Moines Salomon de la Selva 76128 W. 98th N.Y. Sept. 17 1916 My dear Miss Stone Blackwell: I have reread today, with a great deal of delight, your article on Petöfi. I remember your asking me to put into Spanish one of his poems that you admired especially, but I cannot recall which poem it was. I have been comparing your translations with the originals, and find your work admirable. I am curious to see some of your very own poetry; time and time again, on opening a new magazine, I have hoped, in vain, to find some of your work there. From seeing, now and then, letters from your pen in The Tribune I have received great pleasure. Now and then I have been tempted to translate those letters Salomon de la Selvaand in that manner offer you proof of my personal appreciation for your noble and disinterested service to the poets of my countries. The paper you edit has also aroused curiosity. Where can I get it? Among your contributors I admire Witter Bymer very much. I hope, in the near future, to write about him in Las Novedades. For a long time now my pen has been idle; but I am ready again to resume my labors. By the by, I'd very much appreciate anything you may tell me about Adelaide Crapsey to whose very exquisite poetry I am much devoted. Yours Faithfully S. de la Selva[*Lulu Selee*] Wednesday Morning My dear Miss Blackwell: Do you remember the Canto I of our summer exploits, that were to have been all narrated in verse, and is it still in existence? The last I remember of seeing it was on the brown paper cover of "Fundamental Concepts." One of the girls is very anxious to have it, as an article for the "New Era" on Friday P. M. of this week. If it would not be too much trouble could you bring it here to-morrow or Friday A. M. & I will call for it and copy it. I do hope it has not gone the way of so many things, for the paper is gotten up on very short notice & we need every contributioncontribution possible. Yours, in haste, Lulu C. SeleeMiss A.S. Blackwell. 5 Park Street[*Buy?] MRS. CHARLES E. SEAVERNS EIGHT BATCHELDER STREET MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS February 28, 1931 My dear Miss Blackwell:- I am enclosing a clipping from the Boston Traveler in regard to the tablet to be erected in Washington to the memory of the pioneer suffrage leaders. I think some one should protest in regard to the arrangement of the names, if this article is authentic. According to Mary A. Livermore's "The Story of my Life", which I have just read with a great deal of pleasure, your mother, Mrs. Lucy Stone (Blackwell) delivered the first address ever made in behalf of suffrage in this country, in 1847. Mrs. Livermore further states that this was a year previous to the famous suffrage convention called by Mrs. Lucretia Mott and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Seneca Falls, N. Y. Again, Mrs. Livermore says that she [(Mrs. Livermore)] delivered the first lecture on woman suffrage that she ever heard, and called and conducted the first woman suffrage convention she ever attended. So I think that if there are any preferred positions on this tablet they are to erect, they belong to the four women mentioned above. I really suppose all this is none of my MRS. CHARLES E. SEAVERNS EIGHT BATCHELDER STREET MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS business, and if the autobiography of Mrs. Livermore were not fresh in my mind, I should not think of it. None of these pioneers in the field of suffrage were any relation to me, I am sorry to say, but I do like to have credit given where credti is due. Pages 585-587 give this data to which I have referred. I called this to the attention of Mary Livermore Barrows, and she suggested that I write to you. If you would like me to do so, I will write to the National League about it. Very cordially yours, Mystic F. SeavernsCharlotte E. Seavernes S Batchelder St Melrose Mass