Blackwell Family Alice Stone Blackwell Stantial, Edna16 Thorndike St., Reading, September 22nd [*1930*] Dear Miss Blackwell: By this time you have my letter in answer to yours to Mrs. Healy. I tried to glean some additional names when I was in the office Thursday, but most of them are on your list. Had you thought of Miss Belle Sherwin, Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, Mrs. Harrier Taylor Upton and Mrs. Emily Newell Blair? The last one reviews books for Good Housekeeping, as you must know. Then I thought of Mr. Ernest Gruening, Editor of the Portland News. And Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, 90 Raymond Street, Cambridge. I am returning the letter you sent me so that you may have it for your records if you need to check for more names. I know Mrs. Catt is to review the book for the Woman Citizen for October. I am hoping Gertrude Foster Brown will let the Memorial Plan Committee use a reprint of a part of the article at least, in our appeal. I have written her about this. 2:30 P.M. Your letter of September 21st has just come. I think we can go ahead with our solicitation for the Memorial Fund without feeling that the publisher's plan will interfere. Most of the names you mention in your letter have already contributed. I notice Mrs. Park's name on your list. Miss Biscoe has come back, so I feel sure Mrs. Park and Miss Willard must be at Cape Cottage, Maine. That address would reach Mrs. Park as surely as the London address. I am going to a meeting of the trustees of Louisa Pinkham's fund tomorrow, so I shall be able to tell you soon the total amount raised in Wenona's memory. I shall give your letter to Mrs. Healy at the meeting. Today is Louisa's fifteenth birthday. I am sorry our birthday greeting toyou went so late. We were driving through York Beach, Maine when I suddenly saw a mail box. I dropped the card in there, even tho I knew it was Sunday and that it would be later in reaching you than if I mailed it at home. I am going to send you another letter in this same mail, but will put that in a separate envelope. Affectionately, Edna [*I saw your letter in Saturday's Transcript.*]16 Thorndike St., Reading, September 22nd 1930 Dear Miss Blackwell : By this time you have my letter in answer to yours to Mrs. Healy. I tried to glean some additional names when I was in the office Thursday, but most of them are on your list. Had you thought of Miss Belle Sherwin, Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, Mrs. Harrier Taylor Upton and Mrs. Emily Newell Blair? The last one reviews books for Good Housekeeping, as you must know. Then I thought of Mr. Ernest Gruening, Editor of the Portland News. And Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, 90 Raymond Street, Cambridge. I am returning the letter you sent me so that you may have it for your records if you need to check for more names. I know Mrs. Catt is to review the book for the Woman Citizen for October. I am hoping Gertrude Foster Brown will let the Memorial Plan Committee use a reprint of a part of the article at least, in our appeal. I have written her about this. 2:30 P.M. Your letter of September 21st has just come. I think we can go ahead with our solicitation for the Memorial Fund without feeling that the publisher's plan will interfere. Most of the names you mention in your letter have already contributed. I notice Mrs. Park's name on your list. Miss Biscoe has come back, so I feel sure Mrs. Park and Miss Willard must be at Cape Cottage, Maine. That address would reach Mrs. Park as surely as the London address. I am going to a meeting of the trustees of Louisa Pinkham's fund tomorrow, so I shall be able to tell you soon the total amount raised in Wenona's memory. I shall give your letter to Mrs. Healy at the meeting. Today is Louisa's fifteenth birthday. I am sorry our birthday greeting toyou went so late. We were driving through York Beach, Maine when I suddenly saw a mail box. I dropped the card in there, even tho I knew it was Sunday and that it would be later in reaching you than if I mailed it at home. I am going to send you another letter in this same mail, but will put that in a separate envelope. Affectionately, Edna I saw your letter in Saturday's Transcript.Edna StantialDear Miss Blackwell Here is the letter I have just received about a copy of the biography. I shall be most grateful if Aunt Ida will mail the copy after you have autographed it. I am about "flat" right now with a bad throat, and am hoping with ice, to keep it from a quinsy. But I shall have a chance over the weekend to stay in bed and have a lot of attention from Barbara while she is home! Such a luxury! 702 S. Kline St. Aberdeen, S. Dakota May 17th Dear Mrs. Stantial: I want to secure a copy of Alice Stone Blackwell's "Lucy Stone, Pioneer" and I want to have it autographed by Miss Blackwell. Is that possible? I know that her eyes are failing but I believe she can write well enough without eyesight to make each volume she can autograph more precious to the women of the United States and of other countries. Miss Blackwell has sent me Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter greetings for years. Her beautiful messages have meant much to me. I wanted this volume to give to Miss Isabel Ackley, a very find, noble South Dakota, young woman. Let me know whether or not this can be done. I want it for a birthday present to Miss Ackley. Sincerely yours, (Miss) Alice Touraine Daly When I go over to Cambridge next week I'll take the six additional copies you have ordered today, and one extra to replace this one, as well as the postage for the mailing. Affectionately, (signed) EdnaMiss Alice Stone Blackwell In account with Edna L. Stantial for the book accounts 8 copies "Lucy Stone" (chronicle play) at 50 cents 4.00 3 copies "Lucy Stone - Pioneer" at $1.50 4.50 _____ 8.50 Rec'd payment Mar 7, 1938 Edna Stantial Lucy Stone Book file ASB (?) 20 Sewall St. Melrose, December 3rd 1937 Dear Miss Blackwell: I am enclosing a copy of the quotation of price of manufacture of a new edition of "Lucy Stone." Mr. LaRue Brown asked to have the details of the story on the new printing, and I haven't had time to send it to him but will get it off before the first of the week. He suggests that you immediately buy the plates and have the copyright transferred to you, if that is what is to be done, or you could have Little Brown & Co. assign the copyright to the Trustees of the Alice Stone Blackwell Fund. But the plates, says Mr. Brown, should be purchased by you. That will then create an "emergency", and the trustees can vote to buy the plates and print the edition. It is all very simple, even though it sounds complicated. It merely gives the committee authority to draw on the fund. They already have that authority of course, but Mr. Brown wants us to do it in a way that will not reflect on us later as having used the money for whatever purpose we choose. He doesn't realize of course, that the biography is the chief interest of all of us. I think when the new edition comes, he should be presented with a copy, don't you? He probably has never seen it. My own copy is at the printer's, and I hate not to have it in my own name. I'll see you just as soon as I get my mother fixed up, and it may be that I'll get over before you get this letter. Affectionately, (signed)Edna L. StantialChilmark, Mass. Aug. 21, 1923 Dear Edna: I don't want to overload a willing horse, but the enclosed needs to be rewritten, at your leisure. After I had translates it as well as I could, on Argentine friend explained various things that I had not been able to get from the dictionary; also I want to make "The Soul of the Singer" the last section instead of the first. Begin with the two pages written in pencil; then go on to "The Singer's Sweetheart", skipping over "The Soul of the Singer," and put that at the end. I am glad to think thatyou have a vacation coming. I expect to come home Sept. 1. Yours always affectionately Alice Stone Blackwell. I think some more money may be needed to cover paper & postage, so enclose a little more. Dorchester, Mass. June 21, 1923. Dear Edna: You are a blessed and most helpful child. I am enclosing an other poem of Gabriela Mistral's, you have typewritten it for me already, but I have made some changes in it. The white paper is so thick that I suggest you make the carbon copies (all but the first copy) on yellow paper like this. Will you please order me another package of this yellow paper, & also one of white paper but of thinquality than the heavy kind you have been using at the office lately; also 2 dozen more of the soft lead pencils such as Mrs. Boyer uses, & send me the bill. Meanwhile I am enclosing check for a dollar to cover postage, paper etc. in what you have been doing for me; but the kindness cannot be paid for! Yours always affectionately, Alice Stone Blackwell [*4.50 .90 10.00]702 S. Kluie St. Aberdeen [?] July 29th, 1938 [*file] Edna Lamprey Stantial 20 Sewall St. Melrose, Mass. Dear Miss Stantial: Enclosed is a post-office order for $1.50 for the last volume of "Lucy Stone" you had sent to me. I am delighted to have an autographed copy. I think if Miss Blackwell could autograph a large number of volumesand some one of salesmanship ability presented them at State Conventions of Women's Clubs they would be sold in large numbers. I love the book. It is inspiring in many ways. Lucy Stone was truly great and so is Alice Stone Blackwell. Kindest wishes SIncerely Yours (Miss) Alice [Stone] Savannie Daly (My mind was on the Stones!!)20 Sewall St. Melrose, November 9th Dear Miss Blackwell and Mrs. Park: I have just received a letter from Mr. Jenkins, which I will copy for your information: "Replying to your letter of November 5th we are unlikely to reprint "Lucy Stone" by Alice Stone Blackwell. "We appreciate your desire to have the book available for purchase. There is, however, little regular demand for Miss Blackwell's life of her mother and we cannot reprint unless we are definitely assured of an immediate sale of a few hundred copies. I shall be pleased to discuss the matter with you further." (signed) Herbert F. Jenkins, Vice president Little Brown and Company I think the last sentence, however, is still hopeful and I have written to Mr. Jenkins to ask for an appointment Friday morning, since Thursday is a holiday. In my letter to him I told him I could understand their point of view, and explained that the publicity was ready to go out on the chronicle play; that this made it important for us to know at once whether or not there would be a second edition. I asked him to let me know on Friday, if I could get the interview, what the estimate of the reprinting cost would be; the minimum number of copies he would consider worth while printing; the lowest possible sale [the] price per copy of the second edition; and the date the books would be available if it were decided to print it. I also asked him what amount would be necessary to guarantee what he thought would be necessary for the "few hundred copies" for immediate sale. As soon as I hear from him I shall write to you both. But I am sure we can raise this guarantee among our friends who would not want to have "Lucy Stone" shelved. I might even ask him whether or not he would release the plates to Miss Blackwell for outside printing. This he might possibly do for a consideration. However I shall not suggest anything until he gives me his statement of Little Brown's attitude. I have asked friends of mine in various towns and cities around here to inquire at their libraries for the book; and inquiries have been made at five book shops for copies. I wish very much that it could be added to book report lists for eighth grade and High School students. That would help the demand at the libraries. I have suggested it to two English teachers I know and have loaned copies to them. I can think of endless numbers of ways to stimulate the sale of the book. The only thing lacking as far as I am concerned is time. But I shall keep after Mr. Jenkins now until the matter is settled. I am as anxious as you two are to spread the gospel. With love, Affectionately, Edna [* Nov 10- 9am Mr Jenkins has given me an appt for 11 oclock Friday. and I am to meet Mrs Park for lunch at 1230 I'll report to you after that Edna*][*Edna Stantial] 11 Alll - Wed. I have now re-written the letter to Mr. Jenkins and have given him in writing the three points you want made. 1. to give us an estimate of the actual cost of printing 500 copies from the plates. 2. [?we] to furnish the cost so that Little Brown will not have any loss. 3. They to agree that the new edition shall be sold at 1.50. Chilmark, Mass. July 8, 1924. Dear Edna: This is the last time I shall impose upon you. At your leisure will you make me three copies of this? Yours always affectionately, Alice Stone Blackwell.Chilmark, Mass. Aug. 29, 1930 Dear Edna: Of course I shall be delighted to have the League sell autographed copies of my new book for the for the benefit of the Memorial Fund. The Committee will have to judge what price to charge. I am afraid there will not be many who will be able & willing to pay $10., but that is up to the Committee. I only wish there was the same enthusiasm for my mother that therewas at one time for Catherine Breshkovsky. I saw several copies of "The Little Grandmother," autographed by her, sold for $1000 apiece, at a big public meeting in New York. But the people who knew my mother are mostly gone now. Under my contract with Little and Brown, I can have as many copies as I wish, at a reduced price. I forget just how much the reduction was, but am writing to Little & Brown to find out. Everybody would wish to send love if they knew I was writing. Myrie Rogers leaves today, & I shall give him this letter to mail. It will be worth a great deal to Barbara to be brought up by parents who are interested in something beyond making money and amusing themselves. The children whose parents can give them no higher & wider outlook than that are much to bepitied, poor little things! Your friends may laugh at you, but you have chosen the better part. Yours affectionately, Alice Stone Blackwell. Chilmark, Oct. 12, 1930 Dear Edna: I have not copied any extracts from the reviews in the Boston Herald & Boston Transcript, nor from Mrs. Catt's review in the Woman's Journal, because you have those. In writing out extracts from the other reviews, I have copied longer quotations than you will need, for then you can make your own choice and condense as may seem best. I cannot put my hand on a letter from Anna Garlin Spencer, of which Little & Brown have sent me a copy. They have kept the original, & I think they would willinglylet you see it, & any of the other letters that have received. They are doing circularizing too, & are preparing a new circular, to be made up of more or less eminent opinions. You cannot wait for their second circular to be ready; but if you care to enclose copies of their first one, along with yours, no doubt they would give you as many as you can use. Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer praised the book but excoriated Chapter 15. The N. Y. Herald Tribune had two reviews, one by Lewis Cannett in his department "Books and Other Things," on Saturday Sept. 27; and a longer review by Frida Kirchney in the Herald Tribune of Sunday, Sept. 28. Mr. Herbert F. Jenkins is the head man at Little & Brown's, & Miss Miller is his assistant. I have found both of them pleasant & kind. Mrs. Pinkham was chiefly instrumental in raising the money that enabled me to have Mrs. Boyer's help in writing the book, without which I should neverhave got it done. Perhaps that night be an argument with some of Mrs. Pinkham's friends to be interested. With gratitude to all of you who are trying to do something about it, and especially to your dear self. I remain Yours affectionately, Alice Stone Blackwell Mrs. Oakes Ames might give something toward the fund. 2 shall pass it on to the girls in our school as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest enthusiasm and devotion to a cause. I am very glad that you have given this book to all of us, and especially to the younger generation. Lucy Wheelock{June 3- {June 23- M-S Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-standard: Borrowing from fiction is a useless extravagance for the biographer of pioneer women. "Lucy Stone" is the saga of a crusader fighting to extend the rights of women beyond the wilderness of the male prejudice, jealousy and selfish fears of her time xx against such injustices to women Lucy Stone was born to wage a warfare without fear & without compromise. Her victories and defeats as told to this generation of freed women is a more fascinating adventure than the imaginations of the foremost writers of fiction have yet conjectured. (The foregoing is by Jane Dixon, and appears also in the Scranton (Pa.) Times and other papers included in the North American Newspaper Alliance). ------ Newark (N.J.) News: Miss Blackwell has given an excellent account of her mother's distinguished career and published (over) some new facts. xx Her pictures of the long struggle to win sex-equality are vivid (Did I give you extracts from the review in the Chicago Post?) Catherine Breskovsky writes: "Your book came yesterday and the whole night, and today and for many, many days more I shall remain under the charm of the fascinating society to which you have introduced me. The epoch which you describe is of such profound and brilliant interest, and you paint it in such life-like colors, that I feel myself among the actors, admiring them and duly interested. What a group of people, especially the women! Your book has made me happy. It is a model of lucidity and charm. It is an historical drament of deathless value. It presents a whole epoch of mental and moral crisis throughout the country. How stupid are people who believe a romance can compare withso brilliant a document; and so wonderfully set forth! I am under the charm of your book, and thank you for enabling me to forget (if only for a time) the horrors through which Russia is living. This book is the best monument that could be erected to the glory of your mother and her contemporaries. I shall read and re-read this glorious work. Olive Lilford Dargan says: "I have dived heart-deep into it and find it fascinating." Hon William Dudley Foulke writes: This book is entitled to the highest commendation. It conforms to all the standards of the best biographies. The requirements are that the subject of the narrative 'should be' important as well as personally interesting, that the facts retold should be true; that the treatment of them should be sympathetic; that the story should be vivid and lifelike; that the arrangement should be orderly, and that the book should be written in a clear and satisfactory literary style. Every one of these requirements has been admirably met xx The whole book is filled with interesting and suggestive incidents. xx Who shall say that such a life, in addition to its importance in history, is not of great personal interest? The facts stated are true, and most of them well documented. The story is vivid & life like to the last degree. It is written, not in the slap-dash manner of much contemporary literature but in a style of absolute simplicity & directness, perfectly luminous in its clearness, to a degree that is hardly equalled anywhere outside of the best French prose. It is an outstanding biography. Sept. 28 N. Y. Herald Tribune: This book is a most dignified and successful example of the filial biography. It is admiring without excess of sentiment or eulogy. It is rich in facts and anecdotes, and it leans heavily on contemporary records. The quotations from letters by Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry B. Blackwell, contain many intimations of the quality of Mrs. Stone's mind and character. It is these personal revelations that most completely engage one. xx The story of one of the most striking women of that period has a fascination that is psychological rather than social. How did it happen that this particular country girl -- obviously, and from internal evidence, a well-behaved, feminine young person -- left the ranks, to ride almost alone at the head of the shock troops of the feminist movement? xx [N] Never does she betray hostility to men singly or as a sex, even when newspapers referred to her as "you she-hyena" or when sticks were brandished over her head. She worked side by side with her husband and with other men and women, and seems to have been the personification of the "happy warrior". xx2 Although Mrs. Stone was a leader in a dozen different wars, fought on as many issues, she was through it all a simple, unsophisticated, pious person xx The book leaves one attracted and almost completely baffled by the apparently simple personality of Lucy Stone. Philadelphia Public Ledger, Oct. 2. How extraordinarily the efforts of Lucy Stone and her colleagues bore fruit is clearly apparent from his illuminating book xx Lucy Stone's life was no bed of roses. She worked early and late, and often against the incredibly vindictive opposition of menfolk as well as womenfolk. The surprising fact is that Lucy Stone never lost her poise or her sweetness of character. She apparently never lost sight of her [cl] chosen purpose -- that of making a world better by emancipating the life of its women. She could speak in behalf of temperance: was a stern and effective advocate of abolition: but her chief fight was woman's rights xx Her daughter's biography is an enriching memorial to a mother; and yet one feels that the book is no less true because a daughter had written it,2 The book leaves one attracted and almost completely baffled by the apparently 3 Lewis Gannett in N. Y. Herald Tribune of Sept. 27. Lucy Stone was one of the wholesomest, happiest, altogether most normal and delightful reformers in the history of reform, and her daughter has written one of the directest and most satisfactory stories in the history of filial biography. xx Lucy Stone's warm personality glows in these pages, and there are aspects of the life of this patron saint of feminism which will be a shock to some of the ardent modern practitioners Lucy kept her own name, but she called herself "Mrs." Stone, she would not trust her baby daughter to a nurse; to the end of her days she made her own yeast, baked her own bread, was a famous cook, and being dissatisfied with the commercial product, made her own soap. Chicago Post, Oct. 3 Womankind needed helping out, and Lucy Stone simply went about it, as in childhood she went about doing the washing when she felt that her mother wasn't equal to it. And the process, as described by her daughter, gives the [I] effect of perfectly natural4 development. xx Unlike Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone is said to have had no sense of humor. But her very literalness seems to have given added power to the intense conviction that made her a great speaker xx Although written, as it was lived, without blare of trumpets, Lucy Stone's life is one which for plain courage as well as for active heroism is enough to put that of any male warrior that I can think of at the moment to shame. The newspapers spoke of her as a dragon that needed [slaynig] slaying, and Miss Blackwell tells of more than one platform where she was in immediate danger [through] from mob violence. But through it all she remains for the reader most surprisingly and attractively feminine xx This is quite naturally a biography of the gentler sort. But it leaves the feeling that even Paxton Hibben at this [fieriest and] fieriest and most documentary, would have had trouble "debunking" Lucy Stone. Mrs. A. A. Packard writes: "It is a privilege to commend for other readers Alice Stone Blackwell's life of her mother, Lucy Stone. So moving, so splendid, so lovable and so human is the story she has to tell, she needs only a [sen] sense of values, directness and simplicity of style, and her story tells itself. She has these three qualities in marked degree. The result is a clear portrait of one of the great women leaders of our country. I hope that every club woman will find in this life of Lucy Stone the (over)inspiration and enjoyment that I have". Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes: "What a noble and beautiful book you have made, about a noble and beautiful life! It is a pleasure to read, for anyone; an invaluable record [for] for the ignorant and shallow young people of today to study; and to us, who are old enough to remember many of the great people you so well describe, it is a deep gratification George W. Coleman writes: "It is a prize volume of biograph, Fortunate indeed is the famous mother to have so able and understanding a daughter to write her life. It is a book that ought to be in every live library.".Extracts from letters I have read it (the [biogr] life of Lucy Stone) with much interest and pleasure, an feel that it is an important contribution to the history of the woman movement. I shall gladly refer my students to it. Mary W. Williams, Professor of History at Goucher College, Baltimore, Md. A beautiful story, beautifully told. Mabel Barrows Mussey (wife of Henry Raymond Mussey) [I am intensely interested in the] [biography of Lucy Stone.] It is a fine and inspiring account of the work of a woman imbued with the spirit of service to her times. ITo Mrs Guy Stantial 11/9/53 21 Ashmond St, Melrose Massachusetts In the years of 1936-37 it was my great privilege and pleasure to stay week ends with Miss Alice Stone Blackwell to relieve her regular companion Such a thrilling, rich experience for me and such delightful memories of happy, uplifting hours. There were clippings by the score to be read, family letters dictated, some business matters for fear of all, hour after hour of reading together. Miss Blackwells favorite - and it quickly became mine -- was 'Consuelo' in Six Volumes by George Sand. We were transported into sheer rapture, and we often played a game of Consuelo and Count Liverani. Of course, dear Miss Blackwell should have been Consuelo - which she rightly was but no, it had to be I! On several occasions my Mother Nellie Shirley, substituted for me. Mother was thrilled and Miss Blackwell seemed genuinely pleased, especially as my Mother was not only a pretty woman of wit and charm - but also one steeped in the lore of Old Boston and anti slavery. It is with great reluctance that I part with these precious letters and books but the time has come for me to see them to a safe home Hildegarde Shirley --"Lucy Stone" Oct 31st 1930 Dear Miss Blackwell: At last the copy has come back to me and I am writing it along to you at once. We want to get it off by Wednesday, November 5th if possible. We have been waiting until the checks came in for the Grand Duchess lecture. These appeals will go to many of the people who have been asked to be patronesses for that. At least four of these testimonials must be eliminated because of lack of space. If you have some excerpts that seem to you more important they may be substituted, but the whole thing must go on a legal-sized sheet of paper. We are setting the $10.00 price on the first 150 copies. The committee feels sure of that number. We may add something on the return blank about unnumbered autographed copies being $5.00 as a minimum. Collectors tell us we should have them numbered for future value. I hope we shall raise the balance of the amount through this source. A great number of people have already expressed an interest in the idea. Sincerely and affectionately, Edna LOVE TO ALL BARBARA HOW IS JOCKEdna Stantial + Barbara49, EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET August 16, 1938. Dear Mrs. Stantial: Thank you so much for writing me about the copy of Miss Blackwell's Biography. I knew it came from Mrs. Park and I wrote her at once to thank her and to say how greatly I enjoyed reading it. Sincerely yours (signed) Mrs. Louis Slade Mrs. F. Louis Slade. Mrs. Guy W. Stantial, At the Stonewall, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Copy of book (?) Slade in (?)Book "Lucy Stone Pioneer" Estate Dear Mr. Park: I've been over to dee Miss Blackwell since I wrote you this morning. Miss Blackwell and Mrs. Boyer are quite satisfied with the form of the agreement enclosed. So there may be no need of submitting it to a lawyer. Will you sign the copies, one for Miss Comstock to file with the papers in Cambridge, one for the Secretary's records, and one for Miss Blackwell? I shall take care of the assignment of copyright at once. Miss Blackwell had just come from the eye doctor and seemed a little depressed. But I am hoping that it was only because she was tired. EdnaMay 30, 1922 Ghandi Dear Edna: I am sending this special delivery, not because there is any hurry, but because the mails lately have sometimes been so delayed. Enclosed is the speech I expect to make Thursday night at Tremont Temple. Will you please make me some copies for the reporters? I will come in Thursday & get them. At your leisure, I should like as many copies of the poem as you can [print]typewrite at one impression. Anytime will do for that. Yours always gratefully, Alice Stone Blackwell. 2 besetting vices. Under his teaching, so [So] many have given up liquor and opium that there is great complaint about the lessened revenue from those sources. [In a] A street [where there were] that had formerly 52 opium joints, [there is] now has only one. Pussyfoot Johnson, just back from a 7000 mile [trip thr] tour through India, says that every native newspaper is advocating prohibition[s], and that thousands turned out to greet him in every city [as a] with [representative came to assur] enthusiasm, because he had come to assure them that prohibition in the United States [wa] was not a failure, as the British in India declared it [was] to be. "For centuries women in India have been kept in subjection and seclusion. Ghandi's [libration] influence is freeing them too, and bringing them out into the larger world. Hindu women of high caste are throwing aside their veils and going out to speak in public for self-[rule and] government for [in] India, and are even going to prison for it. Ghandi's wife, Tagore's niece and other prominent women are setting the example. [Finally] "Most [wonderful remarkable] wonderful of all, Ghandi is [attempting] trying to make [a] his revolution against [the tremendous] British rule [material power of the British Empire] by spiritual [force] power alone, preaching peace instead of3 violence, love instead of hate; and his spiritual power is so great that the British Empire, with all its overwhelming material force, is at its wits' end how to deal with him, and has found no better expedient than to put him and 25000 of his sympathizers in jail. As if spiritual forces could ever be stopped by prison walls, or even by [death itself] the death of the prophet! The Southerners tried it on John Brown, [but] and found the truth of the antislavery song, "Old John Brown, Ossawattomie Brown, May [My] trouble you worse than ever When you've nailed his coffin down!" "There has been a general belief that British rule was good for India. Ghandi says that many of the Englishmen who administer it honestly [believe] think so. But when Ghandi, a staunch [supporter of British] cooperator with British rule for more than half a lifetime, is driven at last to change his mind and to launch out with all his might upon this noncooperation movement, it [gives us pause] leads us to doubt and inquiry; and then we find that under British rule there are 4 habitually 2,000,000 [200,000] people who do not have one square meal a day, and 70,000 are always on the verge of starvation that in 1918 millions actually died of starvation, though 7,000,000 tons of grain were shipped out of India that year. We learn that [for years] the once flourishing native industries of India have been deliberately ruined for British profit; that for years freedom has been abolished, and any Hindus may be sent to prison without trial and without appeal. ["If we [All who] believe in the right of all nations to self-determination, we must wish success to the self-government movement in India, unless we [they] are afflicted with the [that] spiritual color-blindness that cannot see justice.] "We cannot be self-righteous [throw stones at the British government]. Our own government has done things just as bad in Hayti and San Domingo and elsewhere[, though not on so [big] large a scale]. But if we believe in the right of nations to self-determination, we mush wish success to the self-government movement in India, unless indeed we are afflicted with the spiritual color blindness [that] which [that] cannot see that justice [as applying] applies to persons of a darker tint. "As the Rev. Sydney Strong (over)has lately said, "The white man's first task and duty is to get right with the colored races."29 Copy. (Speech at Tremont Temple, June 1, 1922 - Ghandi movement. From the original notes sent to Edna Stantial by Miss Blackwell to be typed for the press.) Miss Blackwell said: "We are here tonight to protest against the imprisonment of one of the world's greatest spiritual leaders. "The story of what this gentle seer and prophet has already accomplished for his people reads like a romance. India contains one fifth of the inhabitants of the globe. For centuries this great country has been fettered by an iron system of caste. Ghandi has so freed the minds of his people that today men of high caste will sit down to eat with those who were formerly looked upon as "untouchable." Think what it would mean, even in the United States, if caste could be abolished - if we could be made to feel that we are all really brothers and sisters! How much more it must mean in India, where the caste lines have been so much more rigid, and have kept the people so split up that they could not even make common cause in the effort for self-government! "Ghandi has brought Hindus and Moslems and Buddhists together in this effort - another astonishing achievement. "He has feed multitudes from their besetting vices. Under his teaching, so many have given up liquor and opium that there is great complaint about the lessened revenue from those sources. A street that had formerly 52 opium joints, now has only one. "Pussyfoot Johnson, just back from a 7000 mile tour through India, says that every native newspaper is advocating prohibition and that thousands turned out to greet him in every city with enthusiasm, because he had come to assure them that prohibition inthe United States was not a failure, as the British in India - 2- declared it to be. "For centuries women in India have been kept in subjection and seclusion. Ghandi's influence is feeing them too, and bringing them out into the larger world. Hindi women of high caste are throwing aside their veils and going out to speak in public for self-government for India, and are even going to prison for it. Ghandi's wife, Tagore's niece and other prominent women are setting the example. "Most wonderful of all, Ghandi is trying to make his revolution against British rule by spiritual power alone, preaching peace instead of violence, love instead of hate: and his spiritual power is so great that the British Empire, with all its overwhelming material force, is at its wits' end how to deal with him, and has found no better expedient than to put him and 25000 of his sympathizers in jail. As if spiritual forces could ever be stopped by prison walls, or even by the death of the prophet! The Southerners tried it on John Brown and found the truth of the anti-slavery song. 'Old John Brown, Ossawattomie Brown, May trouble you worse than ever When you've nailed his coffin down!' "There has been a general belief that British rule was good for India. Ghandi says that many of the Englishmen who administer it honestly think so. But when Ghandi - a staunch co-operator with British rule for more than half a life time - is driven at last to change his mind and to launch out with all his might upon this non-cooperation movement, it leads up to doubt and inquiry; and then we find that under British rule there are habitually 2,000,000 people who do not have one square meal a day, and 70,000, are always on the verge of starvation;- 3 - that in 1918 millions actually died of starvation, though 7,000,000 tons of grain were shipped out of India that year. We learn that the once flourishing native industries of India have been deliberately ruined for British profit; that for years freedom has been abolished, and any Hindu may be sent to prison without trial and without appeal. "We cannot be self-righteous. Our own government has done things just as bad in Hayti and San Domingo and elsewhere. But if we believe in the right of nations to self-determination, we must wish success to the self-government movement in India, unless indeed we are afflicted with the spiritual color-blindness which cannot see that justice applies to persons of a darker tint. "As the Rev. Sydney Strong has lately said, 'The white man's first task and duty is to get right with the colored races.'"hilmark, Duke's Co., Mass. July 31, 1925. Dear Edna: Once more I am going to impose upon your kindness. It is in regard to my unlucky book of Spanish translations, for which I have not yet succeeded in finding a publisher. I need some more copies of the table of contents in Spanish, and have written them out as clearly as I could. If you are in doubt about any of them, ask me& I will print them out; or make the best guess you can at them, and I will correct them if wrong. I need them on thin paper, so as to be easily sent to Latin America. If not too much trouble, please make me a dozen copies. If it is easier, or seems better, to arrange the names of countries, authors, & poems in a different kind of type, use your own discretion. This is unimportant. Yours always gratefully, Alice Stone Blackwell There is no hurry about this. Prefacio de la Traductora. Alice Stone Blackwell Introduccion Dr. Isaac Goldberg Mexico Manuel Gutierrez Najera Ondas Muertas: Efimeras: [Ignonat] Ignnota dea; De Blanco: Almas y Aves; Deseo; [A Benjamin Bolanos]; Tras los Montes; En el Campo: Pax Animac; Mi Casa Blanca: A la Corregidora. Amado Nervo Amado Nervo La Hermana Agua: Si [Un] Una Espina Me Heire: [Evo] Evocacion; A Leonor: Hoy He nacido: El Don: Deprecacion a la Nube: !Oh Bolido Luciente! Oh Muerte! En las Noches de Abril: No Todos: Viejo Estribillo: Deidad: La Galera Sombria: Que [Es] Estas Haciendo, Rose? Extasis2 Luis G. Urbina La Misa del Alba: En el Lago: Hechiceria; Ascencion: Aves; El Triumfo del Azul; Verpertina V: Manana de Sol; Primer Intermedio Romatico; Piedad para los Nidos; A Ricardo Castro Enrique Gonzalez Martinez El Sembrador de Estrellas; La Plegaria de la Roca Esteril; Fuente Oculta; A Una Piedra del Camino; Al Espiritu del Arbo; Bajo el Huerto Solemne; ?Te Acuerdas? El Alcazar: Al Viajero; Como Hermano y Hermana; A veces una hoja desprendida; En la murte de Jose Sabas de la Mora Como un suspiro de cristal; la [cantera] cautiva 3 Salvador Diaz Miron Copo de Nieve; A piedad; [Dones Fatidicos] Asonancias; al Czar de las Rusias; En un ALbum; Dones Fatidicos Enrique Fernandez Granados A unas violetas; remembranza; am [amanec] amanecer; noche serecia Jesus E. Valenzuela Balada de las Manos; Don Quijote Manuel Jose Othon el Rio; El Bosque: Las Estrellas (Estrellas) Rafael Cabrera Nihil: [Sin] Sin Palabras Maria Enriqueta El afilador: sad song Gusto Sierra A Cristobal Colon; PlayerasFrancisco A. de Icaza del Camino: Otonal Inez del la Cruz (Sor Juana) Redondillas Jose Peon del Valle El Ultimo Azteca Manuel Acuna Al Poeta Martin, Juan Diz Covarrubias Agustin F. Cuenca [*Manuel M. Flores Mi Sueno*] Luces Del Prisma Joaquin A. Pagaza Cerepusculo [*over*] Francsico Sosa Romance Zaragoza Harmonias Juan B. Delgado Viejo Lobo de Mar Jaime Torres Bodet La Casa; El Pozo 5 Ignacio Mariscal La Tumba de Juarez Enrique Juan Palacios A Maria Altagracia Luis G. Ortiz Mi Fuente [*Rafael Lozano Jr. Como Aquel Rey Azteca*] E fren Rebolledo [?Cerepusculo] [Rafael Lozano. Jr. Como Aquel Rey Azteca] [Manuel M. Flores Mi Sueno] Manuel M. Gonzalez Barcarola Ignacio Ancona [?Horruytiner] La Virtud omitted My Mountains, Joaquin Gomez Verqara Maqicas Playas, Jose Lopez Portilla y Rojas 6 Nicaragua Ruben Dario Cosas de Cid: La Cancion de las Pinos: Un Soneto a Cervantes: Hondas Carcol: A Margarita Debayle: La Pagiua Blanca: Canto de Esperanza Satiago Arguello El Aguila y la Hoja Peru Jose Santos Chocano Sol y Luna: Arqueologia, La Magnnolia: Los Andes: Cornucopia, El Sueo del Boad: El Sueno del Caiman: El Sueno del Condor: Los Rios: Las Orquideas: La Quena: Los Volcanes: Las Bocas del Orinoco: El Estrecha de Magallanes: Los Molinos: Arboles Viejos: Seno de 7 Reina: La Espada del Virrey: Aguilas y Gorriones: Protesta: El Rayo: La Alondra: La Elegia del Organo: America a Espana. (over) Chile Gabriela Mistral Himno at Arbol: Motivos del Barro: Nubes Blancas: Plegaria por el Nido: El Cardo: Canciones de Cuna: Piececitos: El Espino: La Encina: Poemas del Extasis: Los Cabellos de los Ninos: Palabras Serenas: El Canto: El Ensueno: A Un Sembrador; Poemas del Hogar: Rondas de Ninos: Miedo: La Oracion de la Maestra: Decalogo del Artista Victor Domingo Silva Musica en la Plaza: Cain.Ricardo Palma Indigacion: La Miyer Ventura Garcia Calderon Blason 8 M. Magallanes Moure Himno al Amor: Marina: Canto de Primavera. Daniel de la Vega Las Heullas del Maestro: La Vida Interior: Ella: Remember. Pedro Prado Las Tres Marias Fracisco Contreras Encanta de las Lluvies Luis F. Contardo Vespertina Mercedes Marin del Solar A Manuel Rodriguez Ernesto Montenegro El Cristo los Andes: Plazas de Provincia9 Jorge Gonzalez B. A la Vieja Guitarra Luis A. Zamora Secrets Argentina Olegario Victor Andrade El Nido de Condores Leopold Lugones Como Hablan en las Cimas: En la Paz del Crepusculo Remoto: A Ti Alberto Ghiraldo Para Ti Luis L Dominguez El Ombu 10 Rafael Obligado Sautos Vera Joaquin Castellanos Colon [Ricardo Gutierrez] ]Lagrimas] Juan Maria Gutierrez A Mi Caballo Bartolome Mitre Una Flor del Alma (over) Mario Bravo Cancion de los Ninos Pobres: Caucion del Aguila y del Condor Alfonsina Storni El Ojo Azul: La Piedad del Cipres: Yu y Yo: Buenos AiresRicardo Gutierrez Lagrimas 11 Almafuerte Moltissimo Pi u Avanti Ancora Blanca D. de Hume Madres! Colombia Guillermo Valencia Ciguenas Blancas: Ella; Los Andes: La Caucion de las Piedras Preciosas (de Anarkos). Rafael Pomba A Bolivar: Las Dos Americas: Cuerpo y Alma: La Myjer [A Bolivar] 12 Jose [Au] Asuncio Silva Serenata: ? / Dia de Difuntos Jose Eusebio Caro En Boca del Ultimo Inca Surique Alvarez Henao La Abeja: Gaspar y Lucia Julia Flores Cuando Lejas: Cuentain que un Rey sefredo Gomez Jaime Pinceladas Diego Uribe En Pos del Ensueno Edwardo Talero Nunez Sangre 13 G. Castaneda Aragon Torna el Sol Jorge Mateus Rimas Victor M. Londona Ambicion Venequela Rufino Blanco Tombona Vuelo de Psiquis: Palomita Mensajera: Invitacion al Amor: Corazon Adentro: Lo Inevitable [Ao] Andres Bello Al Bio-Bio14 Jose A. Calcano El Cipres Ubdon A. Perez En la Selva Ildemara Urdaneta A Una Caraquena Manuel Pimentel Coronel Los Paladines Uruguqy Julio Herrera y Reissiy La Casa de la Montana: Color de Sueno Juan Zorilla de San Martin [2 (Siemfrevivas Y No Sentics:] 1 Cancion de Cuna (de Tabare) 15 Juana Ibarbourou El Dulce Milagro Bolivia Ricardo Jaimes Freyre El Idolo: Los Paisajes Interiores Franz Tamayo Habla Olympio Adhemar O'Connor d' Arlach Funeraria Edwardo Diez de Medina Sierra Nevada Manuel Duque Rocio16 Rosendo Villalobos Juventud y Esperanza Guatemala Rafael Arevalo Martinez Los Hombres Lobos: Criaturas Gozosas Costa Rica Roberto Brenes Mesen Ojos de Condores; Inquietud; Amado del Alma Honduras Froylan Turcios En el Pielago Azul 17 Salvador Gustavo A. Ruiz A la Luna Indo-Espanola de Enero Roman Mayorga Rivas El Sensonte y Yo Armando Rodriguez Portillo La Siembra Paraguay Alejandro Guanes Tu alma Ignacio A. Pane La Mujer Paraguaya18 Cuba Jose Maria Heredia y Campuzano Al Sol Gertrudis Gomex de Avellaneda Al Partir Dulce Maria Borrera de Luza La Cancion de las Palmas Ramon de Palma y Romay La Daza Cubana Enrique Hernandez Miyares La Mas Fermosa Bonifacio Byrne Nuestro IdiomaApril 29, 1922 Dear Edna I have sent an announcement to the Christian Register, as you advised. I fear you are working very much too hard. Do spare yourself all you can - if you can.But I am very, very much obliged to you. But what splendid news it is about Mrs. Park's heart! Do give her my congratulations. Very gratefully yours, Alice Stone BlackwellChilmark. Oct 15 1944 Dear Miss Blackwell -- Before you get this you may have heard from Barbara. We had some trouble with the car so she went along home and I hope to go by Wednesday. Mrs. Jane Smith could make you a fine housekeeper if you and she decide upon an arrangement. She has been for some years at the Women's City Club in Portsmouth, NH. and I have known her for more than 25 years. She is a widow --quiet and refined, as well as a very thrifty person. If she comes up to Boston from her home in Seekonk before I get back Barbara will take her over to your house. As soon as I get back I will make arrangements with Dr Young and the recording will be made at your convenience as to time. Your house here is all taken care of. Barbara and I went up Sat and fixed the stones -- and today the screen door was taken off and the shutters closed & tied. So that it is secure for the winter without any further expense to you. When you wrote me about the cistern I saw Mr. Ryan at Meyrics and he shut off the water, drawed the tank, disconnected the pump and the toilet. The wastebaskets are upside down and all the mattresses are in the room that was Mrs. Boyer's. These are the ones Mrs. Helen wants but I did nothing further with her until I know the papers are signed. I can do it early in the spring when we come down first. I have a list of the things she wants. When I leave I'll see that the gate is closed and Guy left me a new chain and lock for it. Mr Ryan asked me about the foundation for the windmill and I told him I would talk to you about it when I got home & could then write him or you could. Lovingly, Edna1010 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, Mass. June 7" 1939 Dear Edna: I had already decided not to sell Mr. Langmuir that piece of land; but [have] am glad to have my opinion confirmed by yours. My deed to the new right of way and the right to maintain a bath-house, etc. has been duly recorded. I wrote Mr. Blood, but a friend of mine, who was lately in Edgartown did not find it on the record. He replies that it was recorded and mentioned page and place. I remember now that after the new deed was made out he told me that he was sending it down to be registered. The deed is now in [the] my safe deposit[ed] - box at the Dorchester Branch of the First Nat'l Bank, so that I cannot now readily refer to it. I will attend to Mr. Rogers' matter. I am always affectionately yours, Alice Stone Blackwell My kind regards to Guy and Barbara. Just now I am having a very bad cold 1943 ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 1010 MASSACHUSETTS AVE. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. A thousand good wishes to Edna and Guy, And to precious young Barbara! Though I may try, I can't express half of the gratitude due For many good turns, my dear Edna, to you, And, above all the rest, for my housekeeper new. May the Stantials have joy and at Christmas good cheer, And may happiness stay with them all through the year!Chilmark, Mass. Sept. 8, 1918 Dear Edna: The rubbers are a good fit, and I shall be very glad to buy a second pair. You certainly are my guardian angel. Please thank Mrs. Luscomb for me for the book that she has sent me. Cordially, Alice S. Blackwell.Nov 7" 1947 [*ASB Books*] Dear Edna Lately at my request Malcolm B. Davis began to make a list of the books in the attic of my old home. It is a big job and a very cold one. I knew that a list had been made years ago but I thought it had been lost beyond hope of recovery. However it has now been found. Of course it is not up to date. Many books have been given to the Radcliffe College collection and many brought to my [office] flat. It was M Martha B. Sumpter who made the list ten years ago. She says that you also went over and did some cataloguing I had forgotten this. On the back of the Sumpter's list is a memorandum saying you had put names of books on cards. If you still have those cards they will be useful to Mr. Davis.I hate to trouble you when you are trying to rest and get well but I have to. I am always gratefully and affectionately yours Alice Stone Blackwell Per M. B. S.November 14, 1947 Dear Miss Blackwell: We did make a card list of the books "on suffrage' only, and the list was sent to Mrs. Catt, as you requested. Do you remember that she wanted the list so that she could choose the ones needed for the Feminist collection at the Library of Congress? When I took the cards in to you and read off the names, you suggested that certain ones might go to Radcliffe, and these were removed from the shelf and the cards were given to you and Mrs. Smith put them on the table against the wall, which you face as you sit at the radio. Here is a transcription of my shorthand notes which you dictated to me when I took the cards in to you: My diary entry first: (1946) Oct 29th: Saw Miss Blackwell and read the list of books off the cards. Was there all afternoon. She dictated the following notes to me about the books in the barn at Dorchester: "I am willing that Mrs. Catt should have all of the books she needs to complete her collection. She ought to be told that the Sarah Grimke book is important and one of the oldest. Any that she does not want, and these here in my bookcase may be checked over with Park and I think I ought to let her have first choice for her Radcliffe collection. She was so kind to me when I was in need of help. She may like the complete file of the Woman's Journal. All the extra copies are to go to colleges and to public libraries. You have the previous instructions on this. The rest of the library may be sold to furnish money for the work that will be needed on my papers and those of my dear parents. I think the Smithsonian Institute will want the old Lucy Stone wagon if it is explained to them that this was the first wagon on which propaganda was printed. You will find the date of the first trip of the wagon in the Woman's Journal." "Now we must get back to the list for Mrs. Catt. We did have two sets of Lydia Maria Child's History of Women. One should go to Mrs. Catt and one to Mrs. Park. I think Mrs. Park can look the list over hurriedly and then it must be sent by express to Mrs. Catt." Do you remember that day? When I went over to work on the books page 2. Alice S. Blackwell - Nov. 14, 1947 we found that the ministers wanted to use the section of the shed in which they had been stored, and they had moved them out into an old section with a bad roof and many of the books were soaked and ruined. We insisted that Mr. Helms have them moved back into the dry barn and that is where they now are, but sad to say, they were carried in by the children of the house and there is no longer any semblance of order. We cannot easily check them even if Mrs. Catt's list should be returned to us. I think I could easily pick out the suffrage books now since I have become accustomed to the names of your contemporaries, and if you want me to I shall be glad to do it. It seems too bad that you should play Mr. Davis for all the work when you can have your friends do it for you without pay. The card list I made was not taken from Mrs. Sumpter's old hand-written list because we found so many more books than were listed that it proved to be a waste of time to check her list. Guy called off the names of the books and I typed the cards as we rearranged the books. Let me know if I can be of further help. Isn't it wonderful that the library is going to keep the collection intact for twenty-five years. If I am still alive 25 years hence maybe I can persuade them to continue the collection as a permanent section. Affectionately, 1010 Mass. Ave Cambridge, Mass Jan. 7, 1938 Dear Edna: You remember that the last of the books to be advertised on the jacket of "Lucy Stone," down at the bottom of the back flap, was "What I Owe to My Father," edited by the Rev. Sydney [St] Strong, andpublished by Henry Holt & Co. New York, price $1.50. Wishing to make sure that Henry Holt was still publishing it and could supply it (as publishing firms keep changing & coalescing), I wrote to N. Y. to find out, & I get the [fo] enclosed answer. We have tried twice to call you up, and the second time Mrs. Boyer gave the message to Barbara, but I think it is best to mail it to you. If the change should entail a small extra expense, of course I will pay it. Yours always gratefully, Alice Stone Blackwell21 Ashmont Street Melrose, Massachusetts October 24th Dear Miss Blackwell: Miss Gratia Countryman has sent me a fine list of Minnesota people to whom I wrote a personal letter and sent the appeal for our Fund. I have torn off the top part of her letter and am enclosing it. She wants as you see, an autographed letter from you for the Library collection. I think I may have one of your mother's which I could send to her if you haven't one you want to spare. I wrote to her however, and told her I had several duplicate autographs which I would be glad to send to her and wondered if there wasn't someone there interested in their collection who would want to contribute to the Blackwell Fund in return for my gift. So perhaps you had better wait until I hear from her again before you send a letter of your mother's. We wrote about 200 letters (we, being this grand typewriter and its operator), to a splendid list of old suffragists and public minded women sent by the Minnesota group. Mrs. James Paige and Mrs. Park had thought we could organize a local committee but it seemed best to send the letters along since it was getting pretty late. Mr. Brown is rather anxious now to wind up the work of the committee but Mrs. Park and I still have a lot outstanding and would like to hold off until the middle of November for the announcement. That would give us a chance to hear from our western appeals,. and incidentally to check up on the inactive members of the committee. MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY GRATIA A. COUNTRYMAN, LIBRARIAN MINNEAPOLIST, MINN. September 23, 1935 Mrs. Edna Lamprey Stantial 21 Ashmont Street Melrose, Massachusetts My dear Mrs. Stantial: I appreciate the services of such women as Miss Blackwell, who have done a wonderful service for women. I am suggesting below names of people who may be interested. I would be very glad of an autograph letter from Miss Blackwell to add to our Library autograph collection. Do you suppose she would write me one? (crossed out) Sometime I will try to get her mother's also. Edna Stantial about Miss Gracie Countryman Write letter to MinneapolisWoodbull Chaplin May 1, 1945 Dear Edner[?]: Forgive me for going to bed the night you were here, in stead of staying up to share the fun. I had been awake almost all night the night before, & I was very sleepy. You may be interested in what Mrs. Cote found volumns writen about those. But the library of Congress has, or has lendt, some found volumen of Woodliff & Wafline Weekly. Sins worth R offered, who was libraian of Congress for 40 years & was an old friend of my fathers and wheneverWe went to Washington we stayed at his house. Once I asked him to (for) get me a volume of Woodall & Claflin. I wanted to copy an exact finish.[?] He brought me a bound volume from the library. I am more grateful than I can say for you making me a copy of that book of reminiscences. And I have had a piece of your birthday cake. It was good! Very cordially yours Alice Stone Blackwell. file Women who worked Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, Mass. Dear Lana! Thank you and Mrs. Park for consulting me. With the utmost wish to be helpful, what you ask calls for much thought and consideration, which it is impossible for me to give in the limited time at my disposal, and in my half blind condition. 2 I do not want the portrait of me which hung in the office to be reproduced. If there's to be a picture of me, it should be from a photo of me, not of a painting. But Mrs. Park may use any photo of me that she prefers. I shall now dictate: 1 I do not know who was the first woman lawyer. Not the first, but a very early one was Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch, who also was for woman suffrage. To the writers I should add Mrs Abby Morton Diaz, Mrs Frances D. Gage Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman Louisa M. Alcott. Among the men who helped was William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips Henry B. Blackwell came somewhat later. Workers for industrial betterment of women add Mrs Marry Kenny O'Sullivan. she was one of four who was called The fighting Marys who stand for peace could we not include Lilian D. Wald of the "House on Henry St" who founded a remarkable system of nursing which is now spread all over the country.2 The presidents of the Mass Woman's suffrage association -- Rev James Freeman Clark was the president for many years. I think he was the first. At one time I was president Mary A Livermore and Julia Ward Howe were great national figures and national workers. It seems inadequate for those to come in merely as presidents of the Mass. W. S. A. After the suffragists in 1869 split into the National and American Woman Suffrage associations, they worked separately, and did a great deal in many different parts of the country I was chiefly instrumental in getting them to come together again at the National American W. S. A. It was one of the most useful and also one of 3 of the hardest jobs I ever did. I should not be put in under the head of the College Equal Suffrage League -- I had not much to do with that. Judge Jennie Loitman Barron might come in here or somewhere else. As Jennie Loitman she was the leading spirit in the Equal Suffrage League of one of the schools of Boston University. I think it was the Law School My specialty was the making of rebuttals not in connection with colleges. Under the head of Mass leaders add Miss Mary F. Eastman, Miss Abby N. May Mrs Edna D. Cheney - Mrs Ida Porter Boyer ought to come in somewhere but I'm not sure where - She was sent out to superintend the work in several states where Woman Suffrage amendments had been submitted, and she did this with great skill4 She secured victory in our state which had been considered impossible. Under head of special work: Mrs Elizabeth Smith Miller invented the so-called bloomer costume. Amelia Bloomer saw it, admired it and wrote it up in her paper and the name became associated with it. Mrs Miller also wrote down in that part of the country the belief that a rich woman could not earn money without losing caste. She put up fruit, sold it, and gave the proceeds to charity, Then many other women who had been living in aristocratic poverty put up fruit sold it and made a good living. Mrs Miller was a suffragist Miss Paula Laddy is or was a judge in New Jersey. she was a daughter of Mrs Victor Laddy, who worked for woman suffrage especially among our German speaking people 5 Would it not be well to put in Maria Mitchell as the first woman astronomer. she was a suffragist. It has been suggested that it might be well to include the first women who were sent as Ambassadors to foreign countries. How would it be to have also a memorial to the early women's rights papers? The Woman's Journal The Woman's Tribune The New North West The Iowa Woman's Standard etc. The Woman Voter The Woman Citizen etc.3 Monadnock St. Boston, Mass. Nov. 7, 1934 Dear Edna: You might add the following to the stuff about Madon?? Breshkovstey: [Babushka's friend'Mrs. [A] Katherine Weller tells the following incident of Babushka's last moments: While she lay silent and they were not sure if she was still alive, a letter came from her school children in Russian Carpathea. A friend announced its arrival, speaking clearly and close to her ear. She smiled faintly. It was her last smile in this world. Add Mrs. Irene Dietrich gave Miss Olga Chirnova [with] $40. to enable her to reopen her "club" for children - i.e. her kindergarten, in which Babushka [had been] was so deeply interested. [She]Babushka called Miss Chirnova "a priceless woman". A group of American children added a dollar that they had earned. Miss Chirnova writes to Mrs. Dietrich: "Yesterday I met an eight-year- old girl, who asked reproachfully 'When is our club going to be open again? Meanwhile we are [becoming] turning into street children.' "What do you mean by street children, Natasha?" "They are the children whom nobody (over)2 takes care of, who are in everybody's way, and annoy the policemen! "My child, the club will be open in a few days." "Where will you get the money?" "Our kind fairy has sent it already from America. Some American children collected a dollar, too." "Oh, if the children become interested in it, they will accomplish something, you may be sure. Please write to the kind fairy that toys are better than any money!"Nov, 13th Dear Miss Blackwell: I am sending under another cover three setsof copies of the letter you sent me about Babushka. I'm sorry the typing is not very expert, but some day I'll have a nice new typewriter and then I can do it right. I enjoyed so much hearing about the last days of Madam Breshkovsky, and Barbara was thrilled when I read to her the paragraph about the American children who earned a dollar to helpout. We went to the Vineyard to close up our little house over the weekend. Mrs. Rogers seemed fine and was planning to leave on Wednesday. When we were leaving she asked me to tell you that you could have Mr. Merry take down the windmill anytime now because she hasn't been using it for the last week or so; then I think she said she would write to you and that you would get her letter before you would get word from me. My mind isn't exactly clear as to the way it was left. Our colony certainly is deserted but apparently everything is in good order. I noticed the shutters were all open on your house, but probably Mr. Poole will take care of them after Mrs. Rogers leaves. The doors were barricaded with heavy stones. Guy and Mr. Benjamin took the signs off the beach and stored them. The bluff seemed considerably washed down and one of the signs was nearly down. We saw your cousin Florence Mayhew when we arrived Saturday afternoon. Shewas calling on Mrs. Rogers. Mrs. R. will go to Mrs. Littlefield's for a week and then on to St. Louis for Thanksgiving. My love to you and your household. I am enclosing the check. I still have 12 cents on the last account. Affectionately, Edna3 Monadnock St. Upham's Corner Boston, Mass. Feb. 21 1927 Dear Edna: Can you do some typewriting for me? Catherine Breshkovsky wants the enclosed appeal sent out. I am planning to send 2 it to seven papers, and in order to have the best chance of getting it in, I want a separate copy made for each, instead of carbon copies with different addresses written in. Also I should like half a dozen [carb]3 carbon copies of any one of them, to send to individual friends of Mrs. Breshkovsky's. I enclose a copy addressed to the [Boston Herald] N. Y. Times. The others should be addressed to the [Bos] Boston Herald, Boston Transcript, Christian Register, 4 [New York Times], New York Herald-Tribune, The Outlook, and the Chicago Tribune. I have not needed to trouble you lately, as I have been using my own typewriter, though5 without half your speed & skill. But I have had a fall & broken my arm - the left, luckily - & Mrs. Boyer, who generally helps me out, has been called to Pennsylvania by the serious 6 illness of her two brothers-in-law. She left last night. So I come back to my old rock of refuge, & hope you may be able to help me out. I will cheerfully pay for it if you7 will let me; & you really should. I hope you & your husband & the little girl are all well & happy. Yours always affectionately, Alice Stone Blackwell. I expect to (over)8 send them out in the same sort of envelope in which this comes to you; so they will be folded accordingly. Please write them on the size of paper used for MS & letters to the press -- you know, but I will enclose a sample.Chilmark, Mass. Aug. 25, 1919. Dear Edna: Please make some carbon copies of this letter from George Lazareff --as many as you can make at one writing. It is too long to go over more than once. I amback about Sept. 1. But I shouldn't want to send her anything like this which some of the people at State Headquarters might consider "seditious"! Affectionately, Alice Stone Blackwell.glad you are to have a holiday. You surely deserve one. Mary Murphy will write for me while you are gone, as she comes