Blackwell Family Alice Stone Blackwell Miscellany Tributes received by Alice Stone Blackwell on her birthday, Sep. 14, 1919Alice Stone Blackwell September 14, 1919.Alice Stone Blackwell Birthday tributes 1919 Fund for biography of Lucy Stone Ac. 12,361Contributors to Birthday Fund of Alice Stone Blackwell September 14, 1919. Adams, Mrs. Comfort A. Adams, Mrs. Ellen F. Adamson, Mrs. Robert Addams, Miss Jane Adkinson, Mrs. Florence Adkinson, Miss June Agnew, Mrs. Frances Algeo, Mrs. Sara M. Allen, Miss Lucy Ellis Allen, Miss Mary L. Allen, Miss Mary Ware Altus City Federation of Clubs Ames, Mr. and Mrs. Oakes Amory, Miss Caroline M. Andrews, Mrs. Fannie Fern Anonymous Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee Armenian National Union Armes, Miss Ethel Ashman, Mrs. Sarah A. "In memory of Mrs. Edward Atkinson" Atkinson, Dr. L. D. R. Atkinson, Mr. Wilmer Atwood, Mrs. Ernest Austin, Mrs. Calvin Avery, Mrs. Katherine Van V. Avery, Mrs. Rachel Foster Babcock, Mrs. Elnora M. Babson, Miss Caroline W. Bailey, Mrs. Hannah J. Baker, Mrs. S. May Baldwin, Dr. Kate W. Ballou, Miss Mary R. Barney, Mrs. J. Dellinger Barrows, Mrs. Malcolm D. Bascom, Miss Jean Bass, Mrs. M. E. Bates, Miss Gertrude Bates, Miss Helen N. Baur, Mrs. Jacob 2 Bedal, Mrs. Adelhill C. Beecher, Mrs. Eliza L. Beeman, Mrs. B. S. Beeman, Mrs. F. S. Beeman, Rev. Leonard L. Beeman, Mrs. Mary S. M. Belden, Mr. Charles F. D. Bement, Mrs. Lewis D. Benedict, Mrs. Maud B. Bergman, Mrs. Sven R. Biggers, Mrs. Kate H. Bird, Mrs. Charles Sumner Blackwell, Mrs. Emma L. Blackwell, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Blake, Mrs. C. Chandler Blanchard, Miss Alice Blankenburg, Mrs. L. L. Blauvelt, Miss Anna H. Blount, Miss Lucia E. Bond, Mrs. Charles H. Bothell, Mrs. Clara E. Bowditch, Miss Olivia Y. Bowne, Mrs. Kate M. Boyer, Mrs. Ida Porter Brackett, Mrs. Jeanie Foster Brandeis, Mrs. Alice G. Breckinridge, Miss Sophonisba P. Brockton Friends: Brown, Mrs. D. E. Brown, Dr. D. E. Faxon, Mrs. R. S. Folger, Mrs. Clara Hollis, Mrs. H. L. Jackson, Mrs. C. H. Jacobs, Miss Etta Jones, Mrs. J. A. Keith, Mrs. W. R. Keith, Mrs. E. H. Keith, Miss Evelyn King, Mrs. C. C. Laird, Miss E. R. Mackie, Mrs. A. H. Millet, Mrs. C. S. Millet, Dr. C. S. Packard, Mrs. S. A. Palmer, Mrs. G. F. Perry, Mrs. Winnifred Rogers, Mrs. F. W. Rowe, Mrs. Florence Whiting, Miss Mary Willis, Mrs. E. M. Bronson, Miss Jennie A. Brotherton, Mrs. Wilber Brown, Miss Alice S. Brown, Miss L. L. Brown, Miss Louise Brown, Mrs. Raymond 3 Bruce, Mrs. H. Addington Bunting, Miss Florence M. Burdette, Mrs. Robert J. Burgess, Miss Anne Burrage, Miss Edith O. Burt, Mr. Frank H. Burt, Miss Grace M. Butler, Mrs. Frank W. Butterfield, Mrs. Amy I. Butterfield, Mrs. Belle M. Callahan, Mrs. Julia F. Callender, Miss Caroline S. Campbell, Miss Jane Capers, Mrs. W. W. Carrington, Mrs. Etta Carruth, Mrs. F. J. Carvill, Dr. Maud Cass, Miss Mary T. Casement, Mrs. Frances M. Catlin, Mrs. Charles T. Catt, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Chandler, Mrs. A. D. Channing, Miss Eva Channing, Dr. and Mrs. Walter Chapman, Mrs. Mary W. Chase, Miss Charlotte Cheever, Miss Helen Child, Miss Ruth L. S. Clark, Mrs. Florence P. Codman, Mrs. Susie T. Colburn, Mrs. H. H. Coe, Mrs. Evelyn Peverley Cole, Mrs. Mollie R. College Equal Suffrage League of Boston "In memory of Miss Bertha Cooper" Costigan, Mrs. Mabel Corey Cox, Mrs. Lenore Hanna Craigie, Mrs. Mary E. Cram, Mrs. S. E. Crane, Rev. Caroline Bartlett Cranston, Mrs. Martha S. Crossett, Mrs. Ella Hawley Crowell, Mrs. Florence Hathaway Crowley, Mrs. Teresa A. Culbertson, Dr. Emma B. Cummins, Miss Anne M. Cummins, Miss Elizabeth I. Cunningham, Mrs. Ida C. Dabney, Miss Ellen Dabney, Miss Sarah H. Daland, Mrs. Tucker Daniels, Miss L. J. D. [*6*] 4 Davis, Dr. Katharine Bement Davis, Mrs. Margaret A. Davol, Miss Florence W. Day, Mrs. Lucy Hobart Denio, Mrs. Emma Winchester Denio, Miss Fanny Gertrude Dennett, Mrs. Climenia K. Dennett, Mrs. Elizabeth R. DeNormandie, Mrs. Robert L. Dewson, Miss Mary W. Diggett, Mrs. Carolyn D. Dole, Rev. Charles F. Dorr, Miss Alice E. Doyle, Miss Sarah E. Dudley, Miss Helena S. Dwight, Miss Margarette L. Dwight, Mrs. Minnie R. Eager, Mrs. Harriet A. Earle, Miss Louise S. Ebner, Mrs. Anna Eddy, Miss Sarah J. Edge, Mrs. Charles Noel Edmonds, Mrs. B. B. Edwards, Mrs. Carrie D. Elder, Miss Frances Elder, Miss Margaret Ellicott, Mrs. C. E. Elm Hill League of Roxbury Era Club, New Orleans, Louisiana Equal Suffrage Association, Wilmington, Del. Ernst, Mrs. C. W. Evans, Mrs. Glendower Ewing, Miss Hazle B. Farr, Mrs. Cynthia K. Farrar, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Farrell, Mrs. Charles T. Fawcett, Mrs. Millicent Garrett Faye, Mr. George C. Faye, Mrs. George C. Fearing, Mrs. Mary P. Fenner, Mrs. Annie C. S. Fernald, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Finnigan, Miss Annette Fisher, Miss Jessie M. Flexner, Mrs. Simon Flint, Miss Charlotte L. Flint, Miss Elizabeth H. Foote, Mrs. Mary E. Bond Forbes, Mrs. J. Malcolm Foster, Mrs. William Horton[*7*] 5 Foulke, Mr. William Dudley French, Mrs. Lizzie H. Frye, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Fuller, Mrs. Eliza W. Fuller, Dr. Jennie Fulton, Mrs. Pryor Funck, Dr. and Mrs. J. William Gannett, Mrs. Mary T. Lewis Garrison, Mrs. George T. Garrison, Mr. William Lloyd, Jr. Gary, Dr. Clara E. Gates, Mrs. Henrietta M. Gaylord, Mrs. Eliza A. Gillette, Miss E. M. Gilman, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gleason, Mrs. Ella Aldrich Goodridge, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Gordon, The Misses Gove, Mrs. William Grant, Mrs. H. A. Green, Miss Eleanor B. Greenwich Equal Franchise League Mrs. Herman Pauli Mrs. William J. Hoggson Mrs. Edwin C. Ray Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton Mrs. Irwin Mrs. Emerson R. Newell Mrs. F. Horsington Miss Ethlyn McKinney Miss Winston Greenwood, Mrs. Isabel W. Hadley, Mrs. Emma Prichard Hagar, Miss Louise Haines, Mrs. Frank E. Hall, Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, Miss Ida E. Hall, Miss F. Josephine Hall, Miss Lucy Hallowell, Mrs. N. P. Hardy, Mrs. Jenny C. Law Harn, Miss Ellen D. Harriman, Mrs. L. Evelyn Harrington, Mrs. Francis B. A Friend Hartwell, Mrs. Maud Ray Harvard Equal Suffrage League Hayes, Miss Ellen H. Hayward, Mrs. Mary Smith[*8*] 6 Heacock, Miss Annie Heacock, Miss June Heacock, Miss Martha Healy, Mrs. William Hebard, Miss Grace Raymond Hedstrom, Miss Hilda A. Henry, Miss Alice Henry, Mrs. Bessie H. Hersey, The Misses Higginson, Mrs. T. W. Hill, Mrs. Frank F. Hoag, Mrs. Ruth Wood Hoagland, Rev. and Mrs. D. D. Hoge, Miss Florence Holman, Mrs. F. Ernest Hooper, Mrs. Ben Howard, Mrs. Elaine Goodridge Howes, Miss Abby Willis Howland, Miss Emily Hunt, Mrs. Augusta M. Hunt, Mrs. William David Hunter, Mrs. Arthur Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hunton, Mrs. Clara L. Huse, Mrs. R. S. Hussey, Miss Emily M. Hussey, Dr. Mary D. Illinois Equal Suffrage Association Ingalls, Mrs. Mary A. Irwin, Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin, Mr. Will Jacobs, Miss Gertrude F. James, Mrs. Louise C. Jenkins, Mrs. Alice Thornton Johnson, Mrs. Charles C. Johnson, Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Miss Ethel Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jerome Jones, Mrs. Ralph K. Keene, Mrs. Sally Kelleher, Mrs. Francis C. Kelly, Mrs. Mary L. Kemeys, Mrs. Emma D. Kendrick, Mrs. Ella B. Kennedy, Mrs. F. Lowell Kentucky Equal Rights Association: Mrs. John G. South Mrs. Samuel T. Castleman Mrs. James Leech [*9*] 7 Mrs. J. B. Judah Mrs. Charles Firth Mrs. Harriet Linn Caden Mrs. Drew Skinner Thomas Miss Elizabeth Aylward Mrs. Nancy Sandford McLaughlin Mrs. McLaughlin Duke Mrs. Joseph T. Alderson Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith Mrs. June Seales Needham Mrs. Charles J. McLaughlin Mrs. F. A. Rothier Mrs. Mollie Pearee Miss Lida Fant Mrs. Elizabeth Spanton Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Mrs. J. R. Morton Mrs. Scott Breckinridge Mrs. C. B. Lowry Mrs. C. L. Williamson Mrs. Paul Lansing Mrs. Samuel Wilson Mrs. Thomas S. Bullock Kinder, Mrs. Sarah L. Kinnicutt, Mrs. Lincoln N. Knox, Mrs. C. W. Koch, Dr. Margaret Laidlaw, Mrs. Harriet B. Lalor, Mrs. Belle B. Lamb, Miss Rose Landy, Miss Lillian M. Landy, Mrs. Mary E. Lane, Mrs. Ida M. Lathrop, Miss Julia C. Laughlin, Miss Gail Lawson, Mrs. Arthur A. Lawson, Mrs. Lillie F. Lee, Miss Mary Lee, Miss Nannie Lee, Mrs. John C. Lewisohn, Miss Alice Lewisohn, Miss Irene Linsky, Mrs. Bessie B. Lippincott, Mrs. Helen Little, Mrs. David M. Livermore, Mrs. Henrietta W. Livingstone, Mrs. Deborah Knox Loines, Mrs. Mary H. A Friend Lord, Mrs. Myra B. Lundberg, Mrs. Gustaf Luscomb, Miss Florence H. Luscomb, Mrs. H. S.[*10*] 8 MacDonald, Mrs. Colin W. Magoun, Mrs. Jeanne Bartholow Mahan, Mrs. Mary Agnes Maine Woman Suffrage Association Mann, Mrs. Ralph H. Mansfield, Mrs. Howard Marblehead Equal Suffrage League Merks, Mrs. Lionel S. Marsh, Mrs. T. C. Martin, Mrs. Charles W. Maryland Woman Suffrage Association Maskrey, Mrs. Florence E. M. Mason, Mrs. E. C. Mason, Miss Ellen F. Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union Masury, Mrs. Charles H. Mather, Mrs. Charles W. "In memory of Abby W. May". McClure, Miss Alfretta McCulloch, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McNulty, Mrs. Helen C. Mead, Mrs. Lucia Ames Mendenhall, Mrs. W. C. Meredith, Mrs. Ellis Merrick, Mrs. Jennie Smith Middlesex 23rd and 24th Districts Suffrage Association Mills, Mrs. Mabel O. Molineux, Miss Marie Ada Morrison, Mrs. Ida T. Morse, Mrs. Lucy L. Morse, Miss Millicent S. Murphy, Miss Mary Nathan, Mrs. Frederick Natick Suffrage League In memory of Amos P. Cheney O. Augusta Cheney Hannah Cunniff Dascom, Mrs. Mancella Miss Ellen M. Dewing Lydia S. Dewing Mrs. Mary R. Estey Ellie A. Hilt Marietta Rice Matilda B. Tibbetts Seth W. Tibbetts Gideon D. Tower Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association Mrs. Draper Smith Mrs. Harold Gifford Mrs. James Richardson Mrs. H. C. Sumney Mrs. Herbert M. Rogers Mrs. George W. Covell[*11*] 9 Mrs. W. E. Shafer Mrs. G. W. Holdrege Mr. C. S. Stebbins Mrs. C. S. Stebbins Miss Eunice Stebbins Miss Jeanette McDonald Mrs. R. E. H. Stevens Mrs. C. C. Belden Mrs. C. E. Johannes Miss Daisy Doane Mrs. George W. Doane, Sr. Mrs. Charles H. Dewey Miss Belle Dewey Mrs. E. L. Burke Mrs. C. F. Harrison Miss Edith Tobitt Mrs. M. F. Shafer Mrs. D. G. Craighead Mrs. A. J. Love Mrs. F. D. Wead Mrs. W. T. Graham Mrs. E. C. Twamley Mrs. T. L. Kimball Mrs. C. T. Kountze Mrs. Z. T. Lindsey Mrs. F. H. Cole Miss Ione Duffy Dr. Adda Ralston Mrs. H. B. Copper Mrs. Caroline Bronson Mrs. Philip Potter Mr. E. S. Rood Mrs. E. S. Rood Mrs. C. H. Dietrich, Hastings Mrs. W. E. Barkley, Jr., Lincoln Miss Mary H. Williams, Kenesaw Needham, Miss Ellie Needham Equal Suffrage League New York State League of Women Voters Noble, Dr. Anngenette Fowler North Adams Equal Suffrage League Norwood, Mrs. A. J. Noyes, Mrs. Charles P. Ogden, Miss Esther G. Oklahoma Woman Suffrage Association Dr. Ruth A. Gay Dr. Minerva Lewis Mrs. Julia Dunham Mrs. Jence C. Feuquay Mrs. Lee I. Lennox Mrs. Alta B. Reiss Mrs. Adelia C. Stephens Mrs. Julia L. Woodworth Mrs. Elizabeth Burt Judge James L. Brown Magwood W. C. T. U.[*12*] 10 Mrs. M. A. Morrison Mrs. Ellen McElroy Olcott, Miss Mary Oppenheim, Mrs. Laurent Ordway, Dr. Mabel D. Osgood, Miss Fanny C. Oxley, Mrs. Fannie Burton Packard, Miss Marjorie Page, Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Palmer, G. H. Papazian, Mrs. Bertha S. Papazian, Garabed H. Park, Mrs. Maud Wood Parker, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Parker, Dr. Valeria H. Parsons, Mr. Albert Stevens Parsons, Mrs. Edgerton Paton, Mrs. Ella A. Paton, Miss Mabel F. Patten, Mrs. Eleanor T. Peabody, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mr. George Foster Pease, Miss Ann Delia Peirce, Mrs. Cyrus E. Peirce, Mrs. C. N. Pennybacker, Mrs. Percy V. Perkins, Mrs. George W. Pickler, Miss Alice M. A. Piersol, Mrs. Florence L. Pinkham, Rev. Henry W. Pinkham, Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pope, Mrs. Albert A. Porritt, Mrs. Annie G. Porter, Mrs. J. F. Porter, Miss Mary G. Potter, Miss Adena Potter, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Potter, Miss Eva Sherwood Powers, Mrs. Samuel Leland Prang, Mrs. Mary Dana-Hicks Prather, Mrs. A. S. Prendergast, Mrs. E. D. Presson, Mrs. George McL. Price, Mrs. Ellen H. E. Pringle, Mrs. Sarah G. Putnam, Dr. Helen C.[*13*] 11 Randolph Committee Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Reifsnider, Mrs. Edson Reynolds, Mrs. Ida Ward Robinson, Mrs. F. N. Robinson, Mrs. Louis N. A Friend Rutz-Rees, Miss Caroline Ryan, Miss Agnes E. Ryan, Miss Eliza B. Schlesinger, Mrs. Mary Schlingheyde, Miss Clara M. Schweppe, Mrs. Harry M. Scribner, Mrs. Arthur A. Searle, Miss Florence Sears, Miss Annie L. Sears, Miss Mary P. Segee, Mrs. Lydia J. Seller, Miss Edith Sellers, Mrs. Sarah Pennock Sewall, Mrs. May Wright Shanahan, Mrs. Minnie A. Shaw, Mrs. Alice T. Shaw, Mrs. Helen Adelaide "In memory of Pauline Agassiz Shaw" Shaw, Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, Mrs. T. Mott Sheridan, Mrs. Elizabeth Donovan Sherman, Mrs. Eva Shuler, Mrs. Frank J. Shurtleff, Mrs. Arthur Silverman, Mrs. Martha M. Simonson, Mrs. Charles E. Skinner, Rev. and Mrs. Clarence R. Smith, Mrs. Arthur Parks Smith, Dr. Mary A. Smith, Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith, Mrs. Judith W. Smith, Miss Zilpha Snell, Mrs. Frank Hiram Southwell, Mrs. May Knight "In memory of Sarah H. Southwick" Spencer, Rev. Anna Garlin Sperry, Dr. Mary Simpson Stantial, Mrs. Edna Lamprey Stanton, Mrs. Harriet B. Stanwood, Miss Louie Stearns, Mrs. George H. Stevens, Mr. Henry Bailey Stevens, Mrs. Mary O. Stewart, Mrs. Ella S. Steinem, Miss Pauline Stillwell, Mrs. Horace C. Stockwell, Mrs. Maud C. Sweet, Miss Emma B.12 Talbot, Miss Marion Tappan, Miss Eliza C. Taylor, Miss Alice Taylor, Mrs. Eliza A. Texas Equal Suffrage Association Thomas, Mrs. Ellen L. Thorne, Jr., Mrs. Samuel Tiffany, Mrs. Charles L. Tillinghast, Mrs. Anna C. M. Tindall, Mrs. Helen R. Titus, Dr. Emily N. Titus, Miss Lucy M. Tolman, Mrs. James P. Trenthart, Mrs. Cornelia B. Turner, Miss Hattie Tyler, Mrs. Mary A. A Friend Van Baalen, Miss Frances van Noorden, Mrs. Sarah Vietor, Dr. Agnes C. Villard, Mrs. Henry von Arnim, Miss Albertina Wald, Miss Lillian D. Waldo, Mrs. Sadie J. Walling, Mrs. William English Warner, Mrs. Leslie Warren, Miss Cornelia Warren, Mrs. George Copp Warren, Mrs. William Fairfield Washington, Mrs. Booker T. Weisman, Miss Katharine Wellington, Mrs. Austin C. Wellington, Mrs. Ethel L. Wentworth, Mrs. Ellen Lang Wheat, Mrs. S. C. Wheeler, Mrs. S. H. White, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Whitehouse, Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, Mrs. Vira Boardman [*14*] 13 Whiting, MissAnna M. Whiting, Mrs. E. G. Whiting, Miss Sarah Frances Willcox, Mrs. William G. Willard, Miss Mabel Caldwell Williams, Mrs. Anna Phillips Williams, Mrs. Grace B. Williams, Mrs. Mary H. Willmarth, Mrs. Constance A. Wilson, Mrs. Butler Wilson, Mrs. Halsey L. Winsor, Mrs. L. K. Wise, Rabbi Stephen S. Women's Political Union of Roselle, New Jersey Wood, Miss Elizabeth M. Woodward, Mrs. Samuel B. Worcester, Mrs. Justina R. Worcester,, Miss Margaret Wright, Mrs. Jessie Waite Yates, Miss Elizabeth Upham15 YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND A RECEPTION TO MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL CELEBRATING HER BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER SIXTEEN AT THREE O'CLOCK AT THE COLLEGE CLUB FORTY COMMONWEALTH AVENUE SHORT ADDRESSES BY MRS. CATHERINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK MRS. IDA PORTER-BOYER MRS. CHARLES SUMNER BIRD AND OTHERS AT THREE-THIRTY O'CLOCK ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK MRS. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON MRS. IDA PORTER-BOYER MRS. CHARLES SUMNER BIRD MRS. ROBERT GOULD SHAW MRS. WENONA OSBORNE PINKHAM EXECUTIVE BOARD, MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD, BOSTON EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD, COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE PLEASE REPLY TO MISS FLORENCE LUSCOMB, 553 LITTLE BUILDING, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS [*16*] BOSTON EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT 552-554 LITTLE BUILDING TELEPHONE BEACH 6310 "We are indeed bound to be brave, active and joyful in doing each one to the very utmost, what we can, with all our might and with all our heart and with all our soul." PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW. Dear Fellow-Suffragist: The passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment through Congress virtually ends the long struggle for Woman Suffrage in the United States. In this hour of victory the thoughts of every suffragist turn in grateful memory to the long list of those whose devotion, toil, and sacrifice have made the victory possible. One generation of noble workers has passed away and only a few of a second generation remain. Along with the sorrow for Dr. Shaw's death, we rejoice that she lived to see the triumph of the cause to which she had given her life. During this year which has held the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lucy Stone, suffragists everywhere have been reminded of the debt we owe to her, to Henry B. Blackwell, and to their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. It has occurred to some of us that this would be a fitting time to express our affection for Miss Blackwell and at the same time to conclude the celebration of the Lucy Stone Centennial in an enduring way. Miss Blackwell has long wished to write her mother's life. Since Massachusetts has ratified the Federal Amendment her duties as President of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association will not require so much of her time and she will be free to devote herself to this task. In order to do so she must have the help of a secretary to go through the mass of material and assist in preparing the manuscript. There is other valuable historical matter which ought to be preserved which she alone can record. We believe the suffragists of the country will delight to give her the assistance she needs to do this. Miss Blackwell's birthday comes on September 14th. A birthday gift of $5000 would make it possible for her to do what she would like above everything else; would preserve for those who have entered into the inheritance prepared for them a story they will want to recall; and would be a slight token of our love for Miss Blackwell and of our appreciation of her lifetime of service to our beloved cause.[*17*] - 2- The plan has the hearty and sincere approval of our National President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The undersigned committee have undertaken to raise this sum and ask the help of suffrage organizations and individual suffragists. May we hear from you? Any letters of greeting which may accompany the gifts will be bound and given to Miss Blackwell when the contributions are presented. Please use paper 6 x 9, that the size may be uniform. The list of those who make the publication of the record possible will be included in the published volume as substantial evidence of their appreciation of the loyalty and service given the cause of Woman Suffrage by Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, and Alice Stone Blackwell. Contributions or pledges should be sent as soon as possible to Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Sincerely yours, (signed) Maud Wood Park Harriet Taylor Upton Ida Porter Boyer (Mrs. Charles Sumner) Anna Child Bird (Mrs. Robert Gould) Isabella Pratt Shaw Wenona Osbourne PinkhamBOSTON EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT 552-554 LITTLE BUILDING TELEPHONE BEACH 6310 "We are indeed bound to be brave, active and joyful in doing each one to the very utmost, what we can, with all our might and with all our heart and with all our soul." PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW. September 16, 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell, In this hour of victory, the thoughts of every suffragist turn in grateful memory to the long list of those whose devotion, toil, and sacrifice have made the victory possible. During this year, which has held the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lucy Stone, suffragists everywhere have been reminded of the debt we owe to her, [*to*] Henry B. Blackwell, and to you, their daughter. We have felt that this would be a fitting time to express our affection for you, and at the same time conclude the celebration of the Lucy Stone Centennial in an enduring way. We want you to write the story of the life and work of your parents. This sum of five thousand dollars ($5000.), has been given for the purpose of providing a secretary to assist you in preparing the manuscript; and, also, to provide for its publication. The names of those contributing, and their letters of greeting, will be sent to you a little later when the list is complete. Please accept this birthday gift from the suffragists of the nation as a slight expression of our love for you, and of our appreciation of your life long service for our beloved cause. Faithfully yours, Maud Wood Park Harriet Taylor Upton Ida Porter-Boyer Anna C. Bird Isabella P. Shaw Wenona Osbourne Pinkham26 Ware Hall. Cambridge. Sept 5, 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham- I am sending enclosed a small check to add to the gift for Miss Blackwell. I am very thankful that [?] [pe??] have been profound? for its quite an opportunity to those who love and admire Miss Blackwell to show their appreciation of what she is and what she has done. When I think over the long years of discouragement in working for Woman Suffrage I [?] at the heroic qualities which our great leaders have shown. They had infinite faith infinite patience. To-day when victory is ours, our hearts are overflowing with gratitude for what they have made possible. Miss Blackwell is peculiarly our own. We love her for her workbut still more for her constant friendship. I count it one of the great gifts that life has given? me, my association and sympathy with her. Always Sincerely proud Ellen F. Adams.2 sent, and next week if I can I'll try to get more to follow, Hope you will keep the donor book open awhile. Please remember that it takes us a long time to get things done here! M is a typical old Reyttusn community: Most won't hurry. I'll go before the Federalist Club Tuesday, their first day of meeting and present this cause; if any of them send anything I'll be glad to know it; but the chairman of our Voter League will call a meeting: though much I've urged, she is most interested in clubs, yet nothing would do but to [?] her in as chairman. You see only old workers know who works. I can't say to a meeting of ladies you have made a mistake in hearing a woman; so all we can do is to let it die as I've pushed the matter a half dozen times 3 otherwise I could [?] a committee could canvas the business district, [?] put on a show. but I'm failing so very fast can't walk much any more and no help available. Takes all my strength to just keep things going second rate fashion at home. I've dropped out of all things this year to try to conserve my fast waining strength. Now we have suffrage they sit down, take their ease, do nothing. So hot here most of the year, we are unfit for campaigns: dust storms wear us out. City spent many hundreds of thousands per [?], very little gotten. All drainage at that. [?] abound. I'd like much to have an hour to write Mrs. Blackwell an appreciative2 sent, and next week if I can I’ll try to get more to follow. Hope you will keep the donors book open awhile. Please remember that it takes us a long time to get things done here it is a typical old seythum community: that won’t hurry. I’ll go before the Federalist Club Tuesday; their first day of meeting thru all, and present this cause; if any of them send anything I’ll be glad to know it, but the chairman of our voters league must call a meeting: though much I’ve used, she is more interested in clubs, yet nothing would do but to stick her in as chairman: you see only old workers know who workd. I can’t say to a meeting of ladies you have made a mistake in placing a woman, so all we can do is to let it die: as I’ve pushed the matter a half dozen times 3 otherwise I could through a committee could canvas the business district, or put on a show: but I’m failing so fast I can’t walk much anymore, and no help available: takes all my strength to just keep things going second rate fashion at home. I’ve dropped out of all things this year to try to conserve my fast failing strength. Now we have suffrage they sit down, take their early do nothing. So hot here first of the year, we are unfit for campaigns: dust storms wear us out. City spent many hundreds of thousands for water, very little gotten. All drainage as that, grafters abound. I’d like much to have an hour to write Mrs. Blackwell an appreciativenote, but if this goes I must do it “lickety split”, give her my dearest love with a wish for many returns like this. I always want to say, God bless her when one reason I’m so slow in sending this money it is my prize on fruits at Co Fair, and on one of best kept Lawns. When I write you it is all done with one hand, and a 2 gallon sprinkler, water drawn with a rope for 100 ft of ground for many [?] it has been earned justly — against those who have city water at hand. This is a hard country to grow grass fruits flowers. I’ve demonstrated it can be done; and at last get many to try it, hence commercial club gave prizes — so glad I get one to give Miss Blackwells fund. Mrs. Frances Agnew.20 Harriet C. Upton Mortgages and Loans Warren, Ohio Warren O., Sept. 6, 1919. Dear Miss Alice, I've been west on the not unusual occupation for grandmothers, of supervising a family while the Mother thereof was at the hospital adding to its numbers. It was there that I received the word of the celebration of your birthday in which I want to have at least a little share; if I may not be present in person I may be there by letter so I send you (from the office of our mutual good friend whose paper I am using) just my good wis wishes for your long continued happiness and good work. Cordially yours, Rachel Foster Avery. 21 215 WEST 101ST STREET NEW YORK Sept. 9, 1919. Mrs. Wenona O. Pinkham, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam; In reply to your letter of August 13 permit me to send the enclosed check toward the fund for Miss Blackwell's birthday gift. Every suffragist owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to Miss Blackwell for her lifetime of faithful work in the cause. The files of the Woman's Journal are indeed a monument to the brilliance and intrepid spirit of Miss Blackwell whose clear thinking and wonderful talent for concise statement have supplied to the lay worker so many a valuable weapon for attack and for defense in the suffrage cause. I thank you for the opportunity [for] of permitting me to participate in this offering to Miss Blackwell, whom I so highly esteem. Very sincerely yours Ethel McClintoels Adamson (Mrs. Robert Adamson) HULL-HOUSE 800 SOUTH HALSTED STREET CHICAGO My dear Mrs Pinkham I am sorry that my contribution to Miss Blackwell's Birthday Fund must be so small, but - I am quite unwilling to be left out. Faithfully yours Jane Addams Sept-4 '1919710 East Broadway Athis Okla Sep 10th 1919 My Dear Miss Blackwell To wish you all the good things in life seems tame, when I recall the fact that you are the daughter of brave Lucy Stone of beloved mememory. I cant begin to tell you how much she has been to me. Her struggles to educate women to a better conception of their own status; incited me to make copy. I knew less of Henry B Blackwell but the one story of his making womans cause, his, "if she would marry him" still holds a deep place in my regard. My 72 yrs has not taken all romance out of my mind or heart. what you all have done for me and this my adopted state, can not be forgotten. It meant much to me and strengthened one. With sincere affection and wishes for many returns Mrs. Francis AgnewTHE MISSES ALLEN SCHOOL WEST NEWTON MASSACHUSETTS Ogunquit_Maine August 19- Dear Mrs. Pinkham;- I am very glad to send the enclosed & wish it might be much more, for I have long hoped that a [???table] life ofthat beautiful woman- Lucy Stone Blackwell might be written No one can better do it than her daughter - Powell remember dear Ms. Lucy Stone Blackwell & her husband coming to West Newton & my Father & Mother- Nathaniel & Caroline Allen - Great suffragists always- entertained them at my house As a principal of a school for girls and young ladies, I value always the lives of such women & shall look forward with great interest to Miss Blackwell's book Sincerely Lucy Ellis AllenLands End, Rockport, Mass September 14th, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell It is a very simple unadorned birthday greeting that I am sending you, too personal to be put with the others in the book which is to be given you. You might have won a hightheir own interests and were harsh and cruel. How different with you. Ever since I joined in suffrage work, your wisdom your breadth of mind and your unselfishness have been an inspiration and a rest to my soul. I thank you for all you are and all you have done, and am yours with sincere reverence. Mary Ware Allenplace in the purely literary world, but you have chosen to give your great gifts to the cause of human freedom. Your father and mother and you, all unselfishly devoting yourselves to the same great object;- how beautiful is such a sympathy of soul! I have met people in suffrage work who have used it to advance 405 Marlborough Street. Boston, Mass., Sept. 15, 1919. My dear Mrs. Osborne: Please convey to Miss Blackwell my affectionate appreciation of her life-long devotion to the cause of freedom. I am glad that she has lived to see the successful fruition of her labors. It is by no means an accident that the triumph of woman's freedom comes simultaneously with the birth of a new world order, when the nations unite in a League for justice and liberty. I hope in this broader sphere we shall have for many years to come the inspiration and the guidance of Alice Stone Blackwell. Faithfully yours, Fannie Fern AndrewsMRS. CHAS. T. DRENNEN First Vice President Hot Springs MRS. STELLA BRIZZOLARA Second Vice President Fort Smith MRS. OLIN F. ELINGTON Honorary Chairman Dallas, Texas MRS. FRANK W. GIBB Pulaski County Chairman State Secretary Little Rock MRS. R. W. WALKER Treasurer Little Rock CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CHAIRMEN - First District- Mrs. C. E. Daggett, Marianna Second District- Mrs. R. F. Milwee, Clarendon Third District- Mrs. A. Marinoni, Fayetteville Fourth District- Mrs. Stella Brizzolara, Fort Smith Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee MRS. THOMAS T. COTNAM, CHAIRMAN LITTLE ROCK, ARK. PULASKI COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CHAIRMEN Fifth District- Mrs. W. L. Moose, Morrilton Sixth District- Mrs. Chas.T. Drennen, Hot Springs Seventh District- Mrs. M. C. Burleigh, Dermott LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Sept 8 - 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell: Arkansas suffragists rejoice will all those of the United States that your birthday finds you in good health, with your accustomed vigor and eternal alertness. May your years be many and may those magic initials A.S.B. continue to sign inspirational articles. We are sending you a small testimonial of our appreciation of your work and it also carries with it our love and esteem. Cordially Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Com, by Florence B. Cotnam, ChairmanAltus, Okla. Sept. 22, 1919. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham Boston, Mass. My Dear Mrs. Pinkham Inclosed you will find $6 00 which is being sent you by the Altus City Federation of Clubs to show you to some extent our appreciation of the great work you are doing and hope it may be in a small way of material assistance to you. Respectfully, Mrs. H. H. Rutland Treas. 523 E. Commerce st.Office of The Armenian National Union of America. Dear Miss Blackwell;- The Armenian National Union of America extends greetings and congratulations to you on the occasion of the celebration of your birthday which, we understand, commemorates also the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of your mother, Lucy Stone. The homage of all mankind is due to those who devote their lives to the cause of Right and Truth, and among such you and your mother will forever occupy a high place. We recall with especial gratitude your distinguished services to the cause of Armenia and hope that the present darkness which surrounds that cause may soon give way to the dawn for which you have labored with us. It is a pleasure to know that the struggle for human liberty as it was expressed in the lives of your mother and father is to take enduring form in a book to be written by you. Wishing you all success and happiness, we remain Yours most sincerely, The Armenian National Union, M. H. Hovhannesian Secretary.Materick, R.I. Septemb 21st 1919. My dear Mrs Pinkham. Enclosed you will find a check of $25.00 towards Miss Blackwell's birthday gift. This is in Memory of my Mother Mrs Edward Atkinson. If she were living today, I know she would respond generously to your appeal, and rejoice that she could help in the celebration of the Lucy Stone Centennial. Sincerely yours Caroline P. Atkinson.ROBERT A. WOODS, CHAIRMAN JULIUS EISEMANN, VICE-CHAIRMAN CHARLES JACKSON, TREASURER WALTER HUNNEWELL, JR. ASSISTANT TREASURER WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE, INC. 846 LITTLE BUILDING 80 BOYLSTON STREET METROPOLITAN BOSTON TEL. BEACH 3850 BOSTON, MASS. CHAUNCEY W. WALDRON, DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, BOSTON, MASS. MRS. JOHN BALCH GEORGE A. COLE RALPH L. HARLOW MRS. ROBERT W. LOVETT LAWRENCE C. BROOKS ARCHIBALD T. DAVISON MRS. HENRY HOWARD GEORGE B. MORISON CHARLES L. CARR JULIUS EISEMANN MISS EDITH M. HOWES MAYOR ANDREW J. PETERS JOHN M. CASEY MRS. A. LINCOLN FILENE WALTER HUNNEWELL, JR. REV. M. J. SCANLAN JAMES R. CHANDLER ELMER S. FORBES CHARLES JACKSON MRS. MATTHEW SULLIVAN MRS. EVELYN PEVERLEY COE WILLIAM F. GARCELON JOSEPH LEE MRS. BUTLER WILSON BOSTON, Success to the enterprise which means so much for all the world. Thanking you for the opportunity to be in at the launching & Congratulations to Miss Blackwell Most Cordially Ethel ArmesDunkirk, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham: It is with the greatest pleasure that I make this small contribution to the Blackwell Memorial fund. I only wish that I could make it many times larger, for if ever any one has earned a nitche in the "Hall of Fame," it is Lucy Stone and her grand husband, Henry B. Blackwell. I trust that the work of their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, will be included in the proposed pages for she is certainly the worthy daughter of most worthy parents. She has not only continued, but added to their work until she is a marvel to all who know her. I regret that space will not permit me to express my appreciation of the assistance she was to me during the seven years in which I served as chairman of press work for the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her knowledge along all lines of human activity she freely shared with me as she does with all others interested along these lines. Very sincerely yours, Elnora M. Babcock1117 SPRUCE STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA. August 30th 1919 Mrs. WENONA OSBORNE PINKHAM, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- In response to a letter received to-day, It is with pleasure that I am sending a small check to be added to Miss Blackwell's Birthday remembrance. Whth all good wishes for many more returns of the day, I am, Very truly Dr. Kate W. Baldwin Kate W. BaldwinHedge Lawn Williamstown Mass August 31 - 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham I am enclosing a small check in response to your appeal of August 13,received yesterday. From my girlhood I have always been an absolutely convinced suffragist but never a real worker for the cause. I have been content to trail on [hind?], and I admit the effort of others to bring about a reform [? based] upon elemental principles of justice seemed to me sure of realization someday.2. The day has come practically and I am sending my slight contribution. As large a one nevertheless as I can reasonably afford, with the hope of acquitting myself of a bit of my indebtedness to those faithful workers - Wishing you all success in your undertaking I am Very Truly Yours Jean BassomWare, Sept. 14. 1919. Dear Alice- May you have many happy returns of this day. I remember when I saw you first; you were three weeks old, riding with your mother + Mrs. Lawrence to Gardner and stopped for a call at our old home on the farm. I wonder if Kitty has left Kilmun. In her last letter, July I think, she hoped to be away by the middle of Aug. I thought you might have later news. I hope she will find a good home and be much happier for the change. Sincerely yours, M. A. Barlow.[*28*] JOHN L. BATES FRANK N. NAY LEON M. ABBOTT WALTER A. DANE ROBERT E. BUFFUM BATES, NAY, ABBOTT & DANE COUNSELORS AT LAW 933-939 TREMONT BUILDING 73 TREMONT STREET BOSTON, MASS. TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 1206 Sept. 15, 1919. Miss Florence Luscomb, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Luscomb; I have the cordial invitation to attend a reception to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, celebrating her birthday on Tuesday afternoon, September 16th, at the College Club and regret that imperative engagements prevent my acceptance. It has been my privilege to have had a long acquaintance with Miss Blackwell and I have a very high appreciation of her character and of the great public work that she has accomplished. I extend my heartiest congratulations. Yours sincerely, John L. Bates B/F5098 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building Boston, Mass. Dear Mrs. Pinkham, Enclosed find check for five (5) dollars towards the $5000.00 fund being collected for Miss Blackwells birthday. I have enjoyed her editorials in the Woman's Journal and Woman Citizen for many years and wishI could make a more generous contribution towards the labor of love which she desires to undertake and which I hope she will be able to accomplish. Yours truly Adelhied C. Bedal. 9-9-1919.Coy's Hill, West Brookfield, Mass. Sept 9. 1919- Congratulations to Miss Blackwell on her birthday anniversary. from the Beeman cousins on Coy's Hill and elsewhere. We rejoice that cousin Alice, with victory in sight; can now take time to give to posterity, in permanent form, the great facts & loving impulses underlying the grand life of that noblest of women, Lucy Stone. Mr & Mrs. L. L. Beeman Mr & Mrs. B. S. Beeman Mr & Mrs. F. S. BeemanTHE CHANNELS POWDER POINT, DUXBURY MASSACHUSETTS With most sincere appreciation of the wonderful work of dear Miss Blackwell and her parents who will always be held in grateful Memory. Maud B. Benedict- September 14. 1919.[*Emma Blackwell*] West-Tisbury Mass Sept. 15. 1919 Dear Alice Your sweet letter has just-come with the Listener's "appreciation" and he has said it-so much better than I could, that I will just remark that those are emphatically my centiments too, and give you an affectionate hug and pass on to tell you why my letter comes lagging along two days late. You are, [Ama?] went on Thursday morning to Boston-Thursday P.M. I took the two middle sized babes, and leaving Hastings with Aunties, and E.beth with Gladys, accepted Mr. Hancock's invitation to his house, where we saw The Golden Wedding gifts, to which our offering had been [a cake?] produced with much tribulation and one rejected;2 which the children joyfully consumed in advance. The day was lovely and Mr. & Mrs. Hancock as nice as could be, and as a fitting class to the afternoon's pleasure I bought some of Priscilla Hancock's "Home-made Candy"- Next day, Friday. Mrs. Abbey & four children came to go & picnic on our beach, and invited our folks, so I put up bread & chicken scraps, and bread and apple sauce, which was all I could contribute to the picnic except our own eager flock, who swarmed off with the four, and had luncheon on the beach- while Baby & I gathered a quart of blueberries in the pasture. Every little while I thought of you, and wished that I could be with you tomorrow. and loved you afresh- and then at night came a bunch(3 of mail to be attended to immediately-and Saturday Anna was still gone until night, and I was mother, tutor, + law giver till all the gray matter was clean gone. This morning we, Vinie + E.beth + I tried to go to Nantucket. We got all ready + then it rained, just like your poetry- and we didn't go- but we mean to, tomorrow or the next day or as soon as it gets ready to be pleasant weather. I am truly very sorry not to be able to be at your party and that Howard cant, either, but both our spirits will be there, loving you with all our might! The big piece of driftwood has burned out and I must warm up my water bottle and creep under the blankets. God bless you, dear, and give you many more years! Emma-Nahaut, Massachusetts, October 10, 1919. Dear Mrs. Pinkham: As I have been quite seriously ill and could not attend to my mail, I have just got to reading the letter about Miss Blackwell's birthday present. If nottoo late, will you kindly use the enclosed $5.00 check toward it? If too late to be added to the birthday fund, perhaps it can still be used toward the same purpose as the present. Cordially yours Harriet A. Bubier Bergman (Mrs. S'ven R.)My dear Miss Blackwell: It is a great satisfaction to me to hear that you are planning to write your Mother's life. I have long kept Lucy Stone's birthday as one of the year's sacred days and treasured the short stories of her life which you have written for The Woman's Journal and The Woman Citizen. These stories have given me a keen desire for a longer story from the same pen. My pleasure in doing my little part towards getting this longer story given to the world is greatly enhanced by the admiration and love I have for Lucy Stone's daughter, whose life and work have been to me a source of in-[inspiration]spiration and courage. The high faith and courage of those who first saw the vision is not more glorious than the faith well grounded and sure of those who "carried on" through the disheartening years of indifference and hope deferred. So September 14 is not less than August 13th, is a day to be held in great honor by the enfranchised and near enfranchised women of America. Affectionately Yours, Anna H. Blackwell 5-37 Magie St. Elizabeth, New Jersey Helen T. Blackwell The Hillside Inn East Lebron, NY Sept. 16, 1919 My dearest Cousin Alice - It was a very real disappointment that Howard and I failed in carrying out our plan of coming over Sunday afternoon to bring our congratulations and good wishes, but visitors and an engagement for supper combined to present, and as your telephone was in we could not tell you that we were thinking of you. I came back here yesterday and received your dear little note just as I was leaving the house. Mother says she would like to have the book [^Life of B. Spalding?] sent to her at 4 Riedisel [?] Avenue, as it will be kept for her there and just now her movements and Marguerite's are rather uncertain for a week or mo. Marguerite is going next week to Columbia for the first semester. We shall miss her very, very much during the fall and winter. Aunt Gertie is surprisingly well and Mother is well too. We are thankful that our dear little John has none of the serious things it was feared that he might have, and we are greatly cheered but can't help wishing there were something we could do that would bring speedy improvement - I fear it is to be a long pull, but believe he will come out all right in the end. George is in magnificent trim and begins Browne + Nichols schools on Monday next. Lane is indescribable and inimitable but an endless delight. We all send you our love and hope for many more of these dear birthdays, this [?] one is so special because of its association with dear Aunt Lucy. Goodnight, dear Cousin, Love Helen[*31*] 4 Riedesel Avenue Cambridge, Mass. Sep. 16, 1919. Mrs. W. O. Pinkham, Boston, Mass. My dear Mrs. Pinkham, I know the enclosed check is belated, but hope you will still take charge of it for the great work which Miss Blackwell has in view. You and the rest of the committee will have our gratitude for making the long cherished undertaking possible. Mrs. Blackwell joins me in this small addition to the fund and in best wishes. Sincerely yours Howard L. Blackwell (Please don't trouble to acknowledge)-Dear Alice Stone Blackwell, My father used to say "Lucy Stone made me a Suffragist. I heard her when she was a young woman. She had a remarkably sweet voice; a gently winning personality." It has fill me with- pain oftentimes in these late years, to find so many of the workers never saw your mother. To them she is a historical person. It gives me great joy, therefore, to send greetings on your birthday. You alone of all the world can write your Mother's life as it should be. My memories of your mother and father go back to the time, when, as a young minister in Indianapolis, my father arranged for suffrage meetings and your mother and father stayed with us and I first heard of "their little Alice" the petting they gave me because you were so far away and of their longing for you, has ere remained in my mind. You remember my father's birthday and your mother's were the same August 13, ofdifferent years. My parents were of the old guard. It has been my privilege to do what I could, to have known and honored and loved Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell, through my father and mother Henry and A.E. Blanchard. God bless you and give joy and strength for your work. Alice Blanchard Portland, MaineThe Oaks Washington D.C. Aug 23, 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkhem, Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to be one of Miss Blackwell's numberless friends to help celebrate her birthday in this delightful fashion. If all send as much love and admiration with their contributions as I do, she will be richly endowed for all the rest of her life - Very truly yours, Lucia E. BlountR. D. #2 Indiana, Pa September, 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell, Appreciate very much the privilege of enrolling as one of your friends. It is wonderful to have given to the world the service you have given - and to have the fine reasoning power and untiring energy which made that service so effective. A happy birthday to you and many more of them with my personal gratitude to you and to the memory of your parents. Most Sincerely Yours, Clara E. Bothell. 380 Longwood Ave. Boston Sept - 6/19 Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Enclosed pleased find my check and Miss Morrison's also for five dollars. To be used as a birthday gift - for dear Miss Blackwell. I would enclose a written tribute but have no paper of the size required please put the names on Gloucester, Sept 15th 1919 My Dear Miss Luscomb, While it is quite impossible for me to attend the Birthday Reception to our friend, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, will you please convey then my very warm congratulations for her years of valuable help for all women, and the hope that she will be able to add many more such years to the good record. Very Sincerely Ada C. Borolesthe birthday list together as we are sisters. Hoping there may be a generous contribution from all over the country, I am Yours Sincerely, Kate M. Bourne (Mrs. Bordan Parker ")Islesford_ Maine Aug. 21, 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkham, I wish I were able to send more than the accompanying cheque for the BirthDay Testimonial to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell but it goes with [?] good wishes for thenoble woman herself, and the cause to which she & hers had given their best Sincerely yours Ohoia Y. Bowditch553 Little Building Boston Mass Sept 14, 1919 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock St. Dorchester, Mass. My Dear Massie: To be a little part of your birthday celebration is a great joy. May we have many recurring opportunities at which you shall be the central figure. The swiftly slipping years have kept our silver card of friendship shining. May its end be found tied in a true-love knot. Affectionately yours, Ida Porter Boyer "Pennsy"1310 Rhode Island Ave Washington, D.C. August 25, 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham, I have read your letter and heartily approve the plan of giving suffragists an opportunity to show their appreciation of Miss Blackwell's many years of service for the cause. Am enclosing a small contribution with an earnest hope for the success of your undertaking. Sincerely yours, Jeanie Foster BrackettWashington D.C. September 27, 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkham, I am sorry to be late but I trust it is now too late in sending a small contribution to the fund to secure the necessary assistance for Miss Blackwell in writing the life of her mother. It has been a great privilege, as well as a pleasure to have been associated to even a small degree, with Miss Blackwell, in the great cause to which she has so unceasingly devoted herself. I shall look forward with keenanticipation to her life of her Mother. It cannot fail to be a source of inspiration to us all & a worthy companion piece to the wonderfully fine biographies which we already possess of two of its great leaders. Very sincerely yours, Alice G BraindeisNantucket. Mass. Sept. 18. 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell - Just a line to send you my deep affection, and to say how much I congratulate myself and all suffragists on your birth-day, and how much I hope for our sake that there will be many, many more. I can never tell you how much I think we owe you. (Ky. is going to have a share in in your birth-day gift.) I wish I knew your house address again - are you in or near Boston, now? We may go home, via Boston (!) The first of next week, if I knew where you were, I might come to see you a minute, if you weren't too busy. And, please tell me the address to which I should send the $50. For one of Babushka's Russian orphans. I have lost the article. I wish you would come & stay with me in Lexington some time. If a convention ever leads you near here again, won't you do it, please! Affectionately yours, Madeline D. BreckinridgeMrs.D. Breckinridge Brondale Farm-East Hardwick Vt. Sept 2. My Dear Madam I am very glad to add my write to assist Miss Blackwell in her work. and shall be glad to read the volume when completed. More than that I would like our "wars back" Governor to have a copy & have to read it. I do feel our fair green Mountain State is disgraced Very cordially yours Jennie G. Brenen[*35*] NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN) NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 171 MADISON AVENUE TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, President DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Honorary President 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK, MASS. 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT MISS MARY GARRETT HAY, NEW YORK 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. GUILFORD DUDLEY, TENN. 4TH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. RAYMOND BROWN, NEW YORK LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CHAIRMAN MRS. CHARLES H. BROOKS WICHITA, KANSAS SECRETARY MISS KATHERINE PIERCE 112 N. BROADWAY OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 5TH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. HELEN GARDENER, WASHINGTON, D.C. TREASURER MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS, CONN. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. FRANK J. SHULER, NEW YORK RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. HALSEY W. WILSON, NEW YORK DIRECTORS MRS. CHARLES H. BROOKS, Kansas MRS. J.C. CANTRILL, Kentucky MRS. RICHARD E. EDWARDS, Indiana MRS. GEORGE GELLHORN, Missouri MRS. BEN HOOPER, Wisconsin MRS. ARTHUR LIVERMORE, New York MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN, New York MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL, Pennsylvania CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK, Chairman Headquarters 1626 Rhode Island Avenue Washington, D.C. PRESS DEPARTMENT MISS ROSE YOUNG, Director 171 Madison Ave., New York NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN, President 171 Madison Ave., New York New York September tenth, 1919. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: I am one of the many women of the country who received much of their first inspiration to work for the enfranchisement of women from the "Woman's Journal", and who always found facts in its columns with which to back every argument. The way that you remember facts and incidents to meet every phase of any discussion on the subject has always been a constant marvel and we love your humor which is always good natured. I am glad to have an opportunity to tell you how helpful you have been to many of us whom you scarcely know and how grateful we are to you. With warmest wishes, Yours most sincerely Mrs. Raymond Brown Gertrude Foster Brown[*36*] General Federation of Women's Clubs 1918-1920 PRESIDENT MRS. JOSIAH EVANS COWLES, 1101 WEST ADAMS STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MISS GEORGIE A. BACON 39 DEAN ST., WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. THOMAS G. WINTER 2617 DEAN BLVD., MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. ADAM WEISS DEL NORTE, COLORADO CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. MARY I. WOOD PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE TREASURER MRS. BENJAMIN B. CLARK RED OAK, IOWA AUDITOR MRS. WILLIAM P. HARPER 651 KINNEAR PLACE, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Pasadena. October Twenty-nine 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham: I regret that I can make only a small contribution to the Birthday Fund for Miss Blackwell but I send with my enclosed check for Ten Dollars, my very hearty appreciation of the service of her Mother and herself and my very best wishes for many returns of the birthday. Most cordially, Clara B. Burdette (Mrs. Robert J. Burdette) Enclosure 1 Mrs. Wenona Osbourne Pinkham, 52 Little Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[*37*] Wilmington, Vt. Sept. 18, 1919. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- I am sending a personal gift of $5., to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, as suggested by Suffrage Committee. Sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Belle M. Butterfield. Wilmington, Vt. Sept. 18, 1919. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Dear Miss Blackwell:- We reverently thank God-for your life of vigorous devotion to a once unpopular cause. For your unselfish adherence through long years of adverse public sentiment. And we reqoice that the seed of equality sown by its pioneers is everywhere springing up for the regeneration of the world. Very sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Belle M. Butterfield.413 SCHOOL HOUSE LANE GERMANTOWN Sep. 15, 1919 My Dear Dear Miss Blackwell, This is just a word of greeting from your old friend and admirer. To say that I hope that you are having a most delightful birthday celebration and thatThe coming years will bring to you all that you wish, all that you hope for, for you will as you have always done, only wish and hope for the very best. With much love I am Sincerely Yours Jane Campbell Hearty greetings and congratulations from a co-worker. Julia F. Callahan Lynn Sept. 11, 1919Sept 2nd 1919 Jennings Place Painseville, Ohio Mrs Wenona Osbourne Pinkhaw 553 Little Building Boston Mass Dear Madame I am pleased to enclose in this my cheek for a small sum that may help just a little in the amount you wish to collect — for Miss Blackwell's birthday — The life of Lucy Stone should be written and no person can do it as well as her daughter. Sincerely Yours — Frances M Easement[*39*] September 14, 1919. My dear Miss Blackwell, -- We are approaching the end of the long struggle for the liberation of women from the old discriminations and restraints. It is not often that any worker for a great cause stands as we stand today before a clear-cut final victory which releases us from the responsibilities to which we set ourselves so long ago. Looking backward over that part of the history of the movement which is more or less familiar to me, I realize that our cause would not be triumphant as it is today had it not been for you. It is a wonderful thing, but it is true, that had you not lived or had you not devoted your talents and your life purposes to this cause, it would not now be victorious. It is strange that a single human being can wield such an enormous influence upon the trend of civilization, but you have done it! Anticipating, as I am, the coming release from the drudgery and the continual drive of duty, I want to acknowledge today that I owe that release to you! Oh! wonderful woman; one of the most wonderful God ever made, how grateful I am that you were born and born of such a father and such a mother! May you live long and repeat many birthdays in full enjoyment of the great achievements of your life. Carrie Chapman CattHotel Saint George Brooklyn Heights, New York Dear Miss Suscomb: I only wish it were possible for me to be present at the Anniversary celebration for Miss Blackwell. I loved & honored her Mother before she was born & I know her to be the worthy daughter of that Mother. Most cordially yours W. L. Cathie (Mrs Charles T. Cathie) Sept. 11. 1919We cover: Vermont New Hamps Main Mass Conn R. I. [40] Capital Stock. $500,000. The City and Suburban Land Trust The Largest Developers of City and Suburban Real Estate covering New England Main Office Branch Office 87 Weybosset St. 224 Main Street Providence, R. I. Springfield, Mass. Sept 12, 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkham, Enclosed find check for Ten Dollars $10, toward Miss Blackwell's birthday gift. I feel greatly honored that you allowed me to have a small share in this fine undertaking. To know Miss Blackwell is to love her and I cannot tell you how delighted I am that you wrote me. We are making good progress in Rhode Island and I hope to have the pleasure of a meet from you in the near future Sincerely yours Mary L. CassMrs. Charles T. Catlin, Hotel St. George, Brooklyn Heights, New York. Sept.1.19 My dear Mrs Pinkham: I enclose a small check in response to your letter of Aug. 13 I only wish it could be many times multiplied. As a child I heard my father speak with admiration of Lucy Stone & as I came to know her I found that his feeling was more than justified & I learned to reverence as well as admire. In these later years I have learned to love her daughter and I shall be most glad if she is able to write her mother's life. No on else could do it so well & it should be written. For fifty years I worked for Woman suffrage & cast my first vote at the age of seventy six last year. My husband was an ardent suffragist so I was fortunate in birth & marriage. My husband would have delighted to pay any tribute to Miss Blackwell whom he greatly admired Thanking you for the opportunity to contribute my mite to this splendid object I am sincerely yours W. S. Catlin1 My dear Co-workers; On my return home Monday the 25 inst. I found yours of the 13 inst. This is my first opportunity to reply to your request. You plan to give dear Alice Stone Blackwell a present on her next birth-day has my hearty and sincere approval. I hope it may enable her to write her mother's life. It will be a life of one of the noblest and best women this world ever had. In my oppian, it will be written by one worthy to be the daughter of such great parents as Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone. I am thankful I have the privilege to contribute a2 slight token to show my love and affection for dear Alice Stone Blackwell. I am one of the generation who did what I could for this glorious cause that now seems so near a final triumph. I am now almost ninety years old a few days more before my birth-day. I will enclose a check for one hundred dollars. ($100.00) Hoping you will meet with sucess in your undertaking Sincerely Yours Mrs. A. D. Chanceler Orleans Vt Aug 27- 191941 Siasconset, Mass. August 22d, 1919. Dear Alice: I am delighted with the plan for you to write a biography of your mother -- it is something that ought to be done, and that can be done satisfactorily by you alone. One of the things for which I have always been thankful is that I had the privilege of knowing your dear mother personally, of coming to see you in your beautiful home, while she and your good father were still with you. Would that they might have lived to see the triumph of the cause for which they gave their life-energy! But we are all devoutly thankful that they left you to carry it on to fulfilment. Always affectionately your old friend, Eva Channing.Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 550 Little Building Boston Mass. My dear Mrs Pinkham - It is with great pleasure that I enclose my small sum toward the birthday greeting for Miss Blackwell - I have met Miss Blackwell only a few times but have seen & heard her many times at conventions and [?] and have a most sincere and deep gratitude to her for the work she has done for suffrage and for all women every where with her tongue and her pen. It would be a misfortune were the unique information she possesses not to be recorded for the future. Very Truly yours Lenore [Harris?] Cox Mrs Lewis J. CoxNational Shakespeare Federation Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents Mrs. Charles O'H. Craigie 1720 Que Street N. W. Mrs. John Miller Dorton Buffalo, N. Y. Prof. Felix E. Schelling Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. Dewitt Clinton Croissant, Ph. D. (Princeton) Washington, D. C. Dr. Samuel J MacWatters, Litt. D. American University President Col. John Temple Grabes Post Building, Washington, D. C. Recording Secretary Mrs. Wm. A Roach 1639 R Street N. W. Corresponding Secretary H. H. Wheaton, Ph. D. Executive Apartment 3401 16th Street N. W. Treasurer Mr. Isaac Pearson 1785 Lanier Place Auditors Mr. Charles O'H Craigie Judge S. S. Ashbough Vice-Presidents for the States PROF. P. P. Burns . BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA MRS. SIDNAY NEWSON . . . TUCSON, ARIZONA MRS. H. L. McCHESNEY . LAKE VILLAGE, ARKANSAS DR. AURELIA REINHARDT . OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA MRS. H. A. SMITH . . . . DELTA, COLORADO PROF. WM. LYON PHELPS . . NEW HAVEN, CONN. DR. PHILANDER P. CLAXTON . WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. C. M. BRITTAIN . . . . LAKE CITY, FLA. REV. W. W. MEMMINGER . . ATLANTA. GEORGIA MRS. J. C. CHASE . . . . PAYETTE, IDAHO PROF. M. H. LIDDELL, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, INDIANA HON. LAFAYERRE YOUNG . . DES MOINES, IOWA PROF. RUBEN P. HALLOCK, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MRS. J. DIBERT . . NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA PROF. WINDSOR P. DAGGET . . ORONO, MAINE DR. DAVID GRAY . . . BALTIMORE, MARYLAND PROF, RICHARD BURTON, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA MRS. LORAINE P. IMMEN . GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MRS. L. B. SEDGEWICK . . COLIUMBIA, MISSISSIPPI MISS AMELIA FRUCHTE . . ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI MRS. E. L. HOUSTON . . BOZEMAN, MONTANA MRS ELLA M. HOSTETLER . LINCOLN, NEBRASKA MRS. JESSIS E. DONAHUE . MANCHESTER, N. H. REV. LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY MR. THOMAS W. CHURCHILL . NEW YORK CITY MR. FREDRICK H. CROSS . ROCHESTER, NEW YORK MRS. AURELIA PRIEST . . ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO MR. A. H. BOYDEN . SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA PROF. FREDERICK H, KOCH, GRAND FORKS, N. DAKOTA MRS. ROBERT CARLETON MORRIS . TOLEDO, OHIO MR. J. Y. CALLAHAN . . . GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA MRS. ANTON GEIBISCH . . PORTLAND, OREGON PRES DENT. SHAKESPEARE CLUB DR, HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. PROF. REED SMITH . COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA HON. CHAS. H. DILLON . . . SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. E. G. BUFORD, A. M. . . NASHVILLE, TENN. PRESIDENT, BUFORD COLLEGE MISS KATE FRIEND . . . . WACO, TEXAS MRS. CLARENCE H. McMAHON, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MRS. ALOYSIA H. DAVIS . . . WINDSOR, VERMONT PROF. C. ALFONSO SMITH . . . ANNAPOLIS, MD. MR. R. D. SHEPHERD. . SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA. MRS. FRANK W. MONDELL . . . . WYOMING WASHINGTON, D. C. PROF. FRANK YEIGH . . . TORONTO, ONRARIO 1729 Que 8th N. W. Washington D. C. Dear Miss Blackwell. With the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment for Equal Suffrage by the congress of the U. S. we see the beginning of the end of the great struggle for equal opportunity for women that has engaged the interest of thinking men and women for over half a Century our minds naturally [?] at this time, to the pioneers of the movement among whom were your father and mother. to whom we owe so much for the Victory of today has been made possible because of the unselfish devotion and constancy to the Cause of those Early pioneer workers - Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the succeeding generations[*2 43*] National Shakespeare Federation Washington, D. C. President Col. John Temple Grav es Post Building, Washing, D. C. Vice-Presidents Mrs. Charles O'H. Craigie 1720 Que Street N. W. Mrs. John Miller Horton Buffalo, N. Y. Prof. Felix C. Schelling Philadelphia, Pa Prof. Dewitt Clinton Croissant, Ph. D. (Princeton) Washington, D. C. Dr. Samuel J. MacWatters, Litt. D. American University Recording Secretary Mrs. Wm. A. Roach 1630 R Street N. W. Corresponding Secretary H. H. Wheaton, Ph. D. Executive Apartment 3401 16th Street N. W. Treasurer Mr. Isaac Pearson 1783 Lanier Place Auditors Mr. Charles O'H. Craigie Judge S. S. Ashbough Vice-Presidents for the States PROF. P. P. BURNS . BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA MRS. SIDNEY NEWSON . . . TUCSON, ARIZONA DR AURELIA REINHARDT . OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA MRS. H. A. SMITH . . . . DELTA, COLORADO PROF. WM. LYON PHELPS . . NEW HAVEN, CONN. DR. PHILANDER P. CLAXTON . WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. C. M. BRITTAIN . . . . LAKE CITY, FLA. REV W. W. MEMMINGER . . ATLANTA, GEORGIA MRS. J. C. CHASE . . . .PAYETTE, IDAHO PROF. M. H. LIDDELL, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, INDIANA HON. LAFAYETTE YOUNG . . DES MOINES, IOWA PROF. REUBEN P. HALLOCK, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MRS. J. DIBERT . . NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA PROF. WINDSOR P. DAGGETT . . ORONO, MAINE DR. DAVID GRAY . . . BALTIMRE, MARYLAND PROF. RICHARD BURTON, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA MRS. LORAINE P. IMMEN . GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MRS. L. B. SEDGWICK , , COLUMBIA, MISSISSIPPI MISS AMELIA FRUCHTE . ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI MRS. E. L. HOUSTON . . BOZEMAN, MONTANA MRS. ELLA M. MOSTETLER . LINCOLN, NEBRASKA MRS. JESSIE E. DONAHUR . MANCHESTER, N. H. REV. LYMAN WHITNET ALLEN, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY MR. THOMAS W. CHURCHILL . NEW YORK CITY MR. FREDERICK H. CROSS . ROCHESTER, NEW YORK MRS. AURELIA PRIEST . . ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO MR. A. J. BOYDEN . SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA PROF. FREDERICK H. KOCH, GRAND FORKS, N. DAKOTA MRS. ROBERT CARLETON MORRIS . TOLEDO, OHIO MR. J. Y. CALLAHAN . . . GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA MRS. ANTON GIEBISCH . . PORTLAND, OREGON PRESIDENT, SHARESPEARE CLUB DR. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. PROF. REED SMITH . COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA HON. CHAS. H. DILLON . . . SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. E. G. BUFORD, A. M. . NASHVILLE, TENN. PRESIDENT, BUFORD COLLEGE MISS KATE FRIEND . . . . WACO, TEXAS of loyal women, who inspired by their example, took up the work and carried on the work they had begun! I did not know [?] stone but I have twice crossed in person the continent for suffrage propaganda. work in the far west in company with you and your Dear Father. and I realize that no-one has done more to enlighten the public and to advance the cause of woman suffrage than you and Your Father I shall never forget that wonderful church prayer Fathers at the convention in Seattle when he seemed really inspired in his wonderful presentation of the subject - which carried me [?] feel - with enthusiasm! On this your Birthday - I wish personally to thank you for the years of faithful3 National Shakespeare Federation Washington D.C. Vice-Presidents Mrs Charles O'H Craigie 1729 Que Street A. W. Mrs John Miller Horton Buffalo, N. Y. Prof. Felix E Schelling Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. Dewitt Clinton Croissant Ph.D. (Princeton) Washington, D. C. Dr. Samuel J MacWatters, Litt.D. American University President Col. John Temple Graves Post Building, Washington D. C. Recording Secretary Mrs Wm. A. Roach 1639 R Street A. W. Corresponding Secretary H. H. Wheaton, Ph.D. Executive Apartment 3401 16th Street A. W. Treasurer Mr. Isaac Pearson 1785 Lanier Place Auditors Mr. Charles O'H. Craigie Judge S. S. Ashborough Vice-Presidents for the States PROF. P. P. BURNS BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA MRS. SIDNEY NEWSON TUSCON, ARIZONA MRS. H. L. MCCHESNEY LAKE VILLAGE, ARKENSAS DR. AURELIA REINHARDT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA MRS. H. A. SMITH DELTA, COLORADO PROF. WM. LYON PHELPS NEW HAVON, CONN. DR. PHILANDER P. CLAXTON WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. C. M. BRITTAIN LAKE CITY, FLA. REV. W. W. MEMMINGER ATLANTA, GEORGIA MRS. J. C. CHASE PAYETTE, IDAHO PROF. M. H. LIDDELL, PURDUE UNVERSITY, INDIANA HON. LAFAYETTE YOUNG DES MOINES, IOWA PROF. REUBEN P. HALLOCK, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MRS. J. DIBERT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA PROF. WINDSOR P. DAGGETT ORONO, MAINE DR. DAVID GRAY BALTIMORE, MARYLAND PROF. RICHARD BURTON MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA MRS. LORRAINE P. IMMEN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MRS. L. B. SEDGWICK COLUMBIA, MISSISSIPPI MISS AMELIA FRUCHTE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI MRS. E. L. HOUSTON BOZEMAN, MONTANA MRS. ELLA M. HOSTETLER LINCOLN, NEBRASKA MRS. JESSIE E. DONAHUE MANCHESTER, N. H. REV. LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY MR. THOMAS W. CHURCHILL NEW YORK CITY MR. FREDERICK H. CROSS ROCHESTER, NEW YORK MRS AURELIA PRIEST ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO MR A. H. BOYDEN SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA PROF. FREDERICK H. KOCK, GRAND FORKS, N DAKOTA MRS. ROBERT CARLETON MORRIS TOLEDO, OHIO MR. J. Y. CALLAHAN GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA MRS. ANTON GIEBISCH PORTLAND, OREGON PRESIDENT, SHAKESPEARE CLUB DR. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. PROF. REED SMITH COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA HON. CHAS. H. DILLON SOUTH DAKOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON d. c. MRS. E. G. BURFORD, A. M. NASHVILLE, TENN. PRESIDENT, BURFORD COLLEGE MISS KATE FRIEND WACO, TEXAS MRS. CLARENCE H. MCMAHON, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MRS ALOYSIA H. DAVIS WINDSOR, VERMONT PROF. C. ALFONSO SMITH ANNAPOLIS, MD. MR. R. D. SHEPHERD SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA. MRS FRANK W. MONDELL WYOMING WASHINGTON, D. C. PROF. FRANK YEIGH TORONTO ONTARIO and unselfish service you ave rendered the cause in the publication of the woman Journal! It came to me every month bringing us such well edited news of the progress of the work throughout the states that it often inspired our flagging Spirils? to renewed effort and made us feel the importance of doing our part to bring about success You ??? will know how many you have helped through your aff and convincing words to "keep- on" and never give up to discouragement? I wish you all success in your new undertaking of publishing the History of the Mo??? that shall include the ???ful lives of your Father and Mother. to whom we all owe so much4 National Shakespeare Federation Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents Mrs. Charles O'H. Craigie 1729 Que Street N. W. Mrs. John Miller Borton Buffalo, N. Y. Prof. Felix C. Schelling Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. Dewitt Clinton Croissant, Ph. D. (Princeton) Washington, D. C. Dr. Samuel J. MacWatters, Litt. D. American University President Col. John Temple Graves Post Building, Washington D. C. Recording Secretary Mrs. Wm. A. Roach 1639 R Street N. W. Corresponding Secretary H. H. Wheaton, Ph. D. Executive Apartment 3401 16th Street N. W. Treasurer Mr. Issac Pearson 1785 Lanier Place Auditors Mr. Charles O'H. Craigie Judge S. S. Ashbough Vice-Presidents for the States Prof. P. P. Burns . Birmingham, Alabama Mrs. Sydney Newson . . . Tucson, Arizona Mrs. H. L. McChesney . Lake Village, Arkansas Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt . Oakland, California Mrs. H. A. Smith . . . . Delta, Colorado Prof. WM. Lyon Phelps . . New Haven, Conn. Dr. Philander P. Claxton . Washington D. C. Mrs. C. M. Brittain . . . . Lake City, FLA. Rev. W. W. Memminger . . Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. J. C. Chase . . . . Payette, Idaho Prof. M. H. Liddell, Purdue University, Indiana Hon. Lafayette Young . . Des Moines, Iowa Prof. Reuben P. Hallock, Louisville, Kentucky Mrs. J. Dibert . . New Orleans, Louisiana Prof. Windsor P. Daggett . . Orono, Maine Dr. David Gray . . . Baltimore, Maryland Prof. Richard Burton, Minneapolis, Minnesota Mrs. Loraine P. Immen . Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. L. B. Sedgwick . . Columbia, Mississippi Miss Amelia Fruchte . St. Louis Missouri Mrs. E. L. Houston . . Bozeman, Montana Mrs. Ella M. Hostetler . Lincoln, Nebraska Mrs. Jessie E. Donahue . Manchester, N. H. Rev. Lyman Whitney Allen, Newark, New Jersey Mr. Thomas W. Chruchill . New York City Mr. Frederick H. Cross . Rochester, New York Mrs. Aurelia Priest . . Roswell, New Mexico Mr. A. H. Boyden . Salisbury, North Carolina Prof. Frederick H. Koch, Grand Forks, N. Dakota Mrs. Robert Carleton Morris . Toledo, Ohio Mr. J. Y. Callahan . . . Guthrie, Oklahoma Mrs. Anton Giebisch . . Portland, Oregon Pres[i]dent, Shakespeare Club Dr. Horace Howard Furness, Philadephia, PA. Prof. Reed Smith . Columbia, South Carolina Hon. Chas. H. Dillon . . . South Dakota House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Mrs. E. G. Buford, A. M. . Nashville, Tenn. President, Buford College Miss Kate Friend . . . . Waco, Texas Mrs. Clarence H. McMahon, Salt Lake City, Utah Mrs. Aloysia H. Davis . . Windsor, Vermont Prof. C. Alfonso Smith . . . Annapolis, MD. Mr. R. D. Shepherd. . Shepherdstown, W. VA. Mrs. Frank W. Mondell . . . . Wyoming Washington D. C. Prof. Frank Yeigh . . . Toronto, Ontario It will prove I am sure most instruction and interesting Reading not only [to?] the present but [to?] Future generations: for when [we?] realize that all History is after all only Biography or as Shakespeare says - all the world's a stage and men and women only actors." We then appreciate that what we think and what we do not only affects our own lives but the lives of the future.! I consider it the greatest honor of my life to have known and been associated with you and all these men and women of great vision and unselfish purpose who in their movement [for?] the disenfranchisement of one half the human race have so nobly "lived to help the life of the future." with sincere esteem I am Very truly yours Mary E. CraigieDear Mrs. Pinkham, I take pleasure in adding my mite to the funds you propose to raise as a birthday gift to Miss Blackwell to enable her to carry out her long cherished desire to write a biography of her sainted mother - for whom I have always felt a great respect & reverence. Cordially yours - (Mrs.) S. E. Cram. Hampton Falls. New Hampshire. Sept 5. 1919. Enclosed please find cheque for $5.00.It was Lucy Stone who converted me to the Cause of Woman Suffrage. I would rejoice to see, from the pen of her Daughter who has herself so greatly forwarded this movement, the complete and wonderful story of that Mother's life Caroline Bartlett Lane Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 8, 1919.Mrs. H P Crosby Port Moitlaud Sept 22nd 1919 My dear Honeybunch:- Gladys sent me the clipping from the Boston papers - about your birthday party - My dear little busy lady, how readily you do deserve it all, it seems to me if I could look again at the picture of your Mother that hung over the mantel[e] in your room at Bontwell Ave. I should see a beautiful smile, and a look ofsatisfied assurance that altho not present in the flesh, she was ever near your side & was proud & pleased with her "little duckling"-- Isn't it splendid to have grown to fill such a wonderful place & have such friends-- yes, I am proud that I ever rubbed your poor tired back and only wish I could have done more-- "Rich is he whose toiling ends -- In the love of faithful friends, 'Tis a sign of how much he's given, it is proof of how he's striven,Friends are Gods reward to man If he does the best he can - I shall keep these "clippings" altho I used to wish your chowders were at the bottom of the sea - as very dear & choice wish to say Amen to them & especially to "Grace Allen Johnson" tribute - I know its true. I am about getting ready to go to help Gladys, who expects another little one in October - its very hard for me to go - for when little Roberta came I thought I could never be so near again - but I must - mothers can only see one way you know. My Henrie's health is better now, & that give me new courage - Hope to see you - Best love to you - Roberta B. Cubby Warsaw, N.Y. September 10, 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell;- What a rare privilege it is for Mr Crossett and me to have an opportunity to send you our Greetings and good wishes on your Birthday. No one can estimate the value of a history of the noble work which your parents and you have taken in the pioneer work for the education and advancement of women; I am indeed delighted that you are about to devote yourself to writing it. Through my own parents early interest in the same cause I was fortunate enough to attend the Washington Suffrage Convention in 1891 when The American and National Bodies held their first Convention as one Society and I have been at most of the Annual gatherings since then. It is a beautiful memory to recall seeing and hearing your wonderful mother both at Washington and The Worlds Congress of Women held at Chicago in 1893; and indeed it was a great privilege to have met your father for so many years at Conventions and to have traveled across the Continent with you both to the Portland Meeting. I shall never forget the courage and perseverance with which your father urged the State Associations year after year to ask their Legislatures for Presidential Suffrage. One of your many admiring friends, Ella Hawley Crossett, President N.Y. State Woman Suffrage Association 1902-1910.[*Martha Cranston*] Newport. Del. 9/13th 1919 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell My dear Miss Blackwell - I wish you many returns of the day and sincerely hope you may succeed in writing the Biography of your Illustrious Father and Mother. I only met Lucy Stone once when I attended a reception at 3 Park S, Boston given by the Mass Woman Suffrage Ass'n to the delegates of the National Wo's[Wo]man's Christian Temperance Union held in Tremont Temple Boston in 1891. Mr Henry W Blackwell I feel well acquainted with as I, a delegate from Delaware to the National American Woman Suffrage Convention served on the Resolutions Committee of which he was Chairman. My birthday is on the fifteenth of September 73 years old, active but deaf! Yours affectionately Martha S CranstonGreetings to Alice Stone Blackwell on her Birthday Sept. 14. 1919. The Great Daughter of Great Parents From One who has admired her for many long years. Florence Hathaway Crowell West Yarmouth - Mass.[*47*] 33 Newberry St. Sept. 14, 1919- Dear Miss Blackwell: Our best wishes for as many "happy returns" as you can reasonably enjoy in health and prosperity. We congratulate you, that now the Victory is won, you can turn your facile pen to so congenial a task. Cordially yours, Mary Alemira Smith. Emma B. CulbertsonTHE HEWES-KIRKWOOD INN On the Longs Peak Trail In the Rocky Mt. National Park LONGS PEAK, COLORADO Permanent address 1314 Chapline St, Wheeling. W. Va., My dear Mrs Pinkham, Enclosed please find money order from my sister, Anne M. Cummins and myself, for $10.00 for the birthday gift for Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. It gives us great pleasure to contribute in any way, even small, as tokens of our appreciation of Miss Blackwell's great services. With all good wishes, I am, Very truly yours, Elizabeth I. Cummins.HEATH HILL BROOKLINE My dear Mrs. Pinkham I am enclosing a check though small, with the heartiest good wishes and interest in the work Miss Blackwell is to do,of the wonderful work she has done - Sincerely Yrs Ida Cary Cunningham (Mrs C. G. Cunningham) Heath Hills Brookline September 5th It is interesting that my own birthday comes the same as Miss Blackwells - on September 14th Be can never express adequately our appreciation[*Permanent Address 101 MT. VERNON STREET. Boston. Mass.*] Seattle. Washington. Aug 27th 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell Although i am a stranger to you, you are a friend to me, as you are to all women & I feel it a great privilege to be able to send you a few words of greeting & to say how grateful I am for all the noble work you have done for the Suffrage cause & for your unfailing courage in carrying it on in the high hope of success - and how you have the crowning job that suffrage for the American women has come to them. The future looks bright & we must follow your example & that of those wonderful pioneers before you in the cause & keep the beacon light which they lit, burning brightly for the betterment of the turned in every way - It is a great trust is it not? That day where we sat in the State House, awaiting the counting of the votes for the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, was an epoch in our lives and when we heard that we had the vote, it seemed to use that a cloud had gone from the sky and that a whole new vista of life opened out before us and I think that every Suffrage-woman's thoughts turned to you, knowing in part what this meant in your life - we shall all look forward eagerly to the "Life of Lucy Stone Blackwell" written by ten daughters - Please excuse the paper being turned in this way - but I am living out one of the stands in Puget Sound & there is no stationary stone upon it! Believe me dear Miss Blackwell, with due respect & gratitude Yours very sincerely, Ellen DabneyNorth Haven, Maine. Aug 29th My dear Mrs. Pinkham I am sending you a check for $100.00 for the fund for Miss Blackwell's life of her mother. + the history of our struggle for Woman Suffrage and I only wish I could send a larger contribution.Miss Blackwell has given her life to the cause and she really is the only one who can give a full account of it from her inheritance + from her personal experience. She should be given a chance to do this by all good Suffragists. Sincerely yours- Emily E. Daland (Mrs. Tucker Daland)245 Wintrop Street Taunton, Mass. Sept. 3, 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham: - Enclosed please find my mite toward the gift to Miss Blackwell. It might be larger were there not as many many calls for worthy people andcause. I surely do not undervalue her work and hope she will live to enjoy its results. with good wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Florence W. Davol.My dear Miss Blackwell: My happy returns of the day! I sincerely trust that you may be spared to us for many years to come. We are looking forward to the publication of the story of your Mother's life. Everyone interested in suffrage, recognizing how much the movement owes her, desires to have in permanent form the record of her wonderful achievements. A weekly event to which I looked forward as a very young girl was the reading of the "Journal," which played an important part in crystallizing my views on suffrage. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Katharine Bement Davis Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Dorchester, Massachusetts. New York, 145 E. 35th Street, August 29, 191942 Ocean Ave. Woodford Maine Aug 30. 1919 Mrs. Wenonw Osborne Pinkham 353 Little Bld Boston. Dear Mrs. Pinkham At the request of Mrs. Ida Porter Bryer I have intrusted myself as an old time friend of Miss Blackwell's to secure subscriptions for the gift which her suffrage friends wish to make her on Sept 14th I have interviewed quite a member of our suffrage workers and amsending with this a money order for $16.00 (sixteen dollars) which I hope will be supplemented by other contributions later on. There has been a little confusion about this. owing to the fact that the Boston Equal Suffrage Assn wrote Miss [?] [?] of the Maine W.S.A concerning this plan and I knowing nothing of such official action, took it upon myself to do what I could in a personal way. I regret the misunderstanding as probably more money could be secured by the Association than by any one individual. The names of the contributors to the money I send to day are given below. viz - Mrs Hannah J. Bailey. Winthrop " Gertrude Bates Portland " F. Ernest Holman " " Augusta M. Hunt " " Frank E. Haines " " Lucy Hobart Day. " Very Sincerely Yours Lucy Hobart Day 42 Ocean Ave. Portland Me. Modforde Sta.[*50*] Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Birthday Greetings! Sept. 14, 1919. My daughter and I welcome this occassion to acknowledge our appreciation of the service you have rendered to the Womans Suffrage Cause. For a long time you have served as our kindly mentor, and we have come to look to the message of your pen in The Woman Citizen, for guidance and inspiration. We wish you many happy returns of the day, and may the year fulfil your fondest hopes in regard to the book you wish to write of your mothers life. If you still have the pictures which my daughter gave you, which she took of your home and the "Liberty Cradle" at Brookfield, it would be interesting to see them in your book. We realize our good fortune in having enjoyed the leadership of one we could call friend. Most Sincerely Yours, (Mrs. L. F.) Emma Winchester Denio. Fannie Gertrude Denio. September 3, 1919.Rockford, Ill., Sept. 25, 1919. Mrs. Wenona Pinkham, 553 Little Bldg., Boston, Mass. My dear Madam:- Pursuant to the call of yourself et als in the matter of Miss Blackwell's birthday, I take pleasure in enclosing my check for five dollars. I have for many years taken a great interest in the work of Miss Blackwell's parents, knowing that the intense labor and many sacrifices they have made, and that without such people our cause would not have attained its present status. I beg to state, with much pleasure, that I have remembered Miss Blackwell in my last will and testament and trust that some time in the future it may be a help to her in procuring some personal comforts in a time when needed. I am glad to rejoice with you all over the great victory won for Federal suffrage. With kind regards, I am, Yours very truly, Climenia K Dennett 428 North First St.MRS. ROBERT L. DE NORMANDIE 357 MARLBOROUGH STREET BOSTON, MASS. SUMMER ADDRESS LINCOLN, MASS. My dear Mrs. Pinkham. I hope I am not too late to have the enclosed very small offering added to Miss Blackwell's birthday fund. I have been away for the past three weeks & my mail was not forwarded. The plan seems to me a very wonderful one. it surely has been a privilege to have been associated with Miss Blackwell even in so slight a way as I have been. I hope all's well with you. Very sincerely, Alice De Normandie Sep. 3.250 Alden St Springfield, Mass. Mrs W. O. Pinkham 553 Little Bldg Boston Mass, My dear Mrs Pinkham, I shall be very glad to give five dollars toward Miss Blackwells Birthday Fund - I can not send it at this date but will in a few days or by October 1st at the latest. It is apleasure to do this I wish it might be many times larger a sum - but it no less conveys my admiration and regards for Miss Blackwell - Very truly yours Carolyn D. Diggett Sept 2, 1919.SOUTHWEST HARBOR MAINE Aug. 21, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell I should be sorry indeed not to be numbered, in a very modest way, in the list of your friends. You have had a large place in a great and good work. Perhaps the best of it has been in the sure deepening of your faith in the Eternal Gardens that must have come in seeing the work go on to success. You can learn from now on to sing all the more gladly with Browning: The best is yet to be. Yours sincerely Charles F. Dole119 Prospect St., Providence, Sept. 2, 1919 "Dear Fellow Suffragist," It gives me to contribute to the fund which will be presented to Miss Blackwell on her birthday as a token of appreciation of her dedication to the cause of woman suffrage. The story of her mother's life ought to be preserved that it may be inspiration to others to devote time to our cause that will benefit humanity. It is hoped that Miss Blackwell will have a sufficient sum to favor her to tell the story of Lucy Stone's life, that we who are entering the new life - the result of her devotion, may show to whom they owe gratitude. Cordially yours, Sarah E. Doyle [*5.00*]Helena Dudley Tuesday Sept 16 1919 357 BEAVER STREET WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS Dear Miss Blackwell: I want to wish you a happy year and success in your work and in all your many efforts to bring freedom & righteousness to the oppressed. You have been a most fearless and able champion of the oppressed and I do deeply admire the stand you take - This was to be sent you for the 14th but I went off to the Fellowship of Reconciliation Conference & so did not get off my letter to you. We had a most interesting & inspiring conferenceon international & industrial issues. Jane Addams & many men & women [prove?] over all nice with use - among them Mr. Humphrey who was with R. Robbins in Russia - & later who is an out & out advocate of Soviet & Bolchiviki - Thank you for the Legcreft letters - Baker on Russia is not effective! I am very sorry I can get no bonds for E. Goldman. I can think of no one to ask! i have no property . - Oh what a shameful situation! & not Townley in prison! - and the alarming situation in Boston. [Curtin?] seems to me stupid beyond words! I hope to see you soon Affectionately Yours. H. [C?]. Dudley.119 Prospect St. Providence Sept 11, 1919 Miss Sarah E. Doyle greatly regrets that she cannot attend the birthday reception for Miss Blackwell, but her wishes for a happy year for Miss Blackwell go with this note. Joyous and affectionate greetings and congratulations - Sept. 14 - 1919 Jessie C. Dunbar Randolph Mass166 ELM STREET. HOLYOKE MASS. September 5, 1919 My dearcMrs Pinkham;- With the enclosed offering for Miss Blackwell's birthday present let me say that we suffragists cannot hope to give adequate expression or offer fit thanks for the high service which Miss Blackwell has given to democracy and human brotherhood However I think this birthday plan an excellent one, -- since it permits a further sharing in the great work of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell , through the personal interpretation of their gifted daughter- I only wish the enclosed check could be ten times as large Withallgood wishes, I am very sincerely Minnie R Dwight M[???????] 124 Ocean Street, East Lynn, Mass Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass, My dear Mrs. Pinkham: With this I am sending the small contribution to Miss Blackwell's birthday gift which I mentioned to you, and I trust it does not come too late to be useful. In any case, I wish to send it as an expression of my gratitude to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and her parents, to whom more than to any others I feel I owe many, if not most, of the advantages I enjoy as a modern woman. Most sincerely yours, Louise S. Earle.Loudon, Ohio, Sept. 12 - 1919. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell: Greetings on your natal day. It is indeed an an honor and a privelege to be permitted to help in an enterprise which is of such a personal interest as the collection and preservation of historical suffrage material by yourself, as only you could do it. Because I know how very interested our dear mutual friend Bertha Coover would be I am including a little remembrance in summary of her. Like myself she was very particularly interested in things along this line. Trusting that you may be priveleged to carry to its full fruition this sacred service and hoping to be able to enjoy it myself when done I am With love and best wishes Your Friend Anna Ebner London, Ohio.Bristol Ferry, R. I. September 4th 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell:- This is another opportunity to tell you that I am always grateful to you for all you have done and are doing to help women and to make the world better. I wish you to know that I am not only grateful but have a very warm feeling of admiration and affection, and I send congratulations and best wishes for your happiness and success in all your undertakings. Sincerely yours, Sarah J. Eddy-[*54*] Natick - September 10th, 1919. In the desire to commemorate the lives of these earnest men and women who for many years gave their best thought to the cause of Woman Suffrage and who departed this life without seeing their wishes fulfilled, we, the few remaining members of the First Natick Woman Suffrage League present our small offering to the fund for the publishing of the Life of Lucy Stone. Many assisted us in carrying on the work, but these few we feel to be especially worthy of mention: Amos P. Cheney Lydia S. Dewing O. Augusta Cheney Gideon D. Tower Seth W. Tibbetts Ellie A. Hilt Matilda B. Tibbetts Marietta Rice Hannah Cunniff With love and congratulations, and with best wishes for the success of the project, we are - Most sincerely yours, Mary R. EstyMy dear Mrs. Pinkham: It is a privilege to be allowed to have a part in the writing of Lucy Stone's life by her daugher Alice Stone Blackwell. The world owes more then can ever be estimated to the genius & the sacrifices of Lucy Stone, while the daughter who is of her mother's own spirit, is one whom I delight to count as a comrade and a friend. Your sincerely Elizabeth Glendower Evans September 1, 1919. 12 OTIS PLACE BOSTON Bloomington Ill. Sept 10, 1919. My Dear Mrs. Pinkham: - I am glad indeed to be able to add my mite in making up a fitting birthday present for "A. S. B." in grateful appreciation of the devoted loyalty of Father, Mother and Daughter to the high cause of Equal Suffrage. Their contribution could not be measured in dollars & cents! Most Cordially Hazle B. Ewing55 TELEPHONE, ST. PAUL 8365. WOMAN SUFFRAGE LEAGUE OF MARYLAND AFFILIATED WITH THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION [left column] MRS. CHARLES E. ELLICOTT, President 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. EDWARD SHOEMAKER 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. WILLIAM MILNES MALOY 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SYDNEY M. CONE [center column] STATE HEADQUARTERS 2 EAST LEXINGTON STREET BALTIMORE AUDITORS MRS. GEO. CRAWFORD MRS. WILLIAM SILVER [right column] MRS. J. ROSS THOMSON, Honorary President TREASURER MRS. FRANK F. RAMEY RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. ROBERT MOSS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS JULIA ROGERS October 17th, 1919. Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer, 552-554 Little Building, Boston, Massachusetts. My dear Mrs. Boyer: With the contribution for Miss Blackwells work may I send greetings from the Maryland women whom I represent. We are deeply appreciative of the courage and inspiration she has given us for so many years, and we welcome this opportunity to send our good wishes for the years to come. May there be many of them. Very sincerely yours, M. L M. Ellicott (Mrs. Charles E. Ellicott) President.MINNESOTA WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Mrs. Andreas Ueland, President 403 Essex Building, Minneapolis, Minn. Corner Nicollet Avenue and Tenth Street VICE-PRESIDENTS Mrs. Charles P. Noyes 89 Virginia Ave., St. Paul Mrs. H. G. Harrison 1112 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis Mrs. H. J. Grannis, 4729 McCulloch St., Duluth Mrs. M.M. Davidson, Waseca Mrs. C.M. Stockton, Faribault Mrs. J. M. Guise, Recording Secretary 1295 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul Mrs. S. A. Stockwell, Corresponding Secy., 3204 E. 51st St., Minneapolis Mrs. Victor Troendle, Treasurer, 403 Essex Bldg., Minneapolis Mrs. Russell M. Bennett, Auditor, 1112 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis DIRECTORS Mrs. Stiles Burr, 943 Summit Ave., St. Paul Mrs. A. M. Burt, 1073 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul Mrs. C. C. Colton, 1802 E. 4th St., Duluth Mrs. J. C. Holman, 557 Dayton Ave., St. Paul Dr. Ethel Hurd, 717 Pillsbury Bldg., Minneapolis Mrs. James Paige, 420 Oak Grove, Minneapolis Mrs. C. A. Severance, Cedarhurst, Cottage Grove Mrs. F. B. Snyder, 120 W. 22nd St., Minneapolis CHAIRMAN STANDING COMMITTEES Press, Mrs. Walter Thorp, 403 Essex Bldg., Minneapolis Honorary Press Chairman, Mrs. Eugenia B. Farmer, Old Capitol, St. Paul National Council, Mrs. David F. Simpson, The Maryland, Minneapolis Congressional, Miss Florence Monahan 3121 Emerson Ave. S., Minneapolis Finance, Mrs. A. E. Zonne, 910 Mt. Curve Ave., Minneapolis Periodicals, Mrs. I. E. Rose, 705 Summit Ave., St. Paul Legislative, Mrs. J. W. Andrews, Mankato Public Demonstrations, Mrs. James Forrestal, St. Paul OFFICE SECRETARY Clara M. Heckrich, 403 Essex Building Telephone, Nicollet 6270 Aus. 8/29/19 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ST. PAUL H. T. Black H. B. R. Briggs Moses E. Clapp A. O. Eberhart Rev. L. R. S. Ferguson Gilbert Gutterson Otto Kueffner Judge J. W. Lusk Thomas McDavitt, M. D. Bishop Charles R. Mitchell John Mitchell Charles P. Noyes H. T. Quinlan Rev. John A. Ryan Rabbi I. L. Rypins Albert Schaller Ambrose Tighe Grant Van Sant Charles E. Vasaly MINNEAPOLIS Dr. Cyrus Northrop Russell M. Bennett W. G. Calderwood S. R. Child Rev. J. M. Cleary Rabbi S. N. Deinard C. W. Dorsett William H. Eustis W. A. Frisbie Edward C. Gale George B. Leonard Prof. Frank Nelson Prof. Carl Schlenker Dr. Marion D. Shutter F. B. Snyder Howard Strong Judge Edward F. Waite DULUTH Judge Wm. A. Cant Frank Crassweller Rabbi Lefkowitz W. E. McEwen Luther Mendenhall Andrew Nelson W. L. Smithies J. W. Andrews, Mankato Alson Blodget, Faribault E. A. Brown, Luverne I. W. Daniels, St. Peter J. A. Dubois, M. D., Sauk Center Julius E. Haycraft, Madelia C. P. Howard, Freeborn Alvin R. Hunt, Litchfield H. C. Miller, St., Peter Ole O. Sageng, Dalton [*Aus. 8/29/19*] Old Capitol Personal St. Paul, Minn. August 21, 1919 Dear Mrs. Boyer: Your letter of the 13th received and carefully read. As to the contribution of $5.00 for dear Alice Blackwell it will be impossible for me to give anything as as I am a widow with very limited means. It would please me beyond expression to contribute to this fund, but there comes daily many requests for money while I must decline. Alice and I are dear friends, and she always remembers me with a card. I love her for the sake of her dear parents, also for her labor of love continuing their work. A short sketch is enclosed of Mr & Mrs Blackwell's work as it was my privilege to enjoy. This is not for publication. Very sincerely, Eugenie B. Farmer. [*I have just enclosed your article to Mrs. Stockwell and Dr. Hurd of Minneapolis to contribute to the Biography.*]A short sketch of the life of Mr Blackwell & Lucy Stone as I knew them in connection with this work in Kentucky. When Laura Clay and Miss Farmer organized the Kentucky Equal Rights Association during the last meeting of the old American Suffrage Association held in the Masonic Temple in Cincinnati Ohio it was my my privilege to be associated at this time with the Blackwells. At this meeting everyone was impressed by the gentle lovable Lucy Stone, so much so that before the close, as was the custom to ask for a collection, a number of gentlemen came to me to ask Lucy Stone to please come with her basket down the left hand side of the Hall. I was pleased to do it and well repaid to see her return [with] to the platform with an unusual collection. Her gentleness and goodness made her very attractive. What a debt of gratitude we owe to Mr. Blackwell and Lucy Stone, especially the women of Kentucky, [he] they were always pleased to help the state for suffrage, especially as the American & the National Associations united in three months following this meeting voting for the title "The National American Woman Suffrage Association" still in use. The Blackwells always stand for Justice and righteousness. What a record they have left to us, and Alice Blackwell carrying out the teachings of these wonderful parents will leave a similar record. May she be spared to see fulfilled and carry out her mothers last wish, "Make the world better." Eugenia B. Farmer Shell Rock, Ia, Sept. 1st 1919 Dear Mesdames, Please find enclosed $1.00 as a trifle toward a very worthy object. * Lucy Stone's life should certainly be written, and her daughter is the one to write it. Years ago, it was the very great privilege of my husband, the late O. S. Farr and myself to entertain Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell. We were living in Chardon, Ohio, one of the County seat (Geauga) towns of the Western Reserve. Our Suffrage Society arranged for meetings at the different County seats of the Reserve, and engaged those best of all speakers - The result was all that could be wished for. The cause of woman went forward by "leaps and bounds." Some one should write Miss Blackwell's biography. Yours in happy remembrance of the past, and great joy for the present- Cynthia K. Farr. *the writing the life of Lucy Stone by Alice Stone BlackwellMy dear Miss Blackwell, I cannot express to you in words my great disappointment in not being able to attend your birthday reception. It all means so much to us to at least realize that the time has come when you are able to give undivided attention to the writing of the history of your familyand still further perpetuate the memory of your Mother Trusting this occasion will be to you both pleasant and successful. I remain Cordially yours- Elizabeth D. Fanar [?] - Massachusetts[?] Sep. 20. 1919 Dear Madam, I am enclosing cheque for £2 as a small contribution to the fund being raised for presentation to Miss A. Stone Blackwell, and I also am enclosing an expression of my appreciation of what she has done for the Women's cause is in the U.S.A. I hope it may be in time to be included with others. Believe me [????] sincerely Mrs W.O. Pinkham M. G. Fewelt2 Goven[???]t London W.C.I Sep 20. 1919 Dear Madam, I gladly join in the movement to show honor to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and thank you for giving me the opportunity of doing so. It is particularly interesting that she is normally an ardent upholder of the cause of Women's political freedom, but is also the daughter of Parents who were among its earliest pioneers. We English suffragists were accustomed to say "Our forefathers won freedom at Naseby and Marslim Moor but forgot to bring it home with them". This saying with appropriate amendments, equally fitted the political situation in the United States previous to May 1919. That lapse [?] has now been made good by Suffragists on both sides of the Atlantic. Yours most sincerely Mrs W.O. Pinkham William Garrett FeurettChocorua N. H. August 23rd 1919 My Dear Mrs Blackwell, I should like to feel that I may have a small part in the publishing of the book you are writing of your mother's life, and the cause for which she and you too have devoted your lives, so I am enclosing my check, with my love and best wishes for many happy returns of your birthday - With affectionate regards, Very sincerely yours, Mary P. Fearing -57 Highland Ave. 1919. Arlington, Mass., Sept. 2nd. My Dear Miss Blackwell:- Accept our congratulations upon the anniversary of your birth and wish you many happy returns of the day. We are indebted to the Woman's Journal for an understanding of the principals of equal rights for women and men and the inspiration to do our bit for its promotion. We remember our happy intercourse with you and your good father Henry B. Blackwell. It is an unfailing regret that we never met your mother Lucy Stone. Yours cordially, William F. Fernald., Fannie L. Fernald. LAKE PLACID CLUB ESSEX CO N Y Sept. 12, 1919 My dear Mrs Pinkham: The letter, in regard to a gift to Alice Stone Blackwell, has only now reached me, and I hasten to send my little bit which I am only too glad to give. I trust that I am not too late. May her birthday be happy and joyous allover this land many women feel a deep sense of gratitude to Alice Stone Blackwell and her parents, Lucy Stone and Henry B Blackwell for their loyalty and devotion to the cause we all loved so well. Sincerely Yours Annette Finnigan.Contributors to Miss Blackwell's birthday fund from Mrs Simon Flexner 815 Madison Ave New York City290 Commonwealth Avenue. My dear Miss Blackwell My sister and I wish to join with your many friends in congratulations and best wishes, as your birthday draws near. A day to be remembered gratefully by all women, for giving to us a loyal and devoted friend, who, following in the footsteps of her illustrious parents, has worked long, faithfully and successfully to open thedoor of larger opportunity to us. Hoping that you may live long to enjoy the freedom which is now "in sight". We remain sincerely yours. Elizabeth H. Flint September 12, 1919 - Congratulations and best wishes for Miss Blackwell from Charlotte L. FlintNaushon Woods Hole P.O. Massachusetts Mrs. J. [Malcolm?] Forbes regrets extremely her inability to accept the delightful invitation to attend the birthday reception for our wonderful leader Miss Blackwell. September 10 1919 [*60*] NEW YORK BOSTON * PHILADELPHIA * WASHINGTON ATLANTA * CHICAGO * CINCINNATI * SAN FRANSISCO * LOS ANGELES SAN ANTONIO * DALLAS * CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. * HOBOKEN * NEWPORT NEWS * PARIS * LONDON BRANCHES IN FRANCE, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND ITALY COMMUNITY MOTION PICTURE BUREAU WARREN DUNHAM FOSTER, PRESIDENT 46 West Twenty-Fourth Street OFFICE OF THE EDITOR New York City August twentysecond 1919 My dear Mrs. Park: May we add our mite to the good work so wonderfully accomplished. We congratulate Miss Blackwell that she has been allowed to see the end for which she and her family worked so efficiently and to which they contributed so much. We send our contribution as from a family of believers and workers but especially as from the one of our family who contributed most, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, a warm friend of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell. She too, worked and prayed for the cause but she did not live here on earth to partake of the triumph. Cordially yours E.D. Foster E. D. Foster [*$10.00*] EDF-LJ Mrs. Maud Wood Park Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government 552-554 Little Building Boston, Massachusetts From-Mrs. Wm. Horton FosterM. E. B. Foote Larchmont, N.Y. Sept. 1st Mrs. W. O. Pinkham, Dear Madame: In response to your appeal I'm sending the enclosed cheque. I wish it were many times larger, but the appeals have been so many, and so worth, that this is all I can send at present. Yours truly, Mary E. Bond Foote 5.00WM. DUDLEY FOULKE RICHMOND, IND. September 8, 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell; As one grows older the scenes of the past throng more vividly than ever in one's memory. Among the most precious of these is my remembrance of Lucy Stone and Henry P. Blackwell both of whom I loved very dearly. I am delighted to hear that you are about to write the life of your distinguished mother. It is high time that this was adequately done and I am sure it will be well done by your hands. I want to offer you my sincerest congratulations on your birthday. Sincerely your friend, WM Dudley FoulkeDr. J. WM. FUNCK 1631 EUTAW PLACE COR. WILSON ST. HOURS MORNINGS--10 TO 12:30 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS EVENINGS--7 TO 8, MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, FRIDAYS AND BY APPOINTMENT BALTIMORE - Md. Enclosed find check for five dollars for Birthday gift to Alice Stone - Blackwell_ We honor Miss Blackwell among the great leaders - but we love her for her fairness, and her brilliant and unselfish contribution to the cause of Woman's Enfranchisement- Dr. & Mrs J Wm Funck Sept 10 - 1919Birthday GreetingsGreeting Gay For Your Birthday I would send a greeting gay to you On this most joyous day to you, And I would like to say to you "May life be always play to you." Dr. & Mrs. L. Wm. FunckWILLIAM L. GARRISON, JR. 60 STATE STREET BOSTON Sept 1/1919 Chapoquoit. West Falmouth My dear Mrs Pinkham: I enclose check of $25 to your order as a contribution from Mrs Garrison & myself to the Alice Blackwell fund. I should like to send a "letter of greeting" in due course & ask if there will be time to do so when I return from my vacation in about a week - hastily, William L. Garrison JrSept 3rd 1919 GREENWAYS BUCK HILL FALLS, PENNA. P O BOX 9 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, Dear Mrs. Pinkham, Please find enclosed check for ten dollars for the fund to enable Miss Blackwell to write that record of heroism & devotion - I know, how honored her parents a rejoice in this tribute to their daughter - as well as to them - I've read the Woman's Journal from early Jul. Lord - I wish my check might be bigger! Cordially yours Mary T Lewis Gannett-For Miss Blackwell's birthday from Mrs. George J. Garrison.62 416 Marlborough St Boston, Mass. Sept. 8, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell:- My warmest congratulations for you, not only on account of your approaching birthday, but because this is Victory Year for Suffrage. We heartily appreciate YOUR efforts in this direction. Our thoughts revert lovingly to your dear parents (pioneers in this work) and we thank God each day for their labors, and for the rich legacy that they left our City, State, Country and the World, OUR ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. Affectionately yours, Clara E. Gary Mrs Wenona O. Pinkham, Boston, Mass- Dear Madam- I am indeed glad to add the enclosed mite to the fund which will enable Miss Blackwell to enjoy so congenial a task, as that which your committee has planned for her. I only wish my gift might be more commensurate with my admiration for such aself-sacrificing, devoted life as she has lived. Cordially yours, (Mrs) Eliza E. Gaylord 94 Court St. Westfield, Mass Sept 11/19To Alice Stone Blackwell For her Birthday. Sept, 14th. 1919 Daughter of that world-mother, sweet and brave, Stateswoman and home-maker wise and kind, and high-souled father who with heart and mind To help her noble task his lifework gave; You from first girlhood lived to help and save, Striving to open eyes long wilful blind, To make a new world that should never find woman a pet, a victim, or a slave. Wider than womanhood your interests hold, For other races and for suffering lands, Helping with every power your life commands, Strong heart, clear brain, and talents manifold, Bearing all loss and pain with faith unswerving, Living to love, loving in endless serving. Charlotte Perkins Gilman.63 My dear Miss Lussomb: I wish to express my thanks for the invitation to the reception celebrating the anniversary of Alice Stone Blackwell's birthday. It is with great regret that I must say that it will be impossible for me to attend owing to previous engagements as our "Welcome Home Day" is the 17th If any woman in this country is worthy of honor it is Miss Blackwell, and I truly appreciate her unself- [unself]ishness on what she had done for the suffrage cause and humanity in general. I look upon her as a most wonderful woman and I hope that her life and health may be spared for many years to come, that she may enjoy the fruits of her labor. Most sincerely yours Henrietta M. Gates 33 Union St. Leominster, Mass. Sept. 11[*64*] "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union President Mrs. ELLA ALDRICH GLEASON Vice-President-at-Large Miss CAROLINE M. CASWELL Corresponding Secretary Mrs. ADA B. FRISBEE Telephone Bark Bay 6730 Recording Secretary Mrs. HELEN H. FOSTER Ass't Recording Secretary Mrs. MYRTIE A. SPOONER Treasurer Mrs. MARY A. FROST 541 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, September 9, 1919. My dear Mrs. Park,- With pleasure I send enclosed check for the gift to Alice Stone Blackwell, $5.00 from Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union and $5.00 from Ella Aldrich Gleason. However large the gift may be it is richly deserved. We rejoice beyond words at the Victory for Women, obtained through the pioneer work of Lucy Stone and her co-workers. Sincerely yours, Ella Aldrich Gleason17 East Micheltorena Street Santa Barbara, California My dear Miss Blackwell Mr. Goodridge and I are only too glad of this opportunity to express a little of the affection and appreciation of your quality that we have. Our financial contribution towards your birthday gift must necessarily be small but our hearts go out to you in no small way. The remembrance of your gracious hospitality to us during the weeks we were homeless and strangers in Dorchester is one of the pleasantest in my life. The comfort orderliness and peace of that Pope's Hill home have always remained in my mind as ideals to be striven for. May this day have many happy returns, for the world is better for having you in it. With sincerest affection from Mr. Goodridge and myself Most cordially Julia W. GoodridgeTarrytown Sep. 2nd My dear Mrs. Pinkham As a Suffragist it affords me pleasure to enclose this check of $50.00 to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell to aid in the work she proposes regarding her heroic mother and to assist in gratifying her wishes for herselfShe has proved a worthy descendant and we owe to her personally a great work Yours Truly Julia C. S. Grant Mrs. H. A. GrantHearty Greetings to Miss Blackwell from a grateful and appreciative stranger Eleanor B. Green 14 John Street Providence, Rhode Island September 14th, 1919Oak Glen, Newport R. I. R. F. D. No 2, Sept 9th 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell, It is indeed heartening to learn that the ratification of the Suffrage Amendment, by our good old Bay State, will release you from "Hard Labor for Life" (as Reverend Anna Shaw put it) and will give you the much needed leisure to write the biography of your honored Mother. It was to have been expected that the daughter of such parents, following their high example, would postpone all private claims for public duties. But it is cause for rejoicing that you will now be able to tell the story, as few alone can tell it, of their devotion to a great cause. You have inherited in such full measure, their unselfish spirit, that I know we may still count on your help and influence in the public affairs of these strenuous and anxious days. Believe me. Affectionately yours Florence M. Howe Hall50 Chester Brook Road, Waltham, 13 Sept., 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham, The seven dollars enclosed are sent to the fund for publishing the life of Lucy Stone. We wish that we might multiply the sum by one thousand to express the appreciation we feel for the work of Lucy Stone and her gifted daughter, Alice. Fraternally Yours, Ida E. Hall + Josephine HallTecumseh, Michigan, Oct. 6, 1919. I am indeed glad to have the privilege of contributing to any fund, which is started to honour Miss Blackwell. I know no other woman, whom I reverence and esteem more highly than the noble and unselfish daughter of Lucy Stone. Jenny C. Law Hardy.Miss Ellen D. Harn and Miss Mary H. Williams very much regret that distance prevents them from attending the celebration of the birthday anniversary of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell on Sept. 16, They are sure the occasion will be most enjoyable and profitable. Their heartiest congratulations are hereby offered with the wish (over) With best wishes to Miss Blackwell - Sept 14th 1919 Mrs. Francis B. Harrington Indian Ridge Ipswich Mass [277 Clarendon Street] Contribution from Mrs. Amy E. Harris, 4 Bell St. Providence, R. I. to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell's fund - Please do not print my name A. E. Harris – Sept 6/19That Miss Blackwell may live long to see and enjoy the fruits of her labors and those of her parents in the uplifting of the lives of all women. Truly Miss Blackwell has lived and used her gifts to make the world better and may she long continue to do so. Kenesaw Nebraska Sept. 14, 1919.M. E. Smith & Co. Dry Goods, Fine Millinery, Suits and Cloaks, Rugs, Curtains, Shades Chadron, Neb. 9.1/19 Mrs Winona Osburn Pinkham Boston Mass Dear Mrs Pinkham, Enclosed find draft for ten dollars for Miss Blackwells birthday present I am more than glad to add my mite Mary Smith HaywardPRIDE'S CROSSING MASSACHUSETTS Dear Miss Blackwell May I send my good wishes today just to tell you how much I know my mother would care to take part in anything that might add to your pleasure. I have asked to have my small contribution come to you in her memory, so that her name might have a share in this affectionate tribute to you, who have worked with her so long for the Cause You both love so truly. Very Sincerely Marian Shaw HaughtonSeptember 10th Dear Miss Blackwell, I should like to be with you at the College Club on Tuesday, but you will have a happy birthday without my going so far to wish you it. This is not to be answered Yours Annie HeacockGRACE RAYMOND HEBARD THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL ECONOMY LARAMIE, WYOMING September 5, 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell;- Not only are these loving birthday greetings sent you , but with them are coming to you congratulations on the fruition of the noble work fearlessly entered into by your beautiful Mother, which in time was so efficiently reinforced by your talented Father , and, finally brought to successful issue by the help of the untiring forceful work of their Daughter, Daughter of these self-sacrificing, too often abused, Parents. The name of Stone and Blackwell must forever be household runes, the exact relation of these two words to freedom only known to those who fight for democracy and those things which are sacredly written on the heart of a great and progressive Nation. With reverence and love, Grace Raymond HebardTo Miss Blackwell - One of the best of human kind With the love, admiration and best wishes of a fellow suffragist. (Mrs.) Bessie H. Henry 210 Savin Hill Ave My dear Mrs. Pinkham, I enclose herewith two dollars as my contribution to the birthday gift for Miss Blackwell. I am very grateful to you for giving me the privilege of adding my bit to this token of our appreciation of Miss Blackwell's rare devotion to the cause of woman hood. Yours cordially, Ruth Wood Hoag 14 Sept 1919.Edgwood Wheeling W. Va. Sept 6. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham Boston Mass. Dear Mrs. Pinkham I received your letter telling of the contemplated gift to Miss Blackwell and regret I can contribute so little. Enclosed is $1.00. With all good wishes for Miss Blackwell and thesuccess of your memorial. Yours fraternally Florence Hoge Chm. W. Va. Comm. Natl Woman's Party P.S. Please note my change of address from 1300 Market St. to Edgwood, Wheeling. If you write Mrs. Geo. A. Laughlin, City Bank Bldg Wheeling & Mrs. E. S. Romine 58 15th St. Wheeling you may get a response.Hyde Park, Mass., Sept 10, 1919. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston. Dear Miss Blackwell:- Like many others of the thousands who admire and know you we are strangers to you. But we wish to join the great host of forward-looking men and women who on this day give you glad greeting. We have been inspired and encouraged so many times by your faith and power. We rejoice with you in another milestone passed. May they way stretch far and wide with much yet to do and to see! In the name of your illustrious father and and mother, and because of what they were and what they gave to you of personality and vision and faith you have toiled well and to purpose. We greet you. Sincerely yours, Mr and Mrs Descom D. HoaglandMiss Marian T. Hosmer 31 Prescott, cor. Allston streets Telephone: Medford 391-W West Medford, Mass., Sept 16 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell: Your party and the familiar faces, took my thoughts back to No 3 Park St in early suffrage days. I remember the Monday "at-homes" of your mother, as she sat in the inner room, with her dear lace cap and collar and the sweet smile for everyone. I remember when Lucia Ames came home from Belgium, and said women could not practice medicine or law there, Eva Channing had just come home also. Mr. Ford used to come in to read his paper.Ednah D. Cheney and Mrs. Channing came to see Mrs. Stone. Hattie Turner worked on the mailing list in the window way. Charlotte and Isabel Allen put in their time, and later gave "History of Marriage" in the Hollis St Theatre, with Charles Flockton and Harvard students and many of Boston's splendid girls. Mrs. Howe and Mrs. Livermore came in, and the Hallowells and Miss Hazeltine and Mrs. Frazer. I rememder the social held each month in the [Mac]Minneon which Mrs. Livermore called "The subteranean sepulchre of the Baptists." where the Conservatory girls used to sing for us and Mrs Schlesinger's donation of flowers was welcome. Mrs. [Ackrnan?] used to bring her little daughter, who pleased us with her quaint speeches. I remember Miss Wilde convulsed us Miss Marian T. Hosmer 31 Prescott, cor. Allston streets Telephone: Medford 391-W I cannot remember how to spell "Maconaon." West Medford, Mass.,______________ 19 by telling us that Dr. Blackwell on meeting Lucy Stone and Kate Tannat Woods hastily took off his hat and bowing low said "Ladies, I am the heathen and in my blindness I bow down to Wood and Stone." I went up to No 3 last [Spring] Fall before the building was demolished and sat again in the front room and saw in memory all those faces, now gone, who helped keep the thoughts of woman suffrage alive, and saw in memory Lucy Stone as she told me we must keep turning over the soil, turning over the soil, and some day would come the harvest - with loving remembrance Marian T. HosmerMiss HosmerPrineville, Oregon. September 4th 1919- My dear Miss Blackwell, Many, many people all over the United States are sending you birthday greetings this year in acknowledgment of the way you have devoted your life and thought to the great cause of Woman Suffrage. But to me, personally, you are not only a famous woman, but you are still the fairy godmother of my childhood, who wrote my first letter when I arrived in the world, and who made my birthday, which also happened to be the 14th of September, always a happy one. The memory of the days I spent in the house on the hill "where your dear father always scared me so delightfully with his stories of "the black man" is one of the loveliest ones of my life. Therefore I want to add to my tribute for your birthday my love and a very sincere gratitude - Affectionately always - Elaine Goodridge Howard.Camp Pangus Tamworth, N. H. August 25, 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkham: The circular letter sent out in regard to Miss Blackwell's birthday gift, has been forwarded to me. I am very glad indeed to contribute my mite, ten dollars, and enclose a check for that amount. The unswerving fidelity and courage of Miss Blackwell are worthy of the admiration of all who have ever known or who will ever know or hear of her. The few times thatfreelance just now, and as I have recently taught civil government, perhaps I could be of use to you. I may stay in New Hampshire through September. Anyway, I shall probably be here until the seventh of September. After that perhaps I shall be in Boston and can call at your office. But if there is anything I can do for you, with a very little compensation attached, will you please let me know before I leave here if you can? With all good wishes to yourself personally and to the Cause, I am, Sincerely yours Abby Willis Howes I have been in Miss Blackwell's presence she has been an inspiration to me. I envy her intimate friends the privilege they have had of enjoying her conversation and the flashes of her keen intellect. If there is to be a public list of contributors to this birthday fund for Miss Blackwell, please give my address as Dennis, Mass. I saw Miss Paddock a few weeks ago when I was visiting on the Cape and I asked her what the Boston Suffrage Organization was going to do in regard to citizenship classes. She could not tell me. Do you know? I am a freelance Society Department THE BOSTON HERALD Tuesday Sept 16 '19 My dear Miss Blackwell, Please let me add my congratulations to the many you will receive on this auspicious occasion. To have witnessed such a victory while still in "fighting time" is glorious indeed. My only regret, andthere must always be a "crumple in the rose leaf"- is that your dear mother cannot be visible today to share our rejoicing as I am sure she does in spirit. Yours very Truly, Honenee T Hinet. Florence T. HuntNewton Centre, Mass. September 8, 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell: - We join heartily in offering you our sincere congratulations and in cherishing a lively hope that your strength and years may be continued to accomplish yet many things for the good of the world. Your gifted pen has been a remarkable power in advancing the cause of woman suffrage, and in support of every righteous principle for social and civil life. Your mother and father are greatly honored by multitudes, not only for the work they accomplished as champions of an unpopular but momentous issue, but also for giving their daughter to the same great Cause in which they were pioneers and which she now sees coming to its triumphant results. We are very glad to be permitted to have a small share in the anniversary offering. With heartfelt birthday greetings, we are Sincerely yours, Wm. E. Huntington, Ella M. Huntington,For Miss Blackwell. Mrs. William David Hunt. 30 Warren Street. Brookline.[*Mrs. Arthur Hunter*] The Alumnae House 8 Bedford Terrace Northampton, Massachusetts M. L. JAMES, MANAGER OPEN THE YEAR ROUND TEA ROOM CONNECTED TELEPHONE 1380 September 15th My dear Miss Blackwell That I cannot be at your birthday party tomorrow fills me with regret - I wish you the happiest birthday possible, and very many of them - Never can I repay you for all the blessings you have brought into my life - principally there the dear old Woman's Journal in the years that are past - Because of your sanity and wisecounsels in the difficult days of our pilgrimage, I was able to reflect a small measure of it. Otherwise, as is the case with so many more of your "suffrage children" the temptation to do hasty things would have been too much for us impatient ones. The era of the reign of masculinity has been an intolerable one, and it is a matter of the profoundest joy to us all that you have lived to see the light of the new day, that you have done so much to bring about. I am Sincerely yours (Mrs Arthur) May Hunter - of Montclair New Jersey -Concord, N.H., Sep. 2, 1919 Dear Miss Alice Stone Blackwell:- I send you my best greetings for your birth-day September 14. I hope you will live to enjoy many happy years. I have always felt grateful to your father & mother and to you for the great amount of work you have done for the cause of equal suffrage in past years. I am glad that you lived to witness the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment through Congress. With my best wishes for your future success and happiness. I am yours truly, Clara L. Hunton. P.S. My home is Claremont, New Hampshire I am here in the N.H.L. Hospital for my health.Mononotto Inn M.B. Hoppes Fisher's Island Suffolk Co N.Y. Sept. 5 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkham - Enclosed is check for five dollars ($5) towards the Blackwell fund. I wish it were $500. for my love and gratitude to Miss Blackwell for all that she has done for the cause of woman is unbounded. Faithfully yours - (Mrs. R. S.) Penelope B.P. Huse142 NORTH ARLINGTON AVENUE EAST ORANGE, N. J. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, Treasurer Fund for Secretary for Alice Stone Blackwell to assist her in writing Lucy Stone's Life. Dear Mrs. Pinkham, I have been in temporary need of a secretary as I was so rushed when I rec'd the Committee's letter and then it got mislaid among my correspondence. I was looking for it this morning but had not found it. So I was very glad to receive the second notice and distressed to see that the birthday was only the dayafter tomorrow! But I am glad to be in time to send a check - $10 - for the Committee and to let them then know how pleased I am to know how they are helping to get Lucy Stone's "Life" written. I am too late to send a greeting to be bound, with others as I have no time to get the proper sized paper. But as I knew Alice here when she was a child and began my work for the cause by taking up a collection for her mother in Newark in 1868 or '69 few people knew or loved them better. Best wishes to the Committee and my love to dear A.S.B! Very truly, Mary D. HusseyJust to wish you the happiest birthday in the world - that's all! Concord, N.H., Sep. 14, 1919, Dear Miss Pinkham:- I received your receipt & thank you. I remembered this morning, that it was Sep. 14, the birthday of Alice Stone Blackwell. I told the ladies about it at the breakfast table. I wish I had a birth-day card; will send one later. Doubtless you have heard the good news from New Hampshire State. I was able to go to the State House Sep. 9, to hear Debate & roll call in the house of Rep. also on Sep. 10, to hear debate & roll call in the Senate Chamber. Both houses ratified the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. I am so thankful! With best wishes, your sister suffragist, Clara L. Hunton North Woodstock New Hampshire Oct. 22, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell: Will you accept a birthday greeting, though it is late? We are never older than our hearts, you know, and so I am thinking of you as another year younger, in the added vigor and power of your life. We who know you even a little are thankful for your poise and graciousness and vision. The world is in sore need of those qualities. Therefore each added year shall bring you increased store and the love of many friends. Today and always, I would be counted among them, so I am sending this simple greeting, with much love, Emma J. HutchinsAFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS IN EVERY SENATORIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT -- MEMBERSHIP OVER 200,000 Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (Founded 1869) GRACE WILBUR TROUT, PRESIDENT State Suffrage Headquarters TOWER BUILDING, MADISON ST. AND MICHIGAN AVE. TELEPHONES RANDOLPH 6862 AND 6844 [left column] Officers 1st Vice-President MRS. GEORGE A. SODEN 2nd Vice-President MRS. JUDITH W. LOEWENTHAL Recording Secretary MRS. SAMUEL SLADE, Highland Park Corresponding Secretary MRS. EDWARD L. STEWART Treasurer MRS. CHARLES E. NAGELY Auditor MRS. BLANCHE B. WEST Bushnell Advisory Committee MRS. WM. ALESHIRE, PLYMOUTH Woman's Emergency League of the Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. MRS. GEORGE R. BACON, DECATUR Past Pres. Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs MRS. GEORGE BASS Chief of the Woman's Bureau Democratic National Committee MRS. JACOB BAUR Pres. Chicago Equal Suffrage Ass'n. MRS. O. P. BOURLAND, PONTIAC DR. M. D. BROWN, DE KALB Pres. 12th Cong. Dist. Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs MRS. MARY BUSEY, URBANA Trustee University of Illinois MRS. HARLAN WARD COOLEY Pres. Woman's Legislative Congress MRS. JOHN TAYLOR COWLES, Program Chairman Ill. Federation Women's Clubs MRS. FREDERICK A. DOW Past Pres. Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs MRS. HENRY M. DUNLAP, SAVOY Past Pres. Household Science Dept. of Farmer's Institute MRS. MAIDA LEE FOSGATE, QUINCY Woman's Emergency League of the Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. MRS. E. B. GRIFFIN, GRANT PARK Pres. 18th Cong. Dist. Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs MRS. MARY E. HOLMES Pres. Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, for 12 years MRS. REBECCA H. KAUFFMAN, OREGON Pres. Oregon Equal Suffrage Ass'n MISS FLORENCE KING Pres. Woman's Ass'n of Commerce U. S. A. MRS. FELIX LEVY Pres. Jewish Woman's Council MRS. ROBERT MCCALL Pres. Chicago Y. W. C. A. MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK Chairman Republican Women's Nat. Executive Committee MRS. JAMES W. MORRISSON Chicago Equal Suffrage Ass'n. MRS. R. M. REED Legislative Chairman Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs MRS. ALBERT H. SCHWEIZER Pres. Chicago Political Equality League DR. JULIA HOLMES SMITH MRS. MARTIN STRAND Pres. Chicago Heights Political Equality League MRS. HARRIETTE TAYLOR TREADWELL, Member Board of Directors Woman's Legislative Congress DR. LUCY WAITE, PARK RIDGE MRS. ALICE BRADFORD WILES Past Pres. Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs MRS. HOWARD T. WILLSON State Chairman Woman's Liberty Loan Committee MRS. W. H. WINSLOW Pres. Chicago Woman's Club [right column] Directors MRS. J. W. MCGRAW MRS. LYMAN A. WALTON MRS. MABEL GILMORE REINECKE MRS. CHARLES FRANKENTHAL MRS. AUGUSTUS PEABODY MISS ALICE HENRY MRS. H. M. STRYKER, GALENA MRS. E. B. COOLLEY, DANVILLE MRS. MARY E. SYKES, MONMOUTH [center] CHICAGO. September 12, 1919 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. My dear Mrs. Pinkham: A request came to us to help in raising a birthday gift for Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. At our state Board meeting held this week, it was voted to send $100.00. Check for that amount is inclosed. We all wish the check might have been larger. We hope this will reach you in time for Miss Blackwell's birthday and that she will be given the strength and opportunity to write the history of her wonderful mother, which will be an inspiration to all women. Very sincerely, Grace Wilbur Trout State President. GWT.LS[*76*] [*75*] INEZ HAYNES IRWIN SCITUATE MASSACHUSETTS September 10th, 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- I am enclosing a check for five dollars from my husband, Will Irwin, and five dollars from myself; both to go to Alice Blackwell's birthday fund. Will Irwin has never met Alice Blackwell but of course he has many times heard me speak of her. And as his birthday comes on September 14th also, he feels that he must be included in this affair. For myself, if I tried to enumerate all the things that I admire about Alice Blackwell, I should take the rest of this afternoon and cover many pages of this paper. But perhaps to praise Alice Blackwell is too much like gilding the lily. I will say in brief that, ever since I first saw her, when she came to address us at Radcliffe College, I have been one of the most ardent of her admirers. I know this will be a happy birthday [*for her*] and I hope that each succeeding one will be as happy as it is possible for the combined efforts of her admirers to make it. Very sincerely yours, Inez Haynes Irwin Mrs. Wenona Osborne PinkhamDowner Court, Dorchester, August 19th Dear Mrs. Pinkham, I was delighted with the project in regard to Alice and are heart and soul with you. She is certainly the [ur?test] and truest soul. I love her though I see little of that busy woman and do little for her. I wish the enclosed five were five times as much but my income is limited Cordially Yours Gertrude T. JacobsDorchester, Mass September 10.1919 Dear Alice How time flies! Here you will be home Monday! I hate to have it go so fast, when it is headed for winter. Such a week as we have had-steady rain since Monday and through the [sun?] wax out to-day for a time, there is an ugly sky tonight and the storm Signals are out for gales at sea. My brother has just started off for a trip to Camden Maine, but he is on a huge yacht, an ocean going vessel, which has a crew of 20 men. It is owned by the Mr. Brown, who has thought of buying Mr. Hammond's land. He has made an offer and left Mr. Hammond to digest it [*Do you read Woodhull's. I would. I am taking a course in them. But you would prefer the Edgar Poe's "Mysteries." They are good reading. Please give the [?] friends my love and believe me ever truly yours Gertrude T. Jacob*]We would only occupy for a short time spring and autumn, as he has summer home at New London Conn, so does not want to pay too much. [?] unexpectedly nice to have seen Mabel. She was probably on her way home, but the Vineyard did not seem to be on the direct line. I wish I had been at Chilmark, not especially to see her, but because I am so fond of it. It is a bewilderingly fascinating spot. You feel sure God made it, and that you are not certain of in many spots. And I would like to have seen her, Mayhew and Mrs Robinson and the little, clever French pupil of Mrs. Rogers, is her name Antoinette? I wish you could have had a longer rest there. But trust that now the Cause is well on its feet, You will not have much hard work this winter in its behalf. You know there is but our Alice Blackwell and if you read the papers you must know she is highly esteemed. I went to the Lucy Stone House one day, now nearly three weeks ago, and found that nice Mr. (?) there, with his nice wife and two dear little children. I presume he has [?] both now, but at that time, as they were devouring green pears, hard as rocks, I have some doubt about it. I was trying to organize a Committee for him in Dorchester, to keep his work. Gertrude Jacobs In three days I was flat on my back and did not move hand or foot for a week, so have not made much progress. Especially as I am on a Committee to secure three matrons for the Girls [?] School on Centre St, before the 22d. of September. It was a strange happening that made three vacancies in our [?] of four teachers. I am sorry Mrs! Rogers is going to Europe this autumn, She would make an excellent assistant matron, and find a pleasant hours, at a salary of $500 odd dollars. But she would not want to stay long, as she has a son to make a home for. My sister and I are holding the Fort alone. Our ward is in the Wilton Convalescent Hospital, very nice at [?], my brother yachting. It is great fun. Washington D.C September 2, 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell It gives me pleasure to send you upon the occasion of your birthday a small gift which I trust will help to give us The Life of Lucy Stone your glorious mother. I feel that I can never express my great sense of gratitude to your great and lovely mother, your [hare?] & splendid father the late Henry B. Blackwell, & to your brilliant & [unturning?] devotion to the cause, so nearly soon won, the enfranchisement of women. With warm wishes for a happy birthday and many returns of September Your health, I am Yours very sincerely Alice Thornton JenkinsMiss Alice Stone Blackwell THE COLLEGE CLUB, 10 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON Mrs. George Perkins Executive Secretary Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Dear Mrs. Perkins:= I hope that I am not too late to make a contribution to the birthday fund for Miss Blackwell. There was so many things waiting for me to do when I returned to the office after vacation, that many outside things I eagerly wanted to do had to go. If the enclosed check for $2.00, is not needed for the fund - I think I saw notice in the paper that you had raised the desired amount - then use it for general suffrage work as you see fit. Please be sure, [?????], to give my loveto Miss Blackwell and my best wishes for many happy years. at least - I am not to late for that. I am so glad for her sake that the Federal Amendment passed and that Massachusetts ratified this year. It is a wonderful triumph after a life of devotion and sacrifice to this work such as here. With love to you and all the other nice people at the office. Sincerely yours Ethel M JohnsonTo Alice Stone Blackwell If all the deeds of A. S. B. were hung upon a Christmas tree, there'd be a gift for every one. The moon or sun doth shine upon, American, Celt or wild Fiji Armenian, Serb or far Chinese, Man or woman, bound or free, All owe thanks to A. S. B. Grace Alice Johnson 1919Mills Trot - Caeens hergh. 8 September 1919 Miss Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building Boston, Massachusetts - My dear Miss Pinkham Enclosed please find check for ten dollars ($10) To be used for Miss Blackwell's birthday gift. I am very glad indeed to have this opportunity of testifying to the very great enjoyment and inspiration which Miss Blackwell's articles and editorials have been to me. Very sincerely (Mrs. Chares C.) Grace M. H JohnsonMills Trot - Caeens hergh 8 September 1919 Miss Weona Osborn Pinkham 553 Little Building Boston, Massachusetts - My dear Miss Pinkham Enclosed please find check for ten dollars ($10) to be used for Miss Blackwell's birthday gift - I am very glad indeed to have this opportunity of testifying to the very great enjoyment and inspiration which Miss Blackwell's articles and editorials have been to me Very sincerely (Mrs. Charles C.) Grace M.H. JohnsonOrono, Maine - My dear Mrs. Pinkham I enclose a small contribution toward the birthday gift for Miss Blackwell. The plan is a most happily Con -[*est*] days of my life was when I marched through the streets of Boston carrying the Lucy Stone banner. With best wishes for the success of this undertaking - and for you personally Grace W[???]el Jones. (Mrs. Ralph K. Jones -) September 11. 1919.ceived one, and is, I trust, getting the response it deserves. The life of Lucy Stone will be a book of inspiration to all women who want to accomplish things - One of the proud - [*77*] S[??]tuak - Sept. 2/19 Mrs. W.O. Pinkham My dear Mrs Pinkham Enclosed is check for ten dollars ($10.) from my sister Annie Graham Kelly and myself- sent as our contribution to the birthday gift to Miss Blackwell. We heartily wish we could send a much larger sum in token of the gratitude which we feel for her generous efforts in behalf of suffrage - Yours truly Mary L. Kelly153 Main St Hartford, Connecticut My dear Mrs Pinkham, It gives me great pleasure to send my contribution. Suffragists can never pay the debt they owe to Alice Stone Blackwell. Very Sincerely Mrs/ Ella B. KendrickDorchester Sept 10, 1919. To Mrs Wenona Osborne Pinkham - Dear Madam - Enclosed please find check for Four Dollars for the Alice Stone Blackwell Birthday gift. - Two dollars of it is from my mother Mrs. Sarah A. Ashman of Westboro; Mass, who is eighty-four years old and has taken the paper (The Womans Journal & now the Citizen) for forty eight - orTEL. 225 J PORT WASHINGTON HAZELDEAN SANDS POINT PORT WASHINGTON, L. I. Thursday Sept 18. Dearest Miss Blackwell: In addition to the official message sent on Tuesday for your birthday celebration, I feel that I must send you a personal word of love and appreciations. Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwellwere early inspirations to me. You I love and look up to all my life, and am teaching my young daughter to do the same. You and your family will ever be one of the bright strands in American historical fabric. - With what pride you must look back upon your father and mother. You ought to look back with pride in all that you have done! - Only it isn't in you to be proud of that. I do not think you have that one capacity:- really to appreciate yourself! Mrs. Laidlaw joins me H.B. Laidlaw in affectionate best wishes to you. Yours cordially and with loving wishes and hope that you will let us see you when you are in New York, Harriet B. Laidlaw TELEPHONE KEARNY 1448 [RES. TEL. WEST 2683] GAIL LAUGHLIN ATTORNEY AT LAW 915 PACIFIC BUILDING COR. MARKET AND FOURTH STS. SAN FRANCISCO October 7, 1919. MRS. WENONA OSBORNE PINKHAM, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam:- Enclosed please find check for three dollars ($3.00) toward gift for Miss Blackwell. I am glad that some tribute is to be paid to her unselfish service. Very truly yours, Gail LaughlinMy dear Mrs Pinkham I send a little check for the birthday gift for Miss Blackwell. Of course nothing should prevent her writing the life of her mother. It is important, Yours very sincerely Julia C. Lathrop Washington DC August 19 No receipt necessary.19 Sharpsville St. Sharon Pa. Sept. 12-1919. Dear Miss Blackwell, we wish you many happy returns of the day. May each succeeding birthday find you richer in friends, happiness, and comfort. We met you first at a National Convention. We have met you at each one since. We became acquainted previously by medium of the Woman's Journal. At first our interest and delight in meeting you were because you were the daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell. Now to that pleasure we add the greatly augmented pleasure of meeting you for your own sake. Lovingly Mary Lee Namie Lee[*80*] [left column] National American Woman Suffrage Association President MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 Madison Ave., New York Honorary President DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW COMMITTEES LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP MRS. FREDERICK P. BAGLEY, Chairman 8 Louisburg Square, Boston, Mass. PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS, Chairman 1437 W. Ohio Street, Chicago, Ill. CHILD WELFARE MRS. PERCY V. PENNYBACKER 2606 Whitis Avenue, Austin, Texas IMPROVEMENT IN ELECTION LAWS AND METHODS MRS. JACOB BAUR 30 Cedar Street, Chicago, Ill. SOCIAL HYGIENE DR. VALERIA H. PARKER, Chairman 42 High Street, Hartford, Conn. UNIFICATION OF LAWS CONCERNING CIVIC STATUS OF WOMEN MRS. CATHERINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, Chairman 112 W. Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. FOOD SUPPLY AND DEMAND MRS. EDWARD P. COSTIGAN 2123 California Street, Washington, D. C. RESEARCH MRS. MARY SUMNER BOYD, Chairman 171 Madison Avenue, New York [center] THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Chairman Mrs. CHARLES H. BROOKS 1007 N. Lawrence Avenue, Witchita, Kansas Secretary Miss KATHERINE PIERCE 112 N. Broadway, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 171 MADISON AVENUE TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL NEW YORK August 28, 1919. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 552-554 Little Building Boston, Massachusetts. My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- I am in receipt of your letter of August 13th, in reference to Miss Blackwell's birthday gift. I assure you that we hold Miss Blackwell, in very high esteem and honor the memory of her mother and father and I am sure the women of the country will take pleasure in sharing in the gift raising. When our Kansas President returns, I will take the matter up with her and see what Kansas can do. With most cordial regards, I am- Very cordially, Jane M. Brooks. (Mrs. C.H. Brooks) Chairman JMB:eNew Jersey Woman Suffrage Association Riverton N. J. 9/13/19 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Bldg. Boston My dear Mrs. Pinkham Yes, I am pleased to have the privilege of keeping make possible [????] secretary & to have a part in the celebration of the two anniversaries (both of Miss Blackwell & of her Mothers. Enclosed is my check for five dollars. With best wishes for success Yours very truly Helen Lippincott Sent by Mrs. David M. Little of 27 Chestnut St. Salem, Mass. with very best wishes to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell on her birthday & for her success in bringing out a life of her mother whom we all honor. (A check for $10. you will please find enclosed) - Aug. 28, 1919 - My dear Alice Stone Blackwell. About fifteen years ago a copy of the Woman's Journal fell into my hands and my interest in suffrage dates from that event. Whatever I may have since been able to do for the cause can rightly be laid to the impetus and incentive received from the Journal and its fair minded, clever and always sweet-tempered editor, A.S.B. God bless her. Henrietta W. Livermore Yonkers. N.Y.September 1919 Nahant Mass To Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Many happy birthday and congratulations. Success and happiness for your future. Sincerely Rebecca B. LuiskySept. 9th 3 Pierrepont Place Brooklyn N.Y. Dear Alice Stone Blackwell, I do not know what kind of a birthday you are going to have next Sunday; I have had 75 myself so I think mine are better honored in the reach than the observance. "But as I still appreciate my children's, I also honor those of my friend's children and I certainly felt that I had a friend in your father - your mother I loved and admired from the days of 1869, but the relation was less personal. It was indeed a red letter day when they added you to all their other gifts to the world made so much better by their lives. May you live long in the peace old age having accomplished those loving tasks is to which you have been so true & faithful - affectionately yours, Mary H. Loines.[*83*] National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Suffrage Department MRS. DEBORAH K. LIVINGSTON, SUPERINTENDENT 103 GOVERNOR STREET PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND ADVISORY MEMBER SUB-COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. Providence, R. I., Sept. 9, 1919 191 Miss Florence Luscomb, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Luscomb, It is with sincere regret that I find it impossible to accept the invitation to attend the reception to be given Miss Alice Stone Blackwell on September 16th. An imperative engagement in New Jersey of several months standing is the reason for my absence. Will you kindly convey to Miss Blackwell my hearty congratulations upon her birthday anniversary and express to her my appreciation of the magnificent work which she has done for the cause of Suffrage, for which I, with the women of the country are her debtors . Very sincerely yours, Deborah Kurt LivingstonNational Woman's Christian Temperance Union Suffrage Department MRS. DEBORAH K. LIVINGSTON, SUPERINTENDENT 103 GOVERNOR STREET PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND ADVISORY MEMBER SUB-COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN INDUSTRY Providence, R. I., Sept. 9, 1919 191 Miss Florence Luscomb, 553 Little building, Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Luscomb, It is with sincere regret that I find it impossible to accept the invitation to attend the reception to be given Miss Alice Stone Blackwell on September 16th. An imperative engagement in New Jersey of several months standing is the reason for my absence. Will you kindly convey to Miss Blackwell my hearty congratulations upon her birthday anniversary and express to her my app reaction of the magnificent work which she has done for the cause of Suffrage, for which I, with the women of the country are her debtors. Very sincerely yours, Deborah Kurt Livingston[*84*] World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union "BE YE THEREFORE MERCIFUL, AS YOUR FATHER ALSO IS MERCIFUL" DEPARTMENT OF HUMANE EDUCATION "HASTING THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD" MRS. MARY F. LOVELL SUPERINTENDENT Jenkintown, Pa., U. S. A. October 8th, 1919. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, #553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell:- An invitation to the reception given on the occasion of your birthday was received here but not until I had started on a journey, which, of course, prevented my acknowledging it. I was very sorry not to be able to be present and think it was very kind to include me among those invited. I am strongly in favor of suffrage for women, but owing to my many other duties have never had the opportunity of taking a very active part. Wishing you continued success and many happy returns of your birthday, I am Most cordially yours, Mary F. Lovell MFL/EAlice Stone Blackwell, The world holds reverent love for her who bore a leading lamp mid battle's wreck and scorch, But not less reverent love for you I store, My "Lady of the Torch." Torch militant! A blazing challenge held 'Gainst wrong and falsehood, slinking in the night; Torch of a dauntless courage through the years; Torch of calm wisdom bright. Beloved Lady! Myriad hearts today Have kindled their small tapers at your flame. Still gleams your torch, with forward shining ray Lighting our paths to come. Florence H. Luscomb. Sept. 14, 1919[*87*] TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 2570 RESIDENCE BELLEVUE 615-W MARY AGNES MAHAN ATTORNEY AT LAW 15 BEACON ST., ROOM 66 BOSTON, MASS. September 6, 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham: Enclosed please find check for ten dollars. I want it to cover my contribution to the anniversary fund and for Tuesday's party. I leave the proportions for you to decide. I wish my purse was large as my desire to contribute to both things. Cordially yours, Mary Agnes MahanMaine Woman Suffrage Association To Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, Portland, Maine Boston, Massachusetts. September 12, 1919. Dear Mrs. Pinkham, I am enclosing you checks for thirty dollars, in addition to the thirty-two already sent, for Miss Blackwell's birthday gift, from our Maine Association. This additional sum having been collected at our State Board meeting, today. We greatly regret that our contribution to this most popular and appropriate fund is not larger, owing to a confusion about the collecting, and a consequent lack of time. Be it said, however, that what we are sending has the love and gratitude of every giver behind it. The women of Maine, like the women of every other state in the Union, love Miss Blackwell, and realize the greatness of their debt to her and to her family, and the value that this life of Lucy Stone will have in the record of the history of our cause. In the absence of our Corresponding Secretary, Miss Connor has asked me to convey to Miss Blackwell, through you, the birthday greetings of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association, and the profound esteem and affection of every individual member of it. I am Sincerely yours, Elizabeth Curtis Holman Chairman of LiteratureThe Maryland Woman - Suffrage Asso. Pledges ten dollars for birthday gift for Alice Stone Blackwell - The Treasurer will forward the same Emma Maddox Funck - President 1631 Eutair Place Baltimore Md. May she have many returns of the Season Maquoketa, Iowa. Sept. 10th 1919. Dear Mrs. Pinkham, and any dear old friend Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton:- It seems good indeed to receive a letter from you once more. I read in the many papers of your good work and of course keep in touch with the good work through "The Woman Citizen" but a letter now & think seems so much closer. I am so affected with the good news that the "Life of Lucy Stone" is to really be written by her own daughter that I was completely overwhelmed with joy. It seems to me that that is the most important work we could possibly do. And O. how glad I am she has been spared to do it right, as no one but her could. Now let us spare her in every way possible. Giver her the2 best help possible and an abundance of it. Let us make these the happiest days of all her life. We can and there are no nobler and more loyal women on earth than our dear suffrage women. I'd love to assist with the real work but as that is impossible I am sending my "bit". Enclosed find Draft for One Hundred Dollars to assist Alice Stone Blackwell in writing the "Life of Lucy Stone" & Henry B. Blackwell - and her own life. I am much interested and shall watch with interest the progress of the book. May she live to celebrate her one hundreth birthday and retain her unusual mind. Yours truly Florence E.M. Mashrey. 8 Grove Street August 19 - 1919 Winchester, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell. - For September fourteenth please accept my hearty congratulations - and my best wishes for future years. Now that nation wide suffrage for women seems assured and the heat of the fight is over, may I be permitted to express to you my personal appreciation and admiration for the life long service which you have given with such singleness of purpose and such distinguished ability. I consider myself most fortunate to have served - in a very humble capacity - the same cause under such splendid leadership and inspiration. Yours most cordially and devotedly, (Mrs. E.C.) Martha Sprague Mason of your own Boston University - class of 1887. Maquoketa, Iowa. September, 10, 1919. My Dear Miss Blackwell: The first day of September is my father's birthday and the 14th of September is your birthday. So I am celebrating both in your honor, by sending a Draft for One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in memory of your parents and my parents, who were co-workers in the Anti-Slavery, Temperance and Suffrage movement of the early days. I am delighted to add my "bit" to assist you i writing the "Life of Lucy Stone", your beloved mother and may it include the "Life of Henry B. Blackwell" and their daughter Alice Stone Blackwell, for each had a mighty part in this great movement. You have been rightly called "Our Living Enciclopedia" because you seem to know everything and never forget anything. You are the only one that could do it right. 2 Now Dearheart, it is a heavy task and we beg of you not to overdo. We want to lighten the task as much as possible, by supplying you with the very best obtainable assistance, and an abundance of it in every conceivable form. O. I am so glad its begun. May you be given the strength and joy of completing it is my sincere wish. I am deeply interested in it. My eys are dimmed with tears of joy and my whole being permeated with a thrill of delight that the book is to be written for the next generation to read, of what we had the pleasure of living. What a privilege to have lived in this say and age and to have had a part in all the upward movement. Yours for Success Florence E. McCarron-Maskrey My father was Hiram W. McCarron My mother was Sarah Tompkins-McCarron. My dear Miss Blackwell, I recall with keen interest those long distant days where as a young woman I met regularly at the suffrage headquarters, on Park Street with your father mother and you. You three were a brave trinity of faith, hope and perseverance and were a constant inspiration to us all. I remember your father's sturdy voice and practical wisdom, and your mother's sweet tone and her placid face under her exquisite lace cap. I rejoice that you are to add to your story of a great Russian pioneer for freedom another about this American heroine of the suffrage movement. I congratulate you on living to see practically the end of opposition and the certainty of the victory for which you all your life have so faithfully and ably striven. Yours. affectionately, Lucia Arms Mead. Aug.22. 1919.Scituate, Mass. Sept. 9, 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham I am very glad to send this small contribution - only wishing it might be larger - for the purpose of which you have written. I sincerely hope Miss Blackwell may be enable to write the life of her mother which could be a most valuable addition to suffrage and indeed all literature. May I not say also how much I miss The Woman's Journal. The woman citizen does not at all take its place in my affections. Very cordially May Bontell Mendenhall136 E. 60th St., New York City, Sept. 8th 1919. My Dear Miss Blackwell:- I am so glad to be a tiny link in the chain of your friends, who are now expressing their love for you and their honor and love for your Father and Mother. A very sweet remembrance I cherish of them is, --after one of the many evenings spent at the Suffrage League in East Boston and a night in our house, --that they lingered in the morning in front of the open fire, with our family clustered about them and hanging on their words; finally your Mother rose and said, with her marvelously sweet voice, "Well, Henry, this is very pleasant, but you and I have work to do." It showed how happy she would have been at her own fireplace, and yet that she was still happier serving others. Affectionately, Jennie Inuth MeviekSomerville Mass Sept 12, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell, Congratulations and best wishes, Suffragits of the 23rd and 24th Middlesex Districts926 West Genesee St. Syracuse, N. Y. Sept. 14 1919 Dear Alice Stone Blackwell It suddenly comes to me that this is your birthday. I hope mother's congratulations & mine will not be too late to assure you of our love best wishes. We both feel deeply grateful to you for yourlife devotion to our great cause & the wonderful & unique work with the pen which you have done for us all. No one else could or can write as you do. No other paper will ever take the place of the Journal which was so dear to us thro' the years. Your father & mother left a noble legacy which, you have nobly dispensed by your long service. I wish it were in our power to make a visible expression, of our appreciation - Since we cannot do that now, we must control ourselves with saying our heartfelt thanks and a God bless you each & every day![*H M Mills*] Yours heartily admiringly, Harriet May Mills [*40*] My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- I am delighted to be able to show my appreciation of our dear Lucy Stone and her daughter, who was my schoolmate, by a small cheque toward the expenses of preparing for publication a life-story of their work for humanity. My earliest recollections of Mrs. Stone was first on the platform and than when a very young girl in her own home where she proved that reformers would retain their feminine instincts. It is one of my greatest privileges in life to have been so welcome a guest in Bontmel [?????]. And it is splendid that the daughter has been able to show herself to worthy a descendant of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. Very sincerely Ma[???] Ada Holm[?????] 10 Nahant St. Lynn, Massachusetts. 9/16/19. MRS. FREDERICK NATHAN The Belnord 225 West 86th Street NEW YORK Dear Miss Blackwell For many years I have read with deep interest and great satisfaction your replies to anti-suffrage misstatements. Now that our suffrage campaign is apparently won, I hope you will have the opportunity to write the story of your worker's life, as your greatest gift to humanity. I send you hearty birthday greetings and best wishes - Yours sincerely Maud Nathan September 1 - 1919 -CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter N L If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a day message. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. WESTERN UNION WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter N L If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a day message. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. 1919 SEP 9 AM 2 46 612 RECEIVED AT B1O1 NY 4L L EXTRA NL OMAHA NEBR SEPT 8 MRS WENOONA OSBORN PINKHAM 553 LITCH BLDG BOSTON MASS NEBRASKA WOMAN SUGGRAGE ASSOCIATION PLEDGES ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR MISS BLACKWELLS BIRTHDAY GIFT THE CHECK AND LETTER WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS WILL FOLLOW SHORTLY WILL YOU PLEASE EXTEND OUR HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS LOVE AND ADMIRATION TO MISS BLACKWELL ON SEPT FOURTEENTH MARGARETTA S DEITRICH PRESIDENT.Anngenette Fowler Noble M. D. Office and Residence Twenty-One Noble Street Westfield, Massachusetts September, 6, 1919. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, #552 Little Building, Boston, Massachusetts. My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- Enclosed is my "bit", I am glad of the opportunity to express my love and appreciation of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell and to aid, even in a small way, in the establishment of so suitable a memorial to her mother, Lucy Stone Blackwell, from whose early courage and fortitude we women are reaping the benefit to-day. Very sincerely yours, Anngenette Fowler Noble 92 The North Adams Equal Suffrage League honors itself in contributing toward the fund which makes it possible for the reading public of present and future days to profit from the priceless example of simple living and high thinking, of daughters perseverance, of superb faith in a principle which have been characteristic of Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell and their beloved daughter Alice Stone Blackwell. This contribution is made in grateful remembrance of their services for Liberty. North Adams MassachusettsNATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION [505 FIFTH AVENUE] New York Sept. 14, 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell: If the affection, admiration and gratitude of thousands of women can insure a happy birthday the fourteenth of September should be a joyous day for you. There may still be unenlightened people who think the alphabet begins with a, b, c, but to suffragists A. S. B. will always represent the alpha and omega of education in democracy. Please keep on teaching us for many years to come. With love and best wishes Affectionately, Ester G. LegdanGreetings, To our dear Miss Blackwell whose clear brain and facile pen have been among the mightiest forces that led to victory for suffrage. All women, and especially those of America, own a debt of gratitude to Lucy Stone, to Henry Blackwell, and to their daughter that can never be expressed. Their high mentality and unswerving courage made them properly fitted for pioneers in a great movement. The brilliant daughter has continued the work so nobly begun, giving everything - her time, her money and strength, and asking nothing for herself doing in her live what no one else had done. Ruth A. Gay Kate H. Biggers Minerva Leurts Adelia C. Stehpens Jence C. Feuguay Julia L. Woodworth Julia Duriham Eliazbeth Burt Mary Barber Goddard Anna Lasky Oklahoma City, Sept. 8, 1919.MISS MARY OLCOTT CASAGMO RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT September 20, 1919. Mrs. [?] Wood Park and Others, Boston Equal Suffrage Assn. for Good Government: Boston. Massachusetts: Dear [?]-Suffragists: I am in receipt of your letter of August 13th, in regard to Miss Blackwell's "Life of Lucy Stone", andHotel Plaza - New York City. My dear Mrs. Pinkham - I enclose a small check to the plan you suggest. I am delighted to be able to help Miss Blackwell perpetuate the [????] of her mother's splendid struggle for the enfranchisement of women.What a life time of service Miss Blackwell, too has given! Sincerely - Amy S. Oppenheim (Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim) Saturday, August the thirtieth.Carmel-by-the-Sea. California Oct. 5th 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell I am honored to be a party in even the smallest way to the writing of your mother's life by you. Her life is one of the greatest ones that mark the milestones of women's progress, and no one could write it with a keener understanding of its value than you. You will also put into it the tenderness of a daughter, and will we[??] the interest of the reader, not only because of the subject but on account of your way of writing the great story. My own personal gratitude to Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, and later to yourself, comes from that staunch, unfailing championship of women in the "Woman's Journal" - No weather what happened in the week of personal or public humiliation to con[????], on Saturday would come the "Woman's Journal" stoutly upholding the woman's point of view and denouncing the energy with careful and convincing analysis. How many times I have been heartened by the "Woman's Journal", and gone on my way rejoicing! Yours faithfully With kindest regards, and best wishes for your book Nancy Hutchenson Page.6 Ellewo[?]t Avenue Cambridge, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell:- It is difficult to find words that will convey the congratulation, homage and gratitude our hearts extend to you on this wonderful birthday of yours which is so happily combined with the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the first of your mother and the many suffrage victories which crown the cause for which you and she and other members of your family have laboredso magnificently. The world for all time will be deeply indebted to you, not only for your great accomplishments on behalf of human freedom, but for the shining example you have set of disinterested devotion to public ends, and of courage and determination in the face of disheartening obstacles. What the ultimate result of your labors will be we cannot even guess, but it is safe to say that they will have a transforming effect upon all conditions that to-day detract from human dignity and happiness. We are glad to know that the epoch making story of your mother's life is soon to be written and that it is you who will write it - it will undoubtedly become one of the treasures of the ages. We cannot close without a word in grateful acknowledgment of your splendid devotion to the cause of Armenia - We thank youknow the high place you hold with estimation of all to whom that cause is dear. With kindest greetings and wishes, dear Miss Blackwell, We remain Yours most sincerely Garagel H Papazian Berta V. Papazian September 15, 1919Harvard University August 31, 1919 Dear Friends: Even in these times of daily subscriptions I want to have some small share in honoring the heroic Blackwells. For they were no loose Enthusiasts but had, all time of times, forthright, patience, good sense, statesmanship. No one is more competent to give a clear & interesting account of this Superb Struggle than Miss Blackwell. I hope she will undertake it. Very truly yours, G. H. Pa[?]With abiding appreciation of the [ha?st] soul I have ever known - Alice Stone Blackwell - my hero in all the world. Maud Wood Park.16 BERKELEY STREET. CAMBRIDGE. September 23, 1919. My dear Miss Blackwell, Though our summer in California was a delightful one, it has been the occasion of my missing a number of important suffrage happenings. First, there was the ratification of the Federal Amendment by our legislature and all the rejoicings and celebrations over that, -- I seemed out of the world indeed for I tried in vain on our journey through Canada to get any word of the standing of the Federal Amendment, not only in Massachusetts but anywhere else. The news did not reach me till I arrived at La Jolla on July 14 and found letters from Mrs Johnson and others giving me the good news. My rejoicing was more the less because of being belated, and my thoughts turned especially to you and to the happiness that must be yours that the long fight in Massachusetts was won at last, - we realize to what a great extent that final victory was due to your untiring 16 BERKELEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE. efforts through all the years of your life aiding and then carrying on the work of your devoted parents. Then, to pass over minor happenings of the summer in Massachusetts, I am so sorry I was not here to take part it your birthday celebrations, - in fact, I did not even hear of it till I reached home a few days ago and found an accumulation of a month's mail waiting for me. I hope it is not yet too late for me to be included among the contributions and I know you will be ready to receive my good wish and congratulations and my hopes for your pleasure and success in the loving task that you are now planning to take up. Let me just add a personal word to all you how greatly I have valued being with you in suffrage work, what a pleasure and inspiration you have been to me, and how much I have appreciated your personal friendship and your ever cordial greeting with cheerful words and smile and hearty handclasp. With best wishes and kindest regards, I am Sincerely yours Louise Merritt Parker. Mrs. Geo Parker[top left] CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Telegram Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter N L If none of these three symbols arrears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. [top center] WESTERN UNION WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT [top right] CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Telegram Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter N L If none of these three symbols arrears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. [body] 2412 WASH'N ST BOSTON PHONE ROXBURY WESTERN UNION RECEIVED AT 33B MO 20 4EX DOPE OP PHONED MSC MD NEWHAVEN CONN SEP 16-17 601PM MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 3 MONADOCK ST ROX MASS DORCHESTER AFFECTIONATE CONGRATULATIONS TO ONE WHOSE FARSEEING VISION AND READY PEN ARE STIMULATING WOMEN EVERY WHERE TO PROGRESSING VALERIAS H PARKER 920AMBirthday greeting Valeria ParkerSaratoga Springs New York Lexington, Mass. September 6 1919 Miss. Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Massachusetts. My Dear Miss . Blackwell, It is with great joy that I am privileged to send you my small, but most heartily subscribed, addition to the fund being raised for your use in carrying on the blessed work that you have done in behalf the Equal Suffrage Association . Grateful for the success so far and hoping for further gains , with glorious memories of your noble mother and eloquent father , and of your own splendid labors for Equal Suffrage, I remain , Cordially and Gratefully Yours, Albert Stevens ParsonsSaratoga Springs New York August 31, 1919. Boston Equal Suffrage Association 552 Little Building, Boston, Mass. Gentlemen: In response to your circular letter of August 13th respecting the testimonial to Miss Blackwell, I take pleasure in sending herewith a small contribution. I am, Very truly yours, George Victor Kabwsky $20.00All honor and love, and blessings on the name and the voice of Alice Stone Blackwell. It is a pride to have lived in her generation. From one lover of the Woman Cause to whose earliest childish endeavors at poetry, she gave the earliest kindly praise. Her most devoted Josephine Preston Peabody. September 1919.100 It is a great priveledge to send a Greeting to Miss Blackwell on this 14th of September. To me it means much. I listened to her mother's voice and watched her face before Alice was born. I read the very first Woman's Journal and have seen all the numbers since published. I enlisted in the Suffrage Army more than a half century ago. On May 1, 1879 Mrs Margaret W. Campbell gave an address in the M. E. church, Peabody, on the cause of universal suffrage. Two days later the Peabody Woman Suffrage Club was organized, I was elected President and have continued the leader all these years. In 1885 Perley King, a citizen of the town, gave the Club, by will, the sum of five hundred dollars. This was deposited in the Saving's Bank. I cannot say we have done great things in all this time but we have stood faithful for the cause, a balance of the King money still remains in the bank and we rejoice with Miss Blackwell in the day of victory Mary O. Stevens, Pres. Peabody, Sept. 11, 1919. -It is a great priveledge to send a "Greeting" to Miss Blackwell on this Sept. 14th. To me it means much. -I listened to her mother's voice and watched her face before Alice was born. I read the very first "Woman's Journal" and have seen all the numbers since published. I enlisted in the Suffrage Army more than a half century ago. - On May 1, 1879 Mrs Margaret W. Campbell gave an address in the M. E. church, Peabody, on the cause of universal suffrage. Two days later the Peabody Woman Suffrage Club was organized, [and] I was elected President and have continued [at] the leader all these years. In 1885 Perley King, a citizen of the town, gave the Club by will the sum of five hundred dollars. This was deposited in the Saving's Bank. I cannot say we have done great things in all this time but we have stood faithful for the cause, a balance of the King money still remains in the bank and we rejoice with Miss Blackwell in the day of victory. - Mary O. Stevens, Pres. Peabody, Sept. 11, 1919. -The Farm Journal Washington Square Philadelphia Unlike any other paper WILMER ATKINSON editor emeritus Sept. 6, 1919. All honor to the memory of Lucy Stone pioneer on the Platform, in the cause of Womens' Rights; no less honor to her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, for her wonderfully able and long sustained advocacy of the cause with her pen. Without the earnest and persistent labors of these noble women, the Cause would yet be far from attainment. The adoption of the great amendment will be an epoch in the world's history; we shall have a new and better world when women shall have power to determine laws for the protection and care of children, which they do not now and never have possessed. Wilmer Atkinson. Prest. Pa. Men's League for Woman Suffrage. I cannot decide if the accompanying "Greeting" is suitable for the purpose, only I am sure it is what my heart approves. I am now seventy- seven years of age and have very earnestly done my part for woman suffrage. Mary O. Stevens. -101 Chautanauqua (New York) Woman's Club MRS. PERCY V. PENNYBACKER PRESIDENT 2606 WHITIS AVENUE Austin, Texas. Oct. 14, 1919. Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, 583 Little Bld. Boston, Mass. My dear Mrs. Pinkham: I am sure that it is a splendid work that Miss Blackwell will do in writing the history of her mother's life, and one that will be much appreciated by suffragists all over the country. I am only too happy that I may have an opportunity of making a slight contribution to the fund for Miss Blackwell's birthday. I am herewith enclosing a check. Very sincerely yours, Anna J. PennybackerHaulkton So Dak. Sept 12th 1919 My Dear Miss Blackwell - I am delighted to learn that you are thinking of writing the life of your Mother and the many things concerning the times in which your father and mother lived that should go into a permanent history Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell, how fast the leaves of memory turn at the mention of their names! Back in the territorial legislature of 1885 when very cherished husband Major J.A. Pickles carried with the help of his friends, the fill enfranchising the women of the big territory. Now the twin Dakotas only to be [??????] by the Territorial Governor Gilbert Pierce [only a] a resident of six months. How my husband was cheered and encouraged by the letters of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell in these efforts. Later upon their invitation we met them personally at the American Suffrage Association in Minneapolis and joined the2 Associations becoming life long subscribers to the Woman's Journal. It had a great chore in the success of today The "Educational Journal." Dear [?] Mrs. P.E. Johnson of Highmore had to call it and there was a convention of W.C.T.U. or other women but what the Woman's Journal approved in her hands for subscriptions to go back to The Convention of Minneapolis' Susan an inspiration to look upon the earnest motherly face of Lucy Stone and listen to her address. Julia Ward Home was therefor on the program - also Mrs. Blackwell and Millian [?] Dudley Houlkes [?]. In a conversation in our room at the Hotel Four Mothers asked about our children and said "We have a daughter Alice. She is a great help and comfort to us" What sweeter praise could there be - and how nobly and [?] for love "carried in" their works. I consider it a great privilege to have had your father in my home in 1890 & how anxious he was to get back to her he loved so much, and what lovers they always seemed. The wonderful courage of your mother in breaking away from old wrongs, influence me more than anything else to work against the opposition. Well we will see them again some3 when we all get home to our Father's House "Better farther on" Dear Miss Willard used to [???] and it is. When I think of all the dear one's who have gone on before - the great victory I think of those lines Others shall sing the song Others shall right the wrong Finish what we begins and what we fought for win. I want to thank you Dear Alice for the Easter Greetings wherever the day has found me, [????] good word hes come and given me cheer. and I often send you a wireless thought of love Miss Anthony said to say "Alice Blackwell [???] times the best qualities of her Father and Mother" God Bless and Keep you for many birthdays Sincerely Alice M. A. Pickles over I am glad we are going to have the History of the American Suffrage Association. 102 CAMP WONTOKODE BIG ISLAND, FRANKLIN COUNTY MAINE Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. My dear Mrs. Pinkham: As I am up here and away from the organization of which I am chairman, and as our committee does not have a meeting until September I shall be obliged to respond to the communication from the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for good government personally, and sent most cheerfully a small personal contribution. Miss Blackwell's contribution through the paper, in its various forms, has been enormousand her parents were wonderful figures in the early days of the struggle. I shall look forward to reading the result of Miss Blackwells delving into the archives. Wish best wishes for the success of your undertaking to collect the birthday gift, believe me, Cordially yours, (Mrs. George A.) Frances L. Piersol August 23, 1919. 229 Vine St Tyler Texas Oct 19 - 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- Your circular letter regarding a birthday present for Miss Blackwell came at a time when I was in the deepest sorrow of my life having just given up the precious mother who was so neccessary to us all2. Mamma was seventy eight. She was the livest alertest woman I have ever known. 'The' day before she died she wrote a half dozen letters + sent marked papers from Chautauqua to a dozen or so of friends at home. She organized the first suffrage society in East Texas + had prepared the way by introducing suffrage into all her church + Sunday School work for many many years. We miss her every where, because she was the sunshine of the home + her seven 3. children looked to her for counsel in all their affairs. -- So with many home problems incident to her death I neglected all that I could, + then have worked too hard. If you have not gotten in all you wanted to for Miss Blackwell I want you to accept the enclosed check. My personal debt to her for her splendid writings in the Woman's Journal. Which I took for years, + her work for all American women.is unpayable - but I can drop in a mite for her secretary's salary & I want to. With the hope that Miss Alice is well and busy recalling all the important & interesting things about her great father and mother, I am, Yours truly, (Mrs) Elizabeth H. Potter510 Ogden Ave Swarthmore Pa Aug 22 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building $1.00 Boston, Mass My dear Mrs. Pinkham I am in hearty sympathy with your plan for Miss Blackwell's memorial and only regret my financial inability to help it along - I am sending this "widow's mite" -- just to express my interest Sincerely - Ellen H. E. Price Ex-Pres. Pe[???] W.S.H.OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT WELLESLEY COLLEGE WELLESLEY MASSACHUSETTS September 15, 1919. Miss Florence Luscomb, 553 Little Building, Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Luscomb:- I have received your very kind invitation to the reception in honor of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell's birthday anniversary on Tuesday, September 16. It would be a great pleasure to share in honoring Miss Blackwell, but unfortunately this is the opening week at Wellesley, and my duties will not permit me to leave the College. I am, Most Sincerely Yours, Ellen F. PendletonRandolph Committee Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Randolph, Mass. Sept. 8 ,1919. My dear Miss Blackwell: The Randolph Committee, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, extends to you its hearty congratulations on this Victory Anniversary of your birth, and begs that you will accept this small contribution to the Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone Biographies Fund , as a token of its deep appreciation and grateful recognition of your ceasless labor for, and unwavering devotion to, the cause of Woman Suffrage. Most cordially yours, Jessie C. Dembar Chairman Annie E Long - Vice-Chairman Ruth M. Knight Secretary Katharine E. Sheridan. Treasurer Helen M. Haney. Chairman Ways & Means Mary E Breuster Chairman CitizenshipManchester N.H. Sept 9 1919 Ms Winona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building Boston Have with check for five dollars in memory of my mother, Eliza A Kimball. Lucy Stone was The Pioneer of all pioneers and had most devoted allies in both husband and daughter Sincerely Ida Ward Reynolds 140 Bridge StreetNorth Belgrade Sept. 27th 1919 My dear Mrs. PInkham, I find your note of Sept. 5th, not endorsed as "answered", and fear I may have neglected it in the bustle and hurry of a Boys-Camp, where my summers are spent. Pray accept my sincere apologies: I trust the reception to dear Mrs. Blackwell was all that it should have been! I wish I might have been present. Faithfully yours, Laura Richards106 My very dear Miss Blackwell I am so glad that you are to have this very pleasant task of writing about your mother and that we are all to know more about her. In the great relay race for suffrage your Mother and Father ran so swiftly that we of this generation are to have the victory. I tried at Saint Louis this spring to tell you what the Woman's Journal hadmeant to me but I know I did it very poorly for none of us can ever tell you how it has helped us and what an inspiration you personally are to us all. The Woman's Journal was the suffragists' hand-book. Thro' it we made converts and it was the guide and inspiration of the workers. With heartiest birthday greetings and anticipation of pleasure in reading your book in which I am so glad to have a small share I am very sincerely (Mrs. James) Grace Crandall Richardson 535 South 35" Avenue Omaha, NebraskaSwarthmore, Pa., November 12, 1919. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 552 Little Bldg., Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: I have had the pleasure of contributing to your birthday fund, although late. I thought it a nice idea that we should send out sentiments with our money, and I simply wish to say to you direct at this time that your editorials through a long series of years have had more influence on me than the writings of any other author whatsoever. Very sincerely, A Robinson M.A. in Econ. Columbia 07 Mrs. Louis N. Robinson.Richmond Mass. Oct. 14 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham, I am late about sending my mite toward Miss Blackwell's' birthday present but as I want neither my [?????] nor my named preserved in this connection I trust that will make no difference. May Miss Blackwell live to cast the vote she has done so much to get for all women. May all women realize the sacredness of their duty and privilege when they have attained it! Sincerely yours C.B. RunkleCheney Studio Peterborough, New Hampshire September 11, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell: How many times I have despaired of ever seeing the life of Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone in print: Imagine then my delight, my rejoicing, what is stirred up in me, by the plan proposed in Mrs. Pinkham's letter of some time ago. Many times in working at the Pope's Hill house I have groaned and rebelled over the waste of that wealth of material, pictures, letters and atmosphere, And all the time it looked as if you would be killed off in the unjust and humiliating struggle to fain that which should have been the right of women all along. Well, it is a long road that has no turning, and I need not let that eat into me any more! There couldn't be any better birthday present than a fund to make it possible for you to write the life of those two great souls. Only, the gift is really ours; it will belong to the suffragists of the world. I wonder if we quite realize this, that in making your a birthday present like this we are really making ourselves a permanent gift. I can send a little check and furnish Mrs. Pinkham a list of those who used to contribute to my Lucy Stone Fund each year as August 13 approached, but you will be the one to make the real gift, your time and strength, your harrowed feelings and your heart's blood, as you delve back into your memory and bring forth what happened when you were a little child with your father and mother, when you were a girl, when you gave up other things to become a working suffragist, when you took up the work with them, when you carried it on after they were gone, up to the time when you sit and think about it and perhaps feel yourself a lonely old woman. (Not that I ever have thought of you as an old woman. I have heard people speak of you as old, people who did not know you, but you never seemed old to me and I think you never will; certainly not when2 I see your face or think of it. Rather I always think you as a maiden, not an old maid or a maiden lady, but simply as a maiden -- a word of which I have always been very fond.) I have often felt that in writing about your father and mother you were under some restraint, and did not give your imagination and your love and admiration fee enough rein.. I suppose it is mostly because you feel you ought to be modest, and you hardly dare to let yourself loose. But if your mother was the kind of person we understand she was, if she was what her face indicated, if she believed in equality enough to make such sacrifices for it, standing alone in keeping her name, for instance, m you can scarcely overdo her life, can you? Besides, who should see her perfect if not her own and only daughter? So I hope you will not try to write as the impartial historian, but as the affectionate daughter, narrating, chronicalling, commenting, with your heart. With love, Agnes Ryan. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Massachusetts[*108*] September 16, 1919 6 McLean Court Dear Miss Blackwell, On this day, the anniversary of your birthday, I wish to thank you again from the depths of my heart for all the little ang big kindnesses which my mother, together with my brothers and myself, has received at your hands. The good wishes and hopes for your continued good health for a long period of time yet to come, which we, in common with so many more of your friends, unite to send to you, do truly emanate from grateful hearts overflowing with the sincerest and firmest friendship. Yours very truly, Eddie Rubin.Eddie RubinNew York, Sept. 14th, 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell:- I am glad to be one of many thousands of women to say how truly grateful I am that some divine providence ordained you to be a pathfinder and crusader in the cause of woman suffrage. No cause of freedom can boast a more devoted friend than you, nor one whose noble talents have been offered more unselfishly and graciously upon the altar of sacrifice. In verse, in prose, by tongue, by though - always you have served beyond even the limits of sacrifice demanded of those who would carry the torch of progress. You have known the glories of a great opportunity, but more than that, the glories of hiving responded greatly are also yours. It is a rare record to look back upon. Fortune was good when she gave to us noble Lucy Stone and Valiant Henry Blackwell. When she added to these rare gifts the talented child of their sacred and happy union, she meant our cause to win. Our splendid victory is truly yours. May you live many years to enjoy its fruits. My warmest congratulations to you on your birthday. My still warmer congratulations to your country and mine, that you were born in our own United States. Lovingly, Clara M. Sehlingheyde[*110*] Telephone 166 Mt. Kisco Highfields Mount Kisco, N.Y. My dear Miss Pinkham, I am very glad to share in the birthday gift to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, - her service to the suffrage cause has been of the rarest, and at the same time [???] is my admiration of her wonderful mother. Yours sincerely Helen A Erikson (Mrs. Arthur H. Erikson) 10.00 Sept. 2nd34 Glen Road, Winchester Sept 11, 1919 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham: Dear Madam, - I am pleased to accept the opportunity offered to express in a slight degree my appreciation of Miss Alice Stone Blackwell's devoted service to the cause of woman's political and social liberty. Enclosed find check for five dollars my contribution to the birthday gift for Miss Blackwell. Yours sincerely, Edith Seller"Hoodland." State Road Upper Darby. Pa. August 24th 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell: Will you kindly accept this Birthday greeting, and the small gift which accompanies it, to aid in writing the life of your Mother Lucy Stone. I had the great pleasure of hearing your Mother speak twice, once in a Woman Suffrage Meeting in Philadelphia, the first I ever attended. The beauty of Lucy Stone's voice, and the strength of her conviction was an education to me, on the subject in which I was already deeply interested. Twenty years later, I heard her again in Philadelphia. One remark of hers especially impressed me, that when she first began to work for Woman Suffrage, it was like cutting out steps in a solid precipice of Stone, and leaving blood on every step. Later, I heard Henry B. Blackwell speak in Norristown Pennsylvania, - making a strong, convincing address. The Woman Suffrage struggle is now behind us, we are about to enter into the freedom gained by the Pioneers in this Reform. The present generation will step in to the heritage prepared for them and never realize the struggle which has attained it. Sincerely Sarah Pennock Yellers.State Center Iowa Sep. 15 - 1919 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham Enclosed find check for $5.00 (Five dollars), amount to be used by Miss Blackwell for book of her mother's life. We love to [?] and magnify the name of all [?] women in the suffrage cause, for great and grandly have they carried the work along. Respectfully Yours, Mrs Eva Sherman.Greeting To Alice Stone Blackwell - ___________ Mine with the rest: this is my Hymn of Praise To thee, Beloved, whom I crown with bays. Thou are, to me, the heart and brain and wit Of our great Cause.-- the soul and core of it. In crowded chambers of our Hall of State, Where those "against" and "for" held hot debate. -- How often have we thrilled to see thee rise Slender, dark-eyed, invincible and wise, To combat and disarm our cunning foe And all their traps and meshes overthrow~ How have we tingled, glorying in you, when With flashing sword-stroke of your magic pen, You found the chink that pierced their armor through, And laid them helpless, at the feet of you! Hail -- glorious Daughter of high pedigree! Hail -- Princess of our Royal Family! Hail -- Soldier Maid who led us through the fray And kept our banner flying till this day. -- This bright consummate birthday of your life When Victory crowns the years of stress and strife!Greeting To Alice Stone Blackwell - ------------------ And now, Beloved, let's sing, in lighter vein, This gaysome lilt, - set to an old refrain. ------------------ Oh won't they remember our Alice, Ben Bolt, - Our Alice whose lance brought them down! They blushed with chagrin as she shattered their spears. Till the whole of their force was o'erthrown. 'Neath the Gilded Dome of the State House, Ben Bolt, Way down cellar, obscure and alone, -- They have fitted a slab of the granite so grey -- And the "Antis" lie under the stone! Helen Adelaide Shaw.NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 505 FIFTH AVENUE New York, September 12, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell:- Greetings on your birthday and may it be a happy one! It is particularly fitting that your friends should do honor to you at this particular period when the life long struggle for human justice in which you have given your best talents of heart and mind is so nearly achieved. May you today have the inner consciousness that thousands of women bow in humble acknowledgment and appreciation of the sacrifice and great service you have rendered through your wonderful mind and inspired pen. May one of the least although one of your greatest admirers offer this tribute and sign herself Faithfully, Nettie Rogers Shuler (Mrs. Frank J. Shuler)Sept 5. 1919 My Dear Miss Blackwell May I join with other friends, who like myself have worked for the cause of woman's political enfranchisement - who honor your Father and Mother for their service to this cause, and you not only for continuing their service but also for the beautiful, example of filial devotion which your life has given in hoping that your work may be [??????] by the production of a worthy Biography of your mother. Long ago I ventured to express my desire that you should do this work - now I express the hope that you may find great happiness in producing the heroic story of your mother's life - a story that must include also that of your equally heroic father. With cordial appreciation, Sincerely yours, May Wright SewallTo You our beloved Alice Stone Blackwell, so many hundreds of us are wishing joy and long continued life on this Birthday which, occuring at this Anniversay time, in this year of victory, is remarkable and historic; yet it is we who have the joy of paying homage to you, the joy of loving you, the privelege of living in your time; we are the joyful ones because of you. For us it is wonderful to be sharing this Birthday with you whose whole life has brought us and our Daughters after us blessing: and we wish for you long life and joy to overflow it. Janice Smith (Mrs. Arthur Parks Smith)11 Roante Ave. Jamaica Plains August 29th 1919. My Dear Alice, For many years I met Lucy Stone at the office of the Woman's Journal on the third Friday afternoon of every month. She was chairman of the executive board of the Mss. Suffrage Association There ever was a more motherly looking or feeling woman than she was. I loved her. You know I have long wished you would writethe life of your mother and father. He was the only man who gave his whole time to the woman's cause. I congratulate you on the time having come when you can write it. I hope you will have as many happy birthdays as I have had! Ninety-eight, if I live 'till next November. Lovingly Judith Winsor Smith.Mrs. Frank Hiram Suell Sends this to Miss Blackwell with sincere admiration and esteem. 1721 - 21st Street Washington, D.C. September 14, 1919Southmund Seph 11. 1919.- Dear Mrs. Pinkham - I am enclosing this small contribution My dear Miss [???]scomb That is good! I've been thinking that some special attention ought to be paid the noble woman. I've a right to use the word have for the warm regard I held for her father, and her mother, and that I more have for her. It would be almost an accurate2 statement that I've been nowhere since March 1906. - ([????] of [?] is terrible illness) fate (?) had housed me. I shall make effort to find a clear path to the College Club. on the 16th. I'm very glad that Alice Stone Blackwell is to be told how great she is. 3 Thanks to all who help make the celebration fitting. Earnestly Ada Pearson Spaulding September 13. /19 116 School St. Roxbury Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building ,Boston, Massachusetts. Dear Mrs Pinkham I send this little contribution for the Birthday gift to Alice Stone Blackwell with the wish that it were much larger. Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Buffum Chace were my god-mothers in the suffrage reform and Henry B. Blackwell was a dear friend whom I esteemed as the most devoted knight of the woman movement. For Alice, all of us who know what her unique and inestimable service has been all these many years of struggle for equality of rights for men and women, no words of honor and love are too warm or too reverent. Her pen and her speech have been always true and wise and witty. Her character all that we would have women be in the new day of their wider freedom and opportunity. Beside we all feel her personal charm and link that to her beloved mother and father with most tender feeling for those gone as for her still happily with us. We want her to stay long with us now that the worst of the struggle for the franchise is over. I hope that the constributions will speedily make the devotion of her last years of work easy and above all that the history which she alone can write, with its intimate tribute to her father and her mother, may be as light a task as possible. It will be of the greatest value even with the larger history which Mrs Harper makes available for students; while no one but Alice can make our dear Lucy Stone live forever in the memory of the faithful. Yours sincerely Anna Harlin Spencer Bright Ferry R.I. Until Sept 18th After that permanent address 7 High St White Plains, N. Y.Department of Sociology Meadville Theological School Meadville, Pennsylvania2100 Pacific Avenue San Francisco, Calif. Mrs. Winoia Osborne Pinkham; 553 Little Bubar Boston. Mass Dear Mrs. Pinkham: - I am most happy to contribute to the Blackwell fund five dollars. Mrs. Blackwell has been a personal friend of mine for years. I was elected on the National with her for two years: after that I resigned because I was President of the State Board of California and I found the work too arduous to remain longer. I enclose two dollar for my friend Mrs. Sarah G. Pringle. Most sincerely Mary Simpson SperryToledo, O. August 29th 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell: Best Wishes for your birthday. May you have many happy returns of the day. Always sincerely yours Pauline Steinem104 Cheney Studio Peterborough, New Hampshire September 11, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell: The enclosed check is so small, in comparison with what I wish it might be, that I want to increase its momentum, if possible, by telling you in more accurate language than dollars and cents what a life of your father and mother would mean to me. To many fortunate people Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone are still either a reality or a memory; but to me, who never, knew them, they are an ideal. In the Journal office, and particularly at Boutwell Street, I used to keep running across traces of them. I have studied their pictures and pieced together stories about them. At the printing office Mr. Grimes has told me about how your father, when he had forgotten something, would go all the way back himself rather than use a boy's services in order that he might "teach himself a lesson." And sometimes it has almost seemed as if I could see a short man with a white beard bustling into the Journal office and saying: "Why am I like President Roosevelt?" "Because I am dee-lighted." I think I can truly say that there are no people in the world today in whose life story I am so much interested as in theirs. They typify so completely that partnership and equality of which I hope we many see more. Affectionately, Henry B. Stevens Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Massachusetts General Federation of Women's Clubs 1918-1920 PRESIDENT MRS. JOSIAH EVANS COWLES, 1101 W. Adams St., Los Angeles, California DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS September 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell - How fortunate are we who can feel ourselves the personal friends of one of the nobility. Congratulations to you on the good fortune of your birth - and the noblesse oblige of your life! I was deprived of the pleasure of seeing Lucy Stone - and other of the real pioneers. But they shaped my life. Deep moral conviction was the motive of their activity. They looked beyond the limits of their day. I revere their splendid integrity, moral consistency, fine breeding, unfailing dignity and self control. Your mother never lost her dignity when the victim of indignities She was balanced, sane, sweet and invincible. Theirs were the trials of adversity: ours the trial of success. May our consideration be as sincere and unpretentious as theirs - as hers - as yours. Sincerely yours. Ella S. StewartNew York City, September 4, 1919. My dear Miss Blackwell:- While the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment and its subsequent ratification by fifteen states - your own state of Massachusetts included - has freed the Suffragists for practical participation in the political life which they sought to attain, yet it is most gratifying to know that you who are so eminently qualified to write a history of the Suffrage movement are now freed to turn your attention to compiling it. May I say that I first learned to know your admirable Mother, Lucy Stone, in a game of Authors of Famous People. As children we played the game, and, though I was too young to know what a Suffragist meant, I learned to love her face. This proves, I believe, that I am a Suffragist by instinct as well as by education and practice. With all good wishes for your birthday, and every success to the coming history which will give pleasure to Suffragists the world over, I am, Cordially and sincerely yours, Olga M. Stilwell (Mrs. Horace C. Stilwell). Anderson, Indiana. OS/HMinneapolis Aug. 30th My dear Miss Blackwell My heartiest greetings to you on your natal anniversary! I am confident that this birthday, coming so soon after the victory in the Senate, that ends the long struggle for deferred justice to the womanhood of the Republic, will be one of the very happiest that you have ever experienced- your whole life and that of your zealous mother and gallant father having been spent in working to bring about this consummation the satisfaction and the historical! appreciation which you feel today must be poignant! The hearts of suffragists in general and of the Old Guard in particular, go out to you in loving appreciation of the magnificent service you have rendered the cause - - May you have many birthdays! Cordially Yours Maud Conkey Stockwell115 My dear Miss Blackwell: - In our 1914. suffrage campaign I was one of the women pressed into service as a speaker. "Objections Answered" was next to my Bible, and no words can express what the Journal meant to me. I am glad to have a small part in making it possible for you to write the life history of your wonderful father and mother. May you have many, many more happy birthdays. We feel that you belong to all of us and that because you have lived it is a Better world. Most sincerely yours, (Mrs. H. C.) Katherine Sumney Omaha, Oct. 1st. 1919.LANDSFORENINGEN FOR KVINNANS POLITISKA ROSTRATT. CENTRALSTYRELSENS VERKSTALLANDE UTSKOTT. 24 BRUNKEBERGSTORG STOCKHOLM 24 . 9 . 1919 Dear Mrs. Pinkham In the name of the Uatirual Swedish Women Suffrage Association I have the honor to give an answer to your honoral letters concerning the celebration of the memory of Lucy Stone. We fully recognise the debt we owe to all the pioneres for their struggle for the rights of women. We also appreciate Lucy Stone as one of those who ought to be honest and whos history it would be a great gain to get written. In expressing our great sympathy with the plan we must announce that we unfortunately cannot take part in the gift to Miss Blackwell. We must still hold up our organisation until our question is satified and our economical position does not permit any extra expense. Sincerely yours Signe Jacobsson secretary 28 Harper Street Rochester NY Dear Friends - I have been away hence the delay. We need a Life of Lucy Stone, and I must have a part in it even tho it must be so small. I was eternally grateful to Miss Blackwell and her parents for their great service to all women and especially for the satisfaction and help she herself has always given me. Sincerely Emma B. Sweet Sept. 14 19The University of Chicago Founded by John D. Rockefeller Office of the Dean of Women with affectionate memories of Alice and the school and college days we spent together. Marian Talbot28 Monadnock Street, Dorchester, Mass. September 12, 1919. My dear Miss Blackwell:- I trust that I am not too late with this small contribution for your birthday, as I should, indeed, be sorry not to have aided in making it possible for you to preserve, in published form, a record of your mother's activities and life work. Please accept this in appreciation of the great and enduring work performed by your esteemed mother and father - so effectually and successfully continued by yourself - for the achievement of greater freedom for the achievement of greater freedom for humanity - political, social and economic With best wishes for other happy returns of your birthday, I am, Sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Eliza A. TaylorDearest Cousin Alice - To think that amongst all your letters of love and congratulation last week you found no word from us! I know you will believe that I knew nothing about the plan until too late. We all feel we have been cheated in not having shared in pouring blessings on your name on theappointed day. Through me now mother and aunt Gertie wish to send their most loving greetings and heart-felt congratulations. We are so proud to be connected with you even a tiny bit. Mother and I brought George down to school Mcnday. Then mother proceeded to have slight bronchitis and so I postponed my going to College of Education at Columbia for a few days. I expect to be there only for the winter term and then return to Cambridge. It's great fun not to be teaching this winter. Much love to you dear cousin Alice - from Maruerite. Sept. 24th 1919.[*Marguerite Thomas*] TEXAS EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION TRUST BUILDING GALVESTON, TEXAS Georgetown, Texas October 18, 1919 Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building, Boston,Mass. My dear Mrs. Pinkham; At the final meeting of the Executive Board of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association,it was voted to send your committee the sum of $75.00 as our contribution to the fund which you are raising in order to make it possible for Miss Blackwell to write the history of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. The delay in action on our part was occasioned by the fact that there had been no Board meeting recently. Sincerely yours, Jessie Daniel A [???]s Treasurer Texas Equal Suffrage Association.My dear Mrs. Pinkham I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to contribute to the fund you are raising for Miss Blackwell's birthday & en close a cheque for $10. I wish it might be for $100! Very sincerely yours, Katrina Ely Tiffany Permanent Home address 128 E. 36th ST N.Y. City21 Ashmont Street, Melrose, Mass. September 12,1919 Very dear Miss Blackwell: While Guy and I are fairly newcomers in the suffrage fold, we have both come to realize the great value of your work and the importance of the Woman's Journal to the cause of woman suffrage. Years from now, when women have had the vote for some time, young people will be studying the records of your work and I hope, will come to appreciate what you and your parents have done to give women the full privileges of citizenship. The young people who are working with you and the other great leaders today can only pledge you their support until victory comes; then they must work on, using their citizenship, to help "make the world better"' as your mother charged you. HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY on September 14th. Devotedly yours,Dyke Mountain Farm, West Baldwin, Maine, (Home address Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y.) September 11th, 1919. Mrs. Wenona O. Pinkham: My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- Being in hearty sympathy with the sentiments expressed in the air[???] letter dated August 13th. regarding the project of raising a fund to enable Miss Blackwell to write and publish the life of Lucy Stoneand other valuable material and rejoicing in the opportunity to have even a small part in the testimonial to the beloved "A.S.B." my friend Miss Eliza C. Tappan and [?] both of Glen Cove, N.Y., are happy to send the enclosed contribution to the fund. With earnest wishes for full success, -the merited measure of success for the plan. Very sincerely yours Emily N. Titus. - (M.D.)Dear Mrs Pinkman I hope I am not too late to add my mite towards the worthy object in view and the counted among those who appreciate the work and sacrifices of the Blackwell family - But for their devotion to a great cause, the world would be forever and all men and women loosers thereby - Only those who have lived in their time and notched the progress towards equality of women with men can fully realize what Lucy Stone and her family have done for the betterment of the world - The coming generations ought to know these things and no other can write more clearly2 and truthfully of Lucy Stones effort "to make the world better" than her own daughter - I am glad the story of her life is to be written. it will be a great tribute to a great life, prepared by a great daughter. Sincerely Yours Lucy M. Titus #10 Raymond Ave. West Somerville, Mass September twelfth Nineteen hundred and nineteenSeptember 14 - 1919 - Miss Alice Stone Blackwell: Congratulations on your Birthday Anniversary Sept-14-1919-: We suffragists are justly proud of the 19th Federal amendment. I was in the Senate on "this day" for us. I marched in the 1913 parade in Washington D.C. and in the "rainy day" parade in Chicago in 1916 and my present joy is unbounded. Our brave leader, Dr. Ann Howard Shaw has fussed on but there yet remains much to do, and we still have brave ladies in the the Directors of the "Woman Citizens", so had lead us on Mrs. Cornelia B. Treuthart 717 - Seventh - St - Portsmouth= Ohio A FRIEND A friend is a present you give yourself– That's one of my old-time songs– So I put you down with the best of them For you're where the best belongs. Among the gifts I have given to me Most comforting tried and true, The one that I oftenest think about Is my gift to myself of You. C.J.B. 683 COPYRIGHT, 1913. P. F. VOLLAND & CO. CHICAGO.Wollaston. Sept. 19. 1919. My dear friend:- I am delighted to hear that your birthday was celebrated in such a pleasant way' and I am very glad indeed that the $5.000 was raised in order that you might have a secretary to help you in writing your dear, good parent's life. I contributed what I could in money to that fund, and should have written a personal note of love and congratulation in time for Sept. 14 - but I thought the 14th came on a Monday, and I could write Sunday but that day I went on an all-day motor ride - You know that I always love you and always shall do so, [????]. Hattie E. Turner - [*H [?] Turner*]WESTER UNION TELEGRAM RECEIVED AT 21 AFY RM 18 203 TREMONT ST. LITTLE BLDG. BOSTON MAIN 8020 EXTENSION 105-106 MINNEAPOLIS MINN 1124AM SEPT 16 1919 ALICE STONE BLACKWELL HY147 552 LITTLE BLDG BOSTON MASS LOVE AND CONGRATULATIONS FROM MINNIE SOTA SUFFRAGISTS CANNOT EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR US ALL MRS ANDREAS UELAND 110PMOHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION HONORARY PRESIDENT, FRANCES M. CASEMENT, PAINESVILLE [*LET OHIO WOMEN VOTE*] PRESIDENT HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON Warren FIRST VICE PRESIDENT ZARA du PONT 1814 East 89th St., Cleveland SECOND VICE PRESIDENT DORA SANDOE BACHMAN 505 Grand Theatre Bidg. Columbus THIRD VICE PRESIDENT MRS. JAMES C. WALLACE 611 Lincoln Inn Court Cincinnati, Ohio RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. S. J. BRANDENBURG Oxford CORRESPONDING SECRETARY EDITH MORRIS HUGHES 1231 Lakewood Ave., Lima TREASURER ZELL HART DEMING Warren MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JESSIE L. DAVISSON 307 Central Ave., Dayton HEADQUARTERS: MASONIC BLDG., WARREN, OHIO [*UNION LABEL*] October 11, 1919 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock St., Upham Corners Sta., Boston, Mass., Dear Miss Blackwell:- I was so sorry not to be at your birthday party and am so glad that effort has been made whereby the history which I have so long wanted you to write is going to be written. They asked me to be a member of the Committee to raise some funds for that purpose and I gladly consented but before I got my part of the business underway the money was raised. I therefore feel I ought not to be credited by you for having done anything on this although you know I would have been glad to have done it if I had had time. Cordially yours, Haunt Taylor Upton HTU/BH. T. Upton. 177 WINTHROP ROAD BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS September 8, 1919 To the Committee on Miss Blackwell's Birthday Celebration, Dear Friends, It is a privilege to contribute to so important a work as the recording of the lifework of a great woman, by a great woman. The world owes much to Lucy Stone and her daughter, Miss Blackwell. I joyfully send my check for five dollars as a little oil to grease the wheels of the machinery which will produce, for the world to see, the picture of the vision and self-sacrifice with which God endowed Lucy Stone, to carry out the great ideal of freedom. With heartfelt congratulations to Miss [B] Blackwell on this very happy birthday and with good wishes for those to follow, Most gratefully, Frances Van Baalen [*H. T. Upton*] It gives me great happiness to be able to contribute my mite on this birthday anniversary of Alice Stone Blackwell. Seldom has an entire family Father - mother - and daughter given their lives - consecrated themselves to a cause so far reaching as Woman Suffrage. That Miss Blackwell will be given the opportunity of writing the memoirs of her distinguished parents, Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell is the prayer of her affectionate friend Sarah van Noorden. Sept. 14th 1919.West Falmouth, Mass. September 1st 1919 My dear Miss Blackwell, I am very glad that you are now to have the leisure which will enable you to write the life of your illustrious Mother, who was loved, as well as admired by all suffragists who had the privilege of knowing her, and of hearing her speak for the rights of women. It is most fitting that Massachusetts women should help to further this interesting work, and also to show their appreciation of your life-long devotion to the cause of Woman Suffrage. With my best wishes for many happy birthdays, I am very sincerely yours, Albertina von Arniue.Thorwood Dobbes Ferry, N.Y. Aug. 29, 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham: I shall be glad to contribute $200 to the fund that is to be raised for Alice Stone Blackwell and I will send it some time in September. Yours with best wishes for your success & Most Sincerely, Fanny G. Villan123 Dear Miss Blackwell: - I am sending you bleated birthday greetings, together with an expression of affection and admiration of your rare editorial ability which has been of incalculable value to the Woman Suffrage Cause - now so nearly won. Remembering and honoring your wonderful parents, we have perhaps taken your splendid work for granted. Yet we all realize that the great cause would have been seriously hindered had you chosen an easier task. Yours with deepest appreciation and gratitude, Fanny Garrison Villard. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. October 29th, 1919.HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT NEW YORK MAIN HOUSE 265 HENRY STREET September Fourth Nineteen Nineteen Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- It seems to me a great privilege to participate even in a small way in your tribute to Alice Stone Blackwell. I lay my little offering at her feet in admiration and reverence and gratitude for the service that she has given these many years. She has been a Light-Bearer to her generation, my generation, and I think to the generation that follow. Cordially yours, Lillian D. Wald Enclosure. LDW:MB Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham 553 Little Building Boston, Mass.of presentation of Miss Blackwell & her parents. I came into the D.A.M.s strong [???] Massachusetts to think in a way I consider it mySeptember 2d, 1919. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- It is pleasant to hear of this movement to honor the memory of Lucy Stone & the work of her husband & daughter. May the responses be prompt and abundant. Yours faithfully, William Fairfield Warren, check inclosed.Henry Street Settlement New York, Sept. 11, 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham, To me personally it is a joy as well as a great privilege to have a share, however small, in any tribute of love and appreciation to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. In the years that I have know Miss Blackwell I have always felt shewas more than a noble woman engaged in a noble cause, she is a beneficent influence personally, a rare spirit, sweet and gentle -- truly one of God's own people. I feel a deep gratitude indeed for her invaluable public service these many years, but even a deeper gratitude, perhaps, for her just being what she is. Sincerely yours, Katharine Weisman Mrs. Austin C. Wellington contributes her ten dollar mite towards Miss Blackwell's birthday remembrance, with deep appreciation of the heroic work which has been accomplished through the efforts of Lucy Stone Henry B. Blackwell and Alice Stone Blackwell for WomankindMRS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON GIRLS' INDUSTRIES Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, October 9, 1919 Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, 552-554 Little Bldg., Boston, Mass. My dear Mrs. Shaw: I am ashamed that I waited so long to answer the letter which you and the other friends of Miss Blackwell sent me some days ago but I was ill at the time. However, I want to give my mite and wish it could be larger. I enclose you this small sum of $5.00/. Miss Blackwell's cause and your cause is mine also. I cannot but feel that even here in the near South in the near future woman will come into her own and the question of the "sphere" will be settled for all time. Yours very truly, Mrs. Booker T Washington.987 Stirling Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Sept. 9th, 1919 My dear Mrs Pinkham: It is a pleasure to share the privilege of facilitating the publication of Miss Blackwell's book. It will be very welcome, for the inspiring story of her parents will continue the influence this lives exerted in the difficult early days of the struggle for the cause of Woman Suffrage Yours Sincerely (Mrs S.C.) Josephine A. WheatBoston, Massachusetts September 14, 1919. Dear Miss Blackwell:- Congratulations for your birthday which rounds out another year of noble service to humanity. I welcome this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation for the work which you have done in the liberating of women. I am glad that the life of Lucy Stone is to be written. It will be an inspiration, not only to us, but to generations yet unborn. Cordially yours, Elizabeth R. White 38 Hemenway Street.It is lovely to celebrate holidays which mark years of such patient, persistent, unselfish service to a great cause like those of our beloved Miss Blackwell. May she yet pass many birthdays at the close of years in which she shall cast the vote which she has done so much to win. Sarah Frances Wuling (Professor emeritus of Wellesley College) Fayre Houres Wilbraham, Mass Sep 11 '19Cape Elizabeth, Maine September 12, 1919 Dear Miss Blackwell: - A very happy birthday to you - and all best greetings! If you could realize all of the love and admiration and reverence which we who know you - have for you – you would be the most puffed up Lady imaginable! But – Again and again as my heart turns to you, I think of Pompilia's tribute to her soldier-saint: – "Through such souls alone, God stooping, Shows sufficient of his love For us in the dark to rise by." Dear soldier-saint, may our love encircle you with blessing! Always devotedly yours, Mabel Willard1407 RODNEY STREET WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 26th Nov. 1919. Dear Committee on Fund for Alice Stone Blackwell:- The Equal Suffrage Association of Wilmington, Delaware has only just now taken action on your proposition to raise a gift to Miss Blackwell on her birthday. - a gift to assist her in writhing the life of her mother. The Wilmington E.S.A. has held meetings very irregularly during the summer, hence the delay in taking up the matter. To those of us who remember Lucy Stone personally, and her whole-souled work for women's rights, her sweet, convincing manner and gentle, womanly hearing, the proposal of her daughter to write her life and perpetuate its stirring incidentsand noble endeavors, meets with a warm response. It will be a book of charming reading, worth owning and keeping, and referring to for worthy examples of nobility of character and thought of purpose. I remember Henry Blackwell also, with his clear judgment, his extensive knowledge, and his fine ability as a writer. Alice can, and must make a book worthy of her splendid subjects - her own noble forebears. We wish to add our little mite of appreciative help, and send ten dollars from the association. I wish it could have have been a birthday gift to her. Very cordially, Emma Worrell, Treas. of E. T. A. of Wilmington. Del.BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 525 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PROFESSOR WALTER S. ATHEARN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ROY DAVIS PROFESSOR NORMAN E. RICHARDSON PROFESSOR ARTHUR H. WILDE, CHAIRMAN September 16, 1919. My dear Miss Blackwell,- Hearty congratulations on your birthday and the good will so generously manifested by your friends. May you have many a good year hereafter to enjoy the fruits of your labors for suffrage and every other good cause. I hope we may have a meeting of the Committee of the Trustees on the School of Education soon after the opening of the year. Cordially yours, Arthur H. Wilde Miss Alice Stone BlackwellNEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY Miss Elizabeth Blackwell. My dear Miss Blackwell. You do not know me personally, but I have an especial association with you because my beloved mother always spoke with such reverent affection of your Mother "Father, their names were house hold words in my child-hood. It has therefore always offered me great pleasure tosee & tohear you speak, and always with the feeling[of this invi.] NEW YORK STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY MRS. WILLIAM G. WILLCOX BOROUGH CHAIRMAN MISS MARGARET S. E. CAMERON FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN MISS HESTER SNYDER SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN MRS. ELMER I. BUTLER THIRD VICE-CHAIRMAN MRS. LESTER W. CLARKE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. JOHN P. ILSLEY RECORDING SECRETARY MISS AMY BLAKE TREASURER MRS. CHARLES E. SIMONSON DIRECTOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK A UNION FOR POLITICAL WORK OF EXISTING EQUAL SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONS RICHMOND BOROUGH 115 DAVIS AVENUE WEST NEW BRIGHTON, S. I. ELEPHONE 204 WEST NEW BRIGHTON 142 2 of this invisable bond. Consequently, it is with great satisfaction that I join with many others of your friends and admirers in wishing you many happy returns of the day. I am most sincerely yours Mary Otis Willex (Mrs. Wm G. Willex) Aug 22d. 1919.[*ans 8/29/19*] Kenesaw, Nebr- Aug. 21, 1919. Dear Mrs. Boyer: I fear I have not answered your letter quite as promptly as I should, but my own contribution which I inclose, will be in time for the birthday I think. I feel indebted to Miss Blackwell for her generosity with the Journal in various ways - during our campaign, and at all times for that matter. And think that by all means we should have a Life of her mother from her pen. Mrs. Stone's work has never been adequately written up to my knowledge, and no2. one could do it so well as her daughter. With her gift for writing it will be doubly valuable. In conversation with Mrs. H. H. Wheeler, of 1517 H St., Lincoln, Nebr., a few weeks ago, she expressed a desire for a Life of Lucy Stone, or a history of the suffrage movement from her standpoint, written by Miss Blackwell and Mrs. Viola M. Harrison, 1820 H st., concurred. Probably they have both been written to, if not I am sure they would be glad to tell you of this. Miss Ellen D. Harn, president of the Kenesaw Suffrage Asso. for many years, wishes to contribute 3. contribute one dollar and I inclose if with mine. She, I think, will write a letter to the committee I have not attended a National convention since the last one in Philadelphia Would have liked to be in St. Louis, but it was not practicable for me to go at that time. I always enjoyed the conventions. Were you at Philadelphia? I know there was one convention where I looked for but did not find you. Am glad to know you are still "on deck." We, in Nebraska, held a jubilee convention during the meetings of the legislature that ratified the amendment.4. you will no doubt read of it in the Citizen. Our little Governor is fine, and [not] only six members of the Legislature failed to attend the special session. The vote was unanimous, as you have probably noticed. And our lawsuit is finally settled, so that we of the state can surely vote for the next President. Sincerely yours, Mary H. WilliamsDear Miss Blackwell It gives me such pleasure to be able to add my mile to the splendid cause for I think exactly how you must feel about writing your dear Mother's life - So full of brave and wonderful experiences and noble unselfish labours for womenkind. Indeed for all mankind. to the very end. I only wish that I could be of some special use to you in that regard. May it prove an easier task than the most sanguine could anticipate. through securing the services of one who will have Exactly the right persons to aid you in accomplishing the great [?] With love and congratulations and best wishes for your own special day Believe me Sincerely & Affectionately Yours Constance A. [?] [?] Boston September 12th 1919NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION [505 FIFTH AVENUE] 171 Madison Avenue 377 New York, Sept. 12, 1919. My dear Miss Blackwell: Often I turn back to the pages of the Woman's Journal when I desire elucidation of some matter that dates back to the yesterday of suffrage progress. In so doing I never cease to be impressed by the excellence of that paper - by the exactness of the information, by the literary smack that characterizes your contributions. All of which suggests to me that we suffragists are deeply appreciative of what fellow workers have put into the work but that in our busy work-a-day preoccupation we are not half enough given to pausing a moment to let those who have borne the brunt of the flight know how greatly we prize them and their heroic devotion to the Cause. For this reason I particularly rejoice that an opportunity, afforded by your birthday, comes now for your colleagues all over the country to let you know how sincere is their gratitude to you for the monumental share which you have had in furthering the work which your father and mother began and in making the big dream of suffrage for women came true. I hope that quiet and leisure will be yours during the coming year so that you may devote your time to the life of your mother which you wish to write. It will add a rich contribution to our somewhat meagre showing of suffrage literature. With best wishes, I am Loyally yours, Justina L. Wilson (Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson) Recording SecretaryAlice Stone Blackwell has been a very distinguished and valuable public servant throughout her life. She has continued the great work of her mother and done it in a way that ensures her a place in American history by her mother's side. Nothing could be more fitting than that those of us, who are among the early supporters of Equal Suffrage, should have part in this celebration in Miss Blackwell's honor. Stephen S. Wise Rabbi of the Free Synagog N.Y. Wyndinge Shores Cataumet, Mass. With deep appreciation of the magnificent work that Miss Blackwell has done for her Reg and humanity L. K. Winsor. Aug. 28th. 1919.517 Cedar St. Takoma Park, D.C. Sept. 20 - 1919. My dear Mrs. Pinkham: I regret that the matter of the Birthday Tribute to Miss Blackwell escaped my attention 'till this late date. A little new suffragist who made her advent in our family Aug. 16th is responsible for the delay. I would like to add my name to those honoring Miss B. Jessie Mitch WrightSeptember 16-1919 Dear Miss Blackwell, Altho my work has prevented me from being present to greet you in person to-day my thoughts have been with you all day. No one could bring you more affectionately grateful congratulations than I and I hope that I may have this privilege for many many years to come. My Association [*Elsie Wulkop?*]with you is one of the big things in my life and continues to be so even if I do not see you. I know you are always interested in what women are doing; for that reason let me add I am doing medical social work at the Massachusetts General Hospital with every known and unknown kind of good wishes always affectionately yours Elsie WulkapWarm congratulations for Miss Blackell & many regrets at [*Mrs. Leslie Warner*] inability to be present. House [?????] [*23 North Spruce St.*] Secretary address. Nashville Tenn.Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association. Aug 29 1919 My dear Mrs. Pinkham:- Thanks for an opportunity to have some share in honoring my old time & all time friend Miss Blackwell. I deeply regret that the heavy expenses of six months of serious illness, and the prospect of protracted invalidism renders it necessary for me to give so mad[?????] an expression of my [?] [?] the important undertaking. Very sincerely yours Eliz [????????] Yatts. To My Beloved Friend Alice Stone Blackwell Long life and all honor to her who pricked the bubble of the Anti-suffragists with the point of her incisive pen, --- worthy daughter of the noble pioneers, Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell. Elizabeth Upham Yates