BLACKWELL FAMILY                                From Johnson, Leona
ELIZABETH BLACKWELLDR. LEORA JOHNSON
22 N. CLINTON ST.

24 Upper Woburn Place W.C.
London

(IOWA CITY, IOWA, USA)  July 2, 1903

My dear Dr Blackwell
& Miss Barry.
Your kind letter of recent
date with enclosed letter was duly needed.
also your letter card this morning, please
accept many thanks for both, you are
placing me under lasting obligation
I shall be very glad to receive a picture of
the "Eagles nest". We will be here till July
14. - Aug 3 - 10. with Madame Laurient - 178 Ave. 
Victor Hugo Paris, but mail in care of
American Line Southampton - New York
Service, Canute Road, Southampton Eng.
Passenger S.S. New York. Before sailing Aug. 10.
would reach me. Again thanking you for 
your many courtesies?  I remain
Yours most Sincerely
Leora Johnson.the season & to tell you about a meeting we
had here recently. We have here in the University a
Professional Womans League, composed of all the
women in the professional Colleges Law, Medicine,
Pharmacy & Dentistry. of which I am an honorary
member. I was invited to give them a talk on you
So we had an "Elizabeth Blackwell meeting." I telling
them a little about your life & work & my visit to your
home, illustrated by the photos of yourself & home.
Others sending letters for your birth &c. all were
very much interested, and I hope will emulate
some of your sterling qualities. I tho't you would
like to know your work is not forgotten "away
out in Iowa," & your influences on womens work
will go on & on for years & years.
I am about to go abroad again Sailing Feb 5 for the
Orient returning to Rome in April will spend some
months in Italy & Germany going to Vienna for a
little work. am not sure that I will visit
your "sunny little Island." I hope you are still 
as hearty as when I saw you. remember me 
to Kitty Barry. with many wishes for your
continued health & happiness I close with
greetings of the season  very sincerely
Leora Johnson.DR. LEORA JOHNSON
22 N. CLINTON ST.

IOWA CITY, IOWA, U.S.A.   Dec 18 1909


Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
Hastings England
My dear Doctor:-
I wonder if you remember the American
doctor woman from "away out in Iowa"
who had the pleasure of visiting you about
six years ago. She has not forgotten that
charming day spent at your home Rock
House, way up on the cliffs overlooking
the land and sea. Two years ago I spent
a month in and around Boston and 
gave myself the pleasure of calling at the
office of Womans Journal and met your
beautiful brother and accomplished niece.
The Journal had from time to time given little
locals of my worth & I tho't I ought to show
my appreciation by calling & thanking them
in person, on reaching home I recd a 
blue  marked copy containing a nice little
local on my call.
The main object of my writing you at
this time is to give you the greetings of