Blackwell Family
Lucy Stone

1892
Blackwell, Alice Stone[*Mamma*]
Office of
American Woman Suffrage Association,
No. 3 Park Street, 
Boston, May 20 1892
Dear little child
I should like to take
you up and I do take you. I 
shall come back as early tomorrow
as I can. This money is some that 
was left by the Winchester people 
for your fare at your last visit 
there. all the keys are under
the head of my bed pillows
If I need to use them or
if I never come back. Hope it
was not so very bad last night.
but dont take meetings on
Thursdays any more.
The same old mother
There are nuts behind the 
long yellow curtain for
breakfast


Dorchester July - 27 - 92
Dear Alice
This is another blazing
hot day, but it brought your letter
and the enclosed from Emma. Mrs.
Cole came at noon yesterday and 
Beth Noterriesor with her very well.
The cat sits by me most of the time. He
is at this moment stretched at
length on the living room carpet.
The Old South Lectures begin today.
Beth will go.
No I did not object the Vt money.
I supposed you had taken it out of
your own pocket. But you know it is
long since I have enquired what you
do with your money. Mr. Darey wrote
me yesterday that old Mrs. French
had left me personally $400 and
$400 to the Mass. W.S.A. It was the 
first I had heard of it[*Mamma*]
I enclose a letter of Mrs. Deitrich which
you will return to me. Glad you burned
the contract with her. We must have
more systems. What shall we do with
ourselves if we do not? It seems
that Mrs. Dietrich has been appealing
to the [Main?] signal for my [hurt?]!! Drat!
Mrs. Prott spent an hour here last
evening having came in on account of my
joints which I think are slowly mending
Papa starts tomorrow for Chautuaqua.
It is reported this a.m. that the
Homestead men propose to surrender.
and that the murder of Frick was a plot
of Nihilist and anarchists -
I hope Howard won't drown or the other
boys. But they take a risk with all the
diving am glad he likes the boys.
With ever so much love
Mamma
[*George S. Hunt, President      Henry B. Blackwell, Treasurer
MAINE BEET SUGAR COMPANY.
Portland, ____________________18*]

[*1892 Mamma*]
[OFFICE OF
American Woman Suffrage Association
No. 3 PARK STREET,
Boston,]
Friday Aug. 5 1892
Darling Alicekin
I hope  you got the 
letter that contained a little
calendar to help you keep the
right dates. We are all glad you
have such good weather. We
lately have had a good deal of 
rain and today is a gray day.
It was thought best for me to keep
my leg in a horizontal position.
So yesterday papa brought the Hall
lounge  into the Library - I had been
on it all the morning. My hair all
roughed as I had rubbed my 
hands up over it and my dress
troubled. When Mrs. Morrison
Fuller & her little lovely child,
a lady from Wisconsin, and a
another young woman a protege
[*only $324 receipts net - Mrs. Cole is a helpless sort of person but she
helps Pett out. We had another woman to
work 
yesterday
I hope you see
the papers. There
is a great
deal 
going 
on
Parliament 
is opened.
The Homestead
fight is still with
fists and
sticks.*]of Mrs. Fuller arrived Think of me 
in that plight to be introduced 
and shown off the St. Louis Woman!  
Well.  We all made the best of it 
and it passed off.  I was glad to see 
Mrs. Morrison Fuller and her lovely 
well taught little girl.  
Night before last and yesterday I 
had comparative peace with my 
bones.  Last night and today they are 
not so comfortable.  I still rub with 
skunk oil and sulpher. and believe 
it is good for me.  If at any time I am 
worse will let you know.  You may 
always believe that no news is good 
news about the joints -- I am  glad 
you do a little work  daily on the
arrears.  Even that will tell on your 
"pile"  I have the Bowditch pamphlets 
sent to be bound.  The office carpet comes 
up tomorrow.  Mrs. Voyls accts are being 
settled.  and the column accts come
 in $200 expense for this month. with
[* the anarchists brag that they kill the last copolitist &c &c
&c &c
Love
t
Howard


[*Mamma 1892*]
[Office of The Woman's Journal
No 3 Park Street]
Thursday, 
[Boston] Aug 11, 1892
Darling Alice
This is Thursday and
 again it is blazing hot and I 
am ever so much better.  
Yours with the funny accts of the 
fandango &c came yesterday.  I 
should think it must be a great 
tire on somebody and that really 
the children would go t bed 
ready to sleep better if they had 
some pleasant story read to them.  
Rachel Foster replies that she has 
never been able to get replies 
to her application for space Except t 
say it would be attended to.  She 
and Susan were at Anna ShawsMeeting a chatauqua and the
had, beside the large audience, a 
reception.  Dr. Buckly was heard on 
the other side.  Mrs. Flint of Des Moine
wishes very much that we should be at
the Missippi Valey convention. and
she has sent a document for the
occasion which she wished you to pass
upon. but we have done it for her in
your stead.  Mrs Ripley has also
written urging us to fix the day after
the gov convention when we will go on
to Minneapolis t have a meeting there.
Now it seems t me that none of the
Eastern speakers should be at Des Moines.
But if Susan goes then I think you and
papa should go.  My going is out of the
question - I think on the whole. I will
send Miss Flints letter on t you.  I have
written her that it is received &c.
Mr Garrison and Miss Loger [???] &
meet Mrs Deitrich and they are very
sorry not t have you as one of the committee
t meet with them.  We expect to
get a Woman's day at the Agriculture
Fair - With love t Howard and 
you.  Mamma

[*Mamma 1892*]
Pope's Hill Aug. 12 92
Dear Childekin
I am still very uch
better, got into the carriage last
evening with no help except from a
Hanock.  I undress and lie down
every day for 2 or 3 hours.  Yesterdy
while in bed Carrie Lane Chapman
came - could only stay an hour but
we had a pleasant visit.  She is invaluable.
She says they have invited Susan
but are not sure of her. as she wants to 
have her expenses paid and they
cannot pay.  Mrs. Flint is dead set
against having Susan.  But as
soon as they know [whether] how it
will be about her they will let us know and
you and papa are t go - I told her
I thought it would be best if they
could have it all to themselves, that
in those 44 great states there is room 
for every so many just such conventions -
Susan wants the N.S.A abolishedand had spoken t Mrs Chapman
about it - after the report of the
Des Moines meeting is published
in the Standard Mrs Callahan means
to give the Standard up and t fill
her subscibers term with the Column.
But this is private.  Papa has not been 
told -
If Howard is lonesome it must be
because that shock t his spine
makes him ill or not feel well.
Pray be careful of him and not
let him row or strain himself - 
I cant get your clothes out of a locked
up trunk of which I have not the key.
Papa is greatly delighted that he gets the
W. J. off so early.  We have found a 
lot of buffalo bugs in the closets ask
Mrs. Barrows what will Exterminate
them.  Ellen does not own the little
cottage.  Schitt is there.  With Everlasting
love
Mamma

1892
Dining room, Sunday Dec 14
Dearest child,
The special delivery 
letter came just after yours 
was mailed. I mean after mine 
was mailed to you.  When a Globe
woman reporter came and [?]
me with my cup of bread and
milk. And nursing my three
which was having a hard day. She 
took tea and  toast with me. [?]
when Papa came home he brought
your book,  candy for Miss 
Wilas and beautiful doilies
for my finger bowls.  Miss Horner, Miss Addison
and  Gene came t dinner and spent
the evening so we had a "birth day".
The girls at the office say you 
expect to come home soon butwe have not heard so. Miss Hayes
Professor Allen is. has sent us a nice letter from
Cambridge England lend telling of the
English college girls and their oppirtunities,
but more of their opprtunities. 
It is for the Journal and when
papa read it to me this morning I [fet]
felt my heart in my throat for
gladness at the great changes that
have come to women. We contrast
between the time when I was young and
eager for oppirtunities and there were
none to this day when so much is
gained and I was glad I had lived
to help —  I used often to think that we,
girls, (in my time) were like the cows
we sow, which were in barren pastures.
but which could look oer where abundant
grass and harking growing grain grew
beyond their reach. and now the bars
are down and open. Thank God!
This is a lovely day. cool clear. and
the bells ringing for church at this moment.
Love t Howard. Yours ever dearest
Mamma
[*OFFICE OF
The Woman's Journal,
No. 3 PARK STREET.*]


[OFFICE OF
American Woman Suffrage Association,
No. 3 PARK STREET.
Boston,]
Pope's Hill
Aug 16, 1892
Dear Alice
Papa has gone to New 
Jersey. Mr. Killian & Cary gone 
to Bowdoin St. to spend the 
day so that Mrs. Ad may have 
a quiet day to work. and I. 
with easier bones. sit at my
desk. It is a lovely day.
Mrs. Cole went yesterday
rather to my relief. though
I am very sorry for the poor
thing. We are reading the
book with the little Clergyman
and the Egyptian girl and
like it — There is no news only
the dreadful labor riots which get
worse and worse. At Buffalo whole
trains of cars are moved as well
as stations and not a car can never.
[*Please thank Howard for his birth day letter
glad to hear that his back is sound*]
Mrs. Lucy Stone, perhaps the earliest 
woman in Massachusetts to advocate
equal suffrage for woman, passed her
74th birthday quietly on Saturday at
her home on Pope's Hill, Dorchester,
greeted by numerous friends by letter
and in person.  Mrs. Stone is limited in
her public speaking by frequent attacks
of rheumatism, but maintains her post
as senior editor of the Woman's Journal,
to which she contributes weekly editorials.
She preserves her serenity and 
cheerfulness unimpaired, and her face 
and voice are as sweet and charming as
ever.  If the advocacy of a good cause 
is a guarantee of so placid and happy a
home life, every woman will do well to 
follow her example.  Miss Alice Stone 
Blackwell, her daughter, is "camping
out" with the "Shaybacks," Rev. S. J. 
Barrows and wife and friends on the
shore of Lake Memphremogoz, P.Q., 
Canada, enjoying a well-earned vacation.
[*?*]
Mrs. Lucy Stone has just turned her 
75th milestone.  Like her distinguished
coadjutor, Julia Ward Howe, she is that
number of years young, however.
[*Herald*]
[*The Sunday Globe whose reporter 
came out here.  [?] me 35*]

[*Your letter telling of your bruised ankle came since
this was written.  Pray do not take risks by walking on it.
I am evr so sorry.
We shall be glad to see you home.*]Sulphur, and believe it is good for me.
(L.S. to A. S. B.)

Pope's Hill, Nov. 12, 1892
Alice Dear:
I went into the city this A.M.
and bought myself a black hand-satchel.  I 
suppose we start to-morrow.
(L.S.)