Blackwell Family FEB-MAR 1887 Lucy Stone Blackwell, Henry BOffice of The Woman's Journal No.3 Park Street Probably Feb 20. She left home in the latter part of February for a Southern trip [f? h??] health. Boston, 20 1887 Harry darling If anything happens me that we never meet, you will find my will, and respect its conditions. I shall be sure you will help Alice in the business part of her property, and do your best for her. I should be glad to live to see you both through, but as I am the oldest this is little likely. From the abundant and unselfish work you have done for women Harry dear you know thoroughly l appreciate it and how grateful I am for it. Few men would have done it, leaving business, friends, pleasure for it. But in all the long hereafter the world will be better for it. Was it not worth doing for so great a result? I wish I could have made it more agreable, or less hard, but it could not be easy because it was all up stream against wind and tide. I feel very tender of you dear and wish there were rest and leisure for you to do the things you like best andin any event and for always my heart is warm to you, dear darling Harry.(copy in handwritting of H.B.B dated "L.S.,1887) Harry darling, If anything happens me that we never meet, you I will find my will and respect its conditions. I shall be sure you will help Alice in the business part of her property, and do your best for her. I should be glad to live to see you both through, but as I am the oldest this is little likely. For the abundant and unselfish work you have done for women Harry dear, you know how thoroughly I appreciate it and how grateful I am for it. Few men would have done it, leaving business, friends, pleasure for it. But in all the long hereafter the world will be better for it. Was it not worth doing for so great a result? I wish I could have made it more agreeable, or less hard, but it could not be because it was all up stream against wind and tide. I feel very tender of you dear and wish there were rest and leisure for you to do the things you like best, and in any event and for always my heart is warm to you dear, darling Harry. LSOFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET 1030 AM Boston, Feby 25 1887 Dearest Luciken I hope you did not catch cold yesterday aftn during that protracted leave taking on deck! It was a questionable act of kindness on our part to keep you out in the bleak wind. It blew great guns with a clear sky last night & today the windows are coated with ice & the mercury at 17. We got home (Alice & I) to find Edie in the kitchen dishing up a great leg of mutton & turnips. I wished you were with us to enjoy it & thought of you with [?] the cold feet on the windward side of the vessel - fearing that the hot water bottle was in your trunk, just when it would be most needed. I think of you today as coasting along outside of Long Island & recall my first glimpse of America from the deck of the Cosmo in Oct 1832 - a village on the South Shore of Long Island with its long sandy beach. We are all well & will mail you regularly the five daily papers - the WomanOffice of The Woman’s Journal No. 5 Park Street Boston, Feby 26, 1887 Dearest Luciken I have been hoping that the bleak, piercing atmosphere of the past two days has not overtaken you. Today it is snowing again & an ugly, cross, lowering atmosphere. I think of you as off the Capes of the Chesapeake about this time & in a milder air. We are all well. Alice is busy today with her column. I mail a copy of W. J. to you today. & also some of yesterdays & todays papers. I am on my way to the Mass Club. Next Thursday comes off the Debate on the W.S. Bill. municipal Suffrage square - I am writing to all known friends in Legislature to speak & work for it; also am sending Higginson's Nonsense of It & the Wyoming & Washington Leaflets. Nothing decisive yet, either from Maine, New York. Harry Suffrage debate in the Mass Legislature is to Come off on the 3rd reading of the Munic W S Bill next (Thursday) [The] Mr Hinckley called at our WJ office about 5PM last evening. Says the Constl Amt has not yet been acted upon in the Senate & that it will Be a very close vote either way. No further news. I shall see Mrs Howe & Mr Bowditch today. In Great haste for getting off paper Yours ever Henry B Blackwellon Rhode Island, I am getting up the Bazaar Circular. Mrs Howe promised her cooperation. Katie has done very well since you left & Edie stands by like a good fellow In great haste Yours ever Henry B Blackwell Tell George Mr Candler's Kind [?] of [?] to Charlotte Harbor. Ask George to mail [by 9] at once Mr Geo Gage Beaufort So C. the photograph of his house, which he sent me subject to return & which I sent to Geo & Edward Mr Geo Gage writes to have it returned Several new applicants for house but nothing done yet - Weather too cold.OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association 5 PARK STREET, Sunday 10 15 am Boston, Feby 27 1887 Dear Lucy It was a wild snowy night last night. This morning it clears. Wind blowing great guns. I have just helped Alice & Edie get off their column & we take the week's edition (over 500) to the post office on our way to Church. It is bright & sunny. We think of you as probably on deck enjoying the soft air & sunshine off the S Carolina Coast. Tell George I shall move heaven & earth to sell my house so as to join you & him & explore together the land of flowers (Florida). I am writing to the 36 representatives to speak for the Munic W S bill. & shall tomorrow put in each box the tracts on Wyoming & Wash T. T W H's "Nonsense of it".Miss Pond & Mrs Smith are to meet me tomorrow / Monday / at 2 PM to agree on a Bazaar Committee & on a form of circular to send out to the Suffragists of the country - No news yet from Portland, Rhode Island, or Albany I almost hope that we shall be beat in the R I Senate so as not to be beat before the R I people. We sent you a copy of the W J. this week yesterday - Alice & Edie are well. We are trying to have breakfast at 7:30 & if I can only get up in time we shall make it out - There is a strange fascination to me in the hour from 10 to 11 PM. But D V. I will go to bed at 10:30 hereafter. Take things comfortably dear L. & try to enjoy your well earned vacation from drudgery. The Florida Legislature will meet at [*Tallahassee on the first Tuesday after first Monday of April - We must try to stir them if we can get a*] [*petition of Florida women signed & sent in yours affy Henry B Blackwell*]Harry Office Womans Journal 5 Park St Boston Mch 1/87 Dearest Luciken [Saturd] Yesterday (Monday) we called at the Steamship office but they had not heard of the Steamer's arrival. Again this morning I called with similar request but on reaching the office at 10 30 A M I found your telegram announcing your safe arrival yesterday & now think of you as at Thomasville We feel much relieved, as it has been here a week of storms & severe cold, & we fear you have had a very hard time of it. I have sent each of our Known friends in the Legislature a letter asking him to speak tomorrow for Municipal Suffrage & have mailed to each one - copies of the Wyoming & Washington Ty leaflets & T.W.H.'s "Nonsense of It." Today the R.I. Senate are to vote on the submission of the W.S. Amendment to the voters. I dont care much which way the vote goes, as we have only till April 5 to reach the voters with the almost certainty of a defeat & a setback of years in RI. Today too the Maine Senate will reconsider the Woman SuffrageResolve, & will probably defeat it. The N York matter is in a similar shape--either Senate of house will kill it--The Lord reigns however. I had two parties out to the house yesterday & am doing what I can I think the cold weather keeps everything back--I have had a nibble for your New Jersey land but nothing definite. We are all well. Katie is on her mettle & is doing her best. Alice & Edie hope to get off the last of the circulars this week. You will be pleased to know that the Forum has paid me $76 (seventy six dollars) for my "Woman Suffrage Problems Considered" It will appear in April Yours ever affy Henry B Blackwell[*Harry*] Office Womans Journal 5 Park St Boston Mch 1/84 Dearest Luciken, Yesterday (Monday) we called at the Steamship office but they had not heard of the Steamer's arrival. Again this morning I called with similar result but on reaching the office at 10 30 AM I found your telegram announcing your safe arrival yesterday & now think of you as at Thomasville We feel much relieved, as it has been here a week of storms & severe cold, & we fear you have had a very hard time of it. I have sent each of our known friends in the Legislature a letter asking him to speak tomorrow for Municipal Suffrage. & have mailed to each one - copies of the Wyoming & Washington Ty leaflets & J.W. H.'s "Nonsense of It." Today the R. I Senate are to vote on the submission of the W S Amendment to the voters. I dont care much which way the vote goes, as we have only till April 5 the reach the voters with the almost certainty of a defeat & a set back of years in RI. Today too the Maine Senate will reconsider the Woman SuffrageHarry OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET. 12.10 PM Wednesday Boston, March 2 1887. Dearest Luciken From RI comes the news that the RI Senate, by a vote of 25 to 8, has notified the submission of the Constl Amendment. I enclose Mrs Chace's letter. I have replied that we will do what we can. From Pa comes a request for help. I leave it for you to reply But I think if I were you I would say that when the Pa friends have got WS Constl Amendment submitted they may rely on help but that the Gods help those who help themselves! Phila ought not to come to N. England except in an emergency. Our debate comes off tomorrow. Today the poll tax matter will probably be settled one way or the other. I ambusy, but not overwhelmed. Have had 3 parties to see the House since you left. No live buyer yet. Weather continues bleak, snowy, icy, devilish. Your despatch recd yesterday was a great relief to us. Have paid all the little bills & the $525 note due March 1. - The Battersons & Stovers must intend to buy for they are polishing their floors at much labor & some expense. Old Mrs. Battison (84) is quite ill. Their rents are paid promptly on 1st but - I may have to go again to N Y about the Montclair matters. There are several nibbles but all want small lots - say 1/2 acre. & I think we shall have to accomodate them & that involves an intermediate acre between Mountain Ave & Highland Ave. We are hoping for a letter tomorrow or next day. Miss Pond has made two more Leagues. In haste Yours affy HBBlackwellWednesday March 9 1884 - Dear Luciken Night before last I went after the Boston League Meeting at Dr. Whitings to Montclair - Met Mrs. Guillaudau (pronounced Gee-yo-do) & went with over the dear old place above Mountain ave, calling on Mrs. Fulton - I tried to enlist her preference for the lot above Highland ave, running to the top of the Mountain. We telephoned out Mr Gillaudau who came at 5 P M & we drove over it again. A clear sky & beautiful sunset made the view heavenly. I left them thoroughly enthused & it is likely we may sell them a site somewhere - I found that there is no present possibility of carrying through on third avenue, so advised if they want to go on Mountain ave to buy a lot 100 feet by 400 at $2500 an acre - or to buy the upper lot at $2000 in all. I investigated recent sales on the Mountain & find that our prices are higher than others name. For instance Jared E Harrison this spring has sold a lot 200 feet by 200 deep on lower side of Mountain ave for $1000 an acre; and his son has sold another one along side of it at same price - These lots are only 1500 feet beyond ours. - I took lunch with the [Today] Chiltendens, (Mrs. Chiltenden I knew as a girl "Henrietta Gans daughter of Major Gans of Cincinnati). I took tea or dinner rather with the Guillaudau's (who are woman suffragists& the wife a friend of the Spoffords and of Mr. Wiltsie at Ellenville in the Shawagauck Mountains back of Newburg N Y formerly. Her father Mr. Dudley, now dead, was for years a subscriber to the WJ I talked with the real estate agents & with Mr. Owen the Surveyor, and posted myself thoroughly, so I think the trip will probably pay for itself. Returned last night, taking breakfast at home - I go tonight (unexpectedly) to a meeting at Wakefield R I. with Mrs. Bowles. We sent of 1000 Senator Anthony for Woman Suffrage to Providence last night. Your letter & postal describing your hearing of probable friends Justices &c came yesterday. Alice & Edie are well. No news from the Legislature where our question comes up tomorrow. I have just time to eat my lunch & reach the cars without hurrying so I will close Ever yours Henry B Blackwell Poor Beecher died yesterday at 9 A M. I shall have a short In Memoriam for him. HBB SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, Meionaon, Tremont Temple, Jan. 25 and 26, '87 Free discussion. Remonstrants Invited Membership, $1.00 Annually. Please join association or renew membership. Annual meeting Tuesday Evening, Jan. 25th. 1887-7.30 P.M. Addresses by Hon. William I. Bowditch. Mary F. Eastman, William Lloyd Garrison and Lucy Stone. Music by Clarion (Male) Quartette. Wednesday Morning, Jan. 26th-10.30 A.M. Annual report by Lucy Stone. Report of Massachusetts Work of 1886 by Miss Cora Scott Pond. Business, Resolutions, and Reports from Suffrage Leagues. Wednesday Afternoon-2.30 P.M. Reports of Suffrage Leagues continued. Election of Officers and plans of work. Wednesday Evening-7.30 P.M. Addresses by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Henry B. Blackwell, Mrs. Katherine Lent Stevenson, and Mrs. Adelaide A. Claflin. Music by Clarion (Mixed Quartette. Admittance to all sessions free COME ONE, COME ALL!advise coming North by easy stages not reaching Boston before May 20 & trying Marietta, Raleigh & Northern Pines, &c on the road. As soon as this Campaign is over I will to my best to get Alice to visit Washington DC. where the Alumnae Assn is to have a meeting about April 10 & from which she may go on & join you if she is willing - In haste Yours ever Henry B BlackwellHarry & Alice OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET Boston, March 5 1887 Dearest Lucikin Your first letter from Thomasville lies here at the office addressed to Susie V. Doubtless we shall get one from you at the house tonight. I am pretty busy with preparations for the R I campaign - I had arranged with the R I friends to furnish $500 & they to raise $2000 & get another $500 from Susan A or other outside sources. But Mr. Wm I. Bowditch with his usual blundering magnificence - proposed to give them $1000 & it was voted - Mr Chace having come up to attend the Com meeting & state the emergency. This is conditional on their raising $2000 besides. Miss Pond is to go down for a month. Mis Shaw is engaged to go to Kansas instead of to come here in April - I have agreedto speak 4 times a week. 30000 leaflets each of seven kinds are to be mailed in one envelope to 30000 voters - Mrs. Livermore is to speak for them 4 or five times. Mrs. Ellen Foster is also engaged. &c &c. I telegraphed the vote to you yesterday. We are all well. Thermometer 15 this morning. Ground still covered with snow. I wish you could have seen me last night & also night before at 10 30 P.M seated on a firkin in the cellar in front of the cider Bbl absorbing a temperance drink. Fine reception to Mr Sewall by Women's Club yesterday PM. I made a good little extempore speech. In great haste, with love to all, ever your own Henry B BlackwellThomasville - Mar 5 - 1887 [OFFICE OF New England Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET,] Dearest Harrykin Your telegram telling of the passage of the R.I. amendment by such a handsome vote came just after breakfast. It would be a joy if it could be carried by the voters. I am sorry to have so much of the work of the campaign there devolve on you. The R Ilanders will take the brunt of the planning it, but you will have to go down for speaking. No speech will be so effective as yours. Especially the part of it that shows the feminine qualities I do wish R. I. could adopt the amendment! I saw that the Maine Senate has passed its amendment. The Record adds coolly, "but it will be killed in the house." The weather here today is a little cooler than it has been. The thermometer at 60. I have a fire in my room and every morning I have one. There is also one in the dining room every morning, and in the parlorMamma Rec'd March 9 '87 every evening. Emma took me a delightful ride yesterday. First we went through the principal streets, past the great Mitchell house, the court house, the Piney wood house, and then away through the woods, where the air is sweet with the pine which grows every where, bounding the horizon in whatever way you look. The front yards are full of roses, lovely roses, and other flowers. Conspicuously Spirea. The wild azaleas are out, and every thing speaks of summer. Emma's little school had a holiday today as it is Saturday. And the children all went out to some spring boards for a teter I heard the merry laugh, and looking out I saw little Anna, and seven black children wild with glee, while they bounded on the boards. But now we are going to ride and I must stop. I had Alice's letter written at Salem, and yours telling me of 2 calls at the steamboat office. The Record comes every day. I have sucked the sugar cane, gathered roses, looked into the negro houses, seen the utter laiziness and poverty of the blacks &c Mrs. Burbank has called with her sister, and the 2 teachers in the Mission school have called My joints and my throat are betterOFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET Boston, March 6 1887 Dearest Luciken It is 9 30 oclock Sunday night. Alice & Edie have gone to bed. Katie as usual on Sunday P.M, is away. We have been busy folding & mailing the W. "Column" & I have read the girls stories to lighten their labor. I intended to go tonight to Montclair to look over your land with Mr. Guillaudeu, whose 2d letter [note] I enclose. But we have had a violent snow storm all last night & today. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground & I fear we should not be able to see the property to advantage. So, I will stay & collect your rent & attend the Womans Journal Stockholders Meeting & Mr Whiting's meeting of the Boston W S League tomorrow & go down Monday night instead. I am trying to get the democrats to help us pass the Municipal W.S. bill - Mr Quincy thinks there is hope of their doing so, as [*glad you started when you did, for the weather is unusually cold & stormy & bad for Rheumatics. We think of you as sunning yourself in balmy air & among leaves & flowers & with Emma & George & the children. I dont think you will be homesick. I think the Rhode Island campaign will be good fun. Miss Pond goes down on Monday, & has secured engagements in Kansas for Miss Shaw in April, so as to leave Miss Pond free for Rhode Island. Yours truly HBBlackwell] H.B.B. they are defeated in their effort to repeal the poll tax qualification. We are planning for a lively campaign in R I & Mr Chace thinks success not impossible, as the Republicans feel the need of doing something, & the Temperance people want to keep & enforce their prohibitory Amendment. The Temperance question in R I, as in Kansas, is in everybody's mind, & we shall succeed, if at all, as a means of enforcing prohibition. Mrs. Duniway writes a letter to say to say that she is out with the New North West & I take her letter to be a feeler to see whether we will subscribe to keep her in the field. But her course in regard to the Temperance movement seems so unwise & divisive that I fear her active leadership is over for the present. We have just recd a letter from Chief Justice Greene & one from Bessie J. Isaacs explaining how matters stand. Do you know where your copy of Map of Montclair property is? I have a partial one, but yours covers the whole. I cant find it. In looking or it today I cam across the old daguerrotypes of yourself & Alice & they made me homesick for you. But I am very OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 5 PARK STREET, 2 PM Boston, March 10 188 Dearest Lucikin I have just returned from a meeting in Wakefield R I last evening with Mrs. Bowles - About 200 present. R I is densely unenlightened & wholly unorganized I have very little hope of success, but will do our best. I go down to a meeting in Valley Falls tomorrow (friday) evening - Yours of Monday March 7 recd - It is snowing hard but thawing as it falls. Ground still covered with snow & ice. Hubbard has paid up as agreed. I hope you will not have written to him. The debate is about to come off at the State House so no more from Yours ever affy Henry B Blackwell P.S. The Providence Journal is out this morning with an editorial against us. It is liquor vs prohibition.H.B.B. OFFICE OF New England Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET, Sunday Boston, March 13 1887 Dearest Luciken Your letters have reached us. The one written on board ship came first - the last was dated 9th & described your drive among the pines. Is it possible that all Thomasville cannot furnish a four seated carriage? If not, by all means take two carriages & that will accommodate the whole family. - Dont fail to go out every fine day & see as much of the surrounding country as you can, while you have a chance. I spoke at Wakefield R I on Wednesday & at Valley Falls on Friday Evg & spent next day [today] (Saturday) in consultation with the Committee. Mrs. Livermore spoke at Westerly on Friday evening & Mrs. J Ellen Foster at Pawtucket on Friday Evg - We have hired a column in the Prov. Journal for every day till election for $500 & in Telegram half a col. for $200. - We shall send leaflets anda yes ballot to every voter in the State by mail a week before election. That is the only way to reach the voters as very few will come to meetings & those not always the ones who need [co??ting] There are 30000 voters The postage will be $300 In haste for mail Ever affy yours H B Blackwell OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 5 PARK STREET, Boston, March 14 1887 Dear Lucy Miss Wilde has just shown me your letter to her. I am glad that your rheumatism is better. My house does not sell yet. Not many applications. I go tonight to Ashton R I to address a town of English weavers. We are feeling very strong & if R I can be carried it will be. Take as much carriage riding as you can. It is money well expended. We have secured a daily column in the Providence Journal & a daily half column in the Telegram. Everything is swallowed up in R I in the prohibition issue & our only hope is that there as in Kansas WS. may be voted to help enforce the law, now largely set at defiance. In haste Ever affy yours HBBlackwellH. B. B. OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET Boston, March 15 1887 Dearest Luciken Dont be distressed about me. I will take care of myself. I spoke last night at Ashton; tonight I am to speak with Mrs Boroles at Tiverton. We are all well. I am a little alarmed at your report of cases of Malaria fever. If they continue I advise you & George & Emma to get up & cooler & probably healthier being among the hills_ I feel ashamed to write you such short letters but they are better than none, I fear there is very little hope of carrying RI If we can get even a decent minority I shall be relieved. More & more I see that it is premature to go to the voters. We must stick to the Legislatures here in the East especially. But we are getting a good hearing & shallH.B.B. do much to break the crust of conversation & liberalize the little hide-bound State. In haste Ever affy Yrs Henry B Blackwell This morning was a snow storm. All day yesterday it was bleak & [?] It is now clearing off [?] & pleasantly warm. You must not come back here. I think before May 15. So make your plans to journey gradually Northwards with Geo & Emma. H.B.B. 5 Park st Boston March. 17/84 Dear Lucikin We have discovered the burglar. When I got home last night I found that the key hope was sticky with putty, I sent Michael down to Police Headquarters with a note, & before bed time had been interviewed by three separate burly policeman. Two more watched behind the barn all night with revolvers. Next morning the Taylor boy pleaded guilty but said he didnt mean to put it in but had a lump of putty on his pule of papers & it got jammed against the key hope. Of course it was like a certain nephew I once knew & the knitting needle! However it relieved the apprehensions of the household to find out that there was no plan to rob the house & my bit Parker Pillsbury hickory stick may go back from by bedside to its place in the closet. We are making things as lively as we can in little Rhody. I spoke night before last in Tiverton & am to speak in East Greenwich tonight with Mrs Eastman & in [?ousdale] tomorrow night ( friday) _ The suffrage columns in the Providence Journal & Telegram will help_ I dont myself have the slightest faith in our carrying it. All I hope & pray for is a decent vote, not absolutely insignificant. I have written to Alice's friend at Southern Pines NC to write George whether there is a furnished house to be had there, and will try to get the [add??] of some one in Raleigh NC._ where I believe to be the most desirable point in the whole South for us, being a State Capitol with a good society & an intelligent centre in a pleasant country & a charming climate free from Malaria. In haste dearly beloved Yours affy Henry B Blackwell I dont really believe you stand much chance of chill & fever having gone South so recently. Those who have it probably got the [?] of the disease from last Fall & none of you were there at the proper time to get saturated. Still you had better get up & [?] it before long_ But dont come back to [?] before May 15 If you do you will all catch colds inevitably_ It is snowy, bleak & chilly here Yours ever HBB OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET, Boston, March 21 1887 Dearest Lucikin, I have been unable to write you for a few days as I am trying not to overwork myself & my time is pretty fully occupied. I have had Sat night & all day Sunday [?] night at home & this morning the sun is so bright & has melted the white frost & the snow banks begin to disappear & even here & there a faint sign of green comes in [?] places. Tonight I am to speak at Pawtucket Mrs Livermore from ill health has had to throw up all her engagements._ We do well to till Apl 6 for though I dont think we can win, yet it is important to do the best & get the best vote we can. We have bought ( ie the RI suffragists) have bought a daily column in the Prov. Journal & a daily half col. in the Prov Telegram, so we shall put in our side as far as we can_ But we mainly rely on leaflets & copy of "The [?] [An?]sent to every voter (300000) by mail. & on this every body available in Providence is now hard at work, Poor Hinkley is doing his best, but overwhelmed with the load on him_ We are all well Katie gave us notice yesterday (Sunday) AM. So Alice & I went over & got old Mrs Dorsey to come till you return_ Then you can do as think best about keeping her longer. Mrs Dorsey is fond of Alice & will do better for us than a stranger_ Tell George it is borne in on me that Raleigh NC is the place for us It is 6 or 800 feet above sea & has in it all the intellectual life of the State_ I have written Mrs Devereux Blake to give me names & her connection sends the enclosed card. I have written today to A J. Cook to write George what he has in the way of a furnished house_ I Boston, March 22 1887. Dearest Lucikin I spoke last night in Pawtucket with Gen Olney Arnold, Miss Eastman & Mrs Gov Wallace (of Indiana) to about 500 people in the Opera House. It was a good meeting, I have only two other appointments this week. You need not think of me as overworked for I will be careful of myself. Today is a cold drenching driving rain which is fast removing the remnants of snow & ice Several enquiries for my house, which I do not neglect. I was offered $30 per month & water tax for 5 years for it last Saturday. I enclose a pleasant letter from Mrs Margaret Longley from California. Nothing new. Arnold Chace got up & looked after the meeting. Hoping that the "cold spell" has given place to pleasant sunshine I am Ever Yours H B Blackwell[*H.B.B.*] Hathe Turner sends love. & is going to write you Miss Wilde says her Monday letter postponed by the need of writing some postal cards for the chairman of the House W S Com, will go off to you some time today. On Thursday will come off the vote on the bill to give women who vote for school Com. a right to vote on the License question - Will report to you the result. HBB OFFICE OF Woman's Journal No. 5 BARK STREET, Boston, March 25 1887 George's interesting letter with temperatures for March & suggestions for a tour Apr 10 to May 25 is recd_ The tour would be very interesting & attractive & I hope by all means you & George [?] will take . If I sell the house in time I should feel tempted to join you, but otherwise I ought not. Besides, Alice has too heavy a load & it would be unfatherly & inhuman in me to go & leave her to delve at the WJ_ I could go, so far as RI is concerned as the election will come off Thursday April 6 & I think the Steamer for Savannah sails Thursday, which [?] bring me to Thomasville on the 10th or 11th_ We are keeping up the best fight we can in RI. but I have not the slightest hope of success & fear for the result of defeat on Mrs Mace's health, as she cannot help being disappointed deeply. Mrs Ex GW Wallace is in RI for 10 days & speaks remarkably well. She brings the sad intelligence of our friends & courtesy had sometimes resulted in making them think that they had converted us to their views. That we should have to do as we did with the supporters of slavery fight them, outnumber them, & carry our reform over their opposition That if better arguments were considered needful those who felt this were the persons to supply them_ She thinks she did pretty well, tho as usual not quite satisfied with her performance. I wish I could have been there to make a rejoinder. Judge Pitman had attempted one before Alice spoke. We are all well. I enclose a remarkable statement worthy of investigation by any [?] [?] you may meet in Georgia. Mrs Dorsey is doing well & is so far a great improvement upon Katie who kept one of her sisters almost always with her & spent almost every evening in So Boston_ Yours affy Henry B Blackwell Dudley Foulke His wife having lost their [two] little boy & girl with diphtheria about two weeks ago. I have written them a brief letter of condolence. Will you not do so too? Alice was at West Newton last night at Mrs Tolman's I was invited but had to go to R I instead. Mrs Howe was there & Col. Higginson. About 125 were in the parlor. Mrs Howe spoke first & spoke well. Then Col. Higginson eulogized the Remonstrants: said they were noble broad_ minded, public benefactors who had read all our arguments & were not convinced & intimated that their objections had not been answered. He said that now it could no longer be said as formerly that all literary & eminent women were with us. [?] [?] suffragists were lacking in candor & courtesy I took exception to the remark of a Rabbi quoted by Mrs How who recently said at the 19th Century Club in New York that opponents of WS were influenced by ignorance, selfishness & cowardice. Alice was called on to reply & made a 6 minute speech_ she said that it might not be true, but that either ignorance, selfishness or prejudice might be fairly attributed, that no new objections had been made & no strong arguments advanced against us by the half dozen active remonstrants that we had no reason to expect their conversion & that too much [attenti??] at candor PS. Mrch 25/87 Yesterday the bill to give women who register for school suffrage & right to vote on the License question passed the House by 98 to 78. If it goes through on engrossment it will probably be killed in the Senate. But it is the first time WS has ever had a majority in the House of Reps of Mass H.B.B. OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association 5 PARK STREET Boston, March 28 1887. Dearest Lucikin Your daily letters give us a pleasant glimpse into your quiet l but I hope not tedious experiences. If I can make any such disposition of my house during the coming ten days as will justify my taking the steamer on April 6. for Thomasville; so as to go with your party to Florida, I will do so. In that case if George & [E??] are willing I should like to spend a few days in Tallahassea, when the Legislature will be in session & if we can, address it on Woman Suffrage. Moreover we can there get facts of interest in regard to the various localities of the State, of which it is the political centre. We are "pushing things" in R.I. as far as they can be pushed and that is not very far. The meetings are generally small & do not reach many voters. The best things we shall do will be, I think, the distribution of the more than 30000 of the 4 leaflets & campaign paper & ballot by mail, which I enclose herein. I have tried to induce the Rep League of RI. to send out [* If I remember right you only took about $20. with you & that wont go far. Nothing more about Montclair land. We are all well, but I have had a lame shoulder ever since I measured my length in the mud & it seems a little like rheumatism I am otherwise pretty well & no busier than usual. I think [E??] would be wiser to try and get up a movement for a public school for the colored children than to undertake to teach a few herself. Ever [?] yours H.B.B.] also among its literature 20,000 copies of Hoar's + Long's tracts. But I fear they will not dare do it. The State is all by the ears over the Prohib. Amendment + their nomination of Gov. Wetmore. The Providence Journal is fighting the Republicans as hard as the Telegram (Democratic) Between the two the Republicans are likely to have a close [2nd?], + they are afraid to take us up for fear we may break them down. So we shall have only the Suffragists, the Labor men, + the W.C.T.U. What these will amount to I have no idea, but I shall [not] be agreeably disappointed if we get 1/3 the votes - 3/5ths are needed to carry, + that I myself consider impossible, for the people are not enlightened. I have been so busy + preoccupied that I have not yet sent out our proposed circular about the American Bazaar, but will try to do so soon. I have to speak 5 times this week & three times next week so shall have my hands full. My Forum article has come out, + Lilian Whiting gives it high praise in the Traveller. Hoar pleads legal engagements will prevent his speaking for us the night before election. I visited Long yesterday PM at Herigham & try to get him. He is to give me an answer in a day or two. He is very cordially invites you + Alice + me to visit his wife + himself some afternoon next summer. Mrs Batteson, the old lady of 81, Mr. Batteson's mother, died last Thursday + was buried today. I did not know of it till Dr. Fifield told me of it today at the P.O. Mrs. M. W. Campbell has sent you p 18. + the $20. of Holles st rent is also paid. Shall I send you some money for your Southern trip? Ward 21. Republican Ticket with Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, Tenth Aldermanic District, GEORGE CURTIS. For School Committee. CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIELD. For Common Council, LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIELD. For Common Council, WILLIAM M. OSBORNE. JAMES GOODMAN. ALBERT W. HERSEY.I should buy 1 good duble seated carrege 1 single carriage with good respectable lap robes. I should build a shed extention to put in carriages, also a projection at the end of the piazza also shooter, also a port cochin; also arrange some way to drain the barn cellar, and t make the house cellar dry - I should put better stronger fastenings on doors & windows t the house, paint house & barn - repair broken and cracked window panes. get a new set of china - make new grape trellis - all round. shingle the barn lean to . make a cold grapery aid raise Hamburg grapes - make a better bulk head arrangement to the cellar and let light into the bulk head - should get a reel for the hose. a new reel for drying the clothes. get 2 tea (high) chairs one for H B.B and one for me to sit high at table & enable us t serve more easily(.) get 2 decent chairs (armed) for us in the libray, also 2 chairs like the one we saw at Mrs. Callanars by which I Easily go up t get [thing] ?????? high shelf, one of these [*I should get a wagon to use on the place t bring up [app??]1 single carriage with good respectable lap robes. I should build a shed extention to put in carriages, also a projection at the end of the piazza also shooter, also a port cochin; also arrange some way to drain the barn cellar, and t make the house cellar dry - I should put better stronger fastenings on doors & windows t the house, paint house & barn - repair broken and cracked window panes. get a new set of china - make new grape trellis - all round. shingle the barn lean to . make a cold grapery aid raise Hamburg grapes - make a better bulk head arrangement to the cellar and let light into the bulk head - should get a reel for the hose. a new reel for drying the clothes. get 2 tea (high) chairs one for H B.B and one for me to sit high at table & enable us t serve more easily(.) get 2 decent chairs (armed) for us in the libray, also 2 chairs like the one we saw at Mrs. Callanars by which I Easily go up t get [thing] things on a high shelf, one of these to be up stairs . one below. screens &c.H.B.B. 1886 Washington D.C. March 20/06 Dearest Luciken I have been so busy & preoccupied that I neglected to write you of my goings on & last night sent a brief despatch to say that all is well. When Miss Shaw & I reached NY on Thursday morning we had just time to take the 8 am train from foot of Courtlandt St & reached [N York at] Washington at 2:30 I sent Miss Shaw to the Riggs House & my self went to the Capitol where Mr Spofford soon introduced me to the delegate from Wyoming Judge Carey a very straight forward many fellow, who promised to come to the hearing & testify to the good results of WS in Wyoming Try_ Mr Voorhees the delegate from Washington Try was cordial but did not approve of forcing woman Suffrage on any Territories. He thought the people of the Terys & their legislatures had too little control of their local affairs now, & that no interference was desirable. So I was [?], altho he is a strong friend of Woman Suffrage, that another engagement prevented his attendance. I called on Mr Caine the delegate from Utah who said he should come to the hearing, but did not think it best to take any part in it__ He says there were 42000 voters in Utah; that 12000 are cut off because, now or at some previous time, they have been living in plural marriage_ 30000 are left_ 1/2 men, 1/2 women_ 4/5 of the men who now vote_ men like himself who have never married more than one wife_ are Mormons_ Therefore the Mormon supremacy will not be affected by the desfranchisement of women. But the Mormons stand by woman suffrage, and desire it retained. I returned to the Riggs House after lunching with Mr Spofford who is suffering with pains in his head or rather with an uneasiness in it, for which he is dieting under doctor's advice who forbids wine & beer or coffee or other stimulants. Miss Shaw was waiting for me by appointment but the careless waiter reported her as gone out. So I went to the Spoffords & after tea called onGov long& Rep. Tom Reed of Maine. Both greated me very cordially & Long promised to come to the hearing & speak for us - I sent a note next morning to Senator Hoar by Mr Spofford. At 10 AM Miss Shaw & I were at the Com, Room where we found about 25 ladies and half a dozen gentlemen awaiting the advent of the Com. - Mr Hill came first then other members till about 10 45 nine of the 15 had gathered. Two more were out of town, leaving 4 unaccounted for. Gov Long & Judge Carey came in Gov Long was invited to one of the vacant committee seats & he invited me to sit beside him. Gov Long introduced me as the Cor Sec of the Assn &c, & I made a brief statement of our petition &c & introduced miss Shaw who made a bright, earnest telling speech of half an hour. Mrs Mary Hunt of Hyde Park had meanwhile come in & the room was packed full the hall & entry also full. I then spoke for half an hour _ dwelling on the experience of Wyoming & Wash tracing the growth of suffrage &c _ Then [Gov Long] Mrs Hunt spoke remarkably well for 15 minutes_ Then Gov Long was called on, but introduced Mr Carey the delegate from Wyoming who gave a brief [ma??ly] endorsement & made them all laugh by his funny reply to an enquiry aboutt domestic discord. He had seen none. In his own case, his wife had voted for him several times & once he believed she had voted against him. But he was happy to say that his mother in law had voted for him repeatedly The men of Wyoming are unusually good & are almost wholly controlled by the women. Gov Long made a very earnest closing speech of 55 minutes. He said the claim was just and the power of the Com & of Congress unquestionable. At the close I handed leaflets to the members present In the outset I read Mr Garrison's letter & your brief note giving "points"_ Curtis & Whittier letters came to hand after the hearing was over. I enclose Curtis, Garrison & Whittier. Let Alice have them set up in full solid for next week's paper. Mrs Shaw went back at 2 PM yesterday. I go today to Sam's at Elizabeth to spend Sunday & on Monday will go to Newark & put the Duffin money in a solvent savings bank at interest till its payment is decided. I hope to see you at home Tuesday morning. Love to my hard worked faithful Cub. I hope to relieve her from part of her care next week Yours affy Henry B BlackwellWashington, Mar. 20, 1886 Dearest Lucekin, On reaching Washington I went to the Capitol where Mr. Spofford introduced me to the Wyoming delegate, Mr. Carey, a very straightforward manly fellow who promised to come to the hearing and testify to the good results of Woman Suffrage in Wyoming Territory.... I called on Mr. Caine, the delegate from Utah, who said he should come to the hearing, but did not think it best to take any part in it... After tea I called on Gov. Long and Representative Tom Reed of Maine. Both greeted me very cordially, and Long promised to come to the hearing and speak for us. I sent a note next morning to Senator Hoar. At 10 o'clock Miss Shaw and I met at the Committee Room where we found about 25 ladies and half a dozen gentlemen awaiting the advent of the Committee at 10:45 nine of the fifteen had gathered; two more were out of town, leaving four unaccounted for. Gov. Long and Judge Carey came in. Gov. Long was invited to one of the vacant committee seats, and he invited me to sit beside him. Gov. Long introduced me as the Corresponding Secretary of the Association, and I made a brief statement of our petition, and I introduced Miss Shaw who made a bright, earnest, telling speech of half an hour. Mrs. Mary Hunt of Hyde Park had meanwhile come in and the room was packed full, the hall being also full. I then spoke for half an hour, dwelling on the experience of Wyoming and Washington, tracing the growth of suffrage, etc. Then Mrs. Hunt spoke for 15 minutes. Then Gov. Long was called on, but introduced Judge Carey the delegate from Wyoming, who gave a brief, manly endorsement and made them all laugh by his funny reply to an enquiry about domestic discord. He had seen none. In his own case his wife had voted for him several times, and once, he believed, she had voted against him; but he was happy to say his mother-in-law had voted for him repeatedly. Gov. Long made a very earnest closing speech. He said the claim was just,and the power of the Committee and of Congress unquestionable. At the close I handed leaflets to the members present._ _ _ Lucy Stone Thomasville Ga 1887 . . . . I went to visit a colored school the other day. It is taught by two Yankee women. Excellent women, but so unfit for the place! One of them did not change the expression of her face once during the whole time I was there. She stood up before the school and her face said: "Do you believe in G-a-w-d? If you do not believe in G-a-w-d you will go to h-e-l-l!" It was a most melancholy showing! She told them nothing about their lessons, but asked the dry questions, and had the answers without a word. She asked me to question, and as the lesson in Geography was about Oregon and the Columbia and the Yellowstone, I asked if they had ever heard of the geysers and of the Yellowstone Park. They know nothing of these. I told with glee of the geysers in the most graphic way, and of the Park, and of the cascades. The whole school lighted up with interest, eagerand all alive, showing how far removed they were from the dull, stupid set they appeared to be before the ghastly solemn face of their too pious teachers. At last I was asked to address the school, and I told them the things to do their good. Stir their pride, their hopes, their ambitions to be as good as the best, and their wide-open eyes told how well they understood. It seemed a thousand pities to have there just dragged along without aspirations or inspiration. At last they were dismissed in a manner just as formal and cold by the touch of a bell repeated 5 or 6 times. Each time for a maneuvre to get ready to go. I fell as though I could not forgive the teachers for the dreadful way they neglected the chance to lift up a race in pitiful need of help. L.S,OFFICE OF [New England Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET] [Boston,] Monday Mar. 28 188[5]7 Darling Harykin Your letter telling of the arrival of Georges letter, and of the work in M. I. &c. and Alice's graphic acct of the meeting at Mrs. Tolman's came yesterday, only [3]2 days after the post mark. whereas it took me 5 days t get here. Alice asked if y might put in the W.J. Extracts of my letters - I will write an article. It may nor get written for this week. But I will have it intime for the next No. We had a day of thunder and lightening yesterday and rain. And this morning it is warm dap sticky and cloudy - my joints measurably at pease. And my thoat much less trouble here than at home. The amily are all well - Emma at this momnt in the negro school. Anna playing house in my room, Geo in the dining room room writing letters Hobard getting his lessons. How dreadful it is abou tthe [Furelhe?] children! Poor Mrs Foulke will hardly survive it - I hug all the closer our one ewe lamb, and I think of each of y with real commiseration- for the overwork, I am sorry Alice did not enjoy the Tolman party. And I an ashamed of Col. T.W.H. Especially in th presence of any of the Enemy. But I think Alice paid him out. And I am glad she had a pleasant talk with Mrs. Howe about books. And hope the chance may be repeated. I rejoice tht soa chancing will deal with the Harvard students - Miss Wilde's bright newsy letter reached me Saturday - I find myself counting, on it - give my love t her and t Hattie and t susie and keep much for th three at Home L.S.