Blackwell Family 1887 April Lucy Stone Blackwell, Henry BThomasville Ga Apr 2 - 1887 Dear Darling Honey Pie This is Saturday and I hope you have not more than 2 days after today in M.I. At any rate this will reach you at home - Let me know how you are after such a hard campaign. Of course the result sought is is worthy of the most and the best you can do. But "God's times are very long" once in this case the stress is not so great as to require living sacrifices - take as good a rest now as you can get dear. Geo. says he does not wish to urge you. But I think if you came it would be a good change and rest and I am sure you would be very welcome - Geo wants to see some other places with a view to next winter & he would like much to get Charlotte Harbor to be below the frost line - There is too much cold here. There was a frost last night and for several days we have had fires all around. and I have slept under 5 blankets with the big himilay shawl inside for my feet, and I needed it all - But there is bright sun shine, and the thermometer is was at 56 (9 o'clock a.m.) I think this cold weather inclines the family to stay longer here. On the whole what with the difficulty of moving children. and the uncertainty where I go. And, where they will spend the summer at Jeans quite likely we use may stay here till the line flitting month - at the end of this month = we read of the cold up north, and the of this month. We read of the cold up north. And the southern papers greets it with glee and advise tourists to stay. Howard is looking much better.Ward 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON. Than when I came - But his catarrh still gives him a great deal of trouble -- Both the children have colds but for that they are very well. As are the others. including me —, I feel my joints more when it is cold - But they have not once been as bad they are at the [North?] - The Sulpher Springs man writes that I can come there for $50. for 28 days. That he says it is very cold there, even into May, and he advises me to come later. He says they are 2500 ft above sea level - He will ask $300 month for Howard Well, we shall see. I cant afford cold, even for hot springs. I have received the second "Amendment" it is very good - I have also received the Woman's Tribune - and the English Womens journal and your letter with such Enclosures are all sent to the N. J. voters What a deal of trouble has been taken for them. And when there is no hope of success! But it will all tell later - "The heedless world has never lost one accent of the Holy Ghost! The thing that irks me is that the Rhode Islanders made no effort to raise money -- till the event was upon them. and then they come to beg of us!! And got their hard field service done by others Especially by you - I liked Lilian Whitings comment in your Forum article — I am not sure that my article for the journal will be ready for next week — my room is rather a family room. and writing an article with the children in is impossible. Ever aff L.SOFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 5 PARK STREET. Sunday PM Boston, April 3, 1887 Dearest Luciken Mr FA Hinckley & I came down to Boston from Providence last evening in a wild snow storm which had raged for 24 hours, piling drifts in some cases more than 3 feet deep & delaying our train (NY Express) nearly two hours. We reached home at 10 15 wading knee deep in snow from Pope's Hill Station. This AM Mr Hinckley has gone in to preach for the Parker Memorial & will visit his brother this PM going back to to Providence tonight to attend important Com meeting tomorrow at 10 AM - This week past I have spoken every night till last night, when Mrs. Colaflin kindly took my appointment for me as I could not have got back to Providence in time to catch the early Sunday morning train. All is now done, substantially, that can be done before the election next Wednesday - We have mailed to each voter in the State, so far as his name & residence could be obtained,a copy of "The Amendment" (No 2) a campaign paper very well edited & got up. they will keep it on file in their readings room. I have made a brief In Memoriam of Mr. Marrett in the W.J. of next week. Of course I could not say much for him. Mrs. Cole's "In Memoraim" appeared promptly - you must have overlooked it. Alice is suffering with a hard cold & sore throat. At my suggestion I brought up Dr Frefield, who says it is not dipthertic, & will pass off in a few days - I think you are right about the lease, in case it can be made for 5 years, as I find it hard to sell the house - I have had no serious negociation for it yet this spring. I am very well. In haste H B Blackwellby a Com of R I friends consisting of Mr. & Mrs. Wyman, Mr. Hinckley & Mrs. Aldrich. also Senator Anthony for WS, Objections Answered, WS in Wyoming, and Eminent Opinions - and a yes ballot, these all endorsed in an envelope stamped, and printed on the cover like the one sent you. It has been a gigantic labor, but the last of them we mailed on Friday of this week, & I count more on them than on everything else combined. If now we can get the women to go to the polls with the ballots, we hope for a very creditable vote (I shall be fully satisfied in my expectations if we get a 2/5 vote) - It will require 3/5 to pass the Amendment. But it is thought that a Constitutional Convention will be called in a year or two, & that if we show strength that fact will ensure our having W.S. incorporated in the new constitution then framed. I have, as usual, rather enjoyed the public speaking - You will see by the Woman's Journal about what has been done - Many good meetings have been held, some not so good, for want of proper arrangements. Mr. Hinckley, Mrs. Aldrich, Miss Pond & myself have done most of the planning. I enclose a letter just received from Barton, Fla. At the suggestion of writer, I have written to the YMCA offering to send them a gratuitous copy of the W.J. on condition thatBoston, April 3, 1887 Dearest Lucekin: Mr. F. .A. Hinckley and I came down to Boston from Providence last evening in a mild snow-storm which had raged for 24 hours, piling drifts in some cases more than 3 feet deep and delaying our train nearly two hours. We reached home at 10:15 P.M., wading knee-deep in snow from Pope's Hill Station. This morning Mr. Hinckley has gone in to preach for the Packer Memorial, and will visit his brother this P.M., going back to Providence tonight to attend important Committee meeting tomorrow at 10 A.M.. This week past I have spoken every night till last night, when Mrs. Claflin kindly took my appointment for me, as I could not have got back to Providence in time to catch the early Sunday morning train. All is now done, substantially, that can be done before the election next Wednesday ..... If we now can get the women to the polls with the ballots, we hope for a very creditable vote. (I shall be fully satisfied in my expectations if we get a 2/5 vote). It will require 3/5 to pass the Amendment. But it is thought that a Constitutional Convention will be called in a year or two, and that if we show strength that fact will ensure our having Woman Suffrage incorporated in the new Constitution then framed. ..... H B BlackwellThomasville Ga - Apr.5 - 1887 Dearest Harrykin I suppose you have a meeting somewhere tonight, and then I shall think of you as relieved of M. I. for the present. What a hard pull it has been, and all the more because the present seemed hopeless! Well, it is good seed. The last Journal makes quite a showing of the work - I see that the memorial of Miriam Cole does not get written and as I have the letter I will write it, and send it in time for next week. I do not know what to say about your coming here. It is a dull place, but you can get change and rest by coming - When you begin to print Mr. Harrah's tract, I would start it with its remarkable heading, on the first page, next to the column concerning woman. If it costs 25cts a hundred I would charge that and not heed Mr. Harrah's wish to have it cheap. We must get our money back. I know I am to take the cost of that, out of the Eddy money. Even if I have to sell stock. Alice's column will use up $12 a week at least - $642. I promise Mariana F. Folson $50. and for the rest the American Association annual meeting will take the whole income if not more. We hope the house will get disposed of and that Mr. Battison is not going to give up. It is still cool here, but very pleasant weather. The family are all well. Emma will give up her negro school after this week partly because she is not quite equal to Howard's lessons, and the others & partly because there will be packing and breaking up and getting ready to go[Written on flyer: Ward 16 Republican Ticket With Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, Augustus P. Martin. For Street Commissioner, Samuel Hichborn. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, Thomas N. Hart. For School Committee, Charles C. Perkins Lucia M. Peabody. Emily A. Fifield. William Gaston. Francis A. Walker. Samuel Eliot. William Lloyd Garrison. Thomas Gaffifld. For Common Council, William Tuttle William B. Cutler.. James P. Gordon.] I think they will come to our house when they go hence, so that Emma can shop, and Geo look around. t see where they had better be for the summer. With much love dear, L.SThomasville Ga - Monday Apr.4 [*1887*] Darling Harrykin I wrote you yesterday under the impression that t Ex. Com. meeting was to be held next Friday. Now as t speakers, I wrote (for the N.E. May Meeting) t Frances Willard and to Mr. John W. Chadwick. Miss W. will be in Manitoba and Mr. C. out of the County. If we could [g?] some of the fine speakers who will be in Boston to attend the Unitarian Meeting the same week, we could fill Tremont Temple. Mr. Barrows of the Christian Register could tell who are to be there. I wrote about this to Mr. J.W. Smith, but as it was all after time I now send suggestions to you. We ought to have a grand meeting next May. Mrs. Vogl who always gets the Music should be on the Committee of Arrangements. This is due to her for the part she takes - Your letter and that of Alice told me the meeting had been already held and the [Merinoan?] engaged.About the tract of M. Harriet, it is not improved since he read it to us. That it is so large I may have to print it as the Wendell Phillip tract was -- of course -- we must fix the price -- I told him in a letter sometime ago that he should have as many as he wanted. but I had no idea that he would want 5000 the first year, or in all. I thought we should supply at cost, and he would have a few hundred at most. I will not write him about his supply till I hear from you. [*upside down interspersed in above*] Form of a card for the close of the tract on "Jesus Christ the Emancipator of Women". Price of this tract 20 cents for [?]; 5 cents for 20. If by mail, add one cent for each 10 tracts ordered. 28 different suffrage tracts (sample copies) for 10 cents. "The Woman's Journal", a large first class weekly at $2.50 a year. 3 months, on trial, for 50 cents. Address: American Woman Suffrage Association, No 5 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Lucy Stone Thomasville Ga Rec Apr. 7/87 Darling Harrykin This is Sunday Apr.3 I think of you as at home, and I shall be glad to think of you there till you come here, so that our 2 orphans who have been spending so many lonely evenings may have the light of your countenance for their comfort. I have been trying to write something for the Journal but it is not easy to do, as both children are in my room and they require many answers - and besides I cut dolls and men and women and drew birds and mice.. while Emma took a nap in her chair and Geo. escaped to the parlor to have a little ease from children who are exacting and who require to be entertained and who are not made to mind. I have sent a letter to Mrs. J.W. Smith with suggestions for the Ex. Com. meeting on Friday - instead of to you or Alice as it was possible you might both be detained by the Journal going to press. Before this reaches you the N.J. matter will be settled and the Kansas women will have voted! We are all well. It is warmer today, and though we have a fire in my room, it is a warm lovely day. I shall try to send some thing for the Journal tomorrow and you can use it or not. I cant tell whether it is fit - Love to all L.S.Ward 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON.Boston, Apr. 7. 1887 Dearest Lucekin Last night Edith and I got home at 8:30 P.M. from Woonsocket, R.I., where we had been offering the "Approved" ballots all day at the polls. Not a single Woonsocket woman came out to help us, tho' appealed to to do so. The W.C.T.U. tho' nominally friendly did not appear. Mrs. Davis of Worcester, Mass., and Edith and I were the only workers there. The opponents had a young Brown University student hard at work against us. He was in close alliance with the principal liquor dealers of Woonsocket, and had such active aid and co-operation from the Democrats that I really think money must have been used to secure their aid. Well, we are beaten, as I feared, 5392 to 15398 - only 26 per cent. of the votes cast were for Woman Suffrage; 74 per cent. against it. But if you had seen the votes you would not have been surprised. The wonder is how the Prohibition Amendment was carried last year. It was simply a miracle, and will soon be repealed, I think. The Democrats have carried their entire State ticket, and R.I. has ceased (for the present) to be a Republican State. If placing four leaflets and a copy of "The Amendment" in the hands of every voter in Rhode Island by mail, and about 100 public meetings large and small (mostly small), and and active discussion in the papers during the past month - have any educational or converting influence, much good seed has been sown. But a large proportion of the voters will have to die and be born again before they can be converted, and the mass of the population (factory operators of Irish and French Canadian extraction) are as incapable of being reached by reason as Choctaw Indians. I have no hope that Rhode Island will become woman suffrage during Mrs. E. B. Chase's life-time, or that of most of us. Now I am going to give my undivided attention to renting or selling my two houses. Your letter has just come to hand naming May 1.as the time of your return. But to do so will be very unwise. There is, as yet, no sign of Spring. The air is harsh and bleak. Snow-drifts are every where. It is as bad as February. - - - H. B. BlackwellApr. 12 1887 Dear Little Alicekin Your letter congratulating Emma and telling of Rachel Foster came yesterday -- I only sent a card this a.m. because I wanted to write more at length. I am surprised about Rachael Foster. I though her a straight forward person -- that there does seem to be something not quite honest, frank, and straight in the whole of item. It is really the dividing characteristics between the two societies but do not let it trouble you dear. If she furnishes a good column, only so much good is done. and if I furnish a great many more good columns, so much more good is done. and the great public does not know of the mean trick behind Miss. Foster. Nevertheless I am disappointed in her and sorry to be so. You need have no fear if over being "gobbled" up -- we can at any time make a statement of the facts which divided us. t leading members of the State societies, and it would be proof of the news of the separation that was made in 1869 -- But on Entirely other grounds and for other reasons I have been thinking that there might be a [?minor] possible -- this is what I have been thinking. Miss Anthony intends to have a great celebration of the [] 40th anniversary of this movement. if after conferring with the auxiliary societies, it was thought best to do so, we might propose to make it a Jubilee anniversary and under the name of "the United Suffrage Societies." with an American Branch and a National Branch which showed each be responsible for the management of its work. But all meeting upon occasion and working together as friendlyGeo. says Luxton's Early is the best pea for Early ones and Haies dwarf morrow also for Early, and the champions of course. I want to have the forms made to come come back Friday to Simonds so that he can have the column ready for the folders Saturday P.M. Make sure about this. -- This family send love always. I dont always put it in. We are all as usual. Howards catarrh seems worse, but then was a thick joy last night [area?] that was may be a reason. -- With ever so much love and with a great desire to see you all and to keep you I am always the same old Stone. I enclosed a cared to go in when I begin on Mr. Harrah. He is very anxious to have the price put on his tract, as I wrote before. My room is sweet with the smell of roses and violets -- We have oceans of roses now. I enclose a orange leaf and a violet -- both sweet, but I must pinch the orange to get the scent 2) societies, and in this way, escaping for the most part any indiscretions which the National Branch might run with -- I mean escape responsibility for their false moves or for their indiscreet ones -- They are now doing very good work as an association, and apparently there is no reason why we should not unite. Besides it would take away the feeling of grievance &c &c &c and on the whole perhaps be best -- I have about come to the conclusion that this will be the best for the cause. You will be glad of any real help any of them give to the cause. Even the worst of them. if you put the cause first of all. If I were starving or freezing, you would be glad if you cared Evening brought me food or warmth. But this is the cause, not of one woman but of all women and of the whole race - It success and prosperity have always been more to me than any personal feeling and any damage to it far more than any personal ill will t, or misunderstanding of myself. So I could always rejoice in good work no matter who did it Try to look at it in this way dear. and let Rachel Fister's little trick go out of sight in the hope of the good t the cause in Penn. I am glad you wrote me about it. and I hope you will always tell me when anything hurts or troubles you. What are mothers for if they cant take the children up when they need comfort? How could the N. J. campaign have cost $4000? I know Ellen Fister charges a great deal and the columns cost too. Well. May be it could not be less. Did Susan B. give anything? Isn't it too bad that the Brown students were so poor in money and in spirit as t be tempted to over Ward 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee ------ For Mayor Augustus P. Martin. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON.do just for hire what they will always despise themselves for doing! I wish Prof Liscomb could find out about it. I was glad you met Miss Kate S. Wells just as you did in the last Journal. It was a pity not to have put Kansas with its great fact. at the head of the column on the [te?]th page last week, with the N. J. defeat lower down. The voting in Kansas was on the 5th. he Journal came out on the 9th, and the first voting by women in a great state could have been made much of. Should have have had a large heading. We never knew how to blow our horn or to make the most of our successes. But then you all had too much to do and so the chance to make much of the Kansas voting was lost. It is too bad -- I am sorry Mrs Soreger got into a row, but it is like her-- More is the pity. I suppose papa is home from Montclair, and I shall soon hear the result. Some of the people who come to our houses should take them. Emma gave up her school today -- it is very hot. thermumeter at 82 -- I thought the Transcript did well to copy papa's article from the Nation -- It shows how much the column is doing if the "Golden Censor" which came yesterday is a specimen. The Transcripts article in your sparring one was not bad. It is time. Mrs.Dersay cleared the kitchen and pantry and the refrigerator and that Mr. Killian whitewashed the kitchen. Tell him that I said he knew when to begin the garden. I wrote about the lettuce seed of 1865 (which is the best) in a paper up or neath the sugar box in the closet between the dining & sitting room. Papa will get peas. George says - see other page Ward 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee ------ For Mayor Augustus P. Martin. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON.(Extracts from letters written from Georgia) Thomasville Ga., Apr. 5, 1887 - - - To-day the Kansas women are voting!!! What a joy it is that the great cleft is made in the triple wall of custom, bigotry and prejudice! To-day's result in Kansas will help Rhode Island to-morrow, and the Cause elsewhere ever after this day. - - - L. S. Mar. 15, 1887 - - - The Topeka Capital with the legal opinion that a wife may keep her maiden name, - - - came yesterday. L. S. Mr. C-s expressed sorrow for his wife would mean much more to me if he had not all his life refused her the things she most wanted, such as books, magazines, and the Woman's Journal. She could only get them by writing and getting pay for what she wrote. At the same time she was cooking for his workmen, making butter and working hard until her discouraged soul weakened her body, and now he marvels at the Providence that did it! And at "her acceptance of the dispensation of suffering," etc. The old skunk! The buzzards ought to get him! L. S.Office of Harry New England Woman Suffrage Association Park Street Boston, Apl. 19 1887 Dearest Luciken. Yours of 16th rec'd proposing to return the last of this month. You know how glad I shall be to have you with us again. And so you will not feel hurt when I beg you on no a/c to do so. Yesterday was a blinding, driving snow storm 3 inches snow fell during the afternoon & night. It was the bleakest roughest storm of the winter. Today the snow is going off but with a chilly East wind. Do not plan to get back to Boston before May 15! June 1 would be far better. For Emma & the children my advice is the same. They & you cannot return without contracting severe colds. Why not find some sulfur spring as far South as possible--that one you wrote of in Florida perhaps, go to Marietta or Northern Pines, or Raleigh,or Richmond Va, or Washington DC, or all of these, travelling liesurely northward & taking hotel accommodations if necessary for a few days - so as to defer a return. Then let Emma & George & the children come back to our house with you where we will give you all a hearty welcome. I enclose a letter from Pinckney & one from Emily. I shall hope to get the deed at Montclair N Jersey sent you for signature & acknowledgement at Montclair N Jersey next Monday AM. I have rented the house adjoining Mr Bleuknisoss for a year at $35 a month [?] water tax to a good tenant - a Mr Whitaker formerly of Pawtucket - RI. We are well, except colds - Mrs Levermore's characteristic letter is enclosed I have called a Com Meeting NEWSA to take action on her request - Yours affy HBBlackwell H.B.B. Office of New England Woman Suffrage Association, 5 Park Street, Boston, Apl. 25 1887. Dearest Luciken On the chance that you may will be in Thomasville Ga I write to say that there is no sense whatever in George & Emma & family going anywhere but to Pope's Hill, if they come North at all. It would be very unsafe to go to Gardner into a cold house without furnace heat. We still keep the furnace going & so can guard them against chill & dampness. I wish you could have gone over (35 miles) to Tallahassee Florida & addressed the Legisla- ture for Woman Suffrage before you came North. I think too that itwould be well to couple with it an educational qualification - Altho it seems a little dull & lonely for you [?] go to the warm Sulphur Springs by yourself, I think you are quite right to go there for two weeks to see how you like it. These come home to a warm welcome back. I am sorry that my unfortunate houses do so drag that I cannot get away. But it seems almost necessary for me to stand by the ship until they are disposed of. We are all well - In haste Yours affy Henry B BlackwellLucy Stone Thomasville Ga. Tuesday Aprl. 18/87 Darling Harrykin Yours with plan of land & Emily's suggestion came last night. I am willing to sell the land on Mountain Ave fr $3.00 an acre. But the land on [Mountain ave] Highland, Ave. I will not sell, [unless we are under obligation to Sulander] at present. The other will give us a good income. There is no need of an ave between, or back of Pinching's lot--unless we were to sell lots, on it. The upper lots on Highland Ave. are much finer then the lots below ie they have much the finest view--and it is for the view that those lots are desired. But I shall be glad to sell all in Mt. Ave. I know too little of Emily;s plan to say anything. In haste t do a little washing and t go t th Negro School Aff- LSWard 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON. Lucy Stone This is [Shelley?] Apr 17 - 87 Dearly Beloved As I wrote you we expect to start home Apr 29 -- and Emma told me this morning [she hoped I] [] "if she could pay my fare to Boston "(which will be just so much additional) as the back rate is the same to N.Y as it is to Boston) She should be very glad to have me go with them. I have had a feeling that I ought to go to help her out. She is a little tender thing and her children tax her and Geo. ten times more than Charles' children tax her. But we shall see. But if we do not go that way I shall go by the 28th to Boston direct -- It has been blazing hot but today it is delightful -- Wednesday I am to meet a few people to see if we can organize a little suffrage centre I shall not urge it, but hope to get one all the same -- I hope papa is at home to rest today -- Why did he "pitch in to give [Russell?] [Lorold?] ? I shall think of you as at [Clats?] tea tomorrow and am glad you will go -- and also I am glad of the other "[??ts]" I will take -- I [??] can go to Clets tea by paying I thought of Papa yesterday at the great pow wow at his Club & hoped he had a good time. Mrs Cowell is to send a postal about dress money -- if she say she cannot do it in the 3d week but that she can do it before that accept her time, but if it is later, then I must get some one else -- With lots of love all well L.S.Ward 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON. 3) 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 Ga-w-d? If you do not believe in Ga-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 &c. As the lesson is geography was about Oregon and the Columbia and the Yellowstone I asked if they had even heard of the geysers and of the Yellowstone park. They knew nothing about them so I told with glee of the geysers in the most graphic way. and of the Park & of the cascades. The whole school lighted up with interest eager and all alive showing how far removed there were from the dull stupid set they appeared to be before the shortly solemn face of their two pious teachers. At last I was asked to address the school and I told them the things to do them good, stir their pride, their hopes their ambition to be as good as the best and their wide open eyes told how well they understood. It seemed a thousand pities to have them just dragged along without aspiration 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 maneuver to get ready to go. I felt as though I could not forgive the teachers for the dreadful way they neglected the chance to lift up a race is pitiful need of help. All the above is privateWard 16. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 5th Aldermanic District, THOMAS N. HART. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIFLD. For Common Council, WILLIAM TUTTLE. WILLIAM B. CUTLER. JAMES P. GORDON.PS Alice & Edie busy with dressmaker All well. Spring is coming at last -- I have no doubt but the change of air coming North will do you all good. Be sure when you leave Savannah to put on your heaviest underclothing & full winter suits. You will need them. Office of New England Woman Suffrage Association, 5 Park Street, Boston, Apl 30 1887. Dear Lucikin Why on earth did not George telegraph to the Steamship line & name the state-rooms he wanted? It is "just come first served" in such cases. Perhaps on the whole it is best that you are coming back by water, but it does seem a pity not to see the country on your return, especially as you are obliged to stay poking for two weeks longer in a place that does not interest you. Mr Whitaker has moved into the house adjoining Mr Blackwell's & will I think make an excellent & reliable tenant. Mr Guillaudeu writes again asking about a small lot adjoining Mr Pinckney's & I have offered it to him at same price $3000 per acre.I have not written much to you for a week past, because I thought the letters would not reach you. I sent you one postal card to Walen Springs Va. Why do you not go over to Tallahassee & get a hearing for Woman Suffrage before the Florida Legislature now in session there? Their bill for liquor-license-woman suffrage gives you the needed opening, & you could at same time urge full municipal & county suffrage on an educational qualification That last clause will gild the pill, because it will exclude the illiterate women, & they feel swamped by the prevailing illiteracy -- Suffrage for women, on an educational qualification like what we have in Massachusetts, would command respectful consideration. We are busy with preparations for festival May 23 at Hotel Vendome & for annual meeting 24 & 25 - Bazaar circulars going off next week. Yours affy HBBBoston, Apr. 30, 1887 Dearest Lucekin, - - - - -. Why do you not go over to Tallahassee and get a hearing for Woman Suffrage before the Florida Legislature now in session there? Their bill for liquor license, woman suffrage gives you the needed opening, and you could at same time urge full municipal and county suffrage on an educational qualification. That last clause will gild the pill because it will exclude the illiterate women, and they feel swamped by the prevailing illiteracy. Suffrage for women on an educational qualification like what we have in Massachusetts, would command respectful consideration. We are busy with preparations for Festival May 23 at Hotel Vendome, and for Annual Meeting 24 & 25. Bazar circulars going off next week. Yours affy H. B. B.