BLACKWELL FAMILY 1890 JAN-AUG LUCY STONE Blackwell, Henry B.Office Of Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No 3 Park Street Sunday, Feb. 16. 1890 [Sunday Feb. 16 1890] Boston Dearly beloved, It is 10.30 o'clock. I hope you are safely at the Migg's. Your faces washed and I'm all ready for breakfast. Having had a good trip and the racking cough of H.B.B. no worse. Mine seems the same. I had one spell of hard coughing for which I took a cup of hot water and was thankful to be where it could be got. Today is bright and clear and sunny. Ethel and her two friends are in the library reading "Terry the Maid" The young men came last evening and they all went to the top of the house to see the star light but the wind soon sent them down. I have this A.M. written Geo. A. O. Ernst to be at the hearing for our petitions on [*it. I shall add a line before this goes to say how my throat is. Hope you both have warm rooms.*]Wednesday the 26th and I shall also ask Geo S. Hale with Miss Greene, that will be enough. The Herald and Globe have each about a third of a column account of Susan’s birthday. It is very good and about right for us to use. I hope you can have a private conference today with Mr. Ferelbe, Mr Howe, J. W. Smith, Mrs. Campbell and a few. in regard to matters - it seems a shame and a pity that I am not there. I think that our meeting tomorrow at 10 o’clock it should be said that I had proposed that for the sake of good feeling all round neither Stanton, Anthony, or I should be president. that Mrs. Anthony had the choice and and that Michael Foster &c. . Now you will have to do of course what seems best at the time and I have great sympathy with and for you in the humiliation which will be poured upon our side - only for the cause, we would not bear. Popes Hill Office of The Woman’s Journal No. 3 Park Street Boston, Feb 18, 1890 Dearly Beloved I sent you a scrap of a note this morning to catch the mail. I having kept in bed till Ethel and her one friend (she had only one last night) were off for school. Now at noon, I only write to say that I think of you and sympathize. Probably you are now listening to Mr. Ferelke who I hope will clear the track after Mrs. Stanton. The papers give very full accounts of Susan’s banquet, the dresses, the trails &c. I shall make an acct of it if you do not send one. Mrs. Stanton is made president and Susan vice so that as Mrs S. is t go away, Susan may preside. You as secretary and Chair Ex. Com maycomplimentary. But in any case it means work if we stick I have had 2 notes from you one mailed in Washington and one on route, which came later than the Washington one. Nothing from you today. While my cough is apparently no worse, it yet gives me dreadful fits of coughing, so I do not know what to do about going on. It is foggy and drizzly and nasty today. I shall see tomorrow. Mary and Michael, the barn and hens are as usual. I fear you may have had a tough time with the enemy. Keep fires in your rooms and be particular now mind to take my cashmere skirt out of the trunk. Shake it out and hang it up, else it will be all in creases and not fit to wear if I come and I shall if I can. Love to all of you L.S. Pope's Hill Feb. 20 1890 Darling dear, The ground is white with 2 inches of snow, which now at 9 o'clock has ceased to fall. My cold sticks though the choking cough is much less. Mr. Vickery's father is dead and they are all gone with the body to Maine and Vickery wont be back till next Tuesday. He called here this morning to tell me and to say he had spoken to White about the Earth and he thought he would do it right, but as there is not much of it, you had better look after it as soon as you come home. The family for the new house were out yesterday with furniture and Michael is to keep a fire store till the final move next Friday. The papers bring daily reports of the meetings at Washington. But I shall expect particulars when you arehome. I feel concerned for your cold - as you have no chance to take care of it. Two notes came from Alice yesterday. I have written to you or Alice every day. I guess the Griggs keeps the letters. There is no news here. Miss Wilde goes on with the Journal and no doubt will have it right. With love and sympathy for both of you. L.S. I believe David Kelly has written another book, which begins with men who have mistresses. Here is what I wrote for a N. Hampshire report. Perhaps it will not be too late to use it.Written to me at Federation of Women's Clubs in April. 1890 Friday morning Darling dear Your letters are here. On the whole I am glad you have no responsibility. Papa is better. The county store moves slowly but nearly all who come buy. We hope now you are away you will see Flo and G.A.P. and comfort Howard. Poor child! How much a strong body is worth! Exzima in the family! Marian used to have it. But what will Emily do about it? Everything is going green [*much love Mamma It rains*]Written to me at Federation of Women's Clubs in April. 1890 Friday morning Darling dear You letters are here. On the whole, I am glad you have no responsibility. Papa is better. The county store moves slowly, but nearly all who come buy. We hope now you are away you will see Flo. and G.A.P. and comfort Howard. Poor child! How much a strong body is worth! Exzima in the family. Marian used to have it, but what will Emily do about it? Everything is going green and the cherry blossoms begin to show their Edges. Your carpet has been up, room cleared. well now the halls are bare. Paint washed and I wish they had new carpets and new paint. The pie plant is up large. I go every day to the Train, and [stay to supper] get supper with Popa and Mr. Whiting orMr. Dudley and then come home by the 10 oclock train. Mr. Garrison says they shall not come to our neighborhood and he Is sorry. Say Frank is the only person out there with whom they have any society but out here, they could have had us, & the Lords, Mays, and Barrows, and he looked sorry. We are all as usual. This is before breakfast. Papa just coming and he coughs as he comes With much love Mamma It rainsWard 14. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 7th Aldermanic District, CHARLES M. BROMWICH. 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, THOMAS COGIN. THOMAS F. BELL. LYMAN LOCKE.H. B. Blackwell No. 2 THE SHOREHAM Washington, D. C. JAS. R. KEENAN, Manager Washington DC Aug 16 1890 Saturday 3.30 PM Dearest Luciken, I wrote you last night from El Mora, a letter which I mailed at Elizabeth at 9.30 PM -- reached this city some time between night & morning -- dressed & made my toilet on the cars -- took breakfast at the St James Restaurant -- then called on Mrs Spofford at the Riggs House -- visited Speaker Reed who boards at "The Shoreham" -- He said he could confer with Pickler & Gifford the representatives of South Dakota before deciding whether to give me a letter to the Equal Suffrage Convention -- I then called at the Capitol & saw A R Spofford -- called on Pickler and [sena] with him went to see Senater Moody and Representative Gifford - who think that the Republican Convention will not venture to take action on the W. S. Amendment -- the other Senator Pettigrew is at New York, but is expected home to-night -- I urged Pickler & Gifford to see Speaker Reed. Pickler did so & expressed his belief that a letter from Reed would be well received & do good. As I have to wait here till tomorrow to see Pettigrew, I have acceptedMr. Spofford's invitation to go out to Rockville (16 miles North) to spend the night -- I shall come in tomorrow (Sunday) forenoon & on tomorrow evening shall resume my journey; reaching Chicago, I suppose, on Tuesday morning -- or possibly on Monday evening. There is no one else here whose name would be likely to weigh much with the South Dakota Convention -- They all say if I can get the note from Reed it will go far towards carrying the Convention. Also that Senator Pettigrew, who is going to the Convention, can carry the Suffrage plank if he tries -- But I am told that he has written already to a lady out there -- (Mrs. Johnson of Highmore]) that he does not think it would be best for the Republican party to endorse the Suffrage Amendment -- I have got from these gentlemen a number of names of delegates friendly to W Suffrage, which may help me at Mitchell -- But the prospect does not look bright to me -- I am well -- Had a good breakfast, lunched [*with Spofford at the Senate restaurant -- got your despatch and letter but the copy of my [lette] Southern letter has not yet reached me -- Love to Alice -- Affy yours. H.B. Blackwell*] A funny thing occurred to me yesterday morning at New York. I breakfasted at a Restaurant on Washington st opposite the market. Beside me on one side was a Post commander G.A R from Staten Island; on the other a very old man who was a soldier in the same post. The post-commander, just returned from Boston, said to me that man beside you is very aged -- which of you is the older? I said - "how old is he"? "88." "Then," I said, -- he is old enough to be my father, for [he] he was 23 when I was born. Well -- he said -- the old man attracted much attention in Boston, & one lady said she should like to kiss him but was afraid he wouldn't like it. So I asked him. "Certainly I would like it" he replied, "I should be happy to return the compliment." He also accepted a challenge from a young man to dance a break down & beat the young man at it so badly that the young fellow felt greatly mortified -- So you neednot feel so high and mighty about your 72 years, for the 16 years this old man has lived beyond that age leaves him hale & hearty and able to visit Boston and march in the procession. Please ask Miss Wilde to mail me to Mitchell 500 Objections Answered and 500 more Elective franchise also to send me by mail if she has one _a copy of the Woman's Journal containing the speeches of Long, Beard, Claflin, Hart, Pillsbury & othersDorchester Aug 16 1890 Darling dear I don't know whether to think of you as at Washington, or as spinning westward. We sent you care of Spoffra, a telegram asking you to go to Mitchell direct . Susan would have left Husom before you reach. We also sent some Enclosures including a letter from Susan. Now, by all means dear next to taking care of yourself, get Susan to send to Wyoming for some of their best men speaker - Nothing can be so good as the testimony of men who have had the practical working of it as Wyoming men have. A man came to the door last evening, said his name was Noble I think. Said he would take the [Whittiham?] house. Asked for you. Said he had seen you. [*This is Aug, 18th, and we are all well.*]that he had thought the rent rather high, but he could find nothing & so would take this. I asked if he had told you what security he had, and he said Yes, that he always paid his rent once a fortnight and had the receipts to show, So today he has got the keys, and I shall make out a lease. Mr. Killian thinks he is a carpenter, but he seemed a common cub. Still, if he will pay once in two weeks, may be it is better than for the place to be idle. Monday morning The man has moved in. I went over to att[??]tic to see how they appeared. I found they had lived ten years in the house where they are. The papers on the Hall. and all round were whole. They have a piano or organ and some good pictures, and are evidently plain, honest, hardworking people. Mrs. Noble said if they could pay $100. and $35. a month the would gladly buy[*PS I have proposed to Capt Tarr that he buy all your land west of Mountain ave 6 acres at $4000. an acre & build houses on it. He will think it over & may take hold of it.*] WORTHINGTON PUMPING ENGINE CO. LONDON. W. A. PERRY C. C. WORTHINGTON E.D. LEAVITT, JR. CONSULTING ENGINEER P.O.BOX 2227 BRANCH OFFICES. BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO. Henry R. Worthington 86 & 88 Liberty Street and 145 Broadway New York, Aug 15 1890 9 P M. El Mora N Jersey Dearest Luciken In 15 minutes I shall leave here for Elizabeth to get aboard the 9 PM Washington Express which is due in Washington at 5 30 tomorrow (Sat 7 AM) I had a pleasant call on Miss Barton at the Hotel Vendome last night. She very cheerfully gave me a letter of which I attach a copy. This morning I reached Grand Central Station after a good night's sleep, took transfer coach to Pa RR Station foot of Courtland St & got rid of my baggage. Called on Harrison & with him looked up his customer a Mr. Soule,-- who declined to pay any such price as we ask for the land or any price unless we agree to carry through Lower Mountain ave, which we cannot do. Collected $121 from Tarr in a check dated Aug 20. -- I enclose it to you payable to your order. Deposite it in North National Bank to credit of your a/c Aug 20 - you will have to write your name below my endorsement. In haste for train, with love to Cub Yours affy Henry B. BlackwellH.B. Blackwell No 1 Dining room 6:30 P.M. Sunday Aug 17 [*1890*] Dear People. It is very hot today. The thermometer at 86 all the A.M. It is now 78. It has been a very quiet day, and the cool breeze at this moment makes it pleasant. Maggie went to church. She still complains of soreness in her legs but she has a good appetite and will soon be all right. Clara came the evening papa left. So I have had her for company. She is not very well, but she is very good. She sleeps in Edith's chamber. Mrs Ferick is to bring into the office on Monday the young woman who is professor of Greek in Kansas University. There are no new developments in the political matters. The Boston Journal notices the letter of Mr. Crendell in our Journal & says it bears the marks of truth. There is very little mention of the case in the Sunday Herald. The county papers hit [?} T.W.H.Alice's good letter written on my birth day reached me last night - Thanks for the good wishes all round - Glad the dress is found - We thought of you today with Uncle Sam and Aunt Elisa arriving, and the [and the] four Blackwell sisters and brothers meeting together for the first time in years. Edith's flesh shows she approves of the Island - I hope the apples will not make them all sick. I fear they were not ripe. and should only be eaten when cooked - The apples at home are very wrong Clara means to stay here till Thursday or Friday. I enclose card and letter. I sent the leaflets Mrs. Collenan asked for but did not answer the letter We are all well. We send best wishes to all L.S. Mrs Batcheller promises another $100. Dining Room Wed. Aug. 20. /90 Darling Harrykin Your good long letter telling us all about your Washington visit and Experience came this morning with one from Sarah Spofford telling us how much they had enjoyed your visit - I think you did everything that could be done. but it looks bad for S. Dakota. The Herald said yesterday morning that you and I had seen the Missippi members with our plan which "they did not like" - But it was an excellent thing to have done all the same. & it was good of Spofford to help you as he did Alice is to go to Mrs. Dietrich on Friday with Lucy Suttury about the Washington programme. and they will stay over Sunday. Emily has gone today to Newport to see a patient. and she leaves tomorrow for Berkshire. not shortening her stay on acct of your absence. she asked me to take Cornilea for 2 years, as we have had Ethel. so that she can attend Mrs. Allens gymnasium and learn to teach the system. I hated to do it. just because I do not know how to take extra burdens. and 2ndbecause Cornelia is not pleasant or agreeable to me. as Ethel is. But I said she might come for I saw that Emily was at her wits end to know what to do with the child. and to let her teach this system of gymnastics, Emily says, is the only thing she can think of that Cornelia can do, by which she can be sure of an occupation. I gave up the idea of keeping Lizzie because it seemed as if I could not have the care of so many. But Alice says her advice is to keep Lizzie who would be a real help. so it is not settled about Lizzie. I fear I have made a great blunder about the Whittaker house. That wild looking man who came to see you. with Mr. Davis is in with the whole family of eight. They said they had lived ten years in the same house at Atlantic Had paid the rent every fortnight and had the receipts & the old lady, the mother who is the head of the house seemed like an honest woman. They had a piano. and an organ. and good clean mattresses and a nice carpet for the parler. But I found the sons wife there with 3 dirty children and the grocer told me to beware of them. as they were very slow about paying their bills - But we shall see. [*OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 3 PARK STREET. Boston,............188*] There was an awful accident on the R.R. at Quincy. yesterday 17 people were killed and 40 wounded. It was a Wood's Hole train, and one family of six were all killed. It is so near, it seems shocking - I have got $265. pledged for the Woman's Journal. So you need not be anxious about that. I am trying to get five years pledges, as in five years something must change We are sending off the waste paper today - It rains, so it is just as well for Mr. Killian to be in the House. The water was [to be] let into the Manning House yesterday. So, I suppose they will be moving in. We are all well as usual. My heart steadily better - you are always spoken of at every meal. and thought of a great many times between. You will need to be wise as a serpent out there. There are two factions, and you will be between two fires. and I fear you will find it [*NATIONAL WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. DEPARTMENT OF FRANCHISE. MRS. SUSAN S. FESSENDEN, Supt. MRS ZERELDA WALLACE, MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, Asso. Supt. MRS MARY E. HAGGART, LECTURERS. Malden, Mass.,...............189*]hard in other ways. bad food, bad beds, so try to take care of yourself - It does not seem to me it is worth your while to stay long for special meetings. as there is not a ghost of a chance to succeed We are in the height of corn & beans and tomatoes. and blackberries. The baked apples every morning call for you. but Emily & Lissie eat them - With much love - yours always Lucy Stone Dining room sat Aug. 30 1890 Dear Harry, Geo. walked in this A.M. about 9 o'clock. took a bag of Bartlet Pears. had a little talk. and then at one o'clock he and Alice started for the Vineyard. Alice will go to the cliff house. as more convenient to [reach to] go to both the other houses. she may propose to stay till Wednesday. so as to be back to get the paper out. She needs rent, but she wont take it. We have sent a lot of literature to Mississippi. The opening there is wonderful. I almost feel young at the thought of it - Miss Allen has the whole of our part of the parlor for her work. cutting, sewing, making with 4 women to help - Mr. Morrison has got out a card to take to N.Y. whither he goes on Monday to say that he is the "business Manager." told Hattie it would give him prestige There is a good deal of call for the houses. The catholic priest was here yesterday inquiring about both houses. and he had hardly left whentwo young women came up from Neponset about the Whittaker House - If you were here, we should easily rent and perhaps sell. The Quiltie house goes as well & so do the two large ones below Mr. Prott. Your letter, after the convention is here. Glad you had a good a chance in it - Of course. Miss Hindman who is a discreet woman did not not approve of the disrupting of the old society. and of course those who did that will talk against her. but she does good work as an organiser and she leaves no bad oder after her. You must let us know where you are to speak. That we may write you. Lizzie is still here. I have written her aunt about her staying on with us, but have not her answer. Next Monday is Labor day. so the office will be shut as it is a holiday. We are having pleasant weather. and we are all well. Ever aff. yours L.S. Mrs. Adkinson went to Plymouth yesterday with ticket sent to us. [*OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston, 188*]Sat. P. M. Aug. 30th [1890] I wrote you this morning. so there is nothing special to add, only as Miss Wilde wants an answer. But you had better send the answer to me. The mail brought a great batch of letters. Mrs. [Danicey?] writes that the Women of Washington are to fight for their rights - an [Arkinsas] Arkansas woman writes to know if we cant help Mississippi. Mrs. Hewatt writes that she can not come. The Times Democrat sends Ohio [*you ought to have a letter at Highmore tomorrow from Alice. My mother is 111 years old tomorrow.*]five dollars for a poeres. If Mrs. Curtis is to write hundreds of letters it seems to me it would be better to stereotype a form and use that. as a saving of time and money. She seems so much interested it is a pity she is not more welcome by the leagues. I wrote to Mr. Micah Dyer about Mrs. Allen's house but he declines to pay her back her $500. says he will help her sell it. I see the Dakota papers praise your speech very much. I know it was all deserved. You have a lot of postal cards addressed to me. Drop one every day.[H.B.B.] Library of Congress Aug 18th Washington, Monday 12th, 1890 Dear Lucy I could not find Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota on Saturday, nor could I get a decisive answer from Speaker Reed to my request for a letter endorsing W. S. amendment until he should confer with the Dakota representatives. So I accepted Mr. Spofford's invitation to go out to Rockville Md., 16 miles north of Washington to spend Sunday-- Mr & Mrs Spofford and Florence are boarding at a very quiet and comfortable private boarding house 1 mile from Rockville Station, under lofty trees, in the edge of the village -- we sat under the trees & had good cosy talks. I took a drive Saturday evening & a longer one on Sunday afternoon. (Spofford keeps his horse and carriage at a livery stable there) Sarah seems about as usual -- the old cough and seeming fragility, but cheerful, lively & full of interest -- Florence is fast regaining her strength & weight - Mr Spofford thin, somewhat haggard & careworn, but prompt, cheerful & efficient as ever. Today I have had a long talk with Pettigrew who doubts the wisdom of putting a W.S. plank into the platform either for the sake of Suffrage itself or for the Rep party. he thinks that the Republicans who are opposed to W S would vote against Suffrage at the polls all the same, & that individual independents and democrats who are personally in favor would be more likely to vote against if if it was made a republican party issue. Several of the German (Russian) Counties have instructed the delegates to the Rep State Convention to oppose the W.S. Amendment, & the Republicans fear they will lose the legislature if the Russians & Scandinavians go over to the Democrats. All I can hope from Pettigrew is that he will not oppose our getting the W.S. plank. Yet he is a sincere suffragist & gave $100 at the [?] meeting to the W.S. Campaigns fund. I shall go to Chicago tonight reaching there tomorrow evening. Before I close this letter I will tell you the result of my work here. Last week's paper, W.J., which I find here at the Library, looks very well. I hope the Cub will let Mrs. Adkinson get out the paper of Aug 30, while she goes down to the Vineyard & I wish that you could go there for a week with her. Change of air & scene & discontinuance of routine will do you both good every way. I hope that Emily will not cut short her stay at Pope's Hill on account of my absence. If any people apply for houses, I would ask for yours (the Whittaker house) $4500, $300 down; and for Emily's new house corner of Neponset ave & Sewall st $5000, $500 down. In either case terms of payment to suit the buyer. 60 percent of price in a first mortgage @ 5 years - with 5% a year. the remainder in small monthly payments to meet their wishes secured by a 2d mortgage. I shall look for a letter from you at Mitchell. Your letter & despatch & pkge slips recdfor all of which I am thankful. 4PM. Well I have seen Speaker Reed again and he declines to give me a letter. He says he has so large a load to carry in the direct line of his duty that he does not think it best to go out of natural course to volunteer an expression of opinion on a question which South Dakota must settle for herself-- Mr Spofford did a brave and kind thing for me this afternoon. He introduced the subject to the(?) delegation and got them to go with him and me in a body into a committee-- room, where I read them the last part of my editorial slip- "Educated Women suffrage in (?) with the facts and figures- It was well received- several members expressed themselves in its favor, two opposed, but all were interested. They advised me to send it the convention at Jackson and took copies of it which they promised to show to their friends and talk it up. I wish you would write to Mr Spofford thanking him for his efficient help. Mrs H.B Blackwell Let me know from day to day how you are and whether your heart- trouble returns and how much-- Ever yours HBB OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston, Aug. 21 18[8]90 Harry dear There was no letter from you this A. M. Emily has just been carried to the station, on her way to Berkshire - The family that came into the Whittaker house have moved out. I told them, I was sure from what they told me, that they would find it hard to pay the rent, and that it would be better all round if they would look for another place. They took it kindly, and today they go out. The mother will wash it out and leave it as clean as they found it - I charge nothing for the few days they were in. You will be soon at Mitchell [*Let us know how to direct to you after Mitchell*]but it seems to me that after what the Dakota members of Congress told you, there is small chance to carry Dakota - and that you may well be excused from any protracted stay. Alice's disturbance of bowels has not ceased, and she is taking the chalk mixture. She is not by any means sick - only that she has a disturbance. Mrs. Adkinson has gone in today (which is Thursday) to see if she can help with getting the Journal off. Those Quaker Stephens or Stephensons at Trenton have sent yesterday a check for $50 to us for Susan B. A. which was sent on. We are all well, the weather pleasant, and every thing going on quietly. We hope you can be well housed & fed, and not made sickly by the water or anything. Ever aff L S 12 M Canton So Dak Thursday Aug 21 1890 Dearest Luciken. Last evening quite an adventure happened to me. We stopped at Spencer 25 minutes for supper. The hotel was 5 minutes walk from the cars. The supper was not promptly served. I ate hastily & watched for a notice that time for train was up. None came. I looked at my watch. 20 minutes had elapsed since I left the platform. I walked quickly thither & with two other passengers saw the train disappearing in the dim distance, carrying with it my valise & your silk umbrella and Alice's story?] "We two". No other train for 12 hours. Nothing left for me but to have a dispatch sent forward to the Conductor to gather up my traps & leave them for me at Sheldon. Then very mad I took a walk with one of my belated fellow passengers - a teacher named Greenwood, an old friend and schoolmate of Solomon Whiting, around the dull little prairie town & then took a good night's sleep, a comfortable breakfast, boarded the westward train at 8 AM & at Sheldon recovered my valise & umbrella, but "We two", the paper covered story,failed to materialize. At noon, I cross a small river & find myself on the plains of South Dakota. The Chicago papers with a fuller list of the victims of the Quincy disaster give the name of one named Stone of Somerville but as the initials are different, my fears are relieved. Mitchell 830 P M. I arrived here safely at 3 P.M. Miss Anthony not here yet. The President of the local woman suffrage society here Rev Mr. Atkinson reports little interest & much opposition among the citizens. His wife, with whom I had an hour's talk is evidently in sympathy with Mrs Barker and not with SBA. Three persons whom I have questioned as to the state of the cause express a dislike of SBA. Evidently she has arrayed the state pride of many workers against her methods. But the Rev Mr Wyerd (Cong C) says that equal suffrage will have a majority in this Co. He is an active republican & a delegate to the Convention. His impression is that the German Russians hold the balance of power in this fall election. They have acted with the Republicans, in spite of the Republican advocacy of prohibition, which they disapprove, but are much more strongly opposed to woman suffrage. If they make a determined opposition to a suffrage plank, it will be defeated in the Convention for fear that they may secede to the democrats. He thinks we may get a plank giving us more support, if not too explicit & will aid us to get all we can. This evening I have a despatch from S.B.A. that she will arrive at noon tomorrow (Friday). I have just received your good letter of 16th Inst. I think you were wise to rent the house to Noble at $35 a month. He of course must pay the water tax of $1 per month. If he will pay $100 down & $35 a month on the principal beside the 5 per cent interest, I would sell it to him. But if the interest is to be taken out of the $35, the payment would be too small to make a sale wise. Better let it stand as it is till I get back a few weeks hence. Am sorry to hear of Alice's illness, but glad you & she are better. Affy yours Henry B BlackwellAlex. Mitchell Hotel, Tom Brunson Prop. Mitchell S. Dak. Aug 22 1890 Dearest Luciken I wrote you last night on receipt of yours of 18th Inst. This morning is again cold and clear & I am beginning to plan for the Suffrage Convention of the 25th & the Rep Convention of the 28th Inst. I fear that it was a mistake to have called the Suffrage Convention here & now. It looks like an attempt to muddle with & coerce the actions of the Republicans, who are anxious & worried with the 3d party movement and in a mood to resent any outside interference. The people of Mitchell I am told don't like it & don't want it, as their hospitalities will be severely taxed by the one thousand Rep delegates & on-lookers and don't feel able or willing to stand the double labor of what will be practically two parallel conventions. They have generally refused the Suffrage committee of arrangements any countenance or cooperation. From conversation with Revs Atkinson & Wyerd (Meth & Cong) the latter one of the leading politicians of the County. I feel surethat a direct and binding endorsement of the Const Amendment we are not at all likely to get. But I hope, with good management we may get a friendly woman's plank carrying with it the moral effect of cooperation. What we must, if possible, avoid is nagging or forcing an unsuccessful contest on the floor of the Convention. What we want on the part of the Republicans is the spirit of friendship & cooperation, and this is not to be had by any bitter controversy or contest. People are unquestionably sore here on account of the quarrel between SBA & the Barkers, also on account of the effort made (with only partial success) to get the endorsement of the Farmers' Alliance, which is hostile to the Republicans. I shall try to pour oil on the troubled waters & to counsel moderation all round & to get a hearing before the platform committee as soon as that is appointed. In regard to the occupant of the Whitaker house, I am not sure but it will be to sell him the house, if we can get reasonable terms of payment. I should take a 5 years note & 1st mortgage at 5 years for $3000 with 5 % int payable semi-annually, and another note with the largest monthly installments possible secured by 2d mortgage also with int on deferred payments at 5 percent payable semi-annually. If you can, let the decision & settlement rest until I get home & meanwhile let him pay his $35 rent - Love to Alice. Ever yours Henry B BlackwellAug. 28 (1890) Dear Harry Yours telling us of the unfortunate swede &c came this morning My last letter to you was sent to Mitchell. I had sent one before to [H?]. Let us know how to send. We are both well. Alice came up yesterday for Mrs. Dietrich - and she means to go Saturday to the Vineyard for 6 weeks - I am so rejoiced over Mississippi - I believe they will really establish W.S. I have sent them literature and 2 letters to a member. M. Denny who wrote for statistics. I wrote you about this in another letter sent to Mitchell - if course, on the ground, you can judge whether it is best, to speak for the Republicans. But there is so little hope there. and so little money. it seems as if half the speakers had better go away Geo came and looked at the King Stland, and went on to Orange. He said the King St property would be long before he could realise on it - a woman came yesterday to see if you would build her a house, but as she could pay only $100. down. and as she has only $400. a year it did not seem a very bright prospect for a house - I think we have had all your letters. but now we are in doubt about where to send to you The check that Geo sent for $700. the bank took for deposite. as you were not here to endorse it. and as I do not know that we need to draw. perhaps that is just as well. Emily said they cancelled her indebtedness. I thought she owed twice as much - you did not enclose the Mississippi telegram. This poor little letter does not measure the love this house holds for you. You did right by the swede poor thing. Alice is up getting the paper out today always aff Lucy Stone [*OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston, 188*]9 a m Mitchell So. Dak Aug 27 1890 Dear Luciken Yesterday was a busy day, Mine ended at 2 AM this morning. We have made the best fight we could before the Platform Committee and have failed. The platform will contain nothing on Equal Suffrage. It is a question how far it will endorse prohibition. But the ladies have been twice heard and Annie Shaw has covered herself with glory. She addressed the Convention by invitation during a wait in the proceedings last evening & brought down the house in an admirable twenty minutes speech. If a vote of the Convention could have been had then & there, Miss Shaw could have carried almost everything. But the manipulation of the managers has been too shrewd to be overcome. There is a better & determined opposition to W S by the worst element of the party & the representatives of the foreign voters. The Boston Remonstrants have flooded the various headquarters with their anonymous Remonstrance & had a tall dude in a canvass helmet at the door to the Convention distributing it to every delegate. We distributedthe WS Leaflet [so the?] Elective [Franchise?] at the door to almost every delegate. We don't expect [?] [?]fight will be made on the floor or that if made it could succeed. The settled sentiment of the Convention (even of a majority of the Suffragists in it) is against naming it on the platform. We have made a great many friends among the delegates who will help us hereafter in the canvass. But we shall have to fight our fight again here as hitherto outside of past lives. I will write a fuller report of the Convention if possible this afternoon. I am well. Love to Alice whose pleasant letter from Wyoming. reached me yesterday, & believe me dearest darling [?] Yours afy Henry B. Blackwell. P S Tomorrow I shall start on my tour of meetings. * OFFICE OF * The Woman's Journal, No. 3 PARK STREET, Dorchester [Boston,] Sept. 21 1890 Dear Harry This is Sunday, only Lissie and I in the house. Alice went yesterday with Lucy [Sutley?] to spend a week at the Cliff House. more to give Lucy a treat than to give Alice an outing but under the pretence of an outing for Alice and of course she will get a change. Thursday evening Geo. & Lissie and the 2 little girls walked in, having come one day earlier than they expected. They staid two nights. and left yesterday P.M. Geo consulted the Dr. about his throat. paid ten dollars and did not get much satisfaction. The Dr. told him he needed more meat. and less of cereals - They will stay at Gardner 2 weeks. All his houses are rented but 2 and he has sold several lots - The Catholic priest is in the Whittaker house. and there are calls for the new house of Emily. I hopeand her husband & Ethel are coming on Wednesday - Ellen comes the next week and Lissie's aunt is to be here on the 26th with one of her friends - Mr. Peck paid only $50. Neither Kimball or Pomeroy have paid anything. I had to use your check $100. I believe this is all about business - your letter from Aberdeen came last night. I hope you found our letters there for we sent several there. Miss [Suttony?] writes that she thinks the Amendment will carry. but from your letters we do not think there is any hope of it. We are sending leaflets and the colum, and I am sending [Pelli?]. to Nances that are sent me. We have done everything that can be done for Mississippi - We do not know when the convention ends - They are having "hot time, and they have voted that the convention is sufficient for itself. and will make the constitution and adapt it for the state so it need not be sent to the people at all. After a most deplorable week of bad weather. it is now lovely. The bad weather had (2 [?ied] the Vineyard, as well [?] Geo. & Co. found it so much pleasanter here. where the good weather had just come. He said he thought this about the pleasantest place he ever went to. They have about made up their minds to keep the little girl they have [adopted] tp them - They feel the need of giving [?] for the sake of Geo. There is a great deal of political news. All the conventions being held just now. and of course the [pet?] [?] hard. We are all pretty well. Mary has not come back & the other girl went last nightLissie helps - and she is nice help. We shall be very glad to have you back dear. and I am sure you will be glad to get here where your clean clothes and your good [w?] with all of us assist you. The grapes are just getting ripe. Dear Harry. as we do not know where to send to you after Mitchell - I will day by day jot down the family news at least. This is Friday the 22 - Alice and Lucy Anthony have gone today to Mrs. Dietrich to stay till next Wednesday - Emily left yesterday for Pittsfield and a card received says she arrived safely. Alice's bowels are nearly well, but she went away very tired. The rest will do her good - A tall handsome woman came here yesterday and asked if I was "Woman's [?]." Then she told me she was Mrs. Goggins in one of our houses. She said her husband beat her and so mistreated her. that she thought she should have to leave. He told her yesterday morning that the grocer should not call there again and that she should never do a stroke of work for him again. She said she furnished the house, bought the parlor and bed room suit and all the beds and bed & table linen, and she wantedwanted to take her own things with her. I asked her if he would not be sorry & ashamed and try to make it up with her. But she said "when a man has beaten you, you dont feel as if you want to live with him" - I advised her to do all that was right herself etc etc. She said she would come up to see me today. This after noon Mrs. Adkinson & June and two of her visitor are to drive. & Saturday the adopted daughter of E.D Doper comes to sleep and spend part of the Sunday morning - Michael is picking pears. The day is lovely. A letter you [?] show dated the 18th. Says the committee were at that moment laying out the [?] for you and other lectures. short time, too short for good notice - My heart is steadily better. Lissie very good - Miss Wilde got your Mississippi circulars off very promptly. and asked me to say, she had been very glad to see your handsome hand writing always aff Lucy Stone [*OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston, 188*]Mitchell South [Dak?] Aug 27/90 Dearest Luckin The Republican Convention meets this morning - We have appointed a Committee of Seven (of which I am one) to confer with the Platform Committee of Repub Convention, express the views of the Suffragists and ask for such recognition as may be wise and timely - But I have not much hope of getting any recognition - We shall see. I enclose paper with report of the 2d day of the Convention. Please change the [phrase?] of the resolution "that governments are just only when they rest on the consent of the governed to "that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" - the latter being the exact language of the Declaration of Independence I have sent your cut out from the Ruralist a list of my appointments as made for me before I got here - If I am needed at home, I will cut off the list at [Heerose?] Sept. 21st & have the Committee make other appointments for me - If any changes are made I will at once advise me - If you allow say one week from the day you mail the letter you will be sure to reach me, as letters get here to Mitchell on the 4th day from Boston - We hold our closing meeting in the CourtHouse this morning. So I write in haste. I am well thanks to Alice's thoughtful kindness in providing me with the Chalk mixture which is an excellent remedy for diarrhea. In haste, ever yours, HBBlackwell Audience last night 1000 people 2/3 women.THE DAILY REPUBLICAN THE WEEKLY CAPITAL BUSINESS DEPARTMENT OF The Mitchell Printing Co. Mitchell, South Dakota...........189 H.B.Blackwell Note Aug 27th 90 Mitchell So Dak Aug 26, 1890 Dearest Luce Keu We had excellent meetings yesterday afternoon and evening -- the evening audience about 700 including a good many Republican delegates. Mrs Colby not appearing, I had most of the evening to myself and made a good speech well received. I enclose the resolutions, the programme, and the report of this morning's Republican -- the resolutions should go in [?], also the letter from Hon E B [T??yler] chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives [of U S Congress] From these,Mrs Adkinson or yourself can make up a good Report. I will send further details to-morrow. I am well + I am glad you got rid of the undesirable tenants so easily. When I get home, I will "hustle round" as they say here, + get the house sold or rented. I shall stay here longer or shorter time, as I find my stay likely to be useful and as you + Alice need me at home. I am well + growing daily better - You had better [?put] in and Keep standing the different [?lists]of appointments which I endorse from the Ruralist which is the best source f information at present - Mrs. Anthony is only tolerably well liked here - Mrs. Shaw is the favorite and next to her is Mrs. Howell and Mrs. Johns. Olympia Brown is here and Matilda Hindman who has made herself very unpopular among the fellow workers by her growling and pessimism and sensitiveness to imagined slights. But she is doing good work in her own way in the field. Dear Lucy, I think of you every day I wish you could be here without fatigue or exposure to meet these fresh, sympathetic, young Western audiences which are our inspiration. Ever yours affectionately, Henry B. Blackwell P.S. Love to Alice. I am proud she has gone to Wianno - S.B.A. made a very pleasant reference to you last evening.Office of The Woman's Journal No. 3 PARK STREET Boston, Aug. 25 1890 Dearest I have your 2 letters from Mitchell and here at the office, have only time to say we are all well Alice writes she has wholly recoved - But the true thing to tell you is that we have this morning a letter from a member of the Mississippi Constitutional Convention asking for Literature and saying "The proposition on this matter has been submitteed t the Convention" Now is not that wonderful and magnificent! I have sent them Pellen and Miss WidesMitchell South Dak. Aug 24, 1890 Sunday afternoon Dearest Luicikin - On leaving the sleeping car at Mitchell this morning at 7am, I met Mrs Carrie May Chapman just arrived from Iowa - There are now here, of outsiders, Miss Anthony Miss Shaw, Miss Hindman, Mrs Chapman, Olympia Brown, & myself - Miss Shaw preached this morning at the M E Church an excellent sermon. In spite of rain the church was full. Miss Brown, I am told, presented in the Baptist church - This evening Miss Shaw is to preach in the Congregational Church & Father OHare is to speak for WS at the Court House - I have got all my leaflets folded & prepared for distribution at the Convention "The Elective Franchise" - I have quite a family here unexpectedly on my hands - Last night a coarse, rough Swedish woman with four small children, and a baby 6 months old came into the Station at Canton trying to work her way to her husband at Seattle WT. - She seemed lost and almost in despair - I came away, feeling guilty at leaving the wretched little crowd in such distress - Today at 3 PM she came along & I have promised to help her out to get a [*letter from Lucy Stone*] sent a set of leaflets and a letter. I have also written and suggested that (instead of having women (as proposed) write their ballots and then have some man cast it) a separate polling place should be made for Women - Oh! how much I wish they would do it! The North ought t be shamed by this act[ion] of the South Geo. has just been in. He means t run out and see the land on King St. and then go on to Orange tonight - I asked him t stay over with us but he thought best to go on - Now I have to go. Be very cautious of your liks. Better say too little than too much. Yours always Lucy Stoneticket through to Seattle –– she has $15 & I add $20 & she is to send it back to me if ever she is able, which is extremely doubtful. It seemed to me positively inhuman to see a woman so burdened & destitute in a strange land. Tomorrow at 9 am our convention will begin with a private council of war at Mrs Robinson's house –– [a] public meetings in the afternoon and evening & on Tuesday afternoon & evening –– I would [firstly?] return home at once, but fear I shall have to give the campaign 30 days of stumping. If the Republicans give us any kind of a plank I think I shall do more good to go on the stump for them, with the privilege of talking my suffrage speech, with Rep campaign at beginning & close. I enclose a telegram from Mississippi, which shows that my dose is beginning to take effect –– It will be a most admirable thing to get even property proxy woman suffrage in Mississippi –– For it will forever break down the sex line – it will lead thousands & tens of thousands of men to put property in their wives' name. It will make voting women a privileged class, & women will become proxy voters in large numbers. It will stimulate negro women to get property so as to become voters like white folks –– Of course we dont ask for anything less than Woman suffrage on an educational qualification –– Yet this may prove a still better beginning because it will make suffrage fashionable. Yrs affy H B Blackwell Sioux Falls, South Dak., [*8-23-90*] (Proposed Resolution) The Republican party is mindful of its obligations to the brave and faithful women of South Dakota who have shared with the men in the labors and privations of pioneer life, for their noble devotion to God and home and native land; we welcome them to the privileges and responsibilities of Statehood; we recognize the right of every Republican to a free expression of opinion on every public question; and will hail the day when the cultivated interest and enlightened conscience of woman will find direct expression at the ballot box. (The Ex Com of ESA approved yesterday of my trying to get this revolution in & of my coming to Sioux Falls to see Senator Pettigrew & others __ HBB)H.B.B. HBB Sioux Fall SD Aug 23/90 Saturday Aug. 23, 1890 Darling Harry, You are now probably at Mitchell, in the midst of the convention and I hope you are well. Your letter mailed at Prairie D. Cheine came this A. M. While we were at breakfast and has quieted us all your letters are though there were only Lizzie and me Alice went yesterday with Lucy Anthony to Mrs. Dietrich t stay till Wednesday the 27th to plan up the programme for the Washington convention. Geo sent you a check for Emily which I am to deposite today. Geo. himself will will come to Boston Monday on his way to [Port?] Orange. His horse is dead. Miss Wilde got off all your circulars at once. She got help and I have no doubt mailed slip to the the papers if you asked her to Miss Allen is busy fixing costumes, &c &c for her pageant Arthur Carter is lying dead at the house where his father lives - Mr. Hinckelys mother is also dead - We [?] to table full last night. Mrs. Mansferd and Miss [*about what you say to Susan or to anyone about any difficulty among the friends out there.*]Johns as for Indianapolis with Mrs Adkinson and June. Tonight S.D. Draper's adopted daughter is t come. I have heard no more than Mrs. Soffin and hope they have settled the trouble. It was very hot here yesterday, but today the thermometer is only at 65. I am glad you put on warm clothes as you need the flannel under clothes. I think you will not suffer. I believe I wrote you that Emily had asked me to take Cornelia for 2 years as I do Ethel and I have consented with the feeling that I ought not to take the added care but that for Cornelia's sake I consented. The reports of the Mississippi Convention are interesting but at present, show no result. One negro said to have been a slave of Jeff. Davis is a member of the convention. I will enclose you some slips. My heart gets better but my rheumatism was very bad yesterday. My whole right leg in misery. It is better today. Lizzie is good as ever. Michael picking pears. Lizzie goes every day for the mail while Alice is away and she goes t the old South lectures. We are very snug and comfortable. Your clean clothes are in the drawer. Your bed all made and the room looks inviting compared with what you will find out there. Pray be cautious. [*The Woman's Journal,*] Sioux Falls South Dak. Aug 23 1890 Dearest Luciken, Alice's cheerful letter of 19th following yours of 18th both have been like rays of sunshine on a cloudy day. Cloudy indeed, so far as the prospect of Republican endorsement or success at the polls go. I have now interviewed five delegates of the Rep. Convention - all influential names given me at Washington - three of them friendly to W.S; two of them opposed to it; all of them absolutely decided against endorsing the Constl Amdt -- The fact is, I fear, that 3/4ths at least of the men of the State are set against Woman Suffrage, and the politicians are aware of the fact and are afraid to touch it. One of the delegates interviewed today told me that personally he would like a square resolution opposing woman suffrage & that he believed that it would receive a three-fourths vote of the Rep. Convention -- In one aspect, things here aremuch like Rhode Island in the Amendment Campaign—Prohibition has been put with the Constitution by an organized effort, & now a great many, who voted for it without really expecting it to carry, would be glad to get it out again—We shall meet the full force of this ebb tide against Prohibition— and the prohibitionists themselves will oppose W.S. for fear it may lead to a revolt against both & put the State into the hands of the Democrats who are opposed to both—I am trying to get a moderate plank patting the women on the back & paving the way for Republican help in the future when the exigency is less alarming than now. If I can get anything, I shall be happily disappointed. I came over here from Mitchell yesterday to see the four influential delegates & also Senator Pettigrew. But the Senator is not yet back from Washington, so I return today to Mitchell leaving a note for him, enclosing a copy of the proposed resolution asking him for his cooperation. Like Alice I have had a touch of diarrhea, but have got over it without medicine—I shall take good care of myself—Thermometer at 40 night before last & today a dashing pouring rain. Affy yours H B Blackwell PHILENA EVERETT JOHNSON, PRESIDENT. WILL F. BAILEY, SECRETARY. E S A JUSTICE EQUALITY SOUTH DAKOTA Equal Suffrage Association. HEADQUARTERS, ROOM 9, HILLS' BLOCK Huron , South Dakota. Aug 29, 1890. (En route for St Lawrence tonight) Dearest Luciken The enclosed almost illegible [Article] [letters] [from So] article headed "Letter from South Dakota" had better go in as an editorial next after yours. It will please the South Dakota friends & workers & it might be well to send a marked copy stamped "Please note & quote" to the principal newspapers of the State of So Dak. I will mail from time to time descriptions of my meetings. Please address me [car] to the various towns which I am to visit. If I am needed at home, let me know & I will break off my meetings & come home. The Secretary of the Rep State Central Com at the instigation of Deckler invites me to speak as a Republican to Republican Campaign meetings. If I do this & can thus bring W S. directly to the Rep voters, it may be important for me to remain here as long as I can be spared at home. Let me know, please, just how you feel about this. My first duty is to you & Alice But if I find that I can really exert a strong influencehere at these political meetings of the Republicans I think it may turn the scale for the Amendment With love to the Cub I am Ever yours H B Blackwell PS The enclosed was written on the cars and is not quite up to standard, but the printers can make it out. Please mail me 100 Objections Answered and 100 The Elective [Frauduxe?] to each of my places where meetings are appointed, allowing a week — Write on wrappers "to be called for." HBB Huron SD Aug 29/90HBB Woonsocket SD Woonsocket So Dak Aug 29/90 Aug 29/90 Dearest Luciken I send you paper containing the proceedings of the Rep State Convention - while the platform is silent on the WS question - a large majority of the Convention was in favor & only a trick of the temp. chairman, Sol Star of Deadwood, a whiskey politician, prevented our friends from having a majority on the platform committee But the courtesy of the Convn in inviting the women to [adansstteern?] & in calling out Aussie Shaw at a subsequent Session to the endorsement of Woman Suffrage by Major Pickles in his speech after renomination showed the sentiment- The woman suffrage cause made hundreds of votes in the Convention & if we manage discreetly I think we shall ge substantially the cooperation of the Republicans for the Amendment. I received your letter of 25th giving the good news of your own improved health, of Alices recovery, & of the letters from the Constitutional Convention of Mississippi I think it would be a good plan to send every member of the Constitutional Convention three or four leaflets - say The Elective Franc[hise][Franc]hise, Objections to WS answered, The news of It, W.S in Wyoming & WS in Kansas. The whole South is watching Mississippi, & if women are allowed to vote on an educational or even on a property qualification it will be followed ere long by every Southern State & the Rest of the North will then have to take it up on our wider basis. I like these people & their climate at present is heavenly, except that the nights are too cool & grow cold by daybreak. But the air in so dry that there is no chill in the air. I have a slight touch of catarrh but not much. I should not be surprised if the Suff Amendment. should be carried if we can raise the means to keep the speakers in the field—Those now holding daily meetings are Olympia Brown, Laura Johns, Julia Nelson, Mrs Devoe, Rev Mr Adkisson & occasionally Miss Anthony & Mrs Alice M Pickler. Miss Cleta Leetz is a Dak woman who is doing much good as a speaker. Will C Bailey is the right man [*man in the right place—In haste Yours truly H. B Blackwell*]St Laurence So Dak Aug 30/90 Dearest Luciken, I received last night your letter addressed to me at Huron, Aug 23, I forwarded from there to me at St Lawrence. I had a small meeting last night – not over 50 present, in consequence of insufficient notice & also, I fear, in a want of earnest interest on the part of the men – I enclose a notice of proceedings and action taken - today I go to Miller to speak at 4pm & at 5pm I go to Faulkton to spend Sunday where I shall speak twice in churches. Mrs Pickler has made the arrangements – I am sorry to hear of the return of your rheumatism. I do believe that this climate would help you – It is a succession of brilliant sunshiny days with an elastic, dry, bracing air and a little refreshing breeze the nights are glorious, cool, dry, delicious air equal to that of Martha's Vineyard but without its moisture. Now that the intense heat is over the climate is simply perfect – Why not come out & join me & let us see this campaign through. Leave the housekeeping for Bridget, or Mary, or both, to carry on let Alice & Mrs Adkisson run the paper. It seems to you a formidable thing to leave home & comfort, but really there is no hardship in riding on the Pullman cars You have almost all the way a dining car attached.from these to me at St Lawrence. I had a small meeting last night—not over 50 present, in consequence of insufficient notice & also, I fear, in a want of earnest interest on the part of the men—I enclose a notice of proceedings & action taken. Today I go to Miller to speak at 2 PM & at 5 PM I go to Faulkton to spend Sunday where I shall speak twice in churches. Mrs Pickler has made the arrangements. I am very sorry to hear of the return of your rheumatism. I do believe that this climate would help you—It is a succession of brilliant sunshiny days with an elastic, dry, bracing air and a little refreshing breeze The nights are glorious, cool, dry, delicious air equal to that of Martha's Vineyard but without its moisture. Now that the intense heat is over the climate is simply perfect—Why not come out & join me & let us see this campaign through. Leave the housekeeping for Bridget, or Mary, or both, to carry on Let Alice & Mrs Adkinson run the paper. It seems to you a formidable thing to leave home & comfort, but really there is no hardship in riding on the Pullman cars. You have almost all the way a dining car attached. You can reach any point on the railroad in So Dakota as comfortably as in Massachusetts— My list of appointments will show you where & when you can join me & I will take the best care in the world of you and we will return together. I do believe that this dry air will be the very change you need. Yours affy,Sunday where I shall speak twice in churches. Mrs Pickler has made the arrangements— I am very sorry to hear of the return of your rheumatism. I do believe that this climate would help you–– It is a succession of brilliant sunshiny days with an elastic, dry, bracing air and a little refreshing breeze The nights are glorious, cool, dry, delicious air equal to that of Martha's Vineyard but without its moisture. Now that the intense heat is over the climate is simply perfect— Why not come out & join me & let us see this campaign through. Leave the housekeeping for Bridget, or May, or both, to carry on. Let Alice & Mrs Adkinsonrun the paper. It seems to you a formidable thing to leave home & comfort, but really there is no hardship in riding on the Pullman cars You have almost all the way a dining car attached. You can reach any point on the railroad in So Dakota as comfortably as in Massachusetts— My list of appointments will show you where & when you can join me & I will take the best care in the world of you and we will return together. I do believe that this dry air will be the very change you need. Yours [affy?], H B Blackwell.PS. I like the people here very much indeed. But somehow we must get into the attention and interest of the men and I do believe this can be best done by women's attaching themselves to one party I talking for that - the independents are most generally favorable; next come the Republicans; while the Democrats contain some friends, but are generally opposed. But the Republicans have the numbers, money, and organization The Elective Franchise and Woman Suffrage in Wyoming and Eminent opinions and Objectives Answered and the Nonsense of It are the best leaflets for So. Dakota in the order named. Tell Miss Wilde so Sept 1. comes due at ought to the notified or called on Miss Hathaway 31 Hollis St $100 19 Claremont Park 66.67 Dr Colby 35. Geo P Hawley 3d St Newark N J 43.75 I will write to Hawley myself- Goodbye Hoping you will come outinterest of the men and I do believe this can be best done by women's attaching themselves to one party & talking for that- the Independents are most generally favorable; next come the Republicans; while the Democrats contain some friends, but are generally opposed. But the Republicans have the numbers, money, and organization. The Elective Franchise and Woman Suffrage in Wyoming and Eminent opinions & objectives [?Aut??ed] and the Nonsense of it are the best leaflets for So Dakota in the order named. Tell Miss Wilde so. Sept 1. come due & ought to be notified or called on Miss Hathaway 31 Hollis St $100 19 Claremont Park --66.67 Dr Colby -----------------35. Geo P Hawley 3d St Newark NJ-- 43.75 I will write to Hawley myself- Goodbye Hoping you will come out to me Yours affy H B Blackwell 195 4 780 July 2. Since this letter was begun, we have had a delightful day with a few of the old abolitionists. This combined ages made 675 years - only Nelly Foster and Elizabeth Chace and her maid staid over 2 days and we had a good time - Alice will go down [???about] ten days - [?] pretty [be?????] is a [lit???][*OFFICE OF [Ame]rican Woman Suffrage Association 5 PARK STREET, Boston, 1885*] I had a letter from Sarah yesterday inviting me there and I think I shall go. Next week before Alice goes - always say how Laurie is when you write.Names and Ages of friends at party June 30, 1886 Samuel E. Sewall 86 Theodore D. Weld 82 Elizabeth B. Chace 79 Samuel May 76 Abby K. Foster 75 Zilpha H. Spooner 68 Lucy Stone 67 Mrs Sewall 66 Sarah H. Southwick 65 Henry B. Blackwell 61.5 ————— 675. years. (This was a group of abolitionists who met at Pope's Hill to celebrate in re-union. They were photographed, and this photograph A.S.B. thinks is still at Pope's Hill.)Samuel May 5 WM Lloyd Garrison 13 3 Mrs Eliz B Clark 3 15 Lance I Garrison 15 Miss Sarah Southwick 7 11 Miss Alla Foster 4 Abby Kelley Foster 8 Lucy Stone Lucy Stone 12 Geo T Garrison 9 9 Miss Zilpha Spooner 14 Wendell P. Garrison 10 HB Blackwell HBB 2 Theodore Weld 6 1Photograph taken at Pope's Hill, Dorchester June 9 (30), 1886 1. Samuel Sewall (86 [year?]) 2. Theodore D. Weld --8 3. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chase - 79 4. Abby Kelly Foster - 75 5. Samuel May - 76 6. Mrs. Harriet W. Sewall 66 7. Miss Sarah H. Southwick - 65 8. Mrs. Lucy Stone - 67 9. Mrs. Zilpha H. Spooner - 68 10. Henry B. Blackwell - 61 // 11. Miss Alla Foster 75 (AW) 12. George T. Garrison 13. William Lloyd Garrison (II) 14. Wendell P. Garrison 15. Francis J. Garrison 15 11 12 3 7 4 8 9 13 14 5 6 10 2September 26, 1958 Dear Edith: I promised myself that as soon as I returned this autumn I would look up the key to the old picture taken at Pope's Hill in Dorchester (the old Lucy Stone Home) so that you could have it with your records. The information was given to me by Miss Fenny Garrison. The date of the picture is June 9, 1886. 1. Samuel Sewell 2. Theodore D. Weld 3. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chase 4. Abby Kelley Foster 5. Samuel May 6. Mrs. Harriet W. Sewall 7. Miss Sarah H. Southwick 8. Mrs. Lucy Stone (wife of Henry B. Blackwell) 9. Mrs. Zilpha H. Spooner 10. Henry B. Blackwell 11. Miss Alla Foster 12. George T. Garrison 13. William Lloyd Garrison 14. Wendell P. Garrison 15. Francis J. Garrison 15 11 12 3 7 4 8 9 13 14 5 10 6 1 2 I shall put a copy of this in the Blackwell papers for future reference. Affectionately,Index - 1955 MinutesSamuel E. Sewall 86 Theodore D. Weld 82 Elizabeth B. Chace 79 Samuel May 76 Abby K. Foster 75 Zilpha H. Spooner. 68 Lucy Stone 67 Mrs Sewall 66 Sarah H. Southwick 65 Henry B. Blackwell 61 ——— 675 67.5Names and Ages of friends at party June 30 1886 HBBThe Woman Suffragists have been laying out a very pretty little scheme for their pet idea, but it has come to naught. Gov. Brackett did not even make mention of "the cause" in his message, and the suffragists seem to have determined to be equally close-mouthed if they could. They desired to get the committee on woman suffrage to make its report without a public hearing, at leas that was the wish of the Dr. Blackwell wing. But when this idea was broached to President Sprague of the Senate he intimated that the remonstrants would certainly be given ample opportunity to be heard, and that the other branches of suffragists were not to be deprived of their privilege of petition. the WHIRLWINDS OF THE DESERT. NCE OF THE UARTET, ning and Davis. DANCE ARTISTS. The Biggest, The Most Refined,Dining room Monday Feb. 17 Dear People [*1890*] Yours on route came while I was at breakfast, and was gladly welcomed - Hope the warmer climate will be good for papa. My cold is no worse. Except that I have spasmodic fits of coughing when it seems as if I shall choke to death. I had 2 yesterday and one in the night - I did not get up till Ethel and her girls had gone. but I [ate my] ate my breakfast with relish. And am not sick. Clara Barlow came back with a friend this morning to see how I was. And they are now up stairs for the view - Ethel took her friends to ride yesterday and this a.m. she ordered the carriage for the ride to the station. I suppose t show her young friends her adventures. The rail road ticket came this morning. You are now at the last meeting of the American Association. and I hope it will all go right, and still more do I wish that the first meeting of the two t elect may be right - Hope you have found Mr Foulke. The papers this morng have further reports of Susan's birthday, her red velvet gown, and th letters fr0m various persons sent as special despatches. Michal goes in at noon to take things to Miss Wilde &c. I do not see sure that I can go on for my Thursday speech but I shall if I can, or if I can hope not to cough and strangle on the platform. Nina [Preson's?] sister is dead. Clara Barlow and her friend will stay t lunch, and then Clara goes in in time for the train t Gardner. There were no special letters [fr] [g] this morning. I shall [cil] clip for Miss Wilde and send every day - It is cold today, and there is no news. Aff L.S.