Blackwell Family Lucy Stone 1881 Campbell, MargaretOFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, NO. 5 PARK STREET. Boston, Sept. 30 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell It is too bad that I mailed a brief letter to you yesterday, and in the evening got yours - I was pressed for time, and barely wrote what was necessary for business. I was very glad to hear from you. You know I always hold you in my heart, as an unselfish & tried worker for the cause we both love more than life itself. So, any direct message from you is always very welcome. I shall make a note for the Journal of your work in the heat of Iowa's last hot summer. But I want you to come back here. If we can carry one state, that fact will be a weight all the time to carry the other states. Massachusetts is nearer being ready than any other state. If we can concentrate here, andcarry this state. We shall have done more good to the cause Everywhere. than can be done any other way. I have been saving up money, and it is ready to pay you, and it will not be nearly so hard for you as it is in Iowa. and your work will tell ??????? - Perhaps you cannot leave until after the Iowa annual meeting - You will hate to leave your children. But the absence of Mr. Campbell in Colorado will make it easier for you to give us six months. I hope Mr. Campbell is in luck this time. What a bright letter he wrote! Dear old Stephen! He was able to be about & to go out till the very last. He died at 3 o'clock one morning and was out riding at six the evening before. He would not like to sell their place. But they want to get $8,000. Wendell Phillip says they can't get over $6,000 and he fears they will stay and hold on for that price. The serious loss of AllanL.S. to Mrs. Campbell, Sept. 30, 1881 xx I was very glad to hear from you. You know I always hold you in my heart, as an unselfish & tried worker for the cause we both love more than life itself. xx But I want you to come back here. If we can carry one State, that fact will be a weight all the time to carry the other States. Massachusetts is nearer being ready than any other State. If we can concentrate here, & carry this State, we shall have done more good to the cause everywhere than can be done any other way. I have been saving up money & it is ready to pay you, & it will not be nearly so hard for you as it is in Iowa, & your work will tell sooner. xx Dear old Stephen! (Foster). He was able to be about & to go out till the very last. He died at three o'clock one morning, & was our riding at six the evening before. 2 xx Susie Vogl is very sick with rheumatic fever in N.H., & now is the harvest time for advertising. The Journal is literally carried on, supported by her. I do not know what we shall do. xx I have to-day written & urged Mrs. Callanan to go to Louisville. xx I fear we shall be short of speakers. Mrs. Livermore can't go, nor Miss Eastman, nor Mrs. Stone of Michigan, & from lots more to whom I wrote, I have had no answer. I have been crowded with company. Four people who had been her a week left Monday last, & one on Tuesday, & one is still here, & three are waiting to come. If Mr. Blackwell were not here to take the Journal, I would not get on with all the correspondence the annual meeting gives, & the family care. Alice gives me good help on the Journal.L. S. to Mrs. Campbell Sept, 30, 1881OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET Boston, Dec. 18, 1881 Dear Mrs. Campbell I supposing you are at Joliet. You have my card asking you to let me know just when we may make our first appointment for you. I had expected you here, ready to begin the second week in Jan. But when a letter came from Mrs. Boyd in Dublin saying you won't give her the first week in Jan. and that the Cambridge Meeting would be on (I think) 12th Jan it put me out of my plan. I at once wrote you and put off the meeting till the 17th. It will be at Barre or Hubbardston as the agent who arranges finds it best. I have set down 30 terms and given the names to the agent. All along the northern part of the State. and coming around to New Braintree[*LS 1881*] and on, by and by to Spencer Chalton &c. Mr. Williams of Mendon will get up four meetings in his neighborhood later on. But our annual meeting comes this year on the 10th & 11th of Jan (to influence the legislature) and in my first plan I thought you would be here to attend that. But it is not essential. I think you had better get a ticket to Boston. When you get to Springfield you can sell it, if you do not come on here. About which I will write you, (care of Mrs. Boyd) as soon my agent lets me know the exact point at which you will begin. Which we be on Jan 17 seventeenth - I am sorry for the illness of your daughter for her sake. and because you will be anxious about her. I suppose Mr. Campbell will feel in clover in Colorado. Yours always sincerely Lucy StoneOFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET. Boston, Oct. 11 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell. Your letter came yesterday, and I make haste to say, you can come at such time as is most convenient for you - I have grudged these pleasant fall months, and wished I had some one. But hesitated to ask you to leave your children and Iowa You know the last two weeks in Dec. and the two first in Jan. are so given up to holidays that they will not be of much use, and I think had really better be left out of account. And if you would rather stay and make [your?] a longer visit, and get here to begin after New Year itmay be just as well. But if you will feel rested and ready for Dec. 1st. I will, as soon as I am sure of this. (by a postal card from you) have the meetings arranged and we will try to push for municipal suffrage for women for this winter, as well as for the whole of suffrage. I am sorry you cannot go to Louisville - I do not think the American Society can continue. It is too much for Harry and me . to lift it bodily, as we have to. But this is not to be said. In haste Yours truly always Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, NO. 5 PARK STREET. Boston, Sept 29 1881 Dear Mrs. Campbell We have just read with great interest the breezy letter of Mr. Campbell and his circular of prospective gold mines, and endless wealth. We wish him success. Now as I suppose he will be in Colorado all winter, I write to ask if you will not come East and lecture here in this state. We will pay you as we did before. I mean at the same rate, and have the meetings arranged for you. If Iowa will send you to Louisville as their delegate. we will pay your expenses from there here. Now I have not time to saymore. but will you write at once, as soon as you can decide, so that if you are to be at Louisville, I may announce you as among the speakers? I enclose a stamp. Love to both of you Lucy StoneOFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, NO.5 PARK STREET Boston, June 19 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell I will take time to answer your direct questions at least. I did not attend any meetings of the Nationals nor any other meetings except that of the N.E. Women's Club. The ladies you named did not call at the office. but they came to our meeting - Mrs. Livermore sailed as she expected to, & one letter has come back from her to the president of Temperance Society. She says she is not at all well, and is over worked. She says this in her letter - I hope you will have good audiences which will pay you, when you go north. But I would try to take it easy this hot weather - Mr. Campbell will enjoy his old haunts in Colorado. & the mountains. [Till] Tell him Ihope he will have a good time - Alice is tired with so many years of constant study. and will not really undertake with me till fall. but she has already begun to select the poetry and the stories for the Woman's Journal. Mr. Blackwell would quite willingly take it off my hands. But he needs rest too more than I do. I am much better now. Mrs. A. S. Gray of [L? D? C?] said in a late letter that "they had been pleased and blessed with two lectures" from you lately, so you see the good you do. comforts those who need comfort, as she seems to need. We are all pretty well. Kitty is here. I expect Florence soon. and Emily later. I am to flit for a short time for rest, after a little time Our printers made me say that Mrs. Campbell was going to Colorado. They do very well but now and then a savage mistake occurs. Ever truly yours Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal NO. 5 PARK STREET Boston, June 2 1881 Dear Mrs. Campbell I have sent you today the reports of anniversary meeting, cut from Boston papers. They will give you the best idea of how things went on. added to what you will find in the Journal. I have not time to assort them. and you will have to [get some one] pick it out. Mrs. Robinson got all the invitations for the Nationals Poor Mrs. Tudor said "Mrs Robinson was very persistent" to get her parties - But every thing went off very well. and did good I think - Alice graduated Wednesday [*with great haste - Excuse it, and the cuttings too. But I know you will want to know how the meetings went. Thanks for the photo of Mrs. [?] Love to all Lucy Stoneand after a few week's rest will take hold in the Journal - Mr. Blackwell is at home now, and helped me out with the meetings and with the Journal wonderfully - Now, I have a houseful of company, and I fear it will be the same all summer - so I seem bound to be over loaded always. What do you think about having he next meeting of the American in Louisville Ky, and would the Iowa Society send you? Mrs. Church and Mrs. White. I invited here for the anniversary meetings. But Mrs. White writes she is feeble, and Mrs. Church that Dr. cant walk, and she cant leave. They have lately buried a colored girl from their house. I hope you can read this which has been written OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, NO. 5 PARK STREET, Boston, Apr. 2 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell Your card of the 29 [?t ult] is here, and I am very glad to get it. I am not sick either. But I have had turns of something. I do not know what. A sense of faintness runs all through me, lasting not more than half a minute, but while [I feel] it lasts, I feel as though I was dissolving, just as you see milk dripped in water, spread all through it - I have not told H.B.B. because he is over borne with an attempt to get up sugar mills in Schenectady, and transferring the Maine works there, and I do not want to add a straw to the weight he carries. If I should tell Alice who is worn with seven years of study, she could neither eat nor sleep. So I say nothing and [*carry Massachusetts. I had an illustrated Joliet paper the other day. It was wonderful. I am glad George is so successful. I am glad it seems better to you than when you wrote last. Dr. Avery wrote the article about the Wyoming Woman who rode so far to vote. With love and best wishes L Stone PS I went up to the State House.*]hope it may all pass away - It does not come upon me every day. A week ago [yesterd] Thursday, it came upon me twice while I was up in the printing office, and again on Saturday evening while I sat quietly by the sitting room fire. It gives no pain only a sense of melting away - Don't say a word about it please. It may all pass before long with the spring weather. You will have seen before this reaches you how we are voted down - Now I want to have societies organized all over the State, money raised, and get the people so enlightened, that we can carry our cause. It is 28 years since I first went up to the State House for woman suffrage! I am glad if the Nebraska people do not need help. We have donated $8.00 worth of tracts to Mrs. C. D. Celby of Beatrice Nebraska. I shall be glad to see the letter of Mrs. Brooks. Geo. F. Hoar has promised to speak at our May meeting - I am writing all [round] round to get people to give money to help us carry Massachusetts, I have only one pledge yet, but I think more will come. We must OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, NO. 5 PARK STREET. Boston, Feb. 11 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell Your letter to Mrs. Blackwell about the names of your State officers in the American is here - Nobody said a word about it at the Washington meeting. I was on the platform all the time and the committee made out the list. I knew of the change in your officers, and made a mental note to use at Washington - But forgot it at the time. The first evening three very nice looking young ladies presented themselves as delegates from Iowa. I did not see or hear of them afterwards - You may be sure there was no fanfare, or underhand work about it. Ellen [feos] Foster is here in Boston now. Spoke in Fremont Temple on Sundayand yesterday for the Temperance people in the green room which was crowded. Tonight Mrs Tudor gives her a reception &c &c. It all helps. We are to have a party at Mrs. Tudor's. I will enclose an invitation which will explain itself. I wonder if the Iowa Society would take 25 copies of the memorial sketches of Angelina Grimke Weld at .25 cts. Perhaps I had better write about this to Mrs. Callanan. But there is no more inspiring record for young people to read. With much love but with lots to do Yours ever Lucy Stone The snow is melted so the [clay?], or bare land appears. and the day seems like spring - full of warm sunshine. [OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal NO. 5 PARK STREET,] Friday At Home. Sitting room. 10.30 P.M. Boston, [Jan] Feb. 4 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell We have got through the Washington meeting, and the Annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society, and two hearings at the State House, and the Woman's Journal for this week is off. Alice is at a Sociable in the city. And Mr. Blackwell went to Portland on Monday, intending to go on to Augusta at the urgent desire of some there, where a "hearing" was to be had on Thursday, both for Mr. Dudley's Amendment on the word "male", and on school suffrage. There is a dressmaker here tho has gone to bed. and so in the quiet, I shall write to you. I would much rather have a good hour's talk. So much has happened, and so much is going Monday Morning Feb. 7th. Harry is back from Maine. M. Dudley & the committee had a tiff. and nothing will come of his bill this year But it is an opening [volley?] With Much love L.S.on that it would be delightful to talk over with you. We have had a hard rub on account of the non voting of Massachusetts women. Col. J. W.H. has almost seemed to be on the other side. But I think the current has turned - Governor Long has been a great help. So has governor Talbot, and all around there is a change for the better. It is a long time since I have heard a word from you. I always look in the Prohibitionist to see if I can find anything about what you are doing - I know you are not as strong as you used to be, and I know you will pull for the rights of women as long as you live. So I fear that between lack of strength and lack of salary you may have a hard time. I have a bad throat, and lately have had treatment for it by Dr. Knight an expert in throat diseases. But yesterday at the State House hearing I got cold, and tonight my throat seems literally raw. Mr. D.M. Richards of Colorado was R.I. Legislature. and they had a grand hearing. But the Providence Journal the next day said "they were not likely to get anything." It is discouraging and hard. But we are bound to win. You know this is the last year of Alice at the Boston University. After that she is to come in and help me with the Woman's Journal. You know the end has come to the Beet sugar making in Maine. I am not sure, but it will be the end of H B.B. by the time he is through with it. The toil and fatigue and anxiety put into it has been immense. It was too bad it could not succeed! When you can, tell me all about yourself and the cause. and your children and the grand children. I suppose Mr. C. uses his brush. I seem never to have been so busy. I get little time for anything but hard work But all the same, I remember you with the most cordial good will and am always glad to hear. Aff L. Stonehere this week - He is making money by mining, and says as soon as he has put by enough for himself and his little girl, he means to do something to put Colorado right for women. He gets more and more blind. But is bright and cheery. Mrs. Campbell who is the sister of Nev. Senator [Campbell] Patterson called on us at the office not long ago. Suffrage has been [up] up in the Colorado legislature, but not carried. A state society also is just formed, and that bright Florence Haynes of Greeley attended and took part so they seem to be starting up again. Mr. Richards said that Geo. Evans has lately made "lots and lots" of money. Isn't it a shame he does not pay Miss Hindman. The Indiana Union are working like beavers - Mrs. Geo. Wallace with the rest. She won't say "Far be it from us" again - Mrs. Chace, and Miss Eastman have been before the OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, NO. 5 PARK STREET. Boston, Apr. 30 1881 My dear Mrs. Campbell Your letter enclosing those of Mrs. Brooks duly came to hand. Meantime I have sent you a card to say I am better. But I am tired. The care of getting up meetings added to the daily care is too much. But I have found a lot of good speakers for the May meeting. and for that at Portland we are very well off. I read and reread the letters of Mrs. Brooks. and sent her at her request the names of every subscriber to the Woman's Journal in Nebraska. We have sometime ago sent $8. worth of tracts to Mrs. Colly at Beatrice. But I do not mean to raise money for them. I mean to get all I can, and canvass, and if possible carry Massachusetts - According to the Nebraska papers, there is a good spirit there. andmen and women seem earnest to help. I sent for a copy of their Western Woman's Journal. Mrs. Correll has taken hold in good earnest, and they may carry it. I hope they will. If I were younger and not so stiff, I would try to help them more than I can with the Woman's Journal. But that will be considerable - I think if we can have a canvass in this state, we can carry it. I mean to force a discussion in the next Republican State Convention. our arrangement to act in the town meetings is a very excellent way. The other "Wing" came for their annual meeting to Boston in May. and they have advertised conventions all through N.E. in June. I hope they will not do things that will be thrown against us ever after. Mrs. Livermore was paid 7 or 8 hundred dollars for the Agitator and $1500 a year for Editing. We edited for nothing several years. I hope the Iowa Society has a bequest from Mrs. Allen, and that it will prove true that she has left $50,000 to the good causes. Mr. Faxon says he will furnish money if we will go in with Temperance again. But we should do it. Mr. Blackwell is in N.Y. The Schenectady beets are next in this year. With best wishes for you both. L. Stone