Blackwell Family 1883 Lucy Stone Campbell, Margaret WOffice of The Woman's Journal, No. 5 Park Street, Boston, Dec. 13. 1883 My dear Mrs. Campbell It seems to hatd to think of your settling in Iowa. but of course you must be with or near your children. I am only glad to have you write to me no matter how often and I always rejoice in your good will. I am delighted that it grows better and better. I am hurried now with a good many things, so will write about the money due you. I have not heard a word about the Eddy money, since I wrote you last. I do not understand the delay, and I hate to ask, all the time. But if you will let me know how much is still due you. I will contrive to get it some way. You ought to have had it before. I think you are right that Mr 'C' needs out door life. and if he [*so we gain little by little - We are all better. But the constant brain work is too hard for Alice and I must get her a change some way with love to you all Lucy Stone*]adds chickens to it rest I named, he will make profit, and health - Miss Hindman's sister has been very sick and so she is determined and will not begin till the middle of Jan. Miss Cutler is to begin in Winchester next week to work up that city, and if possible, organize it. Mrs Colby has not by any means got her paper on its feet, and I do not see how she can do it. The last No. she wrote me (this is not to be told) was held by the printers till long past its date, because she could not pay them, and a child she adopted (a baby) died, and she had lots of trouble. If they would try for a column in some paper, that would be better. I am very glad of the good tidings of your children and grandchildren - It is a great thing that Washington territory has done! How much it will help Oregon! N England I learn by private advice that they are full of hope for early success.OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No 5 Park Street Boston, Oct. 29 1883 My dear Mrs. Campbell The rain is pouring here today. Much needed rain. So I, who come into this office [every?] Monday have few callers and I take the time to write to my most valued friends, and the first letter goes to you. I suppose you will be on the way to the annual meeting, and I hope it will be the best meeting possible -- I , or we, got your good letter to Mr. Blackwell about coming to the American, where we should have been so glad to see you. I was surprised to hear of another little [Fox?]. I hope Susie did not have so had a time as before. and it will be a great good for the other little girl to have a sister. And, J.B. has come home too! just before [* ? are whipped, they will perhaps look out to see who can help them. But in any case the women are the "under dogs" I have not your letter by me, or I might see things to answer. But now I must stop, and I am always with warm hearted love Your friend Lucy Stonewinter! Why did he not wait till spring. and come with the birds, and so not feel the change of climate? But we are glad to have him back rested. Give my good will to him - I do not quite see how you are to keep house and lecture too. The festival committee here with Abby W. May at the head have engaged Miss Hindman to come here and work at organising, the churches ie. getting suffrage clubs formed inside the churches - She is also to organise in Worcester amongst others beside the churches. We are still kept out of the Eddy money. But the Executor came in here the other day when I was not in, and told Miss Wilde with a smile that it had [?t] one step on. Miss Wilde said, shall I tell Miss Storr that she is likely to get it soon? No said he. But he looked Miss Wilde said as though it might come soon. I hope it may. The reason Mrs. Robinson makes her statements is that she makes it seem that I have told a lie - she is having very good meetings now. and I think really does a great deal of good - I am getting [flesh?] again. and feel pretty well. My throat will now be well, and there is something wrong with my side. It may be heart or something else. We are all very busy. The political campaign rages, and a week more will decide the strife. I do not much care which beats. [?] the report Dorchester OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET Sunday Boston, Aug. 19, 1883 My dear Mrs. Campbell I do not know that this letter will reach you. as in your last you said you were to go to the North Western part of Mass. But I write to say that I am better. I think the ulcerated sore throat made me feel sick - more than common. I have a heart trouble. When I lie on my right side, I feel such a weight hang in the left side, that I cam obliged to turn over. Dr. Emily says it is because there is a weakness in the muscles that should send the blood onward. It collects and gives a sense of weight which is relieved when I turn over. I have felt this for 2 years at least. I have too a trouble with my kidneys, withpain across them. and my urine is hot. I wear a wet cloth on my back and am relieved. But the troubles in my throat. back and heart together make me anxious for my two people. And for the work. not that I am sick. for I am not. I go about just as usual. and look the same except a little thinner - But I shirk some work. and write to fewer people and let as much correspondence go as I can - Now tear this up. I never wrote so much to any one about my ailments - and only write to you because you asked me to. I hope Phebe cousins wont go to [INsA?]. She attracts at first, but afterwards, when people come to know her. she harms more than she helps. Mr. Blackwell has had a badly strained in sprained ankle. which is still in the bandage the surgeon put on. and he has been able to walk but with great difficulty - But he is much better. I do not know but you had better go to California. for rest. and meet Mr. Campbell there. or you will work to death. with much love L.S. [OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET BOSTON,] Dorchester [Jul] Aug. 4 1883 My dear Mrs. Campbell You have been waiting for a letter. and I for a chance to write it - our going to Oberlin took our time, and left us more to do when we got back. But never mind what has hindered. I was very glad to get your letter telling me about Miss Hindman. I tore it up so that no one shall find it when I am dead - you know Miss Hindman staid here a good many weeks some years ago. and in that time I became well acquainted with her, and I thought her an honest earnest true suffragist. I think the same of her still. But she worked for suffrage and paid her way till a large part of what she had saved as a teacher was used up. Then she went to Colorado you know how it is not because I should not like to write you. I always have you in remembrance dear Mrs. Campbell and love you for your warm devotion to our cause. Yours always L.Swas there - I think. with her not-strong health. and no children to take care of her in old age or people near, that she felt compelled to be paid. while she wore herself out- and that it was not selfishness. but a sense of real need for the future. I wish she had written her proposition - & I do not see why she was not willing to. But you and I dear Mrs. Campbell shall work for suffrage even if we know we shall die in the gutter - I am comforted by the way the Iowa suffragists work on. I think it is brave of them. Dear Mrs. Wilde follows up the papers! Here we are all the time at it. I have written a letter to send out signed by several women about the next governor - But Abby May whose name I particularly wanted wont sign it. Cause, Butler. We are arranging also for the next American Woman Suffrage meeting. HB.B. and Alice are at Martha's Vineyard She was very much tired by the California trip. and H.B.B is, by long years of good work for which he gets only kicks and cuffs. So I am glad they can rest. As for me, I had so hard a time with Bronchitis in the spring that I have never quite recovered. And I have lost 20 lbs within 2 months. My throat is ulcerated now and daily touched with nitrate of silver, but neither HBB. nor Alice know anything of this. I have 2 guests who have been here for weeks. And a new girl, who is capable and neat. but too cross to lauf. so you see how it is. And if you do not hear of it OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET, Boston, May 6 1883 Poor dear Little Mrs. Campbell I have heard just now by way of Alice and Mr. Campbell of your dreadfull fall. and the smack to your nose - I hope it is all well now. and that it leaves your nose and all, as good as ever. Mr. Campbell found Alice out on the train - But she did not know him till he told her who he was. She is having a good time. It will be a rest for her brain. And an Education. As for me, I have been shut up in the house for more than a month with a severe attack of bronchitis - I am on the mending side. and mean to go out, as soon as the rawness goes out of the air. andthe wind turns from the East. It has been a hard seige. I think I shall have to leave here spring. Mrs. H.H. Robinson has informed Mrs. Judge Ames that she should like to come back into the old society, &c &c, and as I understand it, give up her own-- We hear nothing get from the Eddy will--I suppose you see see what a time Butler is making with Tewksbury Almshouse, and with Frank Stanborn With much love dear Mrs. Campbell for you and yours Lucy Stone [Office of The Woman's Journal, No. 5 Park Street,] Dorchester Boston, Mar. 25 1883 My dear Mrs. Campbell Your letter has just come to hand. I am [?] glad to get it. So long is it since a word has come from you. I feel very sorry for the misunderstanding between Mrs. Callanan and Miss Hindman. I think they both mean right--Miss Hindman no doubt feels that if she could go right on to organise societies, get memberships, and take collections, she could have the state organised, and her own pay raised. On the other hand it is natural that the committee should want to know her plans. If they dont want her to be "state superintendent" they should say so frankly. I think she is entirely honest, and that her heart is single for the good of the cause -- Still it may not be best for her to take the superintendency. But she knows that with organisation the state stands a great deal better chance of being carried - you always seem to come in for a Woman suffrage [?] I think [take?] and find fault, would do half as much as he does to help. I am glad the Polk Co. Society paid you. The Eddy money is slow, but I guess it is sure. With love to Susie and her little [?] and to Mr. Campbell [good?] well and love to you I am always your friend Lucy Stonea hard time dear Mrs. Campbell - In Nebraska you had the hardest time of any body and now this winter you have had it again! It is too bad! I hope you will go to California next winter and take a quiet sun bath, and rest a that genial climate. You will have earned it, and you well deserve it. I think you will be glad to know that Alice is going to California with the Raymond excursion party. They start Apr. 5th and will be gone 59 days -- all the arrangements are made for them. Mrs. Hollingsworth and her daughter are of the party, and they are very fond of Alice, and she is fond of them. Mrs. H. will be mother and adviser to Alice. They mean to spend a week in the Yosemite Valley. They will be at Los Angeles. Alice is brain tired. She needs to go. So does H.B.B. but he won't. I will send you one of the little books that tells their route. I am glad to have the child go -- she is all you say. If she does not get run down by over work, she will make the world better, and that is what I hope for her. We are all pretty well - H.B.B. gets hard blows & undeserved ones, for what he does politically in the [*LS 1883*] [Office of The Woman's Journal, No. 5 Park Street, Boston] Dorchester Mar. 11 1883 My dear Mrs. Campbell I have begun a great many letters to you and then had no time to finish. Several only got as far as the address It is so long since I write that I have forgot when we left off. But I suppose you have kept the run of a good deal by the Journal. You know how we are voted down. And that we had a longer discussion in the State House and more in the newspapers than we have ever had before. So we count it gain, though the remonstrants are out, with petitions for next years, and the hue and cry is loud against suffrage -- The Vermont work will have to wait for of cooperation in that state. They said they could not even get up the meetings - and it seemed a pity of use 1/3 of our little sum in making arrangements. Miss Hindman would have gone after she was through in Iowa if the way had opened - if we could have wishes to be [?] remembered to you- and to [?] you told the Wayland precinct cast 39 votes. It was Mr. Ritterbender who sent the last fact to you. Give my love to your daughter and accept love from all of us. We have a young lady friend of Alice here. And we are all pretty well. L. Stoneaccepted her terms. I saw that Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Sholtuch had their annual meeting. They went around with Phebe Cousins to the Editors in Boston and told of the division &c. of course blaming me. The Post, that never heard of any trouble before came out with an article about it. Phebe Cousins [spread?] herself, but left before she was found out. Mrs. May Cutter staid with us a week & enjoyed it. Alice is now on the staff of the Journal. She is a real help and comfort to us. I am trying to have her and H.B.B. go to California with one of the excursion parties that leave in Apr. They are both tired - brain-tired and they need rest. I am very well much better than last spring - I have less rheumatism. But one knee slips (not out) but so that I have to wear a knee cap elastic. Else I should not be able to get about. We have not got the Eddy money. I meant to go this week to see Mr. Bacon, who opposes, and see what the matter is. Phillips has asked me not to do anything about it. But I know that Ben Butler is getting fees out of it, and I hate to have it go that way. So I mean to look after it. I want to pay you and Mrs. Cutter I hope you are not in need of it. Do write me a big letter and tell me all about yourself. Mr. [Office of The Woman's Journal, No. 5 Park Street. Boston,] Dorchester June 30 1882 My dear Mrs. Campbell Your letter with the check returned, came to me this morning. I was very glad to hear, but utterly vexed that my own blunder had perhaps put you at disadvantage, or inconvenience rather. But I hope not. Please find enclosed a check for $50 - If we get the money of Mr Eddy left I know I will not be paid at this rate. I had a large bundle of leaflets sent to you, care of Mr. Carroll, that you might have them for free distribution. I hope you got them - since the above was written I have your second letter and also one from Mr. Carroll We are very sorry for the complication which themeeting in Omaha the last week in Sept. will give us. We first announced our meeting at Omaha but under the circumstances we quite agree with you and Mr. Correll that it is not best to hold our annual meeting there - and as half the value of that meeting is in having its doings spread abroad by the press. We think Lincoln could not do that part because its newspaper facilities are small. Now we incline to St. Louis or some place out of Nebraska and after the meeting, H.B.B. and I will go on to help the work in Nebraska. We should of course [we should] pay the expense of Mr. Correll to whatever place it at last seems best to have the meeting. I shall today write to Mrs. Hazard, and Dr. Thomas and try to hurry the matter because now it is high time it was settled. I am much obliged to you for writing so fully to me when I know you are tired and instead of reason. and so create antagonism which is of all things to be avoided in Nebraska. The papers that came to us speak well of your meetings and I have been delighted to see that you were winning friends to our side all the time - God bless you dear Mrs. Campbell! My heart [turns?] to you all the time. Miss Hindman wrote me that she had "promised Rachel Foster" to work in Nebraska &c. I feel very sorry for Mr. Correll and his friend. But if his battle should be a Bunker Hill one not the less will he deserve, and have historic credit for having done his best to carry a good cause. You must keep his courage up - I think your John deserves great credit for getting on with out you when he is not feeling well. As for yourself I am glad you keep "pretty well". I know how hard it is to do as you have to do but your baptized spirit, soul and heart will help to bear it. Yours always Lucy Stone[*2*] have plenty to do But it was the "true inwardness" that I need to get and it was but taking the time to let me know I will burn your letter. You should by all means get subscribers for the W.W.J. in preference to the W.J. out there that is best - I am sorry for what you write about Mrs. Colby. But it must be remembered that she is overworked not well, and nervous, and her husband not in sympathy, so that she is really under a great strain. when she was here she seemed the very soul of unselfishness in the cause & we liked her very much indeed. Even the saints snap when they are half sick and tired you know. I will not write of any of the others I named but you will know that I understand. I am sorry that some of the Nationals who are named as to stay and lecture in Nebraska are to be there at all. they are anti-man and demand