BLACKWELL FAMILY LUCY STONE 1889-1890 Campbell, Margaret WOFFICE OF THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston, Apr. 27 1889 My dear Mrs. Campbell If you have not heard from me for a long time it is not because we do not think of you with sympathy and love. but the work grows more and more and the crowd of it seems harder all the time. So, many things get left just now the prohibition amendment has been upon us to be voted down and now the Third Party vow they will destroy the Republican Party. and there is a general mess on that score. The parochial school question is a serious one, and carries a threat in it all the time. while the protestant fools including a converted nun make things worse- out in Washington territory. the Third Party is making trouble, and we are all perplexed to With love and regards to your fellow workers. And with good will to Mr. Campbell I am always truly yours Lucy Stoneto know what is best to do there. The people of the territory are themselves perplexed and really do not know what to do - Judge Greene thinks we could not help by a campaign. Miss Duning wants "a still hunt". & Rev. Mr. Eliot and Mr. Thompson think there should be a vigorous campaign - [Benie?] Isaacs and her mother are in doubt And Mrs. Colby who is there begs us to send money &c What a whirl it is! Poor Mrs. Sewall was killed by the cars, and no one knows how it happened - she has left Wm. and Frank Garrison $10,000 with which to help secure municipal suffrage and when that is gained the rest is to promote peace - Mrs. Adkinson expects to come back to work on the Journal, perhaps in May. We shall be very glad to have her. "The pageant" is getting on and we hope it will do well. I think H.B.B. will go to Europe this summer with Antoinette and her husband to visit the sisters who are near there possibly I shall go too, but the Washington territory matter makes with me wish to stay here. so that if any thing can be done we may help. I think of you as so very hard at work! But Iowa is a comfort to me, because of the women who manage the work there.OFFICE OF American Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 Park Street, Boston, Dec 12 1889 Dear Friends I got Mrs. Campbells letter in regard to the treasurer's report &c. and I will see that she has it at Washington, if not before though it will be in time if she gets it then. I have not written you as I should have done. About my stay at Joliet - with your children. They gave us a lovely time. Geo. carried us all around his quarries and around the town. And he carried us morning noon and night to each session of the meetings. He and Lizzie were as good to us as if they had been our own children. I wrote you about the party of Mrs. Sen. Logan to which they took us. They seemed to be on the best terms with the nicest people of Joliet. Their letter [came?], but the $600 that were to come from Mr. McConnell in Ohio the lawyer still holds on to. But we expect to get it.girls were busy making dolls. The younger one knit tam o'shanter caps. and jackets. and the older one dressed dolls. The older one seem to me particularly distinguished looking as though when she is a woman she would be superior. but the little one seemed just as bright. I thought how much their parents had to be thankful for and how much you have to be thankful for - your children - I showed the photo of your house in the office. Miss Wilde was much pleased to see it. and others who knew Margaret also were glad to see the handsome home. It is now on the mantle in my chamber & always reminds me of you when I get up in the morning. We are both very glad we went to your house. and had the pleasant visit we did. I have just got $500. from the will of Mr. Hamilton of Fort Wayne. For the We are distressed because the Washington territory woman seemed [bound?] to carry their case to the United Supreme Court where they will be sure to get an adverse decision. and that will be against Wyoming too. though I see that it was moved in the Senate on the 9th inst. to admit Wyoming as a state. We are watching with the greatest interest to see how it will come out. What a gain and joy it will be if it comes in! One election is just over. and we have elected two women on the school board. Alice and her father voted different tickets. Ever aff L.S.He went against all catholics She voted for a fair share of women. I am not allowed to vote! We are all well. My old brother in West Brookfield who will be 79 next month. and his wife who is 75 went from here yesterday. He is not well. but his head is clear. I suppose you will have small chance in your legislature this winter - I am sorry Mr. Thompson of Oskoloosa is mad and I hope did not make a mistake in the matter of [?]. But he seemed all right. Was it on acct of Mr. Thompson that Mrs. Carpenter resigned? With best wishes for you both. and a very pleasant memory of the studio and the house. And you both [OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston, 188_] [*LS 1890*] [OFFICE OF Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, No. 3 PARK STREET, Boston,] Pope's Hill Dorchester Jan. 10 1890 Dear Mrs. Campbell Thanks for your long excellent letter - your committee meets tomorrow so this is too late for that and I am sorry. We do pay the .25 membership but you will keep it till there is a treasurer for the New Association. It is too much to pay. and I think the rate will have to be altered. Vermont will not come in on acct of that .25. they cant [aford] afford it - With this I enclose 6 tickets. The money is sent to you for memberships will you write in, before the "American" National with a hyphen? It has so generally been sent to me that probably you will not get much. I dread to work or to try to work with is here. and all our people have it except me. Harry has it hard. We hope the cold weather which has come will stop it. It snowed today. and it froze the night before Love to Mr. C. and you L.S.these women. The old spirit is in them. Susan - or Mrs Rachel Foster for her - has written to have all the delegates send in their credentials to Susan now, beforehand, but nobody should do it. The delegates are to give their credentials to a committee elected at the meeting_. However, I think they wish for the credit of cooperating with us. And in our pact, they will find are not easy to be managed i.e. we shall have a voice in deciding matters. The convention is to pay the board of delegates and we all go to the [Riggs?] house They the convention pay the expenses one way of invited speakers. Enclosed is a check for $50. towards your expenses, and you are to take a sleeping car, and make yourself comfortable. I am glad Mrs Chapman will be there. And wish Mrs Callanan was to be there too. I hope the Union will prove for the best. At any rate let us try to make it so. The "Grippe" Wilmington Delaware Apr. 7th 1880 My dear Mrs. Campbell I write you from New York telling you how ill I had been. Now I am almost my old self again. I look as well as ever and perhaps [except] except for a queer hoarseness. I am as well as ever. So now I write again to say if you will act as agent [go to lecture] we will give you a dollar for every new yearly subscriber you get to the Woman's Journal. We have decided to try giving this induced by Mrs. Perkins. She said all other papers did it, and said so much, we let her try, and she got us 50 subscribers in Boston in less than three weeks. Then her daughters begged her to stop. and so she did. We [give for?] six, and these months in the same proportion I wish I knew you had got over the soreness of your lungs, and the not feeling strong. I want to say too that I think you should feel entitled when you lecture and take a collection to pay yourself first Mr. Richards of Colorado, called to see me in N.York. He has gone to Leadville and is speculating in mining stock. Took his little girl over the snowy range on Jan. 9 with the mercury frozen. He has not brought her to his sister in Ohio, but says he shall take her back with him. He cant do without her. The eye doctor in N. York told her eyes could not be helped. We [tatted?] of you, whom he called "the best woman in the world." He says if ever gets money, he shall pay Miss Hindman.as you would if it had been voted to you by the society. You ought to be paid, and could be, if the society took action as they have not, you are not the less entitled to just compensation for your work -- Alice is here with me. Keeping up with her lessons, and keeping me company. We expect to stay, till the raw winds have got milder at home -- Alice takes every burden. We got board at an unsuitable place. Alice went out to hunt, and got this large good room with good board. She packs and unpacks our valise, puts things away in the drawers, and developes practical talent. She keeps everything neat, and is as tender of me as though I were her baby and not she mine. Mr. Blackwell writes that he misses Mr. Campbell, in making agents to secure best contracts, which are slow in coming in. His brother Sam (Florence's father) has gone to help him -- Here in Wilmington they only mean to take 500 acres, and they have four hundred already taken. But it is slow work in Maine -- Today is the great feast of Unitarians. One hundred years since Channings [birth?]! Did you send an account of the Iowa action? I only saw we were defeated as we have been everywhere except in [Iowa] Wisconsin. Even school suffrage in R.I. We shall never succeed till we raise money and have more lectures among the people. With best love Lucy Stone [OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 PARK STREET. Boston] Dorchester, July 24 1890 Dear Mrs. Campbell I knew I owed you a letter before you last arrived. But you were right not to wait for me. I cant keep up with my work. What with the house, and family, and company, and the Journal &c, &c, &c. All my time is gone and not half done that needs to be done -- How are awful it is about young Coggshall!! his mother what a grief to her! Judge Heming's paper has been read several times. Once to a Boston sociable. Once to the W. Newton League &c. It is a good paper but it is too long to make into a leaflet. Just now we print all the leaflets first in the Woman's Journal, and then we electotype them. This was so long we have not done it -- I think it would be quite worth it. It needs a good reader. Tonight it might be acted -- When our committee meet in Sept, I will see whether they will publish it -- though I think they decided not to do it. Sometime ago I saw the hard effort you were making to raise [money?] him up. Remember us to him -- Shall I send you [Hemings]? With much love dear Mrs Campbell As always Lucy Stoneand wondered whether tea parties with an admission added to the [mite?] pocket and to the collections might help you out. But it is a hard pull any way. We, even with our legacies, and our "Country Store Fairs are always pinched. but then we have large expenses all the time. If Miss Pond would go for you she would help your treasury. But she has not found suffrage popular enough to make her care to take it up. I do not know where she is - but it is at the West. I am glad you thought of me when the good news of Wyoming came - I do think it is the beginning of the end. How can other states exclude women after the success of Wyoming. Alice is in camp in Canada with Mrs. Barrows of the Christian Register. Mrs. Shaw and Lucy [Anthony?] were with her. They came here this week and left yesterday. Mrs. Shaw to go to Dakota - Alice will come home in about 2 weeks - We are pretty well. I have more rheumatism than usual and the grippe has left us both with coughs, and besides I have a heart difficulty, such excersion beating making me faint. The Dr. says I must not lecture any more - so I shall write till I have to lay down my pen forever or till the heart is better. Sorry J. B.'s Colorado trip did not serve him better. The sight of the mountains might have set Dorchester Aug. 3, 1890 Dear Mrs. Campbell I wish I could take you up and comfort you after such a discouraging time as you have had - but your state fair is coming. You will sell your cook books there, get [mite?] pockets [made] [?] and subscriptions to the Standard, and members to the association & then things will seem better. I have written to West Newton to Mrs. Walton who hasHenings and ask her to send it to you, and you need not send stamps - how dreadful it is for poor Mrs. Coggeshall! and was it not odd that Mrs. Carrie Lane should marry so suddenly! But young widows tell us that - still I hope she will be able to work for you by and by - I wish I could send you a thousand dollars. But we are ourselves pinched all the time. I am now paying for the column and and for Mrs. Adkinson eachyear $1,988 and that is $900 more than the income of the Eddy money and it does not pay Alice anything for all her work on the column so that I am all the time advancing from my private money - and going short for many things for the cause sake - But I hope the cause will have more friends before long & then it ought not to be so hard for any of us. Would not Mr. Bernis pledge something for the Iowa. work But during this hot weather I hope you will not try to work. Here everybody is stirred up about the coming of the Grand Army next week. Boston buzzes about it like a bee hive. Alice came from camp Aug 1- I hope she will go soon to the Vineyard. We are about the same and we all send our best regards to you. Yours always Lucy Stone At Home Sept 29, 1890 Dear Mrs. Campbell I ought to have answered earlier. It would be an interesting historical fact if Mrs. Alderman's story is true but I do not believe it. We should have heard of it - still it may be worth while to write to find out. That would not cost much and the present or the last judges of elections could probably tell - When Susan voted she blew her trumpet so loud that there was no doubt of the fact - H.B.B. is still in Dakota but he expects to be home in about a week. Mrs. Devoe & Mrs. Bailey write me that no one has done them so much good or won so many votes & they beg for him to stay. But they have no chance of winning what with the disturbance among themselves & taking with her Lucy Anthony, Susan's niece. We always keep a warm side for you dear Mrs. Campbell Hope your home arrangements are satisfactory [?] [?] to J.B. Yours always L.S.with the four political parties they have not a ghost of a chance. I did hope Mississippi would do it - It would have carried a great deal with it and helped immensely. We did see about your one star. I think it was very pat and your card too. How good an idea that was! We begin our state fare on Wednesday next and we have an exhibit area shall take time to sow suffrage seed. The 40th anniversary of the first [National] National convention at Worcester is to be held in January. We hope to have it a great occasion. I am to have Ethel Blackwell (she is here now) and Cornelia one of Emily's adopted daughters for this winter. and I have a little German girl [*Beth Hagar*] of 15 who goes to school, and saves me steps so I shall have a large family - my joints and my throat give me trouble but otherwise I am well Alice has been 8 days at the VineyardNational-American Woman Suffrage Association _________________________ ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, PRESIDENT NEW YORK SUSAN B. ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE ROCHESTER, N.Y. LUCY STONE, CHAIRMAN EX. COM 3 PARK STREET, BOSTON, MASS JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER, RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, COR. SEC., 3 PARK STREET, BOSTON, MASS. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, REC. SEC. 748 N. 19TH ST. PHILADELPHIA ELIZA TITUS WARD, REV. F.A. HINCKLEY - AUDITORS NATIONAL LECTURER, REV. ANNIE H. SHAW LUCY E. ANTHONY, PRIVATE SECRETARY 748 N. 19TH ST. PHILADELPHIA Nov. 26, 1890 My dear Mrs. Campbell Yours with the call for the Iowa meeting came just too late for last week but we have got it in this week - I wanted to answer your letter at once for somehow it gave me the feeling that you [had] were discouraged or tired or both - and I wished I could "take you up" my picture of your home life is so vivid. I seem to see you all around with the house care and work. But I hope you will stand by Mrs. Hunter and the others who have pulled so long together and not give up for any reason. But when you write that you should not hold any office next year I am afraid you feel as if you could not go on. Pray go a visit your son and rest and come back ready for anything. I wish we were neighbors and tho' I have no lovely flower full window to add brightness to the room we could sit and talk over matters and comfort ourselves. By this time you know weare beaten in Dakota and is it not a shame that the men of S. Dakota gave more votes for the enfranchisement of the Indians who are now after their scalps than they did for that of the woman! Well for all that success is sure sometime. We are to have a lot of guests tomorrow for Thanksgiving - 7 people are to come over I have seven in the family this winter. I have 2 nieces of Mrs. Blackwell, one of Antoinette's daughters and one of Emily Blackwell's adopted daughters and a little German girl of 15 years whose mother used to live with me. She is a good child - goes to school and saves me steps. Both the others study in the city and come home at night. We have got our case in the suit for the legacy of $600 which was left us by a woman in Ohio but the lawyers fees are to come out so we do not know how much it will be. It was for the Woman's Journal which since there are so many other monthly or quarterly cheaper papers, falls off in its circulation so that we do not nearly cover its expenses but this is not to be told outside - my heart trouble is nearly well and my rheumatism less bad just now. We are all well. Alice safely home again and they would both send love if they were at the house - not forgetting J.B. Love always L. Stone