BLACKWELL FAMILY Wildman, J.K. LUCY STONEOffice of The Woman's Journal, No. 5 PARK STREET Boston, July 13, 188[?] Dear Mr. Wilaman I suggest Richmond Virginia as the place for holding the next meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association. 1st Because we want to interest and enlist the South. 2nd Because the Woman's Congress will meet in Baltimore the last week in Oct. and our speakers who attend that will not have much extra travel and expense to go to Richmond. The delay in finding the time if the and the place if the congress has delayed this letter till many friends have gone for the summer. But if you can consult such if your committee can remain it will do for the present through a voteof the full board is better. Yours truly Lucy Stone Chair Ex Com A.W.S.A. If Richmond is not considered best, please suggest some other place or places. I was greatly sorry for the defeat in Oregon. Mrs. Daniway told us she had the contract for printing all the tickets if she would pay the cost. She meant to print all of them for the amendment and between those who would vote yes and those who would not care to take trouble to & [rose?] a [word], She seemed to have a good chance.Office Woman's Journal, No. 3 Tremont Place, Jan. 24th 1870. Mr. J. K. Wildman, Yours of 22d inst. is at hand. Many thanks for the long list of names you send us. Specimen Copies will be mailed immediately to their addresses. Truly yrs. Sarah G. Weld, for the Proprietors. Dear Friend I should have said thanks, to your letter. only I have been so very busy. I say it now. all the same. I am glad you like the "Journal" and are so effectively helping it. Mrs. [Groudin?] declined, and Mrs. Hyde never replied. If I knew her address. I wouldmail her a paper subscribers are coming in very well, and we hope to make the papery really pay - If you could occasionally get a scrap of notice of the "Journal" in the Philadelphia papers, it would be well- Very truly yours Lucy Stone Love to the Pierces-OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 5 PARK STREET. Boston, Mar. 8 1882 Dear Mr. Wildman I add this line to tell you that our question (municipal suffrage) comes up today in the Senate. We have a bill reported in favor of it. We have also a very strong, adroit report by the minority against it. This, they have put first in good type in a pamphlet, and at the end of the pamphlet is our bill is fine type. This is put on the seat of every member of the legislature, so that they have had it a whole week to soak into them, and prepare them to vote against us. It gives me actual nausea to think that we are likely to beto be voted down even in this fraction of our claim. But great things must move slow, and the Lord reigns! I think Philadelphia has done beautifully by the Jewish refugees. Yours very truly Lucy StoneOFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, Apr. 29 1871 Dear Friend I have your letter, just like you. Thank you for it. I think the best thing you can do to set yourself right with Mrs. Woodhull is to send for her paper from the beginning, and read it. There is no person more gentlemanly or genial, or pleasant than Fernando Wood. But his record is behind him, and speaks louder and more truly than anything else, of what he really is. I hope I shall see you in N.Y. when we can have a little talk - Very truly yours, Lucy StoneWildman OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, Aug. 27 1871 Dear Friend Wildman We have to decide the place for the holding of our annual meeting. i.E. the meeting of the American Soc. The Missouri State Soc. has sent us a formal invitation to hold it at St. Louis - But that is so far on one side, and will cost so much to carry our speakers there, (to say nothing of the delegates.) that it seems almost literally out of the question. Philadelphia or Pittsburgh would be more central, and hence better. We have called a meetingof our Ex Com. for Monday Sept 4th to decide the place for our annual meeting — Meantime, I should like to know from you what you think about holding it in your own city. Should we get a cordial welcome there; or would our friends who lean a great way toward Mr. Woodhull not wish to cooperate? Please tell me frankly just what you think — We have a most lamentable state of affairs here in politics — Ben. Butler. for whom decent people are ashamed to vote and Harvey Jewell who hates Woman Suffrage as candidates for Gov. Very truly Lucy Stone Office of The Woman's Journal, No. 3 Tremont Place. Boston, Oct 28 1871 Dear Mr. Wildman, Can anything be done to get reduced fares on the Pa RR from the West & on the N. Jersey RR from N. York to delegates attending the Convention. If so, it would be well to get the terms at once & advertise them in the Woman's Journal. The moral effect is as valuable as the pecuniary saving- Also can anything be done toward providing private hospitality for the delegates? If not, where can we find [a] comfortable hotel accommodations at reduced prices? If fear the delegates will not be very numerous - probably will not exceed 100 all told- But our western friends especially - will feel more inclinedto come if hospitality is extended. I am sorry to trouble so busy a man as you are with such details, but as you are on the spot, it seems inevitable &, as you know, what is everybody's business is nobody's business. Your friend Lucy Stone Chair. Ex. Com Nov. 4 This letter was written and not sent. Now I add the names of speakers that they may be made part of the news item, in the Philadelphia papers. Col. Higginson - Julia Ward Howe, Wm Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Mary Cutter, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Churchill Mrs. Burleigh, Mr Blackwell, Gilbert Haven, Lucy Stone, Miriam M. Cole, and others. It is thought best to ahve the meeting begin in the A.M. of the 24th say 10 [?] o'clock. so that we may have two full days. Could you let us know, in time for the next Journal whether there is any arrangement with the rail roads? Can you attend to business details of the Convention? See to abundant local notice. Have tickets at 28 cts. for the evening meetings &c &c. I know how wearisome it is but it has to be done for the dear sake of the cause. Have you so many tracts that we shall not need to carry any? Your truly Lucy StoneNov. 7 1871 Dear Friend Wildman I have your letter, & certainly rejoice that all your delegates are right. I suppose you have my letter saying that we had concluded to use the whole of both days. Still, I think there need be no trouble about having your meeting dovetail into ours. Could you not call a meeting of your Soc. for Wednesday, at 9 1/2 or 16 o'clock A. M. and choose officers for the next year &c. and then adjourn to meet with the American. having your business meeting in the same hall with us? Thanks for your welcome to your house. If we go to Mrs. Crossdale we shall see you all notwithstanding and be refreshed. I do not thinkthe friends ought to be burdened with hospitality while the convention is to be cared for. If we could find board at reduced price, as at Cleveland, it would be a good think. I expect Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Butler, and Mrs. Langley Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Churchill. Mrs. Livermore will not be there. She says her arrangement with Mr. Pugh to lecture in his "Star Course' precludes the possibility of attending our annual meeting, as she is pledged not to speak in Phila except for him. I should let every other lecture go for the sake of the annual meeting of the A. W. S. Association. I have tried to get Mrs. L. to do so but she thinks she can't. I hope Mr. Turners will come in and speak, even if he is not announced we need every clean soul to help us, now when such a flood of what is fatal to the peace, and purity of the family is rolled in on our question. Please say it clear good, clear eyed. Man grew, that my one wish in regard to Mrs. Woodhill is that she nor her ideas may be so much as heard of at your meeting! I suppose we ought have the large posters at the Hall [?] on the days of meeting We shall also need to make an effort to raise money. The large expense of the meeting in Phila, Pittsburg, Washington & Baltimore necessitates the [clearing?] our best at each place to get as much as we can. We want to [get] carry on books for memberships to the A. W. S. A. Mrs. Campbell will do well to go through the audiences, but we ought to have at least four to help her. Would your sisters Pierce help? and whois there besides, with pleasant face and manner, who cares enough for our ideas to aid in this way cheerfully? Mrs. Janney of Columbus Ohio, says she can get passes on the Pa. Central for any who will send their monies to her. I sent you the other day the list of our speakers — [saic?] then Gilbert Hover says he fears he cannot go. So perhaps it is not safe to announce him. Very truly yours Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 3 TREMONT PLACE Boston, Nov. 16 1871 Dear Friend ( Mr Wildman) Your circular is at hand. I think it could not have been better. Now if [?] Satruday & Monday papers have notice, & you keep account of all expenses of money. ( for there is a large outlay that money cannot pay for) it will be all right, and I trust the convention, may serve in the very best manner, the great needs of the cause- I think I shall get to Philadelphia Monday morning- I want to confer with you about some points in my annual report. Truly Yours Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, Feb. 27 1872 Dear Mr. Wildman Do not suppose we are not ever so glad of your articles for the Journal, because we have not had time to say so. You may be sure they are always very welcome - The accompanying letter reached me yesterday as you see without signature. So in answer I write you to say that I have ordered ten copies of the Journal to be sent to your office, trusting to those who keep the office to make the most of them. The "Evolution" is dead, and its list transferred to the Liberal Christian - "Hic jacet:Aaron Powell has been in this city for a week, but he never comes to our office and we never see him. You will be glad to know that our house is getting on, so that we expect to be in it by the first of May. Alas! May has the N. York and Boston meetings to plan for, and the annual meeting of the American Association follows hard on the heels of these, and the Woman's Journal has to be carried every day between — but there is an end somewhere Love to your household and you, Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, Nov. 8 1874 Dear Mr. Wildman I have your letter kindly inviting me to attend your annual meeting at W. Chester. It would be very pleasant to meet you all but ever since the Detroit meeting, where I took a severe cold which has left the top of my throat in trouble, I have been obligated to decline all invitations to speak. There meetings here, or in this region, all waiting for me to be fit to work - so you will see that I cannot accept the invitation of our Ex. Committee Allow me to suggest that with Miss Hindman, and Miss Patridge, and Charles G. Ames, Mary [Green], Sarah Hallowell, Margarett Burleigh J. [?sh.] Wildman and the others. A grand meeting can be held, without the [?leed] if any. Miss Patridge is a [please=] ing and good speaker. You know Miss Hindman - Just now she is tired and a little aggravated. But the account of the [?lunch] in Mich. which these two ladies can give, will add very much to the interest of June meeting The hope for Mich. is gone for this time. But not for the next. But there is hope for us I believe in this political breaking up. So I thank God for it - Very truly yours Lucy Stone M Boston Dec. 30 - 1875 Dear Mrs. Wildman If you have not yet secured a [place] hall, for the Centennial celebration of July 2nd. 1876, will you do so,as soon as it is convenient, and let us know. You can consult with the friends there as to the best Hall [de.] and we will cheerfully accept the decision. We must try to have a meeting worthy of the great principle, and of the brave old timer. Bishop Simpson should at once be invited, on behalf of the American Woman Suffrage association, to address the meeting. Perhaps it ought to be a formal invitation. Is'nt it funny? You know (perhaps) my offer in a late number of the Woman's Journal to take the protests if Harriet K. Hunt &c &c. to the centennial. Mrs. Jas. T. Fields Chairman for Massachusetts has written me accepting my offer. so far as Miss Hunt, and Dr. Bowditch are concerned. I have thanked her, and asked if the kindred papers of the sisters Smith and of Abby Shelly Foster cannot also be admitted. So I am likely to be at the centennial after all. Yours truly Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, Friday 9th June 1876 Dear Mrs Wildman We want very much to have Bishop Simpson speak at our meeting on the 3d of July. I have, by this mail sent him a letter, asking him to do so. Can you not see him, and help our wish? He is not to have the burden of the meeting. but to give his presence for moral support, and a speech affirmative, of greater or less length as he pleases. We expect Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Howe, and others. Your know this, will be a meeting to celebrate, and not to objurgate. A meeting to praiseand not to blame. So every one can join. We ought to have some "head quarters", where we shall be not too far from the Centennial, and which can be announced in the Woman's Journal, so that all the friends who will, may gather in one place. Would it be too much trouble for you to watch the Ledger and when you see suitable rooms, in the right place, engage for six or 8, to begin on Sat. July 1st. I suppose this is difficult to do, and you shall not burden yourself with it. Several have written as to know where our head quarters will be. And there will most likely be a large number who would like to be near together, and not far from the Centennial grounds. I suppose our meetings had better be free. 2) I am therefore trying to raise the expense of it, in advance. The Hall will be $75. and the advertising I suppose will be $50 more. I shall collect what I can, before we go on. If the Philadelphia friends were asked, I have no doubt, they would gladly give a share towards the needed sum. Perhaps you know some one, who has leisure, and heart in the work, who would "lend a hand" for this part of the work. Mr. Blackwell will try again at Cincinnati to see whether the Republican National Convention will put in a resolution for Woman Suffrage. I will send several items for the Philadelphia paper, and also[list] advertisement, as soon as we have our lists of speakers complete. If you have any suggestions about what and how we had better do, please let me have the benefit of them. Yours very truly Lucy Stone We do not want to have the most expensive place to stay, but a good place. Office of The Woman's Journal, No. 3 Tremont Place Boston, June 18, 1876 Dear Friend Wildman, When I wrote you last week, I wrote also by same mail, to Fanny M. Ames asking her and Charles G. to participate in our July 3d meeting. Since I sent it, I have remembered that Mr. Ames told me that they had moved the last of May. I fear therefore, that the letter may have failed to reach them. So I enclose to your care and if you will see that it is properly directed, and then mail, I shall be obliged to you. The meeting cant afford the absence of those blessed people. Mrs. Churchill, who went to Philadelphia to the temperance meeting writes me to say, that we cannot possibly get anaudience that the Centennial absorbs every thing, and she advises that we give the meeting up. But I think we have gone too far to go back. Still if you really think that we cant have an audience I wish you would write me, and I will consult such members of the Committee as are accessible to see what they think. I dread the heat of that time. If I ought not to have asked you to engage "head quarters" for us, pray say so, and we will announce no special (such) place, and look out for ourselves. I suppose one can do best on the very day one needs. I am asking those who I think would contribute, to do so: that the meeting may be free, and no collection taken. [?] has not yet returned from Cincinnati. Th 12th resolution is ours. It may help a little. Yours very truly Lucy Stone Office of The Woman's Journal No. 3 Tremont Place Boston, Feb 22 1876 Dear Mr. Wildman I did not understand that any action remained in regard to the meeting of July 2nd except to arrange for it. It was voted at the annual meeting that such a meeting should be held. I think your own remarks [made] at the time made it clear to every one that Philadelphia was a better place than Burlington. We who are here, (I mean those of the Committee) agreed [that] informally, as there is no quorum here, that I should write you as I did in regard to securing [the] a Hall for the 2nd July. Now we agree that Monday July 3rd is the most suitable, and I think there can be no need, (after the vote [*Monday evening. Philips and Judge Pitman are to be the speakers. Do you think it wise to make such an alliance? Ever truly yours Lucy Stone*] in [N.] of writing to every member of the committee for their special expression in regard to it. But if you who are in Philadelphia think that this is necessary I will have it done. But if not, those of the committee who are in this state think that a hall should be at once secured in Philadelphia for Monday the 3rd July. We will try to make the meeting worthy of the centennial. there is another matter stirring here which I wish the Philadelphia friends would advise about. Stephen Foster is eager to have the suffragists make an alliance (political) with the prohibitionists to thus get a party which will have the balance of power, and so compel republicans to do something. Wendell Phillips favors it. But neither Mr. Garrison [?] may. Mrs. Ames at B. B. or I think it is a good plan, especially at this moment when the matter is working well at our State House. But they are to have a meeting next Jan 21 [1876] Dear Mr. [Willoman] I was so glad to get your charming letter this morning! I have not heard from Bishop Simpson. I have not written Mr. and Mrs. [Bowlen] but I will do so. Here is another hard fact. Mrs. [Livermore] says she cannot attend & Mrs. Howe is [ ] on account of her daughter's illness. Both had promised me. We could just our [continue] and an annual meeting into one the last of Sept. if it were best. Mr. Blackwell has not returned from Cincinnati. But I think he will be here tomorrow and I shall consult with him. But as you still think it best to hold our meeting. Without Mrs. Livermore or Mrs. Howe? Mrs. Livermore thinks as Mrs. Churchill does that there will be too small an audience to be worth while. But you think differently, and you can judge better than they can. I had set my heart on this Centennial and I hate not to hold it but I hate also to even seem to make a failure of it. Many thanks to you and to the little Patridge for securing a lodging place for us. Just as soon as I can I will write directly to the Lacey herself about the member she may expect from this way, and when. In best but very truly Lucy Stone Let me hear as soon as convenient what you think in case Mrs. Livermore cannot be persuaded to go. OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, June 22 1876 Dear Mr. Wildman Mr Blackwell came home today, and he reassures my failing courage, and so we will go bravely on. Mr. Ames seems to think our meeting comes on the 2nd. I shall write to correct his mistake. Mr. Blackwell will see Mrs. Livermore and may be she will be persuaded to go on. I write this in haste to counteract the one sent yesterday. I expect to hear from T.W.H. today. We can't announce names in this week's paper. Cordially Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, June 24 1876 Dear Mr. Wildman I saw Anna Dickenson yesterday, and she may go to Phil for the 4th. If she does, she says she will speak for us. I have also written and urged Geo. F. Hoar to do so. There is some hope of Mrs. Livermore and Miss Howe. I think it will be all right, and that we shall have a good meeting. I hope you will try to find Bishop Simpson. He has not answered my letters. It would be worth a great deal to us if he were one of us on that occasion. Mr. Blackwell will go in the Philadelphia so as to be there Saturday and I secured you him any way. I shall also send newspaper itemsJust as soon as we are sure of our speakers. Mr. Higginson "cannot possibly" go. We shall have a "lot" of the little historical statement of the "facts" of the N. Jersey voting and some of the Bowditch pamphlet on the taxation of Women to man to distribute. Would not Mrs. Sproat Turner contribute towards the local expenses? I wish we could have one good song. Mrs. Turner might make me, and you could find singers in the audience could you not. I think you ever so much for helping me to keep my courage up. Now Mr. BLackwell is here. I am well seconded. Ever truly yours Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE Boston, Tuesday June 27, 1876 Dear Mr. Wildman Enclosed are notices for the daily papers, to which you can add or subtract as in your judgment it is best. Anna Dickenson will telegraph you on Wednesday, whether to add her name to the list of speakers. She fully intends to speak for us, but cannot say till she has seen her mother who is ill. Mrs. Livermore will not be there Mrs. Hilere may - so her name may be in . Mrs. Lucas, a sister of John Bright, and Mr. Parker of Dundee Scotland, were at the Temperance meeting in Phil. If I knew where to find them, I would invite them to speak. If you know where they are, will you ask them? DO not take trouble about it because we can do without them. BUt if they were easy to find, their presence would add somehting. Mr. Blackwell will go on to Philadelphia Friday or Sat to confer with you, and help arrange. We ought to have a table at the door or somewhere, for our tracts. The Womans Journal, etc, and some one who will attend to the sale of them, can you arrange for that? I think Mrs. Hallowell will read a paper, but it is best to be sure, hope we can announce - so too will you make sure about the Ames's and Bishop Simpson from whom we have not heard. I wish the weather were cooler, for all this week. But as it comes only once in a century, and never against us we will accept it cheerfully. Yours truly Lucy Stone [*PS Mrs. Hallowell has just telegraphed that she will not speak.] Boston, Feb. 10, 1887 Dear Mr. Wildman In answer to your question about the Suffrage history I will say I have not read it, but Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell says the Maine chapter is very faulty. The five months of work by herself and her husband are not even mentioned, and dates are wrong. Mrs. Livermore says the Indiana chapter is not accurate. You know these volumes are especially, first, to cover the Geo. Francis Train and Woodhull alliance; second, to blow a loud trumpet for all the work done by the authors and their immediate fellow-workers. They have preserved some, many dates, and that is the chief value of the volumes; but the treatment of what you wrote is in keeping with their treatment of other work. Happily, good work is never lost, and the doing it its own exceeding great reward. It is very pleasant to see how the Penna. Society is rousing up. Yours very truly, Lucy StoneTHE OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. 3 TREMONT PLACE, Boston, Aug. 31 1876 Dear Mr. Wildman [?] June card came telling me the right move [?] address of Mr. Brown, I was just going with my daughter to the country and there I found so little time! But I want to thank you in making the address right I enclose you his reply to my letter. I heard Mr. Brown at the Founiul Hall Centennial Tea Party in Boston with a very great deal of pleasure. Afterward I read speeches of his which were published in the Mess, which had so high a moral tone, that I somehow felt, that if he fairly took in the meaning of Woman Suffrage, he would feel an obligation to help it on, and I write him so, and asked him to letme send him the speeches of Gov. Wm. Curtis and others. You will see what he says about it. I am afraid it will amount to nothing. My heart is always aching for the help of good, strong, clean hands, to help in this sacred work for woman, and I reached out, instructing to Mrs. Brown. Sometime when occasion calls you to write me, will you enclose his letter to me? Charles Ames has been in Gloucester and Boston this summer editing the Christian Register. He took tea with us last Sunday. Sometime ago he wrote to Mr. May, and the Justices of his church about its use for us. Up to this time no answer has come. Perhaps you had better get the [?refusal] of Horticultural Hall till we know definitely about that. St. Georges Hall where the Congress will meet, is too expensive for us. As soon as you know whether Bishop Simpson will speak for us will you please let us know, as that will settle about other speakers. Yours truly, Lucy Stone. OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No 4 Park St. Boston, Nov. 4, 1879 Dear Mrs. Wildman I have waited a day or two, before replying to your kind invitation to attend the annual meeting of the Penn. W.S. Association that I might hear from the Brooklyn Society, which has my acceptance to lecture for them "sometime in Nov." the date not fixed I could more easily attend your meeting if I had to make only one journey. [I think] I will attend yours. But I have written to the Brooklyn friends to communicate with you (to save time) about the date they will want me. So if yours can be made so near to theirs, that it will accommodate me in the matter of one journey. I shall deem it a favor. The Woman's Journal longs for an occasional letter from "W." and to get updates of your monthly meetings. We have not yet seen Wm. Ames, but regard it as a great acquisition. [?] he and his wife will be near us. Every cordially yours, Lucy Stone OFFICE OF The Woman's Journal No. 4 Park St. Boston, Aug 13, 1878 Dear Ms. Wildman We are arranging the preliminaries for the annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, which will be held perhaps sometime in October either at Louisville Kentucky, or at Indianapolis, according to what we hear from those two places. We have to raise money to cover the local expense, and as we are never sure how much can be taken at the meeting it is necessary to have enough beforehand to pay all bills that may be incurred at the meeting. I am therefore asking the Auxiliary Societies if they will raisesuch an amount as they are able to. towards this end. If the marchers could each gain a dollar a piece, I think it would make enough. I hope the Penn. Society will send delegates and have their report ready New Hampshire has just passed most triumphantly a law to give women a vote on school questions! This morning if the waters is a great comfort to look toward the end. I hope you are getting a vacation and rest, and that the hot weather has not overwhelmed you. This is my 60th birthday. Please let me hear before the middle September how much we may depend upon. Nothing need be paid before the time of the meeting. Yours very truly. LUcy StoneOFFICE OF The Woman's Journal, No. [ 6 TREMONT PLACE] 4 Park St. Boston, Sept. 12, 1878 Dear Mrs. Wildman I have your letter and am glad to inform you that the Equal Suffrage Society of Indianapolis has volunteered to raise the local expense which our ceremonial meeting may involve. I presume therefore no contribution will be needed from your State society. But by all means send delegates I wish Mary Green and you could go. There is a secret scheme I am told to bring Susan B. Anthony to that meeting, and if she is there I should be glad of the presence of you two people. Your annual report should be in the care of some one who can readwith nice enough. But all that will surely be attended to, and I am only wasting time by any suggestion to your society. Thank you for telling me of the new hope that is coming in to your life. I trust its fulfillment may be even more and better then your highest ideal. It seems so little while ago that dear James Mott was advising me about my marriage - but here is my daughter who will be 21 day after tomorrow. WIth cordial esteem & sympathy, Lucy Stone Mon. West Brookfield July 20, 1870 Dear Friend Wildman I intended a long time ago. I Have said we think after consideration that you are quite right to hold your convention without reference to the Silton arrangements and are always sure you will do the thing which seems right, and true. I have today written to the Vineland friends (who also propose conventions in their neighborhood) that if they will confer with you as to time, speakers can save a great deal of fatigue and expense, to take it all, in one journey. They will probably write you. I only hope they will not mistake your meeting, for the other. I should like to consult with the Philadelphia friends about the place of an annual meeting- It is understood that it is to be somewhere West. I incline to Cleveland, both because it divides the distance, and because if any trick is attempted, the audience, before which our good work was done, will will sustain us. Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburg would do, but for the above reasons. I prefer Cleveland. I hope your soc. will have a share in the Boston Bazar. Mrs. Livermore who is a grand worker, means to make at least $10,000 out of it which she says "will help a great deal." With great wishes to you all. Very truly yours Lucy Stone(Lucy Stone to J.K. Wildman about the Suffrange and Centennial meetings in Philadelphia) July 6, 1876 "We have 'done' so much of the Centennial as was possible in the limited time we had. It is a great wonder, and ought to improve all the nations of the world. Our meeting will have its use, but I think that of the 'others' will have more influence. I am glad they did a good thing." June 9, 1876 We want very much to have Bishop Simpson speak at our meeting July 3rd. We expect Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Howe and others. You know this will be a meeting to celebrate and not to objurgate. A meeting to praise and not to blame. Feb. 22, 1876'There is another matter stirring here which I wish the Philadelphia friends would advise about. Stephen Foster is eager the have the suffragists make an alliance (political) with the Prohibitionists to thus get a party which will hold the balance of power and so compel Republicans to do something. Wendell Phillips favors it, but neither Mr. Garrison, Abby May, Mrs. Ames, H.B.B., or I think it is a good plan especially at this moment when the matter is working well at our State House. But they are to have a meeting next week; Phillip and Judge Potman are to be the speakers. Do you think it wise to make such an alliance? Lucy Stone ATLAS HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED, PHILADELPHIA, 52d St. and Elm Ave. 150 Yrd. from Centennial & Restonville Stations, Penna. R.R. Lodging, One Dollar per day. Meals, 25 Cts. and upwards. 100 Yds to Exhibition. 1836 Friday 5 oclock July 7 Dear Friend Wildman We owe you thanks for several things, but now especially for providing letters. I enclose for stamps [?] I can. We leave here for home tomorrow morning where we expect to arrive Sunday morning. We have "done" so much of the centennial as was possible in the limited time we had. It is a great wonder, and ought to improve all the nations of the world. Our meeting will have its use, but I think that of the "others" will have more influence. I am glad they did a good thing Yours cordially Lucy Stone