BLACKWELL FAMILY LUCY STONE Subject file Biographical Papers (general)Lucy Stone 1 Birthplace, genealogy, childhood, family etc. Home life 2. School, Wilbraham, Warren Subordination of women Desire for Greek + Hebrew. 3 The Pastoral Letter. 1837 4 Oberlin, journey, arrival, studies, domestic work, teaching. 6 The Ladies Board The West Indies Speech 5. Vacation teaching 7 Graduation 8. Early Anti-Slavery lectures 9 Illness in Ohio (?) 10 - Friends + Co-Workers Bloomer dress 11 - Suffrage preference Brick church 13 - Courtship + Marriage Protest, Maternity 14 - Western trip (Michigan)until they are returned to you. As you have been good enough to place the care of your furs with me during the summer seasons of past years, I am hoping that you will continue to allow me to serve you with Huerth and Huerth. I can positively assure you that I will be very happy to give you the very best possible service. Yours very truly, M. T. 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Short sketch of Lucy Stone Fire - burned top floor of Boutwell Ave 1870 or '71) Lucy Stone recipes.Lucy Stone as teacher " worker " anti slavery lecturer " suffragist (see account of re-union of anti-slavery advocates at Lucy Stone's home, Woman's Journal, July 3, 1886, page 212) List some of the laws Mrs. Stone was instrumental in bettering. Lucy Stone League New York. Purpose to retain wife's maiden name12 Jerry Rescue 15 Roseville, Tax Protest John Brown + associates.Dealers in Fine Furs: whose specialty is in the making of fine fur coats to order and the re-modeling of coats into the latest mode. In addition we carry a splendid line of ready to wear garments, also a full assortment of the fur scarfs which Fashion has decreed will be worn this Spring, Fox in particular, in all the new shades. I am particularly fortunate to be connected with this House as Mr. Charles Huerth, whom I have known for twenty-five years, was associated with me in the employ of A. N. Cook & Co. where he received his practical training in the art of a Furrier. The storage department of this establishment is in my care. Our equipment for the cleaning and caring for furs is the most modern of any in Boston, and our insurance covers your garments from the moment you deliver them to our messenger until they are returnedOct 10 - 1896. p. 322 An Evening With Lucy Stone. By Nellie Blessing Eyster. The charm of a personal recollection lies in the fact that to produce it a wave of one's own consciousness has been uplifted, the force of which is felt throughout the soul to the uttermost boundaries of its memory. It was during a home dinner, on a certain day of eighteen hundred and long ago, that my father said, incidentally to my mother: I see that Lucy Stone has arrived. Came in on the Philadelphia train. They say she rode for miles standing on the rear platform of the car, and that she had on top-boots just like a man." An expression of amazement overspread the face of my gentle and refined mother. She laid down her knife and fork. "Lucy Stone! Riding on the outside of a car! Boots! Impossible!" she exclaimed; for a few members of the Woman's Journal, there in its experimental stage, had reached the capital of the Keystone State, and while the but little understood phrases, "woman's rights," "consent of the governed," "taxation without representation is tyranny," etc. were being shot from lip to lip with the shuttlecock of gossip, their real application was known to but few. To my mother, in her quiet home nest, nothing but echoes had come which were pleasant to her ears. But the fact remained that Lucy Stone, by invitation of Mrs. Agnes Kemp, an advanced thinker and distinguished citizen, had arrivedto talk to the conservative, custom-bound people of that inland city, upon the rights of women to have social and political equality with men. "She has magnificent courage, whether she is right or wrong, and I long to tell her so," said my mother "And you endorse such unwomanly proceedings, Mary?" queried my father. "You approve of a woman talking in public?" His voice was stern and his glance severe. He was a Southern gentleman of the old school, who sheltered his own wife and daughters as though they were creatures all too good for human nature's common food. I forget my mother's reply, but I know that the following morning I was permitted to accompany her and three other brave neighbors to call upon the modern wonder at the hotel. At this stage of my experience, this year of our Lord and of our hopes 1896, it seems impossible to realize the darkness of the understanding of those otherwise clever and cultured women. Having sent up their cards, they waited in suppressed excitement the advent of the "woman lecturer," speculating meanwhile in low tones what such a female anomaly would resemble. A vision of a woman as tall as a grenadier, with heavy, masculine voice, short hair, high-topped boots, and, perhaps, pantaloons, arose before me as I heard strident footsteps approaching along the carpeted hall. However, they passed the door, and when it did open there came through it a prototype to me of every womanly grace. It was Lucy Stone in her youthful prime, fresh and fair as the morning, and a Hebe in her strength and beauty. A gown of black satin, from which her small feet, encased in black slippers, "peeped in and out like mice," and a dainty frill of white lace around her throat, fastened with a small pearl brooch, comprised[comprised] the exterior of her faultless attire. Her voice was full of melody; and her smile! who could paint that love-lit emotion of her soul which played over her face as she talked, in swift, electric flashes? Her guests left her presence fascinated, enthusiastic, energized. They spread the news, they excited curiosity, they "agitated" the men, and that night our city hall, the largest room attainable, was crowded with listeners. The men predominated, for news of the pretty, little feet had been industriously circulated. No applause greeted the entrance of the lecturer, for she had not yet won her spurs. The night was cold and damp, and as she stepped upon the platform, we noticed that she had pulled over her slippers a pair of soft, clumsy-looking light kid moccasins, trimmed with fur around the ankles. The eyes of every woman sought and saw the monstrosities, but few appreciated the courage which had been able to sacrifice vanity to practical commonsense. The lecture of an hour or more in length was delivered to an audience that held its breath. All that the young woman said was so new and strange. She asked only for wider avenues of work for women, and that the ability and opportunity to do anything that a man could do well should not be restricted by reason of sex. Her arguments for the political equality of women were forcible and logical. They antagonized no one, but enlightened many. Much has been said since upon that subject, abounding in wit, pathos, sarcasm and fact, but nothing better, stronger nor truer than the utterances of this priestess and prophetess of long ago. A window to the right of the stage was opened as the evening advanced, and just while nearing theclose of her address an egg, aimed at her head, was hurled by some miscreant through the window and broke upon her shoulder. The audience hissed, and some of the women sprang to their feet. The face of Lucy Stone did not even change color. Calmly wiping her dress with her handkerchief, she said: "If you could as easily remove from your minds the seeds of truth which I have sown in them to-night as I can this stain from my garments, I should feel that my work here had been in vain. You cannot. You may leave this hall to doubt, to ridicule, even to condemn me, but time will bring to pass all for which I hope and pray and will labor to my latest breath." (Continued from Book No. 29, Lucy Stone Special) or sensational; nothing of what people call clap-trap in the way of speaking; but earnestly, honestly, modestly and with words that were incisive and penetrating going right to the heart of her subject, and showing clearly the disabilities under which women rested. It made a strong impressions upon me, and from that time on the impression has remained with me...... Lucy Stone had a wonderful gift of public speech, not what you would call brilliance in the way of imagination, not picturesque as Mr Beecher was, picturesque with his figures and stories; yet I hardly know any public speaker, man or woman, whether at the Capitol or in any place in life, who had the ability to stand and talk straighter to the matter, and in a clear, strong way carry her thought as did Lucy Stone. ....... Dr. Caroline B. Winslow said: Forty years ago I first met with Lucy Stone. She was petite, and seemed a little girl. It would not do to say she was beautiful, but there was something about her exceedingly attractive. Small in stature, bright, happy, cheery, she was made to appear still younger and smaller by the reform dress which she had adopted - a short dress with trousers. She was traveling with James and Lucretia Mott, who sat on the platform with her. She was the lecturer. Everybody that has heard her speak knows how exceedingly happy she was in expressing her sentiments; even though they were severe, there was no the bitterness in her remarks that there is in many persons. It was in Cincinnati that I met her and heard her lecture for the first time. It was a subject to which I had paid no attention whatever. I had struggled through a course of reading in medicine and through a medical college. Still I was not broad enough to take in that all women needed what I was fighting for individually. Her lectures, held in one of the largest halls of the city, were very well attended, and by a high class of citizens. She one evening made a very strong assertion with regard to the injustice shown towards women. A hiss, clear and strong, came out of the audience. I flushed up. I could have shaken the person, and I found that my neighbors were equally excited and indignant. The little creature stepped nearer the front, quickly ran her eye over the audience, fastened her gaze upon one point and said, "Somebody hisses. I am glad of it. Hiss it again, my fat friend, for it is a shameful fact and deserves to be hissed!" The audience were overcome with laughter and appreciated her ready wit. The man felt as much like a goose as a man can feel. He got his head down before she had finished her sentence, but her finger still pointed at him. His head went lower and lower, and while I had to turn a little to watch him heslipped out and was gone. This was characteristic of the woman. Her arguments and her presentation of the subject were so clear and forcible that she captured me, convinced me, won me, and I have always claimed to be one of Lucy Stone's converts. ...... In closing the meeting, Mrs. Howard said: One night in Tremont Temple, Julia Ward Howe was presiding. Mrs. Howe said, "We have heard a great many speakers to-night, and it is getting late and some of you want to go home, but I know none of you are willing to go until Lucy Stone has rounded off the meeting;" and that was just the term to use. When the angles came out and the thorns appeared and wrinkles gathered, Lucy Stone rounded out all of those, smoothed them all out, and yet with such logic! I was talking once with a member of the Legislature, and, speaking of the magnetism of certain women speakers, he said: "Lucy Stone is your most logical speaker. We cannot answer her arguments." I asked him why he did not give her what she asked. "We cannot answer her arguments, but we are not yet satisfied that what she wants is practicable, and so we hesitate about granting it, but there is no question about her arguments." That is true. There was no answering them. She drove a nail through and clinched it on the other side, yet always with that sweet voice and gentle manner. Mary Livermore said she was "peculiarly self effacing." This was conspicuously true. All through her life she was so forgetful of herself, as regardless of honors to herself. .... At the time of the convention of the W.C.J.U. held in Boston, the parlors of the Woman's Journal were opened to the members of the New England Women's Press Club for a reception which they were to hold for members of the press from other places. Both Lucy Stone and her daughter were members. Some of the recent notices in the papers speak of that day particularly, and of her gentleness and sweetness and of her bright, living way which showed allthat day. In all the bustle Lucy Stone came to me and said, touching the little badge I wear, "I see you are a King's Daughter. Now, because you are a King's Daughter, I am going to put this lady in your charge, and I want you to introduce her to everybody. She is a stranger, and I want her to have a happy day." That was so like Lucy Stone! Oct. 28 - 1983 (frm W Journal) p. 340 Lucy Stone's Life Work From a half century of unremitting, heroic labor, it is difficult to select, But perhaps the three most salient points in Mrs. Stone's life work were: 1. Her wonderful series of lectures, which began in 1847 on her return from Oberlin College, in the church of her brother, Rev. William B. Stone, at Gardner, Mass., and continuedwith unabated vigor until the birth of her daughter in 1857. This earlier work culminated in the calling of the first National Woman's Rights' Conventions ever held, the great meetings of 1850 and 1851, in Worcester, Mass. These attracted attention throughout the entire country, and the report of the convention of 1850 inspired Mrs. John Stuart Mill to write her remarkable article in The Westminster Review, on the Enfranchisement of Women, which started the agitation in Great Britain, resulting in the establishment, in 1869, of municipal suffrage in England. The National Woman's Rights' Conventions from 1850 to 1855 were mainly organized by Lucy Stone, and their proceedings were annually published by her in pamphlet form at her own expense. 2. The calling of the convention, in 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio, which resulted in the formation of the American Woman Suffrage Association. 3. The establishment of the Woman's Journal January 1, 1870, in cooperation with Mrs. Mary A. Livermore as managing editor, and with William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and T. W. Higginson as editorial contributors. In addition to these, were her work during the campaigns for the woman suffrage amendments in Kansas, Vermont, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, and Rhode Island; her participation, from 1853 on, in the annual meetings of the American Woman Suffrage Association for nearly twenty years; her editorial writing for the Woman's Journal, which continued until within about a month of her death; her work in the New England Woman Suffrage Association, of which she was for years the president, and in the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, where she always took the laboring oar; a correspondence which extended over the whole country and taxed her strength to the utmost; and the public speaking before all sorts of gatherings, which continued till within afew months of her death. Few realized how much speaking she did. She was in receipt of continual calls to present her special subject before women's clubs and other bodies; and even up to the last year of her life, few of the younger women in her State spoke so often on the woman question. Until her last illness, she hardly knew a day of uninterrupted leisure. In addition to all this public work, she was the best of housekeepers, mothers, and wives - the presiding genius of a hospitable home, which her death has left desolate. H.B.B