BLACKWELL FAMILY                        SUBJECT FILE: LUCY STONE corresp.
LUCY STONE                                   (Edna Stantial)
20 Sewall St. Melrose, January 6th

Dear Mrs. Page:

   The enclosed list of names is made up of various
group representation which we ought to interest in Mrs. Park's play,
but I hope you will look it over very carefully and eliminate any
who maynot belong. I imagine Mrs. Pitman is not well enough to
attend, but she ought to have the invitation. Mrs. Bird is over 80
and would probably refuse, but probably we ought to send one to her
too. We may want to use her name later as a sponsor. (You see how
well you trained me?) Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch's name is not on the 
list. She broke her hip last week, but I shall send her a note when
our plans are definite, regretting that she is not able to be there.
Florence Luscomb says we have a perfect alibi!!
   Mrs. Forbes and Miss Luscomb seem to agree that we should
have no reporters present, but that this meeting should be a get together
of the old guard who will listen to a partial reading of the script, and
then discuss how best to advertise it.
   I am to meet Mrs. Forbes on Friday, as I told you, and
shall write you on Saturday to let you know what definite plans were made.
The tentative plan now is to have a tea for about fifty people at the
College Club on Friday, January 14th. Miss Miriam Skirball is to be
asked by Miss Luscomb to read selections from the play. Then Mrs. Forbes
or you will present Mrs. Park who will explain her reasons for writing
the play. After she finishes won't you have some suggestion ready so
that the discussion can be started? Florence Luscomb is going to see what
she can do with Ford Hall this week end. She thinks their Players could
give a Boston performance with credit.  Mrs. Catt wrote that she would
like to come on for the first performance, and I am sure that has spurred
Florence on.  What a feather that would be in the cap of Ford Hall!


Mrs. Page - 2.

I have been trying to think of the Brookline women who were on our
lists years ago. Miss von Arnim died two years ago. Do you think
Mrs. Roland G. Hopkins should be invited? She and Mrs. H. Parker
Whittington were very busy at the State office during the last two 
years of the campaign.  Miss Helen Gaffney and Mrs. Mary Murphy
Mahoney were the two stenographers who certainly ought to come if they
are not busy during the day.
   I wrote to Mrs. Catt last night, asking her to send a statement
which could be read.  She is most enthusiastic about the play.
   Tomorrow after the Boston League Board meeting I am going to see
the agent for the printing firm which is to get out the new edition
of Miss Blackwell's life of Lucy Stone. The Alice Stone Blackwell
Committee is going to get out an edition of 500 copies to be sold at
the popular price, $1.50.  I do hope we shall be able to dispose of
that number of copies during Miss Blackwell's lifetime.
   What fun it will be to get people together again! But we shall
miss Mrs. Crowley, Mrs Mahan and Wenona.
   Do you think you could write to Mrs. Leonard and get her to 
send a telegraphic message to the meeting? She might even have time
to write if it were sent air mail.
   Mrs. Johnson is going to look over an old Cambridge list and see
who are left of the old timers there.
Affectionately,

Do think out what we should do at the tea and send your suggestions either
to Mrs. Forbes at 280 Adams St. Milton, or to me.
                                          E.L.S.2 Sewall St. Melrose, January 20th

Dear Mrs. Park:
   I've let you alone long enough, and here comes another
addition to your box of correspondence on "Lucy Stone". First,
thank you for the nice things you said to Miss Blackwell. She
wrote me a note in her own handwriting to tell me this: "Edna
dear: I wish you could have heard how warmly Mrs. Maud Wood Park
spoke of you when she came to see me the other day. She said you
were wonderful, or words to that effect. I am always affectionately
and gratefully yours, A. S. B." Wasn't that sweet? I do appreciate
it. But I don't need to be thanked, really, for anything that I 
can do for A. S. B. or the biography. I wonder if I ever told you 
the story of Mrs. Luscomb? We were all working hard at the Boston
office one night trying to get thousands of circulars ready for a 
labor meeting at which Florence was to speak. Mrs. Luscomb worked
with us until 9:30. When she opened the door to leave I said, "Thank
you so very much Mrs. Luscomb. You are a dear to stay and help."
"Humph", rather disgustingly she retorted, "It's my cause as well as
yours!" I shall never forget it; and doesn't it sound like her?
Well, I wish a few more people felt that the play and Lucy Stone 
were their causes!

I have written to Miss Cahill to this effect: "Early in the fall when
I talked with Mr. Theodore Johnson, and later in a letter, he spoke
of sending a "personalized" letter to a group of people to whom I 
thought "Lucy Stone" might be of interest. It was with this letter in 
mind that I went through the 12,000 cards in our Alice Stone Blackwell
file and picked out the ones to have typed for you. This was my reason
for asking you last Friday what other plan Mr. Johnson had, in addition
to sending the printed circular to that list. When the envelopes
came for Mrs. Matson to address they seems rather a large size to
contain simply a letter. It may be that Mr. Johnson intended to send 
a letter with the circular.

"I think from the point of view of sales of the play books it might
be worth while to include with the printed notice some kind of a 
"personalized" message, possibly signed by somebody whose name is
definitely connected with the suffrage group. Will you ask Mr.
Carl Johnson if the slip which is to have the order blank on one 
side could not have this other material on the reverse side? I might
find someone who would be willing to pay for the additional printing.
It ought not to cost very much. Perhaps if he is interested you
will let me know what the estimate would be."

I hate to lose the opportunity of calling to the attention of those
whose families are in the play that a group other than the publisher
is interested in the project.

I am sending you four copies of the play for your autograph. They are
orders from people who need no personal word added.

This afternoon I am going to Miss Blackwell's to have Mrs. Boyer go
over the new proofs on the Lucy Stone jacket. I have one more order
this morning. The enclosed slips were printed at Christmas time by
Miss Blackwell, and I am sending some along in the hope that you will
tuck them in with your mail from time to time. (I'll enclose them
instead in the package with the books.)

Grace Johnson wrote me a note yesterday enclosing her check for her
four copies of the play. She has read it through and says it is great.She also felt that a good deal of enthusiasm had been worked up
at the tea.
If Mr. Johns is willing to have a personal message go in some of 
the envelopes, I'll go into the office and pick out the ones whose
names mean the most.
I wrote to Miss Comstock sending her some information she had asked
for, and took great pains to tell her about the possibilities of
the play for an amateur group, and "hoping that Radcliffe Idler would
consider it." Do you suppose Miss Griswold would write to Miss
Comstock in regard to the play? I'd be willing to ask her to if
you think best.
As soon as you frame a letter to go to some of the college heads
I'll get those letters off. And you were going to send me a list
of people connected with papers and magazines to whom a letter and
possibly a review copy of the play could go. I've used only four of
the copies promised to me. Do you know Eva von Hansl, of the
National Broadcasting Co.? I had a good deal of correspondence with
her last year when Miss Blackwell was  going to join the national
hookup with Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Gellhorn, Gertrude Ely and others.
There might be some way to get mention a least over the radio, but I
don't know of any book or drama review groups. I shall watch the
advertising lists in the paper from now on.
LaRue Brown hasn't bothered to draw up the statement about our
publishing the second edition of Lucy Stone. I have asked him twice.
I wonder if you want to ask your own lawyer to do it the next time
you have a conference with him. I think it is important that it
be done right and we ought to pay for it out of the receipts from
sales. Do you agree?
Here is the idea as I have it: (Insert)**  The Trustees of the Alice Stone
Blackwell Committee authorize the refund to Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, of the cost of the plates of "Lucy Stone Pioneer", and the 
expense of printing a second edition. The/income from sales of the
books is to be deposited to the Emergency Fund (profits from the)
It is understood that Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, in assigning the
copyright of "Lucy Stone Pioneer" reserves the right to herself, her
heirs and assigns, to use all plates, dies and halftones for the 
printing of [further] future editions of the book.
Insert**
In consideration of the receipt from Alice Stone Blackwell of all
plates, dies and halftones, and the assignment of copyright of the
biography "Lucy Stone - Pioneer of Woman's Rights"
     I have typed the statement on a separate sheet of paper and if
you approve of it and think it [?] isn't necessary to have a lawyer
approve of it, will you sign it over your typed name and the I will
sign it and forward it to Miss Comstock. We should have two copies
so that one can be filed with Miss Blackwell's papers.
I do want to get it done pretty soon so that Miss Blackwell can make
the assignment. I  think she wants to be sure that our part is done
first. I am glad to know that she is business like about it.January 27th
Dear Miss Blackwell:
     I shall send out the plays at once, - that is, as soon
as I can get the envelopes to fit the book. They have been ordered,
and should come Thursday or Friday.
     I am so sorry to have to trouble you about the deed for
the right of way to our spring, but it has been hanging fire so long
that it seemed to me best to get it off my list of things to do.
I wrote a number of letters yesterday for Mrs. Park; fixed up the 
final details on the biography; sent out the plays that had been
ordered; and actually crossed off 17 items on the list "to be
attended to this week". Now I hope I get some results from the 
letters about the play, at least.
     I have written notes to all of the people who have ordered
the new edition of Lucy Stone - Pioneer, telling them that it will
be available after the first of February, but first of all I wanted
them to have receipts for their money. The last order came from
Isabel Howland in France. Apparently she has taken an apartment in
Paris for the winter.
     I have just read over your paragraph about the right of
way. I don't believe a new road could possibly be cut across that
part of the slope where the path to our well runs down. It is too
close to the stone-wall to make a safe curve. Last summer when we
were writing back and forth about the possibility of selling the
bluff lots, Guy and I stood at the end of our lot and tried to visualize
the best place for a roadway. You would of course want it to go
high enough out of the swamp to keepaway from the water supply, and if
so the road would have to start from 75 to 100 feet from the stonewall
to make the right kind of a turn. That would bring it nearly to the
end of our lot and would be a very convenient place on the side hill
to start the turn. It would lessen a good deal the amount of fill to be
put in also, and that would be a consideration. But if the roadway
should start immediately at the stone wall gate and cut down across
the hill over the water pipes it wouldn't make any difference about our
right of way. We could walk across the road when we needed to.
     And again, I cannot imagine that a house could ever be built on that
lot opposite our front door. The lot runs down 140 feet or so into
the swamp, and the front or back of the house would be right into the
water supply. However, that is not my affair, but I am writing as the
idea presents itself. I agree with you that you don't want autos
running across the field to the beach. Unless there is an invalid or
a cripple in one of the houses I see no need of people driving up to
go swimming. Though I am sure that the habit would be adopted quickly
enough if it were allowed. Another thing, running autos close to the
bluff will help loosen up the dirt and low growth, which is disappearing
fast enough as it is. On a separate piece of paper I have drawn a 
diagram of the location of our house, with the lot across from us and 
the spring, showing marked off the piece of land over which I'd like the
right of way. However, please do not bother about this too much. If
anything should ever happen to cut off the supply from the spring we put
in, we have the right of way to use your spring, and I ought to be
satisfied with that. But the other is piped into our house and is  most
convenient for me, especially since I found carrying water so difficult.Aunt Ida won't like me if I keep on writing long letters for her to
read to you. I imagine you have enough from others who must write
to you, without having to bother with mine.
But I'd like to have you read this statement which came this morning
from Mrs. Catt. I had tried repeatedly to get her statement about
the play, and in despair Tuesday I sent her a special delivery
pleading for a reply by return mail. She has been in Washington at the
Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, and has of course been very
busy.
I sent her the name of the book which Aunt Ida showed me in her library
written by some Malden woman. Mrs. Catt hasn't it and would like very
much to get a copy to add to her collection. So if either of you know
where I can get hold of one, or ever see another copy, do let me know.
"Dear Mrs. Stantial: Your letter arrived this morning before
breakfast and before breakfast the reply goes to you. The reason I
have not kept my word to send you a comment was because I could not
think of anything good enough and cannot now.
"Maud Wood Park's play - Lucy Stone - is a gem. It is true as to
facts, picturesque in its setting and a thrilling story in its
general effect. It brings both smiles and tears to the hearer and is
amusingly fascinating all the way from beginning to end."
Signed, Carrie Chapman Catt.
So now we have allof our comments in and the publicity will be sent out
by the Walter Baker people next week.
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For your files I am sending a copy of the agreement signed by the
three Trustees of the Fund, andon February 5th I will send the check
for the purchase of the plates. Then when the bill comesfrom
the Plimpton Press, I will have the check made out in full for that.
Because of the recommendation of Mr. LaRue Brown, we have asked the 
printer to bill the 500 copies to you, but we are to take care of the 
payment so that it needn't go through your check book. That will save
your writing you name at least once.
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I do hope I have taken care of everything I promised to do for you.
I still have on my list the notation that I am to make a dozen copies
of the comments in the advertisement of the Little Grandmother on the
old jacket. Mrs. Park is going to send me that last copy of the
old edition that you sent her when Portland was working on the production,
so that you can have it in your Library and I am to send them for the
Portland Library one of the new edition.
Affectionately,20 Sewall St. January 27th

Dear Miss Cahill:
     Enclosed is the copy at last from Mrs. Catt.
I got her "before breakfast" Tuesday morning, and the copy
came post haste.
     Ask Mr. Johnson if he thinks we ought to leave
out the testimonial of Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch. That is the 
only one we didn't especially ask for to be used on the
circular, and the only one we can leave out. Mrs. Catt's
is by far the most important. We can use Mrs. Rotch's
in a review in the bulletin of the League of Women Voters
which will go to about 3000 people in Massachusetts. I
think Mrs. Park would like Mrs. Rotch's statement used if there
is room but we don't want the circular to be overcrowded and
unreadable.
     I shall use a good many of the circulars that come
to me with notes to the editors of some of the foreign papers,
and some of the church groups which publish weekly programs.
I think a personal letter with the circular will help a good deal
in publicity.
     Mr. Theodore Johnson said we could use 25 copies for
reviews, so I would like to keep ten copies of those I ordered
sent to the College Club, for that purpose. I shall have to buy
some mailing envelopes, but I want to post the play in the same
mailwith my letters. Do you approve?
     I've been ruined to death ever since the Tea, but in
a few days I'll get things straightened out. Right now I amtrying to get some letters written to women deans and 
Presidents in some of the women's colleges. Most of them
are people who know Mrs. Park personally, and I want the
letters ready when the circulars come from you.
     We've been hearing most interesting comments from
the ladies who attended the reception to Mrs. Park. They are
really critics who count because they were associated in the 
work and would be the surest to detect flaws. So we are
pretty happy over their letters.
     One other thing I'd like to ask: If the Massachusetts
League of Women Voters should run an advertisement in their
monthly bulletin, could they take orders for the play and make
the commission that the trade gets? We might get 100 or
more copies spread around the state this way and while no money
would be made on them in proportion to what would came in from
direct sales, it would stimulate local productions, I am sure.
That is just one of my many ideas, and I'd like a frank reply.
I don't want you to do it if there is any reason why you
shouldn't.
Sincerely yours,


20 Sewall St. Melrose, Mass. January 6th
Dear Mrs. Catt: I hope this is the last letter I shall have to
bother you with, at least until after your Conference on the Cause
and Cure of War. You must be busy with the agenda for that.
      I have finally gotten Mary Hutcheson Page and Mrs. J. Malcolm
Forbes to arrange for a tea for Maud Wood Park at the College Club
here in Boston on Friday, January 14th. We are inviting to it only
the "old guard" of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association, - and 
chiefly those who worked with Mrs. Park. Ford Hall is considering
the production of the play and Florence Luscomb is going to be the
contact person with them.
     Do you think you can possibly get a statement to me giving
your approval of the play? (if you havenot already sent it for use
in the publicity with the publishing Co. If you have I can get a copy
of that from Mr. Johnson.) But what I want even more than that is
a very strong appeal to those of us who went through the campaign,
to help keep alive the memory of the pioneers and the story of their work.
     Mr.s Forbes was enthusiastic about the new edition of the
life of Lucy Stone, and thought we ought to have a thousand copies.
She even offered to store the extra ones at her house for us.
     It may be that you will have an opportunity to talk with her
at the Cause and Cure of War Conference. She is planning to go down Sunday
I believe. She has a good deal of money and might be persuaded to
help underwrite a publishing group if we ever do decide to have one.
     If it is possible, I hope you will try to get some kind of
a message to me for the meeting on the 14th.
Faithfully yours,
Mrs. Guy W. StantialFeb. 22nd
Dear Mrs. Park:
     Miss Leventhal says Dave Niles is not lukewarm at all about
the play Lucy Stone, but is trying to work out the best way to put on the 
production. I have insisted that they must make a decision pronto,
that we cannot wait much longer for our publicity.
     Now with the building program of B.U. and the idea that
their Library shallcontain a memorial alcove to Miss Blackwell, someone
has suggested that they should be the ones to give the play here. The
publicity would help them a lot, and they could use the proceeds for the
building fund. I hope to see Dr. Marsh the latter part of the week
and shall tell him that the suggestion was made to me. However, if Ford
Hall lets us know their definite plans in the meantime I suppose I should
not interfere with them. But BostonUniversity has a much greater
group of people to draw upon, and they would not hesitate to put it on in
a theater, of course.
     I liked the circular from Walter Baker, didn't you?
Let me tell you that when I read the whole thing to Miss Blackwell Saturday
morning she said, "Oh dear, how I wish they had included the statement that
she converted Julia Ward Howe and Frances Willard". She thinks that the
publicity department of the publishing Co. did this, however, and did not 
realize that we would want that included.
     I am sorry my letter got off to Miss Sherwin after the
plays had been ordered by her from Baker.
     I heard theother day that a group of people were planning to 
meet at the National League of Women Voters convention to talk over the 
plans for the Women's Archives. Have you heard anything about it? They 
have probably asked for permission to make an appeal there for contributions
and mementoes.
     I think the people here in Mass. will save everything until
they know just the right place for them. The Garrisons have almost a 
complete set of the Liberator. They don't know what to do with them but they
want them to go into the proper place because Mrs. Garrison says everyissue
contains so much about the suffrage movement. The Garrisons will of course
save what they have for the Blackwell collection.
     Miss Leventhal hasn't had the report from Dave Niles about
his interview with Hallie Flanagan. She says Dave wants it done by the
people who will give it the best publicity for Miss Blackwell's book. So he
got the idea that I wanted to put over. I told him the new last
scene and said I would ask you to let me have a copy so that I could type a 
set and let him have one in Washington.
I asked Mrs. DeNormandie to sound out the League group about their desire not
to have mention made of the play in the bulletin. I am to see her at the
office next week and may seen Mrs. Fainsod at the same time. Mrs. True
Worthy white is also going to see what she can find out. She tells me that
Mrs. May seems sold to the Fainsod group???? I don't know what to make of 
her. I mean Mrs. May. But I have written to her to ask if I might see her
the day of the board meeting.
 Mary Barrows isn't yet able to get out very much because of the broken hip.
But I checked with Ethel Bittner and she says she and Mary talked of it last
week Tuesday.When I talked with Miss Leventhal the other day, I thought it was she
and not Mr. Niles who might be lukewarm. But I found out thatthe real
difficulty with her is that she is worried about the underwriting.
They usually do their things in the barn; send out invitations and let
people come and pay what they want to at the door. The idea of a theatre
staggered her. However Dave seemed to think the theatre was the thing.
What I would like to do is to get David Niles alone. He is so terribly
rushed with appointments on Saturday, - his only day at the Forum office -
that it is hard to get him at all. But they have promised to have him
telephone me early Saturday morning and let me know what has transpired.
Now that I have the copies of the circular and I know people pretty
generally have received them, I'll get the letters mailed to the names
Mrs. Boyer has given me.
I have put the check for $5.00 into a separate account, and will pay $3.00
of it for the books to go to the Portland groups. The wrappers haven't
come yet, but I expect them within a day or two and will get them off to
you immediately. The new biography looks very well. Mrs. Boyer says it
is much finer than the first edition.
Affectionately,
Edna

The enclosed report of Sat. meeting goes to you and Mrs. Catt. Will you
see, when you go over to New York, if youtwo can draft a statement which
we can use just among our committee members? It could be sent to me,
and I could read it to the meeting. There are five or six of us, and all
loyal friends of Mrs. Catt. They needn't have copies for themselves.
Somehow I got an impression that a group of important people were going
to meet with Mrs. Catt in March, but now I think it was this other
plan of getting together at the National League Convention in April.
Had you heard of Miss Sherwin, Judge Allen and some others planning to
meet with possibly you and Mrs. Catt? My mind is in such a muddle that
I fear I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.

Feb. 7th Monday
Dear Mrs. Park: You and I were  thinking of each other at the same
time yesterday apparently, and it is amazing also that we were
considering the same people and plans.
I am returning the check for $5.00 because the amount I have as a 
balance from the sale of the books at your tea covers amply the
postage and telephoning I have had so far. I'll make a statement
for you some day when I get the other chores done. When the books
come from the printer you can send the check for $1.50 for
the Portland library. The postage is estimated in the cost of the 
book and we were to send them postpaid.
I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for me to send a copy to Miss
Sherwin as if I had never heard from you about her. I have one of
the copies you autographed. I might ask her to send her statement
to me. Do you think it would be best for her to order her copies
from Baker or from me? I still have about ten copies on hand here.
Ethel Bittner went to see Mary Barrows and took the copy you
autographed for Mary. Ethel told her of my enthusiasm for the play
and said she hoped very much that the Melrose Republican Woman's
Club could give it. That you might be willing to come up for the 
performance, etc. etc. I had primed "Diddie" pretty carefully the
night after the tea. Mary thought it a fine idea and told Miss
Bittner to talk it up in the Dramatic Workshop group. Ethel called
me yesterday morning to tell me of their reaction, and they all seem
very much interested. "Now", said Ethel, "I shall get back to work on
Mary. She needs a good deal of shoving."
I shall take care of Mr. Drier if you can get his address from the 
Coes. I have ten copies which the Baker people said we could send
out for review purposes. One of these went to Marry Barrows; one
could go to Miss Sherwin. Have you any particular people you want
any of the others to go to?
You may get my two letters in the same mail, but I think I havenow
covered all the points mentioned by you.
I am going over this afternoon to see Miss Blackwell and will let you
know later in the week how I found her.
Sincerely,
20 Sewall St. Melrose, February 24th
Dear Mr. Niles:
     I am rather impatiently waiting to hear from you or from
Miss Levanthal about the possibility of a definite date for the 
production of "Lucy Stone" by Ford Hall. Miss Levanthal had
promised to call me last week Tuesday or Wednesday, after you
were to report to her on your contact with Mrs. Flanagan.
     Mrs. Park is planning to be in New York sometime in March
and had thought of trying to see Mrs. Flanagan about the possibility
of a production through her group, but if you have already talked
with her it may not be necessary for Mrs. Park to see her.
     Last week someone called me about the possibility of a 
Boston University production, since Miss Blackwell was their first
woman Trustee and is now an Honorary Trustee. I asked them to
wait a fortnight until I had an opportunity to talk with you
again. Of course those of us who are interested in Ford Hall
are anxious to have that group do it. But it must be done in
Massachusetts while Miss Blackwell is still alive!
     The enclosed comments came to me from several sources this
morning, following another successful performance in Maine.
     I think the chances are really very good for a real money -
making performance by the Ford Hall group. The list of possible
sponsors who attended the recent tea for Mrs. Park at the College
Club is representative of nearly every group with which Miss Blackwell 
is associated, and then we have the long list of names of
contributors toher fund to whom an appeal could be made for tickets
or even a possible underwriting of the performance.
     Of course the first step would be a good sized committee to
start the organization of the business end. Miss Leventhal's
interest is probably in the dramatic side. I wonder if Florence
Luscomb and Miss duPont would start it off. They know the old
group of suffrage pioneers, and everybody on the list knows Florence
and Miss du P. of course. But you know what is the best thing to
start on. I may seem over anxious about getting the ball rolling,
but as I told you two weeks ago, we have held up every bit of
publicity until we could hear from Ford Hall, and the play must now
go to the reviewers and the special reporters for their comments.
What I would like to do is to tie up this first bit of publicity
with the possible Massachusetts production.
     I do hope that you may find time to telephone me on Saturday
between 12 and 2 o'clock at Melrose 2996.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Guy W. Stantial20 Sewall St. Melrose March 14th (Mon)

Dear Mrs. Park: I went over to Miss Blackwell's this afternoon
because she wanted to go over the new scene of your play. She is
really very much interested in having you know just what happened
and asked me to take the notes and transcribe them for you, "even
though Mrs. Park may not want to change the scene." She says most
of the are for your information only, and not by way of criticism.
So here they are page by page:
Page 1.  I told you before I think, that the nurse did not wear a 
uniform. Mrs. Stone was ill with cancer of the stomach and the
family realized that she could not last. But they never told her
that she had cancer.
Lucy:  How quickly the time goes! "Her frame of mind was not that
the time seemed to be going so quickly, but she was eager to be gone."
"Mrs. Livermore is described as a middle-aged woman. She should be
described as an elderly woman. She was Lucy Stone's age."
"My mother never called her Mary; always Mrs. Livermore."
"Mr. Higginson was never called anything but Col. Higginson."
Mrs. Livermore knew that she probably wouldn't see my mother again.
But my mother said to her: We shall be good comrades again sometime,
somewhere".
Miss Blackwell liked the speech of Lucy about the trees and the sky.
She said when I read that, "My mother used that exact expression,
'a pile of good out of the clouds'."
"In Mrs. Livermore's speech on page 2 about the bust, Miss Blackwell
thinks the word wonderful is a little exaggerated. She thinks "good"
is what Mrs. L. would have said.
"In the speech of Lucy beginning "Nothing like what I've wanted to do."
Miss Blackwell would like to have added, "But I have done what I wanted
to do; I've helped the women."
And Lucy's next speech, even tho it is repetition, should read in her
own words, "I haven't a fear or a dread or a doubt."
And then Miss Blackwell should be described as a "brown haired" not
a dark-haired woman.
In Lucy's speech about Mrs. Livermore "helping" with the Woman's
Journal, Miss Blackwell says, "Her descendants might resent that. Mrs.
Livermore edited the Journal the first 2 years."
"My mother couldn't eat supper. She took only water and a lozenge.
Because of the stomach cancer she could not eat."
In her last interview with Mrs. Livermore, Lucy Stone said 'Be good to
Alice'. Mrs. Livermore was good to her always. Her remark was 'How
could anyone help being good to the daughter of that woman'.
Mr. Blackwell was never called Henry. Always Harry by Lucy StoneIn her speech where Harry had fallen asleep, Henry should be changed
to Harry. And then "Alice will have to keep the flag flying."
Miss Blackwell says, "My mother had no ego. She would never have said
"my" flag.
Miss  Blackwell compliments Mrs. Park on the way she has kept the
nurse and Mrs. Livermore busy, using their hands during the
dialogue. She thinks you are a wonder!
When "my mother was told during her illness that all the papers were
saying nice things about her she said, 'Oh, if they would only come
out for woman suffrage.' And Miss Blackwell adds, "That would have
delighted her more.
She always called for her spectacles and the Boston Transcript when
she felt like reading. "Only I don't think we should ever make
public mention of it", says Miss Alice, "the Transcript was never
very kind to women."
Where Mrs. Livermore speaks of Col. Higginson and others helping
on the Journal, Miss Blackwell feels that Julia Ward Howe should also
be mentioned.
When the news of the Illinois Day at the World's Fair came to Mrs.
Stone she was delighted with the tremendous attendance. She seemed
so happy because she thought they would be able to pay up their
deficit which had been caused by the small crowds
before that time.
Note for Mrs. Park: Mrs. Park mustn't think that any of the above
statements must be used in her scene. I have dictated these because
I think she will want to know just what did happen. One or two of
them seem important to me, but most of them would not add to the
dramatic interest. And as long as Mrs. Park knows about the Colorado
date, that is all right. I was afraid she had gotten her dates mixed.
A.S.B.


20 Sewall Street, Melrose, Mass.,
March 17th
Dear Mr. Niles:
     I have two things to write you about. First the Mass.
League of Women Voters is going to carry a review in its April
bulletin, out April 1st, of the play "Lucy Stone". I think if
possible we should include some definite information about the Ford
Hall Production.
     Second, Mrs. Park is coming up to Boston on March 30th
for the Opera, and will have a little free time on Saturday morning,
April 2nd. Can you plan to see her then? Please have Miss
Levenberg let me know what time, so that I can't fit it in with her
other appointments.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Guy W. Stantial
P.S. Mrs. Park has been planning a visit in New York with Mrs.
Catt, but had hoped first to hear from you the result of your
interview with Mrs. Halligan.
E.L.S.Friday morning, May 2nd
Dear Mrs. Park:
If your eyes are bad now, please don't bother to read the other
letter which I wrote two days ago and didn't mail because I had to get
a large envelope. This is the latest news from Mr. Johnson:
     I called him on the telephone this morning and told him that I
was anxious to get an answer from him to my letter of March 14th, that
I had thought until I heard from you last week that he had probably
written direct to you. He seemed quite surprised and said he had not
seen my letter, nor the returned comments on the source material for
Woman Courageous. He got out his file and checked. It seemed strange
because I had my return address on the envelope and when I mailed it
I put the postage amount down on the carbon copy. However, it isn't
the first time that things have gotten delayed and mixed up in his office.
He said this: "Mrs. Park's copyright as transferred from Miss Blackwell
(meaning the Alice Stone Blackwell Committee copyright, as it is now
registered) applies only on the biography itself. I think this new play
will die a natural death within the next two months and that we have
nothing to worry about. Our premises are none too secure. We could
make a claim that Reines had infringed and he could come right back and 
declare that he could prove that he had used as source material early
pamphlets and documents under public domain. The magazine has a small
circulation and is slowly going down. I think we needn't worry."
Then he asked me about your new play, how it went etc. And said this:
"Do you suppose Mrs. Park will let me read it? I'd love to have a copy
to look over if she will trust me with it." I presume he meant to imply
that he would be careful to get it back to him. He knows Nancy Duncan
and was interested to hear that she had taken the lead.
He said he would write to you today and apologize for his delay in
writing and also explain that he hadn't seen my letter himself.
Do you know that Katharine Hersey has advertised Heavenly Hill? I spoke
to Mr. Johnson about it. The advertisement was in the Sunday Herald.
He hadn't seen it. It read: For Sale or to rent for the Season: and
then came a description of the house on the hill. T.J. said that Mrs.
Page had left Katherine "Below the Brow" in her will, and the hilltop house
to the other three jointly. He  thinks that they are apparently going to
use the lower house in common. "My, that is shocking news to me. I had
hoped the house would be held by the family."
I do hope you are going to be able to go to Washington. You are the one
[person?] who ought to be there.
Lovingly,

20 Sewall St. Melrose, October 18th
Dear Miss Blackwell:
      You will think me a terrible person, not to have
answered your letter, at least. I have spent most of my
time at my mother's for the past month, and it has almost been
impossible to reach me by telephone. So many people have
called me there just after I had left for home, and have given
up in despair.
     But I think I am about through with her business
affairs, and can now begingto think of my friends again.
     I have made a set of copies of the play for Mrs.
Park and am going to write to Mrs. Catt about the possibility
of her reaching Miss Marguerite Wells. Then I shall write to
Mrs. Gellhorn, (who may be the next President of the National)
to see if she will do anything about having the play used at the
National Convention next April. Then I am going to prepare
a list of about 1100 names for Mr. Johnson of the publishing house
and as soon as the play is ready he will send a letter advertising
it to this "picked" list. He asked me the other day if I had
a list of special people who ought to be included in the list of
those who receive complimentary copies from the publisher. I
thought immediately that you are the one to say who those special
ones are. I thought of Helen Adelaide Shaw at once; I don't
know how many of these he will want to mail, but perhaps we can
have a list of twenty-five names ready.
     Then names of people may occur to you in various parts of the 
country to whom a copy might be sent with the idea of having
a review. I thought of Dorothy Canfield Fisher, of Vermont, who
helped with your Fund there; Mrs. Catt, of course; Miss Sherwin,
Mr. Coleman, Miss Comstock.
     I know you have enough to do without being bothered
about this, but I only want to be sure that the right people are
reached.
     We are going down to the Vineyard on Saturday to close
our house. On Friday afternoon I expect to be in Cambridge, and 
will stop at your house to see if there is anything you want us to
do. We usually take along your keys and go in and see if everything
is all right. I shall be so interested to hear what you have
done about the property there, - Alice Hill and the Beach lots.
I have written to Mr. Ryan to find out about the possibility of
digging our spring down to a sandy bottom, but shall not have an
answer from him until I see him on Sunday.
      My love, to you and Mrs. Boyer, who I suppose is
home by this time. Also to Mrs. Thyne, such an important part of 
your household!
Affectionately, 
EdnaEdna Stantiel20 Sewall St. Melrose, November 13th
Dear Mrs. Park:
What a shock I received this morning when a letter came from Mrs. Catt
inquiring about the play, Lucy Stone. I immediately went to our
Branch Post Office where the material was mailed, and the agent there
remembered my mailing the package. You see I had not known that
straight typewriting had to go first class postage, so I took the copy
to show him before tying it. He sealed the package for me, and I
put into it the letter I had written so that it would all go together.
He filed out an application this morning for tracing the package,
but in the meantime I have sent along to Mrs. Catt the page proofs
you gave me yesterday. The carbon set of the script I have on hand
is too poor for her to read.
I repeated in my letter to her an appeal for her to solicit the
cooperation of Miss Wells, and told her that I had also sent it to
Mrs. Gellhorn in the hope of getting a production at the National
Convention.
I told her also that I had not yet convinced the Massachusetts League
that it ought to produce the play, and that I was also working on
Ford Hall.
Then before I ended the letter I told her about Lucy Stone-Pioneer
having run out of print. I am hoping that she may think the fund she
has might contribute something toward the reprinting. But she didn't
approve entirely of "Lucy Stone - Pioneer". There was something
in one of the later chapters which she resented a little bit. I
have forgotten just what it was.
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I was interrupted just now by a telephone call from Mrs. Field. I called
her house as soon as I received Mrs. Catt's letter. That gave me a 
really good reason for asking her to call me as soon as she came home.
I had been told that she would return sometime today.
She said the Finance Committee had definitely decided not to give it as
a money-making performance, but to give several scenes at the annual
League Convention in May. Mrs. Rotch "agreed with me, that it would
not be possible to get sufficient interest in an amateur performance
to warrant our attempting it. The mechanics would be far too difficult
for the League to attempt." Do you know what she means? She is going
to write me a letter about it which I ought to have on Monday. I'll
send you the letter when it comes.
I then called Mr. Coleman's house again, and he has definitely decided
to take the Panama Canal trip for a rest so that he will not return before
Christmas probably. He hopes to be back Christmas week. His secretary
said she would make an appointment for me to talk next week with the 
chairman of the Ford Hall Players. The letter from Mrs. Catt would be
a big feather in our cap in getting Ford Hall to produce the play if we
could be assured of her presence.I think Mrs. Field sensed my "disgust" because she tried hard to make
me feel that the State League wanted to do something in compliment to
you and to Miss Blackwell. I told her I thought she was losing sight
of the potential money-making value of a Boston production, and I had
a fine opportunity to tell her also that there wasn't a person on the
Board of the League who had any idea of the background of the League
and the suffrage organization. "When our Memorial Fund committee tried
to report last spring on the progress of that fund, the young women at 
the convention were wide-eyed with amazement at the experiences of some
of the pioneers." Mrs. Field said she realized that many of them, among
them herself, knew nothing of Miss Blackwell's early history until they
had heard her talk in Cambridge. She felt that the play had real value
"along historical lines."
- - - - 
10:3.  I called Miss Comstock on the telephone just now, and read
Mrs. Catt's letter to her. I told her that I had been waiting for an
appointment and she explained that the reason her secretary had put me
off for another week was because she was leaving today at noon for N.Y.
and would not return until Wednesday morning when the trustees of the
College would begin to assemble for their meeting on Thursday. Friday
she would be busy carrying out their orders, and she would like to see
me on Saturday morning at 9:30. She hoped I would do nothing about a 
Ford Hallpresentation until Radcliffe had had an opportunity to see the
manuscript. One question I am supposed to ask you before Saturday
is whether or not you would be willing to come to the initial performance.
- - - - -
Now I am going to get pancakes ready for a luncheon for the
"gang" who are to assemble here at 12:30 preliminary to an important
football game. Pancakes and sausage and then a rainy afternoon at a 
football game. I shiver when I think of it. But when one has a 
thirteen-year old daughter, she has to travel around with the youngsters
and be a "good sport".
But I want to get this off to you first, so that you'll have it early
Monday morning.
By the way, in the letter to Mrs. Catt I asked her if she would send one
hundred to one hundred fifty words for advertising the play.
I'm really much to excited over Lucy Stone to try to concentrate on
housework. I'll do everything I can on it before I go down to Portland
the 21st, and then I shall have to give my family the two weeks following.
Miss Comstock approves of the expenditure of $500 from the emergency fund
"as long as it isn't going to drain the fund too much".
Affectionately,

20 Sewall St. Melrose, Mass.,
November 19th
Dear Mr. Johnson:
     Thank you for sending me the copy of the page
proofs for Miss Comstock. I hope on Saturday morning to get her
to promise a statement which we can use for publicity purposes.
     I thought I ought not to wait any longer before
sending a copy of the manuscript to Mrs. Catt so sent my own copy
along early in the week. I heard from her yesterday. She is
delighted with the play; wants ten copies as soon as you can get
them to her, and is going to have further copies to use as Christmas
gifts to her suffrage friends. Moreover she has agreed to send
early next week a statement of one hundred words which you may use
with Miss Blackwell's or in any other way you choose. She is also
going to make the contact with the National League of Women Voters
and urge their cooperation in circulating the play throughout the
country.
     Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, former President of the
Massachusetts League of Women Voters, sends this word along this morning:
"Dear Mrs. Stantial: I don't know in just what form you wany my fifty
words, but I am adding them to this letter so that you can use them
as you like."
"I have just read Mrs. Park's play about Lucy Stone and the early days
of the Suffrage movement with great interest. It seems to me excellent
that these scens should be known and given as widely as possible for the
present generation of young people is much too oblivious of the sacrifices
made by the women who won emancipation for them. The scenes are lively
and interesting and I hope that they will meet with the reception they
deserve."
(signed) Helen Rotch (Mrs. Arthur G.)
I shall be glad to hear from you again next week. I will let you know
on Monday the result of my visits with Miss Blackwell and Mrs. Park.
Sincerely,
20 Sewall St. Melrose, Oct. 26th
Dear Miss Blackwell:
Here is a report of what we found at Chilmark:
Cliff Cottage was left in fine shape. I never saw a cleaner kitchen,
with the sink and stove clean, and the cupboards under the sink all
cleaned out too. No food, cloths, etc. around for mice to get
at.
Guy and I covered the beds there. The pillows were all hung over
chairs as usual.

Sea Shell: We carried the mattresses over from SeaShell and put
them in Cliff, so that there is nothing at the Sea Shell to
attract the field mice.

SUNSET: The tenants left the house in a very dirty condition.
Apparently they decided to swap your ice chest for the one that
is there now. It is a larger one, and in fairly good condition.
In it were sixteen jars and boxes of food, old cheese, etc.
so that the dining room did not smell particularly sweet. We
emptied everything in the garbage can, and got rid of the boxes
of cereal that were left on the shelves. The dishes from the 
last meal were left unwashed on the sink shelves, with a soup
plate of moldy beans, and some jelly in a low dish. We could
not wash the dishes because Mr. Poole had disconnected the pump,
but with newspapers we wiped them off into the garbage pail.
Emptied the tea kettle and left it to drain. Cleaned the stove
and greased it.
There were two big puddles in the living room and kitchen where
the back doors were not pushed tight at the bottom, although the
bolts had been thrown. Mr. Poole had not taken off the screen
doors on the south side of the house. I think you would feel
safer about leaks from the storms if you had Mr. Merry make two
cheap shutter doors that could be put on in the fall. Apparently
the south east storms beat against those doors and the
regular doors are not tight enough to prevent leaks.
The cups and saucers will have to be replaced in the spring.
I will make a complete inventory of the house when I go down in
April, so that if it isn't sold there will be a supply of dishes
for next year's tenant.
I think it would be a fine idea to post the inventory in the
cupboard, and also in the kitchen to leave typewritten directions
posted somewhere about the care of the stove, ice chest, etc.
When Mrs. Stork left the house last year, she had a woman go in
and help her clean it, and it was in fine shape, so that perhaps
there wouldn't be any trouble, but if she should sublet it and
would not be there herself in August, the directions would help those
tenants. There should certainly be in writing some statement
about the dishes. I know that when the maid at Sunset broke a 
dish this summer she had to pay Mrs. Born for it, as did her daughter
but apparently Mrs. Born did not supply the new dishes.Mr. Poole had not put any newspapers in the windows at Sunset.
I think usually we cover the lower half of the widows there.
     We went to the beach to take up the signs, but Mr. Poole had
brought them to the top of the stairs and so we left them where he
had put them. It might be well, however, if you mentioned that the
signs should be put in the woodshed, or in Sea Shell. I think he
sometimes puts them there.
     As I told you over the telephone, Mrs. Rogers had put a stick
in the hasp of the Cliff cottage toilet, and Guy found a good
padlock which he used there. There are two keys, and we left one
with Mrs. Rogers to give to Mr. Ryan so that he could get in to
disconnect the plumbing. He thought it ought to be done right away
before there was any chance of a freeze. Mr. Ryan probably should
keep that key so that he can go in in the spring and connect the
tank again. There are two copper pipes coming down from the inside
tank to the small china tank that supplies the hopper. These are the
ones he has to drain off, so that there will be no chance of freezing
during the winter. He said he would do that this week when he goes
up to take the check valve off our spring.
     As long as I know what has to be done about closing up the houses,
next fall when we go down to do our house, I'll just see that the
newspapers are up, the sticks in the windows, and the mattresses all
covered and the pillowshung up, and you can be relieved of that detail.
It all sounds so much worse than it really is. There isn't really
very much work to closing up a house if it is done systematically.
I have a list of the things I have to do to our little place, and as
they are done, I just check them off. I could do that same thing to
your two houses, and then you wouldn't have the bother of having to
keep writing to Mr. Poole, and you would know that it had been taken
care of.
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     Have you time to go through your card list, - you Xmas list -
and turn up the cards of the people to whom a letter could go about
the play Lucy Stone? I am going to have someone come here to address
1200 envelopes for Mr. Johnson next week, and I shouldlike first of all
to address the envelopes from your personal list. Then I could cross
check them with our list here before ours are addressed. I think
your file might include a good many names of people to whom we did not
send an appeal when we raised your fund. I could go over on Monday
afternoon next week, or Tuesday morning, if you could find time to look
the cards over before that time.
     I'll see that you get a copy of the play the first time I go over
your way.
     With my love to you all, 
Affectionately,