CATT, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Blatch, Harriet S. WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB 106 EAST FIFTY-SECOND STREET Nov. 8, 1930. My dear Mrs. Catt, As you fall into Miss Blackwell error and say in the Journal in reviewing her book that "The absence of comment upon the American organization & its work is notable", will you not correct this unfairness to my mother & Miss Anthony in the Journal, or permit me to do so? I enclose a review of the book written by me for the New Leader which will show you the unfounded statement made, and the correction. In my limited space I omitted the occurrences behind the scenes which are as follows: Mrs. Stone was asked to write a chapter on her society. She refused with insult. My mother refused to do the work, first, because she knew her point of view would not please Boston. Miss Anthony, as you know, was not ready with her pen, nor would her view have pleased Boston. We were all three busy reading proof together. I broke away & did the work on Chapter XXVI beginning on p. 756 of Vol. II. The Bostonian never utterred a word of criticism of this chapter. I tried my best to get every thing in, & in their own words. Do you not think my mother and Miss Anthony deserve an apology and that I have earned one? Very cordially yours, Harriet Stanton Blatch. 1924 July 31. My dear Mrs. Catt; My brother's address is 138 George St. New Brunswick, New Jersey. He will be there busy on the library some time longer. The portrait is still in my keeping. Just as I had succeeded in finding a reliable man to Will you give me Mrs. Helen Gardeners' address in order that I may get from her the exact address to which the box should go. My daughter has sold her Pelham Manor house, & is no longer there The Women's University Club, 106 East 52nd St. is always the stretch and frame it, I was called on political business to Washington. My sister is asking some admirers of my mother to contribute towards this expense, and as soon as I return to New York in September I will see that the work is done and the picture shipped to Washington. surest way to get at me. They always know where I am. I expect to be here in Cos Cob with a friend though August. Very cordially yours Harriet Stanton Blakely Are you interested in the La Follette Wheeler Campaign? August 16, 1924. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Women's University Club, 106 East 52nd St., City. My dear Mrs. Blatch: I have sent the check to your brother. Helen Gardener has had her tonsils removed and is in Harrisonburg recovering from the process. If you will write her a letter direct to the Civil Service Commission, Washington, it will be forwarded to her if she has not already returned to Washington and she will give you a correct address. In the event the friends of your mother do not contribute enough to pay the expressage on the shipment on the shipment to Washington, you may call upon us to help out. In answer to your question as to whether I am interested in the LaFollette- Wheeler campaign, I will say that I am interested in every phase of politics, but I am not supporting that ticket or any other one. I really cannot see the aim of the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket. Cordially yours, CCC November 12, 1930. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Women's University Club, 106 East 52nd Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Blatch: I have read your review of Miss Blackwell's biography with the greatest of interest. I was wondering if that book would not get a comeback from you. I return the review. Instead of making the correction you suggest I make, I would prefer that you would do it in you own way. I think, indeed, some comment from you is really necessary. You and Alice are, more than any other persons living, a connecting link between the very early agitational times and the final reunion in 1890. There is a good deal I do not know, a good deal I guess at, and a good deal I wish I knew. Alice has added more mystery to the suffrage history than, in my mind, surrounded it before. I wish it were all cleared away. I like to think I know how things went forward and why. A movement of such long duration must, of necessity, have developed many frictions and personalities which no persons but those who participated have understood. The whole question of the early division of the suffragists, if such it can be called, and the organization of the two societies fills me with curiosity and I do not feel that the story is anywhere correctly told, although I may be all wrong about that. What disturbs me more than anything else are the unanswered charges of free love which seemed to be [*?*] pending in all the later books. After I came into the organization and became acquainted with the workers, both older and younger, I came in contact with nothing of this sort. By all means, do give us some of your views on any of the points in controversy. I think we all expect some comment from you. With most cordial good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, C C. Catt CCC:HW Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.