CATT, Carrie Chapman .  GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE .  Darby, Florence H.

Wednesday 28th '44
June

Dear Mrs. Catt:-
What a delightful
surprise I had on
returning home yesterday from
a visit to upper New York!
The wonderful biography of you
which reads like a romance.
There seems to have been no
end to the things you have
accomplished for the women
of the world as well as for
America. Then to find - my
daughter did so, first, - that I
had a small part in helping
you was a thrill indeed.
I do appreciate it all so very
much and it makes me feel
very humble indeed. I can't
 thank you, for I do not know

words that can express my 
feelings but I am grateful 
for my place in your life 
& work and it is a very 
fragrant and blessed memory. 
Miss Peck certainly must 
have put days & months into 
this writing of it for it is so 
beautifully done.
Washington is not the same 
place these days and I rather 
dread it when I am obliged 
to go to town. The Washington 
Hotel people have been lovely to me 
and I always have a place 
to rest when I do go in. But 
it is so filled with army men 
& crowded, that it is not 
much comfort. Mr Rush 
often speaks of you and we 
often talk over "old times."

The Hotel is owned by a southern company 
now and very few of the old faces are 
there. This dreadful war has taken 
many of them.
There is just one thing I would very 
much like and that is for you to autograph 
this book for me. If you would 
find it in your heart to do so on a slip of 
paper which I could paste on the front 
page, I would be eternally grateful. My 
daughter wants it and my grandson, who
was here the past winter, thinks it would 
be wonderful for him to have some day!

I think that is quite unusual 
for a seventeen year 
old boy. So if you would send 
it to me someday, I would 
be very happy indeed.
Please remember me to Miss 
Wilson & Miss Peck and be 
sure to let me know if they 
or you come to Washington.
With affectionate greetings
Gratefully yours,
Florence H. Darby

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