CATT, CARRIE CHAPMAN GENERAL CORRESSPONDENCE NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ETHICAL UNION NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE of the AMERICAN ETHICAL UNION Nov 19 My dear Mrs Catt, I write to express my appreciation of your gift to the National Women's Conference of the American Ethical Union, which we all feel was most generous. The Pictorial Review award to you has been applauded on all sides and I want to add my bit of enthusiastic approval. I sincerely believe that yours is the outstanding achievement. May I take this opportunity of asking if it would be possible to add Agnes Mac Phail to your program for the Conference. Several people in Philadelphia asked her if she would be there and she indicated that if she were invited she would be glad to accept. She is quite the most forceful speaker I have heard in a long time and her splendid parliamentary record gives her the prestige necessary to assure a large audience. With merriest personal greetings to you. I am Sincerely Yours B[?]ssir Kind National Women's Conference of the American Ethical Union Committee on International Relations Mrs. Henry Necarsulmer, Chairman, 2 West 64th Street, New York City Mrs. George Gellhorn, Vice-Chairman, 4366 McPherson Street, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Philip Kind, Secretary 123 Township Line, Jenkintown, Pa. Mrs. C. W. Orr, Treasurer, 145 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. November 12, 1930 My dear Mrs. Catt: Seldom have I been more stirred or touched than I was when I received your perfectly fine letter of November 6th. Your letter is proof sufficient of the wisdom displayed by the judges of the Pictorial Review in selecting you as the recipient of the achievement award. We are most appreciative and grateful to you for your generosity in sending us the check for $50.00. We have, of course, felt very deeply the privilege of being one of the member organizations of the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. We hope to prove ourselves deserving of the trust you have placed in use in admitting us to association with you in the very splendid work you are accomplishing. We feel with the present world situation it is more vital than ever to work for peace and international understanding. All the members of our organization who have seen your letter echo my sentiment and I think you will hear from some of them direct. Looking forward to seeing you on Friday, I am, Very sincerely yours, [/s/] Edna U. Necarsulmer Mrs. Henry Necarsulmer. Nov 13 - 1930 Olga F. Kirchberger 333 Central Park West New York City My dear Mrs. Catt: Just how the 50 dollars you so graciously sent to our national chairman, Mrs. Necarsulmer is going to be used I do not know, but I cannot with hold the urge to thank you personally. It made us feel just that bit closer to the fountain of the organization. Yours thankfully. [(? M.)] Olga Kirchberger Chairman of the New York Group November 6, 1930 Mrs. Henry Necarsulmer, Chairman, National Women's Conference of American Ethical Union, 225 West 86th Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Necarsulmer, Perhaps you know that I have received an "Achievement Award" from the Pictorial Review which they annually bestow upon a woman selected by a Board of nineteen persons. I believe that their choice is decided by commendations received from individuals and organizations, but I had no inkling of such a campaign being in progress. I was summoned by the manager of the Pictorial Review to his office and I was the most astounded person you ever saw. It was the moment of greatest surprise in my life. I have received the $5,000.00 which was given, so the manager said, because of my work for woman suffrage and peace. If there was any award in the suffrage victory, it was a collective one, and if there is any achievement in peace, it is yet to come and belongs to those who are working for it. I have selected from the list of suffragists ten who are old, frail, and who worked not less than thirty years without remuneration. To each of these women I am giving $100. I expect to give the second thousand to old suffragists and the rest will go to peace. I am hereby presenting to the organizations composing the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of the War $1,000.00- $100 to each organization except the last two to join us and to them I must divide $100 in order to make my $1,000 come out even. I am very sorry that the money does not stretch out so that every organization can have $100, but I hope that the National Women's Conference of American Ethical Union, being one of the last two organizations to join the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, will think it a justifiable conclusion when I send to it and to the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs only $50.00 instead of the $100.00 sent to the organizations originally composing the National Committee. This contribution is to go to the Department of Peace or International Relations, or whatever it may be called, and used exclusively for work in that department. Very cordially, CCC:HW. NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN ETHICAL UNION COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MRS. HENRY NECARSULMER, Chairman, 2 West 64th Street, New York City MRS. GEORGE GELLHORN, Vice-Chairman, 4366 McPherson Street, St. Louis, Mo. MRS. PHILIP KIND, Secretary 123 Township Line, Jenkintown, Pa. MRS. C.W. ORR, Treasurer 143 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. October 23, 1930 My dear Mrs. Catt: First of all let me congratulate you upon receiving your well deserved award from the Pictorial Review Committee. I am so glad that the judges showed proper judgement and that you have received recognition which is your due. Thank you very much for the communications regarding the Committee and for the confidential letter in regard to the World Court. When I return from Washington, where I am going to-day to the meeting of the National Council on the Prevention of War, I should like to call on you and report to you what Senator Wagner told me confidentially, also in regard to the same subject. Hoping that you have been in good health and are continuing so, I am with cordial greetings, Sincerely yours, Edna A. Necarsulmer Mrs. Henry Necarsulmer Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Room 1511 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. 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