CATT, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE World Alliance for International Friendship Apart from your phenomenal ability - we all just loved you for YOU. I thought I were a little scared of you until I met you - and then, why - I just loved you, fear dropped away immediately - and in its place a great warm feeling of affection. Perhaps it was because of your sweet modesty, Nov 16. THE VIKING NEWPORT, R.I. My dear Mrs. Catt: Now that the deluge of congratulations has "let up" a trifle, perhaps you will have time to accept my warm ones. I have thought of you many many times since the Pictorial Review honored you. "Hurrah!" I shouted to myself as soon as the news was broadcast. For I feel jubilant that the dearest, finest, greatest of Uncle Samuel's daughters had won. The prize was awarded to one "whale of a woman" - and nobody was happier than was I. The memory of our trip to Florida, with you the most beloved in our troupe, will remain in my memory forever. Apart from your reputation, THE VIKING NEWPORT, R.I. your humility and, praise be, the innate femininity of your personality. We think — and have cause to — of women in the realm of reform, frequently as aggressive, masculine persons devoid of charm — but you are lovely Voters. The ladies always like him — and I am glad! We still have the little alligator swallowing the black boy at home--it sits on our night table beside Jim's bed. And we think of you every time we see it. Accept our warm and affectionate congratulations, Sincerely, (Mrs. L. V.) Evelyn Gordon And you always look lovely--with your pretty full white throat and neck (How do you do it!)--and your silver hair always so smooth and soft and the blue dresses that match your eyes, always in good taste. Yes, if there is one woman about whom I have no difficulty to rhapsodize it is the beautiful Mrs. Catt. We are up here today — but unfortunately it is too wet to go down to the sea. Linley is to speak tomorrow in Providince before the League of Women World Alliance For International Friendship Through the Churches Executive Offices 70 Fifth Avenue New York City Cable Address; "ECCLEPAX, New York" Telephone: ALGONQUIN 2720 President William P. Merrill Vice Presidents Rev. S. Parkes Cadman Mrs. Thomas Nicholson Clifford W. Barnes Treasurer William Ewing Speers General Secretary Henry A. Atkinson Assistant Secretary G.S. Barker Extension Secretary Linley V. Gordon Field Secretary Harry N. Holmes Publicity Secretary Charles Stelzle Executive Committee Mr. Fred B. Smith Chairman Mrs. Sidney C. Borg Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D. Mr. James W. Brown Col. Patrick H. Callahan Bishop James Cannon, Jr., D.D. Mr. William F. Cochran Rev. William C. Covert, D.D. Rev. Donald J. Cowling, D.D. Mr. Albert L. Deane Mrs. Albert L. Douglas Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, D.D. Mr. Robert E. Farley Mr. Raymond H. Fiero Mr. Leo G. Griffith Mr. Frank A. Horne Prof. William I. Hull Rev. Finis S. Idleman, D.D. Rev. Charles S. Macfarland, D.D Rev. William B. Millar Miss Helen C. Miller Rev. John A. Morehead, D.D. Mrs. Edgerton Parsons Mr. George A. Plimpton Rev. Daniel A. Poling, D.D. Mr. James H. Post Hon. William A. Prendergast Col. Raymond Robins Mrs. James T. Rourke Miss Anne Seesholtz Mr. James M. Speers Mr. Carroll H. Sudler Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson November 19, 1930 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 171 Madison Avenue New York City My dear Mrs. Catt: You will never know how deeply I appreciated the luncheon at Sherrys in your honor. I have attended many and various kinds of luncheons and dinners and banquets in the past few years in this and other cities but I enjoyed this one most of all. It went right to the heart of the purpose and was so true from its beginning to its end. I felt that you were the right woman in the right place. It did me a world of good to see you so highly honored. I was feeling all the while you were speaking that all of our girls in the United States should hear what you were saying. You have a great story to tell. I hope you are going to tell it in some way so that the American girlhood can read to hear it. When I got home that night I described the whole function to Mrs. Gordon. She was deeply interested. She loves you so much. She treasures the memory of three weeks with you in Florida. I was glad of the opportunity to thank you in person for your one hundred dollar gifts to the World Alliance for International Friendship. I want to acknowledge that rare contribution now by letter. I have been with this organization since 1917. No such gift has ever before been bestowed upon it. For one to receive five thousand dollars and then to give it all away in such thoughtful fashion is an act as rare as rubies. I spoke on Monday in Providence to an International School arranged by the Rhode Island League of Women Voters. I met many women there who already knew of the way you had dispensed with your prize. I must tell you that one Miss Elizabeth Upham Yeats was seated in a wheel chair immediately in front of the table before which I stood while making my address. I had occasion to refer to something you had said in my speech. When I had finished she wheeled up to me and told me how she was with you years ago in your suffrage campaigns. She is a most ardent admirer of you. The poor woman is in a very bad physical state but her mind is very active. -2- Will you please accept the warm-hearted gratitude of our Alliance for your gracious gift. If I were the Pictorial Review I would make the same choice next year. Yours very cordially, Linley Gordon LVG/E Since you paid a tribute to Mr Hoover's speech I am enclosing an official copy. ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HOOVER AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND GOOD-WILL CONGRESS OF THE WORLD ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP THROUGH THE CHURCHES WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 11, 1930 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1930 World Alliance for International Friendship Headquarters: 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City Telephone: ALGONQUIN 2720 October 22, 1930 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 171 Madison Avenue New York City My dear Mrs. Catt: Congratulations on receiving the Achievement Prize. I received no ballot slip and consequently could not vote, but I would have gladly devoted a thousand votes in your favor had I been in possession of them. I listened also to your address in the Astor ballroom yesterday. I was more than proud of you, to think that you could stand up before that microphone without a note and talk for half an hour on law enforcement and prohibition. I knew you could do it on the peace movement as I have seen you in action a number of times, but I did not know you could do it on prohibition. Now I know. Very Cordially yours, Linley Gordon LVG/E November 6,1930. Mr.Lindley Gordon, World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, New York, N.Y. My Dear Mr.Gordon: Perhaps you know that I have received an "Achievement Award" from the Pictorial Review which they annually confer upon some woman. When I was summoned by the manager to his office, I was the most astounded person you ever saw, for I had had no inkling whatever that such a prospect was possible. I am at this moment the possessor of $5,000 I never expected to receive and this afternoon I am giving it all away. This money was given, so the manager said, because of my work for woman suffrage and for peace. I conclude that if there was any achievement for woman suffrage, it was collective, and if there is any achievement in peace, it is yet to come and must be the achievement of those who are now at work. Therefore, I am giving some of the money to the suffrage women who worked without remuneration for more than twenty years and committee on the Cause and Cure of War. In addition, I am giving to the organizations that work directly for some form of peace or have active departments of that character and to each of these I am giving $100. Therefore, you will find enclosed a check of $100 for the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. It is not a large contribution, but you will never get another just like it, so it is this much unearned increment. Very Truly yours, CCC:HW World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches Executive Offices 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City Cable Address: "ECCLEPAX, NEW YORK" Telephone: ALGONQUIN 2720 January 6, 1931 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle, New York Mrs Dear Mrs. Catt: I have just returned from the official meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Alliance for International Friendship, at which time your very beautiful letter of November 6 was read. It is rather difficult to express in a letter the great sense of appreciation which you manifested in our work when you included us among the beneficiaries of the award for distinguished service which was recently given to you by the Pictorial Magazine. By direct resolution I was instructed to convey a message of thanks to you from our Committee and from our organization and to wish you the blessing of God in the years which are yet to be in your noble life. Sincerely yours, Fred B Smith Chairman, Executive Committee Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.