NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Belote, Mrs. T.T. To Mr Belote, As Pres of N. ------- I hereby authorize you to to turn over to a Rep of the Con. Lib., who will call and present note from me written to Miss [Lurch?]. Please deliver to him all the B now on Ex in our case at the Smithsonian. These books will then be added to the col. of b. in liby presented by NAWSA. Very truly [*(Ida Husted Harper's writing) ed.*] W. a Miss L. The Sim Inst wishes the N. A. W S As. to take four on Col. on Ex, the books that R there much The His of W S 6 vol The Life of S.B A 3 v... " " " A H S. 1 vol. and sev. vols of The Women's Rev. I hereby authorize you on behalf of the N. A W S A. to send for all the books which R in the Ex case. Please add these B. to the cal of the N. A W S A in the Cong Library. National American Woman Suffrage Association MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, PRESIDENT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1624 GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL BUILDING 70 EAST 45TH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. TELEPHONE MURRAY HILL 6-4144 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK, CALIFORNIA SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. HERBERT KNOX SMITH, CONNECTICUT THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. GUILFORD DUDLEY, TENNESSEE FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. RAYMOND BROWN, NEW YORK FIFTH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK, MAINE TREASURER and CORRESPONDING SEC'Y MRS. FRANK J. SHULER, NEW YORK RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. HALSEY W. WILSON, NEW YORK DIRECTORS MRS. J.C. CANTRILL, Kentucky MRS. RICHARD E. EDWARDS, Indiana MRS. GEORGE GELLHORN, Missouri MRS. ALFRED G. LEWIS, New York MISS ESTER G. OGDEN, New York MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL, Florida MRS. F. LOUIS SLADE, New York MRS. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, California 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York October 24, 1939 [*duplicate*] Mr. T. T. Belote, Curator of History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Belote: We have now officially provided for the re-arrangement of certain articles belonging to the collection of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at the Smithsonian Institution. 1. The removal of the books in the National American Woman Suffrage Association case and their deposit in our collection at the Library of Congress. 2. The removal of the portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt from the headquarters of the National League of Women Voters and its delivery to you in order that it may be placed with other presidents of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. We have also delivered to you in person: 1. Two framed photographs of early leaders of the movement. 2. Plaque from the women of the Philippines. 3. Gold Plate 4. Silver Card Plate 5. Group of Gavels used by the National American Women Suffrage Association. [*Cablegram to Dr. Shaw She grant to Smithsonian*] These articles, mementos of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, go to the Smithsonian Institution, together with all articles now in the case set aside for our use, as a free and permenent gift. Very truly yours, Carrie Chapman Catt CCC:HW. National American Woman Suffrage Association MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, PRESIDENT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1624 GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL BUILDING 70 EAST 45TH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. TELEPHONE MURRAY HILL 6-4144 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK, CALIFORNIA SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. HERBERT KNOX SMITH, CONNECTICUT THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. GUILFORD DUDLEY, TENNESSEE FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. RAYMOND BROWN, NEW YORK FIFTH VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK, MAINE TREASURER and CORRESPONDING SEC'Y MRS. FRANK J. SHULER, NEW YORK RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. HALSEY W. WILSON, NEW YORK DIRECTORS MRS. J.C. CANTRILL, Kentucky MRS. RICHARD E. EDWARDS, Indiana MRS. GEORGE GELLHORN, Missouri MRS. ALFRED G. LEWIS, New York MISS ESTER G. OGDEN, New York MRS. GEORGE A. PIERSOL, Florida MRS. F. LOUIS SLADE, New York MRS. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, California 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York October 24, 1939 Mr. T. T. Belote, Curator of History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Belote: I do not know whether this letter is sufficient for the official purpose of passing over all the things in our care to the museum. If it lacks in detail, please let me know and I will do it over. I also send you a statement for the table. It is longer than statements usually are, but as it stands in the most conspicuous place, I think it wise to make it as complete as possible. Miss Wilson could have printed it by hand in larger type, so that it could be read more easily than if printed, but I understand this is the usual custom. I hope, however, you may be able to put it in larger type than is usual. For years, I have had great difficulty in reading cards at museums. I have wondered if a card big enough to be read might not be put under the portraits. They would read like this:-- ELIZABETH CADY STANTON President, National American Woman Suffrage Association 1890 -- 1891 SUSAN B. ANTHONY President, National American Woman Suffrage Association 1891 -- 1900 ANNA HOWARD SHAW President, National American Woman Suffrage Association 1905 -- 1915 CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT President, National American Woman Suffrage Association 1900 -- 1904 1915- --2-- So far as I now know, there is nothing further we can contribute to the collection and, on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, I wish to thank the Institution for taking our collection and for the uniform courtesy that has been shown us all along the years. Very truly yours, Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt CCC:HW. LABEL FOR TABLE On this table, the property of Thomas and May Ann McClintock, and in their home at Seneca Falls, New York, in the month of July 1848, four women, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann McClintock, and Martha C.. Wright, wrote "The Declaration of Sentiments" which enumerated "eighteen grievances" under which women felt themselves "aggrieved, oppressed and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights." The organization thus begun was desultory from 1848 to 1869. From 1969 to 1890 two organizations led the campaign - The National and The American. in 1890 these two organizations were merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association which led the campaign until the vote was extended to women throughout the United States in 1920. C O P Y CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York December 17, 1937. The Woman's Journal, established in 1870 by Lucy Stone, and it successor, The Woman Citizen, published by the Leslie Commission which ceased publication in 1931, present the most complete account of the effort made by American women to better their legal status and to secure the vote. For those sixty-one years the weekly news about that movement was recorded without bias or prejudice. There is no rival authority, in whole or in part, which can take the place of that record. The suffragists of this country, throughout the years, had faith in its honesty and its authenticity. The few bound copies which exist constitute the most reliable source of information for all future histories on the woman movement. (signed) CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT CCC:HW Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.