NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Dall, Caroline H. 1526. 18th st. Washington, D. C. Mar. 9. 1900 Dear Doctor Blackwell, I have waited about as long as I can to hear from you about a complete collection of your medical & hygienic tracts. If you cannot collect and print these in a volume as your bequest to the world - it seems to me you might let me do it. If I cannot do it before I die which may be any day, I will have it done after. Mrs Lucius Zuckerman, whom you attended in your early days, was here yesterday. She is you know a rich woman. She told me, that I must write in her stead and say to you, that she was as anxious as I am to have your papers preserved. You know very well that no one but yourself has ever written plainly and sensibly upon many delicate themes. I suppose you have passed your seventieth birthday. So has Frances Power Cobbe. Two years ago I wrote urging her to do some special thing - wrote twice. At last she wrote back "What ails you? How is it you keep at work. I can do nothing but trim rosebushes." and behold! a photograph of her doing it. Well - when I cannot work may God take me quickly. For a loafer in the universe - there should surely be a policeman to cry - "Move on." I do not know whether you are sick or well. If not able to pick up what I want cannot some young friend do it for you. Why is your name never in the woman's Journal? I want always to know where and how you are. Mine is never there but for that there is a reason - The friends of Julia Ward Howe cannot tolerate Caroline H Dall Dr. E. Blackwell A VALUABLE PAMPHLET. Report of the Woman's Rights Meeting at Mercantile Hall, May 27th, 1859. Boston: Published by S. Urbino, 19 Winter St., (up stairs.) For sale also at 21 Cornhill. Octavo, pp. 32. We wish again to remind our readers of this valuable pamphlet, which was briefly noticed in the Liberator on its first appearance. It contains addresses, (or abstracts of them,) by Mrs. C. M. Severance, Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Mrs. C. H. Dall, Rev. J. T. Sargent, Rev. C. G. Ames, and Wendell Phillips. The meeting thus put on record was preeminent in interest among the meetings of Anniversary week, and is designed to be the first of a series, to be annually held, for the same purpose, on the Friday afternoon of that week. All who are interested in advancing the full development of woman's powers, by means of the full recognition of her rights, should make their arrangements for a regular and punctual attendance at that meeting; and all who would attend at the second of the series, next May, should buy and keep this pamphlet, in which the key-note of the movement is struck. Of the many valuable thoughts and important facts there recorded, none interested us more than those contained in Mrs. Dall's Address, which gave evidence of elaborate and careful preparation. She gave highly interesting details of the establishment and operations (in England) of the Institution for the Advancement of Social Science, the first meeting of which, at Liverpool, took up the Woman's Question for consideration, and at whose second session ten communications were read by women, among whom were Florence Nightingale, Mary Carpenter, and Isa Craig, the Burns poetess. Mrs. Dall gave details also respecting the establishment of 'The Englishwoman's Journal,' with an honorable corps of writers, of the new Divorce Bill, of the Married Woman's Property Bill in Canada, and particularly of some of the results of the last census of the United Kingdom. The facts drawn from the source last mentioned, respecting the number of employments heretofore monopolized by men, in which women have begun to take an active part, and the number of women who have shown themselves able to conduct these occupations successfully, are well suited to amaze those who have paid no attention to the subject, and to encourage women in want of occupation to apply themselves fearlessly to any employment for which they feel either a present fitness or a power of fitting themselves. These facts are the same which formed the basis of a highly valuable article on 'Female Industry' in the Edinburgh Review for April. Mrs. Dall's treatment of them is no less interesting and effective than that of the English writer; and the buyer of this pamphlet, besides obtaining for fifteen cents the substance of that which would cost fifty in the Review, will help the Committee of Publication in further labors for the benefit of American women, and thus of women all over the world.—C. K. W. [*Liberator Sept 30/59*] [* Letr Jan 4 1861 Caroline Dall*] WOMAN'S RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW.—Mrs. Dall will deliver a Course of Lectures on three successive Wednesday Afternoons, at the Rooms of the Young Men's Christian Union, Ny. 16 Summer street, to commence WEDNESDAY, January 9, at 3 o'clock, P. M. Subject of the first Lecture—"French and English Law." Doors open at 2, P. M. Admittance to each Lecture, 25 cents. WOMAN'S RIGHT TO LABOR. MRS. DALL'S LECTURES. MERCANTILE HALL. Mrs. Dall will deliver a course of Lectures at Mercantile Hall, Summer street, on three successive Monday evenings, to commence MONDAY, Nov. 7, at half-past 7 o'clock. Nov. 7.—Low Wages and Hard Work. Condition of women employed in slop-work. Way of safety, honorable independence. Dress-makers and governesses. Mayhew's Letters. Noble women among the fallen. Women never forbidden to labor, only ladies. Historical argument. Unhealthiness of French factory labor. Women sold as 'beasts of burden' in England. Metal workers. An absurd fiction in the statement that all men support all women. Nov. 14. Practical opposition, and the work now open. Avocations already open. False ideas of society keep respectable women out of them. Practical opposition not ended. Penn. Medical Society. Census of Great Britain and the United States. Nantucket. Dr. Franklin's sister-in-law. Olive Rose. Baron Toemer and Felicie de Fauveau. Nov. 21. New work to be done in Boston. Drowning of daughters. New means to prevent it. Medical specialities. Dr. Heidenreich Marian, the Bible woman. Training School for Servants. Knitting factory, &c. &c. Mr. Buckle's position to be questioned. A labor exchange. Will you tread out the nettles? There will be no tickets. Editors, Reporters, Clergymen and other lecturers will find free admission. Single admission 25 cts. Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock. [*Liberator Sept 30/59*] [*Dall*] CAROLINE H. DA[H]LL (Excerpt from letter of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt to Mrs. Maud Wood Park, March 31, 1943.) "In the course of events, and thanks to some books I got from Alice's (Blackwell) library, I became acquainted with a woman I had never known before. She was Mrs. Caroline H. Dahl. She died in New Jersey in 1910 or 1912 at the age of 90. I first admired her through some addresses she made before hearing in early days. She was then standing in with the leaders of the movement. Her father was a minister, her husband an importer, and I think she had some money. She wrote a series of lectures on 'Property Rights For Women' and then, instead of giving them at suffrage meetings, she gave them before colleges. So far as I know, she was the first woman in the world to receive an honorary degree from a college. After she had given these lectures, they were printed in small books and, the next year, she came back with a new set, including the improvements that had been made. I consider that she was a great pioneer and she certainly was a highly intelligent woman, but there evidently was something about her which the other women, the followers of Lucy Stone or Susan B. Anthony, did not like, because she seems to have dropped out and gone on her own. Probably, she had some disagreeable quality. I wish I knew more about her. She certainly deserves a place among the pioneers in Massachusetts. I wish you would ask Alice about her. It is possible that she knew her and the reason why the others dropped her. Nevertheless, she was a truly great woman of her time." Thomas W. Higginson Collection of papers in Galatea Collection, Boston Public Library and/or Massachusetts Historical Society 1857, Mar. 3. Thomas W. Higginson to C.H. Dall, about dates for Lucy Stone. 1857, Nov. 24 T.W. H. to C.H. Dall, about need of organization 1858, Feb. 3,8,23 – Ibid, about the Woman's Rights cause. Jan. 3, 1859 – Ibid – about a proposed woman's rights convention. 1862, Mar. 16 – Ibid – about woman's rights pamphlets. 1862, Feb. 2 – to Edward Atkinson about the Negro troops. 1863, June 24 – to Alex. C. Washburn Letter to Charles Sumner 1864, Sept. 26 – to Edward Atkinson, about free labor cotton projects. 1885, Mar. 17, 21 – to C. H. Dall, about the controversy over Hawthorne's journal entry about Margaret Fuller 1906, Dec. 26 – to Norcross – Letter to Mr. Garrison Boston Public Library Higginson, Thomas Wentworth – 1823-1911 1884, Feb. 5 – to Francis P. Garrison, desires a talk for Wendell Phillips funeral 1859 – June 23. to William L. Garrison (1805-1879) Asking to have his name deleted from The Liberator Adv. of the 4th of July meeting. Is calling meeting of State Disunion Committee in (Garrison's) office and asks him to attend. George Tichnor – Mrs. T.W. Higginson's nephew 1887 – T.W.H. wrote monthly papers for The Independent SUSAN B. ANTHONY TO CAROLINE H. DALL Manuscript collection, Mass. Historical Society, Boston, Mass. 1853, Sept. about a woman's rights convention 1859, Apr. 3,9,17 – about the woman's rights cause 1860, July 6 – Ibid 1864, Apr. 5 – about a review of Bayard Taylor 1865, Dec. 26 – about the woman suffrage petition to Congress. 1866, Jan. 30, 31 – about the woman suffrage petition 1866, May 20 – about speaking at the Equal Rights meeting 1866, May 28 – about Mrs. Dall's report 1866, Sept. 2 – about the woman's rights cause 1866, Oct. 11 – Ibid 1867, Mar. 13 – Ibid 1876, July 9 – the woman's Declaration of Independence 1876, Aug. 5 – about a woman's rights history 1876, Nov. 24 about the woman's rights movement 1878, June 27 – about 20th anniversary of National Woman Suffrage Association 1884, Jan. 22, – About the woman's rights cause Feb. 14 – Ibid 1885, Jan. 17 – to C.H. Dall 1886, Dec. 30 – Ibid 1888, Jan. 20,24 – Ibid, about the woman suffrage movement 1890, Feb. 5 – to C.H. Dall to John D. Long 1883, Dec. 19 – urging his support for a pending woman suffrage measure 1886, Feb. 9 – about speaking in behalf of woman suffrage 1886, Aug. 29 – about woman suffrage literature 1889, Jan. 16 – about National Woman Suffrage/convention Association Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.