NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Forbes, Rose D. 21 Ashmont St. Melrose, January 31st. Dear Miss Southard: Mrs. Catt has just written me from New York that she has had no answer to her letter asking Mrs. Forbes to allow the use of her name as a sponsor for the Woman's Centennial Congress in New York in November 1940. Because of her interest in peace and her devotion to the suffrage cause, Mrs. Catt is particularly anxious to have Mrs. Forbes' name for the New England Committee. Of course it doesn't mean that she will be asked to do anything personally, because I realize that we mustn't ask her to, but Mrs. Johnson suggested that I write to you and have you tell me whether you think this plan can be put up to Mrs. Forbes. For your information I am sending a copy of the letter Mrs. Bird plans to send out, with the tentative set-up of the New England Committee. A money contribution isn't the most important this time. We must have the right people on our sponsoring committee if we are to reach the women to whom the appeal is to be sent. Out of our $2560 (and our quote is really only $2000) we now have $900 for New England, and I am sure the letter will bring in a good many small gifts. Mrs. Bird hopes to get 10 checks for $50 in Massachusetts toward our $1000 share of the budget, but Mrs. Catt prefers 50 $10 checks. With cordial greetings to you and to Mrs. Vickerson, Faithfully yours, 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS January 4, 1930 My dear Mrs. Pitman: Thank you for your kind letter of January second just received. I shall be happy to be a member of the large Advisory Committee, which is planning to mark the tenth anniversary of Woman Suffrage. Your cordially, Rose Dalney Forbes. 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON MASSACHUSETTS June 26, 1939 Dear Mrs. Stantial, Thank you very much for sending me the literature in regard to our dear Mrs. Catt. Her letter to the members was beautiful, and all that she wrote touched me deeply. I am delighted to have it, and shall show it to all my friends. The celebration of the Boston League on Women Voters in honor of Mrs. DeNormandie must have been lovely, and I am sure that all of us who were permitted to join in it were very glad to do so. I am sorry not to see you before I go to Nashua, but, in spite of the doctor's telling me I must be quiet, I find a great deal to require my attention at my desk, as I am sure you know from your own experience. We shall meet next autumn, I hope, and meanwhile I send you my affectionate greetings. Yours affect'ly Rose D. Forbes F Fredonia, Milton, Massachusetts. Dear Miss Blackwell-- I cannot tell you how proud I am to own a copy of [your?] glorious book, sent & autographed for me by the beloved Author. Thank you so very much. I read "Lucy Stone" Miss Anna Eckstein in Coburg, Germany. (You may know of her devoted work for peace before & since the war.: She is a consecrated being, & I know how your mother's courage & greatness of soul will appeal to her.) = With my love to you, dear Miss Blackwell, & always gratitude for all you have done & are ever doing to bring the Kingdom of God more fully to earth--I am Yours affectionate February 9th 1931 Rose Forbes Malclm Forbes 15 as soon as I saw fiat was in print, and was thrilled & inspired by it --; and I have been wishing that my copy had your autograph.-- Now my wish is fulfilled! I shall keep this [?] copy; and give my first one to A Merry Christmas With affectionate greetings Merry Christmas in the air Christmas in my heart And the wish that you and I Were not so far apart. to dear Mrs. Stantial from Rose D. Forbes 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON MASSACHUSETTS May 28 1937 Dear Miss Blackwell, Thank you so much for sending me the book "Some Spanish-American Poets" which I am very glad indeed to see. I have already read a number of the poems, and I hope to read them all. Their similarity to Portuguese poems gives me keen pleasure; but the greatest pleasure I have in the book is that you, dear Miss Blackwell, chose to send it to me. I trust you are feeling well, and I wish I could transport you here to make a call on the twenty-seven-year old wistaria vine that is transforming the front of our house. But I know you can see all this in spirit, just as I am in spirit enjoying many scenes which I saw in Portugal and my quick trip to Spain two years ago. With love to you, I am always Your affectionate & admiring Rose Forbes MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES AND MRS. MARY HUTCHINSON PAGE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO AN INFORMAL TEA IN HONOR OF MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK TO BE GIVEN AT THE COLLEGE CLUB, BOSTON ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, AT 3:30 OCLOCK EXCERPTS WILL BE READ FROM MRS. PARK'S RECENTLY PUBLISHED PLAY, "LUCY STONE" PLEASE REPLY BEFORE JANUARY 13 TO MR.S J. MALCOLM FORBES 280 ADAMS STREET, MILTON 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON MASSACHUSETTS February 9, 1938 Dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you so much for both your letters, and I am only sorry not to have sent a more prompt reply to your letter in regard to the trusteeship for the Stone Fund. I appreciate your confidence in my ability to be one of the trustees to serve on the committee, and I am particularly sorry not to be able to take this service, even though it would not be arduous; but the business man whom I consulted agreed with me that it would be better to have a younger person as a trustee. I am sure that you will realize, dear Miss Blackwell, that it grieves me to refuse anything that you might suggest, but my days are very full, and I feel that I ought not to undertake even this small new service. I am sure you will find just the right person who will be a much better trustee than I could be. Of course, I feel dreadfully, as do all your friends, that you have had to meet this trial in connection with your eyesight, but I know that our Father will bless and comfort you day by day; and your countless friends will be thinking of you and loving you more than ever. My deep affection goes to you as well as my homage Yours very lovingly Rose Forbes Rose Forbes April 17, 1940 280 Adams Street Milton Massachusetts Dear Mrs. Stantial:[?] Thank you for sending me a copy of the thrilling account of Mrs. Catt's eightieth celebration, and for all the interesting details which followed it. If you are giving messages to our beloved Mrs. Catt, as I am sure you must be, please send my congratulations and love, and appreciation for all she has done to advance Woman Suffrage. I was extremely disappointed that the severe cold came at the wrong moment and and cut me out of the highlights in which I should have liked to join. Thank you for all you are doing, dear Mrs. Stantial; I can well imagine what a blessing you are to Mrs. Catt. With affectionate greetings, to yourself I am Yours very heartily Rose D. Forbes P.S. If it is not asking too much in your busy days, would you send me another copy of the Eightieth Birthday celebration and all that followed it? My own copy is too mussed to be very useful -- Yours ever R. D. F. 20 Sewall] St,, Melrose, January 6th Dear Mrs. Forbes: I talked to Florence Luscomb this morning and she seemed delighted with the idea of the tea for Mrs. Park. Florence suggested that Miss Miriam Skirball of the Ford Hall players be asked to read a part of the play and that discussion then be started from the group about the possibility of publicity and production. Florence also agreed to see David Niles of the Ford Hall group over this weekend, so that she could report at the meeting whether or not the Players would attempt the production. I think the possibility of getting Mrs. Catt to Boston for the first performance made quite an impression. Miss Comstock was happy to have her name used to sponsor the group at the College Club, and the room has been reserved in your name for Friday afternoon, January 14th. Miss Knapp gave me the price of $10.00 for the use of the room, and either 35¢ or 50¢ for the tea. Personally I think the 35¢ tea would be sufficient. It would be tea, plain sandwiches and cakes. The 50¢ service would include tea (and coffee), fancy sandwiches, little cakes. But since I don't know how we shall plan to pay the cost, I dare not suggest that we have the more expensive tea. We may not have 50 people but I think we should plan on that many. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Parker are going to try to make up their lists today so that we can have them to go over at the Union Club on Friday. I shall get my names together also. Willyou think of the kind of invitation we shall want to send? Mrs. Mary Hutchinson Page of Wellesley will be please to have her name used on the invitation; "honored" I believe she said. She is one of Mrs. Park's very dearest friends. I might ask her to contribute something toward the expense of the tea. What do you think? If there should be any change in your plans for Friday afternoon, you can reach me at the Boston League of Women Voters Board Meeting at 31 Mount Vernon Street on Friday morning. I called Mrs. Arthur Moore to ask for her house; she is not well enough to have the confusion. But she thinks the idea a fine one and will of course be one of those invited. Here are some of the names I have thought of: William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer Mrs. Grace Allen Johnson Florence H. Luscomb Miss Zara duPont Mrs. Hilda Hedstrom Cuirk Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw Mrs. Claude U. Gilson Mrs Franklin Hobbs Mrs. Benjamn F. Pitman Dr. Lakemam Miss Lucy Lowell Mrs. Oakes Ames Miss Alice P. Tapley Anna Weinstock Schneider Miss Rose Dexter Mary Gordon Thompson Mrs. Jennie Loitman Barron Rantoul Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page Baker Mary Driscoll Mrs. Anne Page Naughton Mrs. Leonard Hersey Bolles Mrs. Evelyn Peverly Coe Woodward - Fearing - Perkins Mrs. Samuel B. Woodward of Worcester Blair Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie Winslow - Codman, Moors Mrs. George C. Morton Marian Nichols Mrs. Oakes Ames Shurcliff Mrs. Margaret Higgison Barney (J. Dellinger) Miss Ellie Needham Mrs. LaRue Brown Mrs. George Howard Parker Mrs. Theodore Johnson (publisher of the play)? Do you think Mrs. Bagley and Mrs. George Richmond Fearing should be included? I shall send this list to Florence and ask her to add or to cross off names she thinks should not be included. She knows more than I do who the ones are who should be on the list. Miss Luscomb told me this morning that Mrs Arthur G. Rotch had fallen last week and broken her hip, so that she is eliminated. Do telephone me if you want to talk with me before Friday afternoon. Affectionately, 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON MASSACHUSETTS January 9, 1939 Dear Mrs. Stantial, Mrs. Forbes sends you her affectionate greetings, and thanks you very much for writing her about Mrs. Catt's birthday. She would not have realized that it was so near without your letter with its news about the luncheon. She has sent off a telegram of greetings to Mrs. Catt. Mrs. Forbes hopes that she may see you in the near future, but she is not doing very much just now. Sincerely yours, Frances Southard For Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON MASSACHUSETTS March 29, 1937 Dear Mrs. Stantial, I am glad to make a contribution to the Memorial Fund, and please find enclosed my check for twenty-five dollars. I am sure that everyone who loves and admires Miss Blackwell will be only too glad to contribute. We all appreciate the devoted work you have put into the raising of the sum. I hope you all are well, and with my affectionate greetings to you, I am, Your sincere friend, Rose D. Forbes 25 00 21 Ashmont Street, Melrose, Mass November 10th Dear Mrs. Forbes: A very interesting and highly satisfactory first meeting of the temporary committee or collect suffrage books and mementoes for the Blackwell Memorial room at Boston University was held this morning, with Mrs. Everett O. Fisk as temporary Chairman, Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, Vice-Chairman, as as usual I seem to have gotten myself in for some work as secretary. Mrs. Fisk asked me if I would write to you, to Mrs. Peabody as one or two others to ask if you would be willing to make a contribution toward the initial organization expenses. She hopes to get together a large committee of 50 to 100 as we did for the Blackwell annuity fund, and then to send out a number of thousand appeals for books and suffrage mementoes which are stored away in attics and scrapbooks. The enclosed copy of the first minutes will give you a pretty good idea of the plan. We have Mrs. Catt's and Mrs. Park's blessing, as well as the approval of the trustees of Boston University. Perhaps sometime you'd like to have Mrs. Boyer and I go out to Milton and tell you all about the idea, which was originally Mrs. Boyer's. I saw Miss Blackwell last week and she seems much improved. With love to you, Affectionately, COPY 280 Adams Street Milton, Massachusetts December 8, 1936 Dear Mrs. Park, Yesterday afternoon I saw Miss Alice Stone Blackwell at her new home in Cambridge. I am glad to say that she seems to me extraordinarily well and just like her own gallant self. She told me, however, that her doctor is quite severe -- insisting that she must not go up and down stairs much and that she must for the present give up her engagements and take life easily. I could well realize the need for that when I saw the many bundles of letters and pamphlets to be put in order. I went over to Cambridge to ask Miss Blackwell if she would like to come to my house sometime within the next month or two to tell a small group of the newly formed Milton League of Women Votes about the difficulties the pioneers in the cause had to face. This group organized last spring, and its officers are some of the young married girls who have settled in Milton. As you probably know, Milton has been a hard place for both Suffrage and Prohibition, and I was particularly delighted when I heard of the formation of this branch. They were good enough to ask me to be one of the Board members, and I accepted although I can give but very little time. It lately occurred to me that something I could do which might help, would be to let the girls see for themselves the type of splendid women who battled for freedom over a generation ago. Of course Miss Blackwell would be one of the ideal persons for this purpose. My idea was to have the group meet at my house some day in January or February. Miss Blackwell made a glorious suggestion (and WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY Massachusetts Branch Saturday morning conferences will be held at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational Building, 14 Beacon Street, at 11 o'clock. On March 6th, Mr. Francis W. Bird, Pub- lisher of the "Record-Advertiser," will speak for twenty minutes on "Peace Through Empire Building," to be followed by a general dis- cussion. All are welcome. Mrs. J. MALCOLM FORBES, Chairman. WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY MASSACHUSETT'S BRANCH PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD AT TREMONT TEMPLE TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23D, AT 8 O'CLOCK SPEAKERS 1915 MME. ROSIKA SCHWIMMER [OF HUNGARY] WAR AGAINST WAR MR. HAMILTON HOLT [EDITOR OF THE "INDEPENDENT"] FEDERATION OF THE WORLD CHAIRMAN MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES GALLERY FREE TICKETS $1.50, $1.00, 50 AND 25 CENTS MAY BE OBTAINED AT TREMONT TEMPLE, OR FROM MRS. J. PENNINGTON GARDINER 12 OTIS PLACE, BOSTON WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY Massachusetts Branch Saturday morning conferences will be held at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational Building, 14 Beacon Street, at 11 o'clock. On April 3d, Mr. Arthur Fisher of the Harvard Crimson will speak for twenty minutes on "War Insurance," to be followed by a general discussion. All are welcome. Mrs. J. MALCOLM FORBES, Chairman. WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY Massachusetts Branch Saturday morning conferences will be held at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational Building, 14 Beacon Street, at 11 o'clock. On March 27th, Mme. Aino Malmberg of Finland will speak on "Big Wars and Little Nations," to be followed by several speakers from other small countries and a discussion. This conference will last until half-past twelve. All are welcome. Mrs. J. MALCOLM FORBES, Chairman. WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY Massachusetts Branch Saturday morning conferences will be held at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational Building, 14 Beacon Street, at 11 o'clock. On April 10th, Mr. R.H. Dana of Cambridge will speak for twenty minutes on "In Times of War Prepare for Peace," to be followed by a general discussion. All are welcome. Mrs. J. MALCOLM FORBES, Chairman. WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY Massachusetts Branch Saturday morning conferences will be held at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational Building, 14 Beacon Street, at 11 o'clock. On April 17th, Mr., Jay William Hudson, Professor of Philosophy of the University of Missouri, will speak for twenty minutes on "Popular Fallacies concerning the Peace Move- ment," to be followed by a general discussion. All are welcome. Mrs. J. MALCOLM FORBES, Chairman. WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY Massachusetts Branch Saturday morning conferences will be held at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational Building, 14 Beacon Street, at 11 o'clock. On May 1st, Mrs. Raymond Robins, President of the National Women's Trade Union League, will speak for twenty minutes on "Peace and The New Citizenship," to be followed by a general dis- cussion. All are welcome. Mrs. J. MALCOLM FORBES, Chairman. SUNDAY THEATRE MEETING TO BE HELD IN COLONIAL THEATRE INSTEAD OF TREMONT THEATRE SUNDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11th, at 3.30 SPEAKERS: MISS HELEN VARICK BOSWELL, Pres. Woman's Forum, New York City MR. HENRY ABRAHAMS, Sec. Central Labor Union. FREDERICK W. PETHICK-LAWRENCE, of England "I am thoroughly convinced that if the Women were given a vote, politics would be made cleaner, the character of men elected for public office would be of a higher grade, and those elected to public office would administer their office to the interest of all people." -- Detective William J. Burns. EVERYBODY WELCOME ADMISSION FREE Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON 95 Peace Meeting. PROFESSOR JAY WILLIAM HUDSON, a Special Lec- turer of the Massachusetts Peach Society, will deliver an address upon "THE NEW PATRIOTISM," at the NEWTON CENTRE UNITARIAN CHURCH, on SUNDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, at 4.30 o'clock. There will be SPECIAL MUSIC, under the direc- tion of MR. EDGAR JACOBS SMITH. You are invited to attend this meeting. ALSON H. ROBINSON. Boston, Mass. Mar 1 10 - AM 1915 Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. West Newton Masstts Boston, Mass. Mar 15 8-30 P North Postal Station Mrs. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. West Newton Masstts Boston, Mass. Mar 27 4-PM Mrs. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. West Newton Mass. Boston, Mass Mar 30 1915 9-PM Mrs. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. West Newton Mass Boston, Mass Apr 3 1915 7 - PM Mrs. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. W. Newton, Mass. Boston, Mass April 10 1915 4 - PM Mrs. W Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. W. Newton, Mass. [*hosp*] Boston, Mass April 24 1915 5 - PM Mrs. W. L. Garrison, Jr., 199 Temple St. W. Newton, Mass. Boston April 7 15 8 - PM Station A Mrs. W. L. Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St.. West Newton, Mass. Boston, Mass April 8 1915 12 - M Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. 199 Temple St. West Newton, Mass. WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH NATIONAL CHAIRMAN JANE ADDAMS TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS 12 OTIS PLACE BOSTON, MASS STATE OFFICERS CHAIRMAN MRS. J. MALCOM FORBES VICE-CHAIRMEN MRS. FANNIE FREN ANDREWS MRS. LOUIS D. BRANDEIS MISS HESTER CUNNINGHAM MRS. NORWOOD P. HALLOWELL MRS. HENRY COOLIDGE MULLIGAN MISS KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE MRS. QUINCY SHAW MRS. ROBERT GOULD SHAW MRS. WILLIAM B. THURBER MRS. JAMES H. VAN SICKLER EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MRS. ELIZABETH GLENDOWER EVANS TREASURER MRS. J. PENNINGTON GARDINER CHAIRMAN ON PUBLICATIONS MRS. EDWIN D. MEAD CHAIRMAN COMMITTE ON MEETINGS MISS ROSE STANDISH NICHOLS March 16th, 1915. Dear Madam: The Woman's Peace Party earnestly begs you, in making up your program for the coming year, to include in it one or more meetings devoted to the consideration of the ideals upon which the Party is founded. In view of the unnecessary horrors now ravaging Europe and their unquestionable reaction upon militarism in the United States, constructive peace is without doubt the most vital question today. The following topics indicate some of the many points of view from which the subject could be treated: Woman and War. The Home and the Military State. Economic and Other Causes of War. The Moral Substitute for War. The Interdependence of Nations. Progressive Steps in the Peace Movement. The International Mind: How to Develop it in Church, School and Home. The Neutral Nations and the European War. War and Social Reconstruction. America's Duty i the Movement of World Organization. The Woman's Peace Party and Woman's Responsibility for War or Peace. The Executive Council of the Woman's Peace Party will be glad to assist you i securing speakers upon the above topics. You will find the enclosed information concerning the Woman's Peace Party and its plans of work. It is earnestly hoped that your club will assist in bringing the whole subject of Peace as a practical ideal before the women of America. Will you not begin by having the enclosed resolution passed at your next meeting? Yours sincerely, Rose Forbes State Chairman. MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY 421 Boylston Street Boston, Mass. WHAT THE MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH OF THE WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY THINKS ABOUT THE MEXICAN CRISIS At this grave moment in our country's history when a stubborn attitude may lead to dangerous results, the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman's Peace Party states its convictions regarding the Mexican Crisis as follows:- As a nation we have suffered much from Mexican disorder, but there is reason to believe that a great part of this has been fomented by certain interests that have something to gain if war comes. We have very rightly decided to put an adequate force upon our border line to prevent brigandage. But we have also sent troops two hundred miles beyond the border and now refuse, after Villa has disappeared and many bandits are killed, to withdraw this force. This is uniting the government and all the people of Mexico against us. Permanent alienation of Mexican good will may embitter the sentiment of Latin America and halt the development of that Pan-American spirit which gave such hopeful promise. Many years ago the American people waged a needless war with Mexico and left it despoiled of a large share of territory. War with Mexico now would prove a dangerous temptation of further conquest. In view of the untold loss of life and property which would result from an inglorious war of the strong and rich against the weak and poor, and which would debase our national honor and reputation among the nations of the world, we urge: (1) That the President consent to accept mediation. (2) That our troops be withdrawn from Mexico pending an investigation of the relation that American business interests bear to the bandits' raids. (3) That Congress explicitly endorse the statement of President Wilson in his Mobile address that the United States would never take any land by conquest. (4) That all patriotic citizens instantly appeal to the President and Congress to stay the act which would place the United States in the position of Austria to Servia in August, 1914. BOSTON LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS FOUNDED 1901 BY PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW THE FIRST ESSENTIAL OG GOOD CITIZENSHIP IS INTEREST: THE SECOND, KNOWLEDGE: THE THIRD, CONSECRATION 552-554 LITTLE BUILDING, BOSTON 11, MASS. TELEPHONE, BEACH 6310-6311 COUNSELOR MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL HONORARY PRESIDENT MRS. ROBERT GOULD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS, .. MALCOME FORBES CLERK MISS FLORENCE H. LUSCOMB TREASURER MRS. GRACE E. BURNHAM EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MRS. WENONA OSBORNE PINKHAM December 29, 1920 Dear Fellow Member: By its work during the past nine months the Boston League of Women Voters has established itself as an organization which is making a genuine contribution to the civic welfare of our city, state, and nation. If its work is to continue unabated during the remaining three months of our fiscal year three thousand dollars must be raised. We hope and believe that every member is gratified with the work, and we therefore believe each one will be glad to do her share in its support. A small contribution -- from one to five dollars - if give my every member will enable us to continue and to broaden our civic usefulness. To the person of large vision few calls will make a stronger appeal! American can render no greater service to a disordered world that so to strengthen and purify her own democracy as to be a beacon. guiding the nations into the path of just, peaceful, and free government. In the task of purifying our own civic life the League of Women Voters is bearing an honorable share. Will you, as your gift towards a happier New Year for the world, do your part in our campaign for "$1 to $5 from every member"? Faithfully yours, Rose D. Forbes President (Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes) 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS Boston, Mass. March 21, 1917. Dear Mrs. Page: Thank you for your letter of March 20th, with its beautiful words about our dear Mrs. Shaw. I have not my memorandum book here, but I think that I promised Mrs. Shaw that I would contribute $100 in May 1916, 1917 and 1918; and in any case I am glad to send $100 now for this May, and to promise the same amount in May 1918. Please find the check enclosed. I wish very much that I could contribute more to the Equal Suffrage Association, but I am sure you understand that we find it particularly hard now to get subscriptions for our Law to Replace War Movement; and so those of us who realize its needs most contribute as largely as we possibly can. I am going away early next week with my 280 ADAM STREET MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS February 6, 1940 My dear Mrs. Ames, I have just written Mrs. Catt to accept her invitation to be one of the sponsors of the Woman's Centennial Congress and to say that I am sending you a small amount to be added to the New England contribution. Please find enclosed my check for twenty-five dollars, which takes my best wishes for the good work. Cordially yours, Rose Dabney Forbes 280 ADAMS STREET MILTON MASSACHUSETTS November 15, 1938 Dear Mrs. Stantial, Your letter with its very interesting contents gave me much pleasure. I am delighted that the Committee, of which you write, is already taking shape. Yes indeed, of course I shall be proud to be one of the sponsors, and please let me know as soon as the contributions are desired. I will gladly pledge thirty dollars. It is good of you to offer to come out to Milton with Mrs. Boyer to talk over the plans Although I have nearly recovered from the fall I had at Naushon, I cannot entirely count on myself and so I think it might be better for you to consider me as merely one of the contributors. Even if I do not always feel up to taking an active part, my interest is just as keen. With love to you, and the hope that all is well with you and yours, Affectionately Rose D. Forbes Aug 7th Dear Maurie - When I sent your check the other day I meant to send the enclosed clipping about Herbert Schaedel. Too bad isn't it? He was the one I liked the best when I visited Uncle Henry & Aunt Ida in 1913 Had a letter from Charles the day you left. 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