NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Heacock, Priscilla W. [*Priscilla W. Heacock 135 Mather Ave Wyncote Pa*] 135 Mather Avenue Wyncote, PA. February 23 1931 My dear Miss Blackwell This afternoon I finished reading to my aunt Annie Heacock your beautiful life of your mother Lucy Stone. It is a great privilege to come so close to your father and mother as you have enabled us to do, to become part of the great circle of grateful, loving friends that they - noble, heroic, pioneers, true Americans - have gathered around them. The book gave Aunt Annie great pleasure in bringing to her the cause and the workers that have always been so very dear to her, and that now, since her failing eye sight shuts her off at ninety-three from all reading, live to her in her thoughts. It gave me the joy of fellowship and a big stimulus for greater effort - for I too am in a little degree of the pioneer type. Sometime when I come to Boston may I call upon you? I should be very happy to meet you, and my aunt would be equally glad. Aunt Annie always thinks most lovingly of you and your mother and father. Her time hangs very heavily upon her hands, for she has always been so enthusiastically happy in her activity for good that now, not able even to [?], with all her patience she grows weary doing nothing. She and her sister, my dear aunt Patty (Martha), who broke her hip in 1929 and is confined to a chair, are left of the five sisters, all of whom lived to serve worthily; they live in one end of their long, old home - and my sister and I with friends in the other - the doors being open between. Your book is a beautiful tribute to your beautiful father and mother. It should remain an inspiration, a choice picture of our [?] country United States, I think it is a book our high schools will want for their libraries. Very sincerely yours, Priscilla W. Heacock July 9 1931 My dear Miss Blackwell: I want you to know what a pleasure it was to me to call upon you in Boston, to see you and talk to you, and how interested aunt Annie Heacock was to hear about you. Your old home, whither I drove at once, I saw from the top floor, save where the Italian minister lives, to the store room where the bound copies of The Woman's Journal are arranged on shelves, and out in the barn the old wagon lettered with Votes for Women which the lady who took me around says her mother-in-law, a Mrs Moyer [*Boyer*] from Pennsylvania, an interested suffragist, thought should certainly be put in a museum. I think she bound copies of The Woman's Journal should be more safely preserved. The home is a very dear old place and I was very glad and honored to see it. I regretted it had to be unfurnished and so serve as a camping place rather than as a home. The books you recommended are not in our local library. I want to get them to read aloud to aunt Annie, to whom following upon your suggestion I promised to read daily. However I do not believe aunt Annie really will value being read aloud to as much as does your cousin, for she seems to enjoy quiet sociability and our big lawn, without much desire 135 MATHER AVENUE WYNCOTE, PA. for mental entertainment, though I am excusing our neglect to read to her by saying this. It was a pleasure to see you. I hope your summer on your farm will bring you health and much pleasure. Very sincerely yours, Priscilla Heacock I was much interested in your telling me about the negroes you are hoping to free. I trust you succeed... My sister read of the case in The Nation and The Literary Digest and tells me the decision has been postponed until, I believe, January. This summer I am eagerly anticipating keeping up with the news as well as reading widely in preparation for my teaching of English P.W.H. [*Priscilla Heacock visit to Blackwell Home at Pope Hill On freeing negroes in trouble w Smith*] [*Priscilla Heacock*] 135 Mather Avenue Wyncote, Pa. June 21, 1931 My dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you for your very kind, cordial letter and Easter card. They came to me when I was so completely occupied with my teaching that an answer really seemed impossible. Now is approaching time for my visit to Boston, one pleasure of which I hope much will be a call upon you. Will it be convenient to you? My time between this Saturday evening and early Thursday morning will be all too short; already I have Sunday morning, Monday, and Wednesday evening engaged and I want to look up a number of friends, therefore it will necessary for me to schedule my stay I hope you can allow me to call upon you, which will be quite easy to manage for I am driving up in my Ford Sedan. I know and Annie will be happy for me to have the great pleasure of calling upon you. Very sincerely yours, Priscilla Heacock My Boston address from Saturday at 6 p.m. till Thursday will be c/o Mrs. Frederich A. Foss Central St. Auburndale, Mass. Phone - Newton 2848M Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.