NAWSA          GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE        Howland, Emily

[*H*]
EMILY HOWLAND
SHERWOOD
VIA AURORA
NEW YORK
Feb. 20  1927.
My dear precious Alice
Stone Blackwell why did
you break your arm - too bad!
too bad!  I fancy that you are so
philosophical as to find solace
in its being your left arm that
was out of commission.
I thank you for little valentine
and the sweet words of greeting
that came with it.
Niece Isabel is enjoying a tarry in
St Augustine.
Affectionately yours
Emily Howland

[*Emily Howland*]


[*NY*]
Sherwood  April 10, 1923.
My dear Miss Blackwell
I thank you heartily
for the loan of the articles
about Madam Breshkofsky.
I have read them and re-read
them several times with deep
interest, that thus I may remember
the account more accurately.
I wonder if she could have foreseen
the Russia of today whether
she could have devoted her
life to the destruction of the government
of the Czar even though

the present may pass into
something better in the future.
I enclose a contribution to
those precious schools.  I wish
that it were much more, but
in these days of dire needs one
has to divide in smaller shares.
Cordially yours
Emily Howland

[*Emily Howland*]
SHERWOOD
AURORA-ON-CAYUGA
NEW YORK
Aug. 1st  1923.
Dear Miss Blackwell
    Your letter of the 27th is just
received.  In reply to your question, I
remember distinctly hearing Susan
B. Anthony say that Lucy Stone
converted her to a belief in Woman
Suffrage I cannot be sure regarding
the place and time.  Here I pause and
take the biog. of S. B. to find, if I can, the
account of her conversion.  On page 61
Vol. 1. is the following, "Miss Anthony read
with deep interest the reports of the woman
rights convention at Worcester Mass. in
abt. 1850 wh. were published in the N. Y.
Tribune.  She sympathized fully with

the demand for equal rights for women but
was not quite convinced that these
included Suffrage".  This is strong circumstantial
evidence that this was the
occasion and that I must have reported
her words.
   Niece Isabel and I have just had a visit
from a Miss Grayson of Washington travelling
in the interest of the National Woman's
Party, organizing women and collecting
funds to conduct campaigns in every state
for correcting or eliminating laws that are
discriminating against fair play for women
Alice Paul the leader.  The militant doings that
she introduced to haunt the White House
seemed to me so absurd and unnecessary
that I have little faith in her being a wise
leader in any capacity.
   Niece Isabel and I indulged in another


SHERWOOD
AURORA-ON-CAYUGA
NEW YORK

trip to Boston a few weeks ago, our visit
was to Melrose where a dear friend
lives.  We talked of you, I had to silence
her wish to look you up telling her that
I knew that you spend your summers
at Chilmark.  Your picture of your quaint
home there is most attractive.
Who occupies Mrs. Blackwell's home there
and do the trees that she planted grow?
I hope that they live to honor her memory.
One more question do you ever hear
of Madam Bushkofsky I know that I have
not spelt her name correctly.
It is comforting to know that the Bolshevik
[gr??t} is not so black as it has been painted,
little by little it is growing whiter, will

finally be thought quite respectable..
evidently this dear lady is in no danger
of persecution in her work.
I hope that the strong sea air is giving
you increase of vigor.  I must look
through the Woman Citizen which I
have neglected for lack of time to [?]
its interesting columns, when I do I may
find something from you, [?] a message
from you I always seek when reading it
Cordially yours
Emily Howland

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