NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Livermore, May 19,1902-1903 Melrose, Jan'y. 15, 1902. Dear Alice, Very well, then. I will be sure to be at the Westminster at 1 p. m.,—and if I feel smart enough, will put in an appearance at Park st. church at 10 a. m. Depend on me, however in the afternoon. Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore Mrs. Livermore Melrose, April 13, 1902. Dear Alice, I am afraid to promise to give the closing lecture at the Fortnightly. I am physically unable, as I am now. I might be able when the time came, but I can't be sure. I am in the hands of our family physician, who thinks the awful difficulty of breathing, which forbids my walking or lying down, is only temporary, and that he can soon conquer it. But until he makes his promise good, I can do nothing. It has taken away all my courage and ambition. So, we will fall back on Miss Moore. She has lectured for us once, some time ago — something about art. Shall I write her, or will you? Has Mass. adopted the plan suggested by the Enrollment Committee? I enclose her letter. It seemed to me an excellent plan. What a splendid letter is yours for April, sent to the Mass. Leagues! And how very, very interesting the Woman's Journal continues! Yrs. truly, M. A. Livermore general interest, some of the seething questions of the day, or some prominent phase [relation] of the woman question? And who shall lecture? I have been out of the world these long months, and know nothing. Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore [*Mary A. Livermore*] Melrose, Sept. 5, 1902. Dear Alice, I have written Messrs. Harper and Ryerson. Shall we open the Fortnightlies at the regular time, the second Tuesday of Oct.? Who will preside? I can, but [has] had as lief not. We should have a rousing meeting to start off with. Something of [*Mary A. Livermore*] Melrose, Oct. 19, 1902. Dear Alice, Many thanks for the superb picture of your father. It is the very best I have ever seen of him. I have placed it on my desk, where I see it every time I lift my head. I am more angry over the indignity he has suffered than I was in the beginning. I never could have dreamed that those two restless glib, self-conscious young *Maud Wood Park *Mary Hutcheson Page women would have dared propose his vacating his office.* I hurried off from the Fortnightly that I might avoid recognizing her, Mrs. Park. We have spoiled them by our praise, which has [spoiled them] made them take on unseemly airs. (Mrs Park & Mrs Page) I wish we could have Rabbi Fleischer at our next Fortnightly. This very address would be just the thing. (see clipping.) I have not his address, or I would write him immediately. I am afraid I must throw on some one at the office the burden of inviting him. I cannot do what Mr. Webber asks me to do. I have neither knowledge nor eyes, for the work. It seems to me that you have published something lately in the Wom. Journal that is just the thing-- haven't you? I have written him so, told him I have sent his letter to you, and given him your address. I feel guilty in doing it, you have so much work always on Melrose Oct. '30, 1902. Dear Alice I enclose the circular of Mr. Perley, who wishes to found a weekly newspaper to circulate in the public schools, has been at it for a year, and has made considerable headway. If he should talk to us about it, it would cause a discussion about our press of today. Mr. Perley is a very intelligent talker. Another lecturer recommended for the Fortnightly is Miss Lilian M. Tudbury, Pres. Peabody Woman's Club, Asst. Prin. hand. Webber is all right. I remember him. Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore Peabody High School, who graduated from B. U. in the same class with Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, and who knew you in B. U. Her lecture is "An Interpretation of Goethe's Faust." It is said to be very fine. Then, Mrs. Clara Beatly is recommended, and she is a good talker. Shall I try to get Mr. Perley, if I can? Please return his circular, as I am to write something. Yrs. truly, M. A. Livermore Melrose Jan'y 4, 1903. Dear Judith, I have a plate for you, -- one of the Wedgewood souvenir plates,--but have not yet had a chance to send it to you. It is a great bother send them by mail or express, they are so likely to get broken. Can't I send it somewhere, where some one of your young people can call and get it? I received your letter on my birth-day, or the day after. It was one of your good letters and I enjoyed it very much. I thought I should reply immediately, but before twenty-four hours were passed, I received over fifty more from everywhere, with telegrams and cablegrams. How do people remember my birthday, from year to year? My eyes are so easily made unseeable, that I dare not reply to them, and my friends must take my gratitude for granted. I want to attend the annual Woman Suffrage meeting on the 13th - but it is uncertain. Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore I will send the plate to you by mail. I have just got a mailing box for it. M. A. L. Mary A. Livermore [*to A S B*] kinds. I will write her that you will have something about it in the Wom. Journal -- unless you say "no." Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore Melrose, Feby. 25, 1903. I send you the clipping from the Concord Monitor. Mrs. Catt wants me to reply to it. There is a good deal to say, in reply. But I cannot do it. I haven't time, for I am in a great swirl of work just now, of various Melrose, Sept. 21, 1903. Dear Miss Turner, I must be excused from presiding at the "Fortnightlies" hereafter. As now arranged they would cost me too much time, labor and money. I shall not undertake any more of that work. I have had a very busy and pleasant summer. I have been to Vermont and New Hampshire, and had a particularly delightful time at Dover, N.H. He spent a week at Gloucester, and another at Hampton, at a charming little house, beautifully kept, between Great and Little Brave Head. But the day at [hest] Brookfield was greater and grounder than any public day, not specially devoted to religion, that I have ever known. The hill on which the house stands where Lucy Stone was born and married was a Mount of Transfiguration. The faces of the people shone, as the meeting proceeded, as with an inner light, and they spoke to each other in a reverent and awed way. They came by hundreds, early and lingered, departing slowly and reluctantly. I have received thirteen notes or postals from persons who were present, expressive of their enjoyment of the day. Adelaide has had the reverest attack of autumnal hay fever that I have ever seen. It came Aug. 20, and is just beginning to receive a quietus from the early frosts. By Oct. 1st, she is usually over it. We sent her to the mountains for awhile. Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore. There is an article relating to Frances Power Cobbe, by Estlin Carpenter in this last number of The Christian Register. It is tender and appreciative. He introduced me to Miss Cobbe, for whom he cared highly. Some of the Carpenters did not like her. Her anti-vivisection was the trouble. I shall try to go to Faneuil Hall Tuesday night, the 10th. It seems a funny affair, so early, so little notice, all the old war-horses brought out to "shoulder their guns and show how fields were won". Yrs. M. A. L. [*Mary A. Livermore*] [*May 9, 1904*] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MELROSE, MASS. MAY 9 7 AM 1904 POSTAGE ONE CENT 1843 - MCKINLEY-1906 THE SPACE ABOVE IS RESERVED FOR POSTMARK. POSTAL CARD THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY. Alice Stone Blackwell The Woman's Journal 3 Park st., Boston Melrose, Saturday Apr. 11 All right! I hope our beloved Judith will be able to preside. Miss Mary Prescott Brown of the Emerson School of Oratory will read, or recite, one selection next Tuesday. No singing. The "tots" will not sing until I preside, so their mamas have decreed. I have given Miss Brown a letter of introduction to you, or Miss Turner- I don't recall which of you. She will find you. Yrs. truly, Mary A. Livermore I am very sorry to miss Mrs. Cheney's lecture. I want to hear it. January 17th, 1921. Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, 144 Park Avenue, Yonkers, New York My dear Mrs. Livermore:- The Board of Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association met today. Your resignation was presented and the following motion was then made, and was with one exception unanimously carried. Miss Hay asked to be recorded as present but not voting. That, whereas Henrietta Livermore has tendered her resignation as a Director of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the Board of Officers (New York Section) understanding fully that she is no longer in sympathy with the aims of the Association nor those of her former co-workers, accept her resignation. The Officers wish to express their sincere and grateful appreciation of the loyal and able service rendered to the campaign for woman suffrage by Mrs. Livermore and to convey to her their pained regret that difference of political opinion should now sever the friendly official relations of many years standing. Let me add personally, that in thirty years of work this is the first time I ever had a fellow member on a suffrage Board present her resignation, and I regret that circumstances have made this necessary. Most cordially yours, C C Catt President Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.