NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE MILES GERTRUDE E. W Concord, Mass. May 14, 1953 Dear Mrs. Stantial: Your visit with me gave just the sweet harmonious happiness I had thought it would. I thank you so much for each one of the fine gifts you so kindly gave me; but how could you spare Lucy Stone's precious handkerchief dainty and so significant? I shall love and treasure it till I pass to the next life; then my daughter will return it to you, a keepsake so loved and valued for matchless associations should be in the keeping of appreciative hearts. I reread your letter which was delayed and wished I had received it duly. I am enjoying the jell with noon lunches and find it delicious. It will be a delight to use the lovely note paper. I am especially glad to have it. Again I thank you for all your kind thoughts of me (including of course your letter with the beautiful birthday rose) on this very happy birthday. The year has now come which makes "Emancipacion" timely; up to this time it has been too advanced. The revelation and its truth (through perfect demonstration on (on which this book is based) gained) occurred more than 50 years ago; not till 1922 was it possible to give this book a private circulation limited to advanced thinkers and metaphysical scholars. It was in 1898 when I realized that for me, the Old Dispensation became obsolete and that I had entered the coming NEW AGE; which comes generally due this summer on August 20th. But we know every great new change has a pioneer forerunner; I think that Lucy Stone felt and thought all that I have, prior to the revelation and demonstration which broke the age-old seal on the profound mystery relating to sex and generation thus revealing the Creator's law for safe painless birth for the human race also revealing God himself and the true meaning of genuine love, till now a number of books on God and love have come out; That preparatory limited circulation has done good work. Yours with affection, My pen refuses Gertrude Miles 55-4 MADE IN U. S. A. "EMANCIPATION: THE KEY, by Faith Stewart Arnold, [* * *] University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 267 pp. A Story, but a story with a purpose and with interest and revealed knowledge of life, showing the effect of lofty purposes in the uplift and beautifying of human character. This book makes plain the simple nature and spiritual laws that apply to human life." -Rev. B. F. Austin Editor of REASON QUARTERLY Copied from the Nov. Dec. & Jan. 1923-4 issue [* *per name of Gertrude C. Miles West Concord Mass*] Concord Jct., Mass., April 12, 1923. My dear Miss Blackwell: Your kind Easter remembrance gave me sincere pleasure--I often think of you with deep satisfaction, for you are, indeed, a true representative of the greatest women who ever blessed this world of ignorance and turmoil. Your appreciative and courageously truthful attitude toward "Emancipation", while you knew it would be considered "revolutionary" by many people, proves this. Perhaps you wonder what "Emancipation" is doing(?) The book is making its own way, as I thought it would if rightly started. I have proceeded thoughtfully and patiently with it, first preparing the way by submitting it to earnest, intelligent, aspiring people who have responded whole-heartedly, till now it has a number of very valuable endorsements--yours being one of them--which will soon be printed in leaflet form, together with a brief forward I have recently written, a copy of which is being sent with every book. A little later I will send several copies of the endorsements and foreword, which you may give to such people as you think would be interested in "Emancipation", if you like. Mrs. May Smith Dean has written a short but comprehensive review of the book, which I think might interest you, since you know the work. I will typewrite a copy of it for you. Many letters of approval relating to this book are coming to me, and several ladies have taken copies to present to public libraries. About two weeks ago the editor of the monthly BOOK REVIEW BULLETIN of Topeka, Kansas, sent a request for a review copy of "Emancipation", saying: "In addition to its laymen subscribers, the BULLETIN is sent to nine colleges and two hundred churches in a territory of five states." More orders for the book have been received from California than from any other state, although many states are represented among its readers. Some ten weeks ago, I sent a copy of "Emancipation" to Miss Roderick of the WOMAN CITIZEN, thinking she would be glad to have an impressive review of it given in the CITIZEN, but my thought must have been wide of the mark--no review having appeared. In Miss Roderick's acknowledgement of the book, she wrote: "I am reading "Emancipation" with much interest; there may be a possibility of its being reviewed in the WOMAN CITIZEN." Being a book for those who care for the true and spiritual in life, it is not being urged upon the attention of people who are not ready for it. Sincerely yours, Gertrude E. Miles. 8 Central St. Gertrude E. Miles (ask Woman Citizen) West Concord, Mass. September 19, 1947. Dear Miss Blackwell: Two treasured likeneses of yourself are now mine: Your dear little baby picture, and the one celebrating your 90th birthday anniversary, which is very fine and natural. I am so glad to have them! The great amount, variety, and importance, of the writings you have given the world during the years between these two momentous days of your life, amaze me. The late Mrs. Carrie Catt's project for the microfilming of The Woman's Journal is a most valuable one. I am glad to make a contribution toward its accomplishment. Having recovered from a long serious illness I have resumed the revision of "Emancipation" now needed before giving it general circulation for which its presentation should be plainer than would have been permissable 25 years ago. Also there are a number of vital facts I refrained from including in the first edition [the time for their publication not then having arrived] which should now be given. I have written a definitely improved substitution for the first four chapters of the book, giving it a much better opening without in any way sacrificing its purpose. Sincerely, Gertrude Elizabeth Miles [*a brief announcement of "Emancipation," One of Am Mrs. Gertrude Miles*] THE BOSTON HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1925 The Herald's Mid- Week Book Page By John Clair Minot WEIGHTY BOOKS OF LATEST VINTAGE Secret Societies and Submersive Movements, by Nesta H. Webster; E. P. Dutton & Co. Seeking sinister and secret mainsprings for the onslaughts, old and new, on Christianity and all social and moral order. A History of Sculpture, by George Henry Chase and Chandler Rathfon Post; Harper & Bros. Two members of the Harvard faculty condense into 550 pages, with many illustrations, the development of sculpture from the earlier times to date. The permanent Court of International Justice, by Manley O. Hudson; Harvard University Press. A Harvard professor of international law surveys the first two years of the court and discusses at length the question of American participation. Atoms and Rays, by Sir Oliver Lodge; George H. Doran Company. A great scientist explains what he modestly calls "the A, B, C of atoms." The Business of Life, by Hugh W. Sanford; Oxford university Press, 2 volumes. A frankly sympathetic effort to chart the way toward a more intelligent and more ample human happiness by discussing in great detail the constitution of the ideal state. Books and Authors john Heard, Jr., whose "Verse, Original and Translated," has just been published by B. J. Brimmer Company, is a Bostonian and a graduate of Harvard in 1912. He has lived much in Europe, and is so familiar with the far parts of the earth that at one time he spent a year and a half beyond the Arctic circle. His translations in this collection are mainly from the German, chief among them being a play, "Death and the Fool," by Hugo Von Hofmansthal. The original verse, much of it on wartime themes, is exceedingly musical and colorful. To be sure, Nathaniel Hawthorne is not here to make any protest, but why couldn't William Faulkner of Mississippi have taken some other name than "The Marble Faun" for the little book which he hopes will gain him admittance to the rank of minor poets?" The Four Seas Company publish the book, and some of the verses are good enough to have a name of their own. [*#*] A talented Concord woman, whose pen name is faith Stewart Arnold, has written "Emancipation," an attempt to set forth in leisurely fiction form the spiritual significance of life, with special reference to sex relations and the office of motherhood. The author puts her treatment of the subject in terms and style beyond the comprehension of young readers, and often lifts it to a level so mystical that older readers will follow with difficulty, but she writes with unfailing appreciation of the mystery and beauty of life, and of the holiness of love in its creative expression. The Wilsonian idealism has found its way into fiction. It is the mainspring in the action of a novel, "The Primary Allegiance," written by Annie Lyman Sears, and published by B. J. Brimmer Company. The publication of Wesley Everett Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.