NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Porritt, Annie G. [*Annie Porritt*] 32[7]8. 30th St: New York May 6, 1923 My dear Miss Blackwell It is very good of you to remember me and it was with a deep thrill of pleasure that I received the Easter card. I have been remiss in not writing earlier and especially in not thanking you for the use of your name on our national council. It is very good of you to give us this help. It would be very nice to see you again. Do you ever come to New York? If you do, I wish you would let me know. Yours very cordially Annie G. Porritt. [*ANSWERED, FEB 28 1913*] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS PRESIDENT 152 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE-PRESIDENT COS COB MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 64 EVERGREEN AVE., HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS TREASURER 32 AKRON ST., MERIDEN MISS FRANCES OSBORN AUDITOR DERBY MRS. JULIUS MALTBY AUDITOR 15 HILLSIDE AVE., WATERBURY MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD MRS. EDWARD PORRITT PRESS SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 412 ORANGE ST., NEW HAVEN MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT (1910-1911) 133 HAWTHORN ST., HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 14 PARK TERRACE, HARTFORD MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN MRS. FREDERICK JOHNSON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY UNCASVILLE MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL 63 Tremont St, Hartford, Conn February 23, 1913. My dear Miss Ryan, I have held back this time for three weeks,so that you may the more easily find room for the Connecticut news. Though Miss Blackwell said every two weeks, that does seem to me to asking rather much for our little State--though we are doing lots of work. I would rather have slightly longer intervals and not have the stuff out. [*(but cut it if you have to)*] I have not seen Miss Pierson or her workers, and so am not ready with a story of the campaign. I gave a pretty good outline of it in the article for January 25th. If Miss Forsyth who is with the party does not send you a story, I will send one for the next Connecticut installment and you can then use the out which Miss Pierson sent to you. I hope things go well with the Journal. I am often in New York, but somehow business rarely takes me Bostonwards. I am sorry for I have long wanted to make your personal acquaintance. If you are ever in this direction do be sure to let me know. Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Poritt PORRITT, Edward, journalist; b. at Bury. Lancashire, Eng., Dec. 8, 1860; s. John and Elizabeth (Longshaw) P.; ed. People's Coll., Warrington. Eng.; m. Darwen, Eng., Annie Gertrude Webb, of staff of Porter Sch., Farming-ton, Conn., Sept. 3, 1891. Entered journalism on Warrington Guardian; reporter Liverpool Daily Mail, 1881; chief reporter, London Echo, 1882-4; reporter and spl. corr. Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, 1884-5; in gallery of House of Commons, London, 1886-92; London editor Manchester Examiner, 1888-1892; settled at Farmington, Conn., as hist. writer and contbr. to New York Evening Post, Outlook, Independent, Boston Transcript, Yale Review, North American Review, Political Science Quarterly, Atlantic Monthly, Edinburgh Review, and corr. Times, London, Glasgow Herald, Yorkshire Post (Leeds), writing on polit. subjects and giving personal attention and investigation to industrial developments in U.S. and Can.; in 1902 visited S. Africa to investigate trade and econ. conditions after the war. Corr. with Canadian Tariff Revision Commn., 1905-6. Lecturer at Harvard, 1908-9, 1909-10, U. of Cal., summer session, 1910. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Mem. Am. Hist. Assn. Author: Englishman at Home, 1894; Break-Up of English Party System, 1895; The Unreformed House of Commons (2 vols., with Mrs. Annie G. Porritt), 1903; Sixty Years of Protection in Canada, 1846-1906, 1907. Ad-dress" 63 Tremont St., Hartford, Conn. "Who's Who in America"--1910-1911. [*ANSWERED, MAY 17 1913*] 63 Tremont St, Hartford, Conn. May 16th. 1913. My dear Miss Blackwell, I am very grateful to you for your kind appreciation of the press work that I am doing here,and if you think it would be of advantage to the cause of Woman Suffrage in New England for me to be present at Conference on Friday,May 23rd, I think I could manage to get to Boston. I cannot be there for Thursday, because I have to be in New York until 4 p.,. and the train does not reach Boston until 9.35 p.m. But if you could find time for a little talk on press work from me on Friday, I shall be very[y] glad to tell all that I can about organizing a State Press Service. Please let me know as soon as possible if this would suit you. I think it would be much more effective than anything I could send in writing. I should come as an accredited representative of the C.W.S.A. I enclose a cutting which will show you that I have had the opportunity of good newspaper training. Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Porritt [*ANSWERED, MAY 17 1913*] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD telephone charter 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS PRESIDENT 152 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE-PRESIDENT COS COB MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 64 EVERGREEN AVE., HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS TREASURER 32 AKRON ST., MERIDEN MISS FRANCES OSBORN AUDITOR DERBY MRS. JULIUS MALTBY AUDITOR 15 HILLSIDE AVE., WATERBURY MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD MRS. EDWARD PORRITT PRESS SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 412 ORANGE ST., NEW HAVEN MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT (1910-1911) 133 HAWTHORN ST., HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 14 PARK TERRACE, HARTFORD MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN MRS. FREDERICK JOHNSON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY UNCASVILLE MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL 63 Tremont St, Hartford, Conn. May 16th. 1913. My dear Miss Blackwell, I am very grateful to you for your kind appreciation of the press work that I am doing here,and if you think it would be of advantage to the cause of Woman Suffrage in New England for me to be present at Conference on Friday,May 23rd, I think I could manage to get to Boston. I cannot be there for Thursday, because I have to be in New York until 4 p.,. and the train does not reach Boston until 9.35 p.m. But if you could find time for a little talk on press work from me on Friday, I shall be very[y] glad to tell all that I can about organizing a State Press Service. Please let me know as soon as possible if this would suit you. I think it would be much more effective than anything I could send in writing. I should come as an accredited representative of the C.W.S.A. I enclose a cutting which will show you that I have had the opportunity of good newspaper training. Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Porritt The Birth Control Review published by The New York Women's Publishing Co. 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City Telephone Chelsea 1941 Margaret Sanger, Editor Annie G. Porritt, Managing Editor Ruth Albert, Circulation Manager October 31st, 1922. My dear Miss Blackwell, I am greatly touched to receive your Hallowe'en card and to feel that you still keep me in remembrance. I think that perhaps you may be interested to know what I am doing. After the death of my husband, a little over a year ago, it was necessary for me to find some new form of work, and just at the critical moment I was invited to assume the managing editorship of this Review. It is a most interesting task, and during the few months that I have been here, I have done my utmost to make of the Review a high-class and useful magazine, devoted to one of the reforms which will surely make the world a brighter and happier place for the human race. I am sending you a copy of the latest issue of the Review. We stand all the time for the right of access to all available scientific knowledge; for liberty of conscience and action in the most responsible portion of human conduct--the creation of new life; and for the consequent sweeping away of laws which prevent this knowledge being made available to the poor and oppressed. With all best wishes, and loving remembrances, Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Porritt. Managing Editor. I should value an expression of your belief in our cause for publication in the Review. Annie G. Porritt Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.