NAWSA        GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE      Robertson, Mr. John Affleck 

[*Smithsonian Collection*]

Oct. 2, 1923. 

Mr. John Affleck Robertson, 
409 Madison Avenue, 
Scranton, Pa.

My dear Mr. Robertson:

I have before me your letter of
December 1922.   I did not return to this country until
June 1923 and your letter was not forwarded to me. 
There was such an accumulation of all kinds of mail,
that I have never been able to get to the bottom of the
accumulation.  This must be the apology for the long
delay. 

I was much interested in the photograph
you mentioned.  If your friend has sent it to you, 
we would be glad to give it space in the Smithsonian 
Institute with other mementos of our movement.  They
have given us a fine booth there.  I would be glad to
receive it.  I suppose I, or someone else, can tell
who all the persons are who were in it. 

Your friend was mistaken about the
meeting of 1888 being the first one calledby the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, which was at that
time forty years old.  It was, therefore, not the first
convention of women, but it was the first International 
Convention out of which grew the Council of Women.  I
was not present at that meeting, but I know all about it
and know plenty of people who were there. 

Pardon me, I beg, for this apparent
neglect of your request. 

I am, 
Most cordially yours, 
President. 

CCC:HW. 

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