NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Tapley, Alice P. Dec, 19, 1936 MISS ALICE P. TAPLEY 8 GLOUCESTER STREET BOSTON, MASS. My dear Miss Blackwell Yes I can tell you about Evelyn & perhaps in more detail than she would. She is in bed the greater parts of the time but sometimes takes dinner with the family & then goes back to bed. Occasionally she goes out for a short drive & in the warm weather was on the porch for awhile. She is less well, really, & very thin. She has thrombosis in the upper part of one leg & suffers acutely at times & more or less all the time but her radiant spirit dominates her physical troubles. She continues her intense interest in the doings of her friends & never complains. Just now she has been made very happy by a very generous present from some friends which will enable her to pay her nurse from some months. The nurse would have been retained in any case but this relieves her from accepting money which has been solicited & which irks her very much & also makes her feel quite easy in not using any of her own for this purpose. She has worried about finances. A nurse is a necessity. I don't know the source of this wonderful present but I hope that the giver will realize what this means to Evelyn. She was very much excited over it. If at any time you feel able to go & see Evelyn I shall be delighted to send my [card?] for you. Yours Sincerely Alice P. Tapley I appreciate your card & thank you for it. I wish that he could "make the world better." [*Alice P Tapley*] MISS ALICE P. TAPLEY 8 GLOUCESTER STREET BOSTON, MASS. My dear Miss Blackwell It has been suggested to me that you might like to know what some of Esther Barron's friends are planning to do for her. Perhaps you have not heard of her very serious illness. She went to Deaconess Hospital more than two weeks ago suffering from a terrible attack of angina. The outcome looked doubtful for some days but she has improved, is now out of danger so far as one can be with angina. The physician thinks it important that she should go to a sanitarium when she leaves the hospital, which may be the end of this week and perhaps later. After a month there, if all goes well, he wants her to be away from her friends & interests & demands upon her for three or four months. Thinking that the expense involved is carrying out this plan, would probably cause her some anxiety, we are getting up a purse which will make her to have the best chance of recovery & free her from anxiety We shall soon have enough in hand to do that even if we do not reach, as I hope we shall do, the $1500 which is our aim. I hope that you will approve this plan Yours Sincerely Jan 19th 1961 Alice P. Tapley [* Alice P. Tapley*] Miss Alice P. Tapley 7 Gloucester Street Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell It was no trouble to draw another check & I am now enclosing it. I think that Evelyn sees the Herald regularly & the Transcript some times. She receives the Sunday N.Y. Times on Mondays & also cuttings from the Boston Globe. She also sees the Literary Digest. I am quite sure & many new books are either given or lent to her. Evelyn has such a strong constitution that, of course, no one can say how long she will live but her food does not nourish her & she weighs only 95 pounds- I will let you know as soon as I have a [closed?] car which will be before the time named probably. I do not think that this is a lonesome time for Evelyn although she may have more visitors later but is no need at all for you to go & see her until my car is ready. Yours Sincerely Alice P. Tapley Sept. 26 ALICE P, TAPLEY Boston suffragist and philanthropist When Miss Evelyn Barrows became an invalid Miss Tapley helped Miss Blackwell supply some extra comforts. Miss Tapley served on the Ways and Means Committee of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association Alice P. Tapley SECURITY SAFE DEPOSIT CO. ATLANTIC BANK BUILDING BOSTON July 18 T My dear Miss Blackwell Your note caught me this A.M. pick as I was leaving my apartment after a night there. I am glad to tell you that Esther is again with the family in Belmont where, as you may know, they are passing the summer in a home where the rent is economical. They went there in June Owing to the generosity of her friends enough money has come in to pay all the bills, I feel quite sure. Evelyn is far from strong & of course this anxiety has not helped her. I did not ask Mrs. Jones for any money as she wrote me once that her income is small & evidently her husband has enough to do with his income. The Barrows do certainly have serious expenses - Yours Sincerely Alice P. Tapley 15. & Esther suffered a hemorrhage shortly after their arrival. It came from some growth which fortunately was not malignant - This was removed at the Palmer Memorial Hospital within a few days. It was so placed that an incision was not necessary - She took gas & as little Ether as possible. After a week or two an inflammation or infection of the bladder occurred & this has caused, & still causes her much discomfort at times - It is slow in disappearing. Her nurse is splendid & she is wonderfully well placed in Belmont at 75 Fletcher Road MISS ALICE P. TAPLEY 8 GLOUCESTER STREET BOSTON, MASS. June 14, 1937 My dear Miss Blackwell: You wrote one time that you had heard that Evelyn Barrows seemed somewhat better. I think that this is really not the case and that she is gradually "slipping," as the doctor calls it. It is possible that she may live several years, or she may go instantly. You know she has thrombosis in one leg in addition to other troubles. The money which has been given to her for the expenses of her nurse will be exhausted the middle of August, and I have written to several people in the hope of securing enough to meet these expenses for some time. The expenses amount to twenty-five dollars a week, but I understand that Evelyn could assume the board and in that case the expense would be twenty-two dollars a week. You perhaps remember that I mentioned to you the fact that she had received quite a large present at Christmas from an unknown source. I wonder, as you did, whether it might not have come from Mrs. Jones. Now I do not want to write to Mrs. Jones at all, and certainly not, if she gave this money. I wonder if it will be possible for you in any way to find whether another contribution from the same source will be forthcoming at Christmas, or whether, if she is not the source, she could contribute anything. I have on hand enough money to last until the first of October, possibly until the fifteenth, so that there is no hurry about this. If you could get any information for me, it would be a great help. I am very sorry not to have communicated with you again about getting you to see Evelyn; but I was ill when I came home and tomorrow I am leaving for two weeks at Nantucket and am taking my car with me. Sincerely yours, Alice P. Tapley Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.