NAWSA     Subject File    Congressional Union   Peabody, Josephine Preston

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Josephine Preston
Peabody 


ranks. But five days ago or 
so, Mrs. Glendower Evans, Mrs. 
Cage, & I conferred by telephone 
to fix a day for this frank
discussion of our profound disagreement 
with these recent 
methods of the the Union; & unfortunately
we have had no chance 
yet to tend our protest to
the women in Washington.
(Mrs. Evans is out of town 
for some days.)
I feel keenly that this 
individual action by this

192 Brattle Street 
Cambridge
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To
/Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt
Chairman for the Empire
State Committee:

My dear Mrs. Catt,
Your letter to the 
Members of this Board of the 
Congressional Union is at hand 
this morning; and I take
the earliest opportunity 
(privately and personally) to 

express to you my own keen
distress over that disastrous
procedure in Philadelphia
and my deep concern lest
any such thing should ever
occur again. I wish to tell
you also, that I was upon the 
point of writing to Miss Paul
last autumn that I must
have my name unobtrusively
dropped from this Board of
Directors, was much as I had
& can't hope if attending any

meetings in person this season, 
and could not therefore find
fault if I discovered (all too
tardily) that the Union was
pursuing a policy completely
antagonistic to everything I
wish & stand for in this
Suffrage Cause. — I did not
do so, because there were reports
of a reconstructed policy, &
because we all feel such
intense unwillingness to act
upon symptoms of disruption
& [?] in our own

Suffragists at Philadephia 
had brought upon us a most 
undeserved burden; but - that 
maybe too [?] a view of 
it. ----- I shall lose no 
time in sending a private  
message to Miss Paul. 
In the meantime, may I 
assure you of my painful 
astonishment at the 
matter you speak of, -- and 
my loyal enthusiasm for

the magnificent world of the New York campaignes.
It is advantageous trip, I feel, for any suffragist as incapacitated so I have been (this year) to let her name stand with the Congressional Union. For certain the Union's procedures have given its distant members a concern that it is impossible to risk further.

Heartily yours,
Josephine Preston Peabody
(Mrs. Lionel S. Marles.)
22 June 
1915

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