NAWSA  GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE  Puerto Rico Suffrage Assocs.

Liga Feminea Puertorriqueña 
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

San Juan, P. R. Febrero 10 de 1920.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 
404 Riverside Drive, 
New York.

Dear Mrs. Catt:

I have such pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the 
very kind invitation you were good enough to extend to me 
thru Mrs. Gaztambide to send representatives of our Women's 
Suffrage League to the National Convention to be held in 
Madrid on the days comprised between the second and eighth 
of May next.

Mrs. Gaztambide is very desirous that Miss Sola and the 
writer should appear at the said convention in representation 
of the Portorican League, which, needless to say, would 
be a source of much pleasure and gratification to us both

The rather limited amount of time and other circumstances, 
however, make it somewhat doubtful as to whether our ardent 
wishes in this regard will be capable of realization. Nevertheless, 
should we be unable to attend we will make it a 
point to delegate someone to represent us.

Thanking you most cordially for remembering your humble 
colleagues in the Grand Cause in Porto Rico, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Milagros Benet de Mewton

President, Portorican Women's 
Suffrage League.



August the Twenty-First, 
Nineteen Twenty-Two.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 
President, International 
Alliance of Pan American 
Union, 
New York City.

Dear Mrs. Catt:

It was a source of deep regret to me to be obliged 
to leave New York without seeing you and personally 
bidding you adieu, especially after being made the recipient 
of so many favors and courtesies, which will 
ever live in my memory, at your hands and the hands of 
the League of Women Voters.

I called at your office to say good-bye and there 
enjoyed some very happy moments with your Secretary, 
Mrs. Hay [*Hyde*], who called my attention to the meeting of 
the Committee of the Pan American Union to be held 
in the month of July. Unfortunately, however, it 
was utterly impossible for me to defer my departure 
until after that date, much as I would have liked 
to be present.

I have just seen a press notice of your election 
as President of the Pan American Union of Woman, and 
I am sure you will now concur that I was not wrong 
when I so interpreted the wish of the majority of the 
Latin Americans and said "You must be our President, 
Mrs. Catt," and you with your characteristic modesty 
and generosity answered, "Do not anticipate too much, 
Mrs. Mewton" or words to that effect. Please accept 
my warmest congratulations, Mrs. Catt, at this proof 
of the high and well-deserved esteem in which you are 
held by my Latin-American colleagues and allow me to 
give expression to my own satisfaction at the realization 
of my own hopes and expectation.

I am ready to begin work in Porto Rico just as soon 
as I receive your instructions and the By-Laws. I 
have not yet received any notification from Miss Elena 
Torres of Mexico, who is the Vice-President of this 
District.

With expression of my high admiration and adherence, 
believe me, very sincerely your friend,

Milagres Benet de Mewton.

MBM/he.

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