Eight autograph notes and letters.
Howe, Julia Ward. Eight Autograph letters signed, to Massachusetts Women. 1897–1909.
Howe writes to various correspondents, and including a mention of Mary A. Livermore, regarding activities and meetings of Boston’s Wintergreen Club. One is dated April 20, 1897, and reads, “I certainly hope to meet with the Wintergreens on Friday April 22nd”; another, dated December 17, 1902, concerns a meeting of the Wintergreens and adds, “Mrs. Dyer wrote me a note yesterday to say that her Wintergreens are to go out to Melrose to surprise Mrs. Livermore.” The balance of the letters contain content about Howe and her inabilities to attend various functions and meetings.
Together with a cabinet photo of Fannie Pratt, signed on the verso, and a guest list, written in another hand, of attendees of an upcoming meeting, listing Howe, Livermore, and other notable ladies.
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