LETTER: TLS to Mrs. Almira B. Taylor.
Catt, Carrie Chapman. Typed Letter Signed, “Carrie Chapman Catt,” to Mrs. Almira Brown Taylor, New Rochell, September 15, 1942; single sheet, 8-3/8 x 11”; two paragraphs on Catt’s engraved stationery; letter folded to fit its envelope; original envelope accompanies, shows evidence of mounting (at side with address); condition very good.
Mrs. Catt replies in response to a description of a current project (a scrapbook of current events) which Mrs. Taylor has undertaken. Most interestingly, she comments:
The National American Woman Suffrage Association received such a scrapbook from a woman who died at the age of 102. The clippings which were in the book were all made and mounted between 1866 and 1869. During that time, the first appeal for granting suffrage to women was introduced in the British Parliament by John Stuart Mills and the full account of it was in the scrapbook.
Mrs. Catt’s reference to Mill is significant, not only because of the influence Mill’s philosophy had on the women’s rights movement generally, but because Mrs. Catt herself had written an introduction for a 1913 edition of The Subjection of Women. Mrs. Catt also had reason to be acquainted with the NAWSA collection at the Library of Congress, which she mentions. She herself had arranged for its deposit at the Library in 1938. The scrapbook to which she refers is almost certainly one presently in the Library of Congress' NAWSA collection compiled by Emily Howland (1827-1929), educator, reformer and suffrage supporter.
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