Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights.
Lucy Stone’s Biography
By Her Daughter
Blackwell, Alice Stone. Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman’s Rights. Boston: Little, Brown, 1930.
8vo.; frontispiece of Stone; light blue cloth stamped in darker blue; few sun spots.
First edition of Blackwell’s biography of her mother. With her Christmas presentation, excised probably from a letter, affixed to the front endpaper, along with a signed note written on the same page: “Make the world better,” were the last words of Lucy Stone. With three related pieces: an autograph postcard signed in full by Blackwell to Mr. Walter M. Pratt, affixed to the front pastedown; a holograph letter to the editor, one leaf, signed in full by Blackwell, tipped in at the half-title; a photo of Alice Stone Blackwell, excised from a newspaper, affixed to the rear pastedown.
The letter to the editor, “For Armenian Relief,” speaks for a cause which Blackwell championed, after her mother’s death, with her father, Henry Blackwell:
To the Editor of The Globe:
A Women’s Armenian Relief Committee is being formed, which will coöperate with the committee of well known American men already organized. Any woman who is willing to help in spreading information or raising funds, or bother, is invited to send her name to me. The suffering and the need are beyond description.
Alice Stone Blackwell
3 Monadnock St.
Dorchester, Mass.
(#1210)
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