LETTERS: Wilcox - Howland correspondence archive concerning a Bill introduced in the New York Legislature to Establish Equal Suffrage for Women in New York State, 1884.
Collection of Correspondence 1884-1901 between Willcox and William Howland, concerning a Bill introduced in the New York Legislature to Establish Equal Suffrage for Women in New York State, 1884.
Collection of 20 letters, 30 pages, plus 8 telegrams, and one printed circular, in very good, clean and legible condition. The bulk of the letters are dated January through May 1884.
Interesting collection of letters between Hamilton Willcox, chairman of the Woman Suffrage Party, and William Howland, of Sherwood, New York, who as a member of the New York State Assembly from Cayuga County's second district, introduced the bill the two discuss. Many of the letters are marked “Confidential” and discuss the strategy employed and the difficult progress of the bill through the legislature.
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