LETTER: TLS on the eve of the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Alice Stone Blackwell:
“It is a joy to know that nation-wide suffrage is so near”
Blackwell, Alice Stone. Typed letter signed, “Alice Stone Blackwell” to “My dear Friend,” Boston, Mass, October 4, 1919; one leaf of unlined typing paper, one page; creased where folded.
Blackwell writes to a friend in response to birthday wishes, and reflects on the women’s movement: “It is a joy to know that nation-wide suffrage is so near, and also to realize that so much warm good-will is felt towards me for my share in the long fight and so much gratitude to my dear father and mother for their much greater share.” Stone mentions a work in process, a biography of her mother: Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Women’s Rights, which would be published in 1930: “If I can only make their biography worthy of them, it will be a work of real interest and inspiration.”
She ends with another mention of her birthday: “The Boston Equal Suffrage Association is going to have all the birthday letters bound, and will present me with the volume, so that it will be easy for me to turn back to them at any time and renew the pleasure that they have given me.”
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