LETTER: Typed letter signed to Jane Olcott; with printed "self-denial" card and return envelope.
“WOMEN ARE ACCUSTOMED TO MAKING SACRIFICES”
LETTER FROM ONE SUFFRAGIST TO ANOTHER
[Suffrage, state: MA] Typed letter signed, “Mary Hutcheson Page,” May 26th, 1911, to Jane Olcott. On Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association letterhead; brown ink; recto only; creased.
Together with:
Original envelope, “self-denial card,” and return envelope printed “Mrs. Mary Hutcheson, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.” The original envelope is postmarked May 26, 1911 and May 27, 1911. Olcott’s typed South Hadley address is crossed off, and handwritten in it’s place is the address “Glencarlyn, Virginia.”
Mary Hutcheson Page, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, wrote this letter to fellow suffragist Jane Olcott to advocate the benefits of self-denial for the Cause. Page writes, “At Headquarters the demand for literature, for speakers, for meeting is increasing greatly, and we need more and more workers and organizers to supply the popular demand, and to carry on our work of educating every human being in Massachusetts into a belief in equal rights. We are beginning to set a time when that work will be accomplished and our belief will become law in our Massachusetts legislature.” She suggests that if every woman involved with the Cause saves five dollars – by selling pickles, jellies or candy, for example – by October first, than the MWSA will have enough money to campaign for the entire year Massachusetts ratified the 19th Amendment in 1919, whereby allowing women in that state to vote.
Mary Hutcheson Page worked for MWSA under Alice Stone Blackwell.
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