LETTER: ALS to Holloway
Belva Ann Lockwood
to New York journalist Laura C. Holloway
Lockwood, Belva Ann. Autograph Letter Signed “Belva Lockwood” to “Mrs. Laura C. Holloway.” Washington, D.C. 03/18/1888; one ca. 8 ½ x 11-inch leaf Lockwood’s lined personalized stationery; recto only; minor wrinkling; creased where folded from mail.
Lockwood writes to New York Word journalist Laura Holloway with a “desire to make a pen picture, and an epitome of the papers presented by some of the distinguished journalists who are to be present at the “International Council of Women,” soon to assemble in our City.”
The International Council of Women would be the first international woman's rights events, taking place in March and April of 1888, with women leaders uniting in Washington D.C.; over 80 speakers and 49 delegates represented 53 women's organizations from nine countries. The conference sought out women who, like Holloway, represented women working in positions formerly dominated by men.
Lockwood goes on to write, “I will be very busy during the conference and desire to ask you to furnish me in advance with the most salient points of your “Woman in Journalism”, with the understanding that not a line will be published until after delivery.”
Lockwood's praise-heavy article on Holloway would appear after the conference, in which Lockwood would write in her piece, “She [Holloway] came too late to attend the Press reunion...but I had the pleasure of listening to her at the conference on ‘Women in Journalism.’ In her brief talk of twenty minutes, one saw a beautiful, graceful, well-dressed woman, perfectly self-poised and self-possessed, talking from a wealth of knowledge of what women have done in the profession...Her brief address was well appreciated by her hearers, who earnestly desired to see and hear more of the little woman who had so much interested them, and whose last suggestion was, that the best school for any young journalist was a newspaper office” (from [ed. Hills, William Henry and Robert Luce.] The Writer, Vol. 5. 1891. 121.)
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