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AUTOGRAPH CARD SIGNED
Porter, Katherine Anne.
[N.P.]: [to Paul Porter], October 10, 19_.
Price: $400.00
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Sedgwick, C[atharine] M[aria].
Lenox [Massachusetts]: To Mrs. Appleton, 6 Nov. 1857.
Price: $200.00
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Howe, Julia Ward.
Newport, R.I.: To Miss [Elizabeth Stuart] Phelps, Aug. 18th 1881.
Price: $450.00
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McManus, Blanche.
[Munich]: To her sister, March 7. '97.
Price: $650.00
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Sigourney, L[ydia] H[untley].
Hartford, Connt.: to Rev. Joseph Belcher, April 22 1839.
Price: $750.00
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Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
Price: $450.00
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Dodge, Mary A[bby].
Hamilton, Massachusetts: , January 3, 1894.
Price: $250.00
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Signed in full, "M.A. Dodge". Single sheet: 6-3/4 by 8-7/8" folded to 6-3/4 x 4-7/16", on ivory stationery paper, written at all four sides. Mounted to a 10 x 7-3/4" sheet of light beige laid stock and framed with a narrow black ink rule. The letter folded to fit an envelope. Very good. Mary Abigail Dodge (1833-1896), a Massachusetts born writer, was a teacher and later governess to the children of Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the antislavery NATIONAL ERA in Washington. According to her friend, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Dodge was agonizingly shy. She adopted the pen name of "Gail Hamilton" shortly after her pieces started to appear in journals (1856). Her popularity was immediate and continuing, combining humor and practicality with moralizing on everyday experiences as well as current events. A social reformer all her life, she supported the great crusades of her time: antislavery, women's rights, including education and suffrage, as well as equal pay. Hamilton published in 1870 a fictional account of her dispute with her publisher, James T. Fields, entitled A BATTLE OF THE BOOKS over the less than customary 10% royalty she had received. Cousin to the wife of James G. Blaine, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, at whose home she spent much time, led her to have an indirect political influence. It was widely thought she wrote Blaine's speeches. She did help Blaine write TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS (1884-1886) and, after his death, wrote his biography. This letter poignantly documents the shyness of which Prescott ascribed to her good friend. She writes to tell Mr. Simons who had undertaken updating the CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE that she does not wish to be included. She writes: "Permit me to thank you at the outset for the courtesy and consideration of your letter - a consideration not always showed by the seekers after biographical knowledge. / I do not know what is said in “Eminent Women” or in Drake’s Dictionary, but you will not be offended if I assure you that anything biographical is utterly repugnant to me - inexpressibly repugnant - and seems to me an utter outrage on my personal rights. Gail Hamilton is public property but I belong to myself and ought no more to be dragged into the publicity of biographies than your wife, mother, daughter, sister. I see fit to make nothing of myself public ... Of Gail Hamilton say anything you like. But that person has only a literary existence and you cannot say anything biographical without imfringing upon a woman’s personal dignity ... / Pray have the courage to do a right and proper thing and grant me the mercy of your silence / And I shall be / Very sincerely & gratefully / M.O. Dodge". Michael Laird Simons (1843-1880), journalist and editor, began his career young at THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, later moving to THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. The New York publisher Rupture published a fresh edition of Everett and George Duychinck's CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE IN 1875 with a hundred additional author profiles by Simons. NAW I, pp. 493-495.
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Dodge, M[ary] A[bigail].
Hamilton, Mass.: To Mr. [Michael Laird] Simons, Jan. 17, 1873.
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Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10", folded to 6-1/2 x 5", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial "E" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; "1909" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: "I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other — ". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), "Mother Bloor", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.
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Bloor, Ella Reeve.
[Connecticut]: to "Friends of N.J.W.S.A.", Nov. 15h [1909].
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Lyon, Mary.
South Hadley Canal: to Messrs. Merriam, Booksellers, Nov. 14, 1836.
Price: $500.00
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Barton, Clara.
[Washington, DC]: [To Harriette Reed], Monday Jan 16. 93.
Price: $1,200.00
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Anthony, Susan B[rownell].
[NP]: , [ND, but ca. Nov., 1895].
Price: $8,000.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, regarding Myrtilla Miner's 'The Colored Girls School"
[African-American], [Miner, Myrtilla] Burgess, D.
New York: to Messrs. G & C Merriam, Sept. 22 1852.
Price: $350.00
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Miss Anthony’s crusading motto on behalf of women’s rights, framed with a handsome image of this redoubtable reformer. Frame: 18-1/2 x 13"; photograph: 9-1/2 x 7-1/2"; autograph sentiment: 2-3/8 x 5", dark brown wood frame with silver beading along interior edge; pale gray and black double-matting set off the photograph and the autograph sentiment below. The portrait is a fresh printing of a photograph of Miss Anthony, seated in profile and wearing a black silk dress adorned with a froth of lace at the neck and wrists. The sentiment, inscribed in ink, reads: "Equal Rights for All — [underscored] / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison Street / July 20, 1900 Rochester - N.Y.". Some staining along the left edge and a touch of rumpling. About very good in an exemplary setting. At the age of eighty, Miss Anthony resigned from as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN records: "As Miss Anthony grew older, the vilification of earlier years gave way to a popular respect that at times approached adulation. Newspapers now spoke of her wit, her friendliness, and the benign, grandmotherly qualities suggested by the aged face and white hair...The symbol of the woman's movement, she was the center of interest wherever she appeared, the one woman everyone wanted to see". Though no longer the head of NAWSA, she very much remained the spirit and soul of the movement until her death in 1906. Her constant refrain as she agitated for women's rights was "political equality", a refrain which she echoes here in this sentiment. NAW, Volume I, p. 56.
AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED, Framed with Photograph
Anthony, Susan.
[Rochester, N.Y.: , July 20, 1900].
Price: $3,000.00
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Autograph verse signed in full, "Eleanor Roosevelt". Buff card stock imprinted "Executive Mansion / Albany, New York", 6 x 3-1/2", written on face side only. Stripe of light browning across middle; one surface crease. Very good. Mrs. Roosevelt writes: "There was a young fellow called Joe, Who thought he was coming too slow, But he made up his mind to be the whole show And now there is a corporal named Joe Eleanor Roosevelt"The identity of the recipient is unknown. Only one other piece of verse written by Mrs. Roosevelt has surfaced on the market and that at auction some ten years ago fetching $1,000 + the buyer's premium. While limericks generally have a racy reputation, Mrs. Roosevelt obviously preferred a more sedate tone. A sweet compliment to a young friend (or employee), the verse suggests the warmth, tact and consideration which won Eleanor so many strong friends and supporters through her many years in public life. A rare form of autograph material for this extraordinary woman, from early in her public career.
AUTOGRAPH VERSE SIGNED
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
Albany, New York: , Aug. 1st 1930.
Price: $2,000.00
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CARTE PORTRAIT, SIGNED
(Murdoch, Iris).
[London]: National Portrait Gallery, [ND].
Price: $125.00
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Christmas greeting signed in blue ink, "Richard & Annie Dillard". Christmas card: single sheet, 6-3/4 x 10", folded to 6-3/4 x 5", "Charles Dickens", an unfinished watercolor by Robert William Buss reproduced at the front leaf in color with the greeting "All Good Wishes of the Season" at the inside leaf. Minor use. Near fine. The Buss watercolor depicts the great English author sitting in his study at Gad's Hill with his various literary characters emerging from the books which line the room. Given Dickens' Christmas tales in particular, an apposite literary reference for the season.
Christmas Card, Signed
[Christmas] Dillard, Annie.
[NP]: , [ND].
Price: $45.00
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Color photograph, 4 wide x 6" high, of a pastel portrait of Marian Anderson as she sings. Signed by Marian Anderson with a soft-tip pen on the reverse with a flourish beneath her name. BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA, pp. 29-33.
COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF PASTEL PORTRAIT, SIGNED
Anderson, Marian.
[N.P.]: , [N.D.].
Price: $100.00
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Four Typed Pages, Original Typescript of RED SILENCE
Norris, Kathleen.
[NP]: , [ca. 1928].
Price: $250.00
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HOMEWORK FOR JAMES, Fair Holograph Copy of the Poem, Signed
Van Duyn, Mona.
[NP]: , [ca. 1974].
Price: $100.00
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