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Reprint of a letter to the editor of The Congregationalist newspaper. The author argues that the recent bill granting women the right to vote in Illinois opened the door to the liquor interests to organize women's groups to increase support in future…

Printed invitation from the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association to a public meeting at City Hall in Northampton. The invitation lists the speakers, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, of Boston and Max Eastman, of Columbia University.

Handwritten in…

The pamphlet is inscribed along the top: "Compliments of Clement K. Fay."
In 1887, a hearing was held to consider enacting a law securing municipal suffrage for women in Massachusetts. Clement K. Fay spoke for the opposition. The bill was not…

William Bowditch was a conveyancer, a lawyer specializing in buying and selling property, in Boston. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and served as a selectman and moderator of Town Meetings for a number of years. He was a well-known abolitionist…

On front is handwritten "Mrs. Lucy Stone Dorchester Mass."
On back is a form letter entitled "Municipal Suffrage for Women."

Public letter issued by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women featuring Saunders' argument against House Bill, No. 119, to grant municipal suffrage to taxpaying women in Massachusetts. He sites reasons…

Catharine W. Brown was a member of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.
The return address is: 3 Park Street, Boston.

Monthly newsletter published by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.

Monthly newsletter published by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.

The letter requests Curtis' help in securing a place to deliver a woman suffrage lecture. Loud was active in the woman's movement in Massachusetts.