Item #74694 LETTERS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA AND MISSOURI SUFFRAGISTS. Women’s Suffrage.
LETTERS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA AND MISSOURI SUFFRAGISTS

LETTERS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA AND MISSOURI SUFFRAGISTS

A small archive of letters from various South Dakota and Missouri women’s suffrage leaders to Reverend David V. Bush, mostly relating speaking engagements, as well as at his congregational church in Webster, South Dakota. Bush was a Chautauqua lecturer known as “The Peace Poet” for his public addresses on the theme of universal peace.

The group includes eight letters (six TLS and two ALS) written to him between 1914 and 1917 from leaders in the women’s suffrage movement, including Anna R. Simmons of the Universal Franchise League Woman’s Relief Corps, May B. Billinghurst of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League, Mrs. H.C. Newton from the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, and May P. Ghrist of The Hand County (South Dakota) Equal Franchise League.

Simmons wrote on April 2, 1914 that she would be traveling to a district convention and was therefore available to drop by Webster for a quick lecture. “I hope that I may come to you at this time and that we may have a good rousing meeting and do much good for the great cause for which we are both laboring,” she wrote.

The South Dakota Women's Suffrage Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in South Dakota on November 3, 1914. It was defeated.

The letters lack their original mailing envelopes and are in very good condition. Item #74694

Price: $950.00

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