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The First Published Book by an African-American Woman
PHILLIS WHEATLEY,
Book. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. First edition, with the advertisement on the final page reading “Lately published in 2 vols. Twelves...” and engraved frontispiece portrait after Scipio Morehead (second state). London: Archibald Bell, 1773, for Cox and Berry, Boston. 128 pp., 4⅜ x 6¾ in. Modern half brown leather, marbled sides.
“Celestial muse, my arduous flight sustain
And raise my mind to a seraphic strain!”
—from Wheatley’s“Thoughts on the Works of Providence”
Item #23638, PRICE ON REQUEST
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Eleanor Roosevelt on the Meaning of Civil Rights
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to “Harry,” Washington, D.C., February 19, 1944. 2 pp., 6¼ x 9¼ in. On White House stationery.
“Something has to happen to people’s souls before they are going to give the rights of citizenship to all the people of our country, regardless of color or creed. That does not mean you have to ask them to dinner. It only means giving them the rights that go with citizenship.”
Item #23592, $15,000
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Mary Lincoln’s Signed Copy of The Life of Marie Antoinette Queen of France
MARY LINCOLN,
Signed Book. “Mary Lincoln. / 1878,” in her copy of Charles Duke Yonge, The Life of Marie Antoinette Queen of France, 2d rev. ed. (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1877), xvi, 432 pp., 8vo. bound in tooled purple cloth boards with titled spine. A carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Lincoln has been affixed to the front free endpaper.
“she bore her accumulated miseries with a serene resignation, an intrepid fortitude, a true heroism of soul, of which the history of the world does not afford a brighter example.”
Item #24759, $5,000
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“perhaps the best place to begin is with the Jews and colored people”: Eleanor Roosevelt responds to an idea for promoting better relations between Jews and Gentiles
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Prudence B. Anderson, February 15, 1941. On White House stationery, with original envelope, and 3 page retained carbon copy of Anderson’s letter to which this responds. 1 p.
“There is no doubt that there is a need for improving the understanding and co-operation between the various races which make up the U.S.A., and perhaps the best place to begin is with the Jews and colored people”
Item #25077, $4,800
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Lucy Stone Thanks Cornelius B. Campbell for His Help in New Jersey Suffrage Cause
LUCY STONE,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Cornelius B. Campbell, Newark, New Jersey, December 15, 1867. 4 pp., 5¼ x 8¼ in.
“Women have plead their own cause for a quarter of a century, and we have convinced men. Now it only remains for men to convince women.”
Item #24154.01, $3,500
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Eleanor Roosevelt Defends Universal Military Training – and 18 year-old Voting Rights
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Flora E. Shirah, February 27, 1951. 2 pp., 7¼ x 10¼ in.
“I suppose you can say that anything which is obligatory is in some degree similar to communism or fascism. The only difference here is that we the people, are consulted and it is our representatives through whom we speak… I think you are a trifle emotional when you call 18 year old men, children. I think they should be allowed to vote…. Of course there are inequalities and injustices in any big undertaking.”
“I am sorry if you feel that you can not trust your government…. You can not expect always to have one man who will carry the burdens of the whole democracy and express their thinking for them. Now we have to do it for ourselves.”
“We are not alone in Korea, many nations are represented … but we have to bear the brunt … because we were spared during the last war from war in our own country and therefore today we are the strongest nation in the world.”
“A mothers’ rebellion would certainly be a novel and interesting undertaking because there would be a division even among the mothers. I do not know, nor could I tell you exactly how you could find out how many men in Congress have eighteen year old sons but I am sure there are a great many who have.”
A rich and fascinating letter by one of the twentieth century’s most powerful first ladies.
Item #24793, $2,500
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Lucy Stone Discusses Schedule and 1868 Election
LUCY STONE,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Cornelius B. Campbell, Newark, New Jersey, September 27, 1868. 2 pp., 5¼ x 8¼ in.
Item #24154.02, $2,400
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Two January 1914 Letters on Iowa Women’s Suffrage Measure Passing General Assembly
[WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN IOWA],
FLORA E. DUNLAP. Typed Letter Signed, as president of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, to Dr. Charles H. Preston, January 19, 1914, Des Moines, Iowa. 2 pp.
WILLIAM S. ALLEN. Typed Letter Signed, as Iowa’s Secretary of State, to Dr. Charles H. Preston, January 26, 1914, Des Moines, Iowa. 1 p.
Item #24174.08, $1,600
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“Votes for Women”
[WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE],
Votes for Women Flag. 8 x 5½ in., attached to the original 18 in. stick. Ca. 1910. Framed.
Item #21421, ON HOLD
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Golda Meir (Goldie Meyerson) Encourages the Jewish Pioneer Women’s Organization
GOLDA MEIR,
Autograph Document Signed, draft telegram, in English, on verso of blank American Honor Roll certificate for the Palestine Labor Maritime Company, c. 1938. 2 pp., 4 x 8½ in.
“May the spirit of Chalutziut [pioneering] from Palestine spur you on to even greater results”
Item #23945, $1,400
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Alice Stone Blackwell Signed
Suffragette Periodical Stock Certificate
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL,
Partially Printed Document Signed. Five shares of the Woman’s Journal, Certificate #117, November 18, 1910.
Item #23076, $1,400
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Women’s Suffrage in Ohio
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON,
Typed Letter Signed. President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, September 12, 1906, to Miss [Mary] Paul updating her on suffrage efforts in Ohio; offered with printed “Call for the Twenty-first Convention of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.”
“The suffrage sentiment in the state has doubled in the last two or three years, and the fact that bodies of politicians and reformers are endorsing us leads us to believe that the day of our freedom is near at hand. I have begun to feel that those of us who believe must draw nearer together, that we may each encourage the other. It is for this reason I am writing, urging you to be with us.”
Item #23948.01-.02, $1,250
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Belva Lockwood Signed Card
BELVA LOCKWOOD,
Autograph Endorsement Signed. Archivally framed with an image and brass plaque.
Item #23083, $900
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Autograph of Dr. Mary Walker, Female Civil War Surgeon and Medal of Honor Recipient
CIVIL WAR. SUFFRAGE. MARY EDWARDS WALKER,
Autograph, n.d. 3½ x 1⅞ in. Card signed, “Mary E. Walker, M.D.”
Item #24896, $850
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Rare Women’s “Suffrage First” Campaign Button
[WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE],
Campaign Button. Concave metal back and horizontal bar pin. Full gloss and fairly well centered. ca. 1915-1919. 1⅜ x 1 1/16 in.
Item #25416, $750
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Susan B. Anthony Sends Letter to Kansas Suffragist Leader
SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
National Woman Suffrage Association Centennial Headquarters envelope, addressed to “Mrs Judge Gray / Leavenworth / Kan,” with printed “Centennial Questions,” address, and officers, 1876. Philadelphia: National Woman Suffrage Association. 1 p., 5⅞ x 3⅜ in.
Susan B. Anthony addresses an envelope from the National Woman Suffrage Association headquarters in Philadelphia to prominent Kansas suffragist Mary Tenney Gray. The pointed questions on this envelope urged women’s claims to suffrage as an essential part of their being citizens of the Republic. On July 4, 1876, Susan B. Anthony read The Declaration for the Rights of Women from a podium in front of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to a cheering crowd.
Item #22444.22, $650
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Feminist Anna Dickinson Refuses to Apologize
ANNA ELIZABETH DICKINSON,
Autograph Letter Signed, to A. Boyd. August 1, 1866. 2 pp.
Item #21678.19, $500
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Opposing California Woman’s Suffrage Amendment: A Dozen Reasons Why a Majority of Women (Supposedly) Were Against Having the Right to Vote
[WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE],
Broadside. “Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women,” published by the Northern California Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, ca. 1911. 1 p., 8½ x 11 in.
“Because man is man, and woman is woman. Nature has made their functions different, and no constitutional amendment can make them the same.”
Item #24174.04, $450
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Author, Educator, and Lecturer Kate Sanborn Gathers Ladies for Lunch
KATE SANBORN,
Autograph Letter Signed. [New York, N.Y.?] 4 pp., 4 ½ x 7 in.
Item #21678.27, $450
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Susan B. Anthony’s 1881 National Woman Suffrage Association Convention Agenda
[SUSAN B. ANTHONY],
Newspaper. New-York Tribune, May 28, 1881. 8 pp.
“the right of suffrage should be based on citizenship, without distinction of sex, and woman should be protected by the National Government in the exercise of this right”
On May 26-27, 1881, the NWSA held its thirteenth annual meeting at Tremont Temple in Boston, including delegates from at least ten states.
Item #25468, $375
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