The Writings of Carl Schurz/From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, November 26th, 1881
| 25 Buckingham St., | |
| Cambridge, Nov. 26, 1881. |
Personal.
I wish to write to you frankly about something and know
you will answer in the same way.
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association are to make a special move this winter to obtain municipal suffrage for women in this State and they are to hold an important meeting in Tremont Temple, Jan. 10th or 11th. Now the Blackwells are firm in the conviction that when the Kansas campaign on the subject took place in 1867 you expressed yourself to them as favorable to woman suffrage and willing to speak in favor of it. This is new to me but I agree with them that if you are favorable, your influence would be very important to us. Can you not speak at that meeting or at some time during Jan. 10th or 11th? Of course we would pay your usual lecture fee which is understood to be $100. It would gratify me greatly if you would come.
P. S. Governor Long's message will distinctly favor municipal suffrage for women, I am told.