Activist Laura Chant Writes to a Woman about her daughter's leadership in suffrage society
ALS : Autograph Letter Signed
CHANT (Laura Onniston, nee Dibdin, 1848-1923, Feminist Social Reformer and Writer)Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev.Lloyd Morris, (Minister of Hutchesontown Congregational Church, now the Lloyd Morris Memorial Church, Glasgow), saying she is "in the midst of conducting a mission in the N.E. of London (8 days)", but if be can borrow a 'Who's Who' he "will find a skeleton life of me ... Briefly I am Vice-Pres. of Temperance, Peace, Educational, Political (Liberal) and Suffrage Societies", her youngest daughter "is a leading spirit in the slun1 entertainment's we give in ... London eight months in the year", she herself gives classes on "correct breathing ... for young people in business at 7 a.m. and 8.30 p.m.", she will join the train from Euston "at Willesden Junction on Saturday" arriving at "7.55 p.m.", 4 sides 8vo., Albemarle House, Twickenham, 12th December no year, circa 1906, small blue ink mark in blank bouom margin of sides I and 4. Lloyd Morris had a wide range of contacts in the Labour, Socialist, Temperance and Mission fields, including M.P.s and the Bishop of Glasgow, whom he invited to his church or to his services at the Palace Theatre. Like General Booth, he could tum any occasion to good purpose, even officiating at a wedding within the lions' cage at the circus. Very Good.
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