N.Y. Suffragist Note on Votes for Women card, 1917: "our Suffrage plans for the summer.."
ALS : Autograph Letter Signed
WILCOX, Mary Otis Gay. Autograph Letter Signed; on "Votes for Women" Card: March 9, 1917. 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. Gold rimmed card. Wilcox thanks a female supporer for her assistance in raising funds for the women's movement and sets up suffrage plans for the summer: "My dear Miss Conway. I thank you for your efforts in selling tickets. I was sorry we were so hurried when you came up to the boxes the other night. Mr. Wilcox wanted to catch a certain boat & it was like drawing teeth to I get our party started. He had a Board of Education meeting the next day & that must not be presided over by a sleepy man. I wish you would come to our captains meeting tomorrow at 4, & hear about our Suffrage plans for the summer. we meet here. Sincerely yours, Mary Otis Wilcox"Mary Otis Gay (1862-1933), daughter of Sydney Howard Gay and Elizabeth Johns Neall who married William Goodenow Willcox. Willcox served as Chairwoman of the Staten Island Woman's Suffrage Party and was a member of the Women Democrats of America and League of Women Voters. According to the History of Woman Suffrage, Mary Otis Gay Willcox was Borough Chairman for Staten Island (then referred to as Richmond) of the City Party led by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1915, when the suffrage amendment appeared on the New York State ballot. As part of that campaign, according to a 1915 New York Tribune article, she and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw led a "feminine column" of representatives from New York City, through Binghamton, to Rochester for the final Suffrage Party convention before the 1915 ballot initiative. The City Party organized mass meetings, canvassed homes and businesses, enrolling 60,000 new members to the Party. Willcox lectured on women's suffrage. Her husband, William Goodenoe Willcox was associated with Tuskeegee Institute, was President of the NY Board of Education and onetime Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hunter College in New York City.
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