women’s rights activist,Cora Scott Pond encourages friend to join suffrage movement

Women Suffrage Campaigns, women’s rights activist

ALS : Autograph Letter Signed

Cora Scott Pond [Pope] Autograph letter signed . Cora Scott Pond Pope was an American professor, a scenario writer,[1] and a real estate developer. She was also a women’s rights activist,[2] suffragist, and militant prohibitionist.[3][4] Trained in oratory, she taught in the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, before taking on suffrage work. In Massachusetts, she organized 87 woman's suffrage leagues, speaking in public and raising money to carry on the work in that state. As a fundraiser, she originated a dramatic entertainment called the "The National Pageant", which she gave with great success for the benefit of the various societies of women.[5][6] With Charlotte Harris Allen and Aimee S. Bigelow, Pond was also editor and publisher of the children's monthly magazine, The Young IdeaNo date; likely pre-1891 (when she married and took last name Pope). 1 sheet. 9 x 5.5 in. Black ink on lined paper. Lifelong suffrage advocate Cora Scott Pond writes to an old school friend, encouraging her to join the women’s movement and outlining outreach campaigns in local papers.

She writes in her hand In full: “Dear Carrie, Do not consider this a $1.00 thrown away. It is through the efforts of Woman Suffragists that you and all of us young women are allowed to hold our position, or, to suffer ourselves. A little back glance of the suffrage movement will show you this. You ought to give your mite with the rest of us. I send you a paper it will give you a glance. We [print] it in the Sunday Herald. Yours with love and a classmates good wishes. My love to your mother. Cora S. Pond.” Very good. An insightful letter showing the many ways in which women brought others to their cause.

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