Letter from B. V. Black to Caroline Phillips

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Letter from B. V. Black to Caroline Phillips

AssociatedAssociated with Caroline Phillips (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1874 - 1956)

Date11 January 1908

Object NameLetter

Mediumpaper and ink

ClassificationsSocieties

DimensionsFolded: 17.6 × 11.3cm
Unfolded: 17.6 × 22.6cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1988.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDMS082718

Keywords

About MeThis is part of a collection of documents relating to Caroline Phillips (1874-1956), an Aberdonian journalist who was involved in the women's suffrage movement. The collection contains important correspondence between Phillips and key leaders in the suffrage movement, including Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst.

11th Jan: 1908

65, Forest Avenue
Aberdeen

Dear Lady Ramsay
Your letter of the 9th inst. reached me only last night. I have consulted Mrs Allan, about the subject and we agree that the Liberal Women can do nothing officially in the way of cooperating with the members of the W.S.P.U. it would of course be directly opposed to our Constitution. We are however not bound as individuals, and I shall be delighted to have a talk with you, say on Tuesday. Tuesday ﬁrst the 14th inst. at or about 11 am. It is a long way for you to come, and I shall invite a few of the more ardent reformers in our committee to meet you here.
Marmoﬁeld Car is nearest to us.
At a Com: meeting of the W.L.A. convened on Wed: last to consider a request by Mr. Murray M.P. for our cooperation [as a W.L.A. (crossed out) ] in a meeting at which Miss Pankhurst is to speak, it was unanimously agreed that we could not as an association work for it but that individual members were at liberty to do so. I presume Mrs Pethick Lawrence comes for the same evening.
I am gratiﬁed to observe the sensible stand taken by the lady students re- Mr. Asquith's nomination. Perhaps this will do something to convince him that women do want the vote especially so, if through their stand he should be defeated.

With kind regards I am very sincerely yours

B V Black