Letter from Caroline Phillips to Annie Allan (Rough Draft)

WriterWritten by Caroline Phillips (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1874 - 1956)

Date6 February 1908

Object NameLetter

Mediumpaper and ink

ClassificationsSocieties

Dimensions26.7 × 20.9cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1988.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 14

Object numberABDMS082723

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.

38, Carden Place
Aberdeen, 6th February, l908

Dear Mrs Allan,

If the instances you mention are grievances from the W.L.A. point of view, then my action in distributing 300 tickets in the meeting and in the vestibule for Mrs Pethick Lawrence's meeting must certainly top the list of indictments against the W.S.P,U. Both Mrs Black and yourself, and Mrs Glegg also, have heard Christabel Pankhurst speak at least once, you could not therefore pretend to be ignorant that her speeches are political above all else. She judged very rightly, in the opinion of most people, that this particular audience was a well informed one, and chieﬂy composed of women whose 'education' on Women's Suffrage was pretty well completed; therefore her speaking to the best and not the least informed of her audience will not sustain the accusation of discourtesy.
My last letter to you was written very hastily; and so far as I remember it was only the personal allusion to Mrs Glegg that mad me mark it private, otherwise I think it is not private, if you like to consider it so.

With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Caroline A.I. Phillips

(typed with hand-written amendments, roughdraft reply to Document 36 ABDMS082722)

Why have you marked your letter private?

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Phillips, who led Aberdeen’s fight for women’s voting rights 1907-09, is best described as a suffragist, dedicated to using political means, rather than disruptive or violent actions, to achieve their ends.

Exhibitions

Gallery 14 - Art of Empowerment