Letter from Caroline Phillips to Annie Allan (Rough Draft)

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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

Dimensions14.5 × 22.2cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1988.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDMS082724

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

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 in the vestibule for Mrs Pethick Lawrence's meeting must certainly top the list of indictment against the WSPU. Both Mrs Black & yourself & Mrs Glegg also, have heard Christabel Pankhurst speak at least once. You cannot 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 on & chieﬂy composed of women whose education on W. Suffrage was pretty well completed - therefore her speaking to the best & not the least informed of her audience will not sustain the accusation of discourtesy.
My last letter was written very hastily so far as I remember, the personal allusion to Mrs Glegg made me mark it private, otherwise I think it is not private if you like to consider it so.

With kind regards
Yours sincerely

(rough draft to letter above Document 37 ABDMS082723)