Letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Caroline Phillips
WriterWritten by
Christabel Pankhurst
(Manchester, England, 1880 - 1958)
AssociatedAssociated with
Caroline Phillips
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1874 - 1956)
AssociatedAssociated with
The National Women's Social and Political Union (NWSPU)
(founded 1907)
Date18 September 1908
Object NameLetter
Mediumpaper and ink
ClassificationsSocieties
DimensionsPage 1: 26 × 20.4cm
Page 2: 26.3 × 20.4cm
Page 2: 26.3 × 20.4cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1988.
LocationOn Display - Gallery 14
Object numberABDMS082732
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.September 18th, 1908.
Dear Miss Phillips,
Many thanks for sending me the programme of the Women Worker's Conference. I wish very much that Mother could address the proposed meeting in Aberdeen, but she feels it will be impossible for her to get to Scotland so soon after our meeting in the Caxton Hall on the 13th. There may be all kinds of important matters which will detain her in London, and therefore it seems better not to hold the meeting you suggest, useful as such a meeting would certainly have been. I wish the Conference had met at some other time more convenient to us!
Are you going to send us any active demonstrators from Aberdeen?
We gave a fine Scottish welcome to Miss Phillips this morning, and we think that other Scotswomen ought to follow her example.
Very sincerely yours,
p.p. Christabel Pankhurst
LB
P.S. I hope you can make arrangements to have a band of women to sell the "Votes for Women" paper at the Conference of Women Workers. Can you begin at once to enlist volunteers for this work? They should wear the colours and have a good supply of the paper. I hope some of our local friends will be able to attend the Reception and wear the colours.
I am writing to Miss Una Dugdale to see whether she can help in anyway
p.p. C.H.P.
LB
Miss Phillips
Avalon
Bieldside
ABERDEEN
More About Me
This letter comes from a collection of documents relating to Caroline Phillips, containing important correspondence between the Aberdonian journalist and key leaders in the suffrage movement, including Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst.
Exhibitions
Baroness Emmeline Pethick Lawrence
2 January 1908
Baroness Emmeline Pethick Lawrence
6 January 1908
The National Women's Social and Political Union (NWSPU)
21 September 1907
