Mary A. Livermore Autograph Letter Signed 01/23/1887

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LIVERMORE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/23/1887 - HFSID 287122. LIVERMORE Writing to Abby Burr, President of the local WCTU, she makes a committee recommendation she would soon regret! Livermore, 2 pages (front and verso), 5x8. Melrose [Massachusetts], 1887 January 23.

Burr", in full: "I shall be absent all the next week, and home Saturday. I think the committee have been well selected.

I have nothing to suggest, and return your list. Please say to the ladies that I desire to add Mrs. Burr to the Committee on Literary and Musical Entertainment.

Will call a meeting in a few days. I have been outrageously busy for a month, but hope to have more leisure soon. Norris have an engagement that evening, and cannot be present.

Raised with the Calvinist doctrine of pre-destination, she moved to the other end of the religious spectrum, embracing Universalism and marrying Universalist minister Daniel Livermore in 1845. During the Civil War she was an active organizer and fundraiser for the US Sanitary Commission. With slavery abolished, she turned her journalistic and lecture skills to temperance and women's suffrage. Immensely popular as a speaker, she became known as the Queen of the American platform. She also took a keen interest in spiritualism, believing she had received messages from her dead husband. Livermore was active in politically oriented women's clubs, especially the New England Women's Club of Boston. This letter, however, refers to another group, the Melrose chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, of which Mrs. Abby Barr was President (with Livermore active as her advisor).

Livermore would soon repent of her support for Rebecca Hesseltine, whom she nominates here, when Hesseltine refused to take a pledge of abstinence from alcohol. The women's suffrage and temperance causes were closely allied in this period, both seen as women's issues and an important factor in many men's opposition to universal suffrage. Left edge lightly frayed from binding. See more material from these signers.

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Signed by: Mary A. Livermore
Autograph Type: Autograph Letter Signed
Autograph: Authentic Original