Amelia Bloomer [photo portrait, head and shoulders, of Amelia Bloomer, copy of 1954 photo.]
On back of photo:
Mrs. D.C. Bloomer
"Amelia" Bloomer
copy 1854 ]
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer..."I had no idea of setting a style, no thought that my act would create excitement throughout the civilized world and give to the costume my name and the credit due to Mrs. Miller."
[photo of drawing of Amelia Bloomer wearing…
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from M.F.C. [Des Moines, Iowa?] asking Bloomer to secure people to agitate the [women's rights] questions in Iowa's newspapers.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Mary J. Coggeshall, Des Moines, Iowa, asking Bloomer for assistance in procuring signatures from Pottawattamie on a petition re: presentation of amendment in the Legislature.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from E.F. Ellot, West Point, Nebraska, declining the appointment to the Executive Committee of the Women's N.Y. State Temperance Society, but expressing support for the cause of temperance.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from M.E. Wilson [Mary E. Wilson, Kentucky poet?], thanking Bloomer for sending The Lily, and enclosing a few lines for The Lily. Note at the bottom of the letter (in different handwriting): "A Kentucky poet"
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Lucy Stone, written from Waverly, New York, suggesting that a convention in Iowa would be better at the time of the anniversary of the American Association, since many speakers would be nearby.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Justine Smith, Indianapolis, Indiana, discontinuing her subscription to The Lily because she is sailing to Europe in May, and asking for a few line from Bloomer.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from T.J. Mackay [rector of St. Paul's church in Council Bluffs], writing from Boston Massachusetts, describing the commencement exercises of the Sumner School of Physical Culture at Harvard College.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer form William J. Bok of the New York Syndicate Press, asking Bloomer if she would go to the polls and vote if suffrage was extended to her.
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from William J. Bock of the New York Syndicate Press, thanking her for the sentiments recently sent to him. He notes that the New York Graphic illustrator tells him that Bloomer will give him a portrait to illustrate.