FPK to William Frederick Bigelow, January 31, 1923
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Title
FPK to William Frederick Bigelow, January 31, 1923
Description
Letter to Bigelow, editor of Good Housekeeping, regarding her recent letter from B. L. Young, Speaker from Massachusetts, and his opinions on the Sheppard-Towner Act. FPK expresses her pleasure at this opportunity to continue conversing with Young on political issues in hopes that he might be influenced to support their causes.
Creator
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Source
From the collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont
Library.
Library.
Date
1923-01-31
Contributor
Digitised, transcribed and encoded by Jake Mandirola.
Identifier
Box 3, Folder 21.
Coverage
New York, NY
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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January 31, 1923.
Mr. W. F. Bigelow
Good Housekeeping.
119 W. 40th St.,
New York City.
My dear Mr. Bigelow:
I am enclosing a letter that has reached me from Mr. Young, the Speaker of the House of Massachusetts, together with a carbon copy of my reply. I feel that this letter is not only interesting but important for several reasons. I have been longing for an excuse to get in touch with Mr. Young, who is an own cousin of my friend Mrs. Grays — a man of almost unlimited influence in Massachusetts, of the highest character and standing and regarded in many quarters as a logical successor in due course to Mr. Lodge. For some reason he has been violently opposed to the Sheppard-Towner Bill and I have wanted very much to get his personal viewpoint on it and the reasons for his opposition with the hope that I might change them. Possibly his interest in what we have done about the Equal Rights Bill may be the opening wedge for which I have been searching.
Another reason the letter is so interesting to me is that Mr. Young is the man of whom I told you a delegate from Massachusetts to the Convention of the National Woman’s Party her in October spoke so slanderously at that terrible Sunday meeting, which made such an unfavorable impression on me. I felt perfectly sure at that time that she was not being just to him and now I feel surer of it than ever.
Sincerely yours,
January 31, 1923.
Mr. W. F. Bigelow
Good Housekeeping.
119 W. 40th St.,
New York City.
My dear Mr. Bigelow:
I am enclosing a letter that has reached me from Mr. Young, the Speaker of the House of Massachusetts, together with a carbon copy of my reply. I feel that this letter is not only interesting but important for several reasons. I have been longing for an excuse to get in touch with Mr. Young, who is an own cousin of my friend Mrs. Grays — a man of almost unlimited influence in Massachusetts, of the highest character and standing and regarded in many quarters as a logical successor in due course to Mr. Lodge. For some reason he has been violently opposed to the Sheppard-Towner Bill and I have wanted very much to get his personal viewpoint on it and the reasons for his opposition with the hope that I might change them. Possibly his interest in what we have done about the Equal Rights Bill may be the opening wedge for which I have been searching.
Another reason the letter is so interesting to me is that Mr. Young is the man of whom I told you a delegate from Massachusetts to the Convention of the National Woman’s Party her in October spoke so slanderously at that terrible Sunday meeting, which made such an unfavorable impression on me. I felt perfectly sure at that time that she was not being just to him and now I feel surer of it than ever.
Sincerely yours,