Jane Addams (1860-1935), Women's Suffragette and Nobel Prize Winner, ALS, 5¾" x 9¼", Mar 30, 1909, Hull House, Chicago; one page letter about family matters to her sister, Alice Haldeman in Girard Kansas; includes the envelope of transmittal, with a Women's Special Train to Springfield, April 13, 1909 corner card, along with a 4-page flyer entitled "Attention, Suffrage Women!" giving details of the Special Train to Springfield to attend the Illinois House of Representatives hearing on the Chicago Municipal Suffrage Bill; Very Fine and including a transcription of the letter, Addams' handwriting being a little difficult to read. Towle CH-5-a, RF II+++. Suggested Bid $300-400 (Image)
Suggested Bid $300-400
Opening US$ 750.00
Sold...US$ 750.00
Closed..Jun-10-2020, 10:06:20 EST
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Sale No: 740
Lot No: 553
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Jenny Lind, a glowing first person account of a concert by legendary "Swedish Nightingale"; a November 1850 stampless folded letter from New Haven, Ct. to Wentworth, N.H. in which the writer, a female college student, enthusiastically for a page-and-a-half after attending a Lind concert in New York, in part, "I did not suppose the human voice capable of performing what she did." and "She is indeed beautiful and talented as a singer probably more so than any woman living…I cannot describe it, you must see it to comprehend it", Very Fine. Suggested Bid $200-300 (Image)