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Letter, 1913, October 16, Mary Ware Dennett to Mrs. M Wright State University CORE Scholar Martha McClellan Brown Correspondence Martha McClellan Brown Papers (MS-147) 10-16-1913 Letter, 1913, October 16, Mary Ware Dennett to Mrs. M. McClellan Brown [Martha McClellan Brown] Mary Ware Dennett Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/ special_ms147_correspondence Part of the Women's History Commons Repository Citation Dennett , M. W. (1913). Letter, 1913, October 16, Mary Ware Dennett to Mrs. M. McClellan Brown [Martha McClellan Brown]. This Letter is brought to you for free and open access by the Martha McClellan Brown Papers (MS-147) at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Martha McClellan Brown Correspondence by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ) NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women Recot'ding Secretary President Susan FitzGe rald Anna Howard Shaw W. 7 Greenough Ave.,J a m aica Plain , Mass. Moylan, P a. 1st Vice-President Treasurer Katherine Dexter McCormick J ane Addams Hull House, Chicago, III. SOS Fifth Avenue, New Yo rk 2nd Vice-President 1st Auditor Charlotte Anita Whitney Harriet Burton Laidlaw 2121 Webster Street, Oakland, Cal. 6 East 66th Stre et, New York Corresponding Secretary 2nd Auditor WHITE 9TAJE8 FULL 8UF~~AGE Mary Ware Dennett Louise De Koven Bowen SHADED PARTIAL 1430 Astor Street, Chica go, Ill. SOS Fifth Avenue, New York DARK NO National Presa Bureau, Elinor Byrns, Chairman, SOS Fifth Avenue, New York NATIONAL AUXILIARIES: The Equal Franchise Society Colle ge Equal Suffrage League Friends Equal Rights AHociation Mrs. Howard Mansfield, President M. Carey Thomas, President Mary Bentley Thomas, President Bryn Mawr, Pa. Ednor, Maryland S3S Park Avenue, New York Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill Headquarters, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York October 16th 913 . Mrs . ~' . McCl ellan Brown , 81 8 Hut chins A enue • Cincinnati, Ohio • Dear Madam:• T ere is no possible \~ay to give you an accurate answer to your enquiry of October 13th. us to the number of women who are listed for the 1novement: conduct1:1d by the National American Woman Suffrage Associatic n . 'Ihe best we can offer is a very general appro.xi.maticn . The reports of ~embership are very inadequate because the local a.ssoc:iations, that is the city and down t:..ssociatione , do not send in frequent or accµrate reports o_f their ~1embers to the Stf\te Associatior1s and , therefore• the State Associations have not exact cle,ta to turn ovt:ir to us here at National Headquarters . 'l'he best estimate we could make is that the National Suffrage organization has about 250,000 individual members . But , if you are trying to get out the nu.mher of women in the United States who stand for equal suffrage the figure goes up trer,iendoµsly . In the first place t.here are nearly fo1,.1r million woP1en voters ru.ready and, aside fron them there are perhaps three million other women who c1efinitely stand for suffrage. This is estimated fro'll the reported memberships of the Vfirious orgc,nizations which !':ave endorsed equal suffrage• that is the National. C6uncil of Women , the w.c .T .u ., the women of the Grange, the •~accabees, the Socialist women , the women of certain of the State Federations etc . ' If you quote this office as furnishing you with these approxi• mate figures, will you please be sure that you emphasize the fact that they are approximations . Very tr..ily yours , ~ ~) ~ :res~onding Secretary . .
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