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Samuel Howard Strong to Lillian Herrick Olzendam
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- Date Created: 1919-10-06
- Description: Response of a legislator from Fayston, Washington County, who is not in favor of a special session as women already have the right to vote in town elections and will likely be given full suffrage at the next legislative session.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Lillian Herrick Olzendam to Carrie Chapman Catt
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- Date Created: 1919-10-12
- Description: Olzendam reports on a visit she had with friends of the Governor, stating her understanding that he does not want to call a special session for fear that legislation other than ratification would pass, and that if this obstacle could be overcome a special session would be called.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Lillian H. Olzendam to Frank L. Fish
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- Date Created: 1919-12-22
- Description: Olzendam asks the Honorable Frank Fish of Vergennes, as a supporter of suffrage, to sign a petition to the Governor to call a special legislative session for ratification and to forward the petition to other well-known men in his social and professional groups.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Annette W. Parmelee to Ida Husted Harper
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- Date Created: 1919-09-11
- Description: Parmelee debates whether or not to accept the position of State Historian for the Vermont Equal Suffrage Association.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Carrie Chapman Catt to Marion R. Horton
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- Date Created: 1919-09-12
- Description: Catt discusses the ratification process around the country and her belief that a different procedure may be more effective in Vermont: having members of the Governor's political party speak to him unofficially and sending letters to all legislators who have pledged support for ratification. Copy, enclosed in letter to Olzendam.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Harvey W. Varnum to Lillian H. Olzendam
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- Date Created: 1919-10-25
- Description: Senator Varnum of Jeffersonville replies that he does not care to sign the petition to the Governor.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Frederick C. Brown to Lillian H. Olzendam
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- Date Created: 1919-10-27
- Description: Legislator Brown of Barton responds that he did everything he could for suffrage in the last session and will again when the proper time comes, but does not feel that a special session would "meet the approval of the Governor or the State at large."
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Frances E. Rastall Wyman to Annette Watson Parmelee
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- Date Created: 1919-10-27
- Description: Wyman explains to Parmelee the succession of presidents of the VESA between 1913 and 1915.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Lillian H. Olzendam to Ashley Joseph Goss
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- Date Created: 1919-10-30
- Description: Olzendam asks again for the signature of Representative Goss of Danville calling for a special session.
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection
Melvin G. Morse to Annette W. Parmelee
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- Date Created: 1919-12-10
- Description: Morse, librarian of the Legislative Reference Bureau, sends Parmelee copies of women-related legislation introduced in 1919, and states "there were no bills introduced in 1900 except the ones which I sent you with the other list."
- Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection