Excerpts from a biography of Lillie D. Blake by her daughter Katherine Devereux Blake, no date. Includes drafts of sections/chapters titled “Woodhull”; “1871-1872”; “1873”; “Normal College 1873”; “Summer 1873”; “1887”; “Society Notes”; “My Mother’s Friends”; “Society for Political Study”; “Depew”; “Women’s Voting”; and regarding subjects such as Katherine Devereux Blake’s memories of her mother; and Miss Susan King. Also material apparently assembled for inclusion: copies of assorted newspaper clippings, dated 1882-1890; an extract of an article from The New York Graphic, 1885 February 13, about Lillie D. Blake; and two partial obituaries of Lillie D. Blake. Typescript, 64 pages

File — Box: 5, Folder: 18

Identifier: A0134-00120

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists largely of data used by Lillie Devereux Blake’s daughter Katherine Devereux Blake to write her biography, Champion of Women: The Life of Lillie Devereux Blake (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1943). Although the collection contains few of Lillie Devereux Blake’s letters, it does include several, though not all, of her original journals and diaries, ranging from 1847 to 1903; a complete transcription of her diaries as prepared by her daughter; her unfinished autobiography; notes and texts of many of her public addresses; correspondence received; scrapbooks and printed matter relating to her involvement in the woman’s suffrage campaign. The collection of correspondence received includes letters from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Although the correspondence files relate largely to women’s suffrage activities in New York, there is also material relating to women’s suffrage activities nationwide, especially in connection with the National Legislative League that Blake founded to lobby for reform in the state legislatures. The collection also contains a small body of Civil War letters that Blake received from men in service with whom she was acquainted.