Object details

Object number

ARC.000416

Creator(s)

William Sturgis Bigelow (Boston, 1850 - 1926, Boston)

Title

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from 56 Beacon Street, Boston

Date

about 6 March 1919

Medium

Ink on card stock

Language

English

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Stationery printed: 56 Beacon Street / Boston
Newspaper clipping (pasted on first page, center): Mrs. Jack Fined One Dollar / Suffragist Appeals from Sentence Imposed / in Connection with Rally of Militants on / the Common

Commentary

Mrs. Cerise C. Jack, ardent suffragette, was fined one dollar for her activities in the February 24, 1919 suffrage rally in the Boston Common. In this letter, William Sturgis Bigelow jokes with Isabella Stewart Gardner about this potential case of mistaken identities.

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