An 1890 Holograph Letter by Clara Bewick Colby (Founder of The Woman’s Tribune) to Minnesota Suffragist Julia B. Nelson

Beatrice, Nebraska, 1890. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed. Octavo. 4pp. Beatrice, Nebraska: October 10, 1890. Written on two sheets of Colby’s *Woman’s Tribune* stationery. Light horizontal folds for mailing, very good. An informative letter by Colby, a British-American lecturer and publisher, women’s rights activist, and suffragist leader. In 1883 she founded, published, and edited *The Woman’s Tribune* which became the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

The letter is addressed to fellow suffragist Julia Nelson, co-founder of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association in 1881 and a leader of the temperance movement. Colby inquires after Nelson’s schedule, refers to attending meetings (including the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association), and proposes strategies for making “some sort of an alliance - offensive & defensive - with your headquarters with mine in Washington & together making a joint lecture bureau of our two selves: 1st to make expenses; 2d for the propagation of the faith; 3d to get new subscribers & fresh material for the *Tribune* … .”

A well-preserved, historically important letter with good content on the suffrage movement in the United States. (Inventory #: 524937)