CORRESPONDENCE,, 1913-1918

Summary: Includes original letters, copies of letters and mimeographed letters.

Correspondence between Lillian Feickert, president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and between Feickert and local association presidents and other state officers.

General subjects discussed include tactics and strategies, reports on lobbying efforts in Trenton and Washington and fund raising. Of particular interest are letters written by Feickert to NAWSA president Anna Howard Shaw about efforts to introduce a women's suffrage amendment in the state legislature in 1913; letters discussing the Soldiers' Club in Wrightstown, which was staffed by volunteer NJWSA members during the First World War; and a letter from Feickert to Vice President Mrs. Wells P. Eagleton about trying to organize women in Newark.