Autographs
“Mary A Livermore” Autograph Letter Suffragettes WCTU
MARY A. LIVERMORE (1820-1905). American Journalist and Advocate of Women’s Rights. After the Civil War, she devoted herself to the Promotion of Women’s Suffrage and the Temperance Movement, starting her own Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Chapter in her hometown of Melrose Massachusetts.
April 24 1894-Dated and Postdated, original superb quality Hand-written Letter came with its original stamped Envelope, addressed to Mr Walter Babb. This letter asking for permission from Mr. Babb, if the WCTU can reserve a table at the Temple of Honor Hall on May 10th, for Tea, and is also dated April 24th, 1894. Bright, fresh and boldly written with a huge 3.25” long signature “Mary A Livermore.”
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."

Originally organized on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio, and officially declared at a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it operated at an international level and in the context of religion and reform, including missionary work as well as matters of social reform such as suffrage. Two years after its founding, the American WCTU sponsored an international conference at which the International Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed.