Scrapbook II., 04/21/1877-01/15/1879

Contains fragment of scrapbook (pages are marked 57 through 103). Itemization is by page number. [p.57] 2 obituaries for Eliza Vinton Safford, wife of Dr. Robert Safford, and sister of MVD's father, Samuel F. Vinton. (April 1877). [p.59] Obituary for Eliza Vinton Safford (The Zanesville Daily Courier, April 24, 1877). @ "Dahlgren on Maritime Law" (The Albany Law Journal, Spetember 29, 1877). Review for a book by JAD, edited by Charles Cowley, entitled, "Maritime International Law" (Boston: B.B. Russell, 1877). @ [p.61] Review of JAD's book "Maritime International Law." Reference also made to death of Ulric Dahlgren. @ "Winter in America" (The Age, Melbourne, May 26, 1877). A report by an Australian travelling reporter on high society entertaining in America. An example is made of a soiree at the house of MVD. "Such evenings as that...are the roses in a whole desert of dreary receptions, where the wit was as dull as the diamonds were bright..." @ News item by Mrs. Grundy reporting on the silver wedding anniversary of President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife, Lucy Ware Webb. MVD is mentioned as being a guest on the occasion. "The President attended Mrs. Dahlgren's first wedding when she married Mr. Goddard, of Ohio, so she is invited for this evening." (n.d.) @ [p.63] @ 4 small reviews (1877) of JAD's book, "Maritime Interanational Law." @ News item re. President Hayes' silver wedding anniversary. (The Evening Star, 1878). @ 3 news items re. the Woman Suffrage Convention held in Washington, D.C., January 8, 1878. Includes letter to the editor by MVD protesting a statement in a preceding article that MVD had "gone upon the floor of the Senate while it was in session and sought votes against woman suffrage." Another item by Sara Andrews Spencer printed a retraction and apology to MVD. @ [p.64a] News items re. Dr. Francis J. Lemoyne's crematorium (c.1876). (See also Scrapbook I, p.3.) @ [p.64b] AMsS poem by MVD entitled, "To the President." @ [p.65] @ "Are Dreamers Drones? or the Relative Importance of Idealism and Realism" (The Catholic Universe, December 6, 1877). Probably also written by MVD, this is a transcript of a reading she gave at the Literary Society, Washington, D.C. @ "The Woman Suffragists" (The Baltimorian, January 26, 1878). An exchange of letters to the editor, on the subject of women's suffrage, by MVD and Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907), American philanthropist and reformer. @ [p.66] AMs poem by MVD entitled, "To My Youngest Child John" dated Christmas 1877. @ [p.67] @ "Our Indian Policy" (The Sunday Herald, December 9, 1877). This long news item includes a letter to the editor by MVD as president of the Ladies Catholic Indian Missionary Association, Washington, D.C. Calls for recognition by the U.S. government of the "success...of our Catholic Indian missions in humanizing and tranquilizing the Indian tribes," in the hope that this might induce the government to abolish military supervision of the Indian tribes. @ An ensuing statement is made by Ellen E. Sherman (wife of General William T. Sherman) entitled, "Our Catholic Indians" corroborating MVD's views. (Same article as preceding.) @ (The Star, January 23, 1878) Letter to the editor from MVD re. protesting an allegation made by the paper that she was responding to articles written by Sara Andrews Spencer, chairman of the Congressional Committee on the National Woman Suffrage Association, in her pamphlet entitled, "Thoughts on Female Suffrage and in Vindication of Woman's True Rights" (Washington, D.C.: Blandchard & Mohum, 1871). @ (The Star, January 24, 1878) Similarly, in a letter to the editor, Spencer writes that MVD is not familiar with her articles and could not have meant her pamphlet to be a response. @ "Method of Paying Pensions-Relief for the Dahlgren Heirs" (The Post, March 27, 1878) Re. the compensation to JAD's family for his military inventions. However, "it is argued that the passage of the bill would establish a precedent...which might prove very expensive in the end." @ [p.69] @ "A Mild Rebuke" (Washington Post, January 14, 1878). In a letter to the editor, MVD introduces a transciption of a letter from educator Almira Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884) to Isabella Beecher Hooker voicing the former's views against women's suffrage and criticizing Hooker for what she believes is Hooker's advocacy of loose morals in the promulgation of women's suffrage. @ "The Woman Question" (Washington Post, January 17, 1978). In a published letter to MVD Hooker responds to the misconception about the women's suffrage movement. She accuses MVD, Ellen E. Sherman and Phelps of advertising the misconception. @ MVD in her turn responds to Hooker in a published letter to the editor (Washington Post, January 19, 1878). @ [70a] AMs, poem by MVD. Opening line: "Ulrica, Eric and John..." @ [p.71] @ Untitled report (July 20, 1878) of a literary gathering, perhaps of the Washington Literary Society of which MVD was founder. MVD is reported as having given a reading of poem she'd written. @ "Mrs. Beecher Hooker's Hearing" (The World, February 22, c.1878) Note: news item is damaged. Report on a Senate hearing granted to Isabella Beecher Hooker in response to a protest brought to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections by MVD, Ellen E. Sherman and others against a proposed sixteenth amendment that would allow women the right to vote. @ 2 news items concerning Ulric Dahlgren: @ "Col. Dahlgren's Leg" (The New York Sun, March 10, 1878) concerns the burial of his amputated leg in a wall memorialized with an inscribed plaque. @ "The Late Ulric Dahlgren - Incidents of the Last Days of the Gallant Colonel" (Herald, April 24, 1878). MVD responds to the preceding news item clarifying the facts about the memorial to her son's leg. @ Obituary to Rev. Charles J. White, D.D. (The Star, April 1, 1878). A note by MVD indicates that he baptized her children, Eric and Ulrica. @ [p.73] @ "The Voice of the Voiceless. Mrs. Dahlgren's Argument Against Women's Suffrage" (Washington Post, March 7, 1878). Long article by MVD. @ "Anti-Suffrage Women" (Daily Times, St. Louis, March 24, 1878). Another article by MVD against a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. @ 2 news items announcing MVD's opposition to the proposed amendment giving women the right to vote. (1878) @ [p.74a] "The Siege of Charleston, Viewed Through Northern Spectacles" n.d. Long review of a book by Charles Cowley entitled, "Leaves from a Lawyer's Life, Afloat and Ashore." @ [p.74b] "Notable Gathering. Quarterly Meeting of the Washington Literary Club" (Washington Post, April 8, 1878). News about the meeting with MVD presiding.