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The papers of Delaware historian H. Clay Reed include correspondence with Mary R. de Vou, who contributed a chapter on Delaware\u2019s suffrage history to his Delaware: A History of the First State <\/em>(1947). In the process of writing, de Vou shared a personal letter from Carrie Chapman (which Reed never returned) and other anecdotes through correspondence. In a postscript to a letter to Reed, de Vou recalled that when Florence Bayard Hilles became a suffragist in 1913, she was \u201cconverted by hearing Mabel Vernon \u2026 speak at the tent of our Del. Equal Suffrage Assoc\u2019n at the State Fair.\u201d Before then, \u201cshe had simply led the life of a woman of her rank, was more or less athletic, a lover of dogs etc.\u201d The implicit put-down was probably intentional; de Vou and Hilles regularly clashed over tactics during their suffrage years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n As\npresident of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1900-1904,\n1915-1920) and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, Carrie Chapman Catt\norganized numerous suffrage campaigns, both state and national, and presided\nover the successful NAWSA effort to win ratification of the 19th Amendment in\n1919-1920. She spent weeks in Dover during the Spring 1920 ratification\nstruggle. A pacifist, she nevertheless encouraged NAWSA members to contribute\nto the war effort in hopes of winning suffrage \u201cas a war measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Catt\nvisited Delaware a number of times over the quarter-century before 1920,\nincluding an 1897 address to the state constitutional convention urging the\ndelegates to enfranchise women. In a 1944 letter to Mary R. de Vou, who was the\nlong-time secretary of the NAWSA-affiliated Delaware Equal Suffrage\nAssociation, Catt recalled a Delaware visit that lived in her memory as \u201cone of\nthe most wretched experiences of my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary R. (Mary Ruth) de Vou (1868-1949) The papers of Delaware historian H. Clay Reed include correspondence with Mary R. de Vou, who contributed a chapter on Delaware\u2019s suffrage history to his Delaware: A History of the First State (1947). In the process of writing, de Vou shared a personal letter from Carrie Chapman (which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/1069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carrie\nChapman Catt (1859-1947)<\/h3>\n\n\n