May Wright Sewall Papers

Letter from Mary A. Livermore to May Wright Sewall.

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LIVERMORE, MARY A MAY 21 1892

Mrs Sewall

Melrose, Mass., May 21, 1892.

Dear Frances Millard,

I have been "moving to secure the representation of women on the National Divorce Reform League", for ten years, and at last Dr. Dike says there is nothing to hinder their representation, I met Dr. Dike, on the invitation of Rev. Dr. Amory Bradford, of Montclair N.J. at the N.J. Club of Cong.

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ministers, in N.J. City, 250 ministers and their wives sweethearts and daughters being in attendance. He talked on his side - I, on mine, demanding representation of women on his Divorce Reform League, and contending that the laws of marriage need reformation, and the laws of divorce would then take care of themselves. The ministers sided with me, by vote, and Dr. Bradford publically told him he was wrong in the stand he had taken.

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He nad his ? lobbied through Congress a bill directeing Hon. Carroll D. Wright Chief of the National Bureau of the Statistics of Labor to collect statistics of marriage and divorce in the U.S.A., which he did, and publised them. Mr. Wright is my personal friend and we had some correspondence. He was invited to read a paper before the fourteenth Biennial Conference of the American Unitarian Assn., at Saratoga, last Sept. I was a delegate to that body

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He took my ground that the laws of marriage need reformation, and not the laws of divorce, and with his aid, and that of Messrs. Horton, John Chadwick, Minot Savage and other Unitarian ministers I got through that great conference a resolution unanimously recommending the additionl of women to the National Divorce Re form league, since the laws of marriage and divorce concern women equally with men, &c., &c. Now

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what? It is in order to open a correspondence with Dr. Dike, or better yet to have an interview with him to inquire if he is ready to admit women to active membership in the League and then to ascertain terms &c., &c., I think he is prepared to admit women to the League.

You could do more in that work than any one. He quotes you continually as being in sympathy with

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