Autograph Letter, Signed, from Frances Willard, Politely soliciting funds from Mrs. Wallace

Evanston, Ill, 1886. 1p. on WNCTU stationery. With the original envelope. 1 vols. Old fold lines. Minor wear. Near fine. With envelope. 1p. on WNCTU stationery. With the original envelope. 1 vols. Letter written by Frances Willard to Mrs. Wallace, indicating that she has asked Dr. Bushnell to "call on you and hoped you might help us out on current expenses. She has come by my request, wholly on faith and I want to make that 'materialize' in the form of 'current expenses.'" Willard was prominent in both the suffrage and temperance movements, and was influential in the passage of the 18th and 19th amendments (prohibition and votes for women, respectively); she also helped found the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1874. Willard's platform of "Home Protection" as the premise behind suffrage was designed to appeal to women everywhere. She held that if a woman had the right to vote, she could better protect her home and family and improve society.