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DESCRIPTION: In this handwritten letter from Semarang, Aletta Jacobs writes to Rosika Schwimmer. Jacobs, who was traveling with Carrie Chapman Catt, tells Schwimmer that she had been too busy to write sooner and seems to be responding to a letter from Schwimmer. Jacbos reports attending several suffrage meetings in Java and Sumatra and create ten new branches of “our society,” or the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA). Jacobs mentions the language barrier in that Catt only spoke in a few places because “the people…did not understand the English language.” Jacobs assures Schwimmer that Jacobs and Catt are not fighting, that a disagreement is not the cause for the change in travel plans. Instead, Jacobs needs to return to Holland for the national alliance presidential election. Her Dutch colleagues are worried she will not win reelection is she is not there in person. Jacobs lists the remaining travel plans, including two stops in Hong Kong, where she wishes to create a new branch of the alliance and to find delegates to attend the congress in Budapest. She plans to travel via railway through Russia before arriving home in November. Jacobs reports that she and Catt are both in perfect health, and Jacobs, again, reassures Schwimmer that she is not quarrelling with Catt. Jacobs congratulates Schwimmer on her work for the congress, and Jacobs hopes to attend in June. She sends best wishes for the congress preparations along with “many kisses of friendship.” KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Carrie Chapman Catt; Aletta Jacobs; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Seventh Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance IWSA, Budapest, 15-21 June 1913; Habsburg Empire; Hungary; Dutch East India (Indonesia); Java; Semarang; Róza Schwimmer (Rosika Schwimmer); Janka Grossmann; Szidónia Willhelm

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1854-1929

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Content Type

Letter

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Format

Text

Page Count

4

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Transnational Women’s Movement, Women and Rights, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Rusia, Noord-Holland, Hongkong (State), Hongkong Island, Hong Kong Island, Hong-Kong (State), Hong-Kong Island, International Woman Suffrage Alliance. 7th Congress: June 15-21, 1913 : Budapest, Hungary, International Woman Suffrage Alliance, Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859-1947, Russia, North Holland, Hong Kong (State), Rosika Schwimmer, 1877-1948, Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Suffrage, Equal Rights for Women, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Javanese, Dutch

Topic

Suffrage, Equal Rights for Women, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Rusia, Noord-Holland, Hongkong (State), Hongkong Island, Hong Kong Island, Hong-Kong (State), Hong-Kong Island