KP/AK/2/ROE/3 - Letter, Grace Roe to Annie Kenney, 2/1/1950

KP/AK/2/ROE/3

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Letter, Grace Roe to Annie Kenney, 2/1/1950

2/1/1950

1 Letters (MS)

Goulden, Ada, 1868-1950

Roe, Grace, 1885-1979
Kenney, Annie, 1879-1953recipient

In this warm and affectionate letter to Annie Kenney, Grace Roe confirms the life-long friendships and connections between the women who participated in the militant suffragette struggle. Christabel Pankhurst has told her about the passing of their colleague “Aunt Ada,” aka Mrs Goulden Bach, Emmeline Pankhurst’s sister. Grace recalls that “it was Mrs Bach who came to tell me you had been arrested on that eventful day and it was Mrs Bach who gave me the first news of Mrs Pankhurst’s long sentence.” She ends her letter with the exclamation: “Annie darling I love you Never forget it - Grace”

Transcript:

Box 1283, Ventura, California

Feb 1-50

Dearest Annie,

I so much agree with all you say…..your lovely letter is greatly appreciated.

Also such a dear one from Jessie. Give her my love & thanks.

C has told me of the passing of ‘Aunt Ada”. I had so many wonderful contacts with her. A letter had come from her only about two weeks ago & strangely I felt as I read it that she would not be in a physical body much longer but I did not realize that the [Page 2] passing would come so suddenly - Sybil, I have seen in this country & she told me how she was with Faye Faye when she died.

The passing of Aunt Ada brings back so vividly memories of you. For it was [Mrs Bach] who came to tell me you had been arrested on that eventful day- and it was [Mrs Bach] who gave me the first news of Mrs Pankhurst long sentence- Indeed when I look back over those years I find that Mr [Gordon] and Mrs [Bach] were so often at hand in a crisis.

Annie darling. I love you. Never forget it.

Grace

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