The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74
A Greeting from Old Ireland. Dublin Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 91, Rathmines Road, Dublin, 10th June, 1896
10th June, 1896.
Dear Sir,—
We are much rejoiced to learn, through Mrs. Butler, that you intend at your next session of Parliament to propose that the age of consent be raised, and, also, that the CD. Acts in your colony be repealed. If there were anything in our power that we could do to strengthen your hands, you have our very best desires and deep sympathy. Our Committee here has long ago been dissolved, but I continue to act as a member of dear Mrs. Butler's Committee, and now, being an old woman (one of the original workers and secretaries in 1870), can do but little. I have always helped at women's questions, am still honorary secretary of the Women's Suffrage and Poor-Law Guardian Association. The latter we are vigorously working up now, having got the Act enabling women to be Guardians passed this year. Any appeal as regards combating the CD. Acts has my warmest sympathy, and I earnestly trust that your hands may be strengthened to fight the battle before you vigorously; and that a blessing may rest on your efforts and those of the good men and women who may assist you is the heartfelt desire of your sympathizing friend in the good cause of morality, purity, &c.
Anna (Mrs.) M. Haslam,
An old Hon. Sec. The Hon. B. Seddon, Wellington. P.S.—I send you one of the old pamphlets I had compiled here long ago.—A.M.H.John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington, 1896.