The Connecticut League of Women Voters is turning over the newly discovered memoirs of a women’s suffrage leader to the state archives for safekeeping, The Associated Press reports.
A public reception is planned for Wednesday, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., at Connecticut State Library in Hartford. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is expected to attend.
The notebook, dated July 1, 1918, offers a rare glimpse into the views of Connecticut state legislators on whether women should be granted the right to vote. The suffrage leader, Gladys Bragdon, had interviewed members of the all-male General Assembly and recorded their comments in the small, spiral-bound black book.
Cheryl Dunson, the league’s president, found the book in a box while searching for memorabilia to mark the league’s 90th anniversary.
