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Letter from suffragist Daisy D. Solomon (1882-1978) to anti-suffragist, poet, and high society hostess Mrs. Annabel Huth Jackson (1870-1944). Daisy, who once famously mailed herself as a human letter to the Prime Minister for a British Suffragist campaign, was born to radical political parents in Cape Town, South Africa. She and her mother were both members of the militant suffragist group Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). In this letter she is responding to Mrs. Huth Jackson on behalf of her brother who has just departed for India. Presumably this is her brother William Ewart Gladstone Solomon, artist and director of the Bombay School of Art, who created artwork for WSPU banners. The letter reads - "Dear Mrs. Huth Jackson, Your letter to my brother arrived the very day he was leaving London to return to India - Nov. 6th. So he asked me to write and explain how much he regretted missing you. I happened to be just packing up for a short trip on the continent and somehow mislaid your letter - I had no address. I am only just back this morning, have been turning out my desk and have just come across your missing letter! I am so very sorry that there should have been this delay. My brother wished me to say what a pleasure it would have been to him to have had a talk about India with you and how he hopes this may be brought about when he next has leave to this country. Yours very Truly, Daisy D. Solomon." Mrs. Huth Jackson spent her childhood in India while her father was Governor of Madras. The letter is accompanied by a calling card from Mrs. Huth Jackson. Jackson, while political in many respects, as a pacifist and a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, was vocally anti-suffragist, though she did exercise her right to vote when it was won.