Letter, The Chelsea Women's Club to H.F. Perkins: a machine readable edition Mrs. John P. Davis Creation of machine-readable version: Nancy Gallagher Additional scanning and OCR: Ben Schacher Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Mary Margaret Welch Additional markup by: Hope Greenberg, Shane Barney ca. 5 kilobytes University of VermontBurlington, Vermont USA

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July/2000 Letter, The Chelsea Women's Club to H.F. Perkins <author>Mrs. John P. Davis</author> <editor/> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p/> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt><publisher/><pubPlace/><date>January 1931</date></publicationStmt> <notesStmt> <note/> </notesStmt> </biblFull> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc><encodingDesc> <projectDesc> <p>Prepared for the University of Vermont Electronic Text Archive.</p> </projectDesc> <editorialDecl> <p>Scanner: Visioneer 6100 (36 bit, 600x1200). Text OCR by Visioneer. </p> <p>Quote marks retained as data. All "M" and "N" dashes converted to two hyphens or one hyphen, respectively. All unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. Some text realigned to left for purposes of readability, at discretion of editors.</p> </editorialDecl> </encodingDesc><profileDesc> <creation> <date>January, 1931</date> </creation> <textClass> <keywords scheme="#"> <term>WE'LL LET NANCY DETERMINE THESE</term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc></teiHeader> <text> <front> <div1> <bibl> <title level="u">Letter, The Chelsea Woman's Club to H.F. Perkins Mrs. John P. Davis January, 1931 Eugenics Survey of Vermont Papers, General: "Adult Education in Eugenics" Permission required for reproduction. Vermont Public Records.
THE CHELSEA WOMAN'S CLUB CHELSEA VERMONT
Prof. H. F. Perkins, 138 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont.
My dear Mr. Perkins,

Some of our members wish to form a small study group and learn of the present day way of treating the subject of eugenics. Since the sterilization bill is looming again in our legislature, some wish to know of the opinion and experience of states which passed this bill some time ago and have now come out in opposition to it.

Moreover, as there is no sex‐education in our schools, some feel that some information should be given in classes outside and we would like to know what books are generally believed to present these facts wisely and suitably. We have read several pamphlets, but feel that there are suggestions that would be helpful if given by one with wider reading facilities. Our greatest problem seems to be to find a man who can present this subject to the boys as would be most effective. Our local doctor has just come and has not the local support that he would have if people were better acquainted. It seems to me that the speaker's personality would be very important in gaining the attention of the boys, especially.

We shall greatly appreciate any suggestions as to books or pamphlets or any information as to plans which have met with good results elsewhere.

I think that a small group of women would be interested in having a series of study afternoons to become intelligent promoters of a larger group study later.

Very sincerely, (Mrs. John P. Davis) President.

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