AMELIA BLOOMER(1818-1894) Publisher of The Lily, the first women's newspaper which shifted focus from temperance to suffrage under the influence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Because of her coverage and defense of the woman's undergarment "pantelettes", came to be forever be known as "bloomers", though she had not herself invented them. A.L.S. "Amelia Bloomer" 1p. sm. 8vo., Council Bluffs, Ia., June 20, [n.y.], penned on the verso of a postcard to a lady. In part: "...I see a notice in Woman's Tribune of a meeting to be held in Omaha, July 2 to be addressed by Rev. Anna Shaw and Clara B. Colby, but the place of meeting is not given. Can you inform me where the meeting will be held...". Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a pioneering civil rights and women's suffrage leader, and the first female Methodist minister in the U.S. Clara B. Colby, too, was an equal rights activist. Mounting remains to verso, otherwise very good.