Suffragette Interest - Ethel Smyth Three autograph letters signed ('Ethel Smyth') to Lady Cynthia Colville, one reading in part "I do hope she'll read my 'Emmeline Pankhurst' for I expect H.M. has no idea, really, what a magnificent woman she was. A great many people hadn't, of course. I have been graciously commanded to go to an afternoon party on the 23rd and I wonder if you will still be (as I suppose is not the case) on duty for poor Lady [...]?, two pages, creasing and folding marks, closed tears to lower margin, oblong 8vo, Woking, 15 March 1934; another saying "My revised edition of Female Pipings in Eden comes out [...] on Thursday...and I do wonder what the Queen will say to a certain little tale - one of 'Three Tragi-Comedies of Childhood' called 'The Waterfall'...I do wonder if it will shock or amuse her ??!!", two pages, creasing, closed tears to lower edge, oblong 8vo, Woking, 17 March 1934 (3)