Autograph Letter Signed (“Marie C. Stopes”) to Henry Simpson [banker and poet, and President of the Poets Club],
STOPES, Marie 1880-1958. Pioneer of birth control (1948)
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1 page 8vo, Norbury Park, Surrey, 27 March 1948.
Marie Stopes writes to Simpson about her recent poetry, and asks him to let her know his opinion of them: “Here, at last … are the poems … of whom I think I have spoken to you. Do read them & tell me what you think.”
Stopes' great achievement, beginning with her book Married Love, published in 1918, was to transform birth control from an 'underground' topic into one which could be openly discussed. Her advocacy of eugenics would, today, be considered far more controversial, and led to a serious rift with her son when he married a woman she considered physically unsuitable.
Stopes wrote poetry, most famously giving a book of love poetry to Hitler in 1939.
Ink somewhat faded; minor markings.
Stock Code: 232117
