An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Political Suffragette Activist Millicent Garrett Fawcett to General Alfred Edward Turner. Undated. Autograph Notecard Signed, 'M. G. Fawcett', 2 Gower Street, London, 21 March, no year, to General [Alfred Edward] Turner, 'I have had a nice letter from Miss Creagh this morning. She is most grateful for your kindness which she says is only carrying out what you've always shown to herself and her brother while you were in Clare. But they both feel it would be undesirable to attract the attention of their old enemy in their present defenceless position by asking a question in the H of C', 2 pp. on personal stationery notecard, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847 – 1929 was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), explaining, "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government." She tried to broaden women's chances of higher education, as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square. Size is 115mm x 90mm. Condition is good.