Letter from Jessie Kenney

Typed letter on WSPU headquarters headed paper. Signed Jessie Kenney and addressed to 'dear friend' it concerns arrangements for the carriage in which the released Suffragette prisoner Patricia Woodlock is to ride on June 16th to be drawn by women dressed in white and wearing the colours.
The letter asks the recipient 'Would you let me know by return if you can be one of the horses'.

Patricia Woodlock was arrested on March 30th 1909 whilst taking part in a deputation during the Eighth Women's Parliament organised by the Women's Social and Political Union. As a persistent offender of Suffragette militancy she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. On her release from Holloway prison in June 1909 she was taken to a celebration breakfast at the Inns of Court Hotel in Holborn and an evening procession to Hyde Park followed by receptions in Manchester and Liverpool. Suffragettes dressed in white and wearing the regalia of the WSPU formed 'human horses' for the carriage procession.