_To the President and Officers of the Carpenter Company of Philadelphia:_ The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its headquarters in Philadelphia the centennial season of 1876, and desires to secure your historic hall for that purpose. We know your habit and custom of denying its use to all societies, yet we make our request because our objects are in accord with the principles which emanated from within its walls a hundred years ago, and we shall use it in carrying out those principles of liberty and equality upon which our government is based. We design to advertise our headquarters to the world, and old Carpenter Hall, if used by us, would become more widely celebrated as the birth-place of liberty. Our work in it would cause it to be more than ever held in reverence by future ages, and pilgrimages by men and women would be made to it as to another Mecca shrine. We propose to place a person in charge, with pamphlets, speeches, tracts, etc., and to hold public meetings for the enunciation of our principles and the furtherance of our demands. Hoping you will grant this request, I am respectfully yours, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, _President of the National Woman Suffrage Association._ Two months afterward, the following reply was received: HALL, CARPENTER COURT, 322 Chestnut St.,} PHILADELPHIA, April 24, 1876.} MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, _President of the Woman Suffrage Association_: Your communication asking permission to occupy Carpenter Hall for your convention was duly received, and presented to the company at a stated meeting held the 16th instant, when on motion it was unanimously resolved to postpone the subject indefinitely. [Extract of minutes]. GEORGE WATSON, _Secretary_. It was a matter of no moment to those men that women were soon to assemble in Philadelphia, whose love of liberty was as deep, whose patriotism was as pure as that of the fathers who met within its walls in 1774, and whose deliberations had given that hall its historic interest. In the midst of these preparations the usual May anniversary was held: CALL FOR THE MAY ANNIVERSARY, 1876.--The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its Ninth Annual Convention in Masonic Hall, New York, corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, May 10, 11, 1876.