SUSAN B. ANTHONY PAPERS 31 CORESPONDENSE 1846, 1875 - 1905, & UNDATED [*FACSIMILE]*] [*AC. 6470*] *[1846]*] Rochester April 27, 1846. Gentlemen. I have just received your favor of the 25th inst, offering me the superintendence of the Female Departments of your Academy. I have decided upon the acceptance of your terms, and will be at Canajoharie in time to commence school in the 4th of May next. Yours Respectfully Susan B. Anthony Joshua Read } Livingston Speaker } George G. Johnson } CONSTITUTION OF THE National Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE 1. - This organization shall be called the National Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE 2. - The object of this Association shall be to secure STATE and NATIONAL protection for women citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. ARTICLE 3. - All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the Association, with the right to participate in its deliberations. ARTICLE 4. - The officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice-President from each of the States and Territories, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries, a Treasurer, an Executive Committee of not less than five, and an Advisory Committee consisting of one person from each State and Territory. ARTICLE 5. - All Woman Suffrage Societies throughout the country shall be welcomed as auxiliaries; and their accredited officers or duly appointed representatives shall be recognized as members of the National Association. ____________________________________________________________________________________ OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. PRESIDENT, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. VICE-PRESIDENTS, Lucretia Mott, Philadelphia, Penn. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tenafly, N. J. Isabella Beecher Hooker, Hartford, Ct. Martha C.Wright, Auburn, N. Y. Jane Voorhees Leslie, New Castle, Del. Lavinia S. Dundore, Baltimore, Md. Paulina W. Davis, Providence, R. I. Sarah A. Vibbard, East Boston, Mass. Mrs. E. W. Willard, Montpelier, Vt. Abbie P. Ela, Rochester, N. H. Lucy A. Snowe, Rockland, Me. Elizabeth Coit, Columbus, Ohio. Catherine F. Stebbins, Detroit, Mich. Mary F. Thomas, Richmond, Ind. Harriet S. Brooks, Chicago, Ill. Mathilde Anneke, Milwaukee, Wis. Fannie Eldridge Russell, Silver Lake, Minn. Annie C. Savery, Des Moines, Iowa. Frances Miner, St. Louis, Mo. Eliz. Avery Meriwether, Memphis, Tenn. Ruth C. Denison, Washington, D. C. Anna W. Bodeker, Richmond, Va. Ada Gregg, Wheeling, West Va. Mary Brown, Ashville, N. Carolina. Frances Anne Pillsbury, Charleston, S. C. Emma Barber, Lexington, Ky. Flora McMartin Wright, Pulatki, Fla. Mary Spaulding, Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. P. Holmes Drake, Mt. Hope, Ala. Emily P. Collins, New Orleans, La. Mrs. W. V. Tunstall, Palestine Texas. Elizabeth B. Schenck, San Francisco, Cal. Hannah H. Clapp, Carson City, Nevada. Julia Brown Bemis, Omaha, Nebraska. Clarinda I. H. Nichols, Wyandotte, Kan. Mary McCook, Denver, Colorado. Sarah Stenhouse, Salt Lake, Utah. Mary P. Sawtelle, Salem, Oregon. Mary O. Brown, Seattle, Wash. Ter. Mary B. Post, Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Ernestine L. Rose, New York. Helen P. Jenkens, Pittsburg, Penn. Deborah W. Butler, Vineland, N. J. Ellen M. Harris, Baltimore, Md. M. Victor, Sturgis, Mich. Belva A. Lockwood, Washington, D. C. Ann T. Greely, Ellsworth, Me. Mary B. Moses, Great Falls, N. H. Emma Farrand Elkin, Fairfield, Vt. Sarah Southwick, Grantville, Mass. Lucy R. Elmes, Derby, Ct. Mrs. W. F. Channing, Providence, R. I. Nannette B. Gardner, Detroit, Mich. Susan A. Richardson, Earlville, Ill. Eliza D. Stewart, Springville, O. Mrs. Dr. Wilhite, Crawfordsville, Ind. Mrs. J. W. Allen, Ripon, Wis. Mrs. E. Berger Stearns, Rochester, Minn. Belle Mansfield, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Mrs. J. C. Underwood, Alexandria, Va. Ada Gregg, Wheeling, West Va. Mrs. E. J. Kirby, Pendleton, S. C. Phœbe W. Couzens, St. Louis, Mo. Ann L. Quinby, Newport, Ky. Mrs. N. H. Cramer, Nashville, Tenn. Hannah M. Rogers, Magnolia, Florida. Mrs. A. Millspaugh, Washington, La. Mrs. S. N. Wood, Montague, Texas. Lizzie C. Aughey, Dakotah City, Neb. Helen E. Starrett, Lawrence, Kan. M. H. Arnold, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Mary Godbe, Salt Lake, Utah. Emily Pitts Stevens, San Francisco, Cal. Charlotte Baker, Virginia City, Nev. Mrs. J. Hayford, Laramie City, Wyoming. Mrs. W. A. Whiting, Central City, Col. Amelia Giddings, Olympia, Wash. Ter. SECRETARIES. Corresponding - Jane Graham Jones, Chicago, Ill. Foreign Corresponding - Laura Curtis Bullard, New York. Recording - Mary F. Davis, Orange, N. J. TREASURER, - Ellen C. Sargent, Washington, D. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y. Mathilde F. Wendt, New York. Laura De Force Gordon, Stockton, Cal. A. Jane Dunning, Portland, Oregon. Sarah Pugh, Germantown, Pa. Nannetta B. Gardner, Detroit, Mich. Lillie Deveraux Blake, New York. Charlotte B. Wilbour, New York. Olympia Brown, Bridgeport, Ct. Elizabeth E. Loomis, Chicago, Ill. We propose to make a vigorous campaign of WOMAN SUFFRAGE MASS MEETINGS, with our ablest speakers, during September and October, and earnestly solicit our members and friends to forward contributions in aid thereof to the Chair. Ex. Committee, MRS. M. JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. National Woman's Suffrage Association. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. Ch'n Ex. Com, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y. Cor. Sec'y, JANE GRAHAM JONES, 910 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Ill. Rec. Sec'y, MARY F. DAVIS, Orange, New Jersey. Treasurer, ELLEN C. SARGENT, Washington, D. C. Rochester Dec. 19th 1872. Dear Sir Yours of the 17th inst is here - with its $2.50 -- Thanks for this first dollar received toward the "Defense Fund" - though Chicago - the papers say has made up a purse - I have not heard from it yet - Yes - [The] showers of Gold & Ophir would be most welcome just now - But it will make us all appreciate the full value of Equal Rights I expect - that we have to dig so long & so hard to secure them - Mr Davis, I hope you will surely attend the Washington National Convention Jan. 16 & 17 - We want strong & United forces there - to batter against the walls of the Capitol - Our second hearing before the U. S. Commissioner is postponed to the 23d inst - when I hope - after all our able & earnest arguments - we shall be sent up to Albany the 3d week of Jan. next - to go before the Grand Jury & by them - be found guilty & tried by the U. S. District Court then & there to be in session Sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association. PRESIDENT, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y. Vice Presidents, LUCRETIA MOTT, Philadelphia, Pa. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Tenafly, N. J. and others. Rec. Sec'y, HENRIETTA PAINE WESTBROOK, New York Cor. Sec'y, ISABELLE BEECHER HOOKER, Hartford, Ct. For. Cor. Sec'y, MATHILDE F. WENDT, New York. Ch'n. Ex. Com., SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. Treasurer, ELLEN C. SARGENT, 308 F Street, N. W., Washington D. C. Rochester Oct. 21st 1875 My dear Mrs Gage I thought I had answered every point you say I am remiss in - I like Madam Annekes plan of protest & demand this winter - - as I though I wrote you as well as Mrs Stanton, Mrs Hooker & the Madam Anneke - but I want it to be on the one & sole point of women disfranchised - separate & alone - and not mixed up with - or one of - 19 other points of protest — each all of the 19 good & proper perchance - but the very moment we put temperance, land monopoly, Labor & Capital, anything; however good & needed - we sink [our] women's claim to equality of rights civil & political down the common level of the others - whereas we must keep our claims first & most important overshadowing every other - Mrs. Stanton answered me that she agreed with me - just, [Won???] & her disfranchised - - Leaving the other 19 demands of the Old Liberty to wait our [free] emancipation. And Mrs Hooker is wide awake for the most vigorous attack upon Congress we have ever made -- And I am sure you are the one to write the protest - Like Mrs. Stanton I do not want to stop the rebels - nor any more do I the Irishmen or negroes - or drunken vagabonds - for I am glad they all have the right - [ou?] I want my sex to have it too - And our national must prepare the address - & then if the Radical can adapt all right - but I should hardly expect them, if they were to draw up the address, to do other than make women suffrage one of their demands - but if we draw it up & they adopt & work for it. - why they will help us very much - The National should take half or perhaps more of the cost of printing the document--There were several persons who pledged money at the May Anniversary and it will help-one was Mr Wilcox Luther - another was a lady from [Flushing?]- - Then beside the National & Nat. Dems - the Philadelphia Citizen Suffrage Society - Mr E. M. Davis will help - & the San Francisco & California Nat Society too - Mrs Wallis of Mayfield - & Mrs Gordon of Stockton represent it - So I say get the right thing for Memorial - & get it printed - & set afloat as soon as possible - but Mrs Hooker (AC. 6294) Clarinda Jan 19/76 Dear Mrs Gage Now do you go strait to Mrs Stanton's & both of you sit down together & map out the work of the Wash. Con. and the plan of the Philadelphia Centennial Pow wow - Mrs Sargent writes again urging me to go on to W - but I had taken your letter as the final no - and gone ahead & filled in my time with engagements I give you the principal points - Jan 24th Bedford - Iowa 27th - Garden Grove " 31 - Albin Feb 1 - Ottumwa 7 - Washington - - I have letter to day - The Doctors pronounce my Sister Hannah Mrs Mosher - going the way our dear sister Mrs McLean went - & She is leaving all at home to go to Denver - & I feel that I must drop all go with her - - It is too cruel to see her going down - I am dreadfully hampered - but am going to try to hold myself to the [rack?] of of work until I get my neck out of the yoke of the Revolution debt - - Now do go to Mrs. S. & she won't say no to you - but if you just write she may feel she can't & say so on paper - but if you go & look her in the face with your appeal just as I always do -she wont say no- -her love & benevolence & all will lift right along to help you right royaly - just as she always has me - When I have had a Con. on my shoulders -Mrs Sargent says they have got nearly enough money raised to pay the Hall rent-and if you fail to raise enough to cover expenses-send to me & I will do as much as I said in my last - if you need me to -I haven't a P.O. order on hand now - So send on without again - but don't miss me you are all strong & can get on splendidly without me- affectionately Susan B. Anthony Clarinda Iowa Jan [10?] /76 My Dear Mrs. Gage Your Postal - from Fort Scott - overtakes me here - & I mail some envelopes to [Care] Mrs. Le- My stock is nearly gone - though I had 500 - & a half ream - yes a whole ream of paper stamped - but I am doing all of my lecture correspondence on (Sideways at top) Now don't scold at me - I am simply bound but to make the best & most of your ability to be there You know it is you who can say the right word better than I partly- & better than any one to do pluck up your self esteem - & feel that Our world hangs on your attendance this official paper & envelopes & it is simply immense - for I am getting up my own lectures now - at 2/3 the gross receipts & doing immensely better than at the $25- - But, you see - I had all my propositions out & some of them answered & thus made into engagements - when I saw the Associated Press item of the part of our National W. S. A. Convention in Washington Nov 27 & 28 int - And now, not only have I the awful drawing of the Wash. Con - every one of which I have always attended -& fully meant to continue to do so to their end - but the Doctors have pronounced my dear sister Hannah - Mrs Mosher - fast following my dear sister Mrs McLean - & she is going off to Denver alone - & I feel that I must fly to her & try to help her to throw of the demon of disease - - But to help her to go I must work here and I [I] am putting in every night & sending her the money - - Isn't it wonderful how, now - after such perfect freedom from all home responsibilities all my life - that at this emergency in our movement & my life - they just pile in upon me from every quarter? = I shall try my best to send you a word fro the Convention - but if I an overwhelmed with some new shock from home which I constantly stand in dread of - Do say to the Con. for me how against my feelings it is to be absent for this first time - but that I know the Con will not suffer half so much as I - Enclosed is my list of engagemets or a few of them - affectionately but sadly Susan B. Anthony [Incorrectly Filed Letter Removed And Filed Correctly] National Woman Suffrage Association, 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;' the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D.C. SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec'y Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D.C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Rochester N.Y. Sept. 7th 1880. My Dear Rachel Crowd all the engagements you have into those last two weeks of this month, if possible - and then don't try to make any more for me until after this Presidential Campaign is over- It is always a very bad time. I do not believe Geo. Wm. Curtis, or Wendell Phillips, or any one could get a crowd at 50 admission in this city or any other in the Nation now you - the very best orators in the nation are speaking everywhere with open doors - we had "the fool" Tourgee - here the other night - with our vast City Hall packed - - And, in view of the surfeit of lecturers, every town will get this autumn - I think it will be the wise thing for me to give my time to working upon the History of the W. R. Museum with Mrs. Norton - up to the 2 my feelings as to what was my first duty all along - Mrs Gage & Mrs. Hake so sure it was to work for school suffrage in New York - Mrs. Statitora that it was to go to her to work on history - & I wanting to both - and too distracted to anything - I have a letter from Mrs. May Wright Thompson - she will be in New York City about the first of October - & wants, very much, that we shall call an Ex. Com. meeting there - & get together as many as possible to talk over a plan to make our next Jan. Wash. Con. the best [*6*] we can - would it be possible for you & Julia to go there? - and we ought to have one or two of our Washington City women there too - - I suppose Mrs Spafford is still in Maine - I will write her & see if she cannot make it so she can be with us - She writes me Mrs Spencer has cut her - not having written her since she left - - If you give me nothing after Sept. 20th I shall then go direct to Tenafly - or rather New York - Phebe Cowzins is in Boston too - attending social Science meeting - Both she & Mrs Thompson time of the Washington Con - the middle of January - And that will leave you to work me into Feb, March & April of 1881 - just as closely as you please - through the south if you like - I wish there were some strong, energet, business women to just engineer and financier me through the Southern states - perhaps your Bureau Business may permit you just to go with me - but I should fear it would be too much for you physically - 87 If you have seen dear Sarah Pugh - who has just visited Mrs Stanton at Tenafly - she has told you what we all feel - & that is that Mrs. Stanton is now at leisure and in the mood of writing on the history - And that - as she nor I have any lease of such conditions - it is Mrs Pugh's judgement - as well as my sisters & mine - that it is my duty to go to Mrs Stanton and make the most of the coming three months - I hope this will not disappoint you - I have been fearfully divided in 4 are glad Mrs Spencer has resigned - Mrs Stanton has accepted the resignation - with her own & Mrs. Gage's & my signatures to her letter - and instructed her to turn over all property of the N.W.S.A. to Mrs. Ellen H. Sheldon - who is to act as Cor. Secy until the Ex. Com. meet - --Either you or I must go on to Washington a week or two before date of Con - and attend to matters - Indeed we ought to engage our Hall right away - Jan 13th & 14th will be the best days - I guess - though may come in "Prayer Week" - if not the Thurs & Fri 12th & 13th then Tues & Wed, the 18th & 19th of Jan - but that brings us too late - I fear - Mrs. Spencer always insists upon is that the very first week is best - but I think the 2nd is -You see New Years coming on Saturday - Congress will most likely open on Tues or Wed, the 4th or 5th - but may not till Monday the 10th therefore Thursday the 14th & Fri the 15th will be likely to catch them at latest - Then, after the Con. - I would like a few days to stay in Washington & look after our Congress prospects - With love to Mother & Sister affectionately yours - S.B.A. National-American Woman Suffrage Association Member Of The National Council Of Women Of The United States Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Auditors{ Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N.Y. [*AC.6294-1*] Office of the President, Rochester N.Y. May 12th, 1899 Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, 119 North 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Rachel: Here is a letter just received from London, from which you will see that it is a fixed fact that the great Woman Suffrage meeting has been abandoned, and that I am simply to speak in a sectional meeting, handed over to the Suffrage Societies to manage. I have received no other notice about it; quite likely letters are on the way. It seems settled that I am desired to speak on the historical aspect of Woman Suffrage; can you not give me what you think would be the points for such a story, for it will simply be a story of our work from the beginning. Please return the letter. I have seen quite a number of the friends here about Mrs. Sewall's Woman's Peace Meeting on Monday, and find it will be an impossible thing to accomplish the feat. The time is too short and in addition to that all the Ministes of our city several weeks ago preached sermons upon the Czar's Proclamation and took rising votes of their congregations in favor of Peace and the Arbitration Conference at the head, so that the job seems to have been pretty well executed here before hand. Sister Mary went to New York yesterday so as to be ready to sail tomorrow morning. Miss Shaw came home with me from Chicago; we arrived Wednesday morning at three o'clock, and she left yesterday afternoon to speak last night and tonight and return to Philadelphia to-morrow. I have Harriet's letter to the members of the business committee. The one vital point of holding our Convention in Washington is not mentioned, and that Mrs. Avery -2- is the securing of Hearings before the Congressional Committees, and having before them in person women representing the several different States of the Union. If we did not desire to secure Congressional action in the adoption of a constitutional amendment resolution, we might consider, as she seems to do, nothing but the difference in the expenses of the delegates, of the halls, hotels, and the numbers attending our meetings. But I suppose it will be impossible to make any considerable number of our young women comprehend the far reaching importance of our Hearings before the committees, of the publication of the speeches by the Government, and the sending out of the speeches under the frank of the Members to the friends in the several States of the Union. I have always believed, and never more strongly than now, that the educational work done by these Hearings was farther reaching and did quite as much good work in the rural districts as the holding of meetings in each, and whatever is the value and extent of such education, it is vastly less expensive than paying the traveling expenses and salaries of 5th rate speaker to carry the word to the people there. At any rate I hope you will plan to make the convention of 1900 a splendid old time object lesson to the present generation of workers. Converting a few people in a given locality is good for a little circle, but when we can send out a hundred thousand copies of the Hearing Speeches, such as were made in 1898 and will be made in 1900 to hundreds of thousand people all over the United States, under the frank of Senators and Congressmen, in Governmental envelopes, and with the headings above the Speeches showing that they were made before Congressional Committees composed of the ablest men in the House and Senate they certainly carry with the good word the political weight of Governmental recognition. I know you appreciate this method of education and agitation, therefore, I am full of hope and expectation that you will do all in your power to make our leaders, not only of our business committee, but throughout all the States, understand its value. It is only by so doing that we shall save even meeting biennially in Washington. There was no session during our whole week of meetings in Grand Rapids to compare with the two evening sessions of the National Conference we held there in the Autumn of 1897, hence so far as the meetings were concerned, we did not reach nearly as many Grand Rapids people; on the other hand where you take into consideration the number of our splendid officers and delegates from the twenty two different States entertained in the Grands Rapids Homes, there was a Mrs. Avery. -3- great deal of good work done in such families as were lucky enough to entertain delegates making a favorable impression upon them. It produced, however, in no sense what I should call the largest kind of National influence, and I believe more than ever that the annual meetings of our National Association should be made to concentrate the influence of all the States upon Congress, and as we get full Suffrage in another and yet another State, added to the four we already have, we shall be able to extort from Congressional Committees not only good reports, but also to secure discussions and votes on bills for amendment resolutions, and if we could bring about the result of a discussion and a vote of both Houses during every Congress, we should do more to stir up the whole nation than with all the money to pay all the speakers and organizors we could possibly send out. Our experience in holding the three Conventions-Atlanta, DesMoines and Grand Rapids-outside of Washington has only intensified my feelings as well as strengthened my judgment in the direction of holding all of our Delegate Conventions in the city of Washington. It is our only possible method of securing representatives from all the States to go before the Committees and our only possible way of bringing our influence to bear upon the new men who are sent to Congress every two years. So I do hope you will bend all your energies to trying to educate our women to see that while we should hold from four to twenty or thirty National Conferences in the different States of the Union every year, the one Delegate Convention at which our officers are elected and Association business transacted, should be held in Washington. This is my parting word to the Committee and to the Presidents and Delegates from the different States of the Union who shall assemble in Washington in 1900. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony -3- Mrs. Avery, great deal of good work done in such families as were lucky enough to entertain delegates making a favorable impression upon them. It produced, however, in no sense what I should call the largest kind of National influence, and I believe more than ever that the annual meetings of our National Association should be made to concentrate the influence of all the States upon Congress, and as we get full Suffrage in another and yet another State, added to the four we already have, we shall be able to exhort from Congressional Committees not only good reports, but also to secure discussions and votes on bills for amendment resolutions, and if we could bring about the result of a discussion and a vote of both Houses during every Congress, we should do more to stir up the whole nation than with all the money to pay all the speakers and organizers we could possibly send out. Our experience in holding the three Conventions Atlanta, DesMoines and Grand Rapids outside of Washington has only intensified my feelings as well as strengthened my judgment in the direction of holding all of our Delegate Conventions in the city of Washington. It is our only possible method of securing representations from all the States to go before the Committees and our only possible way of bringing our influence to bear upon the new men who are sent to Congress every two years. So I do hope you will bend all your energies to trying to educate our women to see that while we should hold from four to twenty or thirty Nation Conferences in the different States of the Union every year, the one Delegate Convention at which our officers are elected and Association business transacted, should be held in Washington. This is my parting word to the Committee and to the Presidents and Delegates from the different States of the Union who shall assemble in Washington in 1900. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony No. 10. East 68th Street New York May 31/99 - {*AC 6294*] Dear Rachel I had a nice chat with Mrs Catt yesterdy - She is to reach New York early Saturdy A. M. - go to the Office - & then over home or stay there - unless I notify her that you are to be at my cousin Laphams at 4 or 5. P. M - and feel that she ought to come over to tell us of results of her Boston visit - and talk over her or your plans for the work - so if you feel she ought to meet us - drop a line to the office - so she will get it [Saturday] Friday A. M. - I plan to come over - Lovingly hope to see you Susan B Anthony 83 NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, 1880 "Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed:" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Tenafly, N. J. 3 Grant Place, Washington, D. C. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec'y, 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D.C. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com., JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Fayetteville, N. Y. Riggs House, Washington, D. C. [*AC6294*] ............................................................................................................................................................................................1880. Rochester, N. Y. Sept. 8th My Dear Rachel I have said -yes-to Mellsville - and told M. G. to confer with you - if he wished farther information- I shall be in Tenafly - but can slip out to W. for the 21st and perhaps some other points between may want me - I would like to speak at Middletown - very much - Mrs Hasbrook - wife of the Editor of Republican paper there - & also one of the women members of their Board of Education - would be likely to make the arrangements - — I hope you are not discouraged with the lean harvest from your 500 seed sowing letters - The weather is cold as Autumn - in good earnest - You needn't worry about the space between the September engagements - I will fill it up somehow — With ever so much love - Susan B. Anthony NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N. Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D. C. SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec'y, Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D. C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. [*AC 6294*] Rochester N. Y. Sept. 24th 1880. My Dear Rachel S. Enclosed is a draft on New York American Exchange National Bank for thirty ($30) Dollars - a little more than you asked me if I was willing to send you - My audience at Oneida was not large - [10] and my number of subscribers only two - that at Dalwinsville only one -- My three lectures this month -- Naples Ontario Co. was my third -- have given me only three subscribers to N. C. and B. B. - though the audiences average two hundred each - before I pronounce New York far behind the Western States in interest in our Woman Suffrage Movement, I will see how Cape Vincent, Adams & Frankfort "pan out" -- I now intend to go direct to Tenafly after Frankfort -- I hear nothing farther from May Wright Thompson -- Mrs Sheldon writes that Mrs Spencer has not delivered to a single letter -- only the bare desks & petition record books -- and a few copies of the "Hearings" pamphlets -- Do you see? Mrs Spencers says in an Interview that she resigned from N.W.S. so as to be able to act independently with Greenbackers or to that effect =- The weather is lovely Autumn now - bright & sunny & cool - - I am to lecture at Fayetteville Monday night the 27th - so shall leave home Monday A. M. not to return again for the present - i hope your "trio" are over and all well - and with love to each & all i am Affectionately Susan B. Anthony NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. 1880 "Governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Tenafly N. J. 3 Grant Place, Washington, D. C. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, SARA ANDREWS SPENCER Corresponding Sec'y. 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. Cor 7th and L Street, Washington, D. C. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com., JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Fayetteville, N. Y. Riggs House, Washington, D. C. (AC 6294) Tenafly N. Y. October 25th 1880. My Dear Bache Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York gave me a good check to begin the work of publishing our W. [?] History - & I have nearly finished contract with Fowler & Wells to publish it -- And Mrs. Stanton & Self are fairly settled to the work of getting the material together - 11 Miss Grew - Would help you - we would be very glad to have her give [?] early history - indeed we would have been glad to have her write [the?] Penn. chapter - but her health is in the way - - I am sure she would gladly aid you all she can - if you will undertake Penn - We will send you all we have got written on it and you can get all in addition & incorporate - Now what do you say - Of course Miss Grew could not write the history of Phila. Work - since Lucy Stone's sucession - [2] for the virus that is in her system is working sadly upon her face as well as finger joints - I never saw such a sudden fading out - as hers of the last year & a half - And I hope you will do all you can to influence her to work to get that poison, whatever it is, out of her system - It is too cruel that she right in her prime should be thus cut down physically - She ought Should you have call for me to lecture near New York - say our or two hundred miles out - you may accept it - for $50 - Nothing less than that must now take me away from my history work - Mrs Stanton has planned to stay at this lovely home of hers & which if you come to New York - you must [?] & [??] all this year - & to religiously devote all her energies to getting our history completed - And I have decided that it is my duty And Mrs Stanton says Rachel Foster must write the Penn. Chapter - over her own name - & just as splendidly as she can - You see you can gather the facts from the old files of the Phila. Papers - & the Misses Thomson- Miss Pugh, Miss Grew & Mr Davis will give all the help they can - The Womens Anti Slavery work ought to be the starting point. You could get a file of the Old Pennsylvanian Freeman - & from it gather all, W. N. & A. S. facts 13 from the standpoint of National Citizenship & Suffrage going together -- Please now tell me if you will do this work -- It will be a splend service to the cause - & enrol you at once as a most valuabe worker & historian too -- Miss [Co???ius] writes a Postal for your home. I am glad she is under the charge of an M. D. and have written that I hope she will strictly follow every wise order of his or hers -- abandon the fearful exposures of lecturing and give herself to best possible sanitary living -- Climate, food, excersise, --Oh - I want her to get well & strong -- I have written her that I want her to write up Missouri history -- especially the Sanitary & Women's Loyal League work -- during the war -- Let me hear from you Affectionatly yours Susan B. Anthony To remain here with her & help to the best of my ability -- all the winter -- except running out for a lecture now & then -- if you could 2 or 3 -- between this & Wellsville -- I would fill that -- But tell me how matters look -- Am glad you will have Miss [C???] at your Cit. Suf. meeting this week -- I would get notice of the fact that she would be present - in city items of papers, if I were you. -- S.B.A - NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed:" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N. Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D. C. SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec'y, Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D. C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. [*AC 6294*] Rochester N Y 1880. No - Tenafly N. J., Oct. 30th My Dear Rachel Would you in the event of Mrs. Gage's giving up the National Citizen - undertake it - both the publishing & Editing - Thus far it has a little more than paid its Way -- though my lecture & our conventions she has had over $700 - and then say with her renewals & new ones - she has had $500 - the very, very lowest I should think - when I had sent the paper 1500 subscribers before, which with 500 - say of Mrs Williams - makes 2000 - subscribers that the paper had had - before we sent our 800 - Well with my low estimate of $1200 - would make her receipts this year - $100 a month - Now if you would take it, on any conditions - suppose Please don't let an inkling of this go outside of your own [?] - for it is only to me - I suppose - that Mrs Gage has revealed her fears - and as she has no money, she dares sun no risk whatever - I am going to see Mrs Wells - of Fowler & Wells - in New York - who publishes our history - and get a statement from them of costs - just as I have asked you - for we of the N. W. P. A. must keep that little flag flying -- Mrs Eliz. Boynton Harbert once asked me if Mrs Gage would sell N.C. & for what -- so I have just her in the way of getting a Chicago printers statement -- but I have not told her the reasons -- as I have you -- New York City -- is the place for our paper and next to that Philadelphia or Chicago -- Good night -- It is [???] [???] - all [????] Lovingly yours - S.B. Anthony you take two or three copies of the N. C. to one or more of your Phila newspaper publishers - and get statements 1st for the cost of the first thousand copies- everything down to the wrappers and mailing Postage and all - and then 2nd - the cost for every additional thousand so that you may see just how much it would cost to run the papers in Phila - [more?] than Julia Williams , the two years you had it - and it has more than paid Mrs. Gage for her three years what frightens her is that I am not working in lecture field & hence, not going to bring 7- 8 hundred dollars this year - as I have done for the past three years - But I believe - & have so written her - that by offering a copy of our History to every person who [would] will send five new subscribers - or whatever number fixed upon this she -or anyone - if good business work was done - could double the N.C.'s bids in a very short time - The Histories should be furnished in N.C. at lowest- a new high cap NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed:" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex.Com. Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D.C. SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec'y Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D.C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer Riggs House, Washington, D.C. [*AC.6294*] Tenafly N.J. Nov. 6th 1880. My Dear Rachel Your good Postal is here this A.M.- and I have got Mrs. Stanton writing the letter of introduction to Miss Green while I scribble this- We want all of Perns?. history down to the year 1860- with Loyal League and Sanitary work of women there- during the War- just as soon as you can scratch it together- imagine you will find but very I take the first installment to printers to day. Now I am sorry for the date you can come to Tenafly -- I have to be in Providence the 10th & 12th to fill engagement for Mrs Stanton and possibly her Media, as she has given them choice between P. & me -- and in Boston, to fill another the 20th -- -- Possibly she may throw up the Boston engt and they choose Phila for Media -- if she does -- I can get back to New York and catch you there and accompany you over to Jersey -- or have our visit then -- just as suits you best -- So please give me your New York little -- but Miss Green will set you on the track of it all -- I hope she may have some newspaper clippings of those olden days -- -- If you find any facts or incidents to add to this rough draft sent you, slip them in -- you needn't try to write things up in a finished style -- unless you prefer to do so -- as Mrs Stanton can do that readily - the main point is to get together the facts -- names of persons and dates of events -- and places they occurred -- address, so I can write you there -- and please also tell me if the 17th is before or after your N.Y. engagement -- I do not want to miss seeing you -- there are so many things I want to talk over -- Do make Phoebe remain at the Doctors till her joints get back to their normal state -- -- she ought not to go a step back home -- until after the Wash. Con. and I am glad you & Julia say hold it -- & I want you to have an address all ready too for the occasion -- as ever -- S. B. A--- NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex.Com. Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D.C. [SARA ANDREWS SPENCER Corresponding Sec'y Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D.C.] JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer Riggs House, Washington, D.C. [*AC.6294*] Tenafly N.J. Nov. 21 1880. Dear Rachel- We want all you can get before 1860- or 63&4- just at your earliest moment- -But I don't see how you can do anything during the stay of your half-dozen young friends. - We have the first hundred pages of proof already here for correction- So gather up what points you can- as soon as you can 19 but of course you can't start into Wash until your visitors are gone - Let Miss Green read the rough draft of Mrs. Stanton's - and suggest everything she can in addition & criticism - What we want is to get everything and set it right too. good night with Love to the trio -and all of the young visitors of the Juniors member of the first[?] S. B. Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association, 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com. Fayetteville, N.Y. Tenafly, N.J. Nov. 28, 1880 ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D.C. [SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec y. Cor 9th and I Streets, Washington, D.C.] JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. [AC.6294] Tenafly, NJ Nov. 28, 1880 My dear Rache enclosed is line to Phebe - - if she is gone - I want you, by first return mail if possible, to make a brief report of Miss Cowyn's(?) speech at Mrs. Motts funeral - - and also describe how she was dressed. The paper says in white. While E. M. Davis told me - brown silk -- Can't you give a description of RIGHT PAGE: The funeral & get it here to be sent to the A.G. - I ought to have asked you & Phebe to do it when I was in Phila. Mrs Lockwood writes very cheerfully about prospects of Wash. Con. and thinks Mrs Sheldon & herself will cooperate with you and Phebe most harmoniously. -Won't it be delightful to all work together without distrust of one another's motives-- LEFT PAGE: I wish we had some one to overlook the New York Dailies for our history --they contain more than all other papers -- Love to the trio and The (name?) young lady? visitors Susan B. Anthony If Phebe is still in Phila - get this to her first opportunity - if youre home - please forward it to her -- and you write the word about the funeral and send on to me at once. I shall be sorry not to have the lovely little speech in Ju. N. B. Tenafly N. J. Dec 8/80 Dear Rache No -- I was not intending to go home for Christmas -- and shall not -- unless something calls me thither that I know not of now-- Just Wellsville's $20 would but barely cover my expenses to and from -- then again, scarcely anybody would want me to lecture Christmas week -- So unless you should have something nearer -- say within 50 or 100 miles So, unless something turns up very imperative, I shall push on here with might and main right through the holidays and up to the Wash, Con, So get little items in any of your Phila. papers -- when you can without extra steps -- Phebe hasn't written me a line since she left Phila After this History is on its feet -- You shall have all you can do making lecture notes for me -- and before that time -- after Wash. Con. -- I will slide out and fill one week and take in Ada - - if you can get first class cug'ts. As soon as the History is a fact -- "Richard will be himself again" -- till that time I feel a prisoner -- a fish out of water -- anything but in my normal element. As to your chapter don't hold on to it to polish it up -- But the minute you get all your facts together in chronological order, or otherwise -- send it on -- as we shall have to wait for it -- Massachusetts is done -- -- and the "back broke" of New York -- and Penn, comes before New York - all that we have done is type by this time - & tomorrow A.M mail will doubtless bring us the first proof of Ohio & Mrs. Nichols Chapters- Ms Gage is still & will be 8 or 10 days more - all of us are scratching away or digging into old books papers & letters for facts. -- Don't be discouraged about my lecture work - if we both live - you shall have enough of it -- Only I must go through with this history crucifixion first- I am dreadfully cut down 3 Mrs. Stanton felt it best to offer Fredia the choice between Phoebe & Susan - for which I am sorry - but nevertheless the probability is that they will choose Phoebe and thus leave me to meet you in N.J. and accompany you over to J - and if they should be so foolish as to take S.B.A. then I can see you in Phila[delphia] on your return from N[ew] J[ersey] --But give your exact movements & [????] - so that we may meet some where for dinner. - Wont you tell Phobe this and that Mrs S will write her the minute she gets reply - S.B A NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1880 "Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed:" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com. Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington, D.C. SARA ANDREWS SPENCER Corresponding Sec'y Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D.C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Tenafly N.J. Dec. 15th 1880. Dear Rachel- Yours received this A.M. gives me the first knowledge that the box with framed picture & sundry copies, which came only two days ago- Was from you- I supposed it from E.M.D.- and that the picture you most liked was yet to come- As I said last night 24 Mr. Davis doesn't give his opinion as to which he likes the best. Perhaps he is satisfied with none of them. Which his exactly my state of opinion. I am glad your decision not to hold the Phila. Con. now. Will you-will we carry out Phebes plan of a memorial. VERTICAL PAGE: one of these. (which are now in the box and going to express office this P.M.) it seems to me, looks as life-like as the one he had in our Centennial Parlors and which the Mssses Thomsons now have in their parlor. I do wish we all of us, with the family, could decide upon one picture-So that the same face might be handed down by all of us - but somehow I think so! - dont you? Now who shall make the main eulogy? - - We must settle that point - then the rest may be trusted to the inspiration of the hour - - Shouldn’t it be Mrs Stanton? - If you and Phebe think so - you had better so write Mrs S. - I direct the box of pictures to the artist on Arch Street - & it goes this Wednesday P.M. - About the chapter - don't wait to get every syllable right - Send on your facts and let Mrs Stanton finish up - I fear you are having too much worry over it - Nobody knows a thing for certain - only a glimmering recollection of something And I am just sick to death of the whole of it. I had rather wash or whitewash on any possible hard work than sit her & go there digging into the dusty records of the past. That is rather make history than write it. With love to each & all S B Anthony Tenafly N.J. Dec 19/80 Dear Rachel Mrs Stanton doesn't believe that I have written you to urge Dr. Hannah Longshore to write out, or tell to you, the full account of the founding of the Women's Medical College, the persecutions of the women students &c. But I tell her you have hunted enough anyway. So don't take any more steps for it. I enclose a letter from May Wright Thompson, just for you to see that she is thinking about Wash. Con. What shall we do about the Memorial session? I say go on as well as we can without Phebe. Sadly as we shall feel the need of her, don't you? Have Mrs Stanton make the Eulogy - the Main one - and after her let others come in with short remarks. I wish we could have the Hutchinsons to sing at that session, too. Well tell me what you think - About the Riggs - I dont like to write Mrs Spoffard about you - but you just write her & ask what they will offer you & Julia rooming together, that you want to stay where Aunt's & Stanton are - Miss Sheldon writes that the Riggs regular price for two in a room is $2. a day but I am sure you could get them for less. L.J.S. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1880 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed:" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large, 7 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chairman Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 3 Grant Place, Washington D.C. SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Corresponding Sec'y, Cor 7th and L Streets, Washington, D.C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. [*AC.6294*] 1880 Dear Rachel S, Wellsville had written me the same — - get them to postpone til winter — unless you can make me some engagements between New York & that point — Now about Frendship — did they accept date & Terms? — if not — and there are none beside Wellsville for November — as I said before--get them to postpone until just after or just before the Wash Con--I enclose Mr. Slaytons last--they want me again at Johnstown Pa--Perhaps you had better give Slayton a date after the Jan Con- say Feb 1st so as to leave me free to stop at Wash awhile to look after our petition Work [?]-- I didn't get to Fernhoff last week-but expect to next week-- The weather is perfectly lovely- with best love to each of the dear Trio. I am as ever yours Susan B. Anthony Dear Rachel Here is Phoebe coming!! hurrah - now with Mrs. May Mr. Sewall - & Miss Rachel Foster - We shall have three youngest tributes to L. M. and with your mother & Julia on the platform - We shall have the 1909 trio all to cheer & bless - I wish your dear mother what a stay & strength and comfort she would be to us - sitting on the platform with us - she'd always be there - just as noble Martha G Wright & Lydia Mott of Albany always near - though they couldnt speak their faces were a power over the audience Now I wish dear Sarah Pugh could be with us on the morning of her memorial! and Adeline Newson -and others of the few of the pioneers who would so love to sit with us that hour - I have written Phoebe at Wellsville and told Mrs Stanton, and I thought - and this Mrs Stofford had replied that she thought the opening Tuesday morning session the most appropriate hours to devote to the retrospect - I suppose the boy that takes this down will bring back your trio's thought on it - - And then beside its seeming in best order of things it will obviate your distaste as to the 10 cts admission Well - good morning - for it is before breakfast - I do hope you won't get down sick - with so much work - affectionately - Susan B. Anthony Sunday P.M. Feb. 12/81 My Dear Rachel What a fate does follow poor Phebe. Who would have dreamed of the P. Committee refusing to pay her the lecture fee - but so he did. - And her postals never got to me till last night - & then this little berg pretended it could send her a telegram to Pittsburg - last night - so I am trembling for fear she will back down on the Indiana lectures But shall try my best to get telegram to her early tomorrow morning - I am distressed dreadfully - first & last performance of this sort. No package of your U. W. S. paper & envelopes is here yet. I have just rolled up the last of Penn. Chap. to go to printers. But should you find anything about that Women's Mass Temp. Con. of Feb. 21, 1881 - I can stick it into the first proof - which wont get here in three of four days - It does seem as if our job is unending. Mrs. Gage hasn't been able to get any of the Con. letters into the Feb. A. C. -says she hasn't received Financial report. Good night as ever Susan B Anthony. Can you believe that Phebe will turn back & not go on to Indiana? Personal Private Tenafly N. J. Feb. 25/81 My Dear Girls Rachel & Julia I am not going to accept your most generous proposition to [suit] a $1000 in History - but I want to loan of you from time to time a $1000 - and give you as security a 2 percent $1000 Government Bond -- - Which I should send to you now - only that it is at home - & I cannot get without my sister's knowing it and I do not wish to give her the anxiety of she would have - if she knew I were going to encroach upon my own money. - I shall give you notes from time to time - if you decide to make me the loan. - so that in case of my death, before I get the Bond made over to you - you will have legal claim on my little estate left. If you can thus help me to get this first volume out, without my letting any of my friends know that I am advancing money on it - you will do me a great favor - - by saving me from troubling my one & only sister - who has care enough for me - without this added - Sincerely Yours Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pres. Tenafly, N.J. Susan B. Anthony, Vice Pres. at Large No 7 Madison St., Rochester, N.Y. Matilda Joslyn Gage. Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N.Y. Ellen H. Sheldon, Rec. Sec., No. 908 French St., Washington, D. C. Rachel G. Foster, Cor. Sec., No. 1909 N. 12th St., Phila, Pa. Jane H. Spofford, Treas., Riggs House, Washington, D. C. National Woman's Suffrage Association -1880-1881-- AC. 6294 Tenafly N.J. March 1st 1881 My Dear Rachel, Mrs. Barbara J. Thompson-- Hebron - Thayer Co - Nebraska -- wishes some envelopes of yours -- Send her a dollar's worth - or 50 cts worth - and she will remit the money to you -- I have written Mrs Thompson that they must have a good report down in time for our May Convention - March 2nd - Oh - What I want to say to you is, that Mr. Channing of Providence was here -- and he said for us to go into the [Meonian?] our first day in Boston would be an almost death blow to our Convention -- which moved me to write to the agent of Tremont Temple -- to see if it wasn't possible for him to get the parties to change dates with us -- he replies that the Congregationalists have had Wednesday for years & wouldn't be likely to do it - but that we can do it the 27 - Friday - so I have written them to release me re the [Meonian?] the 25th and book me for the Temple -- the 26th and 27th -- I shall have a reply in 32 a day or two -- now - no matter if you have written your letters [?] - so have I - but the March N. C, will have the call and dates right - and we will have a copy sent to everyone to whom you have written - to make sure -- -- Mr Channing said our holding our Con. the 27th the same day of this Free Religious people - would def draw from them - they wouldn't from us -- I enclose [?] I meant to have put in Phobes letter last night -- I feel dreadfully sorry for Phobe-- but still can't see how she could have dreamed of any money in the Delaware meetings S.B.A. NATIONAL WOMAN' SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. ---1880---1881--- AC. 6294 ["N. B. Just the minute we get the proof of the coll-- will send a corrected copy to you to get stru??? of on a sheet for you to write your letters over and for all of us to ?????? to send addresses ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,Pres. Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice Pres. at Large, No 7 Madison St., Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chair Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Rec. Sec., No. 908 French St., Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Cor. Sec., No. 1909 N. 12th St., Phila, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treas., Riggs House, Washington, D. C. Tenafly N. Jersey March 5 -1881 [seal: The Library of Congress] My Dear Rachel A bright thought has struck us - & like lightning went right through - so we have sent on to the N.C. the call for anniversary meeting of N.W.S.A. at Boston May 26 & 27 - to be followed with a Series of Conventions through the chief New England cities - Portland, Dover, Concord, Montpelier, Burlington, Hartford, New Haven - Providence etc - and taken it for granted that you will stand sponser] - for the negotiations - I mean the correspondence engaging Hall etc - just as you did last spring - Will you go in with us? - You see it will be splendid for us just to sweep through New England - sacred soil - That way - While we have all of our best speakers here at the east - We must make more use of them than just for Boston - Don't you say so? --- 33 - Now, if Phebe is still with you - tell her this is to her - too - and if she is not there, won't you send it - or the main point of it to her - and that is that we want her to go the whole round of New England with us - we cant promise anything more than expenses of the tour - so I have written Olympia Brown - that is we can't promise expense to & from Boston - from [Wisconsin?] or St Louis - Dont you think that is all we could undertake to do? -- Then we will stick to our 10 cts admission to each session - or a membership ticket & admitting them to all - Now does this look like one insurmountable load to you? - You see June will be a delightful month among the hills of New England - I hope Phebe will feel that she can go the rounds with us - Mrs Stanton is pledged to go it & so is Mrs Gage And Mrs Saxon has written Mrs Gage that she is bound to be at Boston - so we are pretty sure of her - But what we want is Phebe's note as one of the Ex. Com. to this [plan?] Mrs Gage doesn't want any of the work to do -- so the Cor. Secy & the rest of us will have to do it all -- S.B.A ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres. Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice Pres. at Large, No. 7 Madison St., Rochester, N. Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chair. Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N. Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Rec. Sec., No. 908 French St., Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Cor. Sec., No. 1909 N. 12th St., Phila, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treas., Riggs House, Washington, D. C. NATIONAL WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION --1880--1881--- [AC. 6294] Tenafly N. J. April 28th 1881 My Dear girl -- I will not interfere with your programme -- nor will I say a word about it to any one -- but do impress upon Mrs Robinson that the fewest possible words will be the fittest -- I do not know how capable she is for such a post -- but guess it is all right -- I have not invited Mayor Prince -- nor any one else -- I do not hear about Miss Eastman -- & I guess silence means "no" -- instead of "yes" -- this time -- The pictures are in the envelope this time -- I am going into City again tomorrow A.M. to see about matters & push them to the end -- I am glad you can collect money for Boston in Phila -- Mr Davis still insists he isn't going to B. because Maria don't feel like going -- 34 N. B. -- Take Particular notice -- If your money is drawing 6 or 8 per cent interest -- I forbid your taking it up -- absolutely -- I have enough in Savings Bank in Rochester drawing only 4 or 5 per cent -- -- And I will just take what I need -- My brother who invests for me sent me $200 -- the other day -- -- So I can draw at Rochester as I have asked sister to send me my book -- bank book -- for another purpose -- which will enable me to draw as I please -- so I beg you don't disturb a dollar of your $500 -- ------ But alas! it won't be lack of money but lack of knowledge that will prevent my wardrobe from being decent -- -- this bonnet business staggers me -- I looked Monday -- & just threw the thing down & ran out of the store -- shall try again tomorrow -- S. B. A. Tenafly N.J. May 18/81 [AC. 6294] Dear Rachel I answered Mrs Brown -- Parker House -- because I do not know which house is decided upon -- The N.C. and D.D. has not come -- and I am all in the dark -- If you & Julia try the (Parker) Winthrop & find it right -- let me know for when I reach Boston Saturday evening -- I shall be no wiser than Mrs Brown -- 35 a line from Mrs Robinson says Mrs Gage wrote her "The Parker" -- and it is on the strength of that one word that I telegraphed Pittsburg -- The Parker -- -- It is too bad that the Hotel wasn't settled upon, every speaker, at least, informed where to betake herself on arrival -- so my dear little "Boss" -- do the best you can to notify of the spot -- Why have you forsaken me altogether? Haven't I clearly answered "every" question yet? Good Bye With Love -- S. B. A-- Tenafly N. J. May 18. 1881 [AC. 6294] Dear R. Your Postal of the 17th is here -- all right -- I changed my telegram to M.Clellan Brown and said -- to "The Winthrop House" -- You must leave some cards at the Parker -- with the Clerk to hand to any one who enquires for our head quarters -- I hope all, though, will get the notice of the change -- -- Mrs Gage writes it is The Parker in the N.C. -- But that the Winthrop is decided upon -- 36 it is a pity, but can't be helped -- I wrote Mrs Robinson this A. M.. and also you -- so tomorrow Thursday A. M. You'll find a letter at the Winthrop for you -- -- I shall be there Saturday night with you, if nothing happens -- Don't worry ones lack of money or anything else, nor work so hard as to be all broken down before the time of the Con -- From a word Mrs Gage said in her letter to me I fear she has been saying something sort-a-crass to you -- about time of speaking ac -- -- If she has never mind it -- your young heart & shoulders must learn to bear the crotchets of all sorts of people, and not get broken or bent under them -- I write the Washington folks that we've changed to The Winthrop I enclose a Draft for $50 -- for fear you may need more before any comes in -- Love to Julia -- I hope you'll Mrs Robinson & Mrs Shattuck just the women for you to work with pleasantly -- they have certainly seemed very earnest in helping us to get everything right at the Hub - - Find out if there is any great Speaker on Sunday whom we ought to go & hear! ! - What a luxury we shall have - seeing & hearing all the "proper" people at the centre of "Aesthetic culture"! ! ! Affectionately yours Susan B. Anthony P. S. Let my bedroom be near you - if it is convenient & pleasant to you & Julia — G. S. & L. N. Fowler, 1835 -- Fowlers & Wells, 1855 -- Samuel R. Wells, 1865 -- S. R. Wells & Co., 1875 -- Fowler & Wells, 1890. OFFICE } FOWLER & WELLS Phrenological Journal } Phrenologists and Publishers, AND SCIENCE OF HEALTH } No. 753 BROADWAY New York, May 20th 1881. [AC. 6294] Dear Julia Your note is here and I am very sorry about Rachel getting ill in the cold rainy weather of Boston -- I hope she hadn't left off every flannell -- Do have her keep in doors -- & by a good open fire in your room -- -- I know Mrs Robinson & Mrs Shattuck will attend to the papers for Sunday without her -- and I shall reach Boston by 6 or 8 O clock tomorrow evening -- I don't anybody to try to meet me -- I will just go direct to the Winthrop on arrival -- I am at the Fowler's all 37 day -- getting histories sent of to papers & persons -- We sent off advance sheets to the Boston & Chicago papers last Wednesday -- With Love & Hope till we meet -- yours &c Susan B Anthony P. S. I have sent a package of Histories to [Care?] ag't Fremont Temple to right -- If Mrs Robinson will go there & get him to open it -- & give her the copies for the press & she will deliver them & ask them to say a good word for us -- but I guess I shall get there before the package does though -- G. S. & L. N. Fowler, 1835 -- Fowlers & Wells, 1845 -- Fowler & Wells, 1855 -- Samuel R. Wells, 1865 -- S. R. Wells & Co., 1875 -- Fowler & Wells, 1880. OFFICE } FOWLER & WELLS Phrenological Journal } Phrenologists and Publishers AND SCIENCE OF HEALTH } No. 753 BROADWAY, New York, June 20th 1881. [AC. 6294] Dear Rachel & Julia I hope you are both resting & your dear Mama not wholly disgusted with allowing her girls to "hippodrome" with the strong-minded -- I have fixed up list of officers as best I could -- & sent to Mrs Gage -- have written Mrs Fenno Tudor & asked her to allow her name to stand as Honorary Vice Pres. for Massachusetts -- -- I would like to have Mrs Thomas' name on our Ex. Com. -- would it do to add it? -- I have ordered a proof of revised list of officers sent to you & Mrs Sewall & Self-- So we can each see if it is right -- -- Well good Bye -- Mrs Stanton is in full tide for work -- & "broke ground" on our 2d volume yesterday -- so I am not going home just yet as I intended -- but stop & get her started into the work fairly. -- She has invited Dr [Longier?] & Mrs Merriwether & Mrs Hannaford & her chiles to visit her Wednesday or Thursday of this week -- I wish Mrs Saxon could come too -- for I would love to have all the "host" of suffragists see her in her home -- all is lovely there now -- & all men smiling on my arrival -- the two masculine heads of the family, as well as the female head & the housekeeper. -- Love to Mother affectionately yours Susan B Anthony Tenefly, N. J. June 22d 1881 My dear girls - Enclosed is the dollar for Miss Bertha Calhoun's membership - I have acknowledged it's receipt - so you needn't unless you want to - The fact she gives of Meriden - is but illustrative of the general rule of punishment - Mrs Stanton thinks it should be published in the N.C.[?] - If you think so forward to Mrs Gage with such comments as you choose - only tell her not to give name of place or person - Dear Mrs Pell has been over here to lunch today - ditto - Rev. Phoebe A. Hannaford, Mrs Meriwether & dear Dr Lozier - the latter is just as sweet & nice as ever - I haven't had an alone chat with her - but she told Mrs Merriwether that she was very nervous that day - - She seems very sad at least - of late - Mrs Stanton noticed it to day - it is her love[?] dragging her to death - he is a dead weight - Miss Hannaford tome of her Miss Miles getting home - what a run it was - and I was all unconscious of it - though you all went aboard the street car together - I hope you are both getting rested - both of you had such pull-downs from change of weather, water, or something - I enclose dear Miss Thompson's note - you see how she longs to know all we are saying and doing - so when you are down town do drop in & see the good woman & true - I have written H.M. Darlington Rennett Square - that I will attend their July Sunday meeting - if they like - if they want me - I should love to have you go with me & speak your speech & give you[r] "Wine"[?] &c - If you are not gone into the country before that - I think it is the 1st Sunday of July - I have decided to pitch into 2d volume while Mrs Stanton is in the mood - so when you get this imagine me deep into old papers & letters &c - S.B. Anthony RIGGS HOUSE WASHINGTON, D. C. ---- C. W. SPOFFORD, Proprietor. AC. 6294 Oct. 26th 1881 My Dear Rachel I called on Senator Jones yesterday - & met a gracious reception - - But he told me what I knew before - that the President was over crowded with applicants for office - & must, now while the Senate was in Session, give all such the precedence - So I knew - and yet I felt moved to go to Washington and here I am - but I may yet see some thing to make me feel my longing & its gratification may [resolve?] of some of effect - Mrs Spofford is not yet home from Maine - but both her sisters - Miss Snowe & Mrs Nason are here - and give me best 40 of attention & aid in seeing & doing - - Miss Snowe went with me with carriage all yesterday - and today she goes with me to hear Frances Willard's Suffrage bomb-shell into the Christian W.[C].T. Union Camps - it is expected to make Mrs Wittenmeyer & her like tremble lest Carnal Weapons are to be siezed by their [hosts?] I don't see when I shall leave - but shall stop at Philadelphia a day or so - & will settle the affairs of this nation - Lovingly S.B.A National Women Suffrage Association. 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres. Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N.Y. Vice-Pres. at Large. [referred to both Anthony and Gage] MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St. Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q.M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D.C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Tenafly N.J. Nov. 7, 1881 My Dear Rachel I found Ms J. Ellen Foster on the train after leaving Julia - so had a very short trip to New York - and she feels quite sure she can be at both Wash & Phila; Con's - she has an engagement at Stanford Ct. in January - & many other invitations that she could more than fill her time - Mrs H.H. Robinsons [sic] writes that she & Mrs Shattuck have not been invited to attend the Wash. Con. & l have replied that they didn't inviting any more than any of the rest of us officers - it was their official duty to be there if possible & help shape the action of the Con. & the Ex. Com. - but that you would as Cor. Sec. write to learn of them if they would be on hand!! Wasn't that a good turn to put to them? We must make all the officers & members too, feel that our society & its work & Connections are all just as much their business, as they are to a few of us - If Belva Lockwood hasn't written you the Hall is engaged - & [named?] the days - Do you felt her & learn about it. - She promised to see to it at once - I will send you the few Penn. items for history that I have - We held a Con. there in Franklin Institute in 1866 - I think - If I find any records thereof - will send to you - -We have really begun work on Vol 2d today - & now hope & hope to stick to it - Oh - it seems to me- that for the Phila. Con. begining day of an evening - that it should be held two P.M's and two evening's after that - nothing short of so much will do anything at making up Philadelphia - I tell you we waste money & strength by our too short Conventions - Then I think Mrs Hindman & Mrs McClellan Brown must both be invited to the Phila. Con. & Miss Green too, most earnestly- I wait your report of Wednesday's consultation with a great deal of interest - Don't surrender the point that the Con. is to be under the auspices of the National. - Would you?- - I have written Laura De Force Gordon - hoping she would come over - & if no one can come - then that they should empower the wives of some of their U.S. Senators or members of Congress who shall be in Washington - to act as their representatives to our N.W.S.A. Convention - and that is what each of the societies in the too distant states ought to do - Oregon & Minnesota - say - - I have also written Olympia Brown - she mustn't fail us this year - & that you were already beginning to think of getting her Sunday work in Phila. to help her out financially -- McClellan Browns address is 810 - 8th Avenue - New York - but she is probably at Pittsburg now - Central Avenue - I forget the number Love to yours & your dear mothers & Julia one & all Susan B. Anthony [on seal: The State of Connecticut] Friday [P. M.] [?] on 11/80 A C. 6294 Dear Rachel The mistake in May Wright's 1st envelope contents is - that it does not contain the Constitution & list of officers - so that each person who gets a package of orders will see she is an officer of the N. W. S. A. - it is a pity - but may be she has sent a copy of them to other people- I have put into package pages of officers - (with Penn. history items) so you can put a sheet into every letter you send off - and of what we have left we will have a lot on hand at our Ma[?]h Con -- 42 enclosed are items for history - too - Mrs Hindman promised to write up her own work & of her own mother - who resisted tax-paying - unless the trustees would pledge equal wages to women teachers- you had better write her - It does seem too cruel for you to take the load of the Penn Chapter - still - who will if you don't - I hope you & Julia will make a joint job of it - and she gather the facts - search the records &c - & then let us print it - Pennsylvania - by Julia & Rachel Foster -really - your chapter ought to be Penn & New Jersey - Hell - we must get some one in N. J. to write up the little it has to tell - Love to your precious Mama & Sister - & ever so much for yourself Kiss your opportunity Susan B. Anthony Who do you decide to make the speakers for Wash. Con. and of whom will you deliver letters? - With our many business letters as May wright plan - we must get time to read the letters & hear the rebuts - we almost never do either S.B.A. Tenefly N.J. Nov. 10[?]/81 Dear Rachel Isn't the enclosed Postal from dear Phoebe rather cool & curt? - I have written to Mrs Minor - 2652 Olive st =St. Louis, Mo- to find me a copy of Phebe's very best Photo - & send to me forthwith - It is too bad that she doesn't count me a good enough friend to tell her her one little fault of telling of herself in her speeches - I am sorry, sorry -- Then I want you to send me your best photo. of yourself - I don't see why I didn't ask for it when I was there - We ought to have you and Julia side by side - one never seems complete alone -- -- it is queer that Mrs Lockwood doesn't write about Lincoln Hall -- Mrs Hoakee writes us a most enthusiastic letter - she is going to Wash. Con. and going to stay a month after it - Says Miss Annie B Sanay - of Des Moines Iowa - is going with her - and going to use her money to help too - Miss Sanay is a very bright woman - & will do a good work either with or without Mrs Hooker - She is rich - But then you as Cor. Sec. invite Mrs Hooker just the same - and also invite Mrs Sanay - & tell her that SBA told you to do so - She is a good speaker - she has been ill for some years - but this shows her all O.K. again. Then I have written Olympia to bring to Wash. Con. her sister, who O. says is a most eloquent speaker. Let us get all the new & good speakers there we possibly can. Have you got Association Hall engaged? I would make sure of it if possible. Have you specialy invited Phebe to be at Wash. Con. - Don’t fail to do so at once - direct to St. Louis if you don’t her whereabouts. And do find out what my sin unpardonable is - if you can - if it is the $30 and $20 that the Section Com’s wouldn't pay last winter - I will gladly take my last dollar to pay her & make good nature between us. So little money don’t pay for so great a break within good nature. Susan B. Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association. 1881 1882 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, SUSAN B. ANTHONY Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. Rochester, NY., Vice-Pres. at Large. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Vice-Pres. at Large. 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Fayetteville, N. Y., JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair, Ex. Com., Riggs House, Washington, D. C. 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Inc. Tenafly N. J. Dec. 12, 1881 My Dear Rachel Mrs Stanton went into New York with me on Saturday - visiting her three sisters there - Mrs Bayard, Mrs Eaton & Mrs Wilkeson - all living together at Mrs Bayards - and will not be home until night - but she is equiping herself with a new hat, coat - and silk gowns - with the seeming to me of going to the Washington Con. & to Phila, too, I think she means to go - She is full of vim for work - & really a great deal better than last winter - because she really feels the necessity of taking exercise - & walks down to the Depot & back, now, every day - which keeps off something of the lethargy that hangs over her - or did last winter so much - So I think you can as safely calculate on her as on me - and I mean to be there - the Lord willing - Her opening address will be a survey of the field - & our long petitioning & every time getting little or nothing in answer -- Call it The Opening Address - and let us have it the opening - & make everybody feel they will miss Mrs Stanton's big speech, if not on hand at the first A.M. session - or P.M. session - She'll want 40 minutes - My subject will be - "National Protection for Woman Right to Vote." That is my hobby - all think about & all I know - Now don't fill up every hour & half hour with a set speech - of somebody - but leave space for discussion - it becomes so stiff & stupid - if there is no lee-way for any impromptu words [*Debt - Mr. Tracy Publisher The Evening Express Rochester - N.Y.*] [*On second thought I have sent the [?] draft to Mrs Spofford*] [The [?????????] is a V from Eliza J. Wilson - Menominee - Wisconsin for a nest egg to begin Wash. Con. - [?????] - S.B.A.*] [*AC. 6294*] One carefully prepared address for a session - is really enough - & then debate & discuss resolutions & the points set forth in your address. - Boston was fearfully filled with speeches - & almost every one felt cut off too. - - You mustn't make me decide whether you ask Mrs. Gage to the Phila. Con. She writes us that she very much wants to go to Wash. Con but that even with your offer of 1/2 expenses it is very, very doubtful if she can afford to pay the other half - of course, she may expect some one to guarantee that other half - but I shall not - and shall not say another word about whether she goes or stays -- You see by the enclosed - Mrs. Hakes plannings - I have written her she must learn of the Cor. Sec - about speakers - that I know nothing - you see it is very hard for them to learn that Miss [Ada?] does know & control all things- Oh I am so glad to be [out?] of it - but don't let its coming to you - worry nor kill you - It is a long time since we have had a Con. in New York- and I think Mrs. S. & I would go over there provided it is a National Con - If it is wholly a N.Y. state Con - Why I don't believe I can get Mrs. S. over. Mrs. Mills and Mr. Phillips - of the five tracts - are the best - I wouldn't print Beechers - any way- Then the plates of which you haven't a copy- one is John Stuart Mills & the other is George William Curtis - I should surely print nothing of them - Then - it is well to save money for the Washington Hearings of which Miss Sheldon has the plates - I fear my Rochester men haven't sent you the plates of Judge Alden's arguments - If National Woman Suffrage Association Tenafly N.J. Dec 22/81 My Dear Julia & Rachel Your two pen tracks came last night - so neat & clean & orderly - Well I guess our little Chair Ex. Com. Record. & Cor. Sec's - are bound to bring order of our N.W.S.A. go & come now & then as you please - the programme looks very nicey[?] - But where is the room for any discussion - well if we must have Kent[?] we must hold over another day - Mr Hoars[?] Dill hangs fire - but is giving a splendid agitation for us - I write Miss Snow - Miss Spofford ????? ??? she must get rooms for you two & Mrs Lowell[?] right near the Riggs - because you all must be near to Mrs S. & me - Don't you go & get a place a thousand miles off - Mrs Jones of Chicago is boarding at Willards [TOP LEFT*I send you enclosed Mrs Jone's letter - Keep ???? - of what she says about dame[?] Brooks but I ???? trust for evening[?] time --*] [TOP*I have written May to send you Phebe's letter - I have no doubt she can do excellent work with Mrs ???????? - & so could May & you & Julia - ???? so many matters !!*] and I will write her what we can get a weeks board for them - that & Mr. Ebbitt are close by Riggs - I sent dear May W.S. Phebe's first letter to me - She without note or comment for not answering my scores of letters the past times began dropping Postals from Washington of the grand things she was doing there - & at last the letter giving full report - & saying if she had the nerve- she would stay at the Riggs till the Con. & thought could do splendid work - which of course she can - So without a word to Mrs Stanton - I wrote her I would contribute $10. a week toward it up to the Con. - But the thing for her to do was to go to work as she did in St Louis & solicit money of everybody in Wash. for our Con. and if she did that, as none knew how to do it better than she - I would guarantee her that the Ex.Com. would vote her her board while she thus worked for her salary. But - added - I have no official right to say a word - all this is personal - Mrs Stanton & I are both delighted to have rolled off all responsibility upon our young Chair Ex. Com. & Con Sec, & bade her report every thing of work & progress to them. She was going near Harrisburgh to lecture - & may be she will have called on you I note here, again, your feelings about Madam Gage - I feel to sympathize with you very much - Still you’ll be the braver & stronger if you nerve up to the endurance of letting the "logic of events" decide the question of her being at Phila - It will really seem insidious for you not to ask her if she will speak at the Phila - as well as at the Wash. Con - - and yet - there is no reason why it should - - So as I said decide & act on your own judgement in the matter - I have not mentioned Phila - nor Wash. Con. to her - She wrote us of your 1/2 pay offer & said what I have written - that even with it was very doubtful if she could go - So then let it rest - For if she makes you nervous she'll do more harm than good - For Phila. depends on your being right side up with [?] [Martha A] Mrs Saxon's address - is 210 - Eighth Avenue - New York - I learn - She is staying there most of the time I think - and I guess there is no doubt but that she means to be at [?] Phebe Couzins was in Washington last week has been there I judge ever since Thanksgiving - Mrs Spofford's sister - Miss Snow, writes that she is doing good work among the Senators & M. Cs - write her to care of Mrs Spofford & she'll get it - She ought to stay there right along now till the Con - Oh that we had a mint of gold for this winters work - heigh! ho! for President Arthur!! Hasn't he put himself into a hornets nest now - "He will appoint no more women to offices, it makes trouble in the party"!! - But we are going to get our Committee - my cousin Lapham the Chairman with Anthony, Terry[?], James - the other Repub's - now we'll see who the Dem's will put there now - haven't I answered all? - Lovingly yours - Susan B. Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association. 1881 - 1882 "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. Susan B. Anthony, Vice-Pres. at Large, Rochester, N. Y. Matilda Joslyn Gage, Vice-Pres, at Large, Fayettville, N. Y. May Wright Sewall, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. Ellen H. Sheldon, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. Rachel G. Foster, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Jane H. Spofford, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. Tenafly N. J. Dec. 29, 1881 My Dear Julia & Rachel Mrs Stanton & I take our Constitutional walk down the hill to the Depot ever P.M. for the mail - and to night - after I had started out into the wind & rain for we didn't mind them - I went back & said, is there no Express package here to night - & the man said - Oh! Yes - and so I "toted" it up the hill & up to my sky parlor - and here I peered into it - and lo! what a lovely & acceptable sight - and such a delicate Susan B. Anthony down in the corner - and so fine & sheer - that I half said - well I guess the girls were [hound?] Susan B. should [?uy] her 10ct [le. kaffs??] at Washington away after - No these 25ct = ones - but these are lovely - and just what I very much needed so a thousand thanks to you for the thought of me - But alas - what can I return - but therefor thank you -- But my love and faith go out to you every hour - - and your precious mother - I enclose Mrs Blakes letter to night - so she is going to guest[?] in a Con. in New York too - I suppose she has fixed the days to suit yours at Phila - hasn't she? - If not tell me at once -- With ever so much love & ever so many thanks Susan B. Anthony Saturday A.M. -- I am so glad that you sent the additional contributions on to Mrs Spofford - [??] - I don't believe a word of her dissatisfaction - [therefore] nevertheless this from Phebe sh[?] [?] feelings & not Mrs Spoffords - I have just sent on [?] [?] for membership - Hadn't you better [?] [?] mem. tickets - about the size of an enve[lope?] (AC 6294-1) Sept 23rd - '82 Dear Susan I have the great pleasure of telling you that the suit against the the will of Mr Eddy is withdrawn. The contest might have delayed your reception of the 48 soon - yours with congratulations. Wendell Phillips money for years - & meanwhile had you died, possibly they wd. have taken the whole, or your heirs, or Bacon, (the son in law,) - I have not the will by me now & can't say which we have succeeded to you - this result is mainly due to the Executor Mr Ransom who has left no stone unturned & exercised wonderful ingenuity in securing this result - (tho we did employ Butler as big dog he no doubt frightened them.) There will be about $20,000 coming to you to use as you deem best for the WR. cause - Now the Executor is willing to anticipate matters if you wish it -- He is not obliged to pay for more than a year still -- But he will pay at once over to you, if you'll give him a bond to refund if any thing occurs previous to that time This I advise you to do, as it will close up all doubt & save all questions in case of your death, &c &c -- you & your heirs take & keep the money Mr Ransom will probably come out to see you at Rochester & settle with you personally if you are to be at home now or [*AC 62944*] 13 Nov 82 Dear Ransom - Thanks for the check & the promptness I hope I did not hurry you, I didn't mean to - I devoutly hope Bacon will be [*49*] frightened off & give you no further trouble Yr cordially Windell Mill Jr C. R. Renson I needed money just now but if you should not sell the Bond you intended for me, I shd like sometime to have the very Bond which belonged to Eliza Eddy - Perfect equality of rights for women - civil and political - is the demand of yours sincerely Susan B. Anthony Washington D.C. Feb. 5, 1885 - Rochester - N. Y. Other side Please Rochester N. Y. April 27/86 Dear Mrs Gage When Two of the historical doctors disagree -- who but the Third should [be] decide!! Please scan the law & the logic of Mrs Stanton's assertion that the legislature is above counts & constitutions - and fewer have undoubted authority - to enact laws in direct opposition to specific limitations or extensions of rights in that instrument - I talked over & over my view of the matter, where at Tenafly - and last week - I wrote over eight pages - stating and re-stating .. the absurdity of her position as asserted in this preface - She has itereated the same thing in a half dozen of her last chapters -against my constant protest - -and now I do not want the, to me, absurd statement to stand forever in the preface - to me it is ridiculous - to say that we, the people, make a constitution - either for nation, state or association - and then retain the power & right to legislate in direct opposition to it!! Can you [?] not - if you see that the assertion is wrong -- make it express the fact --and so state it that she can see it? -- I do not want my name. To stand to it as now stated. [If] But if you & she see the matter alike -- of course I shall surrender -- S. B. A. [*AC 6294*] 1889 NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, PRESIDENT. JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER. OMAHA, NEBRASKA RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUSAN B ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE HANNAH B. SPERRY, REC SEC'S ROCHESTER, N.Y. SARA WINTHROP, REC SEC MAY WRIGHT SEAWALL, CHAIRMAN EX COM. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, COR. SEC., 343 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST,. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL ORGANIZERS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY. ELIZABETH LYLE SAXON. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL. Rochester N.Y. May. 20, 1889 Darling Rachal Yours of yesterday -and all of it's said contents duly noted- 1st- I could & would loan you the $500- necessary to pay off the Daily debt- but I do not want you to do it- You will have given enough when the year rolls around- without adding this $500- so don't-- think of it for a minute-- [*52*] I do not see with you about the Life membership the cash for Mr & Mrs Spofford, Mrs Nason, Mrs McPherson, May S & Susan B Anthony, Louise H Mosher & Lucy C Anthony et al- was paid last January before the union was consumated and all who are now sending their $50- will have their Certificates dated in Februry or March so that we shall not be accused of putting Union Cash into the National Treasury- Do your see?- and I shall be perfectly willing for any & all of the [American] another doing to make themselves Life Members of the American- They prefer to carry its insignia the rest of their days- or carry their American Life memb into the Union- as some of us Nationals certainly do prefer- 3 I am rejoiced that you got the order to sell the Dispatch quarterly - and I feel sure you'll get everything settled the best possible now- I wish I could help you to take comfort- instead of pulling you down to drudging in the cause every minute!! I wouldn't for anything have you drudge on the report anywhere during Millers vacation - no! no! there is none too much of life for you or any of us- so plan to be & go & do- whatever seemeth best unto the twain made so beautifully one! [*53*] I will just let the report rest until later on -- I would like to have Lucy here -- The next two weeks -- but she couldn't do enough to pay the $25 it would cost to [come &] go to Louise wedding & return again -- and I want her to be present at the wedding -- until then she had better do up her own sewing for the summer -- helps Miss Thomson & Louise & you & Julia generally -- and then after the wedding come home with me -- and buckle into work with me -- I think we two together can work up the copy block out the report -- get all in line ready to be cut down to some possible quantity to print for I see that it will be a big job to condense the five years into 100 pages -- & we must try to do that -- somehow -- but to do it -- we mustn't print a line of it -- until every word is arranged ship shape for the printer -- and duly corrected & measured -- so that we won't have to repeat the old waste on Council report & U.S. History -- of paying for [more] as much type setting -- not used -- as for what 4 goes into the pamphlet - and there is no escape from such waste but to have all the copy done & continue before a line is set up!! I have two or three years stenographer reports here - but I want Lucy E. to bring everything she has -- If were not engaged to speak at North Collins Erie Co. the 15 & 16 of June - I could & would go to you now - but you see - we shouldn't get fairly spread out & started - before - I would love to break for four days - so it wouldn't pay for me to go to you now - any more than for Lucy E to come to me - So let us rest this work till the way seems clear to both of us Our best-man - Mr Mann is going to preach for us Sunday and I wish you & Lucy E were here to see & hear him - everybody is as delighted as all you Phila's would be to have Mr Ames preach for you again, [*54*] I never heard Mr Cutter but once - and from that - I shouldn't rush to church every Sunday - as I always have done to hear Mr Mann when at home!! The people all like Mr Garnnett very much - but always next to Mr Mann _-he is to begin his year a week from sunday -The one & great defect with Mr Garnnett is that he drops his voice at close of each sentence so low that nobody can catch his words - unless he can & will rouse himself & break himself of that foolish & fatal habit - - the audience will surely drop off - for one cant endure straining every nerve to hear for an hour every Sunday and then fail to hear - with pleasure - I do hope he can be lifted out of this habit - will lift himself out of it - I hope both Phila. & Rochester will get good church preaching Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony Pierre - South Dakota Nov 98[?]/89 My Dear Rachel Mrs Spofford sends me the enclosed. I have written Mr Mallon, asking him to write to you, giving him your address, what will be his terms, and what are the forms necessary for the society[?] to make its claim good &c. I made it very non-committal because you told me you had the matter in advisement. If you have not engaged a lawyer to rush [?] our claim, I should think well of entrusting it with Judge Mallon. [*55*] But surely we should not lose it by default of proper legal counsel! That $600, would give us a mighty lift in this Dakota work the coming year - It looks here as if we might possibly carry the vote in South Dakota next November if we begin our work early & in earnest & can keep out & in the background. The 2d Party Prohibition fanatics who want to vote as they pray & everytime vote to bring into power the Whiskey Party!! - The Republicans are solid here - made Prohib. assent a plank in platform - and if we can hold our lecturers' heads level - will do the same for woman suffrage assent - & if they do it - the question will be carried - but it will take wise work - & no mistakes - 2 It does seem so queer that when the Temp. people get their laws from the Repub's they turn round & try to kill the goose that laid the golden egg - - - The Repub. Prohib. Comm. here - didn't allow 2d Partyism to be advocated in their campaign - every lecturer - man & woman - was instructed not to obtrude it upon their audiences - & not one of them Mary [Sutteral?] or Col. Barrie said "vote as you pray nonsense!! Mr Johnson came & made our speech - and though he did say 2d Party - his very name & presence carried it - brought it into the meeting - and the Com. asked him not to speak again - - & all say if the 2d party people hadn't been kept silent - the Prohib. assent would have been lost [*56*] and now all agree that the success of the [?]. [?]. am't [?] depend upon whether the state Suffrage Com. can be equally successful in keeping all 2d Partism out of the slate - Why Helen [?]'s last winter's Washington [speech?] would tear things to fritters here _ But I long to get to you - I think of [?] daily - & rejoice with you every single night as I lay my head on my pillow & take a review of all I love & hope for - & among them none has a dearer place than has the first adopted niece Your devoted Aunt Susan B. Anthony my stops now are _ Nov. 25 - ST Lawrence _ [?]. A. " 26 - Aberdeen " 29 - Detroit - Mrs [Jenkins?] 30 - Ann Arbor - Mrs Israel Hull Dec. 1 - " " 5 - Rochester - Sectine[?] 6 - Geneva - [?]. [?]. to see Mr [?] & [Heathe?] & return to Phila - & march Rochester, N.Y. Dec 7/89 Dear Niece Rachel, I take train direct for Washington at 7 this Sunday afternoon, feeling that I must not lose another day before looking after the several points with Congressmen. So will either go up to you very soon, or you come to me at Washington to talk. Still there is nothing about the Convention to talk about, only for me to set at work to solicit money &c &c. If you have the call printed in nice shape to put into letters please send me a few lines or hundreds to the Riggs, also official paper & envelopes. I haven't a sheet or envelope left. If you haven't them printed & ready, shall I get them printed in Wash. but of course you have them. Why was the American Foreign Ca. [?] name put to Call, and not the National's? It is no matter only it is putting on the name of one who is opposed to union! Send me all the information as to speakers &c, & everything - no directions are given in the Woman's Journals Call, as to whom money or letters shall be sent. Shall I tell people to send to me, now that I am to be in Washington. 2 I spent Friday night at Dansville Sanitorium, with Hattie & Mrs. Stanton If I can secure a hearing before Senate & House Committees - both will go on to Wash. before Hattie sails for England. I very much hope I can get Mother & daughter together before both Com's - It would so strikingly demonstrate the years & years we have been clamoring!! If I must go to Phila. I can better afford the time during the holidays than now, so tell me what you see I ought to do & not do Oh - I hope you have arranged about the M Connell bequest - tell me — A letter from Mrs Deborah Pennoch - tells me of the death of Aunt Dinah Mendenhall and encloses the dear Woman's note to me for a $1,000 - to be paid six months after her death - Lucy wrote me of request of Hattie Purvis. — I can go up to Phila. from Wash easier than I can stop there now - so let all post me - as to wants of me - Lovingly your Aunt Susan B. Anthony RIGGS HOUSE, C. W. SPOFFORD, Proprietor, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wash. D. C. Dec, 9, 1889 ev'g 8.30 Oclock Dear Rachel I have had nice interview with Senator Blair this evenig - And he says the earliest date for a hearing will be Jan. 13th - Congress will hardy get together after the holidays before that — New years comes on Wednesday -so that the very earliest date would be Jan. 6th the first morng after your offer —So - tomorrow I shall see Sundry other parties - as to the first hearing - And then get about sending out the Life - membership tickets - I just asked Mrs Spofford if you had ever sent her the Certificate book - & she said "No"! I understood Lucy E. to say you had sent it to Mrs S.!! Take a look & tell me - I am going to ask Mrs Sargent & Mrs Knox Goodrich of California [and] Mrs Hallowell & Mrs Willis of Rochester - Sister May is already a Life Mem - and some others whom I know will be willing to help pull down your and my contributions by so much as $50 - This I shall do before I begin to write & enclose call for the U. A. Wash, Con. - So you see - I want the Certificate book & envelopes here - to send out to all who have paid Whatever it is or was - that Hattie Purvis wants of me - I will go to Phila. for on short notice - I just felt last night - as the rain was pouring - that I could go via Phila. & tramp through the mud & slush - so took train at last moment direct here - But after I have seen the principal men - I can go up to you - unless you will come here & bring along all the things to work with with 09 RIGGS HOUSE, C. W. SPOFFORD, Proprietor, WASHINGTON, D. C. , 18 [Library of Congress stamp] Phoebe is here - and seeming like her old self - and I think the Program Com - should make a place for her to speak at one of the evening sessions! Will you see to it - that she is invited - She is promised a place in the departments for her brother John - & she has promise of Tom with N.Y. Tribune to write for it so her sky brightens - Mrs. Colby spent an hour with me this P.M. - Her type has just arrived - so she expects to send off her Nov. 20. w.3 by Wednesday - she seems full of hope - she surely is a wonder of energy & daring - Mr. Galls - The Consitutions are certificate book - the paper & envelopes - If you have National Paper & envelopes - send on - & I will use it up - We really cannot print National-American paper & envelopes - since we dont know its Pres, Sec, or treasurer - Alice wrote me to use our old national membership cards - & write American now & between lines - "National-American Woman office - so that makes it easy for us not to be at the expense to print new - 19 Do you understand that we shall pay the hotel bills of the speaker & delegates to the 22nd Wash. Con. ? If Lucy has envelopes addressed to each & all of the officers & members of the National - send them on to me & I will write in such as I wish to - & mail all from here - If you can't write me all I ought to know - to get started here - maybe I'll come 2 on to Phila - but have Hattie Purvis ready for me- too - But I thought I couldn't work with Congressmen during the Holidays - & could do so now - Lovingly your Aunt Susan B A_ 62 1889 National Woman Suffrage Association Of The United States. -------------------- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President, Omaha, Nebraska. Susan B. Anthony, Vice-President at Large, Rochester, N.Y. May Wright Sewall, Chairman Ex Com., 343 N. Pennsylviania St., Indianapolis, Ind. Jane Spofford, Treasurer Riggs House, Washington, D. C. Hannah B. Sperry, Sara Winthrop Smith, Rec Sec's. Rachel Foster Avery, Cor. Sec., 748 N. 19th St., Philadelphia National Organizers. Abigail Scott Duniway. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon. Mary Seymour Howell Washington, D. C. - Dec. 21st 1889 My Dear Rachel A letter from Mrs. Stanton this A. M. says Harriet has decided to remain until after the Convention - - So no one need calculate on filling Mrs. Stanton's place - this time - not even S. B. A who - report says - is very anxious to to supersede her old friend E. C. S. !! - she says she cannot be in 63 Phila. Jan. 2nd - that they will stay at Dansville two or three weeks longer - and then visit Hempstead New York - & bring round here of the last of January - but I want her here to go before the Congressional Committees before that date - if I can secure hearings - The appeals for money from South Dakota are very strong - and I feel like sending them my last dollar - but even that wouldn't be a drop in the bucket to what must go there Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony 1889 National WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, PRESIDENT, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, CHAIRMAN EX COM., 343 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. JANE H SPOFFORD, TREASURER, RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. HANNAH B. SPERRY, } REC SEC'S. SARA WINTHROP SMITH, } REC SEC'S. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, COR, SEC., 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL ORGANIZERS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY. ELIZABETH LYLE SAXON. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL. Washington Dec. 25 - 1889 Dear Rachel I have just paid Mr Darby[?] - the $150 Draft from dear Mr Bartol - which said balanced his account to the present - it was $1.05 - more than $150 - but that he threw back & said get a Christmas with that - so I will invest it in stamps to help along - - and now Mrs Stoppard has about $50. on hand - [*64*] Mrs Darby[?] thinks there are 2,000 more of the unbound reports - you remember we bound a 500 copies in cloth last August - this bill is ????? for that - $125 - - and now he prepares to try & cut down the price of binding to 20 cts - if we will have the balance bound - - the paper covers - a few - are still on hand - But we ought to have long ago - set about presenting a copy to every leading Library in the Country - and also to giver away to every suffrage society & Temperance Union society - to be read & passed around - I wish Hattie Purvis would give up my going to Phila. just now - and just wait until after the Wash, Con, when Mrs Stanton will be going - through - & I will go so far with her - but if she insists I shall go as she commands - - though both time & money are scarce with me just now - Now the Call package is just gone again - why doesn't Suz[?] send me at least 500 - I haven't yet begun to write letters - but when I do begin I want both a Call & Constitution to put into each one - not over a half-dozen[?] women have sent me their dollar as yet I have just presented a set of History & a copy of the International report to every County seat W.S. Club I formed in South Dakota - and also a set to the Michigan State University - whose librarian writes me a beautiful letter of thanks - saying that he has long wanted the History but found so many reference works the students that must be had - that he had neglected - If only had the money! - but you have put in a thousand nearly or quite this year & I a five hundred - so surely - we can't quite put in $500 more can we - but we - you & I can hold on to their sheets - & bind & use as we choose! 3 The question is raised - whether the $1. National Membership will give each a Convention ticket - since it doesn't any more give right to vote - I think it would be well to continue that custom - you see if we 4 evg & 2 day sessions - it will be 14 2/7 cts a session - and if we have a Tuesday A.M. session - it will make 8 - so the price would then be 12 1/2 cts each - - and any of the members - who wanted a reserved seat right through - might have it for 50 cts- So a $150 - would buy the season reserved seat - and then let single admission be 25 cts - & single ad. with reserved seat- 50 cts - - [with] or else shall we let the $1. pay right through for reserved and all - & 25 - single admission - & 50. single ad with reserved - Of course [?] always come from the single tickets Well - now that Harriot Stanton is to be here - your Program. Com. will surely put her on our evening in place of Mrs Horne - or Mrs Livermore - Mrs Colby Cannot possibly prepare an evening speech - she proposes to get out a daily - & that will entirely absorb her every second without making any but a weak speech - So I say fill those gaps with Phoebe & Harriot - and I think we should hold a strictly private - members & delegates and officers Session on Tuesday morning - with none admitted but those who hold Credintials & Membership tickets - we must do it to 4 learn who are here - and give the Credential Committee ample time to get their work started - - and give strangers a chance to meet - the local Com. of entertainment - the Local members are promising to entertain this year - but our speakers & delegates ought to be together here mainly - Send me your idea of the program - - I think we should begin to have talk in the Wash papers after the holidays are over. - with Christmas Love to Miller & Julie & Miriam & your own dear Self - I am affectionately & energetically - Aunt Susan B Anthony [**1891 July 8**] Rochester N. Y. July 8/91 [**AC. 6294-1**] My Dear Brother Merritt During my visit in Keene Valley Essex Co. N.Y. - Mrs. Banker - my hostess - took me over to the old Adirondack home of Capt. John Brown - and there we - Mr & Mrs Banker, Anna Shaw & myself - dined in the same old room. Capt & Mrs. Brown & all their children & friends used to take meals in - it is a good old farm house - with piazza on front & one side - - In front is a small yard fenced off - which contains the graves of old John Brown & his son Watson - the head stone is of granite - & is the same one put at the head of his grandfather - in 1777 - & on it are cut the names & dates of [of] Capt John - his father John Brown & his grandfather John Brown - three generations of John Browns - Covering more than one half the lot stands a great boulder [Nothing to transcribe] 2 with steps leading to the top of it - where is cut in large letters - John Brown - Dec. 2, 1859 -- It is a lovely plateau of pretty level land of 200 acres - surrounded on all sides by the Adirondack Mountains - - It shows that the old John Brown had good taste as to a beautiful location for his home -- Of all the Negroes who settled up there on the Gerrit Smith Lands - to entitle them to vote under the old property qualification laws of New York - only one survives - he is aged & white-haired - they say - but we didn't meet him - I am sorry to say -- In the little sketch - mention is made of Osawatomie -- I thought of you all the day & wished you were there to tell of the olden days - & to enjoy the bea[u]ties of the spot on that loveliest of June days -- I send you the book & the dried rose in memory of this day so rich to me 3 I have just received three semi annual dividends of my $500 - Old National Bank of Fort Wayne Ind - $75 - - That makes me 10 per cent on the $500 - but, it is worth 81.35 =$675.x8=54 annual interest - So - if I were to sell the stock at the 1.25 - and put the amount in an 8 per cent bond & mortgage - I should get only [$40?] per year more - So I think I will not sell it - as I had thought to do - Now - what amount have you of mine - all together? - - I would love dearly not to draw the interest - but with my house keeping expenses I shall be obliged to do so - hence - whenever interest money comes in - you may send it to me from time to time - I didn't draw all of my interest last year did I? - And I hope I shant have to this year - but expect I shall - though if the friends continue thinking of my house keeping undertaking with checks to match - as they have done so far I may not be compelled to do so - 4 Lucy ? and Miss Thomson are coming the 15th ? & Miss Thaw the 20th the latter will be here off & on - as she has days between her lectures all the month - following - and I hope Lucy will stay a month surely & as much longer as she can plan her work to be here - She is looking better & weighing more than ever before - - Now cant you & Mary come down & visit us - Visit Sister Susam in her first attempts at turning a house all by her very self alone!! I do hope you can all come - Brother Ian[?]. writes that they will help put the house along by visiting us - but Sister Annie says not until September - I do not expect Mrs Stanton until last of August & may be later - Well - I feel that I am going to take lost of comfort being in my own house and entertaining my friends at my very own table - Of course 5 Sister Mary laughs and doesn't believe I shall succeed - but at least she seems happy to let me prove that I cant do it - and that is a good deal - I haven't my splendid woman yet - but am expecting she[']ll appear every day now - Mean time - Sister Mary provides & cooks & serves the meals in the kitchen - they are very, very simple - bit splendid - and I enjoy them hugely - and if it weren't for entertaining our friends - I might continue - thus - but to see my friends & have them in my own home & at my own table is a pleasure I covet - & cannot forego - So I shall have a good housekeeper & hope to see all & be ready to make them comfortable AC. 3224 Pioneer of Finland women. 73 Mr. Charles F. Jones. AC 3224 The best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, from an old admirer of yours, Alexandra Gripenberg 73B Helsingfors Dec. 13th 1891. NION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE. CARTE POSTALE. FINLANDE. POSTKORT. FINLAND. POSTIKORTTI. SUOMI. OTKRITOE PISMO FINLIANDIIA Miss Susan B. Anthony Locust Av. Germantown, c/o Mrs. Avery Pa. U. S. of America Express for adressen - Osoitteen puoli -- Smorona dlia adresa - Cote reserve a l'adresse Perry July 29. 1893 Dear Miss Anthony I send you copy which explains itself "Perry NY July 19. /93 Mr Rosendale. Attorney General Albany NY. Honored Sir Does the present law make any difference between the sexes in regard to the qualifications entitling them to vote for School Commissioners? If so, please state the difference - if not please no and oblige yours in thirst for legal [law?] (Mrs) Abbie B Andrews Perry NY" July 21st. 1892 Abby B. Andrews Perry NY. Madam In reply to yours of the 19th inst. in which you ask if the present law makes any difference between the sexes in regard to the qualifications entitling them to vote for school Commissioners, I would say that in my opinion it does not. (See Chapter 9. Laws 1890, Chapter 214. Laws 1892 and Chapter 655. Laws 1886.) Very truly yours S.W. Rosendale Attorney General" There you have it, with the originals before me. Have you any other legal opinions? Charlotte A Cleveland Please return any time - M.S.A. Pretty good for Mrs Cleveland the first one to get so definite a reply, so far as I have heard M.S.A. Mr Rosendales Decision To Mrs Cleveland Perry N.Y. I inclose this that' you may send the exact words of your desire - Mr. S. A. NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS [1241 ARCH ST] [PHILADELPHIA, PA] 107 WORLD BLDG., NEW YORK. Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Station, 26 West 61st Street, New York President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, [1341 Arch] 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, [1341 Arch] 1920 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors: {Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. [Sarah B. Cooper, San Francisco, Cal.] Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago Chairman Committee on Organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, 106 World Building, New York AC. 6294-1 Rochester N.Y. March 6, 1898. My Dear Anna Yours mailed - 9 P.M. of the 4th - was brought home by Sister Mary - after Church. I remained home - to try and catch up with letters. Mrs Harper has kept me close to chapter work - going over every word, line & paragraph of each - - To day she is going over [?] misters - so I am left free. - I have just written a long letter to Anna Gordon begging her not to be hurried into writing Miss Willard's biography. That both she & Lady Henry should devote at least a year to it - & make it a book worthy the noble worker. She is evidently being pushed - goaded - to rush it through. Her sister writes me March 4th to send Anna all of Frances' letters to me - at once - at Hotel Windsor - Chicago. One of the Clerks wrote me - Feb. 28 - to send everything to Anna care Mrs L M. Stevens [Stroudmate?] [?] - and I have dispatching Council documents (&c?) - then -now this shows she is still in Chicago - Poor girl - I do hope they won't kill her!! I do hope you will come here the 19th But if you find you cannot - I will slip out to Batavia - so as to get a word there! But come here if possible - I have my 3rd girl tomorrow - Mrs Harper finds that she cannot have the entire time of Miss Hawley - whom she finds a much keener mouser & critic than either herself or S.B.A - So Hawley has to have the type-writing of the chapters & prepare them for the other two - - It is just as clear to Sister Mary & me - that Mrs Harper cannot - with all of this rushing, get the last & final & perfect copy of the whole fifty chapters done - before she must leave - April 10th - to go to Baltimore to her brother's wedding - as it was to us last September - that she couldn't get the first writing of all the chapters done before New Years - but there is no way but to do everything just as she wishes - & let her find it out - when she must - It is awful pity - though, at this stage - to rush & half digest & discover what is what should & should not be left out - - I am awfuly glad of your letter - & hope you'll never fail to scribble me every time your spirit moves you - Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony P.S. Rachel told me of the Rose Cottage horn of the dilemma - - I sent Mrs Upton the first months Instalment - last March - $66.67 - She Mrs Upton thought just that amount had better be sent so she could pay it to [?] each month - I have written my first beg for [?] this day - - There will be no difficulty in raising it - unless I am greatly mistaken - all I long for - or for most - is to be free from the grind on this "Dog" - so I can bestir myself for the living present - One of the publishers is coming here next week - - to talk over every little point - pictures - autographs - style &c &c - They certainly seem bound to have a splendid book - so far as they are concerned - I shall call on Mrs Hallowell & Mrs Willis before you Saturday - so I can report progress when you come - It looks as if all the engineering of the W.C.T. is now to be turned into into getting money for the Temple - they are bound to conjure all in their power with the name of Miss Willard - Yes - help Rachel to get out a Bazaar appeal at once - I have great hopes - yes expectations - in that A New Orleans Picayune came last night giving rapturous report of Mrs Catts speech. - it is a great shame for the like of her to be tied at home planning meeting for women who cannot move a mosqueto - with their eloquence!! But we must find her clerks who can do her office work - I do hope her Chicago girl will prove a success - I have accepted invitation to to speak - at the Thousand Island Park - Willard Meeting - Tues Aug. 7th - gave my terms $50 - & expenses - you & I may as well begin to teach the money making Committees - that we we have a price!! - Well - hoping to see you here - & that you will write or & order your bill of fare - beforehand - as ever Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony NATIONAL Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. 1848 AMERICAN President, Susan B. ANTHONY, Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, WOMAN 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON. 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Auditors, { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. { CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N. Y. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N.Y. AC, 12,699 May 30, 1898. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva N. Y. My Dear Friend: - - Yours of May 25th, enclosing the speech made by your father on Cuba, a quarter of a century ago, came duly. I read every word of that appeal, and was made to feel ashamed that I knew so little of the ten years war on the part of those liberty-loving Cubans. I hope that you have sent a copy with one of your beautiful letters to Charles Fitch, editor of the Post-Express of this city, and to ever so many other editors. A personal letter accompanying your father's speech will be apt to call attention to its importance and secure its publication. I fully agree with you that the only excuse for this war is that through it another people may be able to secure their liberty. It was a splendid thought of yours to revive that characteristic appeal of your father's, and I hope that it will be printed all over the country. I have read the comments of Miss Putnam on my failure to call out the descendants of Frederick Douglass at the Pioneers' Session in Washington. We had had his grandson playing the violin for us and he had received a most cordial encore, and if I failed to call out the descendants of Frederick on that evening it was because my eyes failed to discern any of them on the platform or in the audience. I had especially asked the children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews of all pioneers to come to the platform, but very few of them did so, hence I was obliged to depend on my short sight to catch those whom I knew scattered through the audience. As I began reading Miss Putnam, I supposed she was going to criticize me because I did not give my consent for Mrs. Douglass to have an hour at the evening session to present the horrors of the chain-gangs of the South. I refused her request because I felt that we were not assembled to right the wrongs of the negroes South, or the white boys and girls of the North, and most of all because no person on the program had over thirty minutes. I told her that it was impossible to give her even thirty minutes without taking the time from some one to whom it had already been allotted. 2 (Mrs. Miller) Miss Putnam, like so many of the women interested in all the different reforms, makes the blunder of supposing that our suffrage associations are to take up and protest against everything which we believe to be wrong in the country and the world, whereas our one business is to demand of our government, State and national, the right for women to have their opinions counted at the ballot-box on everyone of the different questions brought there. I was at the Spiritulistic jubilee meeting here yesterday evening, and at its close one woman upbraided me for not declaring that I was a Spiritualism and woman suffrage both had their birth here in Rochester the same year, and that they were twins and ought always to be associated together. So I had to tell her, as I [had] told Mrs. Douglass, that while I rejoiced in every good work and word for women by any and every society, yet I could not feel that the objects of the[ir] different societies were questions to be discussed on our platform. But it is very difficult for people to understand this position. I hear that Miss Putnam is visiting Miss Howland at Sherwood. I shall write and tell her that I am very sorry that on that evening when I was calling on the descendants of the pioneers I failed to especially ask for those who belonged to the Douglass family, if there were any in the hall. Nobody was in fault except myself and themselves, for if anyone of them, or anybody else in the hall or on the platform, had sent me up [a] the name or whispered one to me, I certainly should have called it. Tell Nannie I meant to have written a little word for her entertainment, but the time slipped away and I failed to do so. I hope it was a nice gathering. Very sincerely yours, (Dictated.) Susan B. Anthony Ac. 12,699 Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller May 30, 1898 Copy-verifax 2 pages Removed for repair Susan B. Anthony Vol. I only Bound vol. Aug. 10. 1898 Darling Rachel It seems almost too cruel to send you this great package of Material Affairs to take you out of the heavenly reveries of your Greenaire retreat! But here it is - and I hope will give me your opinion on the various points - especially do I wish you to tell me who are the women to compose the board of Trustees for the Standing Fund. - I wonder if Mrs Shaw has sent you any of my mundane talks to her - you both seem so far away - & so as if you had gone into a [r]eal Catholic Priest's & Nun's retreat from the World & all its allurements!! - Well take all the rest you can - for you are yet to come into the thick of the battle with us all- I never felt so keenly the need of thunder & [lig]htning to rouse the sleeping - to startle the dead - ... Every days separ... any show the ... at front - not as employees permitted to be there because they begged to be - but there by right - as Managers & dictators in all the departments in which women have been trained - those of feeding & caring for - in health - and nursing the sick - - To think of the mothers of this nation sitting back in silence - without even the power of a legal protest - while their sons are taken without a by your leave! - Well a[?] through - it is barbarous - time - and I hope you and all our young women will rouse to the work as never before - and get the women of this republic clothed[?] with the power of control of conditions in peace - & war it shall come again - which heaven forbid - in M[???] Well - read the enclosed & send all on to Miss Shaw at ???? - & remember I am ever & always lovingly & Trustingly[?] Susan B. Anthony [Incorrectly Filed Letter Removed And Filed Correctly] [Incorrectly Filed Letter Removed And Filed Correctly] [Incorrectly Filed Letter Removed And Filed Correctly] National American Woman Suffrage Association. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, Susan B. ANTHONY, Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON. 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Auditors, { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. { CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N. Y. AC, 6294-1 Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N.Y. AC, March 31st, 1899. Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, 119 North 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Rachel: All right about Mrs. Young. I am glad she wants a splendid convention in Charleston next fall and I think we ought to be able to bring it about in accordance with her wish. Thanks for your free translation of the French letter. I have written him and have also mailed him two packages containing our National reports down to 1898 and several other documents. His saying that the History was in the Guise Library shows that one of the sixty sets I sent to Theodore Stanton found its way into that settlement. I not only paid the expense of getting the boxes over to Paris, but also paid a bill of $40.00 for the postage or express of sending them from Paris to the different great libraries on the continent, so they are pretty well scattered. I have also put in the package sent [him] Mr Fabre various papers and photographs, so he will be able to illustrate his lecture to his hearts content. I wish there was somebody in every city of Europe who wanted to do exactly what he proposes. All right to send Miss Fowler's request to Mrs. Harper. All right about Minnesotas delinquency I wrote Mrs. Burrows on the 17th of this month, directing it to her Washington address, but have heard nothing from her. I write Mrs. [Alger] Ketcham by same mail as this that I should be delighted to have the wife of our Secretary of War sit upon our platform, and also give a welcome to our National Association, but think I feel as you do, that it would be a good deal better to have Michigan State women extend the invitation to have her welcome us, than for me to ask her to welcome me and my coadjuters. 84 March 31st, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, 119 North 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Rachel: All right about Mrs. Young. I am glad she wants a splendid convention in Charleston next fall and I think we ought to be able to bring it about in accordance with her wish. Thanks for your free translation of the French letter. I have written him and have also mailed him [a] this package containing our National reports down to 1898 and several other documents. His saying that the History was in the Guise Library shows that one of the sixty sets I sent to Theodore Stanton found its way into that settlement. I not only paid the expense of getting the boxes over to Paris,but also paid a bill of $40.00 for the postage or express of sending them from Paris to the different great libraries on the continent, so they are pretty well scattered. I have also put in the package sent him [Mr Fabre[?] ] various papers and photographs, so he will be able to illustrate his lecture to his hearts content. I wish there was somebody in every city of Europe who wanted to do exactly what he proposes. All right to send Miss Fowler's request to Mrs. Harper. All right about Minnesotas delinquency. I wrote Mrs. Burrows on the 17th of this month, directing it to her Washington address, but have heard nothing from her. I write Mrs. Alger Ketcham by same mail as this that I should be delighted to have the wife of our Secretary of War sit upon our platform, and also give a welcome to our National Association, but think I feel as you do, that it would be a good deal better to have Michigan State women extent the invitation to have her welcome us, than for me to ask her to welcome me and my coadjutors. -2- Mrs. Avery, So far as not wishing to have her because of anything her husband, as Secretary of War, has done or has not done right or wrong, would have no influence whatever. Mrs. Ketcham certainly has the right idea of getting people occupying high positions to be sort of patrons of the convention. All right also about the programes. I enclose a letter from Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock of Dunkirk; from which you will see that I wrote her with regard to becoming National Press [president] Manager. There does not seem to be any one who is ready to take up the kind of work she is doing, and it seems to me that the entire country should be overlooked by one person. As it is now, to have a letter sent out to the papers from the headquarters, and then Mrs. Babcock doing for New York and Massachusetts is not enough. With Mrs. Babcock, if she will undertake it, to do the work that is now done at the headquarters and in addition to that, extend the work that she does for New York and Massachusetts through the entire nation, I think it would be much better. I am now satisfied that Mrs. Harper does not wish to undertake this kind of work or that of sending out manifold articles to the press of the different cities. It looks to me as if she would finally settle down to [reporting] writing [on] for one of our great dailies of New York; I think her ambition runs in that line. While she is not doing the work that I expected her to do when I raised the money and proposed her to be the manager of a press bureau, she is nevertheless doing a splendid thing and starting up an immense newspaper discussion throughout the country. The San Francisco Evening Post for instance publishes her entire page in the following Saturday edition, so that the Pacific Coast is getting a large benefit from what she is doing in the New York Sun. I send you Mrs. Babcock's letter that you may be thinking it over. I wish she lived in New York city where she could be associated with Mrs. Catt at the headquarters. Of course the ideal thing is to have all of our different departments of work together in one city, but since we cannot make our married women"moveable feasts" we have to divide our work and move each department to the manager[.] - the married woman. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony National-American Woman Suffrage Association Member of the National Council of Women of the United States Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Auditors, {Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, 107 World Building, New York. [*AC. 6294-1*] National Headquarters, 107 World Building, N.Y. Office of the President, Rochester, N.Y., March 31st, 1899. Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Ii9 North 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Rachel: Your letter came yesterday and Just at five P.M. the expressman brought the bundle and I have looked into it. I rather think Mrs. Fullam will open her eyes wide when she sees it with delight. It makes me feel badly to have you loan this lace to me for fear I shall let something happen to it, but I shall try my very best to be careful of it; it will certainly make the new black satin shine. I went over yesterday to see some samples Mrs. Fullam had gotten from New York and I chose one that is $2.90 per yard, I thought I "Might as well die for an old sheep as a lamb". It is the most beautiful peice of goods it seems to me I ever saw , so you see this lovely lace of your dear mother's and sister's will not be placed on anything unworthy of them. I was afraid after I mentioned the fact to you about trimming, that you would go and do exactly what you have done, and still before it really dawned upon me that I had done a big job of begging, the letter had gone. You need not imagine that I shall have any use for these lovely things after this dress is worn out, for it will never reach that point no [*any*] more than the garnet velvet. Just to think it will be sixteen years on the 4th of July next since I christened that velvet going with you to Mrs. Mellon's party, where we met so many Americans . I want to tell you that above all my fear of damaging the lace, the wearing of it will keep not only your mother and your sister along with me, but your own dear self will be doubly present in spirit all the while. As I said before I feel as if only half of me was going when you are being left behind. I shall think, too, of the dear little Julia and that I am wearing what is to be hers, so we shall be doubly linked together. Mrs. Avery This is but another evidence of your regard for me, second only to that which you have for your very own mother and sister, so my dear with renewed love and gratitude that you live and are to me as you always have been the nearest and dearest of all the girls, outside my very own, as Mrs. Thompson used to say, "blood of kin", I am, Lovingly yours, Susan B. Anthony P.S. I have put your sweet letter into the very envelope in which my will is - so it will go into our "Security Trust Bank box - for safe keeping - while sister May and I are gone over the big waters -- National-American Woman Suffrage Association. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. {CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. [*AC, 6294-1] NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N.Y. Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 13th, 1899. Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear: I dispatch the list of friends, who have gone over the big river, by same mail to Mrs. Brown Blackwell. 129 West 64th St.- New York City- Mrs. Stanton sent me her jottings on Pillsbury, Purvis and Gage. Of course I meant July 15th, and not February, as the day that Mr. Vincent had wished me to speak at the Chautauqua Assembly. I now learn from Mrs. Babcock that it is the Chautauqua County Political Equality day, and that they had Mrs. Catt last year; they are now trying to get Rev. Caroline Bartlett. I am glad you wrote Mrs. Harper that it is her duty to report the National Council meeting at Grand Rapids. SECRETARIES. I do not see any other way to be right or just, but that the society should pay Miss Shaw and Miss Hauser's expenses to Grand Rapids, so I vote Yes on that question. I do not think it matters whether the society has ever been just before, it should begin to be now. I should think that it will be quite as well perhaps for the two secretaries not to be at the same place with the business committee, because if they are, they will be kept up all the night long working, when they really ought to be abed and asleep. All right about the sales table. I have put a veto upon my medallions being carried up there, because I think it would be quite enough for Mrs. Ketcham to be announcing my "LIFE" on hand. Do you think she ought to do that? She has been appointed general agent for the whole state of Michigan, and of course the Convention would give her an opportunity of advertising the fact, and making a sale of a set of the books in quite a number of different localities of the state, every one of which would be the best kind of an advertisement for her. She could -2- Mrs. Avery. very easily turn over to the society's treasury a part of her commission on all the books which should be sold at the sales table, or would you not like to have the books mixed up with the other literature? I most decidedly favor employing and paying some woman to make it her especial business to look after the table; a woman who does not have to be stenographer, typewriter or secretary in any line for the Convention. It does not matter to me who the person is; I will vote yes for the payment of whatever sum such business can be done for. Voluntary help cannot be depended upon, and certainly I do not want to see Nicolas sacrificing herself to that work as she did at DesMoines. I rebelled against her standing out in that hall during all those days and evenings. I think you should perchance consult with Mrs. Ketcham, for she may have some good person right there and one for whom she would be responsible. You know I always squirm every time anybody talks about dividing expenses between the National treasury and any of the different committees. I think the business committee should have the freedom to decide what it is best to do with the money and especially in a matter like this, but never mind so the work shall be well done. I think I sent you a letter the other day from Harriet May Mills, recommending Marion Wilkinson of Syracuse, the granddaughter of our dear old friend Rev. Samuel J. May, for corresponding secretary. Miss Mills was here yesterday, and added to her written testimony words of very high praise, saying that the difficulty in the matter was she must earn money. Now I would suggest that our committee should think about having Miss Wilkinson at headquarters as office clerk. I think she would probably be more in the spirit of her work than any stranger, but I only suggest this. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony [this is letter head only which had to be rotated - the top of the document is backwards] National-American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. {CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N. Y. Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N. Y., National=American Woman Suffrage Association. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Auditors, {Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. {Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. [*AC6294-1] NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N.Y. Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 19th, 1899. Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, 119 North 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear friend: Here is a copy of Mrs. Babcock's plan for Press Work, together with a paragraph which Mrs. Harper writes me relative to it. Mrs. Harper, as you see, thinks as highly of Mrs. Babcock's work as do we, and I am satisfied that Mrs. Harper herself does not wish to take that position, but, that she will as she says co-operate with her in every way she can. I will send copies to Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Upton, and hardly think it is necessary to send them to the other members of the business committee, as we shall have time to present the whole matter during the day of the 26th, but if you think otherwise, send yours to Miss Clay. On second thought, I will have another set of copies made and post them around, that is the best thing to do, so you hold on to yours. - This has been done- so each of the seven has a copy go out to her with this - I see that Mrs. Catt's father passed out of his bodily sufferings on the 13th inst. I hope she will be able to get herself rested and her mother's and her own affairs so adjusted, as to be able to take Grand Rapids in on her way to New York. Niece Louise Mosher James is here and will go home Saturday afternoon on the Diamond Express. Miss Shaw was here to dinner yesterday and we had a good talk, she is to be home again part of the day on Sunday. I am getting everything ready to start for Grand Rapids Monday night, so probably will be the first one on the spot. Affectionately yours, - Susan B. Anthony National=American Woman Suffrage Association. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. {CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N.Y. [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AC.6294] Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov 29, 1899 Dear Rachel - yours of the 27th is here - I have taken the time & eye-sight to read over every one of your letters & Programs since Nov. 1st with my own replies - when type written - my pen scratches - of course - I have no copies of - in all thirty-three pages - all about programs for Hearings & Convention - and so far as reported - less than a dozzen speakers are engaged - while scores have been suggested - do you mean to say that you cannot- invite Mrs Hooker - until a majority of the Program Com. have voted for you to do so? More than likely Mrs Day & Mrs [Cogzshall?] will not deem it of importance - & surely dear Mrs Wallace wont dream of voting upon whether Mrs Hooker, an old Stand-by - may be invited to speak! - Why not ask those three women to vote on Stanton Shaw & Anthony!! It is simply absurd to ask persons whose names were put on the Com. merely to have the different sections of the union represented - to consent to let anyone speak who is deemed proper by the Chairman & acting chairman - So do, my dear, go ahead & yourself decide which ones we think best, - invite them & set them at work preparing for their job. I presume you do know of more women positively engaged - but I find them not!! I feel very happy about the call - and expect soon to see it in full bloom!! I am to go to Indianapolis - ready the night of Dec. 5th so as to be at Mary's at Home - Wednesday P.M. the 6th I am very sorry you cannot see your way clear to go - and do very much hope it will open - I begged niece Lucy [?] to offer to go & stay in your home during your absence - you will miss your Helen Wilson - in whom you always had perfect confidence - I enclose my Program for you to mark the names decided upon - what topics for the House - Philosophy hearing - I cannot think of one - I hope Mrs Lee will not prove as nearly nothing as did some of our Free State Women two years ago. - I think we should consent to the reading of absent persons papers - only in very rare cases - like that of Mrs Stanton's - surely not in that of Mrs M. [C?ll?????] - unless it is impossible to get another woman to be present - Dr Stevenson must be very remiss about answering - Mrs Gross wrote me asking why we didn't invite her! So she cannot have even told Mrs G. she was invited - If she has not replied - you surely are free to invite Dr Julia Holmes Smith - I do not care - only I do not think it right for us not to give the Homeopaths a chance. On the Philosophy - no one could surpass Miss Curtis - & I should let her choose her own title - or from several titles you may give her. All right about Mrs Gaffrey - All right about Local Com. on cheap Hotels &c - We did let people come to the Riggs in 1888 - to get help about finding them - and asked all to do so & register them!! 2 Of course Miss May Wilkenson will wish to speak on Women in the Industries - I should let her give her title - each one will do best to be allowed to speak on her own hobby - - Of course - each one may have more in her paper than her time will allow her to read - but as we have hitherto done - we can let her entire thought go to the Committee for the printer - ask leave to print - I would urge each to give her facts on philosophy in the closest & most compact way - but still for the pamphlet we want her perfected statement - even if she didn't read it - You ask in vain for the Southern Woman - unless you invite Mrs Lowe - the Federation President of Atlanta - Her address on woman & industries some where the other day I think was fine - I think we may go outside of our society in the south as well as in the north - So invite her - I say - if she accepts but cannot speak on suffrage before the Com- let her go into the Convention Program - I surely wouldn't give Laura the chance to bring her two pets - Now - don't think me cross - but believe me ever & always Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony. By the way - Have you thought of any points you wish me to talk on in my opening remarks at our coming Con - Do you wish me then to proclaim my purpose to have my name placed under that of Mrs Stanton's at top of the letter head - while the delegates will choose which of the younger soldiers names shall stand where mine or Mrs Stanton's have for the last half of the century - if not this - what then- I really do not know of a thing to talk about?? - SBA NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Member National Council of Women Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street, New York. President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Somerton, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton Warren, Ohio. Auditors Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, 107 World Building, New York. Secretary Committee on Organization, Mary G. Hay, 107 World Building, New York. National Headquarters, 107 World Building, New York. AC6294-1 Rochester - N.Y. Jan. 16, 1900 Darling Rachel First - the package for Dr Jacobs is now ready for the Express Man - who will soon be here - it contains 1 copy International report 1889 - 1 copy National Council 1891 - and the National Suffrage reports with sundry [?] [?[ of 1884 - 93-94-95-96-97-98 & 99 It is too bad we have no reports from 84 to 92 - so are out eight years - But did I tell you Mrs Harper almost promises to come here through April & May - or as soon as she can leave Washington - & help me get together Vol. IV of the History of W.S.? - Shan't I feel happy if the material gets all together for the rounding out of our work to the close of the 19th Century - and the close of my bossing the business! - So that the new century of 1901 may begin its history with the new & young & up-to-date President & official board! - And judging from the tremendous amount done the past year - as Mrs Catts two statements - to the Contributors - & to the D.C. - there will be enough done to make ordinary heads swim - as does this report - Do you remember how dear Sarah Pugh used to write me - "just to read of thy goings & doings fairly takes my breath away" - Well so does the reading of Mrs C's goings & doings. They are like your 1880 Western sweep - and your 1881 - New England sweep - & then the Nebraska campaign - none ever can surpass those olden Scrimmages with the enemy - on the wing - And no young girl of 20 & 23 has ever yet risen among us to do - to plan & execute the splendid work of my dear first adopted niece - - So don't for a minute infer that I consider anything that has been planned & executed of any one - with their mature years of 35 & 40 - in any wise matches my little Rachel's wonderful work in the eighties - Mrs Catt's report might have repetitious words cut out - & thereby be made much more clear & graphic - but I didn't like to suggest it - she has drudged so splendidly, so unselfishly given herself - & her $250 - in cash beside - that to add another ounce to her work wold be cruel. - I wrote Mrs Hauk she must get her invitation from the Exposition Committee - & have it signed by the most influential men & women of Buffalo - & she replies she will do so Sales Tables - I have asked Mrs Catt if her girl cannot take charge of the Life & Lunch and of the Medallions & c - It strikes me it would be better to make one person the boss of all the stuff on the tables - or if she needed help let her be responsible for getting it - & C Mrs Smart says she wants to be free & ready for enjoyment - so doesn't want to stand at a table - NATIONAL=AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION AC6294 Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan.18. 1900 Darling Rachel My - I hadn't even thought of Sparkling Conkling Whitney - whew - the quartette was the four you asked me about - [?], Dickinson, Couzins & Gongar - I must have returned you the little slip - so you must have it by this time! Now - my dear Rachel - I am not getting up this fan-dan-go - over my 80th birth-day - and once for all - let me tell you - to fix everything as seemeth best unto you & your Com. - invite whom you please - I am not hankering after meeting any of the men or women you name - so please do not invite any one you feel would not be agreeable to all, or helpful to the cause of woman - for after all it is not personal feelings - you should consult - not even my whims!! - So let all or any of the doubtful ones be not invited - Whichever way we do - Some - Lady will ask why we didn't do the other way! A letter is just here from Mrs Hooker - saying "If you can't help her (Mrs Powell) I can. So she will 2 be in Washington during the Con. in private capacity. It will remain for the Program Com. to explain why this faithful & most successful speaker was not" &c She also says that she herself is going to be there, - so I do not know what you can do. Evidently I have incurred the displeasure of both of the dear souls - On the whole I will enclose Mrs Hooker's - letter - I wasn't going to - because I felt & still feel you have to much already - but you see she cuts my family down clear below zero - Since Mrs H. will have her Presidential time - Well fix them as you please or can! I do feel if you live through these three or four cornered Programs - I shall be glad - - So do - & I will back you!!! "Doubting Thomas" though you may be of my ability at backing!! Badges - I haven't an idea about them - I should think the few very ancients might be different - from the more numerous second generation ones - It will make a good deal of fussing to make the division - So do just as you think best - I do believe a dozzen of the old ones will be there - but perhaps more will go than I imagine - you know I am no hand to conjure up ornaments. Lovingly yours - with the wish I could help you - Susan B. Anthony P.S. Another $100- today for two Life-Memberships - I do hope enough will come to lift us out of all our debts - So that the New Administration can start with a clean sheet - My - how shall I feel when I am not responsible for the debts & empty treasury!! Jan. 22, 1900. Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa. My Dear Rachel:- Lucy has specimens of the different photographs I have on hand. If you will tell me which one you want, O will despatch it instanter. I wrote Mrs. Babcock that I could not affirm that the Dunkirk pictures were the best ones I had. On second thought, I will send you a copy of the one I have here. I think the quartett, Mott Stanton, Stone and Anthony, about the best ones you could select out of the ancients. I enclose you an interview, clipped from this morning's Democrat & Chronicle. The Anti's at Albany have been stirred up by our petitions presented in Congress, not however by anything that the New York State Women have been doing in the legislature. You know that I have always supposed the submission of an amendment to a state constitution, where there was very little hope of its being carried, but now I really believe in the new conditions, that it would be a splendid thing to get up a rub-a-dub of discussion throughout the Empire State. With such splendid agitation, the Anti's would either have to slink back into their own parlors, or else rush out into the fields and try their oratorical strength with us. Our women all over the country are sleeping, if not absolutely dying, for the want of some practical thing to do, and in some way or another we must set before them something which they must do, or admit themselves indulent, ignorant and indifferent. Mrs. Avery, #2. Sunday Service:- Mrs. Thompson has written me that she is hard at work trying to get invitations from the different churches for our women. I hope you have sent her the names of all the women whom you think would do us credit, to speak of a Sunday evening in any of the pulpits. Now I know that both Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. Howell are such strong spiritualists that they cannot help talking their particular faith. I suggested to Mrs. T., that the Peoples' Church, Mr. Kent's, would be a good place for one of them, and the spiritualists Sunday meeting for the other: or perhaps the Universalist Church, or that great colored M.E. Church which Frederick Douglas attended, out at L. and 16 Sts. I think, but at any rate it is a very fine church building and will seat 1500 people, and I think that one of our women should at least offer to lecture in the Colored Church. And since Mrs. Howell was a very warm friend of Frederick Douglas and loves always to tell the story you know, I think she would enjoy speaking in Frederick Douglas' Church. It is too bad that Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer cannot be with us. It would be such a splendid thing if she could preach or lecture in one of the churches. I told Mrs. T. to try and get both Miss Hultin and Miss Shaw into orthodox churches. Of course, Miss Clay would speak. The members of our business committee will have too much work on hand to allow of their luxuriating in oratory anywhere, except in a little 7 x 9 parlor in the Riggs; but I shall leave the matter to be discussed and settled between you and Mrs. Thompson. I think I have told you that Mrs. Stanton Blatch is to be here on Thursday and probably will stay over Friday, and as I shall not be able to get a thing packed, until after she has been and gone, I do not see how I can possibly get started for Washington before Sunday and probably it will delay until Monday. So if you want Lucy to get the printing of the programmes started, you had better tell her to get to the hotel before me. I do hope the programmes can be gotten into good shape and in good time for copies of them to reach our distant friends before the Convention opens. 97 Mrs. Avery, #3. so they can see what we are doing and who is speaking from day to day, and thereby be with us in spirit, though hundreds and thousands of miles away in body. I have now sent on to Congress the two copies of the two petitions from 24 different states, and each states petition means writing a letter to its two senators and to two of their representatives, which means 4 x 24, making 96 letters, and nearly everyone of the members and senators have acknowledged the receipt of same, and not only promised to present the petitions, but very many of them have said, they most earnestly hoped the time would soon come when the women of the entire nation would be protected in their right to vote. With love to all, I am, Sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony P.S. - This mail brings Conn petitions - so we have 25 states Jan. 25, 1900 Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa. My Dear Girl:- I will answer yours of the 22nd in due order. I am very glad that you have accepted the right horn of the dilemma, and are going Andrew Jackson like to "assume the responsibility" of inviting only such of my "dear old friends", as in your judgment will add to the interest and pleasure, yes, and happiness of the birthday party. PIONEERS: Certainly Mr. and Mrs. Garrison should be called pioneers, though I think I put them both with Mrs Wright Osborn in the list as children of the pioneers. Mrs. Duniway comes in the second class of pioneers. I think in dividing up those who were with us before the war and those who came in after the war, is that possibly you might be able to find a place for all of the survivors of the very ancients. While of the second class there would be too many for you to accommodate on the stage, but that again I leave entirely to your judgment. I think that John Hutchinson was at somebody's birthday or funeral and gave them, not only some of his songs, but some of his talk also. Has he indicated to you that he is going to be in Washington? I shall leave you to dispose of him as best you can, for I know you will treat him tenderly for the memory of the beautiful anti-slavery work that he and his brother and his lovely sweet singing sister Abbie did in the olden days. Ludlow Patton is the husband of Abbie. Among the ancients you cannot put Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Livermore or Mrs. Hooker, though in years of exsistence on this planet they may Mrs. Avery, #2 equal or surpass me, but in service to the cause, neither of them came in until nearly 1870, so they really have no more title to be called pioneers than the large majority of the middle aged people of to-day. PERMANENT FUND:- I will enclose you the list of the names we settled upon last September. I have not written any one of the women of wealth about allowing her name to go on the list, because I have not received any answers from them, so I think we shall have to settle down and make the first 21 of those we know intimately, and then as one after another of us drops off, the remaining 20 can pull in some of the millionaires, if they can catch them. It is to incorporate this permanent fund that I want to be in Washington long enough before the opening of the convention to get things there in shipshape. MRS. HOOKER:- I suppose I shall get growls from the different parties who do not receive all the attention from you that they desire, but I think enough will come direct from you to gratify your love of that kind of literature. I have a letter from Mrs. Howell, descanting upon the great good it would do her to have her name upon the program. One from Sister [Conkling Mathis?] threatens dire results if the "Catt" is set at the head of the list - or any one of the B.C. PROGRAM:- I wish it were possible for you to have upon the program the list of delegates from each of the states with their alternates. on the [back part?] of it That is what business men's conventions have, to present, not only to their audience, but to publish in the newspapers. My main object in this suggestion, however, is that it would give further chance to all of our principal women, to have their names and their addresses exploited to all who should care to look at our program. Of course, in the little synopsis that you sent to the Woman's Journal, you simply said that there would be five minute addresses by the presidents. You will, of course, put 100 their names in full on the program. Mrs. Avery, #3. And another point which I felt was a great mistake in the international program of London, was not giving the title of the profession of the speakers. You do [did] of Imogen Paul, the street cleaner of Chicago, and that little fact that the populists see, that the woman of whom they have heard such wonderful stories is going to address the convention, will draw the outside croud, and I think if you could say of Ida Hultin, pastor of the Unitarian Church of Moline, Ill, and the somebody else, Mrs. Sewall, President of the International, Mrs. Gaffney President of the National, Miss Blackwell, editor of the Woman's Journal, etc., etc., it would add great interest to the program. We inside our ring know all of these friends but the outside people do not - & not knowing the person - & their not being anything to show she stands for anything - doesn't go!! CONTRIBUTIONS:- There has come a lull in them, and I am afraid it will take another batch of letters of 100 or more, to bring the remaining $1400 that I hope to get, but nevertheless $500 is better than nothing, and it has enabled the treasurer to pay me back my little loan, which I needed to have in the bank, to check [off as quickly] out as [?] as I intend to do at Washington. You need not to talk to me about economy just now, for I do not propose to bother about that virtue until after this fandango is over. RECEPTION:- I am delighted that the Corcoran Gallery is to be opened to us. I am sorry, however, that you cannot get out your invitation cards after your own heart's desire, but I think you can compass the matter, by enclosing with the gallery official invitation, one of your own. Don't you think you can? I am delighted that the reception is to be where it is impossible to have refreshments. They are the greatest nuisance and the greatest danger to fine clothes than anything in the world. I shall never forget how one woman at Senator Stanford's reception, rushed upon me when I had a glass of lemonade in my hand, and emptied the whole contents on my velvet. So I consider it a dress preserving if not a life Mrs. Avery #4. preserving incident, to be without tea, coffee, lemonade and ice cream. Do make the Corcoran Gallery folks write out the whole name of our association, at least write it National A.W.S.A., or National A. Woman's Suffrage Association. Something other than just the cabalistic initial letters. Of course they give you the privilege not only, but the right to decide who they may invite. That is a point you will have to insist upon rigidly, else my very best friends will be left out, and the majority who are invited, will be those who care nothing for me personally, or for the cause generally, so we shall have simply a lot of curious people there with their formal greetings, instead of our hearty and loving best friends. I should think certainly, that they would allow you to put in each envelope the little point as to whose birthday, or as to what event they were invited to the gallery to celebrate. - Then you remember how the D.C. crowd always rushes in an hour before time - So the door keepers must insist on my reception cards - You had better something common as a door ticket. HEARINGS:- Mrs. Upton seems to be getting along very nicely in securing hearings in the House and the Senate. I think the one she has gotten to go before the House committee on privileges on election, had better be concentrated upon our petitions, demanding that whatever line of demarkation shall be made in the suffrage for the men of our new islands, it shall not be that of sex. It does seem to me that now is the nick of time for us to press our claim, that this government shall discontinue the practice of either framing or [forming] sanctioning constitutions based on sex. We have had enough of [them] sex-aristocracy and sex-oligarchy, so that the nation ought to at least call a halt. Lovingly yours, Susan B. Anthony P.S. Mrs. H. Stanton Blatch is here - town A.M. - I will take in hand your fat package & write you her decision - she has been telling about her Man & Women lecture and I think it something entirely new - & of most successes for us to have at one of our best evening sessions - Whatever she does about English suffrage history she can do in discussions. By the way I do not see any time set apart for discussion of subjects - [????] I haven't seen - SBA I send photo from [?] - on the whole I think it will be the standard photo - AC.6294-2 COPY OF ADDRESS, WITH SIGNATURES, PRESENTED TO MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY From some earnest Friends of the Political Enfranchisement of Women in Great Britain and Ireland, on the occasion of her Eightieth Birthday, 15th February 1900. It is with a deep sense of grateful love we offer you our warm congratulations on having attained the eightieth year of a noble life, which has been devoted to the good of humanity. Countless women share this grateful feeling towards the Pioneers who, with so much moral courage and strong sense of what is right and just, have braved hardship and contumely in their efforts to raise the position of their sex. You have stood in the very forefront of the battle which has won for women the position they now occupy, and it is through such devoted labours as you have undertaken in the past that the rough places have been made comparatively plain. Though your life's work has lain in another land than ours, in its beneficence it has reached us over the Seas. We have reaped benefit not only from the influence of your written words, but from your living and powerful utterances on those occasions when you have visited us, and from which many in our country are proud to have received inspiration. From your earliest youth you have been animated by a public spirit which in the intensity of its enthusiasm led you to embrace many Reforms--Emancipation of the Negro Slave, Temperance, Education, and Social Purity; but it is of your noble endeavor to give Freedom to Women by their Political Enfranchisement that we especially wish to express our heartfelt appreciation, recognising as we do with yourself that the power of the vote is necessary to give to women their full power for good in the national life. We rejoice that the record of your life's work has been written whilst you are still with us. We hope you may yet see another chapter added to that remarkable story, recording the fulfillment of the noble aims to which your life has been dedicated. We call to mind earnest workers, gone home, who would have rejoiced to unite with us in this tribute of love and reverence, and to have subscribed their names along with ours which we affectionately append. 103 Priscilla Bright M'Laren (Mrs Duncan M'Laren, President of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage). Sister of John & Jacob Bright William S. Clark (Street, Somerset). Helen P. Bright Clark (Mrs W. S. Clark, Street, Somerset - eldest daughter of John Bright). John P. Thomasson (Woodside, Bolton). Katharine Thomasson (Mrs J. P. Thomasson, Woodside, Bolton). Daughter of Mrs Margaret Bright Lucas - Sister of John & Jacob Bright - Helen Blackburn (Hon. Sec., Central and East of England Society for Women's Suffrage). Caroline Trevelyan (Lady Trevelyan, Nether Witton, Morpeth, Vice-President of the Scottish Women's Liberal Federation). Ann Frances Cross (Mrs Joseph Cross, Godalming, Surrey). Lilias Ashworth Hallett (Mrs Hallet, Claverton Lodge, Bath). Niece of John & Jacob Bright Ferdinand Faithfull Begg, M.P. Kate Ryley (Hon. Sec., Women's Liberal Association, Southport). Robert Spence Watson, LL.D. (Newcastle, President of the National Liberal Federation). Elisabeth Spence Watson (Mrs Spence Watson, Newcastle). Frances Balfour (Lady Francis Balfour -- Daughter of Duke of Argyll). Ursula M. Bright (Mrs Jacob Bright). Josephine Elisabeth Butler (Mrs Josephine Butler). S. A. Steinthal (Rev. S. A. Steinthal, Manchester). Agnes M'Laren, M.D. - daughter of Duncan M'Laren - Margaret Tanner (Mrs Tanner, Sidcot, Somerset, Hon. Treas., Ladies' National Association for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Vice). (Priestman) Sister of John Bright's first wife Anna Maria Priestman (Durdham Park, Bristol, President, Union of Practical Suffragists within the Women's Liberal Federation). Sister of the first wife of John Bright Mary Priestman (Durdham Park, Bristol, Member of Executive of Ladies' National Association). Sister of John Bright's first wife Helen B. Taylor (Mrs Thomas Taylor, Southport). Charles Cameron (Sir Charles Cameron, Bart., M.P.). Edith S. Bright (Mrs John Albert Bright, One Ash, Rochdale). Son of John Bright Anna E. Roth (Mrs Bernard Roth, Brighton - daughter of John Bright). Samual Bright Lucas (London). Son of Margaret Bright Lucas Jessie C. Methven (Hon. Sec., Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage). Rebecca Moore (Mrs Moore, Richmond, London). English correspondent of the The Revolution 1868-69-70 Leonard Courtney (The Right Hon. Leonard Courtney, M.P.). Kate Courtney (Mrs L. Courtney). Agnes Pochin (Mrs Pochin, Bodnant Hall, North Wales). Charles B. Bright M'Laren, M.P. Son of Priscilla Bright & Duncan M'Laren Laura M'Laren (Mrs C. B. M'Laren). Ishbel Aberdeen (Countess of Aberdeen, Vice President of the International Council of Women). T. Fisher Unwin (Publisher) Jane Cobden Unwin (Mrs Fisher Unwin - daughter of Richard Cobden). Florence Fenwick Miller (Mrs Fenwick Miller, Journalist, late Editor of "The Woman's Signal"). Thomas J. Haslam (Dublin). Anna Maria Haslam (Mrs Haslam, Hon. Sec., Women's Suffrage Society, Dublin). Hannah Maria Wigham (Mrs Henry Wigham, Dublin). Mary Edmondson, (Mrs Edmondson, née Wigham, Dublin). Mary Bright Curry (Mrs Richard Curry, Bath - daughter of John Bright). Elisa C. Stevenson (Edinburgh). Rosalind Carlisle (Countess of Carlisle, President of the Women's Liberal Federation). Frances Power Cobbe (Hengwrt, Dolgelly, Wales, President of British Union for Abolition of Vivisection). Louisa Stevenson (Hon. Sec., Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women). Flora C. Stevenson (Chairman of Edinburgh School Board). Walter Stowe Bright M'Laren (London, Late M.P. for Crewe). Youngest son of Mrs Priscilla Bright & Duncan M'Laren Eva M'Laren (Wife of Walter M'Laren, Treasurer of the Women's Liberal Federation). Wilfrid Lawson (Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart, M.P.). Alice C. Scatcherd (Mrs Scatcherd, Morley Hall, Yorkshire). Jean M. C. Miller Morison (Jeanie Morison, Authoress). Nora Philipps (Mrs Wynford Phillips, President of the Women's Institute, London). Isabel Somerset (Lady Henry Somerset, President of the British Women's Temperance Association). Charles John Guthries, Q.C. (Edinburgh). M. M. Russell Cooke (Mrs Russell Cooke, Treasurer, Central and Western Society for Women's Suffrage, London). Ann R. M'Cormick (Mrs M'Cormick, Manchester). To Miss Susan B. Antony. The National Council of Women of Sweden esteem it a precious duty and privilege to send their sincere and hearty congratulations to Miss Susan B. Antony on her eightieth birthday. With thanks for her long, energetic and successful work in the cause of women, we hope that she may be allowed to work for a long time still, helping and strengthening by the example of her life a new generation of women workers, to whom she will remain the great pioneer for the rights of her sisters. The Executive Committee of the National Council of Women of Sweden Anna Hierta Retzius President Ellen Fries V. President Ellen Whitlock Corr. Secretary Hanna Andersson Rec. Secretary Hulda Lundin Treasurer. National-American Woman Suffrage Association. Member of the National Council of Women of the United States Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street, New York. President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio Auditors, Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N. Y. AC.12,699 Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Mar. 20, 1900 [1899] Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva, N. Y. My Dear Friend, -- I have just come across your letter of February 4, enclosing a check for $80 to cover my fourscore years, for which I thank you and your darling Nannie. I got but a very few glimpses of her while in Washington. Her stopping at another hotel left me without the chance of catching her in the dining-room, as I did many of the friends who were in Washington for the convention and birthday and were at the Riggs. Everybody says both of these were well managed, and I think nearly all were satisfied. Of course, there are always some on such an occasion who are overlooked by the parties who have the program in charge. I hope there were very few of them in this case, however. With love to you and your Nannie, I am, Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony 105 Ac. 12,699 Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller Mar. 20, 1900 1 p. Copy-verifax Removed for repair National American Woman Suffrage Association. [Please return to Mrs. Anthony ?] April 24, 1900 AC. 6294 Dear Rachel Here are Mrs Catts forms of letters to delegates - & also Mrs Barkers & my - revisions - I have sent our ideal forms to Mrs Catt - & also to Miss Chapin - & asked Mrs Catt to telegraph Miss Chapin if she was satisfied with them - to go ahead & print or type write them - You see it is [was] not the thing for any one member of the Com. to sign them - If only one signature that should surely be the Chairman - on behalf of the Com. - I have explained it all to Mrs Catt & beside told her it would paralyze a younger hand than mine to attempt to sign them by hand!! - Mrs H & I will start at work upon the memorial on Thursday - I will send you a copy of that to sit on - Lovingly yours - SBA 106 If you see any changes vital - write me at once - & we will see National American Woman Suffrage Association April 27, 1900 AC. 6294 Darling Rachel Hard it does seem to think of you at Somerton once more - I will see to the slips being pasted in reports - all O.K. - Enclosed are - 1st Mrs Catts first draft of memorial - which she sent to me to [c?] over - & return to her - & also to send to the rest - which I am doing to night - I mail to her at New Orleans - I have told her since I have no date beyond May 1st that I have written each of the B.C. to make their suggestions & amendments &c - on the result of Mrs Harkers & my whole days [?] over the first - & return to me - I asked Mrs Catt to let me superintend the printing of it here - I hope she will consent - for I feel sure I can get it more nearly right than the clerks in New York - I write Mrs Stanton & ask her if she will sign it - for I think both her & my names should go on with the list of names Lovingly Susan B Anthony NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION July 20, 1900 AC. 6294 Dear Rachel - I saw Lucy E. off for Phila & Anna [A.?] [Meedin?] our niece Louise - Tuesday noon - the 24th & Mrs Harper off last evening - for her Boston-Nova Scotia-Bar Harbor & Rutland Vt - visit - Miss Shaw was in from 6.15 to 9.42 [Tuesday?] last - - To day Sister Mary & I are the family - at table - with our little Anna [Pann?] - who has written my letters to day - My how I would love a real sit-down - together - talk with you - but the last of August will soon be here & some of the girls must - stay with 108 your little girl while you come here & stay for at least one whole week - for days before & after the rest of the B.C. for I am hungry for a heart-to-heart out-pouring between us - Lovingly yours S.B A National American Woman Suffrage Association AC 6294-1 July 31, 1900. Dear Member of the Business Committee: -- Enclosed is a copy of a letter I have just sent to our president in response to her B.C. letter of July 30, and I very much hope you will be able to come to Rochester for the 26th or whatever later date shall be fixed and that you will immediately write her that you can come for it is high time the date was settled upon. I trust you agree with me that we must have all the members present not merely for one day but for just as many days as are needed for the transaction of our business. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony Dear Rachel, Yours of 29th is here this A.M. - For Miss Shaw to be here the 13th - she would have to rush to the train directly after her speech - reach here near 10 Oclock P.M. - & then leave here at an unchristian hour on the 14th to get back to speak then that day - Mrs Catts word that Miss Shaw prefers the 12 -to the whole week of leisure after the 26th of Aug. is very funny to say the least - Mrs Catt herself cannot be here the 22nd-24th & 25th as she is in Maine the 24th. So really our only fair chance for a satisfactory meeting is to begin it the 26th or 27th - not earlier - - S.B.A. National-American Woman Suffrage Association. Member National Council of Women Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street, New York. Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street Rochester, N. Y. President, Carrie Chapman Catt, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren Ohio Auditors, Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill. National Headquarters, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Office of Honorary President. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 24. 1900 AC.6294 Dear Rachel The slip that had your stopping points on - got fast to a blotter - & stuck there - through all my overturnings in pursuit of it - So now you are in New York to-day & wont find a line from me at the Continental - I wonder if you will see or hear of George Taner's Train - he lives there - Oh no he has gone to Nell's Hotel - the cheap one - Well it is now agreed all round - every one is to get here the 29th & I do hope you surely will not be missig when the roll call comes on Thursay 9 A.M. Aug 20th - - I don't see how you are going to get here - but still you must - If you have a small trunk - take carriage to Mrs Hallowell's - 97 - Plymouth Avenue - with your trunk - - Mrs Upton may stop next door - - her secretary will be with her - & then there is Mrs M'Culloch - just how to divide you up - is the question - but you can settle that if you only get here the 29th - if you come the very last - only other place left will have to be yours - I do so wish I could have you here under our roof every minute of the time - Do let me know the train you will arrive on - - so that you need have no worry - All is fixed - that every one of the N.C. is to go to Mrs Coonley-Ward - [?] on Monday - - She wanted us Saturay - But Mrs Catt vetoed that - saying she would not allow a break with B.C. meetings until all was done - Mrs Coonley Ward will have a Library Benefit Symposium on money (?) - Sept. 2nd - when every one of the whole eight is to speak - so get your little say ready - & bring one gown for the public gaze - I do wish you could be here beforehand - so that you & Miss Shaw & I could look over the ground & see where we are at!! Lovingly yours till you come - Susan B. Anthony National American Woman Suffrage Association Sept. 1. 1900 AC.6294 Dear Rachel I have sent yours of yesterday on to Mrs Catt & said to her we must have you - for any intelligent action on Bazaar - that if she held to the 12, - she would have Miss Shaw for that one day - but not you for that or any of the following days of the week - that the only hope of getting all together here was in calling the meeting as late as the 20th that Miss Shaw would be here then - & until the last of the first week in September - that I think having all members here is [of] more vital to successful work - than the difference of the few days in time - hence if Alice can be here the 20th & a few day thereafter - all will seem to be right = Miss Clay writes me she can readily adapt herself to the convenience of the others - she comes very gladly - & will be very happy to sleep under our roof - I have specially invited her & Alice - because I have visited them & neither has ever been here - - Mrs Catt had already engaged herself to Mrs Sweet - So it will be you & Mrs Upton & Mrs M'Culloch - who will have to sheet out - unless we decide to put cot-beds up round about - & sleep all of the N.C. - Niece Ivy is quite in favor of doing that - but we will see as the time approaches - But first - I must be sure of you - it would fatal for you not to be here every single minute of the meeting - So set about getting the [?] settled all in good order & come on - It is very sad to lose dear Miss Wilson from our Phila. circle - all seemed to love her very much - Lucy E. is very much cut down to day over it - the telegram came last enig (evening) - Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony [*N.B. Don't on any account say you can possibly come the 13th - it is a most inopportune time [all] for many reason -*] National-American Woman Suffrage Association. Member National Council of Women. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York. Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, } LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK. [*AC. 12,699*] OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT. 17 Madison St., ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 2nd, 1901. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, Geneva, N.Y. My Dear Mrs. Miller:-- I return to you Mrs. Stanton's letter together with the one from her father written in the long ago. Judge Cady was indeed a remarkable man. I remember very well when I went to their house in 1852 and how very kind he was to me. We held a temperance meeting in the old court house and Mrs. Cady, I think, attended. It was a good deal for them in those days, not believing in woman suffrage, to harbor us. Of course they did it on account of Mrs. Stanton asking them to entertain us. Well, my birthday has come and gone and the marmalade was eaten during the week that Rachel Foster Avery and Mrs. Gross was here. Rachel said it was the nicest of anything she had ever eaten in the shape of orange marmalade. Many thanks for it, and the other beautiful jelly. Our Anna and I devoted an afternoon this week to cutting up one dozen oranges and three lemons, which made ten glasses of marmalade. We have not tried it yet but it looks very nice. It was indeed a great disappointment to me not to go with Mrs. Garrison to your lovely home. I am recovered from my grippe but do not yet feel very certain of myself. I wonder if Nan is going to Minneapolis in May. It is a long journey for the meeting but we shall have to make it I suppose. With love to Nan and yourself, I am, Very affectionately yours, Susan B. Anthony AC 12,699 Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Elizabeth Miller Mar. 2, 1901 1 page Copy-verifax Removed for repair [*Phillips*] Boston 7 January '02 AC. 6294-1 My dear Susan X our friend, Mrs Eddy, Francis Jacobson's daughter, died a week ago Thursday - she was sick only one week - typhoid pneumonia - Her daughter Lizzy Bacon, who devoted herself to her the last 4 days, sickened & died of same disease yesterday At Mrs Eddy's request I made her will some weeks before she died. Her man of business - devoted to her for 25 years Mr C.R. Ransom - (ex president of one of our Banks) is the Executor. He & I were present & consulted & know all her intentions & wishes from long talks with in years gone by. She left some $80,000 - After leaving about $20000 in legacies, she orders the remainder divided equally between you & Lucy Stone - There's no question whatever that your portion [will not be $40,000] - it no doubt [that finally it] will be $25,000 or $20,000 - I advised her (in order to avoid all lawyers & court objecting) to give this sum to you outright - with no responsibility to any one or any Court - "only" requesting you to use it for the advancement of the "woman cause" X 2 Will leaves $1000 for instance; - intending, as she told us that each person would have that bond - Now that bond perhaps is worth a little more than its par value - we wish you, the residuary legatees, to allow Ransom to follow out her plan - It will make hardly any difference to you pecuniarily (tho I know you'd wish her views executed even if it did) - possibly two hundred dollars at the outside - You may ask why, in drawing the will, I did not specify this - Because she was very ill & in great pain & to relieve her mind, I drew as brief & simple a paper as I could in the time I had it was fortunate I seized the opportunity as she was not afterward - in the good condition to attend to any business - & as she had been for weeks planning to have such a will drawn, I felt she would worry & so not be so likely to get well unless I put something on paper & relieved her mind - 3rd Ransom & I think that if she had known that her daughter Bacon would die so soon, & so put double the amount she would otherwise have had, (during her daughters life Let the whole matter be confidential between you & me until it becomes public here - Now there are three things which in justice to Mrs Eddy's wishes her Executor & I wish you to do She intended to draw up a paper of instructions to the Executor, which the suddenness of her death probably prevented, tho' a part of it may be put in writing - But from our conversations with her, during the last three months, we know 115 what they were & the paper I enclosed for you to sign is merely your giving him, the Executor, full authority to follow out what we know were her wishes & intentions 1st she intended to dis- tribute her little womanly belongings. dress, jewels, the pictures in her rooms, &c -- to certain parties, her daughters, brother &c & we wish to conform to her plans in this matter 2nd she left to relatives & old friends mostly $1000 each putting a bond to that amount - in an envelope & marking it with the person's name - the same person a?wh?? her other disposal - (80,000 instead of $40000) she would have remembered her brother James as she did her other friends with the gift of $1000 - so this paper provides that if you have over $10000 - you authorize him to pay $500 to James Jacobson - Lucy Stone the other residuary legatee, has signed a paper which is the duplicate of the one I enclose - She knows all the facts of the case & agrees entirely with our views & authorizes Ransom to carry them out - [*1882*] Now please sign the enclosed have one or two witnesses & return the paper to me Keeping the whole matter private until it comes out naturally here V cordially [?][?] National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street, New York. Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, Carrie Chapman Catt, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, 4069 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, {Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky.} {Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago, Ill.} NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK. AC.6294-1 OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 5, 1902 Dearest Rev Anna Your note is here - this P.M.'s delivery - I was delighted to hear you had stepped foot on land again - What a fearful time you had at sea to get here but I am glad you are here & have braved the storm - Welcome - thrice welcome - home - I suppose you and Lucy C. & Rachel are together this evening - Well we shall soon all be in Washington - All I can say I am glad gladder gladdest that you are here. Mrs Harper too - is glad - & Aunt Mary rejoices too with her own hand - & Anna E. Dann - Good bye till we meet. Susan B. Anthony I am to get to Bryn Farm the 6th of March. If you are at [?] I want you to go with me. Miss Nowes extends a very warm invitation - National American Woman Suffrage Association June 16, 1902 AC6294 Dear Anna ???? How lonesome it is - with you gone - I came back Saturday night - I do not know what are Mrs Harpers plans - or yours - but no matter - I suppose you know both - - Well how is Jennie - Does she feel sure she's right as Davy Crockett - Lord - if so - tell her to go ahead - I wish her much happiness - as I do you - in your contemplated new life - well - with kind regards to your father & mother & all - I am Yours affectionately Susan B. Anthony National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. 7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia Pa. Vice President at Large, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 205 West 57th Street, New York City. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON, 1800 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.} {CORA SMITH EATON, M. D., Masonic Temple, Minneapolis, Minn.} National Press Committee, ELNORA M. BABCOCK, Dunkirk, N. Y. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN OHIO OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT. ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 12, 190[3?] [*AC.6294-1*] Dear Anna B & Lucy E. I don't know which I want to say first - Anna or Lucy - or Lucy or Anna - But this is just to wish you a good voyage - on the [Laney Oskar?] - or something - to Genoa - and after you have looked over Rome Naples and the neighboring wonders - you will hie you to Vevey Switzerland - to see dear Rachel - I should think, Anna, you would really rest & recruit there among the mountains - than by going off to Spain - but you must be the judge - May be your sea voyage will have been a real test to you - But you will surely be back to Berlin by the 2nd of June - so as to help organize the suffrage hosts that will come up to that City!! I think it will take all of us Americans to make that society solid - I wonder what you learned from Mrs Sewall - I have heard from neither of you - about your visit - Well, dear ones - carry with all the love of your devoted friend & lover - Susan B. Anthony Remember I have here - all marked with your name on it - a volume of the "Hearings & Reports of Congressional Committees from 1878-1902 - I thought I had given it to you - It is the only book that has all the hearings in it - or as nearly all as this one has - - Dear Hattie Purvis - Did Lucy E get the Dr - Charles' - letter - I have not heard a word since - I will write dear Alice very soon - she will miss her very much - well don't stop to write - only of your safe arrival Good Bye - & love to Rachel & the Children - and lots for Lucy E and Anna H. - from S.B.A. - To Lucy C. - I went to make out the check of $100 - to you - then I thought you would not have time to cash it - so it will wait until you & I get to Europe - then I will give that back to you - S.B.A. WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. February 10, 1904 AC, 6294 My dear Mrs. Harper: Your note of the 9th instant has been received, and I take pleasure in sending you herewith an invitation for Miss Anthony including a ticket which will admit her carriage at the southwest gate, and this will permit her entrance to the building by the south door. Very sincerely yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary to the President. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, 1301 K Street. Enclosure. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt request the pleasure of the company of Miss Anthony at a reception to be held at the White House Thursday evening, February the eleventh, nineteen hundred and four, from nine to half after ten o'clock. [*122*] AC, 6294 WHITE HOUSE 1904 Feb. 11 Miss Susan B. Anthony [*121*] AC. 6294 Miss Anthony [*123*] National American Woman Suffrage Association AC6294-1 Oct. 2,1904 Dear Miss Shaw I felt so badly to leave you before you had your ticket and was myself in your sleeper - but you were gone & the Coachman was driving off before I knew it - and so I sped back to the Walton - and then back to Mrs Gross - and this morning I have been over to the Walton - & thence to Mrs Springers 425 - La Salle Avenue - Cor of Division Street Chicago While there - It came to me that Mrs Springer would give a lift to Mrs McCulloch's whenever - - She is going to Mrs Solomons reception this P.M. at 2.30 - and I will sound her on the question - I hope Mrs McCulloch will be there too - so that I can see her - Well "Life is Life" - that is true - about here - Mrs Gross sends lots of love - We are going at 6.30 - - Shall be in Savannah tomorrow = 7.35. - Tuesday Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES. Largest Daily and Weekly Circulation in Leavenworth and the State of Kansas D.R. Anthony, Editor and Proprietor D.R.Anthony, Jr., Business Manager Leavenworth, Kansas Oct.11.1904 Dear Anna I have thought of you so many times - I wanted to see you before I left home - and now I must see you on my arrival - Sunday the 16th - toward night I think - We are just going to stop long enough to re-pack our trunks - & then on Monday P.M. go to Auburn - to Mrs E.W. Osborne's - to stay till Friday or Saturday - of that week - I hope you will be able to come[?] down - Sunday P.M. or Monday A.M. = So that I can see you a minute Mother D.R. is some better - but far from well - hoping that you are getting along well I am affectionately yours Susan B. Anthony National American Woman Suffrage Association Member National Council of Women Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, 7443 Devon St., Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Vice-President-at-Large, Carrie Chapman Catt, 205 West 57th Street, New York City. Corresponding Secretary, Kate M. Gordon, 1800 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Cora Smith Eaton, M. D., Masonic Temple, Minneapolis, Minn. National Press Committee, Elnora M. Babcock, Dunkirk, N. Y. National Headquarters, Warren, Ohio Office Honorary President - 17 Madison St., Rochester, N. Y. AC. 6294 Jan. 21.1905 Dear Anna I see by this morning paper that your Mother Mason is gone - the funeral will not likely be till tomorrow - Sunday - and if the storm continues - there will be good reason why you should not expose the little Leonora to its blasts - but most of all is your exposure - and the liability of taking the typhoid pneumonia to the little one - I wrote to Mr Mason to discourage you from going to Albion to the funeral - that it do none of them - either the dead or the living any real good - and it might do you or the baby a real harm - So I do hope you will write your prettiest note to Gilbert, the sisters and father Mason you are capable of - I 126 they will gladly excuse you - that is my advice to you - my dear girl - So affectionately yours Susan B. Anthony June 8. 1905 - My Dear Girl - No - Earl is a boy - But it will make no difference - when you arrive at the magical age of twenty-one, the girl will, I hope, be entrusted with the sacred right of voting for every law and law maker - as will the boy. I trust you will talk and write for equal rights, privileges and immunities to all citizens - women and men alike. Sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony [no date] Dear Friend I enclose a letter for Mr. Green Will you enclose $10.00 in it for me Have you seen any of at the books that I spoke of yet I enclose the autograph of Susan B Anthony Let me hear from you soon Susan B. Anthony Rochester N. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Tom Speech 1870's-1880's Homes of Single Women 1p recto and verso Moved to Speeches and writings 2 [AC. 6294] [no date] herself fit to mary until she has proved herself competent to earn her own subsistence!! When that day comes the husband will cease to feel that he marries a helpless child to be cared for & treated as a child to the day of her death -- So my dear - tell me how you progress with the study of law in your Papa's office; if it is law that you have decided to study... and tell me all the good news about yourself and sisters and Mama & Papa and Auntie. I esteem each and all of them very highly - and shall hope to see them again in Washington next Winter - I am going to lecture again next winter. Perhaps if you speak to the Journey men's Christian Association Lecture Committee - They may place me in their lecture course in Lexington - With love to each and all - I am very sincerely and Hopefully yours, Susan B. Anthony So the habit of being poor is so fixed in her mind that she will always be poor - - She has a trained nurse - but the children will see that she is paid - I told them she would charge $15 or $20 - a week - Well David said she would stay no matter what it cost - Well good night - Bristol Key - B.D. nest Affectionately your ????? Susan B. Anthony out - Meantime - all the water has to be brought in the primitive way - we got back to North Adams a little after six o'clock - - and after supper - I read awhile & then went to bed - Emie[?] Hemenway - has a beautiful house & home - he does nothing of business - except take care of the horse & hens - they keep no corn - she does her her own work - she has electric lighting all over the house - They all talk of being tired - there is so much - Cousin Ellen Gregg has been in New York two weeks - went home with cousin Ellen Squier = David has been out to the Fair at Buffalo - staid there 5 days - and then went on to Jefferson Iowa - Eliza & Edgar are well - though Eliza has been very ill - Her daughter works in the Post Office - David says none of them but Hemenway can keep a cent - Money slips through their hands - says Jessie has used her seven thousand and borrowed seven more and wants to borrow 5,000 more ? he says Aunt Maria has $125,000 - interest money - in the five years since Uncle Humphreys death in Mr Shaws hands - and yet Aunt Maria feels too poor to have the comforts of life Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.