SUSAN BROWNELL ANTHONY DIARY 1871 1871 Susan B Anthony Rochester, N.Y. Motto of S. Marin Childs paper has "On the nations naked heart from the coals of living truth." No. 7 DAILY MEMORANDUM BOOK FOR 1871 CONTAINING Bill Book, Cash Account ALMANAC, TIME TABLE, &c. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY FRANCIS & LOUTREL, Steam Job Printers AND MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 45 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. A.C. died Saturday, P. M. 4 O clock Sept. - 17th 1864 - burial mass P.M. 2 oclock - Sept 19th the 25th anniversary day of dear sister ?ula's marriage so their day of rejoicing was turned to one of grief JANUARY 1 Sunday Rochester__Ho'. J. Madison [?] Went to Plymouth with Sara & [Lyla] - Had Eugene in *[envy/ every]*- Maggie George down to offer Sunday_ Roast goose for a very lovely dinner _ [?] [?] [?].K. to see or hear The dear boy died Sunday night - 10 O clock Dec. 4th 1870 & was buried Tuesday P.M. 2 O clock Dec. 6th The Dear Ann Elv??? - six years gone 1864 died sept. 17. buried 19th - The eldest & youngest born thus laid away - & our dear Father _ 8 years ago - died won [28th]. Tuesday night - 11 O clock - buried Saturday the 29th - three foul breaks in eight years -- January 2 Monday Mother, Mary & self dined on Roast Turkey at Sister Hannahs - Eugene at home - very excellent dinner. H & Eugene and self went to Corinthian Hall to hear Celine Logan - "Bright Side". I went with her to the Osborne House our house - [?] that I am January 3 Tuesday Rochester Gula went down town with me I bought velvetteen for basque & over skirt & took to Miss Larsons called & dined at Mary J. Callowells JANUARY 4 Wednesday Rochester The A.M. paper said Olive Logan was ill at Osborn House -called a short day & dined there. Dr. Moore performed surgical operation- Olive told me of Anna E Dickinson's not leaving kind word for her with Lecture Committee & asked reason - Said the world was bound to compel her to Mary Wist Dykes - but she would not she did not love him as a husband - I said then never marry him JANUARY 5 Thursday Rochester A.E.D. at Washington We all intended to reach Washington in time to see & hear Anna - But could not get off in time January 6 Friday Took 9 A.M. for Auburn. Saw Mrs. Wright a few hours [?] A.M. [?] to Skaneateles to Cousin Anson Lapham-find him in usual health and all alone Found Ma Frost very feeble indeed January 7 Saturdsay Left on P.M. train for New York-went to Mrs. Murray's to Breakfast and then called at J.J. JANUARY 8 Sunday JANUARY 9 Monday Mrs. Stanton met me & Mr. Cullen at Tiltons - Mrs. T. reported too ill to see us - we went with J.J. to Frank Moultons had long talk over J.J's retiring from Independent & Brooklyn Manor Both of them asserted they had H. B.B. phamplets in their homes. January 10 Tuesday arrived Washington this A. M. Stopped at 212 North Capitol street - with Mrs [?]. P. Griffith & daughter - found papers full of fiction, G. Woodhull's memorial to Boyes. Express package with velveteen [basque] & overskirt came this evening. January 11 Wednesday National W. S. Convention Washington D. C. - Mrs Woodhull's hearing before House Judiciary Committee- Judge Bingham. This AM. first session of Con. at 2 P.M. Woodhull, Hooker, Anthony & A. G. Riddle made arguments before the committee. JANUARY 12 Thursday Washington D. C. National W. S. Conventin Josephine S. Griffing Splendid audience Mrs Hazlett of Mich. present JANUARY 13 Friday Washington D. C. National W. S. Con - continued through to day - audiences growing larger every session to end - January 14 Saturday Washington, D.C. Sen Ben Butler Had meeting of our new team at Capitol at or mdn (?) Took sleeper at one P.M. for New York - Victoria C. Woodhull on same car - she is very charming - utterly forgetful of difference of sex in her approach to men - her husband Col. J.H. Blood met her on Jersey Side at 6 o'clock Sunday A.M. January 17 Tuesday Took breakfast at 6.20 & was off at 7- through the snow & mud - very hard travelling Arrived just in time - would have been too late had our train been behind Went down to Abbey & lunched with Lydia Mott & Phebe Jones - very pleasant & old fashion cordials Went home to Rach & ester at 10.11- Found all back JANUARY 18 Wednesday Left Rochester at 10 A.M. Sister Gula came down in carriage with me & took Buffalo Car to Patu[??] to visit aunt Sophie McLean - a sad trip for her - over the road [???] her dues - T. R. passed this last Saturday - Nov. 12th. Took Hotel Palmer Car - dined & supper on board - around Kalamazoo, Mich at 3 A. M. - not a bed at any hotel - Grand Lodge of Masons in session - so sat on & wrote letters & took train at 7.20 JANUARY 19 Thursday Grand Rapids Mich. Geo. B. Jocelyn Mrs. T. Tradewell Had splendid meeting - Mr and Mrs Tradewell [???] at took [???] [???] in sleigh - January 20 Friday Left Grand Rapids at 7:30 - arrived Kalamazoo at 11, and dined with Mrs. [& Dr?] Stone - Olympia Brown mother called - had delightful visit. took train 3 P.M. - lost bolt from Engine - got into Chicago 9 evening west to F. Joves - hearty reception - [?] Mrs. Stanton then . every time - so help me heaven - weak though she be. January 23 Monday Kansas City, - Mo Mrs May Lillie Joggett Women's Chris. Ass. Lindell Hotel $100 Mechanics Hall ([Frank's?] is Sargent Hall) A cordial audience Mrs. Col. Coates, took me in carriage The papers a few days after called it "The success of the season" - & this after Mrs Livermore's JANUARY 24 Tuesday Lawrence, Kan - 75. T. Bullock - Mere boy, 17 - Liberty Hall - Eldridge House - Wm. Starrett met me at Depot & took me to dine with them - Mrs Starrett as bright as ever - she introduced me - Small audience - The [?] [?] entirely independent of all local interest - & Mrs. Starrett bringing another course with A.E.D., Gough & others - JANUARY 25 Wednesday Topeka Kan - $75 T. Bullock. Union Hall - Tefft Hotel - Brother D. R. met me Depot - had room at Hotel & oh such a house - a perfect pig pen - A. Caldwell just elected N.L, Senator - L. Clarke down & ditto D.R. Had small audience about $78. had rather hard work to speak - - Gov Harvey introduced me - he endorsed W.S. two years ago in his message - January 26 Thursday Leavenworth - Kan T. Bullock Farings Hall - a very small audience Left Topeka at 2 A.M. with brother D.R. arrived at L. to breakfast - D.R. went right to bed I ate and staid up till after lunch - then I slept till 7 P.M. Small audience - only $27. at door - Took only $50. though [they?] promptly offered me $75. Brother D.R. pronounced it the best argument he had ever heard on the question Brother D.R. gave [hay?] $10. January 29 Sunday Lincoln - Neb Guest of Gov Butler's. Misty Hazy day. Speak on Temperance in evening Very small audience - only $11. at 25 cts each - streets are glare of ice - had hard work to speak - yet all pronounced it good. JANUARY 30 Monday Large gathering of women at Clifton House - Mrs Gaylords & formed a W.S. Society - with Mrs Gov. Butler the Pres. Left 1.15, met Mrs Dr Traver - took sleeping car to Kansas City - - arrived at 2 Tuesday A.M, slept till 7 - then went up & breakfasted at the Lindell - saw Sackett & had $10. more pitied out of me - making his $56 - & he really has been of very little service to me took 10 A.M train Paola Fort Scott Ladies formed W. S. Society at the Wilders Hotel at 9 A.M. FEBRUARY 2 Thursday Left Fort Scott at 10 A.M Olathe, Kan American Hotel - Mr Burch Proprietor Mr & Mrs Chamberlin there -Insurance man from Leavenworth - not a Dozen people at the Hall - only $2.50 - at door - Odd Fellows grand encampment & protracted meetings - 160 joined M.E. Church - Rev, Mr & Mrs Renwich came - Judge Fishback absent - - hardest bed & dirtiest room Kansas has given me - FEBRUARY 3 Friday Spring Hill - Kan Moore no meeting - Protracted meetings in May - so took 3 A.M. train for Kansas City & arrived at Leavenworth at 8:40 - found warm welcome - called on Mrs Terry - & from D.R.'s office window saw the Caldwell procession - the Senator of U.S. Dan brot home splendid turkey - Mr. Shurman, English editor of Conservatism, called - but I was in bed - - Little Maud [?] the woman because I failed to call on her W. W. T. sent $8. to the Revolution FEBRUARY 4 Saturday Wyandotte - Kan no meeting by counsel P. B. Taylor - Left Leavenworth at 2:40 P.M. for Kansas City to take 11.15 Omaha train - no crossing the river Saturday nights - stopped at Sheridan Hotel A Col. Jeffries - whom I met on train going to Fort Scott & told me of "Corn Sweat" to cure rheumatism - very publicly Suckett told me he was a river gambler - Suckett [hurry?] one for me to give him my lecture business next year - but I refused to totally - called on Mrs Col. [Curtis?] February 5 Sunday Omaha Nebraska Waited on Iowa side For Burlington & Mo. River Rock Island & Great N. Western trains to arrive - So four Eastern Roads enter into Omaha at same hour - all crossed river on temporary bridge in transfer cars - at noon - Found good quarters at Wyoming Hotel - Building a $2.500.000 bridge - have to mine down 60 & 70 feet to find rock bottom - take two years to finish it. Crossed just where G.F. Trains City Lots - they say he has lost his hold on them entirely - February 6 Monday Omaha - Nebraska - Simpson Hall $100. Mr. M.G. McKoon - Wyoming Hotel - Mr. McKoon & wife & [Judge] Mr Evans called for me to go about City - visited one school & talked to the schools - two Miss McKoons teachers, & Miss Balentine of Gates-Monroe Co. another - tried to take a sleep after dinner but no go too noisy - Mrs Mary E. Peabody Mrs Helen R. McKoon Had fine audience - Odd Fellows made money - FEBRUARY 7 Tuesday Council Bluff Ms Amelia Bloomer Fine audience $40 - Had Pleasant visit with Ms Bloomer - & M.B. said made a strong argument- FEBRUARY 8 Wednesday Left Council Bluffs at 4 P.M. for Cedar Rapids FEBRUARY 9 Thursday Cedar Rapids, Iowa Mr. Eastman Chair - Lecture 6am- Stouffers Hotel Had packed House - & made good speech FEBRUARY 10 Friday Toledo - Iowa M.B.C. True - Left Cedar Rapids at 7.30 - arrived station and took sleigh to Toledo Had pleasant home at M - and fine audience FEBRUARY 11 Saturday Left Toledo for Iowa - N. Western R.R. Went to Junction & thence to Des Moisnes - Took Omnibus to Mrs Savory's - Found both Mr & Mrs S. out for the evening - but soon they returned & gave me a most hearty welcome - right royal are they - FEBRUARY 12 Sunday James C. Savorys Des Moisnes Had pleasant day - she that was Lizzie Boynton - & her her husband Mr Harbert Lawyer dined at the Savory's also another lady & Gentle- man special friends then, we called at their house in evening February 13 Monday Des Moisnes Iowa Court House - Mrs James C. Savery ~ Annie Savery Mrs. M. B. Haven secy - Mrs. Martha C. Callanan - Com - Mrs Sharman- Pres. James Callanan of Albay splendid audience and Mr Tanay said it was the happiest circumstance for me - that I had followed Lucy Stone & that she was so much less than people had anticipated - & I so much stronger than he had expected. February 14 Tuesday Met W. S. women at Y. M. A. rooms at 10 A. M. talked to them about working to their elections of legislation. Dined at Savoy House with M [?] Savoy - left at 645 - Rock Island Hotel at 11.30 - slept on hardest kind of bed - Met Wm. L. Carington of West Winstead st who said he would get up lecture them from awns [?] FEBRUARY 15 Wednesday Sterling Ill. Mrs. D. R. Beck - Met Cousin Joseph Anthony in depot Said Uncle John had come to Sterling for first time this winter & was somewhere selecting lumber[?]. Went straight to Becks & uncle J. did not call - Worried & worried about not going & finding him Almost felt that I had neglected my own dear Father - but I could not get track of him again until after he had left town FEBRUARY 16 Thursday Dundee - Ill W.W. Norton Left Sterling 12 arrived Junction 3 P.M. - dinner Junction House - left J. at 3.45 - arrived Dundee 7.15 - Mr Henry C. Edwards took me to his house dressed, tea & to Congregational Church at 8 - Rev Mr Hill the Pastor presented me - fine audience - dressed, lunched & Mr Edwards took me back to West Elgin to 12.30 - alas no train till 4.45- so sat bolt upright in Depot - four hours - actually tried lying on floor - FEBRUARY 17 Friday [Yellow springs - Ohio Chas. W. Clement] All this lost nights sleep - laboring under the mistake that I must be at the Central R.R. Chicago at 9.20 to get to Watseka to speak to night - Chicago 7- Judge Bradwell not in official - [?] found mistake until arrived at McCurdy House - boy said it is tomorrow night - went strait to bed at 3.30 & slept tell 5.20 - too, too bad - did so want to spend the day in Chicago FEBRUARY 18 Saturday Watsega - Ill - R. H. Peters McCurdy House H. A. [?] I. C. [?] Mrs [D?] called for me to go with her - but postponed until after lecture - good audience February 19 Sunday At Mrs Dodges Continued run of callers all day - Mrs Betsey Hawks - formerly of Genesee Co. N. York came also - February 20 Monday Left Watseka on Toledo & Wabash R.R. to Lafayette thence to Dayton - just saw A.J. Boyer & engaged to go back & speak there the 24th - his wife very ill with Consumption February 21 Tuesday Yellow Springs Ohio Charles W. Clemanent Antioch College - Stopped the Rev. William Hosmers - President Antioch College - Mrs Hosmer one of the most hospitable women Had fine audience in College Chapel & the Dr. said "I have heard all the woman suffrage women lecture, but, Miss Anthony, I have to night listened to an argument for the first time - a compliment above all compliments coming from so aged & conservative a minister February 22 Wednesday Springfield Ohio Ms E. D. Stewart Mrs. M. C. Allison sister of Mrs. Starrett Xenia - Ohio - met me at Depot & made me promise to visit her after Antioch - Small meeting at Springfield out of pocket - Stopped at Hotel - an February 23 Thursday 4 miles from Hema (?) (?) me at Hema Point (?) Spoke in e(?) (?) and Mrs. Allison of Henin (?) came over to Millerpore and I went home with them- Many bright & from (?) (?) young (?) colored girls in this school- February 24 Friday Dayton Ohio Huston Hall Phillip House Pleasant visit with Mrs. Allison-talked with Mrs. Starret (?) of Lawrence Kansas - Took them to Dayton-Make to very small audience- between 30 & 40 dollars out of pocket- Learned of Mr. Roger or asked him to loan of M(?) took fair for Sulern (?) _ Ohio at H.P.M (?) Western (?) the (?) & (?) February 25 Saturday Salem Ohio - reached Salem about 11 A.M. - Parker Pillsbury has misunderstood my letters - hence notice of Lecture had been recalled - but little bills were at once printed & a fine audience we had & all delighted- Marnis Robinson Barnaby And P.P. pronounced the Lecture good-the Hon. Mr. Catell introduced the man who reported favorably on W.S. in 1859 in O. legislature February 26 Sunday Went to hear P.P.'s last Sunday lecture- It was just like him - splendid - full house - Mr Robbinson presented resolutions -of appreciation & thanks Mr. Pillsbury responded & there were many moist eyes, among men too -all moved to tears- Mrs Robinson had large party at her house this P.M. - but I was obliged to take hurried lunch & P.P. went with me to Depot at 2 P.M. Arrived at Crestline about 8 P.M. - took supper & went to dirtiest room & bed - February 27 Monday Columbus - Ohio - Left my hard & not so clean bed & room at Crestline at 10 & arrived at Columbus at 1 - P.M. stopped Neil House_ Head the Representative Hall packed nearly every member both houses present - made good argument on 14 & 15 Am't Ms. R.S.A. Janney Ms. Elizabeth Coit Mrs. Coit the best - February 28 Tuesday Left Columbus O. at 11-10 - arrived at Monroeville Lake Shore R.R. - 3 P.M. nice dinner - and on board Mich. South. R.R. & lo there sat Mrs. Stanton all curled up - gray curls sticking out - fast asleep - hard to part at Toledo - she to Detroit, I to Jackson arrived at J. at 11.30 - Hibbard House - slept till 5 then up & off again - tough, tough March 1 Wednesday Lansing Mich Took cars from Jackson at 6 A.M. & arrived Lansing 8 - & went to Mrs. D.L. Case - met warm welcome - Large meetings & earnest - made argument on 14th & 15th amendments in evening- Mrs. Wheaton spoke in Legislative Hall against W. S. March 2 Thursday Lansing Mich- Mrs. Hazzlett did not [reach[ come into Convention until this A.M but to hear Mrs. Wheaton last night - she came in with cold water on 14th Amd't road to freedom her [feet?] echo of Republicanism Splendid discussion several men took part in evening Mrs Lothrope & Mrs [Haight?] spoke in (?) (?) (?) February 17 Friday [Yellow Springs - Ohio Chas W. Clement] All this lost nights sleep - laboring under the mistake that I must be at Ill Central R.R. Chicago at 9.20 to get to Watseka to speak to night. Chicago 7- Judge Bradwell not in office. Never found mistake until arrived at McCurdy House - boy said it is tomorrow night - went strait to bed at 3.30- & slept till 5.20- Too, too bad - did so want to spend the day in Chicago. February 18 Saturday Watsega -Ill - R.H. Peters McCurdy House H. A. Neal J.C. Made(?) Mrs Dodge called for me to go with her - but postponed until after lecture- Good audience February 19 Sunday at Ms Dodges Continual run of callers all day - Ms Betsey Hawkes - formerly of Genesee B. N. Josh came also - February 20 Monday Left Watseka on Toledo & Western R.R. to [L?] then to Dayton - just saw A. J. Boyer + engaged to go back & speak there the 24th his wife very ill with Consumption FEBRUARY 21 Tuesday Yellow Springs Ohio Charles W. Clemanent Antioch College Stopped the Rev. William Hosmers - President Antioch College - Mrs Hosmer one of the most hospitable woman Had fine audience in College Chapel - & the Dr. - said "I have heard all the womn suffrage movement lectures, but, Miss Anthony, I have to night listened to an argument for the first time - a complement above all complements coming from so aged & conservative a minister FEBRUARY 22 Wednesday Springfield - Ohio Ms. E. D. Stuart Mrs. M. C. Allison sister of Mrs. Starrett Xenia - Ohio - met me at Depot & made me promise to visit her after Antioch - Small meeting at Springfield out of pocket - Staffed at Hotel - [?] FEBRUARY 23 Thursday Wilberforce [illegible] 4 miles from Henin Pres. Paine Prof. Jackson Met me at Henin depot [Shake] in envy - Mr. and Mrs. Allicou of Henin came over to Wilberforce and [P ment] home with [illegible]. May bright and from [illegible] young Colored girls in this school. FEBRUARY 24. Friday Dayton Ohio Huston Hart Philbys House Pleasant visit with Mrs. Allison - talking over Mrs. Starch of Laurence Kansas - Took Jim to Dayton -Spoke to very small audience - between 30 & 40 dollars out of Pocket. Loaned of Mr Boyer or asked him to loan at [illegible]. Took [Fair] for Salem Ohio at H.P. m Grant Western [R.be] through Chicago & Fort [Morgan] February 25 Saturday Salem Ohio - reached Salem about 11 A.M. - Parker Pillsbury has misunderstood my letters - hence notice of Lecture had been recalled - But little bills were at once printed & a fine audience we had & all delighted - Marius Robinson Barnaby and P.P. pronounced the Lecture good - the Hon. Mr. Cotell introduced the man who reported favorably on [?]. [?]. in 1859 in O. Legislature February 26 Sunday Went to hear P.P.'s last Sunday lecture - it was just like him - splendid - full house - Mr. Robbinson presented resolutions - of appreciation and thanks Mr. Pillsbury responded & there were many moist eyes, among men too - all reduced to tears - Mrs Robinson had large party at her house this P.M. - but I was obliged to take hurried lunch and P.P went with me to Depot at 2 P. M. Arrived at Crestline about 8 P.M. - took supper & went to dirtiest room I had February 27 Monday Columbus Ohio - Left my hard & not so clean bed & room at Crestline at 10 and arrived at Columbus at 1 - P.M. Stopped Neil House. Had the Representative Hall packed nearly every member both houses present - made good argument as on [?] [?] Am't Mrs. R.SA. Jannery Mrs. Elizabeth Coit Mrs. Coit the best. February 28 Tuesday Left Columbus O, at 11-16 - arrived at Monroeville (Lake Shore R.R.) - 3 P.M. nice dinner - and on board Mich. South R.R. and lo there sat Mrs Stanton all curled up - gray curls sticking out - fast sleep - - had to part at Toledo - she to Detroit. I to Jackson arrived at J. at 11:30 - Hibbard House - slept till 5 then up & off again - tough tough. March 1 Wednesday Lansing, MIch. Took cars from Jackson at 6 A.M. & arrived Lansing 8 - & went to Mrs. D. L. Case. - met warm welcome - Large meetings & earnest - made argument on 14th & 15th amendments in evening Mrs. Wheaton spoke in Legislative Hall against W. S. March 2 Thursday Lansing Mich Mrs. Hazzlett did not [reach] come into Convention until this A.M. but to hear Mrs. Wheaton last night. - She came in with cold water on 14th Amd't road to freedom - her feet echo of Republicanism Splendid discussion. several men took part in evening. Mrs. Lufhouse & Mrs. Hazlett spoke in reprise ?? March 3 Friday Lansing Mich Mrs Stanton spoke before the Lyceum this evening Mrs [?] the train Mrs S. gave her presentation & people [?] [?] [?] is Mrs Livermore March 6 Monday Romeo - Mich - Ridgeway Station D&M R.R. Daniel McCoy Ira L. Forbes Left Ann Arbor at 8 - arrived Detroit & stopped there till 7, then to Ridgeway & on short R.R. to Romeo. Everything all ready - - cup of tea at Mrs McCoy's - & thence to Hall - made a good speech - The Congregational minister called - said Mrs. Stanton's speech needed mine to complete it — March 7 Tuesday Took early train and went up to Huron - having given them this eve's lecture - but no arrangement made - called on Mrs. then went to Hotel & slept. March 8 Wednesday Huron Mich Took train early but had long delay & at Junction. took car into Chicago MARCH 9 Thursday arrived at Mrs. Jones Chicago and found Mrs. Stanton already their. Had full talk March 10 Friday Chicago — the Cook County W. S. Council Meeting Farwell Hall Good meetings MARCH 11 Saturday Chicago - Cook Co. W. S. Matinee in Park First woman Sufferage matinee - Music, short speeches & the entertainment Was delightful A fine audience MARCH 12 Sunday Chicago. W. S. Self called at Mrs. S. H. Gay’s. Then I Went to Robert Collyer’s To dine - thence To 206 Erie st. To Call on cousins Joseph & Lydia Safham & then back to Mrs. Jone’s. Tired out March 13 Monday Chicago Il Spent the day at Mrs Jones- Mrs Stanton left for home at 4.30 March 14 Tuesday Chicago- Spent day & night with Aunt Anna Eliza Dickinson 113 South Green St - general & genuine chat on every thing & every body Got Life Insurance for $5,000 - in "National Life Co. of Chicago - paid $21. - for first payment - March 15 Wednesday Chicago to Earlville Spent A.M. Carters office writing then called Mrs. Fernado [gone?] & thence to Depot - arrived Earlville 8 P.M. - Found Cousin Susan moved to village in nice little cottage & boarding there,. Rev. M. Barnes & wife Universalist minister - Found warm welcome as I always do with my Father's dear Sisters daughter March 18 Saturday Earlville - Il Cousin & self called Grover's Got immense letter (six letter Heads) from Mrs J.B. Hooker on the work of National Committee & specifically on the war against Mrs V. C. Woodhull It is the same old game - to cut off woman for offenses almost every man is guilty of - I will not listen to a word of it but work with all women as we do with all men March 19 Sunday Earlville Ill Spent A.M. thinking & noting points - & taking a sleep - heavy load from fish dinner yesterday - at 3.30 P.M. found M. E. Church packed full & made a pretty fair speech (after I got under sail) on the duty of woman to possess the power to control the circumstance of herself & children, in the home & outside - Mr & Mrs A.J. Grover spent the evening at Cousin Susan's with me - all the rest went to Church Gave him a plain talk, March 20 Monday Earlville to Mount Pleasant Left Earlville A.M. stopped Mendota to Express train - called on Mrs [J.?] E. Smith- found all packed up - moving to Vinton Iowa - 9 miles from Vinton by carriage- Mr Rolf Universalist minister formerly Earlville me me Depot & took me to his house March 21 Tuesday Mt. Pleasant Iowa Bell A. Maisfield Mrs Thompson Ann Walter Ralph Joseph A. [Dugldale?] Small audience but very good March 22 Wednesday Ottumwa Iowa Taylor & Blake Judge Morris Williams Took train 10.45 P.M. for Plattsmouth arrived at P. 10 A.M. had fine audience & engaged for next [stop?] March 23 Thursday Plattsmouth, Neb. P.M. Strong- Small meeting Stopped at Brooks Hotel- Got Telegram from W. L. Wilkins Sioux City, asking why I was not there Tues. 21st- answered because I did not know they expected me March 24 Friday Nebraska City [J. Renner- Editor] W.P . Roberts- Vice Pres. Mrs. Dr. J. H. Avery- Arrived Mr [?] at 9 A.M., Had fine audience Judge Mason asked questions - he had decided Negroes not right to be jurors by 14th amendment - Dr. Smith took photograph - passably good March 25 Saturday Had pleasant day at Dr Mays Mr & Mrs Wm Miller boarders at Mr Mays - Left at 3 P.M. for Burlington a second Telegram from Sioux City about failure to go there - never received his letter saying he accepted the night - March 26 Sunday Burlington Arrived at 8 A.M. took breakfast and dinner at hotel Mr Huston set carriage for me to go to [Mr?] Theodore W. [Baileycity?] - where I found delightful entertainment house on the Bluff in north part of City - MARCH 27 Monday Burlington - Iowa P. Anthrobus E.B. Huston [Stayed?] with Ellie & J.W. Barhydt - Mrs. Darwin Teacher in Baptist College - Letter from sister Mary telling of sudden death of Dr Henry McLeans wife - Aaron went down funeral Gula did not - went to Maggie leaving mother & Mary & girl by [?] all alone in house & lonesome enough - MARCH 28 Tuesday Davenport Iowa John Ackley Burtis House John T. Smits introduced me to a fine audience - (Left on 7.45 [?] A.M. - for Syracuse) Clerk gave me note left by G. F. Train who passed through early last A.M. for Freeport M - saying great disappointment at Sioux City - that he always spoke of me in his meeting & that I should of him when I had more faith in him - & more [pluck?] MARCH 29 Wednesday Sycamore Ill J. C. Whittemore Stopped at Simmon Hotel - Mr and Mrs Oliver J. Bailey called want me next year MARCH 30 Thursday Rockford Ill J. P. Norman Dr Norman met me at Depot & said I had better not attempt to speak - that there were two Church converts & one sociable that evening & not a ghost of a chance for an audience - so I rushed into train & went on to Galena - arrived at 6.09 - afterwards learned that a great many were greatly disappointed - & were told that I was seen in Chicago MARCH 31 Friday Galena Ill M. M. Miller stopped with Mrs Sarrah Coates Harris wife of Capt D. L. Harris introduced by Mr Bird small audience Left Galena at 5.28 Saturday A. M. APRIL 1 Saturday Ripon Wis. Chamberlain Belvidere Ill - Wm W. Fuller stopped with Mrs L. H. Brown - introduced by Mr John Rollins APRIL 2 Sunday Belvidere Ill - at Mrs L.K. Brown went Presbyterian Church - Rev Mr. D. R. Eddy - about future state - Collective for Education minister supposed all knew its object to educate poor young man for ministry left out the "pious" APRIL 3 Monday Clinton Iowa [Mr?] F. McGuire Went down to Junction - thence west to Clinton - had a fine audience APRIL 4 Tuesday Morrison Ill Edward V. Lapham Cousin E. met me Depot, took me out to his farm a full [mile] square mile had pleasant time & big load went into town in evening - Had large audience - and took train at 12 Oclock east to Dixon - then slept till 10 Wednesday A.M. - Cold room & hard bed - APRIL 5 Wednesday Princeton Ill Bascom & Butler Took Ill. Central at 11 to Mendota then C.B.& Q. to Princeton - Miss Lovejoy - daughter of Owen Lovejoy - met me Depot & made me most welcome - and comfortable - plenty of nice fruit & cream etc April 6 Thursday Princeton - Ill Gave second lecture this eve on 14 & 15 amendment. Mrs Patterson owns the Hall & wants me to come next winter. Slept at Mrs Owens until 3 A.M. then her son took me to Depot - took sleeping car into Chicago - April 7 Friday Lafayette Ind. Jas. R. Caanahan Left Chicago 9 A.M. arrived 3.30 P.M. and took dinner, slept and spoke two hours - then took train back to Chicago at 11 P.M. John Brokenbraugh & wife called - Thomas Atkinson Oxford - Benton Co. Indiana rode 20 miles to see & hear me - a Quaker APRIL 8 Saturday Chicago Ill Woman Suffrage Matinee - Arrived Chicago at 8 A.M. Went to Mrs Jones 810 Prince Avenue - Had small but good audience - made my Power of the Ballot - Mr Jones & all men surprized at my argument & said it was worthy the largest house Chicago could give APRIL 9 Sunday At Chicago - Mrs Young Called at Aunt A. E. Dickinsons - Mr & Mrs Jones took me Methodist Missionary - "Women's" annual meeting heard Miss of and Mrs H. give their annual reports - - then they took me to Depot for Milwaukee - reached there early APRIL 10 Monday Ripon - Wis - Mrs M. B Strong - Arrived Milwaukee at 6 A.M. found no train until 2 P.M. - the rain poured - so did not call on dear Lilie Beckham, Madam Anneke nor Mary Stout Roddis nor sister Annie & sister Eunice - Tried to take a sleep - but no avail - arrived Ripon at 8.15 - took cup of tea & went direct to Hall - stopped at Mrs Harris - Streets perfect glare of ice still a pretty fair audience APRIL 11 Tuesday Jefferson Wis - Up early & took train for Jefferson - Had fine audience -the Good Templars got it up - Did not go to bed - took train about 12 midnight for Chicago - several ladies & gentlemen Stopped at Hotel till train time - the Gentleman who introduced me was over seas - wife [?] earnest W. S. woman APRIL 12 Wednesday Arrived Chicago 7 A. M. walked to Cousin P Laphams and took breakfast Then to see Mrs [?ou??] & Judge Waite & then to Aunt A E Dickinsons & thence to Hannah Dickinson Boyles & staid all night APRIL 13 Thursday Left Cousin H Dick. Boyle's at 8 A.M. - 189 Sangamon St. - had Pallace Car State room with Mrs Adams Hinsdale niece of Mr. Gifford (Singer) Rochester Found Mrs [M.?] B. [?] - 323 Howard St. Detroit - about 7.30 & stopped over night Mrs C. F. Stebbins then - Mrs Gardner had voted a few days before - April 14 Friday St. Clair - Mich. Ms. J.R. Whiting stopped with Mrs. Namey Higley - Widow - pays large tax - Mrs Wm. B. Baron Had splendid meeting rode from Huron to St. Clair in stage 12 miles - April 15 Saturday Took steamer down St. Clair Lake & River - very beautiful - & evening train to Ann Arbor - had pleasant visit at the Halls - Called at George Fords - Maurice looked just as of yore - Mr. Ford very aged and infirm APRIL 16 Sunday Ann Arbor Israel P. Halls APRIL 17 Monday Hudson Mich Frank H. Cobb Had very good meeting & pleasant house at APRIL 18 Tuesday Painesville Ohio Ms P. H. M. Stickney husband Frank G. Stickney Splendid audience note $50. 20 ct. admission Strongest woman Ms. Chesney- next Ms J. O. Wilcox Judge Harris best man APRIL 19 Wednesday Took train to Dunkirk - where I slept at Hotel - APRIL 20 Thursday Cuba N.Y. O.S. Freeland Took Erie Train at 7:20, stopped at Mrs - had nice meeting - APRIL 21 Friday Rushford N.Y. C. W. [Underwood] Woodworth Mrs. Mark Hauser Mrs Martha B. Dickinson - Ed. Good Templar Olean All. Co. N.Y. Took private carriage - because stage would be so late - arrived at R. found no preparations for lecture - trouble - agent had written Underwood instead of Woodworth - so stopped over APRIL 22 Saturday Rushford All. Co. N.Y. Had fine audience at 25 cts, hence no cash visited Cheese Factory APRIL 23 Sunday Took Carriage back to Cuba & took 4 P.M. Sunday train for Corning APRIL 24 Monday Mt Morris - N.Y. Mrs Helen M. Brown Found dear Mrs Sleeper at the Depot - had fine audience & good visit. Mr Sleeper very feeble - did not go out - APRIL 25 Tuesday Took train into Rochester - when arrived about noon went directly to No. 7 Madison street - Found all well & as glad to see me as I them & home - APRIL 26 Wednesday Rochester - Home Got black Alpacha for traveling dress - also black lace & guipure for trimmings too steel Gray Silk presented me my 50th birthday 1870 - Feb 15 - APRIL 27 Thursday Rochester - Home ordeal of trying on dresses & getting mended up - washed up - cleaned up & fixed up generally MAY 6 Saturday Labor Reform working men New York. MAY 7 Sunday working men's meeting N.Y. At Mrs Martins Mrs Hooker came to tea, spent evening - we wrote resolutions MAY 8 Monday Mrs Hooker & self went into New York, she to the Coleman House & I to Mrs Murrays MAY 9 Tuesday New York Wendell Phillips Yeates at Steinway Hall. A.M. Reform League & evening at Union League Hall. standard subscriptions pestered persons A.M.P. MAY 10 Wednesday American W.S. meeting Steinway Hall Passed resolutions saying they were not Free Loners why not on saying their men not thieves & murders staffed with Mrs Murray. MAY 11 Thursday National W.S. meeting Apollo Hall New York Good audience Mrs Hooker, Mrs Davis, Mrs Stanton The great trouble allowing Mrs Wood Hall on our Platform May 12 Friday National W. S. Committee Meeting-Apollo Hall May 13 Saturday MAY 14 Sunday Spent Sunday with Mrs Stanton & she decided to go to California with me. Hattie actually cried half the day that her mother would go, too mean she said MAY 15 Monday [Took 8 A. M. train for Bridgeport stopped with Rev Olympia Brown Mrs Hooker not here.] MAY 16 Tuesday [Went to Hartford with Mrs Hooker again & Olympia Brown with us.] Bridgeport - CT - took 8 A.M. train - Mrs Hooker & Mrs Middlebrook - Stopped with Rev Olympia Brown MAY 17 Wednesday Hartford Ct. at Mrs. Hooker's Mrs. Griffin's with us - Olympia Brown went up with us - [?] train - MAY 18 Thursday Left Hartford this A.M. drank tea with old friend Lydia Mott & then night train to Rochester MAY 19 Friday Arrived Rochester at 9.40 and went direct to Dentist Requa & had front root extracted for 20 years I had worn pivot tooth. MAY 20 Saturday Rochester MAY 21 Sunday Rochester [H?] MAY 22 Monday [Took 8 A.M. train for Bridgeport CT., stopped with brave Rev. Olympia Brown.] Rochester at home. MAY 23 Tuesday Rochester [went to Hartford with Mrs Hooker Olympia with us, had pleasant visit also J. P. Griffin of Washington] MAY 24 Wednesday [Hartford CT at Mrs. Hookers] Rochester MAY 25 Thursday [Left Hartford this A.M., Luncheon with Lydia Mott & took night train into Rochester] Rochester [*this should have been July 19th*] MAY 26 Friday Rochester, 9.40, went direct to Dr Requa's Dentist, he formed front tooth root split, so the pivot was loose, after deliberation & his decision that I could not get on with it, he took out the root, which had held a pivot tooth for 24 years, & I went home toothless with prospect of a rubber plate in my mouth henceforth & dreadful does it seem. MAY 27 Saturday Rochester MAY 28 Sunday Rochester Hattie Baker [?] - brought her little Freddy home for fear of catching scarlet fever - & MAY 29 Monday Rochester Spent A.M. at Dr Requa's - getting teeth fitted - Oh for the old fraction of a root back again - great anxiety lest little Harry shall take scarlet fever MAY 30 Tuesday Rochester - Miss Vaughan got Grendine basque done - tolerably fair - [Grover?] the shoes - very good - But the teeth alas - alas - I fear I can never get them right - at evening [?] & Mary Hallowell called - Unitarian minister Mr Mann called before I returned - MAY 31 Wednesday Couldn't get off on 10 A.M. train - went to Dentists he fitted a third plate - but I feel no surety any of them will be a success - Left on 10 night train - arrived at Erie Pa - at 3 A.M. & took bed till 8 Thursday A.M. Aaron & niece Maggie went to Depot with me JUNE 1 Thursday Left Erie at 10.30 arrive Pittsburgh 4- P.M. - - took supper & bed until 10 Oclock - Then train to Mouth of Mahoning - 2.30 A.M. - bed until 5 - then breakfast, carriage at 6 A.M. Friday - JUNE 2 Friday Brookville - Pa - G.R. Barrett, & Mr Marlin -, Small Pox panic made audience smaller as well as awful heat - Travelled with Henry Young of Geneseo - Ill - over the mountains 33 miles Dreadfully tired - dined Millville - Wind at backs - dust terrific - arrived at 4 P.M. went straight to bed - awful hot - pretty fair audience - June 3 Saturday Left Brookville at 9 A.M. - not so warm as yesterday, wind in our faces - same Geneseo, Ill Henry [Young?] on board . Dined at Milleville - 16 miles - arrived at mouth of Mahoning at 6 - took tea - & cars at 7.20 to Pittsburgh - arrived 11 - sat up until 1 - & then learned no train to Xenia till Sunday 11 A. M. So went to bed, tired & disgusted that nobody should know the fact - JUNE 4 Sunday Left Pittsburgh at 11 A M. - our Pan Handle route for Xenia O. arrived at 9 P.M. Slept at Hotel - hard prospects - A tremendous shower about 3 P.M. - much needed - every thing suffering - June 5 Monday Xenia Ohio - G.F. Moody - Mrs. P. Rol[?] O. Mr. Moody called and took me to Mrs Starretts sisters Fanny's - Mrs Matt. Allison where I had good [?] Mrs. A insisted I should wear the steel gray silk A. E. D. gave me Birth day - & it did look very nice - This was the christening JUNE 6 Tuesday Mrs. S. Painesville O. Left Xenia at 11 A.M. arrived at Richmond 2 P.M. and stopped at Dr. Mary F. Thomas' until 10 evening - found her clear on Woodhull work & the Ind. society going to withdraw from the American Society JUNE 7 Wednesday Arrived Chicago 8 A.M. - breakfasted with Aunt A. E. Dickinson and found all well - Called on Judge Waite & he took me to their new City suffrage rooms very nice - at 5 went to Mrs Jones - Mr & Mrs. Brooks called in evening - Mr B will get me pass to Omaha JUNE 8 Thursday Chicago — at Mrs. Jones Drove round to meet Mrs. Stanton at Mich. Southern R.R. at 8.22 A.M. - She got letter off to The Revolution - and at 3 P.M. we all went suffrage rooms 145 Madison St - to reception - a good many there, all splendid - went to Mr Bowen’s to tea — had to leave & take 10 o’clock R.R. train - found trunks not there left word to double check them to Des Moines - JUNE 9 Friday Des Moisnes - Iowa Mrs Maria Gray Pittman arrived at 4 P.M. Mrs Pitman & Mrs Calanan met us - a thunder storm came just at lecture hour so Stanton's audience was was small - in Court House after meeting Mrs S. went home with Mrs Savory - Saturday A.M. the trunks came all right - JUNE 10 Saturday Des Moisnes Mr Caldanan took us both to his house to dinner, and then back to 3 Oclock talk with women alone - very interesting meeting - no letters from home - feel very anxious to learn fate of Hattie Bakers boy - darling little Henry - also of our mother whom I left unusually feeble - Reception at Mrs Pittmans this evening JUNE 11 Sunday Des Moisnes Iowa Mrs Savory sent carriage for me & I spent day at her beautiful home - Lizzie Boynton Harbert & husband - Henry Oldman Pres. of State W.S. society there - cares, as do all the men champions - mostly more for his own and Repub. party success than for woman suffrage. JUNE 12 Monday Spent day at Mrs Pitmans - writing letters - Did receive a letter - but did two rolls of [?] - Went to Mrs P's Dentist to see if my teeth could be fixed but of no avail - Took [?] R.R. at 4 P.M. - arrived at Bluffs at 11 - D.C. Bloomer at Depot - took to his house - undertook to sleep with Stanton - but no use - JUNE 13 Tuesday Mrs. Stanton at Council Bluffs Ms Amelia Bloomer I left C. Bluffs at 5.50 A.M. & arrived Sioux City 11.55 Mr Wilkins & Mr Collins Ed. Daily Times took me round town to see & be seen I suppose - & then to Northwestern Hotel - Barnes, Edson proprietors - ate dinner & went to bed & slept till tea time - no letters or papers here - JUNE 14 Wednesday Sioux City W.L. Wilkins At 9 A.M. Wilkins & wife & Dr. wife called & took me riding over the bluffs - visited the grave of the Big Sioux Indian chief & crossed the Big Sioux into Dacotah Territory and there lunched on the banks of the river - returned at 12 - wrote twelve letters - took nap & to Academy of Music - Good audience - Mr & Mrs Angley of Dacotah City over - engaged both Stanton & Anthony to W.S.W. for next winter at $7 JUNE 15 Thursday Fort Dodge Iowa Rev. W. P. Morrison left Sioux City, 6.30 A.M. arrived F.D. 12.10 noon Mr Barnes of Sioux City just opened Iowa House at F.D. Splendid audience But oh the Bed buggy room JUNE 16 Friday Cherokee Iowa Josiah Armstrong $30 & all nett over-- Splendid audience stopped at McLean's Hotel. nice little Ct. woman for wife. Ms Stanton at Lincoln Neb. Constitutional Convention in session JUNE 17 Saturday Missouri Valley Junction D. M. Harris Ed. Harrisonian Small audience but some good done perhaps JUNE 18 Sunday Went down to Mrs Bloomers found Mrs L. Stone - dreadfully hot day Went over to Wyoming Hotel Omaha in P. M. met Mrs Train's uncle Geo Frost who took us in his carriage JUNE 19 Monday Omaha. Neb. Wyoming Hotel [?] A.S. Paddock Prop. Territorial-secretary & acting governor. Ms. S spoke in the Academy of Music same that echoed to G.F Train Stanton & [?] Nov. 19th 1867. Gen. P. Bemis. [?] private sec'y & his wife Julia Brown. [?] [got ? over M.P.R.R.] JUNE 20 Tuesday Mr Siskels Telegraph give passes to S.B. & [?] over Union Pacific received it just at last moment of taking train at 11.30 Julia & Bemis accompanied us to the Depot June 21 Wednesday Cheyenne Mrs. M. H. Arnold Amelia B. Post - bath Mrs. Stanton had small audience - arrived about noon Mrs Stanton slept at Mrs Ports, I at Mrs Arnolds June 22 Thursday Went down to Denver. Mrs McCook met us at Depot & took us to her new & lovely house - the Gov. was absent Church Howe took us riding to Fort David Russell got passes to Denver JUNE 23 Friday [Greeley - Col -] [Ralph Meeker] Denver - Col Mrs Mary M. Cook I spoke this evening in Opera House, splendid audience - JUNE 24 Saturday Greeley - Col Ralph Meeker Splendid audience - Mrs S. spoke to the Denver women alone this P. M. JUNE 25 Sunday Cheyenne Arrived from Greeley at noon Went to Mrs Potts - had a packed house for audience. Mrs S. spoke at Denver this evening - JUNE 26 Monday Laramie, Wy. Mr J. H. Hugford Very small audience - Mrs. Lake's Circus here - Mrs S. spoke at Greeley this evening Got check for $200. on {?} bank to send to R. J. Johnston for printing Seneca Falls report of 1848 with Stanton's first speech She gave $100. of this - the very first she ever contributed to fund - any of her own speeches even - JUNE 27 Tuesday Took train at 12 noon - Mrs Stanton on board scenery beyond description - 100 women at Depot Mrs S. addressed them on platform JUNE 28 Wednesday Salt Lake arrived about 7 P. M. Stopped Townsend House Mr Godbe met us at Depot Brigham Young gone JUNE 29 Thursday Salt Lake City Utah W.S. Godbe his uncle Daniel Grant arranged for us - Mrs Stanton spoke Mayor Wells introduced - 4 or 500 present - Mr Grant took us to call at the Mayors house. [?] his wife - [?] of fine JUNE 30 Friday Salt Lake Mrs Stanton had large meeting of women alone in [Big] Old Tabernacle very interesting - I spoke in evening to a very small house. Bishop Pratt introduced me - JULY 1 Saturday Received calls all day - Mrs Pitts Stevens arrived Sunday A. M. from San Fancisco JULY 2 Sunday Ms S. staid home to write - I went to Dedication of the Liberal Institute. It was a most enthusiastic meeting - I asked the men if they had thought whether the women by their side were rejoicing in equal freedom from all intervention of man between them and their God!! - went to Big Tabernacle in P.M., Geo. T. [C?] JULY 3 Monday Sunday - last night Mrs Stanton gave her written lecture The True Republic to a packed house in new Liberal Institute The Camp Dr. took us out to the camp to tea Sunday P.M. - JJULY 4 Tuesday Salt Lake Stanton & Anthony went Big Tabernacle Saw it filled - Mrs S. staid there - I went over to new Liberal Institute - those come outers from Mormontown were rejoicing in Womens new freedom. - Since the days of Patrick Henry I do not believe the Declaration has been pronounced with such emotion - dined with Mrs.Mary Godbe - July 5 Wednesday Meeting of the Women's improvement Society in new Liberal Institute 200 present. Splendid time. Stanton [dined] took tea with Mrs. Mary Godbe & with Mrs. Annie Godbe Gov. Stanford telegraphed us passes to San Francisco. July 6 Thursday Took cars for Corinne - [Super -] No passes over Bingham R.R. for anybody. July 7 Friday Corinne - U.T. I had little meeting in P.M. and we took the train at 7 P.M. Mrs. Hetty Painter is the working best woman here - is a Doctor. Wrote letter on Salt Lake back to The Revolution from Coviner July 8 Saturday All the sage brush desert - Mrs Peter McIntosh Rock Hampton Queensland Australia July 9 Sunday On C.P.R.R. Porter George called us at 4 a.m. to see Donner Lake and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. - sublime. - beyond anything ever seen. Arrived San Fran at 6 - Col. John A. Collins met us at Oakland - went to Grand Hotel. July 10 Monday San Fran. - took a look at all the Hotels. but decided to stick to Grand - perfect run of calls all day. July 11 Tuesday San Fran - Mrs. E. C. S. spoke first time in Platts Hall - splendid audience - 1200 - Womens Suffrage speech Everybody delighted July 12 Wednesday San Francisco S. B. A . spoke Platts Hall - Power of the Ballot - a splendid audience - & great speech - Hisses at allusion to Laura Fair - but I silenced them & then turned them to cheers - 1200 - July 13 Thursday San Francisco Mrs S. Marriage & Maternity to women - only - at Platts Hall- 400 present - splendid meeting - Every paper came out terrifically against me & my speech last night - never before got such a raking Mrs. S. went to see Tuwra Fair in A.M. forwarded her a beautiful sweet woman July 14 Friday San Francisco Mrs S. Platts Hall. - Woman Suffrage & True Love. Large house again - July 15 Saturday Mrs S. went home with Mrs Schenck I went with Col. J.A. Collins & wife to San Rafael to speak - stopped at Mrs Du Bois Col & wife at Irwins had small meeting and the shadow of the newspapers luming over me every minute July 16 Sunday Mr Collins took A.M. boat home Mr & Mrs Irwin took Mrs Collins & me a ride round the mountains - San Rafel is in the most beautifully sheltered valley - took 2 P.M. boat to San. Fran. and went up to Mrs Schencks - dense fog - almost rain - & really cold - July 17 Monday Mrs. S. & Pitts Stevens went to San Jose - I to Grand Hotel - Mrs Hurburt called for me to go to see Mrs Higby - who was knocked down by a ruffian the night before - Mrs Hurburt is the sister of Hydenfelt - Judge of Supreme Court for five - - Mr. H. lives with woman who officiates at his table & the mother of five children - but not his legal wife - Mrs Higby very badly hurt - no clue at the person - July 18 Tuesday Gov. Stanford gave us [threw?] monthly [hall?] - San Fran - Grand Hotel Mr W. S Gadbe of Salt Lake here - & his presence made me feel quite at home - or somewhat relieved me of loneliness from absence of Mrs Stanton - Have been experimenting with Dentist Knowles since my first arrival - but he fails to better Dr. Requa's first job - Gula clasp[?] July 19 Wednesday Grand Hotel Had sent out tickets to ladies to Mrs. Stanton's Marriage & Divorce tomorrow. This A.M.'s papers announced its postponement - I went in search of Collins & found it done by his order from Stanton - closed bill & went home with Collins - had nice dinner, had letter from Sister Mary - found Rev. J.R. McLean was probably at [Lick?] July 20 Thursday House so went down to see them - but decided not to wait for them to go Yosemite Valley - Took 4 P.M. train for Stockton to join Mrs Stanton - found Miss M. A. Thomson, Mrs Cook of Phila - there waiting to see me - they were just returned from Yosemite - but the clouds are so heavy over me - I could not greet them. JULY 21 Friday as I would -I never was so dreadfully cut down by any expression of me or my powers - Mrs S. bought two brown straw hats trimmed with tissue veil material. Very pretty - but too nice to wear Yosemite. - So stored them in box for return - Saw Mrs Curtis of Detroit who fell from her horse at Yosemite. Miss Mercy & D. Inge joined JULY 22 Saturday Stanton & Anthony with private carriage Harrison [Dunaway?] arrived - & we started at 7 A.M. Cars to Milton - where carriage was waiting. Dined at Gibsons - horrid food - meeting at Murphys - little church - Sperry Hotel Mrs Proper formerly of Syracuse House keeper - good [?] July 23 Sunday Drove over to Big Trees. Calamens group. Up the little Miners creek, dashing down the ravines. The road rough and long fearful precipices. Arrived at 12 noon. Dined & made the circuit of the Saquoyas, the giants of the forest. They put to flight all the old six days story & the 6,000 years. July 24 Monday Mrs. S had conversations in Perry's Hotel Parlor last eve - - I was up & took another circuit of the monster trees before breakfast. - then dashed down the mountains again to Murphy's thence down the mountain & crossed the Stanislaus river Ferry - then up a long zig-zag mountain road through Gold Spring, Columbia, Springfield, Columbia. Shaws flats - to Sonora - I spoke Court House - fair audience - Mrs S. wrote Rev - - 30 miles July 25 Tuesday Left Seneca about 8 A.M. drove over mountain to Jacksonville 19 miles stopped at Reiths fruit garden had peaches, apples, plums & grapes with crackers & milk- Then to the ferry of the [?] Liner - old man & not a woman in house he said - from this is was winding up, up the longest steepest mountain road - scenery magnificent to Kirklands & [?] to [?] July 26 Wednesday [?] to Cranes [?] during Heodgkins [?] Mrs. [?] gave us nice [?] & coffee in AM [?]did broiled chicken. July 27 Thursday Rode from Crane Flats to brow of the Hill. I was on horse Belle & Mrs Stanton on Morro but Mrs. S quickly declared it impossible for her to ride - & started & walked - I rode on down, down arrived at 2 P.M. exhausted - sent back guide with wine & lunch to Mrs. S. She came at 6 perfectly [?] up July 28 Friday Mrs. S. took breakfast in bed - went with McLean Party 5 miles to Nevada Falls - the Snow House & back to Vernal - & thence to Mirror Lake on Lady Franklin rock we met Mrs Stanton - to our great surprise. My guides name Stephen McCunnington Millerton Fresno Co. Cal. July 29 Saturday I rode to Artists Point with Steven M. Cunningham for guide - 7 miles & return 14. Mr C. one of the earliest visitors to the Valley - most splendid view. -, but tired tired on return. Lost the cameo breast pin cousin Eleanor Caldwell gave me. July 30 Sunday John K. McLean & self went to Mirror Lake. - Saw the sun rise - & such a spectacle eye can never find elsewhere. At 2 P.M. Mrs S. in slumber bags - & I on horseback with S.M. Cunningham for Guide - & Geo. W. King of Auburn - artist - Martin of [Minnesota?] found earrings & drove to Cranes Flats - JULY [31 Monday] Tuesday Aug 1st Coulterville to Knights Ferry - dined at Mother Stevens - scenery flat & state open the grandeur of - Stephen M. Cunningham Millerton Fresno Ct Cal - AUGUST [1 Tuesday] Monday July 31st Cranes Flats to Bower Cave - a wonderful freak from natures upheavals. Stopped several times then rode to Coultersville in evening - Mrs Steiner this day surpassingly grand - AUGUST 2 Wednesday Rode from Knights Ferry to Milton & got train at 9.15 - arrived Stockton at 11 - saw my friends - Find the republican campaign opened it will interfere with our meetings AUGUST 3 Thursday San Jose Cal Took train at 8 - arrived S. Rosa at 12.30 - went to Mr C. G. Aimes - very small audience but all seemed to feel it a good speech Rev Mr Brown of Sacramento there splendid man - Mrs Stanton postponed Stockton meeting, because of Judge Bingham & Senator Cole speaking - which vexed Collins - Mrs Stanton at Sacramento AUGUST 4 Friday Watsonville - Cal Ira Allen Mrs Ames & I called at Mrs Halls and Mrs Wallace & missed the train - so went to Santa Clara & dined with Mrs Watson - then back & found Mrs McGee & Mrs Knox - AUGUST 5 Saturday Santa Cruz Left Mrs C. G. Ames on stage at 10 for Santa Cruz - rode on top - splendid mountain scenery and perfectly awful hard ride - only a few passengers - splendid audience tolerable speech - considering 35 miles ride - arrival at 4 etc -- Mrs S. at Sacramento to women alone - Mr Collins would not let her go back & fill Stockton engagement to night AUGUST 6 Sunday at Santa Cruz Mrs Ellen R. Van Valkenburgh Jane Bennette Harriet H. Larkin Spent two hours with Mrs Georgianna Bruce Kirby - [the] Mrs Larkin with me - Miss Cone of Brooklyn visiting her - M R. C. Kirby - Mrs Herring sister of Mrs Van Valkenburg AUGUST 7 Monday Mrs Larkin drove me over to Watsonville - stopped Washington Hotel Spoke Allens Hall - small audience - Mr Ira Allen a true friend of woman suffrage always a terrible blunder to change time or miss appointment - Mr Allen said hall would have been packed Friday night - Mrs Sarlein tired out with her baby - still staid to lecture & was up & off with her two horses by six O clock AUGUST 8 Tuesday Mrs Larkin off at 6 A.M. - I took stage at 9 - by mistake did not get on the mountain route so missed the splendid scenery - dreadfully tired reached the Grand Hotel - San Francisco at 6 P.M. Found no letter or word from Stanton or Collins - & too late to find any body at business places - so dined & scribbled & went to bed - good to be in good clean quarters with splendid things to eat once more - AUGUST 9 Wednesday Grand Hotel - San Fran Paid Knowles - $20 for gold plate - though I believe some Dentist can improve upon them vastly - Letter from R. J. J. saying $200 check dated June 26th on Cheyenne bank not received - yet was mailed Salt Lake also letter from sister Mary saying two $50 P.O. orders not received - dated July 15th - Col. G. & Mrs Stevens called - no fixed meeting for me -Took 4 boat for Valdez & [Callastoga?] - AUGUST 10 Thursday From Calastoga to Guysers - Mr Foss would not let me ride on front seat with him - got half way - met Mrs Stanton & J. R. McLean coming out - but I pushed on - Wash Grainer my Driver & he explained the philosophy of fast driving down those mountains - R. W. White teacher no AUGUST 11 Friday Geysers - Susan Bettis Hotel R. W. White & M L. Clawson - N. Z. City Teachers & their guests made circuit of [???] between 5 & 7 A, M, - 8 stage to Calastoga - was honored with seat with Mr Foss down the mountain - & such a sad domestic history as he gave me - found Mrs Stanton at Calastoga Hotel = she spoke at Vallejo & I stopped at Dr. A. Anderson's - Mother & 5 daughters - Scotch people J.A. Collins there AUGUST 12 Saturday Mrs S. spoke to the women in P.M. - she stopped with Mrs Denio - at 6 we returned to San Francisco Grand Hotel - AUGUST 13 Sunday Mrs S. & self Had quiet day of rest - No one calling but Mr & Mrs Stevens - They told us of Mr John A Collin's ursurpations of the management of Mrs Stefens Pioneer & said so soon as she could get him paid off she should break loose from his grip - AUGUST 14 Monday San Francisco Mrs S. gave Our young girls - a good audience though largely complimentary - Mrs Stevens got up lecture & had all receipts - netted about $150. took less than $250. AUGUST 15 Tuesday Mrs Stanton spoke at Oakland - [?] called - It now became evident that a desperate effort must be made to fill the house Friday night - so I demanded 1000. complimentary tickets. there was a good deal of hem & haw but promise came - & I mailed 600 to first class women of the city - AUGUST 16 Wednesday Mrs Schenck took me in carriage too schools & assylums & I gave tickets to teachers & officals & made many private calls on best Ladies & gave them some to give their friends - & tired out I was when night came Mrs S. spoke to women in Oakland this P.M. AUGUST 17 Thursday Woodland - Judge Sprague - I tool Vallejo Boat at 8. cold & shivery - & at 12 arrived at Woodland - into a real Turkish Bath - so fiery hot - - spoke to 100 people - Mrs Stanton's audience - - and of course a disappointed one - & a dreadfully hard one to speak to - But the Judge said the argument was a good one - no criticism on our part of people save that it wasnt from the right person AUGUST 18 Friday San. Fran. Grand Hotel Mrs. S. gave Marriage & Divorce - packed house - of 1200 - over one half complimentary tickets - $329.= 658 tickets sold - the people seemed to accept every word. the reports added no adjectives but copies from published speech I carried them during Friday P. M. - could she - would she if she could do so much to put Editors right as to what I am, say or do? - I have not yet heard of or seen one word in refutation of the San Francisco Press outrageous treatment of my lecture - & she has written many letters public & private AUGUST 19 Saturday Left Grand Hotel at 8 - for Santa Cruz - Mrs Stevens joined us - arrived at 4 - Mrs S. spoke - the stage ride dreadfully dusty & hot - Small audience lack of right management in advertising - AUGUST 20 Sunday Santa Cruz at Ellen A. Van Volkenbergs - Mrs. S. called at Mrs Blackburns to see Mrs Kirby - Mr R. C. Kuty to me a ride to see the farm & house of Shiga W Farnberg & told me much of her - I spoke at 2 P.M. - took tea at Mrs Blackburns - Mrs S. spoke to a large audience in evening - AUGUST 21 Monday Santa Cruz - Capt. Brown took Mrs S. to Big Trees & to top of mountain - I take stage at 8 - we reached San Francisco at 5.30 - Saw Mrs Collins - - packed trunks - and talked business matters - We really shall have very little more than the $[1700.?] currency - ($540. gold) - now in Bank - unless Mrs S. should make something this week before leaving -- Tuesday A. M. after paying off all bills - I had $70. left in my hands - AUGUST 22 Tuesday Mrs Stanton - left for Nevada City = Virginia City, to start East on Sunday 27th - I sat for picture - & then went to Oakland to visit Mary Perkins Randall & Martha P. Perry - found them happy to see me - am myself glad to talk over olden times & get out of the reform rut entirely for a time - They seem to be wholly oblivious to our reform agitation AUGUST 23 Wednesday Oakland Mary & her only son Jaynes took me to the Mills Institute - in Alameda - a female boarding school - - all very well - as well perhaps as a girls school can be - but it saddened me to feel how aimless were the 100 girls studying there with might & main - In P.M. Martha took me to call on the Curtis family - them I got back into my world again & the springs of thought & conversation at once loosed again - it is marvelous what apart worlds the two are - AUGUST 24 Thursday Mrs Selia Curtis of Oakland & daughters accompanied me on to San Francisco - Visited Ladies Wood Engravers - Crane & Curtis - & went to Mrs Schencks & spent night - had a good visit - AUGUST 25 Friday Saw two whales Mrs Schenck drove me to G. Hotel at 8 A.M. - then at 10.30 took me to steam ship Idaho - Capt Floyd - for Portland Oregon - I felt sad & forlorn enough to be thus left & ocean bound alone - but was in for it & bound to go through - Ate lunch on board Sat on deck - packed & filed with boxes & bags & barrels. Tried not see, hear, nor smell the heavings up below & all around me - but ere Six P.M. my time came & old ocean received her first installment from me - AUGUST 26 Saturday 1st A. M. on Idaho - Dreadfully nauseated all night - strong gale & rough sea - Tried to dress - no use - back to my berth - & then laid all day - Everybody on all sides heavng groaning - babies & children innumerable vomiting & crying - mothers scolding - & screeching Horace - George - oh dear dear - Stewardess do come - the men quite as noisy & groaning as women - all day long sick as death midst these most sickening sounds & smells AUGUST 27 Sunday 2d Morn'g on ship board - Tried to get up - but no go - water gruel in bed again - during day thought staggered & reeled to deck in calico wrapper - men on all the bags & boxes sunning themselves - looking as wretchedly as I felt - back to bed again - Capt sent frizzled ham & hard bread with [Cruptiments?] - had frequently before sent compliments & enquiry for my getting on Sea growing heavier all the time - AUGUST 28 Monday 3d morn'g - Ship Idaho - Terribly rough sea all last night - - could not sleep for the feeling that evey swell might end the ships struggle - Had the feeling all night that I was much nearer to Father, Ann Eliza, Thomas King and he loved ones beyond than to Mother & all on this side the great River - entirely out of sight of land all this time - ship awfully slow - not making over six miles an hour - Got out on deck a little - ate only gruel - AUGUST 29 Tuesday - 4th A. M. - ship Idaho - The same pitching down the great ocean swells all the night long - the same unbounded waste of deep blue surging waters all the day - - but some lightening up of the sea sickness - Found several pleasant people - Mrs Mosby - Mrs Invers - Mr Croft Bolles - AUGUST 30 Wednesday Fifth day on ship Idaho - Capt. Floyd - quite steady this A. M. but too late for breakfast - so took cracker & Gruel & tomatoes - had long talk with Quackenbush of Davenport Iowa on woman question & social evil - he furnished tea & teapot & spirit lamp & the alcohol - & I treated Capt. table with delicious tea - first palatable drink - - at 8 Capt. took me to his room with Mrs Capt, Bowles, Gen Dyer & to Coffee - he showed me his maps & charts & explained Capts duties - AUGUST 31 Thursday Sixth morning on ship Idaho - First word - bar in sight - Cape Disappointment & Lighthouse - passed at 8.30 = shores beautful Columbia River ditto - 14 miles wide - all faces bright & cheery - & many new ones not seen before since first day - arrived Portland at 10 evening - & up the Willamette - large branch of the Columbia - glad enough to touch foot on land again - September 1 Friday Oregon - Portland st. Charles Hotel - slept soundly till 8 A. M. - Mrs A. J. Dunniway called at 10. She takes lecture business agency at % gross receipts - - pleasant face - everything rolling as on shipboard- P. M. Murphy of Herald formerly of the N.Y. World called Rev T. L. Eliot. saw Rev. Dr. Eliot - St. Louis & pastor of Unitarian Church here called - engaged to tea 4th SEPTEMBER 2 Saturday St Charles Jeemes Pipes of Pipersville - Stephen Makett called - wrote letters to mother, Stanton, Collins, Stevens, Schenck, etc - - trying to settle upon points for first speech - SEPTEMBER 3 Sunday Portland - Oregon Breakfast at 9.00 - Unitarian Church - Rev. T. L. Eliot - Text Whither comest thou and goest thou? Pleasant - reminding me of the dear departed Rev. Samil J. May - Read Godbe's Polygamy lecture - Woodhulls Capital & Labor speech - & the weekly & cut, & planned for speech Dined at 5 and took ride with Mr & Mrs Duniway - then read again till 10 - & to bed - with thought of Mother & all the loved on both sides the big river - SEPTEMBER 4 Monday Portland - Oregon Tea at Rev T. L. Eliots called for at 6 - [Mrs Eliot called] Pleasant hour at Mr Eliots - Letters from Mrs M. P. Sawtell - Salem Or - & Mrs Carrie F. Young - John L. Stephens - Capt _ Dowles - arrived at midnight - but brought no letters from San Francisco SEPTEMBER 5 Tuesday Portland - Or - several calls during day - Mrs Young at Mrs Duniway - Mrs D. accompanied me to Rev T. L. Eliots Reception at 8 P.M. - saw many excellent people - learned from Mrs Victor that Mrs Williams formerly of Buffalo lives here - SEPTEMBER 6 Wednesday Portland - Oregon First Lecture in Oro Fino Hall - Power of Ballot - Mormon Suffrage Never dreaded, trembled so at prospect before - fear of the Press skinning me alive again as did street of San Francisco - But audience splendid - made clear statement & argument - but was not free as I could wish took one hour & 20 minutes - Mrs Lillie Duniway[?] sang song composed by her Mother - Mrs D. introduced me - with hope I wait the mornings papers - SEPTEMBER 7 Thursday Portland - Or - The Portland Bulletin & Oregonian speak well of lecture - the Herald says it failed to interest the audience. - which means the boy they sent to take notes - I know I had the audience SEPTEMBER 8 Friday Portland - Or 2d Lecture - subject - 14 & 15 amendments - Oro Fino Hall Large audience had pretty fun time - SEPTEMBER 9 Saturday Oro Fino Portland - Or - shivering over next lecture to women alone this P.M. - Free admission - 400 women - very earnest & intersted SEPTEMBER 12 Tuesday East Portland - Or Small & stupid audience - At rephrase next Prof. Jo Lanez the Astrologist at Dr. Thomson's - & he gave Horiscope of my life from date of 6.30 - P.M. Feb 15, 1820 - & hit when a gavel my points of past - good start Jupiter rules from this to 1875 - then Saturn - Evil fellow causes one [?] & look out for Venus - Ill in /75 (Mother in /73 - [?] in /91 - probably) SEPTEMBER 13 Wednesday Oregon City - Or. earliest settlement of the State larger manufactory of [?] good here - [?] rose blankets good audience SEPTEMBER 14 Thursday Salem - Or - Clara Dunning & self accepted invitation to Mrs Bella I. Cooks - Mrs Joaquin Miller and girl child of 7 years there - Joaquin Miller the Poet - took all the earnings of himself & wife - left three children and wife destitute and went to England - & now comes home with published poems & famous - a sad story that of Mrs Miller if true - & it seems so - good audience SEPTEMBER 15 Friday Salem - Or 2 P.M. - large audience to women alone - Social & with evening large audience again - but I was not in best of trim[?] still people seemed satisfied The entire Supreme Court called on me at Hotel - Judge Lawson introducing them - SEPTEMBER 16 Saturday Milwaukie O. Seth Leweling Desperately small audience in a school house - Mrs D. went home - Clara stopped Mr. L[?] has most splendid nursery & fruit moved here in 1850 - brother in 1847 - SEPTEMBER 17 Sunday Left - Milwaukie - Seth Lewelling at noon - wife Mrs Clarissa Lewelling - Strict vegetable diet & no tea, coffee, spices or salt - St Charles Hotel - Portland at 1 P.M. - Letters from home - good news - save little Harry trouble teething SEPTEMBER 18 Monday Left St Charles Portland at 4.30 - Henry fog - Boat waited until 9 A.M. pleasant day - but did not reach The Dalles until 8 P.M. had 100 people - Slept at Umatilla House - met Mrs Elizabeth Miller Wilson - SEPTEMBER 19 Tuesday Left The Dalles - 5 A.M. R.R. 14 miles round rapids & falls - then steamer Tenino to Umatilla Landing - where laid up for night Went on shore took glass of Angelica wine with Fred. Lalade - Umatilla Or - an Old Bach. & talkative - Capt. Strumph invited Mrs D. & self to Pilot house to see river - took good sleep before dinner & again after dinner - Boat laid up at Umatilla over night SEPTEMBER 20 Wednesday arrived Wallula landing at 9 A.M. took stage for Walla Walla Driver Amos Bradley son of Amos Bradley of Dansville N.Y. a paper manufacturer - ran away from home at 14 & never have back since - nor written his mother - his mother is married to Chatwich of Avon - driver has not drinked a drop of whiskey since 1863 - a whole souled fellow Stopped at The Oriental Hotel - at Walla Walla - SEPTEMBER 21 Thursday Walla Walla Washington Teritory Fair new school House. Visit, - DIst. 34 - Oriental Hotel. Cook - City Hall engaged to the Pixley sisters - Theatricals - beautiful girls - 18.16.12 - Annie, Minnie, Lucy - manage their own business & hire men to fill up plays. Had house packed - but the help could not go so far out of town - any who did go couldn't get in. SEPTEMBER 22 Friday Walla Walla - City Hall - 2 P.M. to women alone. Mrs Annie Mix Mrs H.P. Isaacs Evening at new school House again. Small audience too far out of town SEPTEMBER 23 SATURDAY Walla Walla - Exchange Hall - Had fine audience & cleaned up the W.S. coast Free Love and all to satisfaction of Rev. Mr. Kimball & the friends - Dined with Mrs H. P. Isaacs - the Miller - has new & fine house & splendid orchard & fruits of every kind - SEPTEMBER 24 SUNDAY Wallula - Wash Territory Mr & Mrs T. J. Peabody not so hard ride back from W.W. on stage - small audience there - Mr P. is Wells Fargo's express agent - they have taken the Revolution from the very first - SEPTEMBER 25 Monday The Dalles - Or - Empire Hotel Had very small audience - SEPTEMBER 26 Tuesday Steamer to Portland Rev. Thomas Condon of Dalles City - Congregrational Church great naturalist - used to know Beriah Green Gerit Smith. Wm Goodell - P. C. Jackson & all Abolitionists - went to Mrs Dr M. A. Thomsons - found her ill - took tea & then back to St Charles fully resolved never again to accept private invitation in Oregon SEPTEMBER 27 Wednesday Albany - Or - Linn Co. Fair Left St Charles Portland at 8.30 A.M. arrived Albany 4 P.M. Hotels both full - at last got room at Mr. Fred Hill's - Had fair audience no dead heads seemingly Dunniways give no tickets unless pushed every time - was very happy in speech - Mrs. Dunninway came at eve - brought letter from Sister Mary & one from brother Merritt dated Sept 8th - poor J.M. miserable - all write him to go Rochester & rest & recruit - SEPTEMBER 28 Thursday Albany- Oregon- Went to Hotel for Breakfast - [?] tea total failure Dined at Mrs McCord's - then rode up to Fair grounds - in nothingness surpassed only by the Walla Walla Fair - Had smaller audience to night - Dunniways so sure of their old home - but I find much dislike to them & my audiences suffer from it - Secrecy impossible to escape fired by somebody being [sacri?] SEPTEMBER 29 Friday Albany - Oregon Spoke in Mr Dave Long's Circus Tent on Fair Ground at 11 A.M. - hard work but crowd of free admission women & babies - In evening heard Mrs J. B. Frost - against W. S. - the weakest silliest acting & talking woman I ever saw - fairly dirty in her insinuations - Took 6 P.M. Dinner with large party at Mrs Fosters - splendid - SEPTEMBER 30 Saturday Albany - Oregon - at Wm. McCords - wife Harriet Scott - sister of Mrs Dunning- Studied up the objections & answers had a fine audience and brushed away the cobwebs - Mrs. D. went home in A.M. Mrs Foster's dinner was really the first square meal in Oregon - OCTOBER 1 Sunday Albany - Oregon Studied up points for Temperance Lecture all the A.M. and spoke at 2 1/2 P.M. to a large audience in the Court House - was pretty well satisfied with my effort - told them never could succeed until woman was free in person & possessed of conscience & wisdom not to stunt children with appetites stronger than morals & intellects. In evening heard Rev Mr. Butcher against woman suffrage OCTOBER 2 Monday Cornwallis - Oregon - Sent home check of gold $150. - making in all since coming into Oregon - one month $415. $320 in S.J. Bank = $735. gold - $150 in R. Bank - makes $975.20 in greenbacks not yet from four months hard work enough to pay Stillman Price: & Int. $2,100.00 Mr Ashby Pearce & invalid wife took me Albany to Corvallis - - Judge Cheneworth introduced me a large audience - but only $18 my half of the cash - Mr OCTOBER 3 Tuesday Corvallis - Oregon City Hotel - Johnson's Presbyterian Church 2nd evening - Mr Ashby Pearce & wife left for home - Albany - -Feel most terribly blue - can it be some evil to the loved ones at home or in Kansas - OCTOBER 4 Wednesday Monmouth - Or Chapel - Christian College Mr R. V. Butler - old New Hampshire Democrat - rode 25 miles Corvallis to Monmouth - had fine audience - Mr & Mrs came 10 miles to hear me OCTOBER 5 Thursday Dayton - Or. Methodist Church Stopped at Hotel - Rev. M. Wood - small audience - Drove to Mr John Gowdy's to dinner - thence to Dayton in P.M. - three miles from mouth of Yamhill River - empties into Willamette - Mrs S. did not meet us here as expected - OCTOBER 6 Friday Lafayette - Or - Methodist Church - Staid in bed at Hotel Dayton till 12 - noon - then Mr D. came & took me to Mrs Ds sister Fanny's - Amos Book's - good farmers near Lafayette to Dinner - then in P.M. across Yamhill River, ferry to younger sisters Sarah Maria - J. M. Kelty's had large audience - dead headed largely - still people came 14 & 15 miles OCTOBER 7 Saturday McMinnville - Or - Spoke in immensely long narrow unfinished hall - large audience Stopped at Mrs Talmadge - Widow Husband left her taking most of property with five children & has another young wife in California Marriage here is practically anything but an indissoluble tie - OCTOBER 8 Sunday Took stage at 6 A. M. - 20 miles to Forest Grove - arrived at Mr J. T. Scotts at noon - pleasant man proud of his family of daughters - Driver told of a woman who had six children & six living husbands - now keeping hotel to support self & children without a man - OCTOBER 9 Monday Forest Grove - Oregon John T. Scott Mrs Dunniway's Father - Had fine audience - some boys threw Cayenne Pepper on the hot stove in Congregational Church It made a terrific coughing - & almost stopped me from speaking - Dr. Marsh & all the College faculty dreadfully mortified - probably some of their bad city boys- OCTOBER 10 Tuesday Visited the college Dr. Marsh Presid. Took stage at noon arrived Portland 5.30 P.M. - Corderoy road six miles down the mountain - Stopped St. Charles found letters from home Sept 20 & 21 - all well - Brother Merritt no better Caller Dr. M.A. Thomsons T.L. Eliots -This A. M. Telegram brought word of Chicago fire - 4 miles in length & 2 miles in width - Dear Aunt A.E.D. probably burned at stove if not worse- [?] Splendid view of Mt. Hood at Helens & Jefferson - OCTOBER 11 Wednesday Salem - Or. State Fair At St Charles Hotel - decided to take good A.M. sleep & go on P.M. train - & lo there is no P.M. train - So wrote letters with might & main - sent home $100. gold check - making in all $500. from Oregon - five weeks lectures - wrote dear Aunt A. E. Dickinson - - The Chicago fire terrible Mrs. Dunning has engaged Salem Court House - very few went & no meeting ________________ Mt. Hood was perfectly brilliant in the sunshine of Thursday A.M. completely solid snowcrust - OCTOBER 12 Thursday Up at 5.15 - breakfast and off at 7 A.M. - - Immense crowd of people & tents - every body from all parts of the state come & camp out whole week - spoke in Ryland's Circus Tent. 100 people - but good ones - got 18 autographs & dollars for National Committee - Mrs D. about as many subscribers - - Camped with the D's this night - the first time in life Mr. D -[?] Kelly - 3 boys - Clara Mrs. D. & self - packed side by side like herrings - can't say I like it better than nice bedroom & hair matress - OCTOBER 13 Friday Salem - Or - State Fair - Mrs. J. D. Fort spoke against W.S. in Circus tent - not over 210 persons - Col. Taggart gave annual agricultural address - saw slab- sided spinster - failed to get a whole [man?] east on [way?] [?] to Salt Lake to try for a fraction of one. I spoke some stand in in P.M. to fully 1000. & was happy in a real Patrick Henry speech - OCTOBER 14 Saturday Salem. Or. State Fair Went to city to Judge Geo. W. Lawson's - dined & read of Pioneer & the Rev - - sent $37 P.O. order to N.W.S. Committee - & $25. to Aunt A.E.D. - I only wished it could have been $100 as a token of my thought of their great loss - Took train at 5 P.M. & returned Portland - St. Charles - A lot of coarse men talked to me & I answered seriously & severly in ears - & was sorry I did OCTOBER 15 Sunday Portland - Or - St Charles Called at Mrs D's - she not home yet - riding in carriage - talked with Isaac Lowry - he's head printer, local editor - fine young man & promising - too delicate & sensitive - fine warm day - a few showers of nights - no mud yet - OCTOBER 16 Monday Took steamer at 6 A.M. down Willamette - down Columbia to Cowlitz - Monticello - then stage 25 miles to Pumphrey's awful roads - [called] Telegraph asking day at Olympia changed - consented, said make Fee $1. and give over third gross receipts to Chicago - - Ate fried mountain trout for supper & dreamed most uncomfortably all night to 2 1/2 when came call to be up & off for Olympia - OCTOBER 17 Tuesday Olympia, Wash Ter Pumphreys - took stage at 3 A.M. Dark Dark - Lanterns only to see by - rode 14 miles walking every step to breakfast - then 18 to dinner - dreadful roads & long mountains - passengers all walked miles of it - from last station fine road 30 miles - Mr Manning met us & took me to his house - in double quick time took hot bath & was in bed - had small audience - but went through with speech - scarce a man could have done it after such a ride OCTOBER 18 Wednesday Olympia - Dined at Judge Bigelows - his wife splendid - met several members of Legislature - - voluntary vote waiting me to address Legislature tomorrow 2 P.M. Letter from E. Pitts Stevens telling of my lack of cooperation with her & her Pioneer - One from L. D. Gordon to attend Con. Sacramento - OCTOBER 19 Thursday Olympia Wash Ter Addressed Legislature at 2 P.M. Assembly Room packed - Made pretty good argument - Dined with Mrs Phillip J. Moore - got [?] & cranberry on gray silk - awfully provoking - OCTOBER 20 Friday Tum water - Wash Ter Mrs Martha Tower Very small audience Invited to amend Judge DiGelouis bill on suffrage lost by 16 to 11 - not considered a test vote OCTOBER 21 Saturday Olympia - Wash. Ter had big house answered objections & [made?] [them?] [ring?] - OCTOBER 22 Sunday Olympia - Wrote letters home to [Pills'y?] - Pioneer & to Mother, D.R., & Merritt - not a line yet from Mrs Stanton Mrs Case - daughter of Mrs Tower of Rochester called & took me to her school house - Took Steamer at 10 P.M. for Astoria - Vancouver Island so near Victoria's kingdom - OCTOBER 23 Monday Victoria - V.I. arrived at 3 P.M. - met Mr D. at boat - rain pouring - Branch Colonia Hotel - small audience not over 100 - & not one then women - OCTOBER 24 Tuesday Victoria - V.I. Alhambra Hall Small audience but a few were women not a dozen though - Victoria - B.C. Mrs Tucker had about 100 but not more than 10 women - Told them I had been told people were unused to very [?] every thing but negro dances etc - therefore I would try free admission tomorrow night - OCTOBER 26 Thursday Victoria - Vancouver Island Branch Colonial Hotel Alhambra Hotel Peter Lester (colonel) - formerly of Philadelphia - knew Lucretia Mott, Sarah Pugh etc. - Mrs M. J. Hamilton, Colorado, widow [?] H. Francis - Mrs Lydna E. R. Francis Mrs Washington Had free admission & packed house - though it rained Made tip top speech But still nearly all men - not 20 women OCTOBER 27 Friday Left Victoria at [3 P.M.] noon - arrived at Port Townsend at 3 P.M. - No Lecture this evening - But too much upset with rough sea to write - Walked with Mrs D. down to the Indian huts & there saw boys perfectly naked - & eating clams out of shells for spoons OCTOBER 28 Saturday Port Townsend - Wash. Ter. Phillip D. Moore John Burns - formerly of Danversport - Mass. - friend of Parker Pillsbury - Dr Thomas T. Minor of Col. Higginsons Regiment & assistant surgeon with Cousin Dr. Seth Rogers. Had fair audience Mr Moore introduced me OCTOBER 29 Sunday Took little sail boat across to Coupeville at 9 A.M. - went to Capt Coupes house - had good meeting Mrs Caroline Kellog Mrs. A. N. Dean two splendid wide awake women OCTOBER 30 Monday Left Coupeville at 11 A.M. - Mr Greer Methodist minister came over to Port Townsend - gave objections - - the stench of something dreadful kills the life in me - Letters from Sister Mary & Mrs Stanton - latter pretty scolding about San Francisco 320 check I failed to get off - OCTOBER 31 Tuesday Left Port Townsend at 3 P.M. - worked on speech up to last minute - arrived Seattle 7:20 - went to Occidental Hotel - hard enough - NOVEMBER 1 Wednesday Seattle - Wash. Ter. Mary O. Brown Mr Dunaway went home - [I to Hotel] Mrs Wiggins came for me & I went with her - & a splendid change it was too - Good audience though I was not in best mood - NOVEMBER 2 Thursday Seattle - Several calls in A.M. - Dinner at 5 at Mr Suras Browns - wife a sister of Eliz. Peebles - the Enrolling clerk last year - Had large audience - Mr Wiggins tended door - all said I made good speech NOVEMBER 3 Friday Seattle - Mr Harry Wiggins Sent check at $7 to Mrs Stanton - with the $640 San Francisco certificate to A.M. McLean Meeting in P.M. at Dr. Bugleys church and society [???] Mrs Jesler President - Then to dinner with Mrs Sarah B. Jesler - & then back to Mrs Wiggins - NOVEMBER 4 Saturday Seattle to Port Madison on the little Ruby at 3 P.M. - Went to forlorn hotel - 3 babies & Irish mother in sitting room & no other fire - dreary prospect for Sunday - But Mr Meiggs came & took me to his home - & the minute I entered I felt it was a haven of rest - to me - Rev. Mr. Damon introduced me - NOVEMBER 5 Sunday Port Madison Geo. A. Meiggs - Delightful home - large fire place - Mrs Edwards Miss Ordway & others took me through new ship built here by Mill Co. "Wild Wood" splendid - Then out on a hill & there I saw Mount Rainier - (Tacoma) - and several lower peaks of the Cascades - beautiful Spoke in evening - good audience - Mr Wiggs attended both lectures - rare honor NOVEMBER 6 Monday Port Gamble - W.T. Left Port Madisin at six A.M. arrived Port Gamble - at 9 - Mrs. John Seavy met us at wharf & insisted we should go with her - - She had nice new house - & did every thing for our comfort - but just before starting for lecture her husband came in & said he didn't keep hotel - that his wife had no right to invite us &c - - Representative Garfield introduced me - small audience - & very poor speech - cold house & generally disagreeable tri[p?] went to Hotel - NOVEMBER 7 Tuesday Port Gamble - Millers Hotel - Congressman Garfield called - hasn't thought upon question - guess the women will wake him up soon - Took steamer at 6:20 P.M. for Olympia - Mrs. Seavy called - but cant get over a woman's inviting guests. Then so [?] allowing them to be sent off by her husband NOVEMBER 9 Wednesday Olympia - W.T. Territorial W. S. Convention Steamer late - 10 Oclock went to Mrs. [Mannings ?] took cup of coffee & then to Olympia Hall - quite a little gathering though raining hard - larger in P.M. and in evening packed - Mrs. J. D. Frost refused invitation to speak as an insult - NOVEMBER 9 Thursday Olympia - W.T. W.T.W.S. Convention Raining all day still - got society organized - Mrs Amelia Giddings President - packed house again in evening - [?] David serenaded me at 10:20 - Capt Hale a rich widower at bottom of it - alas alas poor soul - to bed at 11 to be called by Policeman at 1:30 A.M. - NOVEMBER 10 Friday Left Olympia at 2 Oclock A.M. - rode 30 miles to Half Way House to Breakfast - 18 to McDonalds to Dinner - 14 to Pumphreys to sleep - & such a pounding - took hot baths & supperless to bed by 7 - to be routed at 2 A.M. again - slept soundly - But the log road beats all hard jolting yet NOVEMBER 11 Saturday Called at 2.30 A.M. and on stage at 3 - 9 miles dark, rain & mud to Jackson's to breakfast - then 13 to Monticello to dinner & Steamer [Gunnie ?] Troupe at 1 P.M. for Portland - the roughest road ever known - Found letters from Stanton, Stillman, Mr Stevens, Mrs Giffins &c - & got Revolutions Journals and read up Eastern news - American W.S. hold Con. at Washington Dec 8th NOVEMBER 12 Sunday Portland Oregon St Charles Hotel - slept until late - & then Mrs Duniway's read up papers &c - Mrs Dr. Thomson came in - then back Hotel. - wrote letters to Mrs. Stanton - fear her Gerritt or Hattie are gone from her a sad feeling for her all day - wrote Mary, Aaron & T. W. Stillman - pay him $1140. - wrote Mrs L. [?] Force Gordon NOVEMBER 13 Monday Portland - Spent A. M. writing - P. M. with Dr. Thomson calling on women to sign call for meeting to organize big W. S. association - NOVEMBER 14 Tuesday Portland - St. Charles Rained, rained, actually poured all the day - 30 Ladies or so met at Orofino Hall & formed a W. S. association of the very best position too - Mrs. H R. Williams made a long visit NOVEMBER 15 Wednesday Portland - Oro Fino Hall St. Charles Hotel - Dark & [lowry ?] but no rain - terrible depression of spirit with feeling of impossibility to make this last speech in Portland - if the fact matches the feeling - small audiences- and not one second's lighting up of the brain - the barest, boldest points & no thought beyond - altogether, it was & is the most terrible experience of my life of trying, of being compellent to speak when the spirit said nothing but no, no. - Mrs. Harriet Mrs. Williams, formerly of Buffalo, N.Y. introduced me & 6 or 8 Ladies on platform - sun shine to day NOVEMBER 16 Thursday Portland - St. Charles Letter received from A. T. Stevens - with testimonial signed by J.M. Fryer & Co. John M. Breck C.S. Silver J.H. Mitchell returned the note of Mr. A. T. Stevens Had calls from Mr & Mrs O.B. Williams Mrs. [?] & others - sun shine to day - NOVEMBER 17 Friday Portland - to Oregon City Oregon City - Dr. Mary. A. Thomson Mrs Dick. Williams & Mrs. Dunway - called before I left for Oregon Court House packed & good speech again - Mrs. Coburn up with two neighbors - walked full a mile NOVEMBER 18 Saturday Buenavista Left Oregon City at 9 A.M. - found no Mr Smith at Salem to take me to Buenavista - So jogged on to Albany - then stopped of, called at Wm. McCords & Mrs MC went with me to Mr Foster's - Mrs F. down with sick Head ache but good visit & good supper then 6. train to Eugene City Hotel - poor enough [for?] too NOVEMBER 19 Sunday Eugene City Got notices off to the Churches - by aid of Sheriff Mr - Poindexter - & had a packed Court House this evening Mr. J. H. D. Henderson M.E. Hunter good (careful) friend - Free admission and splendid enthusiasm - NOVEMBER 20 Monday Eugene - OR Fine audience again - but publisher put admission down to 25 cts - NOVEMBER 21 Tuesday Left Eugene City at 5 A.M. for Oakland 60 miles Driver John good, fellow rode outside part of way - 20 miles Corduroy road- reached Oakland 10 P.M. tired enough - supper & to bed - hard little speck of room, in corner of dining room & foot of stairs & bar room - thin cloth petition & perfectly noisy - Mrs Tibbetts a motherly old lady who gave me good cup of coffee - NOVEMBER 22 Wednesday Oakland - Or Spoke in School House - fine audience James A. Sterling the Post Master made all arrangements - James Wright, the Driver - married Mrs. Wright with several fine girls & she Mrs W. [Thoray?] bright & in [?] - NOVEMBER 23 Thursday Oakland, to Roseberg 25 miles - Left at 7 A.M. with driver Tom of Canyonville - rode outside with Driver reached Roseberg & Mrs B. A. Owens at 12 noon - she is splendid married & a mother at 12 / & divorced before 18 - - scarcely able to read - - then hired room at Astoria, went to District school, took her five year old boy with her - & is now making $2000 [?] at millinery & store here in her own home - NOVEMBER 24 Friday Roseberg - Had fair audience last night & fine ladies this A.M. - Mrs Sarah Reaves at Mrs Owens - widow in Pa - her sister lived here died & left five children brother in law - widower got her to come to take the children back - for two years tried every means to make her marry him - Strong Methodist - but she resisted - & when hope was gone he turned her out of his house penniless. She is now married to a good man - Left Roseberg at 12 - noon - NOVEMBER 25 Saturday Reached Canyonville & supped at 7 P.M. last night - 25 miles - then I had John Greene the reformed gambler - for dinner - real name Bartlett of Adrian Mich - rode on outside 35 miles, bright moonlight to start with - but rain soon poured - - had our Drivers water proof coat over my own water proof - still blankets got wet - got inside last 10 miles driving to [Grants] Pass - breakfasted at 7 & off with Rising for Driver - reached Jacksonville at 2 P.M. Rain & Snowy NOVEMBER 26 Sunday and took hot bath & went to bed - servant brought to my bed steak & baked potatoes - ate & tried to sleep - but too much noise & interruption - scarcely lost myself - at six up & dressed & at M.E. Church at 7 - Spoke 2 hours & then back to Hotel - cold & forlorn & in bed by 10 - called at 3 A.M. & off again at 4. for Yreka Cal - arrived at 6 P.M. - Supper & to bed - E. Steele called - best man crossed Cisco range this day - Sunny & Bright NOVEMBER 27 Monday Yreka - Cal Hotel Clerk Charlie LaBeau took me out to see the Shasta Bute peak - rival of Mt. Hood, Tacomah & Baker - but the fog bank rested down upon its head - Splendid audience in Court House E. Steele the strongest W.S. man - Mrs Jerome Churchill called - NOVEMBER 28 Tuesday Yreka - Cal quite a snow storm no prospect of getting a view of Shasta - Meeting at 2. P.M. large audience - stood on feet & answered questions put by the County Superintendent Public school Moffat - & a young man - Dined with Mrs Jerome Churchill Mr Peck stage agent paid me back $10. of the $40. I paid at Eugene Took stage again - 7 P.M. - fine moonlight view of old Shasta Mt NOVEMBER 29 Wednesday Rode all last night in stage, breakfast at 9 this A.M. - Splendid Inn's view of Castle Rock -- it is splendid - rode through Sacramento Canyon in very fine day - & scenery grand - splendid views of old Shasta too - stopped at 9 P.M. & then was packed 9 in short narrow waggon - most dreadfully uncomfortable - arrived Red Bluff at 3 A.M. & stopped at Fremont House NOVEMBER 30 Thursday Red Bluffs - Or - Post Master - Made no arrangement for my meeting - Sheriff refused Court House got the Old School House - no fire in it - & spoke to a small audience - and Mrs called at 2.30 - Friday A.M. stage 12 miles to Takoma - then cars to Chico - Here I lost my nice rubber DECEMBER 1 Friday [Marysville] - Or [J.B. Badger] Chico - Cal Post Master put letter in P.O. Box of Mr R.H. Allen - agent for Gen. Bidwell - owner of 22,000 acre land grant - - Mr Allen met me at Depot - & such a nice cup of coffe & cozy house as he & his good wife Emma gave me - Fine audience, though sever rain just at hour - Read up Revolutions - W.T. Clark Editor - everything so dreadfully manish DECEMBER 2 Saturday Marysville Cal J. B. Dodger Theater Dawson Hotel - small audience but good People [?] $20 - the lecture - rotten expense - the fates have turned against financial success DECEMBER 3 Sunday Took train 10 A.M. for Sacramento - Laura DiForce Gorden [?] Soc. women met me at Depot - Miss Jennie Phelps & [?] son accompanied me into San Francisco Grand Hotel - arrived at 8 P.M. found a few letters but Mrs Schenck Monday A.M. brought me 20 or 30 from all quarters DECEMBER 4 Monday San Francisco - Cal Grand Hotel - first call on Pitts Stevens - she could not give reason for Pioneer not mentioning my names the three months I have been in Oregon & Wash. Ter. - told her plainly - the women of the state would not support her paper if she allowed it to be the medium of the man's - J.A. Collins - spite & spleen - Mrs Schenck came - called on Mrs Clark & saw Grace Greenwood - then home with Schenck - DECEMBER 5 Tuesday San Francisco - Cal Left Mrs Schencks house at 9 - Gordon Schenck - long talk with Mrs D. Wolf - at 2 P.M. took boat for Petaluma - found no meeting advertised but they had taken Friday night - - Mrs A.A. Huskell fully with Mrs Stanton on marriage & Divorce - Mrs Col Hatch & Mrs Kate Res. the Society called at a later date Mrs Haskell sent me bills for advertising lectures for Friday night - instead of this Tuesday - rather cool - DECEMBER 6 Wednesday Left Petaluma - Mrs A. A. Haskell - at 8 A. M. - arrived Grand Hotel at 11.30 - Mr Col. C.P. Hatch - Mr P. Conen the Post master - Mr Spencer - of Santa Rosa - Cal - Mrs L. A. A. Harth DECEMBER 7 Thursday Sacramento Cal Left Grand Hotel at 8.30 Vallejo Route - arrived Sac. noon - Capital Hotel - Mrs Esther Curtis & Mrs Gordon met me at Depot - Small meeting in P.M. Larger in evening - but a very hard time to call Convention - every body full of getting out & into office - DECEMBER 8 Friday Sacramento. Call Small meeting of friends in A.M. attended gov. Boothe's inauguration at 12 - good meeting in P.M. & evening Judge Palmer of Nevada City - avowed his platform for W. suffrage - though a Democrat, [?] against Republican not W.S. DECEMBER 9 Saturday Left Sacramento on the 7.30 A.M. train arrived Grand Hotel at 12 noon - wrote letters Mrs Walton, Mrs Curtis & daughters, Miss Atkinson called - also Mrs. Prof. Case of Oakland accompanied her & Mr & Mrs J. M. Speare to Mechanics Institute to listen to Prof Carr's lecture on the Atmosphere - Wearisome - 500 hard working men, & ought to be entertainingly instructed DECEMBER 10 Sunday Went to Mayfield with Mrs Schenck this P.M. on 4 train met warm welcome - _______________ At meeting met she that was Sybil [Acharna ?] of Canajoharie - Mont. Co., N.Y - now wife of D. Hoag - Mayfield [Cal?] - Just the same little progress, is Baptist member - husband backed up carriage to keep her from going to W.S. lecture - but she seemed very glad to see me & asked any amount of questions of the olden people of Canajo. DECEMBER 11 Monday Mayfield - Cal Mrs. Sarah Wallis Had pleasant day - Mrs W. Owens large estate - fine orchards & grounds Large audience - J.J. Owen Ed of San Jose Mercury present - said Miss A. you touch bed rock every time. Mrs McKee - Mrs Knox, Mrs Matson, a whole omnibus load drove out from San Jose - 17 miles - Had song by choir - Mrs Wallis two beautiful daughters of them - then Ball & dance & supper at twelve DECEMBER 12 Tuesday Oakland Jennie Phelps Mary Perkins Randall 1223 Fulsom St. - San. Fran Mother Perkins Percy - Oakland Mrs Percy at meeting small meeting - & dreadfully cold Hall - large & bleak - returned to San Fran. Grand Hotel DECEMBER 13 Wednesday San Francisco Platts Hall A fair audience 700 - but dead headed mainly - made my 14th amendment argument splendidly - all delighted with it & me - and it is such a comfort to have the friends feel that I help the good work on - Wm. Rider - from Herkimer Co. N. York - son of Matthew Rider - gave best help & is a genuine friend of cause - DECEMBER 14 Thursday Healdsburg Cal Skating Rink Left San Fran at 2 P.M. arrived Healdsburg 7 P.M. - got egg & cup of tea & rushed to Hall - The W.S. Society Pres Mrs Jewett & several ladies met me at Hotel - the hall awfully large & only a few people the man never consulted with the women - have nothing done ship shape - S. P. Myers & daughters & E. Lindsay rode up from Windsor six miles to hear me - DECEMBER 15 Friday San Francisco - Cal - Young Men's Christian Ass' Hall Took cars at 7 A.M. reached Hall at 12 noon - - L.D.F. Gordon speaking - splendid audience of all the divisions & subdivisions of the W.S. friends - In P.M. splendid meeting of women alone - Social Evil & Dr. Hollands Bill - all said I made splendid speech - Grand Hotel Reception at evening - about 80 persons - delightful company & social supper at 9 P.M. - Lena Clark - (Medium) said Gov. has such power this P.M. saw hosts of strong women around you - both Gordon & Phelps slept with me- DECEMBER 16 Saturday Stockton - Col Yosemite Hotel - Left Grand Hotel at 6.30 A. M - Miss Jennie Phelps - the "Hagar" of the Alta - went to Boat with me - Found Gordon there - arrived Stockton 11 A. M. - went to Hall almost none there - evening but little better - Mrs Conde is President of their society - DECEMBER 17 Sunday Took train at 11 A. M. for Colfax - arrived there 5.30 - Stage to Nevada City - 12 miles - passed Grass Valley 8 miles from Colfax - 4 from Nevada City - Found Mrs Ellen C. Sargent , two daughters & one son at the National Exchange Hotel to welcome me - A. A. Sargents family - the new Senator from California - Began to rain at Grass Valley & positively poured all the evening & all night - DECEMBER 18 Monday Nevada City - Cal - National Exchange Hotel. Congregational Church. Rain poured all the day & evening - about 40 people present - sent out to teacher & others about 100 complimentary tickets Mrs Judge Palmer who got up meeting saw on Saturday everybody promised to attend - but the storm bringing new hope of harvests & life to farmers & miners brought empty benches to me - DECEMBER 19 Tuesday Took stage at noon for Colfax. The rain absolutely pouring all the way - San Fran. train behind did not come until 11 night - went to Hotel & tried to sleep but failed in my effort - took train at 11.20 - woke up at Sacramento - most terrible storm on the San Fran. Bay - were delayed along & did not reach Reno until 11.30 Wednesday - at 1 P.M. took stage (R.R. washed away) to Steamboat Springs 12 miles - thence stage to Virginia City - DECEMBER 20 Wednesday Virginia City - Nev Mrs C. H. Baker - Reached Reno 11.30 - took stage at 1 P.M. to Steamboat Springs thence Stage Virginia City - terrible mud & cold - arrived 7 P.M. - Hotel - Mrs Baker came - nothing from Mrs Gordon - no letter or bills - hence no appointment - went home with Mrs. [B.?] - slept with her - Mr G. on lounge - Tired & dreadfully disappointed - the Cash fates all against me - not a dollar sent home since Nov 3d - 6 weeks of hardest work and barely travelling expenses - 1000 miles travel & 37 speeches - DECEMBER 21 Thursday Virginia City - Nev Mrs C. H. Baker's rain & mud & snow - got no word from Carson City - so did not go down - the R.R. is washed away - 22 miles - Miss H. K. Clapp - Principal Ladies Seminary Carson City - Nevada Ms. Higgins & Mrs Calvin Mr Tryon Fisher Rev. T. McGrath DECEMBER 22 Friday Virginia City - Nevada National Guard Hall Mrs Charlotte H. Baker wife of E.G. Baker - a Hard ware merchant - Fine audience of 75 persons - $26 taken at door - - the most terrific storm of years - snow & mud frozen - but wind a perfect tornado - made good speech - - Mrs. Baker says the best she ever heard - rather high compliment - when she was & is perfectly captivated with Mrs Stanton - DECEMBER 23 Saturday Snow fell one foot in night - Still at Virginia City - Mr Baker came saying be ready for stage in 15 minutes but they simply took mails - snowed all the forenoon - Got things on for stage at 10 A.M. - it went off without me - and at night learned another went at 4 P.M. - went to Wells Fargo office - & booked name for 8 tomorrow A.M. - commenced snowing again in evening - dreadfully disappointed fear Gordon & Sargents will pass on ahead of me - to DECEMBER 24 Sunday Virginia City - Nev Up at 7 A.M. took breakfast alone in French Restaurant - at 9.30 the stage called - took me to Wells Fargo Office & then the agent produced telegram that road was impassible so was taken back to Mrs Bakers again - snowed till after noon - read Harpers Monthly - Jan 1872 - "Mrs Siddons" & "A cup of coffee" - & listened to Mrs B's essays on Geology DECEMBER 25 Monday Christmas Day - 1871 Left Virginia City at 10 A.M. - bright sun shine - cold & severe wind - six horse sleigh six miles - terrific snow drifts - then wheels to Steamboat Springs & cars there to Reno. - here all warm & ground bare - find the Sargents passed east Sunday A.M. as expected - but L. D. Ford Gordon back yet & going to speak here Thursday Went to bed early with promise to be called a full-hour before train DECEMBER 26 Tuesday Left Reno - Nevada at 5 A.M. - called only 15 minutes before train left - dreadfully provoked at the watchman. No prospect of connecting at Ogden - no snow on the track until near Elko - put extra Engine at Carlin [reached Ogden] all along the snow grew deeper & storming still. Learned from conductor that the Sargents were still delayed at Ogden - no train through since Friday last. DECEMBER 27 Wednesday Reached Ogden U.T. at 9 A.M. Senator A.A. Sargent met me at train - after breakfast at Restaurant - took me to his Pulman car - - none but himself, wife daughters Ella & Lizzie & son George - & young lad Jo Mitchell - in the car - Had dinner served in the car - Mr. Sargent not quite convinced as to women being voters under the Constitution as it is - snow storm turned to rain DECEMBER 28 Thursday Ogden - Left on W. P at 3 P.M. Eastern bound train arrived on time - at 12 noon the Western bound train arrived - 8 days precisely from Omaha - happy sett of people - we started at 3 P.M. three packed sleeping cars. - went on smoothly to Bitter Creek 248 miles - there waited three or four hours for extra engine to take us up the grade - then rushed a little to Washakie and there delayed again. Prospect slow enough - Mrs & Mrs Hooker of the Oregon and Cal. Stage Co. Mr & Mrs Mitchell of Portland Or - on board car ahead of us - DECEMBER 29 Friday On train W. P. Rail Road Pushed from Bitter Creek a little beyond Washakie - arrived at 9 A.M. & then waited backed & started up, & backed & started - Breakfast at 9.30 - Mr. S. making the tea & serving as Steward generally Crawled along to Percy - then delayed all night for trains ahead - Here overtook passenger train that left Ogden Monday A.M. - Five days out - Mrs Smith of Corrinne & Miss Field missionary returning from Siam on board that train - DECEMBER 30 Saturday Percy to Carbon & to Medicine Bow - here delayed [until] all day & all night - four passenger trains packed into two - & long freight trains passed us in night bound westward [at 10 A.M. moved on to Look] Staid all night at Medicine Bow 171 Lectures in the year DECEMBER 31 Sunday Left Medicine Bow near noon - passed on to Look Out - through deep snow cuts ten miles in length - Met Western Bound Passenger train - 4 days from Omaha - passed on to Laramie - two long freight & one long passenger train in front of us - reached Laramie at 10 P.M. - thus closes 1871 - a year full of close work - six months on East, six on West Rocky M't's - 63 lectures to June 1st - 26 as many & in California - 82 Sept 1st to date in Oregon, Wash. Ter., B Cl & Nevada - 13000 miles travel - gross receipts $4318. Paid on debts - 112.27. MISCELLANEOUS Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Geo. N Fletcher - 215 Fort street- - always go direct with trunk Mrs. E. D. Stewart Springfield, Ohio Mrs. Amos Steck Denver, Colorado Mrs. Geo. Randolph Central City, Col Mrs. L D. [True?] Gordon Mokelumne- California Madam D. Carlin & Col E.B Mentz Dr. M. A Southworth New Orleans - La. Mr. and Mrs, Allen South Newburg, O. Mr. B Craig Wathena - Kan. Glancey Atchison - Kan. Mrs Suzzie C. Aughey Dacotah - Neb. Mrs Mary E McPherson Council Bluffs Iowa both strong approvals to Mrs Masons Am to get [?] A. J. Dunniway - Portland Oregon - if she wants one - Mrs. Eliz. T Schenck P.O. Box 1050 San Francisco Cal (Wm Willis 124 Madison St - West Madison St C.M Brelsford Secy. A. S. durean Chicago Ill Mrs. E. M Harris Ripon - Wis - Mr. D.P. Corwin Sec'y - Lecture Committee Pittsburg - Pa Mrs. Mary Perkins Randall 1223 Fulsom st San Franciso - Cal - Mrs. C. C. Knowles East Greenwich Mrs. Julia Joslyn M. D. San Francisco Spiritual Doctor Mrs. Lena Clark San Francisco - Cal Mrs. M. A. Thomson 114 North 11th street Philadelphia- Pa - MISCELLANEOUS Mrs Eliz. Hobart Chatfield 445 West 47th Street New York city Mrs. A. M. Goodwin 862 Wabash Avenue Chicago Ill. Mrs Matilde Wendte Ed new Era 51 Chatham St House 414 East 51st Street New York MISCELLANEOUS Total receipts for the year 1871 $4318. [Expenses $2052.] expenses $2047. [?] $2271. Total $4318 Miscellaneous Accts expenses Deposted Jan. 596. 246- 350 Feb. 622 - 196 426 March 335 - 105 230 Apr, 374 - 224 - 150 May - 32 - 32 $1156 $1,959 $803 [Account 12B] $1033 Principal to Sister M. 600. Interest " " 401 Year [savings] Expenses- Bank June. 406 - 206 - 200 July 508 - 188 - 320 Aug. 282 - 192 - 90 Sept. 491 - 166 - 325 Oct 273 - 173 - 100 Nov. 209 - 129 - 80 Dec. 190 - 190 2359 - 1244 - 1115 Cash JANUARY Paid Rec'd 14. Washington . 45 16. Easton 50 19. Grand Rapids 75 23 Kansas City 100 24. Lawrence 75 25- Topeka 75 26- Leavenworth 50 27 Check interest M.S.A. 300 28 Lincoln Neb 75 31 Paola 40 Lincoln 11 Expenses 246 6[? ???] 50 596.00 596 Cash FEBRUARY Paid Rec'd 6th Cash in hand 50 Omaha $100 Ms Dermott [25] 25 Cash APRIL Paid Rec’d 1st Belvidere, [?]. 15 3 [illegible] 38 4 Check house 20. “ Morrison (25) 42 5.6 Princeton 3[?] 7 Lafayette Ind. 29 8 Chicago 10 9 C. S. Carter 25 Ripon Wis 21 Jefferson “ 17 Check ho[illegible] 60 St. Clair Mich. 25 Hudson “ 15 Painesville O 50 Cuba- 27 Rushford 27 Mr Morris 22 Paid May.600.note To Bank 70 Dress 100 Expenses 124.224. -374-374 Cash MAY Paid Rec’d [Olympia Brown] [5] [illegible Bank] [75] My expenses $38 Martha C. Wright 7 Sarah Pugh 15 M.A.Thomson 5 Loan $0 [illegible] [transfer?] $80 [Sjula?] 10 Dresses $5 On [illegible] [20.00?] 182. 182 24 Greeley 59 26 [illegible] [40] 25 [illegible] 20 28 [Laramie?] 30 23 Denver 80 Brot back 244 [illegible] 406 R.J. 100 on [illegible] 306 expenses 142 164 On hand 50 June 2. Brookvill Pa 58 5 Xerivia O. 24 9 Des Moines (22) 14 Sioux City 75 15 Int. Judge 35 16 Cherokee 37 17 Mt. Valley Junction 15 Omaha 30 Mrs. Trumball 75 Tax Wages 100 Talow 40 Ackerson 10 Astahala 30 Jefferson 26 Painesville 23 Cheyenne 15 {?} 58(?) S. Bluff 24 S. Inadis 20 Yearly 40 Sent home two P.O. Orders - $100 Cash on hand 142 5 Salt Lake 30 6 Corinne N.J. 20 11{?} Francises ECS 246 12 " " SAA 233 13 ECS P.M. 81.50 14 " Envery 193.50 15 San Raphoe 18 17 San Joesef ECS 91.25 19 Stockton 68.35 20 Murphy's 13.50 23 Calanero Aug 3.25 24 Sonora 18.50 1015.85 In Bank {?} 649.60 1360.25 Big Trees {?} Cash AUGUST Paid Rec'd Stockton & Sacramento & Vallejo 56 50 3a - San Jose S.B.A. 21.00 5 Santa Cruz S.B.A. 52 7 Watsonville S.B.A. 17.00 Woodland (38) 36 Santa Cruz Stanton & Anthony 75 San Francisco _ [?]_ S. 165 Oakland _ [?]_ S. 96 Nevada C T S. (50) [Burlingame?] C T S. (100) [National Life] [544] [illegible Chicago] [27] 2 of 2 [illegible] 339.50 24 [Evallula?] 500.75 8. The Dalles 7.5 Albany (29 - 10. 6 -book 4) 45.00 [??? illegible.] $10. Oct 1st 10. 20. Gula check h~~ 150 Expenses - 191 75 581.25 581.25 Cash SEPTEMBER Paid Rec'd 1 On hand - Portland 90 Life In. Chicago 27. Mosher pictures 6 Corsetts _ 5. gloves 2.50 7.50 Ribbon, Myrrh, paper cts 1.50 Tooth brush, alcohol 1.25 Wells Fargo envelopes 1.25 [6th?] 1st Portland Oregon 101.75 Lama Lace shawl 30 P.M. Ladies Collection 31 8. Evening [illegible] 38 10_ 3d evening Portland 7.75 11 __East Portland 7.50 12 Clark Home 175 13 Oregon City 13 14 Salem 45.50 _15.11 71.50 16 Milwawkie 3.50 18 The Dalles 20.75 Walla Walla 42.50, 18-19- 4.25 98.75 Lent to [Lace?] 90 33950 500.25 Cash October Paid Rec'd 2nd Corvallis 18 3d 4.50 22 50 4th Monmouth 15 50 5 Dayton 8 6 Lafayette 12 50 7 McMinville 13 9 Forest Grove 30 11 Books Check 100 13 12 Salem 21.25 15- 18- 39 25 14 Sent A.E. D. 25 \ 20 Olympia 25 17 Olympia (Chigo 30) 30 [?] Tumwater 2.50 23 Victoria 8 [?] 50 24 " 12 25 7 2[?] 8 28 Port Townsend 20/50 18 29 [?] 8 50 Seattle Expense 118 50 273.50 273.25 Cash November Paid Rec'd Brot [forward?] 118.25 2-3 Seattle 23 4-5 Port Madison 15 6 Port Gamble 7 25 8 9- Olympia [?] 9 Delegate Fund 17 Sent E.C.S. (87) 80 15 Portland 15 50 7 Oregon City 9 9 Eugene City 8-20th 21 29 22d Oakland 20 23 Roseburg 15 25 Jacksonville 16 27 Yreka - 25 [30?] Red Bluff 8 [Chico] on hand 32 expenses 96.75 _______ 208.75 Cash DECEMBER Paid Rec'd On hand 32 1 Chico 12 2 Marysville 22 8 Sacramento .5 11 Mayfield Wallis 20 12 Oakland 8 13. Plattsdale S. F 47.75 - 50.75 - 95.50) 14 H Coldsberg 6 155 S. F. Reception 60 16. Stockton 6.50 18 Nevada 6:5 8 50 13* W. Rider 10 [Stockton] [5.50] 22 Virginia Ciy 13 15 - S. Fran Collection 27 91 15[4]. 21 Loaned Mrs. J 2 00 Jn Thomson 20 110. Hattie Baker Virgo 1st Av. 2 doors of 62d st New York City Laura Curtis Bullard Care Jeremiah Curtis & Co. 2193 Oxford St. London England Lucretia Mott Care Geo Lord & Brothers- Wool dealers 218 Barclay Street New York Rochester Chronicle FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 18, 1870 The Susan. [*50 yrs*] There was a large attendance of both ladies and gentlemen at the reception given to Susan B. Anthony last Tuesday evening on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday. At an early hour hour the parlors were filled with ladies and gentlemen. Among the many present were the [Ve?]nerable Hon. Samuel E. Sewall and wife of [?] Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Ames, Mrs. Randall, Miss Stanton, Miss Cary, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Blake, and Mrs. Tilton. Mrs. Randall read a birthday ode composed for the occasion by Miss Phoebe Cary. Mrs. Ames recited Poe's "Raven" finely, and Mrs. Randall declaimed the "Bells". Miss Anthony made a characteristic speech. She said "Public Sentiment everywhere demanded women suffrage, and so she was dumb, though she still found voice to ask them to work. She wanted all to join in and demand a sixteenth amendment. When the secretary of state shall proclaim that twenty- eight states have ratified that amendment, then Susan B. Anthony would stop work and not before." We subjoin Miss Cary's ode: TO MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ON HER FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY. We touch our caps, and place to-night The victor's wreath upon her, To woman who outranks us all In courage and in honor. While others in domestic broils Have proved, by word and carriage, That one of the United States Is not the state of marriage. She, caring not for loss of men, Nor for the world's confusion, Has carried on a civil war, And made a Revolution! True, other women have been brave When banded or hus-banded; But she has bravely fought her way Alone and single-handed. And think of her unselfish strength, Her generous disposition, Who never made a lasting prop Out of a proposition. She might have chose an honored name, And none have scorned or hissed it; Have written Mrs. Jones or Smith, But, strange to say, she missed it. For fifty years to come may she Grow rich, and ripe, and mellow, Be quoted even above "par," Or any other fellow! And speak the truth from pole to pole, And keep her light a-burning, Before she cuts her stick to go The way there's no returning. Because her motto, grand, hath been The right of every human, And first and last, and right or wrong, She takes the side of woman. "A perfect woman, nobly planned," To aid, not to amuse one, Take her for all in all, we ne'er Shall see the match for Susan! bush Western at 00c. Barley 2,500 bush at 87 1/2 @ 93 1/2c for two-rowed Canada West on p t. Barley Malt dull; sales sh at $..,0 for State and $..,0@0,00 for Canada Corn-Receipts are 7,168 bush; the market opened and heavy but closed a shade farmer: sales 32,000 at 78@85c for new mixed Western, 70@75c for un- do, 95@100c for new yellow Jersey and Southern, for new white Southern,and $1,62@ 04 for old West- ixed. Oats-Receipts are 18.0 0 bush at 52@55c for ern and 59@62 c for State. E-Market is steady. Salee are 100 tierces at ^@7c arolina. FFEE-Is firm. Sales 1100 bags Rio on p t. GAR-Market active. Sales 150 hhds at 9 1/2@10 3/4c uba and 10 1/2@12c for Porto Rico. LASSES-Market is dull. PS-Market is quiet. Sales at ..@16c for e and 30@30 1/4c for refined. OVISIONS-The Pork market is quiet and steady shade firmer. es are 300 lbs at $26 25@26 50 for new mess- $..,00 for cash; $00,00@..,)) for old mess: prime: and $23,00@24 50 for prime mes bbls new mess seiler February, March and he at $26,50. of is steady: sales are 175 bbls at $10,00@15,00 for mess and $14,00@17.50 for new extra is quiet; sales 80 tieces at $25,00 and $27,00@30.00 fir India mess y; sales are 150 packages at 10 5/8@ @14 1/2c for hams. Lard is steady; 5 1/2c for steam- chiefly at ..0 for kettle rendered also 10 0 tierces . seller , May and five months at 15 3-16@15 1/4c. quiet at 17@30c for Ohio and 46c for State. as quiet at 17@30c for common to prime. ESSED HOGS-The market is heavey at 10 3/4@11c Western and ..c for city. S M [?] [??] [? ?] leadng[?] point to hand Revolution debt Si[? ? ?] 13 [?] west & Can F[??] Writing S[?]rgers h[? ??? ?] M Company See Sept 6 7 Astrology Sept 12 1871 ? ? ? begin Dec 16 Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.