Susan Brownell Anthony Diary 1895 Excelsior Diary 1895 [Elizabeth][Eliz]Mary Lorne Dickenson 158 West 23rd Street New York Helen Potter The Pelham Boston - Mass - 10.75/00 24 Susan B. Anthony Whoever finds this book if in Rochester N.Y. leave it 17. Madison Street If in New York City - leave at Mrs J.K. Laphaue's no 10 - East 68th street If in Philadelphia or N.J. at 1238 Spring Garden Street If in Chicago at the [?] Walton Hotel [?] of Chestnut & Clark Streets But my home - Rochester NY - will always be the place!! Jan. 1/95 Excelsoir Diary 1895 I WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Measures of weight.- Avoirdupois: 1 pound equals 7000 grains; 16 drams, 1 ounce; 16 ounces, 1 pound; 112 pounds, 1 hundredweight; 20 hundredweight, 1 ton. Troy: 1 pound equals 5760 grains; 24 grains, 1 pennyweight; 20 pennyweights, 1 ounce; 12 ounces, 1 pound. Apothecaries’: 1 pound equals 5760 grains; 20 grains, 1 scruple; 3 scruples, 1 dram; 8 drams, 1 ounce; 12 ounces, 1 pound. Metric: 1 kilogramme equals 1000 grammes, equals 2.2 Avoirdupois pounds. Measures of length.- Customary: 12 inches equal 1 foot; 16 1/2 feet, 1 rod; 40 rods, 1 furlong; 8 furlongs, 1 statute mile; 1 statute mile, 5280 feet or 1760 yards; 1 marine league, 3 nautical miles; 1 fathom, 6 feet; 1 nautical mile equals 6080.2 feet. Metric: 1000 millimetres equal 1 metre; 1000 metres, 1 kilometre; 1 metre equals 39.37 inches. Surface or square measure.- Customary: 144 square inches equal 1 square foot; 9 square feet, 1 square yard; 30.25 square yards, 1 square rod; 40 square rods, 1 square rood; 4 square roods, 1 acre; 640 acres, 1 square mile; 1 acre equals 208.7 feet square. Metric: 1 square metre equals 1 acre; 100 acres, 1 hectare; 1 hectare equals about 2.5 (2.47) acres. Solid or cubic measure.- Customary: 1728 cubic inches equal 1 cubic foot; 27 cubic feet, 1 cubic yard; 40 cubic feet of round timber, 1 ton; 50 cubic feet of hewn timber, 1 ton; 128 cubic feet of wood (4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet), 1 cord; 24.75 cubic feet of stone, 1 perch-usually 16 1/2 feet by 1 1/2 feet by 1 foot, but varies greatly. Metric: 1000 cubic centimetres equal 1 litre, equals .946 quart. Liquid measure.- English gallon equals 277.463 cubic inches; U. S. gallon equals 231 cubic inches; 4 gills, 1 pint; 2 pints, 1 quart; 4 quarts, 1 gallon. Dry measure.- 1 bushel equals 2150.42 cubic inches; 2 pints, 1 quart; 4 quarts, 1 gallon; 2 gallons, 1 peck; 4 pecks, 1 bushel. Metric: 10 millilitres equal 1 centilitre; 10 centilitres, 1 decilitre; 10 decilitres, 1 litre; 1 litre, 1.06 quarts. Capacity of boxes 25 in. sq., 11.66 in. deep = Approx. 1 wine barrel. 20 “ “ 9.10 “ “ = “ 1 wine half barrel. 17 “ x 14 in. 9.00 “ “ = “ 1 bushel. 10 “ x 12 “ 9.00 “ “ = “ 1/2 “ 8 “ in. sq., 8.40 “ “ = “ 1 peck. 8 “ “ 4.20 “ “ = “ 1 gal. (dry measure). 7 “ diam., 6.00 “ “ = “ 1 gal. (liquid measure). COMPARATIVE YIELD In pounds per acre. Hops...... 442 Plums..... 2,000 Grass..... 7,000 Wheat..... 1,260 Cherries..... 2,000 Potatoes..... 7,500 Barley..... 1,600 Onions..... 2,800 Apples..... 8,000 Oats..... 1,840 Hay..... 4,000 Turnips..... 8,420 Peas..... 1,920 Pears..... 5,000 Cabbages..... 10,900 Beans..... 2,000 Carrots..... 6,800 Parsnips..... 11,200 PERCENTAGE OF NUTRITION IN VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD. Cucumbers....2 Boiled codfish....21 Rye bread....79 Melons....3 Potatoes....22 1/2 Boiled beans....87 Turnips....4 1/2 Fried veal....24 Boiled rice....88 Milk....7 Roast pork....24 Barley bread....88 Cabbage....7 1/2 Roast poultry....26 Wheat bread....90 Currants....10 Beef....26 Baked cornbread....91 Eggs....13 Grapes....27 Boiled barley....92 Beets....14 Plums....29 Butter....93 Apples....16 Broiled mutton....30 Boiled peas....93 Peaches....20 Oatmeal p’dge....75 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. Barley, bushels.... 72,760,000 Oats, bushels.... 661,035,000 Buckwheat, “.... 11,000,000 Oranges, boxes.... 7,000,000 Butter and cheese, Peanuts, bushels.... 2,600,000 tons....610,000 Potatoes, “....155,000,000 Cotton, bales....6,717,142 Rye, “ ....31,750,000 Flax, bushels....11,104,440 Sugar, pounds....481,270,222 Hay, tons....50,000,000 Tobacco, “ ....565,795,000 Hops, pounds....1,987,790,000 Wheat, bushels....515,949,000 Indian corn, bu. ....1,628,464,000 Wool, pounds....294,000,000 Live stock.- Number of horses, 16,206802; mules, 2,321,128; cows, 16,424,087; oxen and other cattle, 35,954,196; sheep, 47,273,553; swine, 46,094,807. TO MEASURE APPLES, ETC., IN BIN. To find the number of bushels of apples, potatoes, etc., in a bin, multiply the length, breadth, and thickness together, and this product by 8, and point off one figure in the product for decimals. DOMESTIC POSTAGE. 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TUES. JAN. 1, 1895 Ther. At Home Had to dinner - May Hallowell & Sarah Willis, Mr & Mrs W. C. Gannet & friend, Miss Striker - Mr. & Mrs. Greenleaf & Dr. & Mrs. Sanford, their Madeline - - all went off [?] - with exactly twelve at table Wea. WED. JAN. 2, 1895 Ther. At home But going over to Ms Greenleafs ev'y day from this on to work with Mrs Mary T. Sanford to straiten out financial report of last years State [?] Con. campaign - Isabel Howland came last night - and from this on takes the matter in hand -- I began it with Mrs Sanford - this A.M. of Dec. 26th and, we devoted ourselves to [???ing] order out of chaos -- Wea. THUR. JAN. 3, 1895 Ther. At home but en route to Mrs. Sanfords - went to my dress makers to find her too ill to even see me - but sent me word she would fit me Saturday A. M. so I went [?] & she had furnished me a beautiful [?] with a satin star on it. FRI. JAN. 4, 1895 at home Sister Mary, Isabel & self took tea at Mrs. Hallowells - met then Drs [Dolly?] & [Seary?] - Mrs Lucy B. Smith - Rev & Mrs Gannett - Mr Mathers of Natl Street & his young bride We here learned that Perry Mark Parker is talking of forming an anti W.S. society in Rochester - & I said good - she will thereby only stir up every one who believes in equal rights to women - to publicly act & talk for it - SAT. JAN. 5, 1895 at home then to have dress fitted - Sun. Jan. 6, 1895 At Home Did not go to church At 2 P.M. went to Board Meeting at State Industrial meeting - two men rebuked & fired for laying hands violently upon boys - There seems a determined secret - from me - to get the girls moved out of their building - & turn their building & everything over to the boys -, They know my earnest disapproval - so would not discuss the matter - though I asked it - Mon. Jan. 7, 1895 At Home Went to Miss Fullams to have new waist to old black satin - & waist & skirt to another new dress fitted - Then home & worked over financial report with dear Rachel Howland - found several new items of receipts & outgrees to put in proper commities - my head has run on nothing else - than the loose - no way - in which the accounts were kept during the Campaign year Wea. Tues. Jan. 8, 1895 Ther. Left home on the 9.50 evg train for Cinci & found Mrs Chapman Catt on sleeper - so was armed & equipped for my southern trip - Made final call on Mrs Fulman - to try on new dress - & then on Mrs Greenleaf - to beg & implore her not to contrive to do treasuries work - but to simply stick to the President's duties - On way to Station Sister Mary with me - I called on dear Maria Porter 88 - and Dr E. M. Moore 80 - the latter slowly recovering from a partial paralysis - Wea. Wed. Jan 9, 1895 Ther. Breakfasted on train & arrived in Cincinnati at 10 - Stopped at Burnett House - dined & took train for Lexington at 4 P.M. wrote letters home & to sundry persons - Arrived at Lexington at 7 - Laura Clay met us Depot - & took us to her mother's home - a dear old fashioned house - heated; & Soft coal grate fires in each room - & a hard coal stove fire in the hall - but with this cold snap - all was cold Wea. THUR. JAN. 10, 1895 Ther. Lexington Ky - Laura Clay and No. 78 - North Broadway - her mother - the noble woman Mary June Warfield Clay During the morning several ladies called - though the sleet & snow now falls, the streets a glare of ice - - a fair audience in the old Christian Church - now enclosed in centre of their opposition nicely - - Mrs C. P. Wyoming is a very fine lecture - & just fitted - complemented my talk - a typical Southern home is this of the Warfield Clay - & she a fine, noble woman - her daughter Mary came up from Richmond Wea. FRI. JAN. 11, 1895 Ther. Wilmore - Kentucky Mrs Mary W. Hughes - and Rev [?] Hughes - keep a Methodist Boarding School - & are of the primitive "In the arms of Jesus" sort. - everything [?ude] - each girl making her own grate fire - in her room - no hall stove even to take the chill off though the water in tumbler & wash bason froze hard during the night in my room - with a fire till 10 o'clock. - A good, small audience in their college chapel - with 8 or 10 women from the next town Nicholasville Wea. SAT. JAN. 12, 1895 Ther. Louisville, Ky - Mrs Caroline A. Leech 1735 - First Street - Left Wilmore at 6.50 - the awfully cold air & ice in my room - found the car cold - a mean fire hardly started on the stove - at Lexington changed cars - but to find am equally cold one - arrive Louisville at 11. found Miss Leech at station - her mother too ill to entertain - so sent on to Mrs George Avery's - the son of my dear friend Susan took [?] - her youngest daughter - Helen Robinson came - Notwithstanding the mercury was 8 to 10 below zero 20 or more ladies called Wea. SUN. JAN. 13, 1895 Ther. -- and at evg the Sunday school room !! of Unitarian Church was packed to suffocation - Mr. Jones - the pastor - introduced us - & we went stronger on talks with a sort of cross feeling that our cause should be degraded - by being put into such an inferior place - The friends ought to learn that to thus advertise for a little place - kills the meeting beforehand - Mrs Avery & Mrs Robnison went to Church Mrs C. & Self remained home to write & be quiet -- Mon. Jan 14, 1895 Owensboro - KY - Mrs Sue Phillips Brown Left Louisville at 8.20 reached O. at noon - Several ladies met us & took us to the Hotel - Had a very good audience in the U. S. Circuit Court Room - - But, oh dear - the women are so W.C.T.U. and so little woman suffrage - Wea. TUES. JAN. 15, 1895 Ther. Paducah KY Mrs James Roger was our Hostess - our meeting was in a Campbellite Church here - no Cumberland Presbyterian Church - On the A.M. of the 16. Mrs Roger gave us reception - with luncheon - very hospitable - Wea. WED. JAN. 16, 1895 Ther. Milan Tennessee Mrs M. A. Clopton Guests of Mrs Husband a travelg 'man small audience - the Cumberland Presbyterian minister - Nelson - the only one who seemed to know a thing ahead Suffrage - a [?] little cold Opera house Wea. THUR. JAN. 17, 1895 Ther. Memphis Tenn - Mrs Lide Meriwether 14 Talbot Street The Women's Council Parlors were burned this very A. M. - so the meeting was in Young Men's Hebrew Associations Hall - A fine audience Mrs C. C. stopped with Mrs Selden - so I had a room to myself - Minor Meriwether of St Louis - was in our audience -- Wea. FRI. JAN. 18, 1895 Ther. Memphis Tenn At 11- the 19th Century Club gave us a nice reception - & we both made little talks - in their parlors - Mr. Minnur Merriweather to dinner with us to-day - Wea. SAT. JAN. 19, 1895 Ther. Memphis - Tenn at Ms. Merriweather's 14 Talbot St at 9 A.M. went to Zions Hall with Mrs. Cooper & Ms. to a reception given by the colored womens Club - at 10:30 to the Y. Men's Hebrew Associations Parlors - to a reception given by the Memphis Council comprised of 45 local Women's Associations - only the 19th Century Club has not joined - & it was Julia Ward Howe's influence that kept it out - This afternoon - we threw of [off?] Miss Clara Conway's receptoin - given by her Alumni - at her school - that we might sleep & rest for the evening meeting at the Young Men's Hebrew Hall Wea. SUN. JAN. 20, 1895 Ther. Spoke in Colored Church The Tabernacle at 11 - Mrs C.C. also - a wonderful assemblage - of all shades from jet black to absolute blonde white - most pathetic - Mrs C. C.'s talk to them was lovely - "keep the soul on top" - we dined at Mrs Meriwethers - also Mrs Selden - & [?] Unitarians - We left at 5.20 - I here presented a set of History to Mrs M - & one to the Secretary of the Young Men's Hebrew Association Wea. MON. JAN. 21, 1895 Ther. Reached New Orleans at 8.20 - a Com. of Portia Club - Mary Stout Roddis, Kate Nobles, the new Prest Miss Huberwald &c met us - were in good time to find Judge E. T. & Mrs C. E. Merrick at breakfast - - at six oclock dinner they had all their family J. B. Guthrie - son in law son Ned & wife - loveliest of Southern girl - then [?] their grand daughters one great niece or one Grand son - & all, enjoyed the time highly -- Wea. TUES. JAN. 22, 1895 Ther. New Orleans - La - Caroline E. Merrick 1404 - Napoleon Avenue - Spent forenoon tromping through the old French quarters - Market &c - Too dirty for any use - Both Mrs C. C. & self took a napp in P.M - Had a packed audience in Assembly room of the High School - Mrs Merrick introduced me, before Mrs C. C. - Mr J. Birney Guthrie [?] - just taken off his feet with the charming C. C. - she never spoke better — Mrs C. C. left at 8 & spoke at Mc [?] to night. Wea. WED. JAN. 23, 1895 Ther. Mrs Merrick called with me on her son Ned's wife & their babies & the youngest Susan B. - after Mrs M's step mother - & self - Then on Mary Stout Raddis - her daughter, not in - they own a neat little place at 1526 - Henry Clay Street - - Kate Nobles & others called Mrs Ordway - brought her $50 - the Grandson - J. Birney Guthrie & Mrs O. accompanied me to Jackson St Ferry - & [?] Bing crossed over the Miss. with me - & waited until 6.40 - till the train came -- about midnight we came to a freight train wreck - & had to get-up, dress & walk past it - & take the East bound train - & again West - to bed & slept until 10 morning - Mrs C. C. at Greenvile - this night Wea. THUR. JAN. 24, 1895 Ther. Shreveport, La. Mrs M. F. Smith 847 - Jordan St - notify Prof C. E. B[Boyd]yrd Byrd - Head of [C?] High School - he & bride board with Mrs Smith - Mrs S. A. widow for eight years - with five sons - a bright woman - in great lovely house - built new just before her husbands death - Did not arrive until 2 P.M. on account of freight smash up - half way from New Orleans - Was one of Star Lecture course - had Court House packed with best people - the Hypatia Club - sent me two beautiful bouquets - but every one is deploring the loss of flowers by the cold of Jackson - Miss Miss Slate Powers — Wea. FRI. JAN. 25, 1895 Ther. Left S. at 8.15 - Master Leon Smith going station with me - Mrs Blanks of Monroe on train & talked all the way - on arriving at the Miss. River - we waited two hours & more for Ferry Boat - so train was too late for me to speak at Jackson - Mrs C. C. [?] & Miss Powers came to the train at 9.20 - & said Mrs. C. C. was holding a magnificent audience for my coming - but, I had bought my ticket & rechecked baggage to Birmingham - & was to dozed out to even be looked at - much less to try to speak in Miss. Hall of Representatives packed with southern Chivalry — [*Seal's Hall-beautiful -*] Wea. SAT. JAN. 26, 1895 Ther. Birmingham Alabama Mrs. Mary Bolls van Hook 2022 - F. Avenue arrived at 5. A.M - found Mrs. Van H. moved & so went to Hotel Morris - to await events - see roster up - Miss Susan Jolly called - said her sister had gone to Montgomery to get bill through Legislation - & that her mother Mrs. Richardson Jolly wished me to stop with her so I left my comfortable steam heated room with misgivings & found a bare southern house cold - & other little coal grates couldn't touch the cold - so [?] - was the condition - Mrs. P.B didn't arrive - to send trunk back to the hotel & went back to my room after my lecture Wea. SUN. JAN. 27, 1895 Ther. Left B. at 11.50 - for Decatur - (new) guest of Harvey Lewis who - with Mrs. C.C.C. met me at new D. Station - Mrs. C.C. had arrived on January - Here we had a nice warm room - - - All day the oldest inhabitant never saw such a cold - freezing time! Wea. Mon. Jan. 28, 1895 Ther. New Decatur Ala. Mrs. E.S. Hildreth-to be entertained by Mrs. Harvey Lewis. The Lewis' are northern people as are most of the residents of New Decatur- Had a fair audience in the Opera House in Old Decatur-though the rain & slush & snow kept most people at home- Wea. Tues. Jan. 29, 1895 Ther. Huntsville, Alabama The home of our dear old national's long time ago Vice Pres for Alabama- Mrs. Priscilla Holmes Drake the mother of Mrs. Buel McClung of Knoxville & Mrs. M. O. Brooks of Washington -and Mrs. Robinson of near Huntsville ,who was at our meeting We arrived at 6. P.M. had City Hall packed -guests of Mrs. Milton Hume- daughter of an Ex. Gen. Chapman- & sister of Mrs. Taylor of Denver Col- The Pres. of the local club-Mrs. C. C. Clay & now Mrs Klopton- was at Mrs. Hume's - a splendid typical southern lady- the Humes is a magnificent old slave holders mansion -but Wea. Wed. Jan. 30, 1895 Ther. getting there after dark & leaving it at 3.20 A.M. before daylight- Saw only the rooms inside- At Knoxville we found our board the Clay's & other Kentucky delegates & Miss Hay -also, Mrs. Ketchum of Michigan Reached the Aragon about noon-found Rev Anna, Lucy E. & Mrs Upton with H. Augusta, Claudia & Miriam Howard there - with everything in order for us - lovely room with light fire-Hotel very nice & warm - held Ex. Con. meeting in ev'g 22 states represented Wea. Thur. Jan. 31, 1895 Ther. 27th National A.W.S.A. Con. to be in Atlanta, Georgia For the first time moved out of Washington D.C. since 1869-when dear Lucretia Mott was president Opened with a splendid audience Wea. FRI. FEB. 1, 1895 Ther. 27th National Con - Atlanta - Geo - DeGives Opera House Wea. SAT. FEB. 2, 1895 Ther. 27th Annual National Con - DeGives Opera House Atlanta - Georgia Wea. SUN. FEB. 3, 1895 Ther. 27th - ought to be Wash. Con. DeGive's Opera House Atlanta Georgia Rev Anna H. Shaw preached - The Heavenly Vison" at 3 P.M. in the Opera House - packed to suffocation, - the stage & all standing room - & hundreds turned away by the Police - Dr Hathorne had preached against us in the morning - Baptist - which stirred Anna to greater power - In the evening our women spoke in various white & colored churches - but I sat in Parlors & held Council with all who came in - Wea. MON. FEB. 4, 1895 Ther. 27th Annual National Con - Atlanta - Georgia Went to the Atlanta University at 9 A.M. and talked to the colored students at 10 - went into Executive Com. meeting in Hotel Aragon - until 2 P.M. - - and in afternoon [High School Assembly] again until dark - - then dressed in velvet & was whirled to colored Bethel Church - met Bishop Turner there - & Mrs Merrick & I talked to a 1000 or more - some whiter than me - still doomed to go with the blakest - then returned to the Aragon Reception - & shook hands with the hundreds that surged through Wea. Tues. Feb 5, 1895 Ther. In Atlanta - Talking & saying goodbye to everybody - At 3:30 - Sister Mary & self were taken to the High School assembly room - to meet the High School Alumnae - Only 100 - out of their 600 - members were present Their president is - Mr. Cox — Wea. Wed. Feb. 6, 1895 Ther. Left Atlanta - GA - at 7:30 - for Columbus - GA where we arrived at 11:30. H. Augusta Howard - our escort - the mother Mrs. Ann Jane Linsey Howard, Claudia H. Maxwell, Miriam H. Dubose & her litle boy Howard DuBose - had gone home before us - only company consisted of Sister Mary S. Anthony - Rev Anna Shaw & niece Lucy E. Anthony, Harriet Taylor Upton and her little friend Bessie Gilbert of Ohio - - We found the Howard home - a veritable old slave-holders Mansion - 75 or 80 feet front - with twin great columns - and at the sides five great columns making a piazza on three sides -The hall is 20 feet wide - each of the four great square rooms on its sides are fully 25 feet - with one fire place Wea. Thur. Feb. 7, 1895 Ther. At Columbus - I've parlor & dining room have soft coal grates - All the other great room up stair & down have old fashion fireplaces with hand irons - but not the great old back logs or fore-sticks - instead - The wood was small - &r its burning piles hardly touched the frigid air of the rooms - - As we 8 & 10 hovered round the parlor fire - our frozen breaths formed as if out side - But the hearts of the Howard's are great, gave us a cordial welcome — Wea. Fri. Feb. 8, 1895 Ther. At Columbus - Rev. Anna H. Shaw - Harriet Taylor Upton - Sister Mary, Niece Lucy E. & Bessie Gilbert - left for Atlanta, these for different places at 3.20 - which left S.B.A. the only visitor - Over this dear consciencious family hangs a heavy cloud - A sadness reigns over the house - The other two daughters at home are Ruth & Alice - There there are three other girls married - and two sons - all opposed to W. Rights - & all the reforms that the mother & five home girls have espoused - They have Old Tom. & old - 80 years old who were Mr. H's father's Linsby's slaves — Wea. Sat. Feb. 9, 1895 Ther. S.B.A. Left - Columbus at 2.45 - In Aiken S.C Dear Claudia H. Maxwell -& Mirians H. Du Bose's son, Howard took me to the station - Found one train two Columbus Ga - Men - Col. C J. Thornton - a lawyer- and L. F. Humbel - a real estate and loan agent - - who talked & told me of many things of the old life - & of the new - - and of dear Ruth - reached Marion at 8.20, - & there took the most ancient sleeper I ever saw - to Augusta - There at 6:20. took Train for Aiken — Wea. Sun. Feb. 10, 1895 Ther. Arrived at Aiken S.C. at 7.15 - found all in bed - But Miss. Schofield soon had her fires going - she had taken home with her from Atlanta - Emily Howland, Mrs Hubbard, Mr and Mrs Tilney of Phila - Dr Jane Myers & Mrs Blankenburg - Phebe Wright, the Canada Friend, & Miss MComas of Brooklyn - & my arrival made nine - The weather cold but bright & lovely - we visited the Old peoples House - some [?] - all 70 or over - Old Pompey told of his Slavery life - no Patrick Henry could have writhered under bondage more battered than did Pompey - George Washington - another character - - talk about the loneliness of the patriarchal family!! every slave with a spark of the love of liberty in his soul repelled against it — Wea. Mon. Feb. 11, 1895 Ther. Aiken - S.C. Court House - Martha Schofield- she has kept a Boarding and Industrial School for colored youth here for 30 years - This morning light found the ground white & the trees weighted down with snow and the cold & snow together - kept her 100 day scholars at home - save 8 or 10 - So I could see & talk only to the boarding scholars - She took me to the shops carpenter, Harness, Blacksmith &c - Had small but best representative audience - The Baptist minister presented me - - all of went in an Omnibus the Court House was very cold two it had two stoves & one grate fire going at red heat — Wea. Tues. Feb. 12, 1895. Ther. Columbia - South Carolina Mrs. Helen Brayton member Board of Lady Managers of Columbian expedition - Arsenal Hill - Cor. Gordon St and Richland Avenue - Found Col. V. P. Clayton - chair Practical Progress Com. that invited me to speak in C. and Col. Brayton at the station at 11.30 - left Aiken at 7.15 - Found Mrs Brayton a lovely northern woman - with two young daughters - Mr B. a northern also - they have lived here 20 years - & gone through all the tribulations of the Klu Klux days Had some 100 - in the Opera House - the cold of it something fearful - only one little stove in the far corner by the door - not the breath of fire on the stage!! Col Clayton introduced me — Wea. Wed. Feb. 13, 1895 Ther. At Col. Brayton a constant run of callers - the real old Southern blood - At 4.15 - Mrs B. & self went Mrs Smith's - of Wilkesbarre Pa - to a small reception - - The Smith's spend winters in Columbia - in a real comfortable furnace heated palatial house - & summers in Penn - Mrs. Le Conte - the State Librarian - though the Con. of S.C. says none but electors shall hold office - Gov Tillman and the legislation over rode the law & elected "woman - twice over - against many men aspirants" - Met two daughter of Gilman Perkins of Rochester at Smith's Took train at 6 P.M - two hours late - I was in bed before it started Wea. Thur. Feb. 14, 1895 Ther. Culpepper - Va. Mrs Orra Langhorne Arrived 8. A.M. two hours late - Train flagged to stop - so conductor hustled me off. Trunk also - & saved me from the two hours into - & out again - from Washington - Found no room with fire at the Waverly - So man escorted me to Mrs. Rixey's boarding house - where Mrs. Langhorne had engaged room for me - cheerless and barren enough - but a hard coal fire in old fashion Franklin stove - Weather very cold and bright sun - Wea. Fri Feb. 15, 1895 Ther. This day rounds out my 75th year - & starts me into my 76th - I am now but about ten years younger than our dear mother when she passed to the beyond - & 6 years older than our dear Father when he went. Banquet at Ebbitt House. 200 sat at table - Rachel announced that she had obtained $5,000 & placed in The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company - & that it would hence forth pay S.B.A. an annuity of $800 = It was a great surprise to S.B.A. probably every other one knew of it - but her -- Wea. Sat. Feb. 16, 1895 Ther. First Annual Business meeting at the Ebbitt House Washington D.C -- Wea. TUES. FEB. 19, 1895 Ther. Wea. WED. FEB. 20, 1895 Ther. Women's Council - business session of only the members & delegates & Frederick Douglas entered the hall - Mrs Sewell, at once, called him to the platform - and when he hesitated, she appointed Meritt Anthony & Rev. Anna Shaw to escort him to the platform - he went - bowed most graciously & gracefully - but declined to say a word - then sat there through the session - & again returned at the P.M session - & sat till near its close - I chatted with him a half-hour - on returning to his home in Anacostia - he dropped dead as he was telling his wife of that wonderful Women's meeting - Wea. Sat. Feb 23, 1895 Ther. Wea. Sun. Feb 24, 1895. Ther In Washington. Rev Ida C. Huttun preached the C[?] sermon at 8pm Mrs. Sewall and self called on Mrs. Douglas and her children. Wea. Mon. Feb. 25, 1895 Ther. In Washington The funeral of Frederick Douglass at 2, P.M. in the colored M.E. Metropolitan Church - Wea. Tues. Feb. 26, 1895 Ther. Wea. Wed. Feb. 27, 1895 Ther. In Washington Wea. Thur. Feb. 28, 1895 Ther. In Washington - at court - from 5. to 7 - A beautiful reception given by Mrs. J. R. McLean - to S. B. A - Wea. Fri March 1, 1895 Ther. National W. S. A. even'g of the Women's Council. My title will be Women's Work & the Ballot. After me came Mrs. Grammer also I D was happy about Mrs. Chapman Catt. A splendid guartable of my girls - a splendid audience. Wea. Sat. March 2, 1895 Ther. Closing meeting of the Women's Council Wea. Sun. March 3, 1895 Ther. In Washington for National Suffrage Woman's Com. meeting all the day - in evening a meeting of friends in our parlor Wea. Mon. March 4, 1895 Ther In Washington in [?] Ex. Com. meeting all day - & at 6 Rachel, May and self with Mrs. Rapley [?] Wea. TUES. MARCH 5, 1895 Ther. Lincoln - Virginia Mr & Mrs E. J. Ramson Friends - she the wife of son of Samuel M. Jarmes the preacher Wea. Wed. MARCH 6, 1895 Ther. Wea. SAT. MARCH 9, 1895 Ther. Left Washington D.C. 10. A.M. with Emily Howland reached Philadelphia at 1- Lunched in Penn. station - - Miss H. went to Mrs Ellen Childs 624 Race st - & I went to the house of dear Adeline Thomson - who died Feb. 2 - & was buried Feb. 4. While Sister Mary, Niece Lucy E. - Anna Shaw, Rachel Foster and self were all at the Atlanta Con - & her nephew - so says Nellie Parish - forbade our being notified of her death Only Bell & son Theodore were in the house 1236 Spring Garden - & all looked cold & deserted Edgar had stripped things quickly Then took train at 4.50 for Somerton - where were Rev Anna Lucy E, Anna O. and Mrs Robbins of Mich, the new Con. Sec. of Council - - the girls returned to [?] at [?] - & Miller arrived same train - Wea. Sun. March 10, 1895 Ther. In Somerton. At R. J. A.' s - signed my name over 200 times on sheets - to thank the friends who sent Rachel money to make up the sum that is to bring me $800 - a year - So long as I live - At 4.50 I returned to Phila - to 1820 Diamond Street - Took supper & slept [thr?] - Wea. MON. MARCH 11, 1895 Ther. Lucy E. & self went to the Drexel with Anna O, heard her recite - and at 12 noon - I spoke to some 500 of the boys & girls - then all of us went to 4716 - Windsor Av - to Lunch with Niece Louise Mosher James - - Raining & sloppy - & all of us without rubbers -- Wea. TUES. MARCH 12, 1895 Ther. Left Phila. 10. Oclock arrived New York at 1 - Went to Eliz. Lowe Dickinson's Office - 158 West 23rd Street - Mrs Ed. Lauterbach met me there - and we talked of Celebration of Mrs Stanton's 80th birth - November 12. next - at 5 - went to Mrs Stantons - Mrs Chapman - Catt - arrived there - Staid to dinner - Mrs S. had strange pain in her forehead between her eyes - such as never before - we were not a little startled -- at 9 - Mrs Catt saw me on car for Cousin Semantha's & she took elevated car for her home in Bensonhurst - Brooklyn Wea Wed March 13, 1895 Wea. THUR. MARCH 14, 1895 Ther. Left cousin S. V. Laphams at 8.20 - Miss [Norse?] went to Jersey station - Hoboken- West Shore R.R.. - Left at 9.20 and reached Rochester at 9.12 - evening - Found Sister Mary up - alone - girl Sarah - out - Wea. Fri. March 15, 1895 Ther. At home. Rochester Sister May read of two state Industrial school girls & Two Ind Academy boys - girls arrested - So am sent to Police Court. Found case adjourned to Monday A.M. Paper announced the death of our dear and noble friend Elizabeth P. Hall of 47 Frank St. - last night near 12 oclock- We went there. Found many already before us. Rev. Dennis her nearest friend was there. Helping the dear girl Allie Mornam Wea. sat. March 16, 1895 Ther. At home. The files of letters & papers accumulated during my over two months absence are simply appalling. Wea. Sun. March 17, 1895 Ther. At home - Sister Mary & self went to church - Then home to an old fashion - apple pot pie dinner - Which brought of the living - brothers Daniel & Merritt - & Aaron & of those gone - Father especially but mother also - for she did so love to make what pleased father so well & ever & always did so Wea. Mon. March 18, 1895 Ther. Rochester - In A.M. Sister Mary & self went to Police Court to see the two bad girls tried by Judge Ernest - They sentenced to prisons - Son of Hope - & [Albion?] - Their boy accomplices not arrested even - Simply used as witnesses against the girls -- Then back to dinner and at 2.20 - to the funeral of Elizabeth P. Hall. 76 years old - Rev Dennis read the Episcopal service - without a single extemporaneous word of the wonderful spirit that had left its earthly tabernacle -- and with a pathos in his voice showing the depth of his feeling Wea. THUR. MARCH 21, 1895 Ther. at Home - Sister Mary & Mrs Crossalt of Warsaw went to Watson House - P.E. Clerk Sociable and I to state school annual meeting - but no quorum came - so a little after 9 I was home & in bed - Wea. FRI. MARCH 22, 1895 Ther. At home Mrs Hunts - Belle Bristol of Nampa - Idaho - called & talked over amendment matters in her state - - clearly our National house had better be kept off - & let their own politicians manage it - they have precipitated it - Wea. Thur. April 4, 1895 Ther. At Home In evening Sister Mary & self went over & called on Miss Wells & Mrs Gannetts -- Wea. Fri. April 5, 1895 Ther. At home - Got off 20 letters or more - & in P.M. went to Dr. Farleys - to listen reading of Sally Hally's letters - extracts & Carrie Putnam - which carried us back to the olden times -- - Took Miss Wells to Young Peoples Party - but found no supper - - So came home to cold water & bread & butter -- Wea. SAT. APRIL 6, 1895 Ther. at home - with type writer - paid off Julia Ames - She hasn't the education nor the quick perception to ever make a success of type writing & stenography Wea. SUN. APRIL 7, 1895 Ther. Sunday A.M. Sister Mary went to hear Mr Gannett - Miss Wells to colored church - & at 1. we all went to Dr & Mrs Sanfords to dinner - then to 2d Baptist Church - Dr Anderson introduced Mrs Wells to a good audience - & she began "My country tis of thee"- which [?] had sung - & clearly proved it wasn't her cont.. - oh lord it rained - Sister Mary went with her to Rev [Thearts?] to tea - & Niece to 1st Baptist Church- & there was a still larger audience - at close of her speech a Texas theological student brutally asked questions which answered beautifully - o at last to throw in my word - that proscription of color was rampant here in Rochester &c Wea. MON. APRIL 8, 1895 Ther. Ida B. Wells of Memphis - guest Went to see Mrs Fullam about dresses for California trip - sold typewriter Anna Dorsey - to ask Miss Wells if she would like to dictate her letters & have them written on the typewriter - When I returned. I found Miss Wells scribbling away- & said couldn't you dictate , let Anny type write for you." - oh yes - if I had had a chance"- then I went to my room & said - "you didn't understand me did you to ask Mrs W. " - yes, she said - but I didn't choose to write for a colored woman" - I engaged to work for you? - Well - When I ask an employee to do a favor to a guest I expect her to comply - - so the little fatherless & homeless girl of 20 - left - - The Presbyterian ministers this A.M. passeded a resolution against Lynching - Wea. TUES. APRIL 9, 1895 Ther. at home - Miss Wells here to supper - Democrat Reporter called - gave him the story of Miss Wells & Mr Clark at Burke's store - start of my type writer &c - but the Dem. Chron never published it - nor did it allude to the outrage editorially - at 9 Oclock Miss Wells left - & went to her colored friend's Mrs Morse - Wea. Wed. April 10, 1895 Ther. Sodus - Wayne Co - Mrs J. R. Gaylord take the 10.15 - A.M. Rome, Watertown -- Guest at Mrs. Charles Gaylord - Meeting in opera house - Fair audience - roads too muddy for farmers to come in - - Wea. Thur. April 11, 1895 Ther. Reached Rochester from Sodus at 11.20 - Found all right - - Wea. FRI.APRIL 12, 1895 Ther. At home Wea. SAT. APRIL 13, 1895 At home — Wea. SUN. APRIL 14, 1895 Ther. Sunday - didn’t go to church - Sister May went - Both of us dined & Mary H. Hallowells - Sarah Willis, Phebe Hallowell, Lucy B, Smith - Mr. & May Piatt - & Wm Stout & little wife - had a nice old fashion visit & remained till dark A special Board meeting of State Industrial school, at 4 - but I didn’t go - just feel that it is no use holding the place any longer - hoping some woman will come to the front to take it - Wea. MON. APRIL 15, 1895 Ther. At home Went to Mrs Fullams to try on dresses— wrote letter to Gov. Levi P. Morton - resigning my place as member of Board of managers state Industrial School - & recommended Dr George W. Goler - as the one best suited - - Wea. TUES. APRIL 16, 1895 Ther. Wea. WED. APRIL 17, 1895 Ther. Received the Governor’s acceptance of my resignation - Sister Mary & self went Watson House to hear Mrs H B. Clark’s paper on “Ethics in the Public Schools” - it was excellent is to be read at the Women’s Ethical Club on Friday P.M at the 2d Baptist Church Wea. THUR. APRIL 18, 1895 Ther. [Franklinvelle Galt. Co. N.J. guest of] Wea. FRI. APRIL 19, 1895 Ther. Franklinville - Catt. Co NY. Mrs. Lucy F.T. Waring - President P.E. Club. - organize week before Lecture in Opera House - Guest of Mr & Mrs Sexton - Mrs Groves is secretary - Mrs Jennie E. Dudley Mason called - her father was John Dudley, who used to fold, press & bale the cloth - in my fathers Cotton Factory at [Bakersville?] [?] Mr Dudley had twin sons - Nelson tended the surging machine & Alanson was -later superintendent of weaving room- Brother D. R. took to Adams - they dined at her uncle Crawford’s - & then went to Aunt Hannah Moxie's who must have lived in house he was born in - [Bornen’s Corner?] Mrs Dudley Masons mothers name was Hodskin - New Ashford - Cheshire - Mass — Wea. FRI, APRIL 26, 1895 Ther. at home getting ready to start for California Wea. SAT. APRIL 27, 1895 Ther. Left Rochester - 7.20 A.M. via Solomon reached Warren Ohio - Mrs Harriet Taylor Uptons - at 4. P.M.- Wea. Sun. April 28, 1895 Ther. Left Warren at 4 p.m. Took sleeper at Cleveland for Indianapolis. Wea. Mon. April 29, 1895 Arrived Indianapolis at 7.20 a.m. in time to breakfast with dear May Wright Sewall Whose heart is wrung because of the illness & absence in Arizona of her dear husband Theodore S. Sewall. We talked over council & California between her almost constant engagements. but her one thought was on her Theodore & his being far away from her. She wrote about his cure almost hopless & it is well she can keep up hope. Wea. Tues. April 30, 1895 Ther. Took the 11.00 a.m. train for Chicago - Arrived at 5.00 - Found dear Mrs. Gross watching and waiting on me - Called at Studio & took Harriet Hasmer to 48 Lake Shore Drive - She has been a guest with the Gross' for seven months - - She is at work on Statue of Lincoln - Wea. Wed. May 1, 1895 Ther. [St. Louis - Mo Mrs. E. B. Ingalls 4119 Westminster Place] - Went to Woman's Club in P.M. - They were talking of Celia Maxter - Called on me - & At - 9.20 P.M. Mrs. Gross & self took Alton train for St. Louis - Mr. Gross accompanying us to the station -- Miss Shaw came to Mrs. Gross at 2 P.M. -- so went with us to St. Louis Wea. Thur. May 2, 1895. Ther. This day is for St. Louis Mrs. E. B. Ingalls. 4119 - Westminster Place. Mrs Gross & self arrived St. Louis & with Miss Shaw went to the new Planter's Hotel - Opposite the old County Court House - in where Negro - Slaves used to be struck off to the highest bidder - I was to have been the guest of Mrs. E.A. [Wesminster?] 2716 - Delmar Ave - but went with Mrs. Gross - to hotel - Went to A.M. session & remained at Hotel at evening session with Mrs. Gross Wea. Fri. May 3, 1895 Ther. In St. Louis At the Planters - Went to A.M. Session Mississippi Valley Woman's Conference - a W.C.T.U & yet all suffrage talk - & at close of sessions people were asked to join W.C.T.U. remained home in P.M. & tried to take a sleep - Made an hours speech in evening to a large & paid audience - All the rest had been free admission -- Mrs Gross went with us -- Wea. Sat. May 4, 1895 Ther. In St. Louis - This Missouri State Wom Suffrage Association - held morning & afternoon sessions - - elected Mrs E.P. Johnson President. Miss Shaw had to take 8.20 P.M. train for Kansas City - so was not at the Banquet given at the Mercantile Club rooms - in honor of S.B.A. - Some 100 - at tables - Mrs Ingalls managed and presided beautifully - Wea. Sun. May 5, 1895 Ther. In St Louis - Mrs Gross took me a drive of four hours - called on Mrs Meriwether at her son Rivers - & drove through the Parks - a lovely drive - & then back to Planters to dinner - she taking the 8.55 - Alton train for Chicago - & I the 8.20 - Mo. Pacific train for Leavenworth - Miss Taylor & Mrs E. P. Johnson wanted to see Mrs Gross off - Wea. Mon. May 6, 1895 Ther. Reached Leavenworth at 9.25 - Found brother D.R. at station - spent the day guest at the house - Wea. Tues. May 7, 1895 Ther. Left Leavenworth at 9.05 A.M - on Union Pacific - at 11.20 - at Topeka station - Mrs Lucia O. Case & Dr. Harding met me - and dear Miss Lyon came in sight after the train had started!! Took sleeper at Topeka wrote some letters then dozed - & at 2 took dinner - at 8 - went to bed - The weather hot - but a cool breeze Wea. Wed. May 8, 1895 Ther. Reached Denver at 4 a.m. but remained in sleeper until six 20 - Then took carriage after some search - found I was to be the guest of Mrs. Thomas M Patterson - Pennsylvania Avenue - Found a warm welcome - Mrs P & her sister Mrs Campbel wrote the Colorado Chapter for W.S. [?isby] They have only one daughter - left - out of five children - & she - Maude - is soon to be married - at 4.35 - took train for Boulder - Where I was the guest of Mrs. Jennette Bennett Dunham - Had a small audience - But on the whole not bad - The Salvation Army - with their after Geril Coxy - [?] Wea. Thur. May 9, 1895 Ther. Left Boulder at 8.15 - Was introduced to Judge & Mrs. Jay H. Boughton - of Fort Collins - & had a nice chat with them - Miss Maude met me - & we called at Gov Routts & found Rev. Anna there - She arrived at 4 A.M - A reception at the Brown Palace Hotel this P.M. from 3. to 5 - & meeting this evening in the Broadway Theater A splendid audience Wea. Fri. May 10, 1895 Ther. Left Denver at 2.25 - P.M. for Cheyenne - Wyoming - Train late - Guests of Senator & Mrs. Joseph Carey - Elegant dinner meeting - at 7.30 - & it was full half past eight - if not 9 oclock when we reached the new Baptist Church - Gov Rich presided - - Mrs Cary had to dinner Mrs Rich Mrs Post - Mrs Warren & the pioneer Esther Morris - Wea. Sat. May 11, 1895 Ther. Left Cheyenne at 7.20 - Soon learned that Mrs Leland Stanfords [?] car was attached to the rear of the train - & near noon she sent for me to visit her - She was looking well & told me of the governments suit against the estate - for $15,000,000 - principal & interest - of loan to the Central Pacific - Wea. Sun. May 12, 1895 Ther. Arrived Salt Lake, Utah at 2 A.M. remained in sleeper until 7. A.M. then found E.B. Wells & 50 or 60 ladies awaiting us. Drove to the Templeton Hotel. Where 70 or more ladies took breakfast with us. Then we drove an hour about the city. Miss Shaw stopping with Mrs. McVickar and I with Beatie, a daughter of Aunt Zina Huntington and Brigham Young. The mother there. Also the husband's mother Beatie with three children. Miss Shaw preached in the great Tabernacle. Filled. Bishop Whitney followed with some Mormon doctrine. that God was once a man & through perfection grew into god! Wea. Mon. May 13, 1895 Ther. In Salt lake. Meeting in Constitutional Hall - City Hall Building - Crowded to suffocation - even in A.M. - at evening it was unbearable - so announced that meeting tomorrow would be in the Mormon Assembly Hall - where the Bishops hold their meetings - & that was packed at evening — Wea. TUES. MAY 14, 1895 Ther. In Salt Lake Assembly Hall Wea. WED. MAY 15, 1895 Ther. Ogden THUR. MAY 16, 1895 Reached Reno- Nevada FRI. MAY 17, 1895 Reno Nevada Wea Mon May 20, 1895 Ther. The Pacific Slope Women's Congress. San Francisco Mrs. George T. Gaden - Secy Wea. Tues. May 21, 1895 Ther. Mrs Maria Freeman Gray 316. Montgomery Street San Francisco - Cal - Wea. SUN. MAY 26, 1895 Ther. [?][?][?] Miss Shaw preached for [?] [?] [?] [?] the closing & [?] sermon in the Jewish Synagogue [?] [?] Wea. MON. May 27, 1895 Ther. Attended the Congregationalist's [?] [?] at [?] [?] [?] - Women & of Wea. Thur. May 30,1895 Ther. Left San Francisco at 6 PM - after a busy day packing & seeing people - for yosemite [velly?] With Miss Shaw - Dr Elizabeth & nephew 16 Henry A. Baker Wea. Fri. May 31,1895 Ther. Left o after breakfast - on stage - lunched at - & dined & slept at Wawona - Wea. Sat. June 1, 1895 Ther. Left Wawona Hotel at 7 o clock - and reached Yosemite Valley at 12.00 - Wea. Sun. June 2, 1895 Ther. In Yosemite valley made the Vernal + Nevada falls trail - Mon. June 3, 1895 The Yosemite falls at Stoneman Hotel visited Mirror Lake in the morning - and in the pm made the valley drive to the Cascades Tues. June 4,1895 The yosemite valley Wed. June 5, 1895 In Yosemite valley made the glacier Point trail Thur. June 6,1895 Texas Annual Con at Dallas - remember to write them Yosemite- Cal. Hay and self took nice drive down the valley to the cascades in A.M. and then took stage at 1.20 to go out of the valley Ridgeway (thru pines) took a last glimpse of the Wonders as we drove up the mountain for on the south West - via Inspiration Point Spent the night at the Wawona Hotel. Mrs Harland Mrs Fisher & Miss Crane came out of the valley with us while Dr. Taryout & Shaw made the Yosemite Falls trail Wea. FRI JUNE 7, 1895 Ther Reached San Francisco at 11:20 Wea. SAT. JUNE 8, 1895 Ther. Left San Francisco 3:30 for San Jose- Mrs. Cooper & Hattie called at Mrs. Sargents Miss Shaw & Dr Lizzie arrived from Josemite at 11.20 - all O.K. Mrs. Blinn & Mrs Harland stayed to Luncheon Nephew Hary A. Baker called - & we had a fun talk of himself & his future - he decided to go to San Diego - & into the Sister's Hospital - a give up the Lumber Camp proposal - & thenceforth to keep himself within the limits of civilization - his ship surgeon life for four years - has told on him Wea. Sun. June 9, 1895 Ther. San Jose - Cal guests of Mrs Sarah Knox Goodrich - Miss Shaw Preached at Santa Clara M.E. Church in A.M - at San Jose M.E. Church at 2.20 P.M- Wea. Mon. June 10, 1895 Ther. San Jose TUES. JUNE 11, 1895 Leave San Jose - Cal for Los Angeles WED. JUNE 12, 1895 Los Angeles - Cal - Thur. June 13, 1895 Riverside Cal Mr. Frank Richardson Fri. June 14, 1895 Pasadena Cal Sat. June 15, 1895 Pomona Cal Sun. June 16, 1895 Los Angeles Miss Shaw to preach. Wea. MON. JUNE 17, 1895 Ther. San Diego. Wea. TUES. JUNE 17, 1895 Ther. Wea. FRI. JUNE 21, 1895 Ther. Wea. SAT. JUNE 22, 1895 Ther. Los Angeles. Wea. Sun. June 23, 1895 Ther. Left Los angeles - at 2 P.M - a suffrage Com. meeting on Mrs C.M. Severances Piazza - and Mrs Annie C. Severance wife of Mark Sibley Severance gave me $100- check to make her a patron of the National Council of Women - Wea. Mon. June 24, 1895 Ther. Reach San Francisco - at 10.45 A.M - Wea. Tues. June 25, 1895 Ther Oakland - Cal - Farewell meeting in 1st Congregational Church — Wea. Wed. June 26, 1895 Ther. Wea. Thur. June 27, 1895 Ther. San Fransciso - Cal - Lecture for Cal. W. S. Amendment campaign Committee - Sarah B. Cooper Pres - Metropolitan Temple - A splendid audience - - with a 50 cts - admission - our Farewell to San. Fran - Wea. Fri. June 28, 1895 Ther. At Mrs Sargents - Luncheon at Mrs Nellie Holbrook Blinn - Wea. Mon. July 1, 1895 Ther. In San Francisco This is my sister Guelma's 77th birth day - she was born July 1. 1818 - & mother & father were married July 13. 1817 - Speak before the ministers of all San. Fran. churches - today at 1.20 - in Y.M.C.A Hall Wea. Tues. July 2, 1895 Ther. Wea. Wed. July 3, 1895 Ther. California State W.S.A. Annual Convention - which adopted an new constitution & elected Mrs A.A. Sargent President Wea. Thur. July 4, 1895 Ther. San Francisco Celebration - Miss Shaw spoke in Woodward gardens Hall to 4 or 5 000 [?ec??ell] - finished to get to Oakland where 1000's were waiting to hear her Wea. Fri. July 5, 1895 Ther. Joint Campaign Con found at Mrs Sargents this A.M. Took train for home at 6.30 P.M. Wea. Sat. July 6, 1895 Ther Found [?] - & Mrs O[??] & friends met us for a [?] at station Mrs Shaw awoke with fearful head ache -- I made pencil scribblings of my trip Wea. SUN. JULY 7, 1895 R[?] Oregon This night Mrs Shaw took Chicago sleeper & I the Denver sleeper & to Sara Good bye. Mon. July 8, 1895 Reached Denver - & saw a home friend & left 1 P.M. Tues. July 9, 1895 at Topeka - this A.M.- Mrs. Ca[rr??] - Mrs Lyon & Dr Hardy - [???] went to Mrs Lyons to dinner - & while at station they said we hold our city club meeting tomorrow - what shall we say & do & to [????thleen] resolution Reached Leavenworth at [?] or 6pm Wed. July 10, 1895 at Leavenworth Thur. July 11, 1895 These days Fri. July 12, 1895 [lasted?] Fort Scott - Sat. July 13, 1895 Fort Scott Sun. July 14, 1895 Took cars for Chicago Mon. July 15, 1895 Spent this night in Chicago Tues. July 16, 1895 Took 10. A.M. train with Mr. & Mrs. I. E. Gross & Harriet Hashner- they for Bar Harbor Maine - I for home - its was the hottest & most uncomfortable day I spent on the cars Wed. July 17, 1895 Arrived Rochester at - O. A. M - got carriage for home & sat on door steps & read the morning news paper until it was time for Sister Mary to be astir - THUR. JULY 18, 1895 At home & hot weather Fri. July 19, 1895 at home Learned that Miss Shaw had grown worse & worse each day - & was very very ill with typhoid fever at the Cape Cod home - so I telegraphed I would fill her engagement at Lake Side the 26th Sat. July 20, 1895 at home Tues. July 23, 1895 Wed. July 24, 1895 Left on night train for Lake Side Ohio Wea. Thur. July 25, 1895 Ther. reached Sandusky Ohio - breakfasted there -took [steam?] & reached Lake Side before noon Wea. Fri. July 26, 1895 Ther. Lakeside - Ohio to fill appointment of Rev. Anna Shaw - who is ill at her Cape Cod Cottage - spoke in great auditorium at 11 A. M. - & when speech was 2/0 done- all turned black - still I managed to make a closing [sendout?] & sully back to my seat - - the next I knew there was a crowd around me - blanched & speechless Wea. Sat. July 27, 1895 Ther. Took evening train - & at Ashtabula -- Met Mrs Upton -- who come home with me -- Wea. Sun. July 28,1895 Ther. At home Rachel - & Mrs Catt with Mrs Upton & myself - talked business affairs - I feeling awfully stupid - Wea. Mon. July 29, 1895 Ther. [Silver Lake Com meeting due - 2 P.M. to speak for Mrs Ella Hawley Grossett - Warsaw] Wea. Tues. July 30, 1895 Ther. Wea. Fri. Aug. 2, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Sat. Aug. 3, 1895 Ther. Silver Lake - Woman's Day - to be this Saturday -- Tues. Aug. 6, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Wed. Aug. 7, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Thur. Aug. 8, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Fri. Aug. 9, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Sat. Aug. 10, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Sun. Aug. 11, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Mon. Aug. 12, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Tues. Aug. 13, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Wed. Aug. 14, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Thur. Aug. 15, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Fri. Aug. 16, 1895 Ther. Wea. Sat. Aug. 17, 1895 Ther. Sister Anna O. 51. to day Sun. Aug. 18, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Mon. Aug. 19, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Tues. Aug. 20, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Wed. Aug. 21, 1895 Ther. Lily Dale - Woman's - Day - Mrs. Chapman Catt - & Rev Ida C. Hultin speakers - Sister Mary there - Thur. Aug. 22, 1895 At home - & on the [gai?] Brother D.R. 71. to day & his son D.R. Jr. - 25 to day - Mrs. C.C. came home from Lily Dale with Sister Mary - arriving at 3:22. Fri. Aug. 23, 1895 On the [gai?] Mrs. C. C. here - talking on her organization work & bulletin Sat. Aug. 24, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Sun. Aug 25, 1895 still writing - Mrs Emma B. Sweet come - I worked all day for Mrs. C.C. - writing letters & making copies of matter for bulletin - Mrs. C.C. took the train at 9:45 for Cleveland - & other Ohio points en route for Helena to Montana State U.S. Convention - Mon. Aug. 26, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Tues. Aug. 27, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Wed. Aug. 28, 1895 Ther. Mrs C.C. to speak at Lake Brady Camp - in Ohio - Wea. Thur. Aug. 29, 1895 Ther. Went R. R. station Lake Brady Camp - Ohio - Mrs [Augustis?] [Armsbig?] 195 - 14th st - Buffalo NY -- Couldn't go - & so wrote Mrs A. weeks ago - My nurse - Mrs Magdalene Kelly McCutcheon - of Calcury - Canada - left for her home this evening - After a three weeks & four days of most faithful work in caring for me — Sister Annie & Niece Maude did not come to night - telegram said They had decided to visit Cousin Ellen again in South Orange N - Jersey Fri. Aug. 30 1895 My first bath and dressing alone this a.m. Wea. Sat. Aug 31, 1895 Ther. Wea. SUN. SEPT. 1, 1895 Ther. Wea. MON. SEPT. 2, 1895 Ther Lovely day- cool- walked to cor. Spring & Fitzhugh Streets - & called on Maria Porter- Then May Hallowell's - & then to West Avenue - & rode home in street car - Mrs L. C. Smith & daughter Mrs [Lenner?] called - Sister Anna O. & niece Maude arrived from South Orange on 9.25 train this evening - nephew D R. Jr remained in New York Tues, Sept. 3, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Wed. Sept. 4, 1985 Nephew D.R. Jr arrived this A.M - Wea. Thur. Sept. 5, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Fri. Sept. 6, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Sat. Sept. 7, 1895 [nothing to transcribe] Sun. Sept. 8, 1895 At Home Sister Annie Maud & self remained at home - Sister May went to church to hear Mr. Gannett - but said she heard only the first words of each sentence - Wea. Mon. Sept. 9, 1895 Ther. Weather cool - Sister Anna O. & niece Maude left for Leavenworth on the 10.27 train this night sister May went to the train with them Wea. Tue. Sept. 10, 1895 Ther. Wea. WED. SEPT. 11, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. THUR. SEPT. 12, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. FRI. SEPT. 13, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. SAT. SEPT. 14, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. SUN. SEPT. 15, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. MON. SEPT. 16, 1895 Ther. South Dakota's - annual Con at Pierre - 16.&17- Mrs. C. C. to be there - Anna R. Simmons - Pres - Wea. TUES. SEPT. 17, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. WED. SEPT. 18, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] THUR. SEPT 19, 1895 At Home, Mr. and Mrs S.E. Gross of Chicago arrived at 6:30 P.M. weather very warm- their first visit to our house - glad enough to see them but the weather was s[??[fly hot hot FRI. SEPT. 20, 1895 At- home - and weather simply sweltering- so we all remained inside our brick walls and kept as cool as possible - Mrs Gross as loving as ever and presented me a $50, bill something to buy a dove colored morning wrapper- if cashmere to be trimmed with velvet of same color - or a nile blue corded silk made perfectly plain!! Wea. SAT. SEPT. 21, 1895 Ther. Darling niece Susie B. Anthony 23 years old this day - and gone from our sight - since Feb. 11 1889- Nephew Arthur A. Mosher arrived from his home - Kansas City Mo - this A. M - weather hot - hot — Wea. SUN. SEPT. 22, 1895 Ther. A. A. Mosher with us until 8.52 evening train for New York - he & I went to Charlotte on Electric Car - but found the heat there quite equal to the [?] - he called on Frank's wife - Ella - at the Dix home in P. M. - this day very hot — Wea. MON. SEPT. 23, 1895 Ther. Hot evening - though more breeze - & in P. M. cooler & in evg chilly - Met the [?o?erated] Committee on Equal Suffrage at Mrs L. C. Smith's - Mrs Mary T. Burt Mrs Doole - Mrs Living & Mrs Greenleaf & Mrs Almy - present - - its object is to secure uniform action in suffrage campaigns in the name of suffrage - Wea. TUES. SEPT. 24, 1895 Ther. At home - Cool & autumn like - The N. J. State W. C. T. U. opens here to day - Mary T. Burt the President — Wea. WED. SEPT. 25, 1895 Ther. at Home went down to the W.C.T.U meeting in Central church this A.M - to hear Miss Minnie Davis report on Travelture - a was introduced to the 500 delegates present from all parts of the state of - & spoke a few words to them — [*Wea. FRI. SEPT. 27, 1895 Ther.*] Ex. Com meet of the W.C.T.U. all of this day - over 100 of the delegates called at our house during these last three days - Called on Mrs. Burt in evening + she told of Mrs. Almay's deny the federated Committees report to the sec'y - what of to Mrs Burt the Chair of W.C.T.U. Committee + this disconcerted no doubt lost us favorable acceptance of the report SAT. SEPT 28, 1895 Wea. Sun. Sept. 29, 1895 Went to Church for the first time Subject Disperation Incarnation Wea. TUES. OCT. 1, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. WED. OCT. 2, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] THUR OCT 3, 1895 Wea. Fri. Oct. 4, 1895 Ther. At Home Niece Louise Mosher James arrived in on the Empire State - 3.47 - she & husband - Alvan James of Phila - had been spending a two weeks in the Adirondack mountains in Lake Placid Wea. SAT. OCT. 5, 1895 Ther. At Home Harriet Mary Mill - organizer arrived this morning - Frank Mosher's wife Ella Dix - two daughters - Florence & Marian & our boy A. Merritt - were at tea with us & spent the evening - Mill Mills writing [next page] Wea. SUN. OCT. 6, 1895 Ther. At Home Niece Louise - Miss Mills & self attend Unitarian church - the subject - the faith that makes faithful" - Mrs. L.A. Coonley sat with Mrs [Gammet ?] in front seat - in P.M. Sister Mary & Miss Mills went to Lake - to see Mrs Greenleaf - Mrs M. spent evening at the [Gametts ?] Wea. Mon. Oct. 7, 1895 Ther. At home Mrs Lydia Avery Coonley of Chicago here to dinner Wea. Tues. Oct. 8, 1895 Ther. Wea. WED. OCT. 9, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. THUR. OCT. 10, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Fri. Oct. 11, 1895 Ther. In response to 50 letters asking gifts to help national W.S.A. with Council pay Mrs E. C. Stantons celebration expenses Mrs E. J. French - $10 " E. Smith Miller - 20. Dr. Jane Myers - 10. " Hannah Longston - 10. " Antoinette Muhlhansen - 10. [" Olivia B. Hall - 100.] " Maria Mott Davis - 5. " Ann F. Greely - 5. Eliza F. Ward - 5. Josephine Sargent 5 - Henrietta M. [?]anker 25. Louisa C. McCullough - 20. M. Louise Thomas - 5. Carrie Mott - 25. Albert O. Juilen - 10. Mrs P.A. Moffett - 165 Mrs Hall 100 sent 2 to make her a - 167 Patron of the Council SAT OCT 12, 1895 Arthur A. Sutherland & wife - Nellie Recad - great grand daughter of my grand father - Daniel Read who moved to Nunda N.Y. very bright young couple the [twain?] is now Wea. SUN. OCT. 13, 1895 Ther. {handwritten after Wea. is the word - fine] At Home - Lovely dat Sister M. & self went to hear Mr Gannett - subject - the tendency to herd together - good government movement - - he doesn't see or say, that as official board can be high & noble - unless the balance of power that elects it - is of that sort - the G.G. Clubs silence on enforcement of [?] Liquor is a pander to the Saloon element to get its vote -, the men elected on that silent platform must save the class that demanded the silence - It is not a new [underlined] party that is needed - but a new balance of power [prev. 4 words underlined] - that will demand open [underlined] opposition to the now ruling power - the Saloons - & that can only be formed when women [partially underlined] are voters - spent evening at the Gannetts - Miss Mamie there - but not a word said on sermon - [next page ] Wea. MON. OCT. 14, 1895 Ther. At home Working on letters trying to catch up - Wea. TUES. OCT. 15, 1895 Ther. At home Wea. WED. OCT. 16, 1895 Ther. At home Wea. Thur. Oct. 17, 1895 Ther. At home Wea. Fri. Oct. 18, 1895 Ther. At Home - Took a cup of chocolate with dear "Aunt Maria" Porter - at P.M. - to mark her 90th birth - a car [?] [?] called at cor of Fitzhugh St & Spring & did likewise - Nice old home - Everand Peck - & there of her only broth Sam'l Porter At - 6.20 P.M. - Mary Wright Sewall arrived from Dr. C.C. Carrolls - Poughkeepsie N.Y. where she left her dear husband Theodore - & stopped until the 9.50 P.M. train & we supped & talked. I read to her Mrs. Hanker's charges against Rev Anna & self - & Alice Stone Blackwell's threat- She is in state of highest tension about Theodore's illness - says he must get well - such effort & determination must win - SAT OCT. 19, 1895 At home Wea. SUN. Oct. 20, 1895 Ther. At home Sister Mary & self went to Church - Mr G. preached on shirks - I can't - have too much to do - haven't time &c - very good - & especially applicable to all or nearly all of our claiming to be suffrage friends - They can't help - can't join, can't give a dollar & so many other demands - not seeing that women's enfranchisement is the key to unlock the bars & doors all need Wea. MON. OCT. 21, 1895 Ther. - at home - Trying to get things done to absent three or four days -so couldn't start for Ashtabula as I had intended - to get a good night's sleep there before attempting to speak tomorrow night I can but have a fear - since the Lake side & photograph gallery episodes of family - Wea. TUES. OCT 22, 1895 Ther. Ohio state W.S.A. annual meeting at Ashtabula O. Dr. Rachel L Gilchrist - chairman Guest of Mr & Mrs Thomas Fricker - next door to the Doctors where M Upton stopped - & Mrs C.C. Catt just across the street Left home on 9.50 train & reached A. at 4 P.M. spoke in eve'g - at close of addresses of welcome & responses ad libitum Wea. Wed. Oct. 23, 1895 Ther. In Ashtabula - at Thomas Frickers - Mrs. C.C. Catt arrived at 9 a.m. - & spoke this eve'g - gave Wyoming facts - which do disprove every objection the people carried away with her - I had a sudden streak - & Mrs Upton went out into the fresh air with me - the air was simply villanous - the M.E. Church old & no ventilation - but I went back & spoke a few minutes. Wea. THUR. OCT. 24 1895 Ther. Attended business meeting this forenoon - the work of amending their Con. so as to have local clubs combine into county clubs &c - it was comi cal to see the fear of the locals losing their individuality but the deed was done A telegram came at noon from Mrs Eliz. U. Yates that she was in a wreck and couldn't get there so Mrs. C.C.C. had to stay & speak this eve'g- while I had to take the 2.19. train alone & was landed at home at 8.40 just on time - just 5 hours & 20 minutes whizzing through - so I had left my sec'y Mrs Sweet just three whole days Sat. Oct. 26, 1895 At-home- The funeral of Mrs. Mary H Rusner SUN. OCT 27, 1895 At home- went to U. Church - Sister Mary staying at home Mr. G. gave his Washington D.C., Conference address on "incarnation" the god in man- Went home to dinner with my dear friend May H. Hallowell & after it called on Sarah Willis. MON. OCT 28, 1895 Wea. TUES. OCT. 29, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. WED. OCT. 30, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. THUR. OCT. 31, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. FRI. NOV. 1, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] At home Mary & Jeff went to church & home to dinner with Mary Hollowell MON. NOV 4, 1895 At Home TUES. NOV 5, 1895 Election Day resulting in election of Democratic Mayor Warner & republicans for all other offices A lovely Indian summer day Worked all day to even up things so as to be gone 8 or 10 day leaving Mrs Sweet to jog on alone Wea. Wed. Nov. 6, 1895 Ther. Took 9.05 train for New York - Mrs Eastwood & her 77 year old mother on same train - we each had lunch - so dined together - with a cup of tea from the Porter Found cousin L.U. Lapham - waiting & expecting me - took seat at table at once - Cousin Carrie Vail Ladd spending the winter - also Mrs. Rockwell studying music - piano - Son John called & son Louis & wife spent eve'g- cousin Lizzie not able to come out - Wea. Thur. Nov. 7, 1895 Ther. In New York Cousin Semantha sent me to call on Mrs Dickinson & then on Mrs. Stanton - in cab - found Mrs. Stanton well - & working on her speech - which she read to me - but which I criticized - saying she should treat the moral - the intellectual work done in the church - as in she [?] it done in her State - &c Rebels - Pauline Davis.. Lucy Stone, Frances P. Gage - Lucretia Mott & E.C. Stanton - - each without her peer among any of our College graduate young women of to day FRI. NOV. 8, 1895 N.J. State W.S.A. Convention at Newburg, Orange Co- Was at Mrs. Stanton's when telegram from Pres. Greenleaf- to go to Newburg & speak this evening & he let off for Monday ev'g the 11th - which I gladly did - reaching N. at 5.20 - & going first to Palatine Hotel - & meeting ever so many - Eliz. Smith Miller, daughter Mamie & sister in law Bessie - also Miss Emily Howland - & Mrs Eliza Osborn - &c thence to the lovely home of Mrs. C.E. Jenkins - a mile out of city -Mrs. Blake guest there also -A very muddy night with a small but good audience - Martha R. Almy spoke on "New Occasions" - & said new attitude needed - sweetness of women & elegance of men - must take place of scolding men & [?] blames -this stirred me - so that I just ran over the early list - May [?] Frances Wright, Ernestine L. Rose Wea. Sat. Nov. 9, 1895 Ther. 2 N.Y. State W.S.A. annual Con.- Newburg - N.Y. - to be the guest of Mrs C.E. Jenkins - Maple Hill - Mrs. Jenkins took me to the Opera House this A.M. -& spent- A.M. & till 4. P.M. in the meeting lunch at Hotel - Mrs Greenleaf re-elected - Mrs Almy - not - self-seeking hasn't paid in one case Took train at 5 P.M. & reached Cousin [Hawkins?] after 7 - & dear Miss Norse soon had nice supper for me - Miss Shaw arrived in Newburg at 8, & went direct to Opera House she & Lucy E. were gues of dear Miss Taft Wea. SUN. Nov. 10, 1895 Ther. In New York - spent day at Mrs. Stantons - Cousin sending me in Carriage all these days are dark & rainy - MON. NOV 11, 1895 In New York- went to the Vendome & found dear Mrs Southworth & one of her ministers Miss Murdoch with her Spent all day trying to find Rachel - but she was at office hard at work - Wea. Tues. Nov 12, 1895 Ther. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 80th birthday - to be celebrated by the National Council -, by all women in the Metropolitan Opera House New York City - with Mrs. S. on the stage - & I trust, too, in many, many other cities & villages throughout the country Miss Louise & cousins Ellen Squier - sister Mary - Dr Myers & Dr Longshore, ever so many came to the Vendome- The Opera House was well filled - the papers said 2,000 & everything went of well - - fully a 120 telegrams came with greetings to Mrs. S. - I spent night at Vendome rm 69 - corner of Broadway & 41st streets & the roar & thunder of cars & waggons kept me awake every hour the whole night - it was fearful - WED. NOV. 13, 1895 In New York Took an 8 Oclock breakfast with May Wright Sewall She returning to her Theodore at Poughkeepsie - Then came others & I stayed & talked till nearly lunch time - Then went to Mrs Stanton's & had cast taken of my single hand & then with it clasped with Mrs Stantons & her Italians pronounced it good cast - then I rushed back to [cousin Semanthas?] Reception at Savoy Parlors at 3 - Cousin Ellen & Louise went Nephew Wendell Mosher came -- after supper I simply went to bed & he & Louise came Wea. Thur. Nov. 14, 1895 Ther. In New York Cousin Samantha had Cabman - to take sister Mary & self to call on Mrs Pickman Mrs. Stanton, the Vendome - to see Mrs. Southworth - there found Mrs. C.C.C. & she went with us to Opera House to see about the photograph - thence M. & self went to cousin Emily Clark Griggs 41 West 10th Street - to Luncheon - Our dear mother's only sister. Amy Read Howe's daughter Nancy Howe Clark - lives there with her daughter Emily - Cousin [Nancy?] taught school in the chamber over the store in Battenville the year of 1832 - she has been totally blind for the last seven years - is very cheerful & bright in her conversation - spent the evening at cousin Samantha's [?] went to bed very early - niece Louise & nephew Wendell came & spent evg there to FRI. NOV 15, 1895 Left New York - Sister Mary to take 9.20 West Shore & I the 8.30 Empire State Central train - for Rochester. I arrived at 4.20 - instead of 3.47 - because of a farmer - Patterson - trying to drive across the tracks just west of Lyons - getting killed - sister M. arrived at 9.20 evening - after I was in bed & asleep. I found Mrs Sweet still here - but Sarah was out & did not return until 7. or 7.20- Wea. SAT, NOV. 16, 1895 Ther. At Home Set about dictating letters again - Mrs. ____________ had worked to the best of her ability among the old papers - sorting & classifying - during my eight days absence - Wea. SUN. Nov. 17, 1895 Ther. At home Just as Sister Mary & self were starting for church - the door bell rang - & lo Pastor ___________ _____________ ____ Wendell Phillips Mosher stood there - So Sister Mary went on to church _____ I remember hours with Wendell and talked over ____ over ______ Frank's financial condition & not coming any nearer to solving ____________ to help him out - than before we talked. At one - he called, with me - a _________ & Mary _____ - & on the _______ _______ - _______ Franks wife or children are _______ _______] winter - Wea. MON. NOV. 18, 1895 Ther. At Home Sent night telegram of greetings to the President of Idaho State Production(?) at Boise city - to be held this day & tomorrow - Visited all the day with nephew Wendell P. Mosher - Sister Hannahs youngest son - - Frank Mosher's wife - Ella Dix & their children here(?) all the afternoon - W. took the 9 P.M. Lehigh train for Phila. to visit Louise & afternoon his friend ____ ____. Jones wedding - NRs, Greenleaf called '______' ______ & _______________ _______________ ________ _______ & her Committees appointments. Wea. TUES. NOV. 19, 1895 Ther. At Home Letter from Hattie Cooper San. _____ (with these ______) _______ of Stanton celebration ______ & Suffrage _______booming - Letter from Arthur __. _____ from _______ ______ - ______ his wife mother had made the ______ with him. ___.___. makes proposition to help _____ Baker & ___ to more _____. ______ - Wea. Wed. Nov. 20, 1895 Ther. At home -- wrote or dictated letters to West Virginia, Delaware and Maryland [sta] N. J. Conventions -- a also one to New Mexico -- Regula North - [Mentor] - with snow Wea. Thur. Nov. 21, 1895 Ther. At home -- Rochester P. E. Chubs Loerahls of our house - No. 17. Madison am -- Honoring Mrs. Stanton's 80th birthday a few days after Nov. 12 -- Mrs. Emma Shafter Howard -- 14th and Alice Streets, Oakland, Cal. -- sends letter with $100 - check to make herself Patron of National Council of Women. [Omer] 160 came -- the sociable was very pleasant to all -- Miss [Hultri] spoke splendidly -- Giles D. Stebbins spoke splendidly -- & so did Miss Kittridge & Mrs. Greenleaf -- Weather cold but pleasant -- Wea. Fri. Nov. 22, 1895 Ther. At home-- Trying to catch up with letters so as to go into the [illegible] work Wea. Sat. Nov. 23, 1895 Ther. At Home-- Ditto with yesterday but there seems to be no end--every day brings more letters--than I can answer-- Wea. Sun. Nov. 24, 1895 Ther. Dark & gloomy day Went to church - Mr. Gannett's sermon Duty to feel sunshine under clouds - be cheerful in face & tone - no matter how sad within - our duty to share our good things to get enjoyment of them ourselves - Calld - with Sister Mary at Mary Hallowell's in evening - Giles & Catherine Stebbins have been there since Wednesday night - Wea. Mon. Nov. 25, 1895 Ther. At home - snowy & cloudy & dark wrote both C.C.C. & Mrs Dickinson - for their silence - not a word in a week — Just 33 years ago this evening at 11 o'clock - our dear father's spirit passed out of the body!! This morning - Mrs Ellen Battelle Dietrich of 20 Lowell St - Cambridge - Mass died — Wea. Tues. Nov. 26, 1895 Ther. At Home - Giles B. & Catharine A. Fish Stebbins- of Detroit Mich, took tea with us - Mrs Haskell, [& ?] Frank Redsie & Eliza De Garmo - also - Mr H. called in evening - At 7.20 - a telegram came from Rev Anna H. Shaw - saying - "Mrs Dietrick's funeral Wednesday noon - am going - you send message" - it was a fearful shock - but for the lateness - I would have taken train so as to sit with the bereaved Husband & daughter Marguerite - during the last - I think the other daughter is in Europe - but it is such a comfort to me & I know to them also - that dear Anna Shaw can be with - She will say & do for all of us- for me & all my adopted nieces - who knew and loved Mrs Dietrick — Wea. Wed. Nov. 27, 1895 Ther. At home The mornings Dem & Chron. has associated press item of Mrs Dietricks death - from surgical operation - - a letter from her daughter Marguerite - this A.M. too - telling of the affliction - not only to them - but alas, too, to the world - is it for such a noble young woman to die - She is the first to go - of the loved circle of bring young women - calling me - Aunt Susan - Rachel Foster Avery, Rev Anna Shaw - Harrie Taylor Upton, Carrie Chapman Catt - on whom I felt my work could fall - & be worthily done - never did mortal woman have better adopted nieces — The funeral is now being held - & what a light - what a soul is going out of that home group - and out of our National suffrage association circle -!! Wea. THUR. NOV. 28, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. FRI. NOV. 29, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. SAT. NOV. 30, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. SUN. DEC. 1, 1895 Ther. [nothing to transcribe] Wea. Mon. Dec. 2, 1895 Ther. Our dear mother’s – Lucy Read Anthony’s – 102d Birth Day – Mary H. Hallowell, Sarah L. Willis - & Mrs Lewis C. Smith & daughter Mrs Fenner - dined with us – to mark the day – Mrs Smith brot a lovely after dinner coffee cup & saucer – saying give this the post of honor – in recognition of my knowledge that your dear mother is here with us to day” - and at table it was noted it should take my coffee out of it – She is a very lovely woman – a good deal over 80 – we think – all enjoyed the day – Sarah cooking all good turkey, dressing, cranberry & her supper all tip top -, , we partook of the raisins – Splendia sent me by the Goldstein sisters of San Francisco. plucked from their raisin Ranch at Fresno – the friend Mrs Lydia Avery Coonley little book of poems came - & I read her “Sunny Brae” & This aloud – all are sweet & happy in spirit Wea. Tues. Dec. 3, 1895 Ther. Home, and letters from Rachel – relative to - C. C. Catts report of my orders as to Lucy Stone’s picture going on the W. S. Calendar - Wea. WED. DEC. 4,1895 Ther. At home all day Wea. THUR. DEC. 5, 1895 Ther. At home Business meeting P.E. Club Cousin Marrietta Howe - Wife of Cousin Lucius Howe of Geneva. Ontario Co. N.Y. died this night - word came by telegram from Fred C. Nester - her grandson Wea. Fri. Dec. 6, 1895 Ther. At home all day – till evening – , went to hear President Andrew D. White of Ithica, N.Y. on our Diplomatic service abroad - There were three beside myself at the Chamber of Commerce President Hill’s wife - & President White's wife – Mr White recognized me & introduced me to Mrs White - saying she is of your sort - & I said her & her husband was of my sort – long ago – when it was something to be of it – 4. or 1 - hundred men - & no woman – Wea. Sat. Dec. 7, 1895 Ther. At home – Windy & thawing day - Mrs Mary Willis called to tell me that her girl Belle (Cora) Knetchner had given evidence of returning health – Wea. Sun. Dec. 8, 1895 Ther. At Home Rev Anna H. Shaw arrived at 1.50 P. M. to preach in Unitarian Church this evening - went to church & to Sunday school - & at - 1.30 met Rev Anna at Central Station - - after dinner she took a sleep & at 7.20 - we were at the church - it was packed to the very outer vestibule - Mr & Mrs Gannett sat in pulpit & took part in exercises - Mrs G. read the Bible & hymn - Mr G. made the prayer - Rev Anna's subject was "Doubt as a factor of Development" very good but so compact as sometimes - every one seemed delighted - her voice & manner took all captive - Wea. Mon. Dec. 9, 1895 Ther. Took train 10.10 - for Geneva - to attend the Funeral of Cousin Lucius Howe's wife Marrietta, today - 2.30 P. M. took lunch with Lucius & Nettie - the one main stay left live - the other daughter has been ill for years- -- the two young men - Chester - the grand-sons of cousin Marietta - & sons of her daughter by her first marriage are fine looking - the father not able to be at funeral - some hundred of "malt-men" walk to the cemetery - Annie Fitzhugh Miller came for me & I spent the night with them- had a full talk with them on Mrs Stanton's Bible work - Mrs Miller & [?] feel as badly as do I - that the work is not at all worthy of Mrs S. & letting down Wea. Wed. Dec. 18, 1895 Ther. Wea. Thur. Dec. 19, 1895 Ther. Political [?] Sociable yellow tea at Mrs. Auges F. Prohsts 24 - Elm Street — Ms Mary June Holmes of Rockfort came to attend sociables - [?] - [?] ought with [?] pleased — Had a [?] a nice company at Mrs Prohsts — Mrs C. C. Potts Woman suffrage calendars not arrive - but Mrs Prohst took orders for 25 - FRI DEC 20, 1895 At Home Mrs Holmes to Mr Rents to lunch - a theme with Mrs H. to a reception given by Mrs Thayer & Mrs Tom. Davies!! Mrs H. opened talk on Mrs Stanton's Bible - but we soon saw she couldn't be talked with she could think it awful to tear down the Christian religion - This was but another proof of my word to Mrs S. - that her Bible talk couldn't do the bigoted any good - because they shut their eyes & ears against her personally - & it wont do the liberals good - because to them she is simply threshing old straw It seems simply rouse hatred against woman suffrage through her - but it will not have that in the end. SAT. DEC. 21 1895 At home Writing the last of 40 letters to state presidents begging them not to fail to send on their aux. dues to national treasurer Mrs Upton only 8 states - up to date had sent on their dues Sister Mary 7 self took at Mrs. Thayers - her daughter Mrs Perry lives with them had a good talk with Mr T. he had read Mrs S Bible - & remarked he thought its purpose was more to destroy belief in its infalibility than to prove it on the side of equal rights to women SUN. DEC. 22, 1895 At Home went to Church - Sister Mary stayed at home Mr. Gannett preached on the "war spirit" shown over the President's Venezuelan message to Congress - & seemed to me to ignore the face that peace - without justice - is no peace - but it stirred all up - some one way & some another At P.M. went over to Mrs Hallowells - then came Mrs Piatt - Wm. & Mrs Stout - & Sister Mary & Sarah Willis - had a good call - came home at 8 - took bread & milk & baked sweet-apples & went to bed. MON. DEC. 23, 1895 At home Theodore L. Sewall the husband of dear May Wright Sewall passed on this day TUES. DEC. 24, 1895 at Home at noon - a telegram came - from Indianapolis Indiana saying "Dear General my Theodore is taken" - May Wright Sewall - which S.B.A. answered "Where taken - what can I do help you lovingly - S.B.A" - This is awfully hard for dearest May - but if his spirit still lives & knows - a happy release for him - from that suffering body - it is almost two years since he has taken ill - all, but May, too ill to survive - Poor May - I must write her - WED. DEC. 25, 1895 Christmas Day - Sister May & self at home alone - Sarah gone out for the day - At noon a telegram came from dear Rachel Foster Avery saying "Mr. Sewall passed on at home his family here. May brave. Christmas love of Both" At 4 P.M. we went to Mrs I Dix to [see] the Mosher children's Christmas tree At 9. P.M. nephew Arthur A. Mosher came en route to New York where he proposes to move & go into a San Francisco Life & Accident Insurance Co's work. He had been to see his brother Frank & found his business in very bad shape - hopes to help him to get work at home Mrs Jenny [?] [?] [?] [?] - as we call her came with fearful head ache - & wanted us [?] Wea. SAT. DEC. 28, 1895 Ther. at home Mrs. Tenney here sewing warm & raining Wea. cooler SUN. DEC. 29, 1895 Ther. At Home - Gladstone - 86 today May H. Hallowell came home from church with me & stayed to dinner & had a nice visit. Then at dusk I walked home with her & called on Sarah Willis Mr. Gannet at close of re-traspectsure talk - for close of year - announced the death of Rev Myron Adams - of Plymouth Church - he has been there 20 years - My dear adopted niece Rachel Foster Avery - was 37 years old this day - so she was born Dec. 29, 1858!! Wea. Mon. Dec. 30, 1895 Ther. at home Mrs Emma B. Sweet - now my stenographer & typewriter - for three months - has very bad cold - still she got off goodly lot of letters Mrs Tenney still sewing - [*Brother Aarons 83 years old today wrote him to San Diego - Cal Wea. Tues. Dec. 31, 1895 Ther. At Home Fearfully blustry & quite cold - with a flurry of snow - Secretary Emma not here so suppose she is ill with her cold — Mrs Tenney still sewing - making with this - five days — Postal from Nicholas says Rachel is to be home this P.M. from her weeks absence to be with dear May Wright Sewall — Letter from Miller today with New Years Greeting & thanks for his Christmas of a p. k.h.ff. - from S. B. A - I gave Rachel $5. for Lucy to buy each one a p.k.ff. & Burt to mark each which he did & put in Christmas tree as from Aunt Susan Lectures wanted LETTER REGISTER Beaumont Texas Margaret L. Watson Foreign LETTER REGISTER Bulgurnie - Glenthorn - Muswell Road - Muswell Hill London - N - England Somerset - Lady Henz 33-34 Memorial Hall Fassingdon Street - London - E.C. ADDRESSES Name Residence Jessie Anthony - 601. Temple st Los Angeles Cal ADDRESSES Name Residence Mrs Theodosia G. Ammons 2345 - Franklin st - Denver - Col. Mrs Jeannette Bennet Dunham State University - Boulder - Col - Judg & Mrs Jay H. Boughton Fort Collins - Judge is President of the Fort Collins school Board — MEMORANDA S. Ellen Blackwell 1708 F.A. N.W. Washington, D.C. Anna L. Diggs 212 [?] St. N.E. Washington D.C Ricker, Marilla M. 26 Fifth St - East Cambridge - Mass. Clack - Nancy Homer 41 - East 10th St New York Caldwell - Elisha 44 East 9th st New York Thomas M Louise 680 Lexington Ave - New York Mrs. Grannis 33 - East 22nd st Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford 336 West 51st Street - New York May Lowe Dickinson 920 West 59th st - New York Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. E.P. Jenkins-1016 Holmes St Mrs. Sara A Coates, 609 Est 10th St St. Louis Mo-4119-Westminster Place Mrs E.B. Ingalls St. Louis- Mrs E. A. Meriweather 3715-Delmar Avenue Catharine P Mallace 2601-Pine St-St Louis Mo Illinois Mrs. Elizabeth E Loomis 2939-Meehash Ave. Chicago Mary E. Holmes 3223-Indiana Ave. Chicago Wells, Ida B. 2905-Wabash Avenue - Chicago Cash Account -- January Date Received Paid Brot Forward 36 72 Rent No. 17 25 M.S.A. (board) 20 Sarah (House) 20 1 C.W. Moulton - for a woman of the century 10 Powers Bank 10 Miss Morton Telegram D.G. Bloome on death of Mrs B. Miss Burton 1 Wm Bush for balance renovating pillows 3 50 Telegram to D.G. B Coomer - death of wife 1 Express on loan 50 Dr Requa 1 25 Sarah (present) 1 Church contribution 50 L. Ellen Blackwell 1 Stocking Elastics 50 1 doz. lost photos 3 13 [?] from old Daguerotypes 8 Div. Old Fort Wayne 25 Monroe Co Bank to 400 300 Powers Bank 491 72 376 25 CASH ACCOUNT - JANUARY Date Received Paid Brot Forward 491 72 376 25 Leut. L.E. for A.O. 25 From Powers Bank 27 M B Logan, Doz Orange [?] [?] 27 8.9c TF Lexigty Troy [Calc 17.5 66 32.40 51 28] To supply lost combs 50 Southern Tour with Mrs C.C. Catt 304 10 Traveling ex. to Atlanta 209 96 Mrs C.C.Catt - 50 left for self (44.14) [44 14] Feb 6 Servants - Atlanta 5 " " Columbus Ga 6 80 " 17 Aiken S.C. 15 " 12 Columbia S.Carolina 17 " 14 Culpepper Va 15 Expenses from Col. Ga. to Washington D.C. 40 March 6 Lincoln, Va 15 " 1 ton coal 4 75 silk mittens 2 50 Carried over 127 06 884.82 = 884.82 Cash Account -- February Brot Forward $137.06 Palmer Park $25 Haure rent paid $25 Board M. L. A. received $20 From Powers Bank received $25 Suz E. full O. A. paid $25 Sarah (Hoirse) paid $20 Board Isabel Hornland received $15 Sarah House paid $15 [crossed out Sarah - ranges for ] [crossed out Jan & Tek ] 15 birthday present prom mere Lormire received $10 Powers Bank received $27 for Jan & Feb Sarah Mages to paid $27 March 4 [crossed out Powers Bank 100] carried over $147.06 $259.06 received $259.06 paid Cash Account - March Date Received Paid Bro't Forward 147 06 [Loan to Anna [?] 100] Powers Bank 100 8 L.C. Snow 20 Ebbitt House 50 Wash. to Phila & [?] 5 Lucy E. for A.O. 25 For Photos Sold in Wash 5 Express on [?] 1 15 14 Phila to Rochester 12 15 Powers Bank 4 17 Unitarian Church 1 18 [?] Powers Bank 2 50 Put into Powers Bank 2 00 House Rent for March 25 Board for M.S.A. 20 Stamps 2 ct 4 South Dakota 1 [loan from S [?] 40] Return R.R. ticket Mrs C.C.C. 4 Mrs Cary's lost P.o order of 1889 [?] 3 membership U.W.S.A 1 Carried up 530 06 348 15 CASH ACCOUNT - MARCH Date Received Paid Bro't Up 530 06 = 348.15 Carriage in Washington for Grace Greenwal 2 Carriage for self 1 23 3 Tons of Coal 14 25 membership for Indes trial & Educated Unions for sister Mary & self 2 Interest - from Brother J..M. & Chapin 310 91 into Monroe Co. Bank 310 91 Telegrams - St Louis [?] 81 Church 50 [?] Sarah (wages) 12 [not accounted for] carried over 132 35 Loaned to Mrs Riggs 17 840 97 = 840.97 CASH ACCOUNT -- APRIL Date Received Paid Brot Forward 132.35 Rent for April 25 Sister M. Board 20 Church, .50 Cons 50 1 Dorsey-type writer 4 days 3 Powers Bank 100 National Treasury 100 Powers Bank 33.50 Rand & McNally 3 50 2 ct stamps of 200 4 1 ct & postal cards 1 Julia Ames - [?] 3 6 Anna Dusey [?] 5 Dress repairing 3 10 Sodus - Lecture 25 2 13 Type writing - Fuller 2 " Rand & McNally 1 50 1 50 2 union suits - silk thread 4 3 log p. cuffs 6 3 pair stocking 1 black skirt - [?] 3 50 1 white & two 3 [?] 2 00 1 ton coal 4 75 200 2 ct & 100 1 ct stamps 5 S.E. Spaulding [?] 5 19 Franklinville 30 4 75 six large photos of Mrs Stanton & self - Kents 4 Sarah (House) 5 22 Powers Bank - guests 7 50 Mrs. L. Garden 3 lg photos 7 50 Mrs. C.C. Catt - Power Bank 15 15 26 Powers Bank Fullam 245 62 repairs Fullam - 4 dresses & a cloak 234 62 Haas & son - shoes - slippers 11 " &1 Bonnet - Morton 6 00 Gloves " 1 45 M.B. Logan - 1 doz [?] 27 Power Bank 27 sewing woman 2 25 Extra Bonnet Morton 1 Powers Bank 12 Sarah wages for April 12 Powers Bank 5 Sarah (House) 5 Powers Bank 25 Lucy E for A.O. 25 Powers Bank 1 78 Taxes Lincoln Nebraska 1 78 CASH ACCOUNT - MAY Date Received Paid Brot Forward 61 31 Powers Bank 25 Rent - no 17. for May 25 Sister Mary Board 20 Sarah (House) 20 [?]27 R.R. ticket to Marion O. & Cleveland - sleeper to Indianapolis $10.68 to Chicago 6. sleeper St L. to Denver - 2.50 - [?] 1. Porter .50 [21 68] 8 Denver to Boulder [?] [55] [St Louis Mrs Gross 50] [Ms Ingalls - St Louis 50 50] [given Mrs Shaw 100] 10 [Cheyenne 10] 10 [Salt Lake 25] Sleeper & meals St [?] [45 45 8.00] Louis to Denver [San Fran. ???? 25] Dinner to San Fran Sleepers & meals [13 75] 30 Yosemite - Harry A Baker & self 106.31 [25] Carried over 65 31 106.31 106.31 CASH ACCOUNT - MAY Date Received Paid [?]3. St Louis - E.B. Ingalls 50 5 Mrs S.E. Gross 50 9 Boulder [Dunham?] 35 11 Cheyenne - Jenkins 10 13 Salt Lake - Wells 25 14 Reno - Nevada 45 45 27 San Fran. Teachers 25 00 June 10 San Jose 50 00 Sarah Knox Goodrich 50 00 12 Los angeles 67 00 13 Riverside - 10.00 14 Pasadena 41 00 15 Pomona 29 80 17 San Diego 47 50 20 " " 24 00 21 Los Angeles 53 50 25 Oakland 50 27 San Francisco 201 [?] 5 Mrs E.C. Sargent 50 Total Cal. receipts 914 25 S.B. Cooper 225 00 1139 25 Denver 20 1159.25 CASH ACCOUNT - JUNE Date Received Paid Brot Forward 61 31 Powers Bank 25 Rent No 17 25 M.S.A. Board (Sarah wages) 20 20 10 [Powers Bank 175] [A.H. Shaw 175] Lucy E. for Ann O. 25 From Powers Bank 25 [Rev A.H. Shaw photo] [Sunday service today 22 50 70] Carried over [631] 131 31 70. carried over 61 31 131.31 = 131.31 [*must have received $200 - annuity & put in Powers Bank this was my first payment*] CASH ACCOUNT - JUNE Date Received Paid Total receipts in California 1159 25 Total expenses 218.88 [MuirMagzine?] 100. Boz - Riehanden 10 Photographs 15 Mary Luther 10 Baskets 3, Doiles 5 8 on hand 97 37 1159.25 759.25 Paid sister Mary one half house repairs 602 Sister Mary - other fixings 157.25 on hand, and 53 Carried over [106] 100 [1/2 repairs of the] [house] July 2nd - 2 ct stamps - 2 4 5 cts 1 - 10. cts 1 1159 25 = 1159.25 CASH ACCOUNT - JULY Date Received Paid Brot Forward 100. Powers Bank 25 Rent - No. 17. 25 Board MSA. 20 Sarah - (House) 20 29 Powers Bank 300 Loan to N.W.S.A. 300. Manhattan P. clippings 33 91 Powers Bank 33 91 27 Lake side 50 " Lake side and return 23 50 Carried over 50 528 91 # 528 91 CASH ACCOUNT - JULY Date Received Paid [27 Lake side lecture 50] [27 Lake side & return 23] CASH ACCOUNT - AUGUST Date Received Paid Brot Forward 126 50 Rent No. 17 25 Sister M. Board 20 Sarah (House) 25 Carried over 96 50 146 50 = 146 50 December Brot from December 902 885.71 Dr Requa - Dentist 4.00 Street Car tickets 1 Mrs. Tenny - Sewing 5 Satin & thread, ruching &c 6 29 902 00 = 902 00 [(December 1895)] Cash Account - September Date Received Paid Brot Forward 96 50 1 Powers Bank 25 Rent No. 14 25 Board Sister May 20 3 Sarah (House) 5 Powers Bank 17.50 5 Sarah (House) 5 Street car tickets 1 50 7 Miss Ostrander for 12 [?] [?] 12 " Cologne & extract 95 11 150 [?] stamps 3 12 Sarah (House) 5 17 Powers Bank 11.50 Paper & Evelopes 11.50 " Powers Bank 29 Sarah (House) 5 National Suffrage Bulletin 1 [?] - 1 [?] 40 Mrs. Eagles [?] [?] Book of 1893 4 Brook[?] {?] [?] P.E.C. Con 1 199 50 80 35 [*Received 200 [?] put into Powers [?] Cash Account - September Date Received Paid Brot up 199 50 80 35 Power Bank 10 Express on blue dress for Anna O. 50 Post Express 50 Sarah (House) 10 Sarah (House) 8 90 Powers Bank Sarah ([?]) 12 12 Powers Bank 50 Mrs. M.N. M[?] 50 Factory for 6 sheets 8 night dresses - with trimmings & other items purchased while ill - 25 77 Powers Bank 100 Sophronia Snow 100 48 for coal & other household stuff 51 M.L. Condon photos 12 50 Powers Bank 10 Lucy E.A. 10 Carried over 9 50 381 50 381 50 [*& During this month I must have received $200 & put in Bank - gift of [?] Cordelia Green of Castile*] CASH ACCOUNT - SEPTEMBER Date Received Paid Brot Forward 96 50 1 Powers Bank 25 Rent no. 17 - 25 Board Sister Mary 20 3 Sarah (House) 5 Powers Bank 17.50 5 Sarah (House) 5 Street car tickets 1 50 7 Miss Ostrander for 12 days sewing 12 " Cologne & Extract 95 11 150 two cent stamps 3. 12 Sarah (House) 5 17 Powers Bank 11.50 C[??] M[??] paper & envelopes 11.50 Powers Bank 29 Sarah (house) 5 National Suffrage Bulletin 1 Alcohol - 1 pt 50 Mrs Eagles noon day Congress Book of 1893 4 Brockport - Monroe County P.C.E. Con 1.00 199 50 80 35 [*December 200. annuity - put into Powers Bank without [?] here *] CASH ACCOUNT - SEPTEMBER Date Received Paid Bro't up 199 50 80 35 Powers Bank 10 Express on blue dress for Anna O. 50 Post Express 50 Sarah (House) 10 Sarah (House 8 90 Posers Bank & Sarah (wages) 12 12 Powers Bank 50 Mrs M.R. McC[alaten?] 50 Factoring for 6 sheets 8 night dresses - with trimings & other items purchased while ill 25 77 Powers Bank 100 Sophronia Snow 100 48 Ton Coal & other Household stuff 61[??] M.L. Condon photos 12 50 Powers Bank 10 Lucy E.A. 10 [*& during this month I must have received $200 & put in Bank - gift of Dr Cordelia Green of Castile -] CASH ACCOUNT - OCTOBER Date Received Paid Brot Forward 9 50 4 Powers Bank 25 Rent no 17. 25 Board Sister Mary 20 3 Sarah (House) 5 " (House) 9 200 two ct stamps 4 U. Church contribution 50 9 2. unbleach table cloths 2. [?] each - 2.50 6. towels 8 4 cts 2 [???] table cloths 50 cts 2 towelling 2 Doiles 10 cts 4 19 13 U. Church 50 15 Sarah (House) 3 [Powers Bank ??] Ribbon for type writer 1 16 Sarah (House) 5 Street car tickets 50 7 Powers Bank 150. Loan H.T. Upton 150. 15 Powers Bank 25 Powers Bank 32 50 15 Emma B. Sweet wage 32 50 Carried up 262 00 240.19 CASH ACCOUNT - OCTOBER Date Received Paid Bro't up 262 00 240.19 Rochester P.E.Club 1. [?] Twine 68 Telegram - Ashtabula 30 21 Powers Bank 8 33 20 Unitarian Church 50 Street car tickets 50 25 Powers Bank 10. 21.24 Ashtabula - Ohio W.S Con 30 " expenses 12 50 27 Unitarian Church 50 Sarah (House) 5 For atomizer & 55 Powers Bank 5 Mrs C.C.C. souvenirs 5 Repairing Satchel 25 Sarah (wages) 12 H.T.U. for R.S.A 150. 30 Powers Bank 150 31 Powers Bank 32 50 Mrs E.B. Sweet 32 50 Carried over 36 36 497 83 = 497 83 Cash Account - November Date Received Paid Brot Forward 35.25 Rent No.17. .25 M.S.A. Board 20. Sarah (House) .20 1 Unitarian supper .15 2 Gas stove for Attick 4. 2 Corset laces 13 .13 2 Dentists Floss .25 4 Pocket book .75 Con't'rin - Church 1. Powers Bank 93.25 D.B. Hooker - tracts 13.50 C. Mann - paper cc 4.75 Brother J.M.A. 25. error in Sarahs a/c Street cars & sundries 1.60 8.9. Newburg return 2. Return by M.S.A. for me Stanton Anthony[sermons?] 5. 6.15 New York & return (Stanton celebration) 24.66 19 Sweet - (Office) 5. 15 Powers Bank 32.50 Emma Sweet 32.50 From old account error 12. Mrs S.E. Gross 50. _______________________________________________________________ 249.11 160.29 CASH ACCOUNT - NOVEMBER Date Received Paid Brot up 249 11 160 29 14. From Carrie Mott 25 Put in Powers 25 Diary Book for 1896 50 24 Contribution U.Church 50 Sweet (Office) 10. 25 Powers Bank 34 To H.T.U. for Phila rent 34 28 Thanksgiving Con U.Church 50 29 H[?] [?] Cham[?] Overches 2. [?] Ohafe Con H.T.Upton 50 Put in Powers Bank 100 20 Photos sold Stanton cle 7 25 Sarah (House) Lucy E. [?] expenses 5 27 to Mrs Dietrichs Funeral 7 25 Powers Bank 110 35 Aaron Veeder [?] 20 M. Condon - 50 - 8 J.H. Rent 5 large 350 small 72 35 M.W. Sewalls G of R Women Report 5 Mrs. E.G. Matthews for 28 [Homestetter?] [Hosfeld?] 5 Sarah (wages) (back) 47 50 15 E.B. Sweet salary to [?] 32 50 Sundries, street cars &c 3 78 On Hand - carried over 16 64 523 21 523 21 CASH ACCOUNT - DECEMBER Date Received Paid Brot Forward 16 64 1 Unitarian Church Con 50 Rent no 17. (Bank) 25 25 [00] Sister Mary's Board 20 Sarah (House) 5 Sarah (House) 20 9 Geneva - Cousin Marietta Lucius Howe funeral 2 20 8 Unitarian Supper 50 12 Packet for Christmas [?] to 18 [?] [?] 5 Powers Bank Dec [?] 30 36 21 New York Life Ins. Policy no. 10.73J. due 30 36 346.348 Broadway New York 12 Rev. Caroline A. Bartlett 5 14.16 Elmira & return 3 90 16 check. H.T. Upton [?] 25 " Powers Bank 25 14 Powers Bank 32 50 Emma B. Sweet on a/c 32 50 Mrs. Greenleaf for four days type writing 12 19 Yellow Tee probst 75 20 Over shoes 50 Return loan - H.T.U. 50 50 29 for W.S. Calendars Power Bank 2 00 216 50 203 21 CASH ACCOUNT - DECEMBER Date Received Paid Brot up 216 50 203 21 25th Alvin & Louise James 25 Penn Mutual Life Ins 62 00 Rochester Savings Bank 225 O2 Check Depositions 30 Telegram M W Sewall 40 Pocket handkerchief 50 22 Unitarian Church 50 24 Sarah (wages) 12 31 Emma B. Sweet se'cy 32 50 32 50 25 Sarah for (present) 2 Powers Bank 20 Sent brother Merritt 10 Brother J.M.A. Interest 37 Put into Rochester Savings Bank 37 Cousin Nelson Dickinson 25 Rochester Savings Bank 25 Loan H.T. Upton 50 Rochester Savings Bank 50 [*112*] Collecting back checks 30 Powers Bank for C.C.C. [??] 11 To [?] Tenney for Mrs [?] 2 2 Robert L Slanting (Bank) 10 10 H.T. Upton [?]debt Put in Powers bank 275 275 Carried to right page of August 902 88 885 71 March 25/95 - Price of round trip ticket to San [illegible] and a [illegible] $199.80 single ticket 87.09 Sleeping car [illegible] 18. Mrs Mirmello Cheshire Hare Rochester Dem Chronicle Reporter New york - [illegible] Quote -20-to 5 Utah - Con Con 58 to 33 Washington H.R.- Yeas 40- Nays 16 about 5 _ In the South Carolina Con Con of 1895 - the proposal to extend education suffrage to women passed 181 to 26. Pretty good that - 26 men in Natl. P. Con. Con. voted for women suffrage SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. ALABAMA. James L. Pugh, D. John T. Morgan, D. ARKANSAS. James K. Jones, D. James H. Berry, D. CALIFORNIA. George C. Perkins,R. Stephen M. White, D. COLORADO. Henry M. Teller, R. Edward O. Wolcott,R. CONNECTICUT. Orville H. Platt, R. Joseph R. Hawley, R. DELAWARE. George Gray, D. ------------- FLORIDA. Wilkinson Call, D. Samuel Pasco, D. GEORGIA. John B. Gordon, D. Augustus O. Bacon,D. IDAHO. Fred T. Dubois, R. George L. Stroup, R. ILLINOIS. John M. Palmer, D. Shelby M. Cullom, R. INDIANA. D. W. Voorhees, D. David Turpie, D. IOWA. William B. Allison,R.John H. Gear, R. KANSAS. William A. Peffer, P. Lucien Baker, R. KENTUCKY. J. C. S. Blackburn, D. William Lindsay, D. LOUISIANA. N. C. Blanchard, D. Donelson Caffrey, D. MAINE. Eugene Hale, R. William P. Frye, R. MARYLAND. Charles H. Gibson, D.Arthur P. Gorman, D. MASSACHUSETTS. Henry C. Lodge, R. George F. Hoar, R. MICHIGAN. James McMillan, R. Julius C. Burrows, R. MINNESOTA. C. K. Davis, R. Knute Nelson, R. MISSISSIPPI. James Z. George, D. E. C. Walthall, D. MISSOURI. George G. Vest, D. F. M. Cockrell, D. MONTANA. Thos. H. Carter, R. Lee Mantle, R. NEBRASKA. William V. Allen, P. John M. Thurston, R. NEVADA. John P. Jones, P. William M. Stewart,P. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Jacob H. Gallinger, R.Wm. E. Chandler, R. NEW JERSEY. James Smith, jr., D. William J. Sewell, R. NEW YORK. David B. Hill, D. Ed. Murphy, jr., D. NORTH CAROLINA. Marion Butler, P. Jeter C. Pritchard, R. NORTH DAKOTA. H. C. Hansbrough, R.William N. Roach, D. OHIO. Calvin S. Brice, D. John Sherman, R. OREGON. John H. Mitchell, R. Geo. W. McBride, R. PENNSYLVANIA. James D. Cameron,R.M. S. Quay, R. RHODE ISLAND. N. W. Aldrich, R. Geo. P. Wetmore, R. SOUTH CAROLINA. John L. M. Irby, D. Benj. R. Tillman, D. SOUTH DAKOTA. James H. Kyle, P. R. F. Pettigrew, R. TENNESSEE. William B. Bate, D. Isham G. Harris, D. TEXAS. Roger Q. Mills, D. Horace Chilton, D. VERMONT. Justin S. Morrill, R. Redfield Proctor, R. VIRGINIA. John W. Daniel, D. T. S. Martin, D. WASHINGTON. Watson C. Squier, R. John L. Wilson, R. WEST VIRGINIA. Chas. J. Faulkner, D.Stephen B. Elkins, R. WISCONSIN. William F. Vilas, D. John L. Mitchell, D. WYOMING. Francis E. Warren,R.Clarence D. Clark, R. Republicans, 42; democrats, 39; populists, 6; vacancy, 1-total, 88. The vacancy is in Delaware's representation. The seat is claimed by Henry A. Dupont, republican. 1895 [nothing to transcribe] GOVERNOR OATES in his message on schools says the constitution should be taught in the schools. He adds: "The girls as well as the boys should be taught our constitutional systems of government, for while they do not and ought not to vote, they exercise a wonderful influence over those who do, and they are equally interested in good government and equally capable of understanding it." These are wise sentiments, well expressed, and derive additional interest from the fact that the Governor has put himself on record as opposed to woman's suffrage. OLD TIME BLIZZARDS LICENSED VICE. An Omaha Judge Refuses to Enforce the Fine on Prostitutes. OMAHA, Neb., April 9. - Judge Scott made a declaration in court to day which means a discontinuance of the system of regularly fining women of the town. A woman was brought into court who had failed to pay her fine. These fines are levied by the police, although there is a state law prohibiting prostitution, Judge Scott dismissed the case, saying: "I do not propose to sit on this bench and aid the city to manufacture prostitutes. It is called a fine, but is, in face, a license, a legalizing of this destruction and sale of female virtue. This poor woman, however bad, is not as bad as the officials who inaugurated this damnable practice, who set a price on virtue, and then hound and persecute them for the pitiful $8 per month. So long as I sit on this District Court bench, my voice and my power will be against this manufacture of vice and sin. I see in it nothing but a blackmailing scheme. If the women do not respond to the blackmail the police prosecute them, not under the law, but they frame a charge and call them vagrants. This practice is abominable and will not be countenanced." The prosecutor stated that these fines went to the school fund, but Judge Scott said that was no excuse. It reflected no credit upon a city to have its children educated at the expense of fallen virtue. The effect of this decision frees all prostitutes from paying this fine, and they can refuse to pay it if they choose. It is probable that Scott will order the arrest of the officer accepting this fine. The New Congress. The fifty-fourth congress will meet on the first Monday of December. In the house of representatives the republicans will have a very large majority. As elected, the 356 members were divided politically as follows: Republicans, 245; democrats, 104; populists, 6; silver, 1. The republican majority was 134. There have been a few changes within the year, and when the vacancies are filled at the November elections and the roll is called the republican majority will vary a little from this figure. In another column we print the list of the new senate, compiled from our own political records. It is the first full and correct list that has been published. The new senate will contain 42 republicans, 39 democrats, and 6 populists, and there is one vacancy - the seat formerly occupied by Anthony Higgins, of Delaware. The legislature of Delaware was republican on joint ballot but failed to make a legal election of a senator. Henry A. Dupont will claim the seat, but it is very doubtful if he can obtain it. 1895 THE EVANGELIST. A PLEA TO WOMEN. Old, poor, and homeless. This is the fate of the once noted Virginia Penny, who filled the whole of the United States with praises of her unceasing efforts to raise women to a better sphere of action, with such grand and glorious results. When Virginia first began her work not more than six roads of industry were open to women; to-day there are about four hundred channels in which respectable women can earn an independent livelihood. What can women do? was the cry that was first started by Miss Penny, and made answer from every department of men's labor. She worked for years with untiring zeal, regardless of home comforts and bodily health, devoting all her substance, time, and brains, to the one object, that was benefitting her sister women. She searched both America and Europe through for the materials to give her the power to inform women of the different mechanical industries, arts, and professions, in which they might gradually enter, and be paid fair salaries, such as would enable them to lead independent lives. American women who love freedom as they do the air they breathe, saw her work was good, and immediately took advantage of the bright prospects which she was offering them and filled the places, one by one, so well and efficiently, that there is not a position today from the church, the bar, the press, and medicine, to the hundreds of simpler industries, but what are successfully filled by them. But while the world has been going on and women have been comfortably enjoying the fruits of Miss Penny's time, thought, labor, money, and health, the hand that applied that torch and lit the fire, has gradually sunk lower and lower into penury. The years have rolled on, her home is gone, her helpful kin are dead, and she is no longer young. The wealth that she might have spent in her own selfish ease and the gratification of cultivated tastes, was nobly and unselfishly given to help others. Now she is in need and requires their help in return for the bare means of subsistence. There is an old adage, "Many can help one, but one cannot help many." Yet Miss Penny has shown that a great deal can be accomplished by one woman, if she sets to work in the right way, for she alone has helped thousands. We therefore send out an appeal to our American mothers and sisters, and beg of them to help in return one who has done so much for them, by giving to her from their substance, as God has blessed them, and to raise a fund sufficient to give her in her old age the necessaries and comforts of life. Also to show the world that the mothers and daughters of America known how to be generous as well as grateful, not to wait till she is dead, and then raise a monument to her memory, but to cheer her last days and to make her feel that numberless women bless her for her struggles and sacrifices. As Miss Penny is literally without a home, even temporary relief would be gratefully received, with the hope that more substantial aid will follow. Miss Penny is really unfit to work, and it should never be said in coming history that such a benefactor of her age had been allowed to suffer from neglect and want. The Union Dime Savings Institution, Broadway, Thirty-second Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City, will receive for Miss Penny any contributions. S. J. BEAL. NEW YORK CITY. --- RIDGES FOOD is the most highly concentrated nourishment known to hygienic science, digestible by weak stomaches. WOOLRICH & CO., Palmer, Mass. Dr. Parkhurst on "the New Woman." But, whatever certain adventurous women may think about it, it is sufficiently clear that nature has certain pretty decided opinions of its own on the matter, and that nature has so wrought its opinions into the tissue of woman's physical constitution and function that any feminine attempt to mutiny against wifehood, motherhood and domestic "limitations" is a hopeless and rather imbecile attempt to escape the inevitable, writes the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst in an article on "The True Mission of Woman" in the Ladies' Home Journal. All the female congresses in the world might combine in colossal mass meeting and vote with passionate show of hands that woman's sphere is coincident with the spherity of the globe or even all of the heavens, but the very idiosyncrasy of her physical build and the limitations essentially bound up in it will sponge out her mass meeting resolutions as fast as she can pass them. It is well enough for her to say that she wishes she were a man, but she is not, and till she is she might as well succumb to the fact that God and nature had very different intentions for her from what he had for her brothers, and that he recorded his intentions in a way that he has taken some pains to prevent her from being able to forget. I am really sorry for those women that wish they were men. I wish they were. It would be such a relief to the rest of us as well as to them. Dr. Elizebeth J. French. 193: Huntinging Ave. Boston, Mafs. $5- 85 - [?] until constitution REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES DISTRICT C PRECINCT 5 DELEGATES HARPER M. ORAHOOD ROBERT S. ROE PHILO D. GROMMON FRANCES B. ANTHONY ALTERNATES JOSEPHINE PETTIT RACHEL G. APPEL FLORA M. HAYDEN ALBERT E. REYNOLDS Ella Green (Miss) - stands for Ms Miriam Lyon Clunk 1633 - College Avenue wants commercial agency - Ms Lyon has sold 63 Ralston books in the last three months and S.B.A. makes 64 Jan. 23, Jan. 24, Shreveport, La. Entertained by Mrs. M. R. Smith, 847 Jordan St. Notify Prof. C. E. Byrd of time of arrival and he will meet you. Jan. 25, Jan. 26, Birmingham, Ala., Entertained by Mrs. Mary Jolly Van Hook, 2022 F Ave. Jan. 27, Sunday. Jan. 28, New Decatur, Ala., Entertained by Mrs. E. S. Hildreth. --- Feb. 12 Columbia, S.C. Entertained by Mrs. Helen Brayton who was a member of the Board of Lady Managers and met you at the Fair. Feb. 14, Culpepper, Va., Entertained by Mrs. Orra Langhorne. Mar 5, Lincoln, Va., Entertained by Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Rawson. Train leaves Washington about 9 A.M. and reaches Purcelville (name of R.R. Station) at 11:30. Lecture will be in afternoon unless the nights are moonlight. Southern route Jan. 23, Jan. 24, Shreveport, La., Entertained by Mrs. M. F. Smith, 847 Jordan St. Notify Prof. C. E. Byrd of time of arrival and he will meet you. Jan. 25, Jan. 26, Birmingham, Ala., Entertained by Mrs. Mary Jolly Van Hook, January 27, Sunday. Jan. 28, New Decatur, Ala., Entertained by Mrs. E. S. Hildreth. ______________________ Feb. 12, Columbia, S.C. Entertained by Mrs. Helen Brayton who was a member of the Board of Lady Managers and met you at the Fair. Feb. 14, Culpepper, Va., Entertained by Mrs. Orra Langhorne. Mar 5, Lincoln, Va., Entertained by Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Rawson. Train leaves Washington about 9 A.M. and reaches Purcelville (name fo R.R. Station) at 11:30. Lecture will be in afternoon unless the nights are moonlight. [Southern Route?] SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S ROUTE. Jan. 10, Lexington, Ky., Entertained by Mrs. N J. W. Clay, N. Broadway. Notify her of time of arrival and you will be set. Jan. 11, Wilmore, Ky., Entertained by Mrs. Mary W. Hughes. Jan 12, Louisville Mrs. [?] - 1725 - 1st [?] January 13, Sunday. Entertained by Mrs. George [Anez?] - 29 St. James Place Jan. 14, Owensboro, Ky., Entertained by Mrs. Sue Phillips Brown; Leave Louisville at 7:45 A.M. over the Louisville, St. Louis & Texas, arriving at Owensboro at 12:15. Jan. 15, Paducah, Ky., Entertained by Mrs. James Kroger. Jan. 16, Milan, Tenn., Entertained by Mrs. M. A. Clopton. Jan. 17, Memphis, Tenn., Entertained by Mrs. Lide Meriwether, 14 Talbot St. Jan. 18, Memphis, Tenn., Reception. Jan. 19, Memphis, Tenn., Reception. January 20, Sunday. Jan. 21. Jan. 22, New Orleans, La., Entertained by Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick, 1404 Napoleon Ave. California has prisoners in San Quentin - 1300- Fulsom - 900 Total - 2200 Women - 12 Men - 2.188 one woman - to 192 men Compliments of Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin. Thursdays. 61 Bring this card with you when paying premium, or enclose with your remittance. The New-York Life Insurance Company Hereby gives notice that on Policy No. 0733, a premium of $56.20 will be due December 2, 1895, provided the policy be then in force. Less dividend, 25.84 Amount to be paid, $30.36 This premium will be due and payable at the Home Office, 346 & 348 Broadway, New York, to the Cashier of the Company, on the production of the official receipt therefor. Unless such premium then due shall be paid to the Company, or to a duly appointed agent or person authorized to collect such premium by or before the day it falls due, such policy and all payments thereon will become forfeited and void, except as to the right to a surrender value or paid-up policy which may be provided in said policy, or by statute. This notice is required by the law of New York, and does not modify any of the terms of the contract. John A. 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Please notify he Branch Office to which you pay your premium of any error or change in your post-office address, in writing, giving the number of each policy now held by you. Sherman's Kansas Cabin. The General Built It Near the Mill of the Indian Too Lazy to Talk. There is a queer old tumble down cabin on the banks of Indian creek, near Topeka, Kas., which has an historical interest of more than ordinary importance. It is a frame structure of two rooms. At present it is in a somewhat dilapidated condition, but at one time it was a comfortable home. It is twenty-three feet in length by twelve in width, with a partition in the center. The house stands on a beautiful patch of ground which is bounded on the west by Little Indian creek, on the south by the old government trail and on the east an north by well cultivated farms. It faces the east and is on an elevation. There is a cellar under the north half of the old cabin. At present it is unoccupied, and the neighbors in the vicinity declare that it is haunted. A short distance from it Mr. Peter Moyer built a house, and lives there; he isn't afraid of ghosts. The old house has a far greater historical importance than mere age gives, for its timbers were laid in position, the walls plastered, and the roof fastened by the hand of a man who was at once a great scholar and a great general -- a hero of the late war. It was no other than General William Tecumseh Sherman. He built and lived in this cabin in 1859. In 1858 he was engaged in the practice of law at Leavenworth, Kas. Like many young lawyers, he found that his receipts were not large enough to meet his expenses and so he decided to turn farmer for a time and try too add to his income. To that end he purchased some land in the northeastern part of Shawnee county, six miles north of Topeka, Kas. His selection was an admirable one. The pretty little stream which the early settlers had named Indian creek, ran along just west of it, and there was considerable timber on the land. Many of the big trees have been cut down. The old military trail ran near to it on the south, being a thoroughfare between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley. It was a beautiful place and it is no wonder that the general liked it. In the early spring of 1859 he built his humble cabin. As shown in the picture, it consists of two rooms. The general simply built a one room structure, the other room having been added a few years afterward. He built the section shown on the right in the picture. He also dug the cellar under it; for Kansas was just as hot and dry at that time as it is now. It didn't take long to make the cabin ready for occupancy, and William T. Sherman, farmer, was soon living in his own domicile and tilling the rich soil on his place -- one of the prettiest spots in Kansas. Indian Creek was then a stream in which there was plenty of water and a somewhat swift current. It flows into the Kaw river five miles east of Topeka. Down on the east bank of the creek at a distance of about half a mile from the old cabin was an old saw mill, which was owned and operated by a Pottawatomie Indian by the name of John Ogee. The old fellow had saved his money and bought it. General Sherman sometimes walked down by it to talk with the man who ran the mill. The Indian found that he could get better work done by a white man than by his redskin brothers. An anecdote is told of the general in regard to a conversation he had with John Ogee, the proprietor. One Sunday morning the general took a walk down by the old mill, probably in the hopes of seeing the foreman or some of the neighbors. As he neared the mill he saw John Ogee. The Indian was sitting on a log, smoking his long pipe and looking down in the water, a vacant stare in his eyes. General Sherman knew little of the Indian's language, but Ogee had learned to talk English brokenly. General Sherman approached and saluted him. The latter looked up and nodded his head slightly. Then the general began talking to him. He talked and talked, and asked questions, made observations; bu the Indian replied not a word. He sat and looked down into the water in silence. Finally the general gave up the effort and left the Pottawatomie to his silent meditation. Meeting a neighbor on the way home, he related his unsuccessful interview, and said: "Well, sir, I've seen lazy people, but that is the first time I ever saw a man that was too lazy to talk." John Ogee died only a few years ago; a grandson of his now lives in Topeka. It is said that General Sherman made a very good farmer. He was a hard worker, and although he was peculiar he had lots of friends among the settlers of the county. In the spring of 1860 he built another house, which was much larger and more modern than the old cabin. He erected it on a knoll about a quarter of a mile from his first house. It is yet in a good state of preservation, but has never been painted. O.Z. Goodrich, a jolly old farmer, now lives in it, and he loves to tell of the ghost stories that are afloat about the log cabin. The picture shows the house as it now stands. It contains seven rooms, the walls are covered with weatherboarding and the roof is of shingles. Probably General Sherman intended living in this comfortable house, but as to whether or not he did is a matter of doubt. Some of the old settlers claim that he did occupy it for a short time, while others deny it. If he made it his home it must have been for a very short time only. From the eminence on which it stands there is a magnificent view of the valley of the Kaw, both east and west. The ridge of hills on which it is located is called the "Bluffs," as it is the first elevation beyond the river bank. When General Sherman was called away he moved his few belongings from his cabin home and said good by to the old place -- forever. It has never been occupied since, though at present Mr. Moyer keeps his farm tools in it. A small barn that the general erected near the cabin has been torn down. There has been some talk of tearing down the house but when it was attempted there was such a vigorous objection made that the project had to be abandoned. It still stands there in its dilapidation, perched well up above the surrounding land. It means a great deal to the old pioneers and they love to look at it. It is a sacred landmark to them and they will never agree to have it torn down. Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.