CLARA BARTON GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Anthony, Susan B. Apr. 1869 - July 1903Revolution Office 79 East 99th St. (Woman's Bureau) New York Apr. 29/69 Dear Friend Clara Barton Will you make a 15 or 20 minutes speech - not more - at our Anniversary? Would like you to make Woman's plea for the right to a voice in government from the standpoint of what she risks in war in which she has no voice in making. If you cant be present & speak your words - please send letter - Then there is another reason why we very much want you ANNIVERSARY OF THE American Equal Rights Association. THE AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION will hold its Anniversary in New York, STEINWAY HALL, Wednesday and Thursday, May 12th and 13th, and in Brookly, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, on Friday, the 14th. After a century of discussion on the rights of citizens in a republic, and the gradual extension of Suffrage, without property or educational qualifications, to all white men, the thought of the nation has turned for the last thirty years to negroes and women. And in the enfranchisement of black men by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, the Congress of the United States has now virtually established on this continent an aristocracy of sex, an aristocracy hitherto unknown in the history of nations. With every type and shade of manhood thus exalted above their heads, there never was a time when all women, rich and poor, white and black, native and foreign, should be so wide away to the degradation of their position, and so persistent in their demands to be recognized in the government. Woman's enfranchisement is now a practical question in England and the United States. With bills before Parliament, Congress and all our State legislatures - with such able champions as John Stuart Mill and George William Curtis, women need but speak the word to secure her political freedom to-day. We sincerely hope that in the coming National Anniversary every State and Territory, east and west, north and south, will be represented. We invite delegates, too, from all those countries in the Old Word where women are demanding their political rights. Let there be a grand gathering in the metropolis of the nation, that Republicans and Democrats may alike understand, that with the women of this country lies a political power in the future, that both parties would do well to respect. The following speakers from several states are already pledged: Anna E. Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Mary A. Livermore, Madam Anneke, Lilie Peckham, Phebe Couzens, Mrs. M. H. Brinkerhoff. LUCRETIA MOTT, President. Vice Presidents. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, New York. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, " HENRY WARD BEECHER, " MARTHA C. WRIGHT, " FRANCES D. GAGE, " OLYMPIA BROWN, Massachusetts, ELIZABETH B. CHASE, Rhode Island, CHARLES PRINCE, Connecticut, ROBERT PURVIS, Pennsylvania, ANTOINETTE B. BLACKWELL, New Jersey, JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING, Washington, D. C., THOMAS GARRETT, Delaware, STEPHEN H. CAMP, Ohio, EUPHEMIA COCHRANE, Michigan, MARY A. LIVERMORE, Illinois, MRS. I. H. STURGEON, Missouri, AMELIA BLOOMER, Iowa, MARY A. STARRET, Kansas, VIRGINIA PENNY, Kentucky. Corresponding Secretary. MARY E. GAGE. Recording Secretaries. HENRY B. BLACKWELL, HARRIET PURVIS. Tresurer. JOHN J. MERRITT. Executive Committee. LUCY STONE, EDWARD S. BUNKER, ELIZABETH R. TILTON, ERNESTINE L. ROSE, ROBERT J. JOHNSTON, EDWIN A. STUDWELL, ANNA CROMWELL FIELD, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, THEODORE TILTON, MARGARET E. WINCHESTER, ABBY HUTCHINSON PATTON, OLIVER JOHNSON, MRS. HORACE GREELEY, ABBY HOPPER GIBBONS, ELIZABETH SMITH MILLER. Communications and Contributions may be addressed to JOHN J. MERRITT, 131 William street, New York. Newspapers friendly, please publish this call. Susan B. Anthony Equal Rights Assn May 1869 Ansd 37 Anthony in New York - the 11th of May - Tuesday evening - the opening reception of the Woman's Bureau is to help and we must have you present - It is to be a splendid affair - and we want to exhibit all the good looking of the "Strong Minded" - but earnestly - I do very much hope you can be here. Sincerely yours Susan B. AnthonyCENTENNIAL HEADQUARTERS National Woman Suffrage Association, [1421 CHESTNUT STREET.] Pres., ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, N.J. First Vice-Pres., LUCRETIA MOTT, Pa. Chair. Ex. Com., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, N.Y. Cor. Sec'y, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, N.Y. [Philadelphia, Pa.,] .................1876] Tenafly N. J. Aug. 22/76 My Dear Clara Barton I learn from our mutual friend Frances P. Gage - that you are ill and at P. Jackson's Cure - I wish your mere get well & to live to see woman politically emancipated - as have seen the black race - but how could poor human endure under such terrible strainas you were subjected to during the war - I do hope you are improving - But I must to business - I am editor of the Woman's department of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia - planned by Horace Greely, just before his death - and I want the have fact of your life and work to go into the book - - the date, place of your birth - Place of education - parents - avocation & especiall the war record -- now if you are unable to do this, I know Dr. Jackson will do it for you - not only for your sake & mine - but for womanhood's sake - - This will be the first Cyclopedia that has ever given reform women or scarcely any woman a place - - I want these points immediately - not over 200 words - we are crowded into very short compass. - Please extend my kind regards to the Doctor & all his family - There is a real haven of rest & relief to many a weary & worn soul - - Hoping soon to hear from you & that you are gaining health and though - I am sincerely & sympathizingly Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony asks for sketch for cyclopedia - ansd Sept -- sent sketch, copy in blotter Tenafly N.J. Sept 19th [1876] My Dear Friend Clara Barton Yours of 13th visit is before me - I can't consent to leave your poor skeleton so denuded of flesh & blood - you shall double it or more - if need be to round it out handsomely - I would like the copy two or three times backyou are so illy able to do hard work. It is beautiful work you did, not one other woman has comprehended what I wanted or been able to do it, except, dear Ms C. I. H. Nichols of Vermont,yours is capitally done, only I want to, you put on its clothes again. I did not mean to have the poor loves all left, bare. But I didn't dream you had so many, and such mammoth ones either. I am so glad you are gaining strength, I hope you may yet like to do as of this cutting & clipping, what a life yours has been. I have the power to command more space & now say double it. Your facts crowded together so break my back, tire my head & hands - no-no, you shan't be crowded into the same space, a thousandth part of the same space, of a man who never did a tithe for his country to what you did. I am very, very sorry to have to taxed you whilework for women's emancipation as you did for the slaves & the soilders- How glorious out movement would go on, if it had the like of your hand, brain & heart to organize systematize, vitalize & marshall its forces - Do get well, my dear, & come to the help of the weary & worn in the service for woman -- Then beyond the Cyclopedia articles-- Ms Stanton & I are writing a history of our W. S. Movement Down to the close of this Centennial year - And you will remember that we suspended all women suffrage work during the war - and organized a Women's Loyal League & rolled up a mammoth petition of 100,000 [strikethough:for] asking Congress to emancipate slavery - - hence we shall have a chapter on the war, in that, we not only wish to tell what we did at home - but ^what you & others did on the field of battle - and more still - we are to give personal sketches of theleading women - with their pictures - steel engravings - - and we want your first long article of yourself - with your women's rights expressions and actions since the war, - for our history - If you will give your picture & sketch to us - we will put you in the record - & your face shall go down with dear Lucretia Motts, Mrs Hout??s Antoinette Brown Blackwell - ??? - I feel sure you will not deny me these. Mrs. Stanton bids me enclose her love to you - and both of us return best - regards to the Doctor & family - with gratitude is he & they are helping you to new life - Hoping soon to hear from you - affectionately Susan B. AnthonyCENTENNIAL HEADQUARTERS National Woman Suffrage Association, 1431 CHESTNUT STREET. Pres., ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, N. J. First Vice-Pres., LUCRETIA MOTT, Pa. Chair. Ex. Com., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, N. Y. Cor. Sec'y, Susan B. Anthony, N. Y. Philadelphia, Pa.,...1876 If - I shall hold on to this copy - until I hear from you - as you probably have the former copies -- for I dare not run the risk of losing this -- If you have not preserved a copy & want this to work from - let me know & it shall go to you at once - S. B. A. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Tenafly, N. J. First Vice President, LUCRETIA MOTT, Philadelphia, Pa. Chairman Executive Committee, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y. Corresponding Secretary, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. 1776. CENTENNIAL QUESTIONS. 1876. Why should women, more than men, be governed without their consent? Why should women, more than men, be taxed without representation? Why should women, more than men, be tried without a jury of their peers? By what right do men declare themselves invested with power to legislate for women in all cases whatsoever? Miss Clara Barton "Our Home" Dansville N. Y. S.B. Anthony Ansd Sept 23 76 answer to letter referred to Mrs. John A Sagan June 26, 1911National Woman Suffrage Association. President, CLEMENCE S. LOZIER, M. D., New York. VicePres. {LUCRETIA MOTT, Philadelphia, Pa. {ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Tenafly, N. J. Chair. Ex. Com., SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. Cor. Sec., ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, Hartford, Ct. Treas., ELLEN CLARKE SARGENT, Washington, D. C. Miss Clara Barton Dansville N. Y. Ansd July, 18 Susan B Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association. President, CLEMENCE S. LOZIER, M. D., New York. VicePres. {LUCRETIA MOTT, Philadelphia, Pa. {ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Tenafly, N. J. Chair. Ex. Com., SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. Cor. Sec., ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, Hartford, Ct. Treas., ELLEN CLARKE SARGENT, Washington, D. C. Rochester N. Y. July 4th, 1878 My Dear Friend Clara Barton Shall we not have the pleasure of your presence at our 2d Decade Anniversary Meeting - to be held in this City the 19th next? It will be 20 years on that day since the "Mothers" of our Woman's Rights Movement assembled in Seneca Falls N.Y. to make their Declaration of Equal Rights - I hope you will be able to be present - also any or all friends you may bring with you. Our "Head Quarters" quite Army like - are to be at the European Hotel - Fitzhugh St. - but a few days from the Church - in which we meet - If it is impossible for youyou to come - please send your word for the hour, that we may have you in both spirit & letter if not in person - Dear Lucretia Mott, Sarah Pugh, Mrs Stanton &c. &c. are to be here - also Frederick Douglas - I have written dear invalid Frances D. Gage - hoping she might meet with us once more - but a friend has just arrived from Vineland, who says it will not be possible for to make the journey - so I hope for the only thing left - a letter from her - This friend says she is very tenderly cared for by the lady she boards with - Hoping to see you if possible and to hear from you without fail Sincerely your friend Susan B. Anthony -------------- CONSTITUTION OF THE National Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE 1.—This organization shall be called the National Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE 2.—The object of this Association shall be to secure NATIONAL protection for women citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. ARTICLE 3.—All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the Association, with the right to participate in its deliberations. ARTICLE 4.—The officers of this Association shall be a President, Vice President from each of the States and Territories, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries, a Treasurer, an Executive Committee of not less than five, and an Advisory Committee consisting of one person from each State and Territory. ARTICLE 5.—All Women Suffrage Societies throughout the country shall be welcomed as auxiliaries; and their accredited officers or duly appointed representatives shall be recognized as members of the National Association. Officers of the N. W. S. A. for 1877 and '78. PRESIDENT: CLEMENCE S. LOZIER, M. D., 238 West Fourteenth Street, New York. VICE PRESIDENTS: Lucretia Mott, - - Philadelphia, Pa. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, - - Tenafly, N. J. Clarina I. H. Nichols, - - Pomo, Cal. Amy Post, - - Rochester, N. Y. Mathilde Franceske Anneke, - - Milwaukee, Wis. Amelia Bloomer, - - Council Bluffs, Ia. Virginia L. Minor, - - St. Louis, Mo. Emily Robinson, - - Salem, Ohio. Julia and Abby Smith, - - Glastonbury, Ct. Catharine C. Knowles, - - East Greenwich, R. I. Annie C. Cheney, - - Chelsea, Mass. Mary Powers Filley, - - North Haverhill, N. H. Lucy A. Snowe, - - Rockland, Me. Sarah M. Lynde, - - Guilford Centre, Vt. Olivia B. Hall, - - Ann Arbor, Mich. Mary H. Williams, - - Fort Wayne, Ind. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, M. D., - - Chicago, Ill. Sarah Burger Stearns, - - Duluth, Minn. Helen M. Starrett, - - Lawrence, Kan. Julia Brown Bemis, - - Omaha, Neb. Alida C. Avery, M. D., - - Denver, Col. Hannah H. Clapp, - - Carson City, Neb. Harriet A. Loughary, - - Amity, Or. Sally Holly, - - Lottsburg, Va. Emily Pollock, - - Wheeling, W. Va. Anne L. Quinby, - - Newport, Ken. Eliz. Avery Meriwether, - - Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. A. B. Swearingen, - - Claymont, Del. Lavinia L. Dundore, - - Baltimore, Md. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, - - Hollywood, N. C. Frances Anne Pillsbury, - - Charleston, S. C. Flora McMartin Wright, - - Pilatka, Fla. Mary J. Spaulding, - - Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. P. Holmes Drake, - - Huntsville, Ala. Annie H. Hamilton, - - Summit, Miss. Elizabeth L. Saxon, - - New Orleans, La. Mrs. W. P. Oliver, - - Little Rock, Ark. Martha Goodwin, Tunstall, - - Crockett, Tex. Caroline B. Winslow, M. D., - - Washington, D. C. Esther Morris, - - Laramie City, Wy. Ter. Mary O. Brown, - - Seattle, Wash. Ter. Annie Godbe, - - Salt Lake, Utah Ter. ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Ernestine L. Rose - - London, Eng. Sarah Pugh, - - Germantown, Pa. Elizabeth B. Schenck, - - San Francisco, Cal. Lucinda B. Chandler, - - Vineland, N. J. Lavinia Goodell, - - Janesville, Wis. Janet Strong, - - Keosaque, Iowa. Annie R. Irvine, - - Oregon, Mo. Rev. Anna Oliver, - - South Norwalk, Ct. Mary F. Channing, - - Newport, R. I. Julia B. Hunt, - - Florence, Mass. Caroline H. Barr, - - New Ipswich, N. H. Ann T. Greeley, - - Ellsworth, Me. Lydia Putnam, - - Brattleboro, Vt. Helen M. Loder, - - Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mrs. C. W. Church, - - Benton Harbor, Mich. Ellen S. Fray, - - Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. J. H. Parker, - - Green Castle, Ind. Clara Lyons Peters, - - Watseka, Ill. Hattie M. White, - - Kasson, Minn. Elsie Stewart, - - Neutral Station, Kan. S. S. Stilson, - - Omaha, Neb. Mary F. Shields, - - Colorado Springs, Col. Mary Sweetaple, - - Silver City, Nev. Lucinda F. Proebstel, - - La Grande, Or. Hannah McQuiston, - - Richmond, Va. Elizabeth A. Brown, - - Kingswood, W. Va. Elizabeth H. Duvall, - - Cadiz, Ky. Narcissa Watson, - - Columbia, Tenn. Elizabeth Jackson, - - Hockessin, Del. Jane DuBois, - - Baltimore, Md. Mary D. P. Taylor, - - Asheville, N. C. Martha Schofield, - - Aiken, S. C. Abby C. Fisher, - - Fernandina, Fla. Agnes Julian, - - Aurora, Ga. Mary Pinckard McCarty, - - Madison Station, Ala. Mrs. E. Voorhes, - - Holly Springs, Miss. Mary S. Mann, M. D., - - New Orleans, La. Mrs. L. C. Locke, - - Dallas, Tex. Ella Cheney, - - Uberty, Ark. Helen R. Holmes, - - Washington, D. C. Mary B. Post, - - Cheyenne, Wy. Ter. Mrs. A. H. H. Stewart, - - Olympia, Wash. Ter. Emeline B. Wells, - - Salt Lake City, Utah. CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. Isabella Beecher Hooker, - - Hartford, Ct. Ellen H. Sheldon, - - Washington, D. C. Laura DeForce Gordon, - - Oakland, Cal. Emma Molloy, - - South Bend, Ind. Mathilde F. Wendt, - - New York. Caroline H. Spear, - - Philadelphia, Pa. FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES: Laura Curtis Bullard, - - New York. Jane Graham Jones. - - Chicago, Ill. RECORDING SECRETARY: Lillie Devereux Blake, 106 East Fifty-fifth Street, New York. TREASURER: Ellen Clarke Sargent, 1733 De Sales Street, Washington, D. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Susan B. Anthony, - - Rochester, N. Y. Matilda Joslyn Gage, - - Fayetteville, N. Y. Rev. Olympia Brown, - - Bridgeport, Ct. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, - - Evanston, Ill. Phoebe W. Couzins, - - St. Louis, Mo. Sarah Langdon Williams, - - Toledo, Ohio. Sarah J. Wallis, - - Mayfield, Cal. Laura Ross Wollcott, M. D., - - Milwaukee, Wis. Catharine A. F. Stebbins, - - Detroit, Mich. Abigail Scott Duniway, - - Portland, Or. Mrs. L. C. Smith, - - Rochester, N. Y. M. Adelaide Thomson, - - Philadelphia, Pa. Harriet Purvis, - - " " Belva A. Lockwood, - - Washington, D. C. Annie C. Savery, - - Des Moines, Iowa. Susan A. King, - - New York. Helen M. Cooke, - - New York. Nancy R. Allen, - - Maquoketa, Ia. Marilla M. Richer, - - Dover, N. H. RESIDENT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. Sarah Andrews Spencer, corner 7th and L streets, Washington, D. C. Ellen Clarke Sargent, - - Washington, D. C. Ruth C. Denison, - - Washington, D. C. Rosina W. Parnell, - - " " Mary Shadd Cary, - - " "Get all the names possible to this petition and forward to SARAH ANDREWS SPENCER, Cor. L. and 7th Streets, Washington, D. C., by the first of December, 1877. Petition for a 16th Amendment. TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED: The undersigned, Citizens of the United States, Residents of the State of __, County of ___, Town of ___, earnestly pray your Honorable Body to adopt measures for so amending the Constitution as to prohibit the several States from Disfranchising United States Citizens on account of Sex. MEN. | WOMEN. Susan B. AnthonyTenafly N. J. Feb. 14/81 My very Dear Friend We are drudging away at our Woman Suffrage History - - And now come to our want of a graphic summary up of the wonderful work our women did in the Hospital, Field, on the march -- at home making jellies & bandages - how can't you do this for us - in what will make 10.20, 30 50 pages - giving the names of leading women - also to number of those who actually shouldered the musket - What we want, is, to open our 2d volume with this grand work of women to save the Liberty - Both through the Army--and the Loyal Moment, Leagues with their 200,000 petitions for Emancipation-- Sacrficing everything- holding woman's own claim for rights in abeyance even - and then after all this herculean work - We shall charge back on man his ingratitude & injustice in denying to women their equal share in the new powers - the new guarantees for freedom & the purchase - - They fought for national supremacy over the states to enslave & disfranchise - and then refused to exercise that new power in behalf of half the people - it was - and is - the crime of the ages - - What we want you to do- is to put woman's heroism in the War - into your most graphic & telling sentences - Can you do it? - Will you do it? - - We would like you to do it - & let us put it into our book as a contribution from the Maj. Gen'l of the Soldier [woman?] friends & helpers - If it is impossible (which I hope it is not) for you to do this - who do you could & would? - or could you furnish us with the data-? How are you this terrible winter? - I hope growing stronger & strongerWhen you see[?] Doctor - the Senior - I especially mean - give my regards to him - Tell him I haven't forgotten where I am to go when I get broken down!! - But my chance of enjoying the quiet retreat doesn't seem very great now - There is too much work to do - But I would love see him & his family one & all - and ever & ever so much your own dear self - When will my time come to throw off all feelings of responsibility for our W.S. movement! - Sincerely & Affectionately - Susan B. Anthony PS - We are working for dear life to get our first volume out by the first of May !! - but alas, alas, I fear we shan't - It is to be Royal Octavo - of 6 or 7 hundred pages - - When we come to the 2d vol - we would like to your picture to place at head of your contribution - In the first volume - we shall have the pictures, steel engravings, of Mrs. Mott, Stanton - & the pioneers of our moment.- S.BANational Woman Suffrage Association, -1880- "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman more than man be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N.J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice Pres. at Large, 7 Madison St., Rochester, N.Y. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Chair. Ex. Com., Fayetteville, N.Y. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Rec. Sec., 1 Grant Pl., Washington, D.C. [SARA ANDREWS SPENCER, Gen. Sec.,] [Cor. 7th & L. Sts., Washington, D.C.] JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. [*Ansd from Wash*] [*March.15 1881*] [*Susan B. Anthony*] [*37*] Maj. Gen'l Clara Barton Dansville Liv -Co N.Y. [*3.7 Anthony*] Tenafly N.J. June 24 ,1881 My Dear Clara Barton Where shall I send a copy of our History (1st volume) to you? - We are breaking ground on our 2d volume - and open with women's work during the rebellion - won't you send us your contribution - if it was your first copy that you sent for Cyclopedia - that would tell your wonderful work - but sum up woman's work in hospital, battle-field - & Sanitary - in most concise way you can and send on at your earliest convenience. I order a copy of history mailed to Dr. James E. Jackson - soyou can see by that - without waiting for yours - how we close up 1st volume - - We open 2d by telling of the general & efficient work of women at home - & on field &c- in Freedman's aid-Loyal Leauge Petitioning for emancipation &c &c - and in return - were reminded back to their slavery in the home - left a disenfranchised class - Then tell of our petitions & appeals to be recognized in other Reconstruction amendments & legislation - all to no purpose &c - You see we want to make a glowing statement of woman in every department of their Nation's struggle for life - Please let me hear from you at once - give a letter of reminiscences of as many different women's work & heroism as you - do it up just as your spirit moves you - I hope you see the National Citizen and Ballot Box - The number for June to appear this week will contain account of our New England Series of N.W.S.A. Connections - - I am going to Rochester in July - If you are in Dansville I must go & see you a day - Fondly yours - Susan B. Anthony DANSVILLE FRI 16 JAN N.Y. NEW YORK FEB 14 8 P M 81 TRANSITNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres. Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.} MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.} Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Sec'y, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. ROCHESTER SEP 1 N.Y. Clara Barton Dansville N. Y. [*Answered Sept. 22 1881*] [*37 Anthony*] National Woman Suffrage Association. 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres. Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.} MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.} Vice-Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 19th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. Rochester, N.Y. Sept. 1, 1881 My Dear Clara Barton, Your Postal of yesterday is here. I would dearly love to go to Saratoga with you to the Social Science Meeting - and would go, but for several conflicting interests - 1st my two nieces return home just then - whom I haven't seen in almost a year - and 2nd the State Temperance Women's Christian Union is to meet here the 15 & 16 next - and I want to be here to see if they wont urge their women to use their right to vote on schools - also recommend petitioning the Legislature for municipal suffrage - After the Temp. Con. I propose to hold school suffrage Conventions in Western New York. The trouble is it would be just to go down & right back again - so I guess I must say no though will you[I just] I feel the Social Science Meeting worth the serious attention of all of us - and I have no doubt they would give your Red Cross a candid hearing - I should love dearly to make the trip with you - but just at present I must forego the pleasure - and concentrate all of myself on these Temperance Women - for if we can get them lifted out of their narrowness - they will be a splendid help to general suffrage - I hope your Dansville Union will appoint you to represent them at the State Temp. Union here - If you come at that time - My sister & I will be very happy to have you stay with us - our residence is No. 7. Madison street - I declare to you - the more I think of your [invitation?] to Saratoga the harder it is to say no to it - I go to Conesus Lake this P.M. to speak there at a Temperance Camp Meeting tomorrow a 2 P.M - We had a pleasant call from "Mother Johnson as you call her - a week or more ago - Hoping to see you & hear from you often - I am [? ?] yours Susan B. Anthony- P.S. - We have a pair of Monstrous Slave Shackles here - taken from the Richmond Jail - [bugmen?] - in 1865 Where would you recommend putting them? They with all other relics of that old barbarism ought to be in some place where the south of our country can see them - S.B.A DANSVILLE SEP 1 8 P M N. Y.CONSTITUTION AND OFFICERS OF THE National Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE 1.—This organization shall be called the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE 2.—The object of this Association shall be to secure NATIONAL Protection for women citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. ARTICLE 3.—All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the Association, with the right to participate in its deliberations. ARTICLE 4.—The Officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice-President from each of the States and Territories, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries, a Treasurer and an Executive Committee of not less than five. ARTICLE 5.—A quorum of the Executive Committee shall consist of nine, and all the Officers of this Association shall be ex-officio members of such Committee, with power to vote. ARTICLE 6.—All Woman Suffrage Societies throughout the country shall be welcomed as auxiliaries, and their accredited officers or duly appointed representatives shall be recognized as members of the National Association. OFFICERS FROM MAY, 1881, TO MAY, 1882. PRESIDENT. Elizabeth Cady Stanton............... Tenafly, N.J. VICE-PRESIDENTS-AT-LARGE. Susan B. Anthony......................... Rochester, N.Y. Matilda Joslyn Gage..................... Fayetteville, N.Y. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS. Alabama................Priscilla Holmes Drake..................... Huntsville. California...............Sarah J. Wallis..................... Mayfield. " ..............Clarina I. H. Nichols..................... Pomo. " ..............Elizabeth T. Schenck..................... San Francisco. Colorado................Mary F. Shields..................... Colorado Springs. Connecticut...........Julia Smith Parker..................... Glastonbury. District Columbia....Rosina M. Parnell..................... Washington. England..................Ernestine L. Rose..................... London. Illinois.....................Catherine V. Waite..................... Chicago. Indiana...................Zerelda G. Wallace..................... Indianapolis. Iowa.......................Amelia Bloomer..................... Council Bluffs. Kansas...................Mary T. Gray..................... Wyandotte. Kentucky................Sarah P. Carr..................... Louisville. Louisiana................Emily P. Collins..................... Ponchachogue. Maine.....................Ann T. Greeley..................... Ellsworth. " ....................Lucy A. Snowe..................... Rockland. Maryland................Anna Ella Carroll..................... Pikesville P. O. Massachusetts.......Mrs. Fenno Tudor ..................... Boston. Michigan................Catharine A. F. Stebbins..................... Detroit. Minnesota..............Charlotte O. Van Cleve..................... Minneapolis. MIssouri.................Caroline Johnson Todd..................... St. Louis. Nebraska................Harriet S. Brooks..................... Omaha. New Hampshire......Eliza E. Morrill..................... Concord. " " ......Sarah Sargent Pillsbury..................... " New Jersey..............Lucinda B. Chandler..................... Vineland. New York.................Sarah H. Halleck..................... Milton. " " .................Amy Post..................... Rochester. North Carolina.........Elizabeth Oakes Smith..................... Hollywood. Ohio.........................Sophia O. Allen..................... South Newbury. " ........................Sarah R. L. Williams..................... Toledo. Oregon.................... Mary Thompson, M.D...................... Portland. Pennsylvania............Sarah Pugh..................... Germantown. Rhode Island............Catherine C. Knowles..................... East Greenwich. " " ............Mary T. Channing..................... Providence. Utah..........................Sarah A. Cooke..................... Salt Lake. Washington Territory....Abbie H. H. Stuart..................... Olympia. Wisconsin.................Mathilde Franceske Anneke..................... Milwaukee. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Arkansas...................Helen Martin..................... Little Rock. California.................. Laura DeForce Gordon..................... San Francisco. Colorado...................Alida C. Avery, M.D...................... Denver. Connecticut ..............Esther E. Jewell..................... Hartford. Delaware....................Mary A. Stewart..................... Greenwood. District Columbia.......Belva A. Lockwood..................... Washington. Dakota Territory..........Susan J. Barnes..................... Fargo. Illinois..........................Elizabeth Boynton Harbert..................... Evanston. Indiana........................Mary E. Haggert..................... Indianapolis. Iowa ...........................Jane C. McKinney..................... Decorah. Kansas........................Jennie St. John..................... Topeka. Kentucky.....................Sallie Clay Bennett..................... Richmond. Louisiana....................Elizabeth L. Saxon.........................New Orleans. Maine..........................Ellen French Foster......................Portland. Maryland.....................Nancy M. Baird..................... Cumberland. Massachusetts............Harriet R. Shattuck..................... Malden. Michigan......................Fannie Holden Fowler..................... Manistee. Minnesota....................Sarah Burger Stearns..................... Duluth. Missouri.......................Virginia L. Miner..................... St. Louis. Nebraska.....................Clara Berwick Colby..................... Beatrice. Nevada........................Hannah R. Clapp..................... Carson City. New Hampshire...........Eliza J.C. Gilbert..................... Keene. New Jersey..................Cornelia C. Hussey..................... East Orange. New York.....................Lillie Devereux Blake..................... New York City. Ohio.............................Rosa L. Segur..................... Toledo. Oregon.........................Abigail Scott Duniway..................... Portland. Pennsylvania................Martha McClellan Brown..................... Pittsburgh. Rhode Island................Anna E. Aldrich..................... Providence. Tennessee....................Elizabeth Avery Meriwether..................... Memphis. Texas...........................Jennie Beauchamp..................... Denton. Utah.............................Emmeline B. Wells..................... Salt Lake City. Vermont.......................Lydia Putnam..................... Brattleboro. Virginia.........................Sally Holly..................... Lottsburg. Washington Territory.....Mary Olney Brown..................... Olympia. Wisconsin.....................Laura Ross Wolcott..................... Milwaukee. Wyoming Territory.........Mara B. Post..................... Cheyenne. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. May Wright Sewall, Chairman, 405 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Alabama.......................Buel D. M'Clung..................... Huntsville. Arkansas......................Louisa M. Oliver..................... Little Rock. California......................Ellen Clarke Sargent..................... San Francisco. " ....................Sarah L. Knox Goodrich..................... San Jose. Connecticut..................Isabella Beecher Hooker..................... Hartford. District Columbia.........Caroline B. Winslow, M.D.................... Washington. " ".........Harriet Forten Purvis................... " Kansas........................Mary A. Humphreys..................... Junction City. " ..........................Annie C. Wait.......................Lincoln Center. Kentucky.......................Mary B. Clay..................... ............... Louisiana......................Harriet E. Keating, M.D...................... New Orleans. Maine...........................Charlotte A. Thomas..................... Portland. Massachusetts ............Harriet H. Robinson..................... Malden. Michigan.......................Cordelia A. Briggs..................... Grand Rapids. Missouri........................Phoebe W. Couzins..................... St. Louis. Nebraska......................Barbara J. Thompson..................... Hebron. New Hampshire............Marilla M. Ricker..................... Dover. " "...........Mary Powers Filley..................... North Haverhill. New Jersey....................Phebe A. Hanaford..................... Jersey City. New York.......................Mary R. Pell..................... Flushing. " " .....................Clemence S. Lozier, M.D............... New York City. " " ......................Mathilde F. Wendt....................... " " " " " .....................Augusta Lilienthal....................... " " " " " .......................Helen N. Loder..................... Poughkeepsie. Ohio .,,,,.........................Louisa Southwick..................... Cleveland. Pennsylvania..................M. Adaline Thomson..................... Philadelphia. Rhode Island.................Elizabeth C. Hinckley......................Providence. Virginia...........................Orra Langhorne..................... Lynchburg. Wisconsin.....................Rev. Olympia Brown..................... Racine. RECORDING SECRETARIES. District Columbia...........Ellen H. Sheldon..................... Washington. Pennsylvania..................Julia T. Foster..................... Philadelphia. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Rachel G. Foster............1, 909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. England ........................Caroline A. Riggs..................... London. " ......................... Lydia E. Becker..................... Manchester. France............................Mme. Marguerite Berry Stanton............. Paris. TREASURER. Jane H. Spofford............. Riggs House, Washington, D.C. AUDITORS. Ruth C. Denison............... Washington, D.C. W.F. Denison..................... Washington, D.C. National Woman Suffrage Association. 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. } MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y. } Vice-Pres at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. Rochester, N. Y. Sept. 20. 1881 My Dear Clara Barton How disappointed my sister and I were last evening to hear read your letter of illness - instead of seeing & hearing you as we expected. Judge Morgan & Dr. Robinson both pressed the Red Cross association at once - hope the whole matter of relief for Michigan & organization was referred to a committee of which the Mayor & 6 others appointed by him - were to be the members - & when all was thus shelved - I screeched - just to remind those men there were women present & thinking - & perchance thereby cause the Mayor to think put some women the Committee - The feeling seemed to be that to know & do about the Red-Cross, Miss Barton herself must be present - and I want you should get well & if possible make the time before I leave thecity, which will be by Oct. 1st so that I can help get some good women into your society --if possible-- It was too cruel that you must be cut down & out of being here last night-- I shall leave here the 26th & speak at Perry [?], the 27th & return the 29th Cant you fix a date to speak here say the 20th or 21st -But suit yourself - I can't do much - still I would love to see your Red Cross launched here before I go back to Tenafly, N. Jersey - to begin work on vol. 2d of our history - Hoping you will soon be well-& able to resume your good Samaritan mission I am very sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres. Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.} MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.} Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Sec'y, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. ROCHESTER SEP 21 4PM N.Y. Miss Clara Barton Dansville N. Y. [*Ansd Sept. 23*] [*Susan B Anthony*] [*from Rochester*] [*37*]Dansville Sep 2 6 PM N.Y. [*19*] National Woman Suffrage Association 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pres., Tenafly, N.J. Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. Vice-Pres. at Large. Matilda Joslyn Gage Fayetteville, N.Y. May Wright Sewall, Chair, Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. Ellen H. Sheldon, Recording Secretary, Q.M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D.C. Rachel G. Foster, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Jane H. Spofford, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Rochester, N.Y. Oct. 15, 1881 My Dear Friend I expect to go to New York on Saturday from Albany - go to A. tomorrow - I would love to see you before I go out to Tenafly. Leave word at Fowler & Wells 752 Broadway - where you will be on Sunday - - Still there is nothing that can be gained by meeting. The Red Cross is of Monroe County is getting on its feet & is bound to walk alone. Dr Sarah R. A. Dolley 20 East Avenue was here yesterday and said the great need now was news-paper articles from day to day to keep the people stirred up & to make them comprehend what the Red Cross means - it takes line upon line to pound anything into the peoples heads, doesnt it -Now my dear you really ought to get a N.Y. State society organized before Congress convenes - but you cannot get the attention of politicians until after the election is over - and then you ought to see President Arthur & get him worked up to recommending the treaty in his message to the 47th Congress. I see [Blaine?] will probably stay at his post until December. Oh there are so many things to do & so little money & time to do with. Sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pres., Tenafly, N.J. Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. Vice-Pres. at Large. Matilda Joslyn Gage Fayetteville, N.Y. May Wright Sewall, Chair, Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. Ellen H. Sheldon, Recording Secretary, Q.M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D.C. Rachel G. Foster, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Jane H. Spofford, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Tenafly, N.J. Nov. 7, 1881 My Dear Friend Clara Barton, I reached here Saturday evening. Did you succeed in seeing President Arthur that day? I did the next day - and cannot but hope something will come of it - but we shall see- Do you mean to get out your Red Cross pamphlet now or will you delay it until after the treaty has passed Congress & been signed by the President? You will stereotype it of course - and if you do - then I should think you would get it all done up to the present status of things - and have 500 or more struck off to place a copy in every members hands & thus help each one to see & know the facts better than you or any one can tell them - Pardon me for suggesting - Then 2nd - we are just at the point where we want your contribution as to your own & otherwomens work in the war & Sanitary-and we hope you can write it at once-as much as will take from 10 to 20 pages of the history - you can calculate from the copy you have - Then to crowd in all you can--you put what you want to in foot notes-& in the Bourjoise type and also if you choose some into the Appendix - - we don't want to curtail you-but do want a graphic grouping of the facts of your experience and the work generally of your kind--we are at work on the political & loyal league facts of the war chapter - you needn't stop to polish up the sentences - if you are crowded - but only send us the facts & dates & names & points--But we do want to do you justice and our only possibility of doing so lies in your helping us to do it--so will you help us? I hope you are well-& that you will keep so-& be able to go to Washington & get your bill through so as to have that burden lifted from your mind - With best of love - as ever yours - Susan B. Anthony NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres. Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y.} MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y.} Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Sec'y, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. TENAFLY NOV 7 N.J. Miss Clara Barton Dansville N. Y. [*Ansd Nov 14/81*] [*Susan B Anthony*]CONSTITUTION AND OFFICERS OF THE National Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE 1.—This organization shall be called the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE 2.—The object of this Association shall be to secure NATIONAL Protection for women citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. ARTICLE 3.—All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the Association, with the right to participate in its deliberations. ARTICLE 4.—The Officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice-President from each of the States and Territories, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries, a Treasurer and an Executive Committee of not less than five. ARTICLE 5.—A quorum of the Executive Committee shall consist of nine, and all the Officers of this Association shall be ex-officio members of such Committee, with power to vote. ARTICLE 6.—All Woman Suffrage Societies throughout the country shall be welcomed as auxiliaries, and their accredited officers or duly appointed representatives shall be recognized as members of the National Association. OFFICERS FROM MAY, 1881, TO MAY, 1882. PRESIDENT. Elizabeth Cady Stanton............... Tenafly, N.J. VICE-PRESIDENTS-AT-LARGE. Susan B. Anthony......................... Rochester, N.Y. Matilda Joslyn Gage..................... Fayetteville, N.Y. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS. Alabama................Priscilla Holmes Drake..................... Huntsville. California...............Sarah J. Wallis..................... Mayfield. " ..............Clarina I. H. Nichols..................... Pomo. " ..............Elizabeth T. Schenck..................... San Francisco. Colorado................Mary F. Shields..................... Colorado Springs. Connecticut...........Julia Smith Parker..................... Glastonbury. District Columbia....Rosina M. Parnell..................... Washington. England..................Ernestine L. Rose..................... London. Illinois.....................Catherine V. Waite..................... Chicago. Indiana...................Zerelda G. Wallace..................... Indianapolis. Iowa.......................Amelia Bloomer..................... Council Bluffs. Kansas...................Mary T. Gray..................... Wyandotte. Kentucky................Sarah P. Carr..................... Louisville. Louisiana................Emily P. Collins..................... Ponchachogue. Maine.....................Ann T. Greeley..................... Ellsworth. " ....................Lucy A. Snowe..................... Rockland. Maryland................Anna Ella Carroll..................... Pikesville P. O. Massachusetts.......Mrs. Fenno Tudor ..................... Boston. Michigan................Catharine A. F. Stebbins..................... Detroit. Minnesota..............Charlotte O. Van Cleve..................... Minneapolis. MIssouri.................Caroline Johnson Todd..................... St. Louis. Nebraska................Harriet S. Brooks..................... Omaha. New Hampshire......Eliza E. Morrill..................... Concord. " " ......Sarah Sargent Pillsbury..................... " New Jersey..............Lucinda B. Chandler..................... Vineland. New York.................Sarah H. Halleck..................... Milton. " " .................Amy Post..................... Rochester. North Carolina.........Elizabeth Oakes Smith..................... Hollywood. Ohio.........................Sophia O. Allen..................... South Newbury. " ........................Sarah R. L. Williams..................... Toledo. Oregon.................... Mary Thompson, M.D...................... Portland. Pennsylvania............Sarah Pugh..................... Germantown. Rhode Island............Catherine C. Knowles..................... East Greenwich. " " ............Mary T. Channing..................... Providence. Utah..........................Sarah A. Cooke..................... Salt Lake. Washington Territory....Abbie H. H. Stuart..................... Olympia. Wisconsin.................Mathilde Franceske Anneke..................... Milwaukee. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Arkansas...................Helen Martin..................... Little Rock. California.................. Laura DeForce Gordon..................... San Francisco. Colorado...................Alida C. Avery, M.D...................... Denver. Connecticut ..............Esther E. Jewell..................... Hartford. Delaware....................Mary A. Stewart..................... Greenwood. District Columbia.......Belva A. Lockwood..................... Washington. Dakota Territory..........Susan J. Barnes..................... Fargo. Illinois..........................Elizabeth Boynton Harbert..................... Evanston. Indiana........................Mary E. Haggert..................... Indianapolis. Iowa ...........................Jane C. McKinney..................... Decorah. Kansas........................Jennie St. John..................... Topeka. Kentucky.....................Sallie Clay Bennett..................... Richmond. Louisiana....................Elizabeth L. Saxon.........................New Orleans. Maine..........................Ellen French Foster......................Portland. Maryland.....................Nancy M. Baird..................... Cumberland. Massachusetts............Harriet R. Shattuck..................... Malden. Michigan......................Fannie Holden Fowler..................... Manistee. Minnesota....................Sarah Burger Stearns..................... Duluth. Missouri.......................Virginia L. Miner..................... St. Louis. Nebraska.....................Clara Berwick Colby..................... Beatrice. Nevada........................Hannah R. Clapp..................... Carson City. New Hampshire...........Eliza J.C. Gilbert..................... Keene. New Jersey..................Cornelia C. Hussey..................... East Orange. New York.....................Lillie Devereux Blake..................... New York City. Ohio.............................Rosa L. Segur..................... Toledo. Oregon.........................Abigail Scott Duniway..................... Portland. Pennsylvania................Martha McClellan Brown..................... Pittsburgh. Rhode Island................Anna E. Aldrich..................... Providence. Tennessee....................Elizabeth Avery Meriwether..................... Memphis. Texas...........................Jennie Beauchamp..................... Denton. Utah.............................Emmeline B. Wells..................... Salt Lake City. Vermont.......................Lydia Putnam..................... Brattleboro. Virginia.........................Sally Holly..................... Lottsburg. Washington Territory.....Mary Olney Brown..................... Olympia. Wisconsin.....................Laura Ross Wolcott..................... Milwaukee. Wyoming Territory.........Mara B. Post..................... Cheyenne. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. May Wright Sewall, Chairman, 405 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Alabama.......................Buel D. M'Clung..................... Huntsville. Arkansas......................Louisa M. Oliver..................... Little Rock. California......................Ellen Clarke Sargent..................... San Francisco. " ....................Sarah L. Knox Goodrich..................... San Jose. Connecticut..................Isabella Beecher Hooker..................... Hartford. District Columbia.........Caroline B. Winslow, M.D.................... Washington. " ".........Harriet Forten Purvis................... " Kansas........................Mary A. Humphreys..................... Junction City. " ..........................Annie C. Wait.......................Lincoln Center. Kentucky.......................Mary B. Clay..................... ............... Louisiana......................Harriet E. Keating, M.D...................... New Orleans. Maine...........................Charlotte A. Thomas..................... Portland. Massachusetts ............Harriet H. Robinson..................... Malden. Michigan.......................Cordelia A. Briggs..................... Grand Rapids. Missouri........................Phoebe W. Couzins..................... St. Louis. Nebraska......................Barbara J. Thompson..................... Hebron. New Hampshire............Marilla M. Ricker..................... Dover. " "...........Mary Powers Filley..................... North Haverhill. New Jersey....................Phebe A. Hanaford..................... Jersey City. New York.......................Mary R. Pell..................... Flushing. " " .....................Clemence S. Lozier, M.D............... New York City. " " ......................Mathilde F. Wendt....................... " " " " " .....................Augusta Lilienthal....................... " " " " " .......................Helen N. Loder..................... Poughkeepsie. Ohio .,,,,.........................Louisa Southwick..................... Cleveland. Pennsylvania..................M. Adaline Thomson..................... Philadelphia. Rhode Island.................Elizabeth C. Hinckley......................Providence. Virginia...........................Orra Langhorne..................... Lynchburg. Wisconsin.....................Rev. Olympia Brown..................... Racine. RECORDING SECRETARIES. District Columbia...........Ellen H. Sheldon..................... Washington. Pennsylvania..................Julia T. Foster..................... Philadelphia. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Rachel G. Foster............1, 909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. England ........................Caroline A. Riggs..................... London. " ......................... Lydia E. Becker..................... Manchester. France............................Mme. Marguerite Berry Stanton............. Paris. TREASURER. Jane H. Spofford............. Riggs House, Washington, D.C. AUDITORS. Ruth C. Denison............... Washington, D.C. W.F. Denison..................... Washington, D.C. NOV 7 830 PM 81 TRANSIT DANSVILLE NOV 9 10AM N.Y.National Woman Suffrage Association. The Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association will be held in Boyd's Opera House, Omaha, Nebraska, beginning on the evening of TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, and continuing through the 27th and 28th insts. The speakers at this Convention will be Susan B. Anthony (New York), Phoebe W. Couzins (Missouri), Matilda Hindman (Pennsylvania), Helen M. Gougar (Indiana), Elizabeth Lisle Saxon (Louisiana), Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Illinois), Harriette R. Shattuck (Massachusetts), Judge Kingman and Governor Hoyt (Wyoming), Rachel G. Foster (Pennsylvania), May Wright Sewall (Indiana), Mary B. Clay (Kentucky), Jane C. McKinney (Iowa), Eveleen L. Mason (Wisconsin), Marietta M. Bones (Dakota), together with Clara Bewick Colby, Ada M. Bittenbender, Erasmus M. Correll, and other local speakers in Nebraska. This Convention occurs at a time of unusual interest. Whether suffrage is or is not to be immediately enjoyed by the women of Nebraska, will be determined the 8th day of November, at which time the amendment now pending is to be submitted to popular vote. In face of this fact it behooves all earnest workers throughout the Nation to contribute their utmost to the aid of Nebraska in this great struggle which involves the highest political and moral interests of the young State. All Suffrage Societies everywhere are cordially invited to send representatives to this Convention, and with equal cordiality are suffragists everywhere invited to come themselves. Those whose duties will not permit them to personally enter the Nebraska campaign are reminded that contributions of money will be most welcome. Such contributions are urgently needed to pay for the printing and distribution of suffrage literature, which should, during the next six weeks, be sown broadcast throughout the State, and to pay the traveling expenses of speakers who will generously give their time to the Nebraska work. All contributions of money should be addressed to Susan B. Anthony, Omaha, Nebraska. Public sessions of this Convention will be held as follows: Tuesday, September 26, 8 P. M.; Wednesday, September 27, 2:30 P. M. and 8 P. M.; Thursday, September 28, 2:30 P. M. and 8 P. M. Admission to all free. Executive sessions, to which only members, officers and delegates are admitted, will be held in the Parlor of the Opera House, as follows: Tuesday, September 26, at 2 P. M., and Thursday, September 28, at 9:30 A. M. Headquarters at the Paxton Hotel, to which all delegates and speakers will go on their arrival in Omaha, and call for Mrs. Colby, who has charge of the local arrangements. SEPT. 1ST, 1882. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, CH. EX. COM. RACHEL G. FOSTER, COR. SEC'Y. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. [X] SUSAN B. ANTHONY. [X] } Rochester, N. Y. } MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, } Fayetteville, N. Y. } Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Sec'y, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D C. Miss Clara Barton Dansville N. Y. [*Ansd Nov 13/89 Susan B. *][POSTMARK] DANSVILLE, N.Y. SEP 20 19 [ILLEGIBLE] National Woman Suffrage Association. 1881. 1882. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres., Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y., }Vice Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. [written along the top left sideways] - I think Dr Austin + Dr James + wife [Jr] + of all - but Mary will all [Jean] Washington D.C. [?] [?] [?] [?] Omaha Neb. Sept. 17th 1882 My Dear Clara Barton I have ordered vol. II. of our history sent you - hope you have it -- If you can furnish me with a better steel engraving of yourself - I would love dearly to have it - I got the loan of Toms & Mrs. Livermores - but neither is as good as I wish - but to use the old plates saved me $200 -- and with the immense debt I had to make on the books -- I felt I must save -- & felt beside the money - I could not get hold of any better photos of either of you - that last one of Toms the engraver said he could not make a good plate from it -- still I like this old one of Tom's pretty well - "handsome is what handsome does" [Top left side of letter, written sideways ][- I think of Dr Austin & of Dr James & wife Jr. & of all - but [the???] will all speak [Words] Dr J.C, [lg?] - S. B. A. ]But I now have Nebraska on the brain & heart, too - and I want you to write your best appeal to the old soldiers & the young men of the state - to vote for womans enfranchisement - tell them of woman's valiant service to save this country - tell them just what you please - but don't don't fail to send one of your own stirring appeals - from your own point of view - that I can read in the Con - I have published in all the papers of the state - I can get every good thing into every paper - And tell Dr. James C. Jackson - that I am at the lovely home of T.L. Kimball - and Mary Rogers - the daughter of glorious N. P. Rogers - and that dear Mrs Rogers - almost 86 - sits by my side as I scribble this & other letters to provide at the east - to [this] them up to send their good words & their money to help us carry Nebraska for W. S. this 7th of Nov. next Lovingly yours- Susan B. Anthony National Woman Suffrage Association. 1881. 1882. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed;" the ballot is consent. Why should woman be governed without her consent? ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres, Tenafly, N. J. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Fayetteville, N. Y., }Vice-Pres. at Large. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chair. Ex. Com., 405 North Pennsylvania St,. Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, Q. M. Gen'l's Office, Washington, D. C. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 1909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. The Riggs House Washington D. C. Jan. 19. 1883 My Dear Clara Barton Where are you? and may I not advertise you as one of the our speakers at our Convention - Jan. 23. 24. 25 -- at Lincoln Hall- Do say yes!- Mrs Stanton is off in Europe - and I need you a great deal the more for that - Do come here & see me too - Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony Dear Clara - Here I've failed to find you - or the P.O. bags here - in Washington -Well - if you can't be here with us -do write us a short letter to be read and send on your "suite" - not the widows though)) to make yourself anew or member of our National. I love to have your name with us each time - S.B.A. MIDYEAR CONVENTION OF THE National Woman Suffrage Association. The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its regular midwinter Convention in Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C., January 23, 24 and 25, 1883. For fourteen consecutive years this society has held a meeting at the national capital. From the first its objective point has been such amendment of the national constitution as will protect the women citizens of the United States in the unrestricted exercise of their right to the ballot. During the last regular session of Congress, through the efforts of the N W. S A., special committees upon women's claims were gained in both Houses. A majority report of the Senate Committee recommended that the elective franchise be confirmed to women by amending the U. S. Constitution to that effect. A minority report, while neither denying nor questioning woman's right to the ballot, recommended that the matter be left with the States, uninfluenced and unaided by congressional action. The bill introduced in the majority report will be moved in its order, and strong hopes are entertained of a favorable result. Whatever the decision, this great question will undoubtedly have a full and fair discussion in Congress during its present session. The experiment already made in four States, viz., Kansas, Michigan, Colorado, and Nebraska, of submitting this question to popular vote, shows that this method, involving as it does the education of the masses in the principles of government, justice and morality, is of necessity slow and to be made only at great cost. It therefore seems incumbent on the women of the nation to do their utmost to aid the friends of this movement in Congress; and to this end the National Woman Suffrage Association invites you to attend the Washington Convention. It further invites all suffrage societies every where, auxiliary or independent, sectional, state or local, to send delegates to this Convention; and further announces that to its platform all earnest suffrage workers, whether or not connected with any organization, will be most cordially welcomed. It is the desire of the N. W. S. A. that besides the speakers, who will present every phase of this question at the public meetings, delegates be present at the capital, representing the women of every Statein the Union. Such delegates will constitute local committees whose business it will be to interview the Congressional delegations of their respective States upon this question of paramount importance. There will be two session daily, one from 10 A. M. to 12 M.; another from 8 to 10:30 P. M. The afternoons will be devoted to Congressional work and to the business of the association. The prospects are that the list of speakers will include representative platform workers from every section of the country. Programmes showing the distribution of topics will be duly published. It is evident that the work contemplated by the N. W. S. A. will demand a large expenditure of money. Therefore friends who can not aid this work by their presence at the capital are solicited to contribute generously in money. Contributions of this kind can be sent to Mrs. Jane H. Spofford, Treasurer, N. W. S. A., Riggs House, Washington, D. C. This Call is issued by direction of the Executive Committee. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chariman. In the absence of the honored President of the association, the call is further signed by SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Vice President at Large. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Cor Sec'y. [stamp] Dansville Jan 17 2 PM N.Y. [/stamp] [stamp] Forwarded [/stamp] [stamp] Washington D.C. Jan 15 6 PM 1883 [/stamp] Riggs House W. [SPO?FORD], Proprietor, Washington, D.C. Done Susan B 37 Miss Clara Barton 53 Devonshire St Boston Mass [crossed out] Dansville Liv. Co N.J. [/crossed out]Dansville [NY?] Jan 17 12 M RECD 1 - [?] 9P National Woman Suffrage Association. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed"; the ballot is consent. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pres., Tenafly, N.J. Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y.: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Fayetteville, N.Y.: Phoebe W. Couzins, St. Louis, Mo.: Rev. Olympia Brown, Racine, Wis.: Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland, Ore. Vice-Presidents-at-large. May Wright Sewall, Chairman Ex. Com., 420 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. Ellen H. Sheldon, Rec. Sec., Q.M.-Gen.'s Office, Washington, D.C. Rachel G. Foster, Cor. Sec., Philadelphia, Pa. Jane H. Spofford, Treas., Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Rochester, N.Y. March 12/87 My Dear Clara Barton What sort of a demon was there in my tone or in your mind, that you could get such an impression from my unthinking question about Texas - All I had in mind was the short time it seemed to me since I had heard of you in Texas - And now - alas - your letter & attempt to prove to me that you were actually thereif really in earnest - as they would seem - proves that one I had fondly believed a friend who had faith at least in my good intentions - misinterprets my real feeling toward her - well - I am very sorry - for among all your friends on either continent I do not believe you had one who so fully appreciated your heroic work through all your life - and so deeply sympathize with you or more regretted the attempts of any man or woman to detract from the value of your work or the integrity of yourself personally - as she who now subscribes herself Yours Sincerely Susan B. AnthonyNational Woman Suffrage Association "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of this governed"; the ballot is consent. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pres., Tenafly, N.J. May Wright Sewall, Chariman Ex. Com., Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y.; X 429 N. New Jersey st., Indianapolis, Ind. Phoebe W. Couzins, St. Louis, Mo.; Ellen H. Sheldon, Rec. Sec., Rev. Olympia Brown, Racine, Wis.; Q. M.-Gen.'s Office, Washington, D.C. Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland, Ore. Rachel G. Foster. Cor. Sec., Philadelphia, Pa. Vice-President-at-large. Jane H. Spofford, Treas., Riggs House, Washington, D.C. March 14-16, 1887 Mrs. Clara Barton Pres. The Red Cross of America Washington D.C. Fortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement International Council of Women Assembly by the National Woman Suffrage Association of the United State, To be held at Washington, D.C., March 25 to April 1, 1888, inclusive. Committee of Arrangements: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President. Rachel G. Foster, Cor. Sec., Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y., 748 N. 19th St., Philadelphia Matilda Joslyn Gage, Fayetteville, N.Y., Ellen H. Sheldon, Rec. Sec., Vice-President at Large Q.M. General's Office, Washington, D.C. May Wright Sewall, Chairman Ex. Com., Jane H. Spofford, Treasurer, 343 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. Riggs House, Washington, D.C. Phila, Pa. Jan 9, 1888 My Dear, On Tuesday A.M. March 29th - under the head of Philanthropies - we want your paper on your great work - 25 minutes - is the time allotted - The G.A.R Ladies - Laura M. heir - their delegate - are to have 25 minutes at the same session - May we rely on your presence & good hand.{{Envelope}}} postmarked Mar 14 4 PM March 14, 1887 Susan B. Anthony postmarked from Washington March 14, 3PM 1887 at that session. Of course, we shall hope for you to take part in the discussions that, are to follow each of the leading papers at each of the sessions - the divisions are - Education, Industries Organizations - Legal Conditions - Political Conditions - pc.a.c - The discussions are to be limited to ten minutes Thanks Hope to hear from you very soon - I am very sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. AN APPEAL. READ THIS CAREFULLY, ACT UPON IT AND HAND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. An International Council of Women, called by the National Woman Suffrage Association, will be held in Washington, D. C., opening March 25, closing April 1, 1888. The objects and character of the Council are indicated in the accompanying call. It will be by far the most important and influential gathering of women that the world has ever seen. American women, especially those who sympathize with contemporaneous movements for the improvement of women's position in the State, the Church and the Home, and in educational and industrial life, should not fail to aid in insuring the complete success of this great International Council. The expenses of conducting the Council will be in proportion to its magnitude and importance. The National Woman Suffrage Association assumes the responsibility of the entertainment, during the Council, of all accredited delegates from American and Foreign organizations. To provide for these and for other necessary expenses, we expect from our friends more than theirINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. AN APPEAL. READ THIS CAREFULLY, ACT UPON IT AND HAND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. An International Council of Women, called by the National Woman Suffrage Association, will be held in Washington, D. C., opening March 25, closing April 1, 1888. The objects and character of the Council are indicated in the accompanying calls. It will be by far the most important and influential gathering of women that the world has ever seen. American women, especially those who sympathize with contemporaneous movements for the improvement of woman's position in the State, the Church and the Home, and in educational and industrial life, should not fail to aid in insuring the complete success of this great international Council. The expenses of conducting the Council will be in proportion to its magnitude and importance. The National Woman Suffrage Association assumes the responsibility of the entertainment, during the Council, of all accredited delegates from American and Foreign organizations. To provide for these and for other necessary expenses, we expect from our friends more than theirusual liberality. Remember that no persons have contributed more to the cause of woman's advancement than those who have given to it their time and strength. If you are not so situated that you can help by writing, by speaking, or by active work, it is all the more incumbent upon you to aid in the way that is within your power, viz., by a contribution of money. Will you not assist to the extent of your ability? Money or pledges of large or small amounts will be the most acceptable. Persons may make themselves members of the National Woman Suffrage Association, by the payment of one dollar; all who do this will be entitled to the full pamphlet report of the proceedings of the Council. All contributions and membership fees should be sent to the Treasurer, MRS. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Riggs House, Washington, D. C., or to the Chairman of the Special Finance Committee, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. International Council of Women. Assembled by the NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES. To Celebrate this FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE Woman Suffrage Movement. March 25 to April 1, 1888, inclusive. WASHINGTON, D. C.INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. THE first public demand for equal educational, industrial, professional and political rights for women was made in a convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, (U. S. A.), in the year 1848. To celebrate the Fortieth Anniversary of this event, an International Council of Women will be convened under the auspices of the National Woman Suffrage Association, in Albaugh's Opera House, Washington, D. C., on March 25, 1888. It is impossible to over-estimate the far-reaching influence of such a Council. An interchange of opinions on the great questions now agitating the world will rouse women to new thought, will intensify their love of liberty, and will give them a realizing sense of the power of combination. However the governments, religions, laws and customs of nations may differ, all are agreed on one point, namely: man's sovereignty in the State, in the Church and in the Home. In an International Council, women may hope to devise new and more effective methods for securing in these three institutions the equality and justice which they have so long and so earnestly sought. Such a Council will impress the important lesson that the position of women anywhere affects their position everywhere. Much is said of universal brotherhood, but, for weal or for woe, more subtle and more binding, is universal sisterhood. Women,recognizing the disparity between their achievements and their labors, will no doubt agree that they have been trammeled by their political subordination. Those active in great philanthropic enterprises sooner or later realize that, so long as women are not acknowledged to be the political equals of men, their judgement on public questions will have but little weight. It is, however, neither intended nor desired that discussions in the International Council shall be limited to questions touching the political rights of women. Formal invitations requesting the appointment of delegates will be issued to representative organizations in every department of woman's work. Literary Clubs, Art Unions, Temperance Unions, Labor Leagues, Missionary, Peace and Moral Purity Societies, Charitable, Professional, Educational and Industrial Associations will thus be offered equal opportunity with Suffrage Societies to be represented in what should be the ablest and most imposing body of women ever assembled. The Council will continue eight days, and its sixteen public sessions will afford ample opportunity for reporting the various phases of woman's work and progress in allparts of the world, during the past forty years. It is hoped that all friends of the advancement of women will lend their support to this undertaking. On behalf of the National Suffrage Association. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, 8 W. 40th St., New York. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, Chairman Ex. Committee, 343 N. Penn. St., Indianapolis, Ind. ELLEN H. SHELDON, Recording Secretary, 811 Ninth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, First Vice President, Rochester, N. Y. JANE H. SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, Second Vice President, Fayetteville, N. Y. RACHEL G. FOSTER, Corresponding Secretary, 748 N. Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. June 1, 1887. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN ASSEMBLED BY NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 25 TO APRIL 1, 1888, INCLUSIVE. Miss Clara Barton, Washington, D. C. The Red Cross [*Susan Anthony, [wa?ts] Lecture*] If not called for in 5 days return to RACHEL FOSTER, 748 North Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia. [*R Jan 10 - 1888 " 21 " *] [POSTMARK] WASHINGTON. REC'D. JAN 10 7 A M 1888 [END POSTMARK] Jan 10- 1888 Susan Anthony Wants Lecture [POSTMARK] CARRIER JAN 10 8 A M 1888 [END POSTMARK] Fortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement. International Council of Women ASSEMBLED BY THE National Woman Suffrage Association of the United States, To be held at Washington, D. C., March 25 to April 1, 1888, inclusive. COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, PRESIDENT. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ROCHESTER, N. Y., MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, FAYETTEVILLE, N. Y., VICE-PRESIDENTS AT LARGE. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, CHAIRMAN EX. COM., 343 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. RACHEL G. FOSTER, COR. SEC., 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILADELPHIA. ELLEN H. SHELDON, REC. SEC., RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER, RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Riggs House, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1888 My Dear Friend, I am glad you can report yourself on the up-hill road again - How you do slide down & so low - & then slowly climb up again - I hope your own voice will be the one heard in our Council for the Red Cross - but if you cannot give your own words - we shall bevery grateful for this paper -and will have one our best docutarian Norman read it - I am bound to have good docuteric with all that we have read by others than the authors for I want the world of women to see their added power of thought. When well read. I hope dear the offered will get to you while I am away these Thursdays - I am lecturing up here in Milton Pa. Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony{back of envelope} [*Susan B Anthony Jany 27-[1]883*] The programme of the International Council of Women (Washington, D. C.), March 25th to April 1st, is already taking form. Among the delegates from nationally organized bodies of women in this country, are Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. Lucy Stone, Miss Frances Willard, Mrs. Caroline Buell, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Miss Mary F. Eastman and Miss Clara Barton. The Western Association of Collegiate Alumnae send their President, the eminent miscroscopist of Michigan University, Mrs. Louise Reed Stowell. The Moral Education Society will be represented by Mrs. Frazer, while the Woman's Auxiliary of the Unitarian Association sends Mrs. Richardson; the ladies of the G. A. R. have selected their President, Mrs. Laura McNeir, to represent their large organization. Rev Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman ordained to the ministry, will be present, also Rev. Anna Shaw, the only ordained Methodist woman. Pundita Ramabai will be there to speak for the women of India, and Finland, Denmark and Sweden promise representatives. Helen Campbell (author of the "Prisoners of Poverty") who, on account of her work in England, will not be able to attend in person, will send a paper, which will be read, as will also a report by Fanny Zampini Salazaro, of Rome. This lady is editor of the "Review of the Interests of Women," published in Rome, and will write on the work of Italian women. France elects Madame Isabella Bagelot, of Paris, to represent the prison work. England sends to the Council, Miss Helen Taylor, step-daughter of John Stuart Mill, Miss Henrietta Müller, a member of the London School Board and one of the first graduates of Girton College, Cambridge, and Mrs. Alice Scatcherd, a woman prominent in the work of woman's suffrage. The host of this jubilee of women is the National Woman Suffrage Association, which thus celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the first organized public demand for woman's enfranchisement, made in Rochester, N. Y., 1848. The National Association will be represented by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, of Kansas, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, of Nebraska, Rev. Olympia Brown, the first woman ordained in the Universalist Church, Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, Elizabeth Lisle Saxon, of Tennessee, Mrs. Mary E. Haggart, Elizabeth Boynton Harbert.Dear Clara Will you go over this page proof of your speech - and return it by [bearer ?] - or bring it to us this evening - - Ms Stanton is still here - [Since'y ?] yours Susan B. Anthony[*37 Anthony*] Apr. 30-1888 Susan B. Anthony " " by going to Riggs House -------- [*37*] [*Riggs House — Room 87 — *] 1889 National Woman Suffrage Association OF THE UNITED STATES. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, PRESIDENT, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE, ROCHESTER, N.Y. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, CHAIRMAN EX COM., 343 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST., IINDIANAPOLIS, IND. JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER, RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. HANNAH B. SPERRY, } SARA WINTHROP, } REC. SEC'S. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, COR. SEC., 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILDELPHIA. NATIONAL ORGANIZERS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY. ELIZABETH LYLE SAXON. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL. Washington D.C. Dec 14, 1889 Dear Clara Barton, Can you not come round and let us talk over the world in general & the women in particular - say on Monday evening Jan. 16th -I hope you will be able - but if you can not - then if agreeable to you - I will go to see you at your convenience Sincerely yours Susan B. Anthony N.B. Can you not send some of your Red Cross clothing & food to the South Dakotans? If so - let me see you first! - S. B. A. ------ 1889 National Woman Suffrage Association OF THE UNITED STATES. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, PRESIDENT, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE, ROCHESTER, N.Y. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, CHAIRMAN EX COM., 343 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST., IINDIANAPOLIS, IND. JANE H. SPOFFORD, TREASURER, RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. HANNAH B. SPERRY, } SARA WINTHROP, } REC. SEC'S. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, COR. SEC., 748 N. 19TH ST., PHILDELPHIA. NATIONAL ORGANIZERS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY. ELIZABETH LYLE SAXON. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL. The Riggs - Dec. 15th, 1889 Room - 87 — My Dear Miss Barton I wrote I would be at home - tomorrow -. Monday evening - and glad to see you - but since hearing the Rev. [Min??] J. [?ana??] at the Unitarian Church A. M. I feel that I must go & hear him lecture there tomorrow - Monday [?] —I shall be at home tomorrow - morning and afternoon however - - So if you can come - at any rate let me hear from you - - I want to talk over with you about the part women ought to play in the Celebration of 1899 - I am sure it is high time that both National & International Council Offices were moving in that work- Sinc'ly yours Susan B. Anthony XXII ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION February 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 1890. CHURCH OF OUR FATHER, Cor. 11th and L Sts., WASHINGTON, D. C.NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. The Twenty-second Annual Convention will be held in Washington, D.C., in the Church of Our Father, corner of 11th and L Streets, February 18, 19, 20, and 21, 1890. This Convention should be one of the deepest interest to all American women, coming as it does in the midst of so many historic events which mark the life of this nation. We have just celebrated in 1889 one hundred years of constitutional government; the coming of Congress opens the second century of our national life; and in 1892 we round out four hundred years since Columbus discovered America. The memories of the great events of the past should inspire women with increased love of country, and arouse them to a sense of their duty in helping to maintain our free institutions. While four great States just admitted to the Union have freely discussed woman's rights of suffrage in their conventions, they have all failed to incorporate it in their constitutions. Nevertheless, the steps of progress already achieved should encourage the timid and stimulate the brave to renewed efforts. The concessions made in the world of work, the trades and professions; in the department of education, opening colleges and universities; in the civil status of woman, securing to wives their rights of property and many other individual responsibilities denied under the old common law; school suffrage in sixteen States, municipal suffrage in Kansas, and, best of all, full suffrage in Wyoming Territory, where, after twenty years' experience, equal franchise has just been submitted to both men and women, and has been incorporated in the new Constitution by a vote of eight to one. All these steps of progress herald a new day for woman. But let us remember that these are so many privileges which those who gave may take away unless women have some representatives in the councils of the nation. We are not secure until we have the ballot in our own hands, that pivotal right of citizenship by which we can protect what we already possess or may attain. This is pre-eminently a time when woman's co-operation is needed in the great work of government. Statesmen are mourning over the corruption in politics, in the legislative, executive and even judicial departments; prophets are warning us of coming dangers; philosophers tell us that the problems of civilization are too complicated for man to solve them unaided, that his brain is already overweighted and that some new force must be summoned to his assistance. Where shall we look for this moral power that will bring order out of chaos, harmony out of discord, peace out of war, but in the education and elevation of women? Hence we urge the friends of woman suffrage everywhere to renewed earnestness in their demands, and to a more thorough organization of state and local societies than we have ever had before. Each State Woman Suffrage Association should seek to increase its membership in order to prepare for the most efficient work possible. We also urge every State Society, whether it has hitherto been auxiliary to the National or to the American Woman Suffrage Association, or to neither, to become auxiliary now to the United Society, elect its representative on the National-American Executive Board, and send delegates to the annual meeting at Washington to plan for organized and united action. ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President. MAY WRIGHT SEWELL, Chairman Ex. Com. JANE E SPOFFORD, Treasurer, Riggs House, Washington, D. C. RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Cor. Secretary, 748 North 19th Street, Philadelphia. ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION: WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE, President. LUCY STONE, Chairman Ex. Com. MARGARET W. CAMPBELL, Treasurer, East Des Moines, Iowa. JULIA WARD HOWE, Foreign Cor. Secretary, Newport, R. I. HENRY B. BLACKWELL, Cor. Secretary, 3 Park Street, Boston.CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION ARTICLE I. The name of this Association shall be THE NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE II. The object of this Association shall be to secure protection in their right to vote to the women citizens of the United States by appropriate National and State Legislation. ARTICLE III. SECTION I. All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution and paying not less than one dollar annually into the treasury of this Association shall become members thereof, and shall be entitled to attend all its meetings, to participate in all discussions that may arise and to receive reports and other documents published by it. SECTION 2. The payment of fifty dollars ($50.00) into the treasury of this Association shall constitute any citizen of the United States a Life Member of the Association, with all the privileges belonging to the regular annual members. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. The officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice President at Large, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, a Chairman of the Executive Committee and two Auditors. The officers named in this Section shall be nominated by an informal ballot at a business session of the Annual Convention of the Association. The three persons receiving the highest number of votes for any office. shall be considered the nominees of the Convention for that office, and the will of the Association shall be taken by a formal ballot. Sect. 2. Wherever State and Territorial Associations auxiliary to the National-American Association exist, the Presidents of such Associations shall be considered Vice Presidents of the National-American Association, representing therein their respective States and Territories. Sect. 3. Each State or Territorial auxiliary Association shall elect from its membership one person to serve on the Executive Committee of the National-American Association. Sect. 4. The President of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association shall appoint a Vice President to represent on its Executive Board any State or Territory where no State or Territorial Association exists auxiliary to the National-American Association. Sect. 5. The officers enumerated in the preceding Sections of this Article shall constitute the Executive Committee of this Association ; of these officers, fifteen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Sect. 6. The Executive Committee shall elect annually from the veterans of our cause ten or more Honorary Vice Presidents. ARTICLE V. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at any annual meeting, notice of the amendment having been given at any preceding annual meeting. BY-LAWS. BY-LAW I. For the accomplishment of the object specified in Article II of its Constitution, this Association shall seek to concentrate the efforts of all the advocates of woman suffrage in the United States by the following methods: (1) It shall hold annually in Washington one meeting of delegates (according to the basis of representation stated in (By-Law II) for the transaction of business, the election of officers and the advocacy of its principles ; and it may hold one or more other Conventions annually for the advocacy of its principles. (2) It shall form State or Territorial Associations auxiliary to itself in every State and Territory where none such now exist, and, recognizing the authority of its auxiliaries in their respective States and Territories, it shall promote their local work by every means in its power. (3) It shall publish tracts, speeches and other documents, and shall furnish the same to State and local Suffrage Associations and to individuals at the actual cost. (4) It shall prepare and circulate petitions to Congress and to State and Territorial Legislatures on behalf of the political and civil equality of women. (5) It may employ one or more organizers and lectures, and take such other measures for the promotion of woman suffrage as the Executive Committee shall determine upon, subject always to the will of the Association. BY-LAW II.—BASIS OF REPRESENTATION. Section 1. Any State or Territorial Woman Suffrage Association, and (in a State or Territory where there is no State or Territorial Suffrage organization auxiliary to the National-American Woman Suffrage Association) any local Woman Suffrage Association may become auxiliary to the National-American Woman Suffrage Association by paying into the treasury of the National-American Association annually twenty-five cents (.25) per member of its entire membership. Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of each auxiliary Association to send to the Treasurer of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, before January 1st in each year, a list certified to by its President or Recording Secretary of the members of said organization for the current year. Sect. 3. Every such Auxiliary Association shall be entitled to send three delegates to the Annual Convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, and one delegate in addition for every twenty-five members above a membership of fifty. The delegates actually present may cast the whole number of votes to which the Auxiliary Association it entitled. Sect. 4. Any State or Territorial Woman Suffrage Association which is not auxiliary to the National-American Association may send one delegate to the annual meeting of the National-American Association. Sect. 5. All officers of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association shall be ex-officio delegates at large, and every such officer shall be entitled to one vote in all the business meetings of the Association. Sect. 6. Where there are two State Societies in one State, both of them auxiliary to the National-American, the President of each shall be a Vice President of the National American ; and each shall elect its own representative on the National-American Executive Board, and be entitled to one delegate for each twenty-five members. BY-LAW III.—CREDENTIALS. All delegates (except the delegates at Large specified in Section 5 By-Law II) must present credentials properly signed by the President and the Recording Secretary of the organization represented. Membership cards properly signed by the Treasurer of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association shall serve as credentials for the members of that body who are not delegates from other bodies.BY-LAW IV. The Executive Committee of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association shall hold one session preceding the opening of each annual Convention in Washington and another session after the conclusion of such Convention ; and the Committees having in charge the arrangements for the Annual Convention shall always take cognizance of such meetings of the Executive Committee and make provision for them. BY-LAW V. The decisions reached by the Executive Committee shall be presented in the form of recommendations at the business sessions of the Convention. BY-LAW VI. Every delegate shall be entitled to one vote on all questions, but only on the election of officers shall the delegates be entitled to cast the full vote to which the organizations represented by them are entitled BY-LAW VII. The Committee on Resolutions shall consist of one person from each State and Territory, elected by the delegation from the organization represented. BY-LAW VIII. At the concluding business session of each Annual Convention the President of this Association shall appoint the following Committees, each Committee to consist of three persons, viz.: a Committee on Credentials to have in charge the credentials of delegates to the next Annual Convention ; a Committee on Program to arrange the program for the next Annual Meeting, and a Congressional Committee to have in charge the direct Congressional work during the year which shall intervene between the time of its appointment and the next Annual Convention in Washington. BY-LAW IX. The report of the Treasurer up to the 1st of January preceding the Annual Washington Convention shall be read at the first business session of that body. CONSTITUTION OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE I. The name of this Association shall be THE NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE II. The object of this Association shall be to secure protection in their right to vote to the women citizens of the United States by appropriate National and State Legislation. ARTICLE III. SECTION 1. All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution and paying not less than one dollar annually into the treasury of this Association shall become members thereof, and shall be entitled to attend all its meetings, to participate in all discussions that may arise and to receive reports and other documents published by it. SECT. 2. The payment of fifty dollars ($50.00) into the treasury of this Association shall constitute any citizen of the United States a Life Member of the Association, with all the privileges belonging to the regular annual members. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. The officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice President at Large, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, a Chairman of the Executive Committee and two Auditors. The officers named in this Section shall be nominated by an informal ballot at a business session of the Annual Convention of the Association. The three persons receiving the highest number of votes for any office shall be considered the nominees of the Convention for that office, and the will of the Association shall be taken by a formal ballot.SECT. 2. Wherever State and Territorial Associations auxiliary to the National-American Association exist, the Presidents of such Associations shall be considered Vice Presidents of the National- American Association, representing therein their respective States and Territories. SECT. 3. Each State or Territorial auxiliary Association shall elect from its membership one person to serve on the Executive Committee of the National-American Association. SECT. 4. The President of the NATIONAL-AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION shall appoint a Vice President to represent on its Executive Board any State or Territory where no State or Territorial Association exist auxiliary to the National-American Association. SECT. 5. The officers enumerated in the preceding Sections of this Article shall constitute the Executive Committee of this Association; of these officers, fifteen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SECT. 6. The Executive Committee shall elect annually from the veterans of our cause ten or more Honorary Vice Presidents. ARTICLE V. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at any annual meeting, notice of the amendment having been given at any preceding annual meeting. BY-LAWS. BY-LAW I. For the accomplishment of the object specified in Article II of its Constitution, this Association shall seek to concentrate the efforts of all the advocates of woman suffrage in the United States by the following methods: (1) It shall hold annually in Washington one meeting of delegates (according to the basis of representation stated in By-Law II) for the transaction of business, the election of officers and the advocacy of its principles; and it may hold one or more other Conventions annually for the advocacy of its principles. (2) It shall form State or Territorial Associations auxiliary to itself in every State and Territory where none such now exist, and, recognizing the authority of its auxiliaries in their respective States and Territories, it shall promote their local work by every means in its power. (3) It shall publish tracts, speeches and other documents, and shall furnish the same to State and local Suffrage Associations and to individuals at actual cost. (4) It shall prepare and circulate petitions to Congress and to State and Territorial Legislatures on behalf of the political and civil equality of women. (5) It may employ one or more organizers and lecturers, and take such other measures for the promotion of woman suffrage as the Executive Committee shall determine upon, subject always to the will of the Association. BY-LAW II.--BASIS OF REPRESENTATION. SECTION 1. Any State or Territorial Woman Suffrage Association, and (in a State or Territory where there is no State or Territorial Suffrage organization auxiliary to the National-American Woman Suffrage Association) any local Woman Suffrage Association may become auxiliary to the National-American Woman Suffrage Association by paying into the treasury of the National-American Association annually twenty-five cents (.25) per member of its entire membership. SECT. 2. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of each auxiliary Association to send to the Treasurer of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, before January 1st in each year, a list certified to by its President or Recording Secretary of the members of said organization for the current year. SECT. 3. Every such Auxiliary Association shall be entitled to send three delegates to the Annual Convention of the National- American Woman Association, and one delegate in addition for every twenty-five members above a membership of fifty. The delegates actually present may cast the whole whole number of votes to which the Auxiliary Association it entitled. SECT. 4. Any State or Territorial Woman Suffrage Association which is not auxiliary to the National-American Association may send one delegate to the annual meeting of the National-American Association. SECT. 5. All officers of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association shall be ex-officio delegates at large, and every such officer shall be entitled to one vote in all the business meetings of the Association. SECT. 6. Where there are two State Societies in one State, both of them auxiliary to the National-American, the President of each shall be a Vice-President of the National-American; and each shall elect its own representative on the National-American Executive Board, and be entitled to one delegate for each twenty-five members. BY-LAW III.--CREDENTIALS. All delegates (except the delegates at Large specified in Section 5 of By-Law II) must present credentials properly signed by the President and the Recording Secretary of the organization represented. Membership cards properly signed by the Treasurer of the National- American Woman Suffrage Association shall serve as credentials for the members of that body who are not delegates from other bodies. BY-LAW IV. The Executive Committee of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association shall hold one session preceding the opening of each annual Convention in Washington and another session after the conclusion of such Convention; and the Committees having in charge the arrangements for the Annual Convention shall always take cognizance of such meetings of the Executive Committee and make provision for them. BY-LAW V. The decisions reached by the Executive Committee shall be presented in the form of recommendations at the business sessions of the Convention. BY-LAW VI. Every delegate shall be entitled to one vote on all questions, but only on the election of officers shall the delegates be entitled to cast the full vote to which the organizations represented by them are entitled BY-LAW VII. The Committee on Resolutions shall consist of one person from each State and Territory, elected by the delegation from the organization represented. BY-LAW VIII. At the concluding business session of each Annual Convention the President of this Association shall appoint the following Committees, each Committee to consist of three persons, viz.: a Committee on Credentials to have in charge the credentials of delegates to the next Annual Convention; a Committee on Program to arrange the program for the next Annual Meeting, and a Congressional Committee to have in charge the direct Congressional work during the year which shall intervene between the time of its appointment and the next Annual Convention in Washington. BY-LAW IX. The report of the Treasurer up to the 1st of January preceding the Annual Washington Convention shall be read at the first business session of that body. R Jan. 27 90 " 28 May Wright Sewall Rachel Foster Avery Invt to Banquet at 70th Ann S.B. Anthony Sent 5:06 for Banquet As the number of tickets is limited an early response is requested. No tickets reserved later than February twelfth. May Wright Sewall, Rachei Foster Avery, 748 North 19th St., Philadelphia. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION [*Susan B. Anthony*] RETURN TO RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 749 NORTH 19TH ST. PHILADELPHIA. [*R Dec 16 89 " " *] [*Riggs House called*] 86 Clara Barton 10 12 - R Your presence is requested at a banquet in honor of the Seventieth Birthday of Susan B. Anthony Saturday evening, February fifteenth, 1890. Riggs House Washington, D.C. Tickets four dollars37 Anthony South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association Philena Everett Johnson, President Will F. Bailey, Secretary Irene G. Adams. Vice-President At Large, Sarah A. Richards, Treasurer Elizabeth Murray Wardall, Superintendent Press Work Elizabeth M. Hammer, Supt. Oratorical Contest Emma Smith DeVoie, State Lecturer HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, July,18, 1890 My Dear Clara Barton Would you make a tour with the Grand Commander of South Dakota Mr. E.J. [{Longley?}} -a splendid old soldier - through the months of September & October - holding camp fires in 40 or 50 or at - or with as many of Grand Army Ports of the Nation - there are over 21,000 old soldiers in the State -andthe friends feel sure that such a series of Camp-fires of their Commander - would win every vote -and if to Mr. Langley - we could add Clara Barton - all feel not only the Old Soldiers would be won over-- but every possible man who should turn out to see & hear - Are you well enough - strong enough to come - if you are not so - then in Washington-- you would be filled with new strength & vigor - the moment you should breathe this clear stimulating air - it is better than whiskey - better than any medicine - any tonic - so say you will come and cheer & guide the hearts of the old soldiers of South Dakota -- If money is needed - how much? - Mr. J. K De Voe - whose guest I am here in Huron - is the Quarter Master Gen'l of the State - and he just feels that Gen'l Langley & Miss Barton could and would pull down the scale on the side of the Woman Suffrage Amendment - Can you come? Will you come? - The Grand Army will invite you - not specially for suffrage - but to cheer & comfort the old soldiers - - I want them to do it all in their own name- but I want to see that it is done - - Can you come - and what will be your lowest price - above travelling expenses? - We must raise the money needed to pay for the march that must be done. Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony N.D. - This trip would be one of pleasure - to feed the minds - not the bodies of the Old Soldiers - and all others whose eyes should see & whose ears should hear you. - Come - [?] -: S. B. A. ----- Circular Letter No. 1. TO THE PRESIDENTS OF ALL EQUAL SUFFRAGE CLUBS IN SOUTH DAKOTA: To accomplish the most effective educational work during the remaining weeks of the campaign A department of press work has been created, and we request your earnest co-operation in this direction. Please appoint at the earliest possible moment from among your members a superintendent of press work, whose duty it shall be to see that the subject of Equal Suffrage is kept before the people, by sending to some one newspaper in your respective counties, a report of all meetings held—interesting items of news bearing upon the subject - or a well written article - none of which will be refused by any live newspaper. Be very careful to appoint a competent person who will prepare legible, well written manuscript for publication. Upon the appointment of such a superintendent please send the name of the person to us AT ONCE that we may give whatever instruction necessary to carry on this work. Trusting that you will recognize the importance of immediate action, that no time may be lost. We are yours for Justice and Equality. ELIZABETH MURRAY WARDALL. State Supt. Press Work.February fifteenth, 1820. Susan B. Anthony, February fifteenth, 1900. INSTRUCTIONS FOR Equal Suffrage Oratorical Prize Contests. For which classes may be formed of not less than six, nor more than ten, to recite pieces upon Equal Suffrage at a public meeting, superintended by the Suffrage Association or Superintendent of Franchise, with admission fee of 10 to 25 cents. Three persons to be chosen as judges and the contestant to whom they award the prize will be presented by the club with a five dollar gold piece, (half-eagle) and a certificate signed by the judges entitling the winner to enter another class of six for a ten dollar gold piece (eagle) on the same conditions as the "half-eagle contest" and six holding the eagle and half-eagle and the two certificates, may enter another class to compete but once for a $20. gold piece, (double-eagle). Contestants are not limited asto age and may compete as many times as desired in half-eagle contests, twice for the eagle, once for the double-eagle, learning new pieces each time, which may be procured by sending ten cents to ELIZABETH M. HAMMER, State E. S. A. Supt. of Oratorical Prize Contests. Highmore, S. D., July 23, 1890. HEADQUARTERS Equal Suffrage Association of South Dakota Room 9, Hills' Block, Huron, South Dakota, July 16, 1890. FRIENDS OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE: Less than four months will elapse until the question of the enfranchisement of the women of South Dakota will be settled at the ballot box. We can settle the question rightly if we do our duty. The National workers headed by our Deborah, Susan B. Anthony, are with us, generously giving both time and money to our cause; but the burden of our work must be done by home talent. We wish to send our best speakers to every county and township in the state and put suffrage literature, weekly, into the hands of every voter, both native and foreign. We wish to send German and Scandinavian speakers and literature where needed. We desire later in the campaign to hold tent meetings all over the state. We can not do these things without money. Expenses have been cut down to the lowest possible limit. Friends contributing to the campaign fund, may rest assured that not a penny will be wasted. Our state treasury is empty. We therefore, ask every township club to contribute $5.00 to the state fund. The workers all along the line are making noble sacrifices of time and money for our sacred cause, and now we look with confidence to local clubs for this help, well knowing that their loyalty to the cause will prompt them to make every reasonable sacrifice to carry forward the work. Send all contributions to state fund, to the Treasurer, Sarah A. Richards, Pukwana, or to the Secretary, Will. F. Bailey, Huron. We urge you to keep up the meetings of your local clubs. Meet every week or every two weeks at the farthest. Carry on the campaign on the "Do-every-thing" policy, employing every honorable means to forward the cause. Call out your local speakers. Hold oratorical suffrage contests and send to the state superintendent of this department, Elizabeth M. Hammer, Highmore, for instructions in carrying out this great educator of public sentiment. Hold fagot parties, yellow tea parties, suffrage dinners and suppers, which will both agitate the question and replenish the treasury. See that a report of every local meeting is well and truthfully written up for your county papers and all your meetings well advertised in all papers generous enough to give the space. Write at once to the state superintendent of press work, Elizabeth A. Wardall, Huron, for instructions in this important part of our work. Every county President is expected to see that every township in his county is thoroughly organized. Send to the Secretary at Huron for suffrage literature and song leaflets. They will be sent you free. Also send to the Secretary for information on any point or line of work. Last but not least, SING suffrage to the people. Mr. J. H. DeVoe, of Huron, Chairman of the Committee, is compiling a suffrage song book which will be out about August 15th and will cost 10 cents. Let every club have a quartette or singers prepared to respond at every suffrage meeting. Drill the children in suffrage songs. Have THEM, as well as your quartette sing at every meeting. Come to our state convention at Mitchell, August 25, 26, and counsel with us concerning the work that shall precede election. Our forces, both state and national, will be concentrated there at that time. It will be the opportunity of a life time for you, individually, to help plan and carry forward the grandest reform of the age. Come with your counsel and prayers and God will crown our labors with victory. WILL F. BAILEY, Sec'y. Huron, S. D. PHILENA EVERETT JOHNSON, Pres. Home address, Highmore, S. D.[*Susan B. Anthony re race legislation Dec. 12-98*] [*Anthony*] [*file 2/8/99*] Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. { CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N. Y. Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec 12, 1898 - Dear Clara Barton I am like most human folk - so long as our friends do to our liking - we send no praise to them - but the minute we see something we don't like - we rush out to them - That is S.B.A.'s case - - I have been prouder of you than words can tell all summer - though you have had no letter from me - the interviews in our papers have reported me often - Now - to day - I see from the N. Y. Tribune often of ten days or so ago an article headed "New National Society" - "To Foster True Patriotism" &c which in its second paragraph says - "Membership is open to all patriotic white Americans" - and this after saying that Clara Barton is President - I cannot believethat you have noticed word the word "white" - else you surely would not let your name go out as Pres! There seems - there is - a fresh determination on the part of the ex. slave - oligarchy - to put a flat stone on the head of the black race - - and to compel - or [inveighle ?] their worth to half - I saw the other day that South Carolina demanded of the Pullman Car Co. to put up the color line - & furnish separate sleeping cars for Negroes in the South - hitherto Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington & other well to do colored people could be buying through Pullman car tickets - travel first class from Chicago, Boston etc. to any point in the South - and I have never thanked the Pullman's for their justice - I hope they will stand the fire - and maintain the even tenor of their way - - It is a crying shame - a crime - for us to give the slightest help by word or deed to crush the cultured negroes for it - they who are most offensive to the paltry aristocracy - affectionately yours Susan B. Anthony ----- The American National Red Cross. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, OCTOBER 1, 1881. REINCORPORATED, APRIL 17, 1893. For the Relief of Suffering by War, Pestilence, Famine, Flood, Fires, and other Calamities of Sufficient Magnitude to be deemed National in Extent. The Organization acts under the Geneva Treaty, the provisions for which were made in International Convention at Geneva, Switzerland, August 22, 1864, and since signed by nearly all civilized nations. The United States gave its adhesion by Act of Congress, March 1, 1882. Ratified by the Congress of Berne, June 9, 1882. Proclaimed by President Arthur, July 26, 1882. BOARD OF CONSULTATION: PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES AND MEMBERS OF THE CABINET. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS: CLARA BARTON, President and Treasurer. GEORGE KENNAN, First Vice-President. STEPHEN E. BARTON, Second Vice-President. WALTER P. PHILLIPS, General Secretary. DR. JULIAN B. HUBBELL, General Field Agent. DIRECTORS: CLARA BARTON, GEORGE KENNAN, STEPHEN E. BARTON, WALTER P. PHILLIPS, DR. JULIAN B. HUBBELL, PETER V. DE GRAW, DR. JOSEPH GARDNER. ________ HEADQUARTERS: WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec 5 1898 My Dear Miss Anthony; Yours addressed to Miss Barton was duly received. She directs me to state that she did receive an announcement that she had been elected as Honorary President of "The National Society of the Spanish War" No copy of their constitution or Bylaws no statement of the object or aims of the society was ever presented to her but without knowing any thing of the society, its constitution or the personelle of the society [I] she gave [my] her consent to the election of Honorary President of it - Of course [I] she need not surely say to you that [I] she could never subscribe to any document or paper in which expressly or by implication our colored fellow citizens are discriminated against. She thanks you for calling her attention to this matter. Yours truly Joseph Sheldon[*Original Draft of letters written by Judge Sheldon to Miss Susan Anthony and Hildegarde [Sougsd???] Not sent*] ----- [*37 Suffrage Anthony*] Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26th West 61st Street, New York. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 119 N. 19th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. { CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. Chairman Committee on Organization, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 107 World Building, New York. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 107 WORLD BUILDING, N. Y. Office of the President, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1898 - Dear Clara Barton The President of the Rochester University Co-educational Joint Committee,Mrs. Helen Barrett [?] - desires me to ask you if you will give a lecture in this city in January - say -for the benefit of the above fund? You may not have seen that the Trustees of our University now offer to open its doors to the girls of Rochester - provided the women of the city will raise $100,000!! The ladies would like you to give your view of the lessons of the Spanish & American War - especially from Woman's stand point - They want you to speak your best thoughts - be they as [?] they may - and they wish to know your terms - that is how much you would charge them - - Their idea is to make a swell affair - all of the Woman's clubs - or at least twenty five of them have their President's members of this Com.so you may feel that the invitation is virtually from all of our women's Clubs - If you can accept - set your date - give the exact title you would like to have announced you would speak upon: They mean to hold several Co-Ed. Fund entertainments during the winter - so let Mrs. Montgomery - Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery -106 - Spencer Street - Rochester, N. Y. know at your earliest convenience please or if you prefer - write me & I will send her at once - Ever Sincerely Susan B. Anthony ------ Ready November 20, 1898 The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by IDA HUSTED HARPER The life and work of Susan B. Anthony is far more than the recital of one woman's experience, even though that woman be the most interesting personality of the century. It is a history of the great evolution of the status of woman, in which Miss Anthony has been the central figure. It pictures the struggle to obtain the right for woman to speak in public; first in behalf of the slave, then in the interest of temperance, and at last for her own freedom, for laws to secure to herself the control of her property, her wages, her person and her children. Then follows the long-continued battle for equal educational advantages and equal industrial opportunities; and last and longest of all, for the citizen's right to the franchise. The work consists of two large volumes, copiously illustrated with over fifty portraits of Miss Anthony and her co-laborers, engravings of her different homes, old Quaker meeting-house, and a large number of letters and autographs of distinguished men and women. The facts and dates of each chapter have received Miss Anthony's personal approval; and this is the only authentic biography of her that ever can be written, as the letters and documents will not be accessible to other historians. This work follows consecutively the history of one of the greatest woman reformers. The early chapters describe her ancestry, home, childhood and life in a Quaker boarding school, the last told in her own quaint letters and diaries. Later chapters depict her experience as teacher, related in her own characteristic letters; the moving to Rochester by canal in 1845; evolution from schoolroom into public life;—then follow Early Laws for Women—History of Bloomer Costume—Canvass of the State of New York in a Sleigh—Anti-Slavery Work, with Letters from Garrison, Greeley, May, Gerrit Smith, etc.—Campaigning with the Garr sonians—The Mobs—Letters from Phillips, Curtis, Pillsbury, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Fosters and Others—The Marriage and Divorce Question—The War and the Woman's Loyal League—Reconstruction, and Fight Over Fourteenth Amendment—Kansas and George Francis Train—Publishing the Revolution—Fiftieth Birthday Celebration and Poem by Phoebe Cary—The McFarland Richardson Case—Victoria Woodhull—Arrest and Trial for Voting Under the Fourteenth Amendment—Beecher-Tilton Trial—The Woman's Fourth of July in 1876—Ten Years on the Lyceum Platform—A Year in Europe—Appealing to Congress for Thirty-Three Years— Suffrage Amendment Campaigns in Eight States—Practical vs. Theoretical Religion—Pronounced Opinions on Vital Questions—Thirty Year's Experience with Political Conventions and Parties—Gathering of the Anthony Clans in 1897—Final Triumphs, Honors, Tributes, etc. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony The two large volumes contain about 900 pages and about fifty page pictures. Prices In plain cloth binding, 2 vols., complete ……..$5.00 In half leather, 2 vols., complete...….$9.00 In ornamental cloth binding, 2 vols., complete ….. 6.00 In full leather, 2 vols., complete...…12.00 The Bowen-Merrill Company, Publishers Indianapolis and Kansas City"I have selected Mrs. Harper to write my biography because of her literary ability and experience, her knowledge of the historical events it describes, and her full sympathy with the cause to which my life has been devoted." Susan B. Anthony [*ansd Feb. 14 1901 - C.B. - National-American Woman Suffrage Association. Member National Council of Women. Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 97th Street, New York. Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. President, Carrie Chapman Catt, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell. 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Catharine Waugh McCullough, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill. National Headquarters, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Office of Honorary President 17 Madison St., Rochester, N.Y., Feb. 9th., 1901. Miss Clara Barton, Washington, D.C. My Dear Friend: -- How are you, and how does the world use you nowadays? Long before New Years Dr. Moore sent for me and Dr. Dolley was there and we talked about what should be done with the little money that was left in the Red Cross. We all agreed we would like to have it go directly into your hands. Dr. Moore particularly said he would like to have such disposition made of the money. I do not know how much there is but will it be possible for you to accept it from the committee and use it at your own discretion, but will you be sure and make your discretion add comforts to yourself? There are but a few of the committee left here and we do not like to place money in new hands. Hoping to hear from you, I am, Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony Mrs. Harper - who is to return here in April - to complete {{?}} of History - is at the Normandie. She would be glad to see you I know - S.B.A. {{Second page}} {{33 Anthony in circle}} National-American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street, New York, Honorary President, Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. President, Carrie Chapman Catt, Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Auditors, { Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. 4069 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Catharine Waugh McCulloch., Chicago, Ill. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N.Y. May 1, 1901. Dear Miss Barton: - At the Minneapolis convention next month Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery will resign the office of corresponding secretary of our national association, which she has held for almost twenty-one years. What she has been to me personally during all of this time I cannot put into words. When, as a young girl, she accompanied me on a trip abroad, eighteen years ago, she was my eyes, my ears, my tongue; and during the long period which has since intervened she has been my right hand. It was very largely through her valuable and never-failing assistance that I was able to fulfill my duties as president of the association. Every important work it has undertaken, from the early conventions to the suffrage Bazaar in New York last December, has owed its success in a large degree to her capable and painstaking work. The great Woman's Council held in Washington n 1888, where was organized the International Council of Women of the world, was indebted for its prestige to Mrs. Avery as much as to any one woman. To the magnificent Woman's Congress at the World's Fair in 1893 she gave three years of the most exacting labor and several thousand dollars from her own private funds. There is scarcely an individual member of the national association who has not a personal sense of obligation to its corresponding secretary. In addition to twenty-one years of devoted service without salary, she has been one of the largest contributors to its treasury, giving a thousand dollars on several successive years, and afterwards five hundred per annum until prevented by business complications. --2-- Knowing that my own income was not sufficient for my needs, she appealed to my friends six years ago, without my knowledge, and, collecting over $5,000, on my seventy-fifth birthday she presented me, in their name, with an annuity of $800, which gives me many a comfort and relieves me of financial anxiety for the rest of my life. When I resigned my office in 1900, she begged to be allowed to retire with me, but I insisted that she should give one year of her experienced service to my successor. Now I have yielded to her appeal that she may devote her time and labors to her home and children, but, as she leaves our national board, I want to do for her in some measure what she has done for me. I think there will be a general desire on the part of our members to join in a testimonial of love and appreciation, which it seems to me should be in money itself, that she can put it into whatever form of remembrance will give her the most pleasure. For this purpose I should like not less than $500, to be presented to Mrs. Avery at Minneapolis, and if you, or your society, desire to join in this testimonial I shall be most happy to receive your contribution. Affectionately yours, Susan B. Anthony [*37 Anthony*] [*? Oct 30 1901= by Dr Hubbell*] NATIONAL=AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York. Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Warren, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Auditors,{ LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. 4069 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. { CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, Chicago, Ill. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK. OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT. ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1901. My Dear Madam:-- Last May I sent you a letter, of which the enclosed is a copy, asking some data of your association in order to give it honorable mention in the History of the Progress of Woman which I am preparing with Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. I have never received an answer, and now write again lest through some mistake I should be compelled to omit all notice of your association, which I should very much regret. If you wish its name and work recorded in this book, will you not kindly fill out the blanks at your very earliest convenience and return them to me without any further delay? There is still time to include it among the other national [societiess] mentioned, but the time is growing extremely short. Hoping for the favor of an early reply, I remain, Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony (per secretary).[*37*] [*33 Anthony*] [*Ansd April 2, 1902*] Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, N. J, March 24, 1902 My Dear Friend, Have I acknowledged your lovely letter and its generous check? It - they came to me while I was ill in Philadelphia at my niece's - Mrs R. Mosher James - 4716 - Windsor Avenue - So that is excuse for my neglect - The kind words were very grateful - and quite enough - but when you added that check of $100 - it was too much! - But I will use it to good advantage - & thank you a thousand times - though it does seem like your "robbing Peter to pay Paul" you have so little & I just as little of this world's goods - But we know to value [illegible] little more highly - 2 Do you see that our dear Dr. Moore has gone over the dark river - on March 4th? He would have been 88 had he lived till the middle of July! - How strange it seems - that all his knowledge of things & men must go out with him - he knew every inch of the history of Rochester since 1820 - Well he is gone- and left a wife who has been his companion for over 50 years - 10 years younger than himself - he had a daughter who is single & will be companion for her - The sons are all married - Well what next? - & who next? - Very Sincerely yours Susan B. AnthonyP.S I am to get home about the last of April or 1st of May - am going to spend a week with Mrs Stanton - 250 West 94th st - New York - - I then have to work on Vol IV of the history of women suffrage - S.B.A. Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. Glen Echo, Md. April 1st, 1902 My dear Miss Anthony; I cannot tell you how sorry I have been to know of your illness. I wanted you to get through those greatest of conventions and get home with no mishap. How did it happen? The same way, I expect, that such things happen to me. I am so glad that you are better and that you see a date before you when you are likely to get home. You must be thankful every minute for the success of that grand convention. I had heard that our dear Doctor Moore had gone from us. It does indeed seem a pity that such an accumulation of knowledge and intelligence, under such benign direction, must all pass out in an instant. This is more than we can understand and along with you I wonder at it and submit; and along with you ask "What next, who next." The little check, do not mention it, it did not begin to be what it ought to be, and I could spare it more than well. Do not think of it again, just use it. Spring is coming here, although April commences with cold and a little raw. I hope the fine days will come before you leave Atlantic City and that you will run no risk in going home. Sincerely and affectionately yours, Clara BartonPage 1 Amrd Nov 29 1902 Send Freleny***b refund National American Woman Suffrage Association Member National Council of Women Honorary Presidents Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street New York Susan B. Anthony, 12 Madison Street, Rochester, N.Y. President Carrie Chapman Catt 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Vice President at Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw 4104 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton Warren, Ohio Corresponding Secretary, Kate M. Gordon 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Auditors Laura Clay, Lexington, KY Mary J. Coggeshall 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa National Headquarters, 2008 American Tract Society Building, N.Y. Office of the Honorary President, Rochester, N.Y. Nov. 25, 1902 Miss Clara Barton, Glen Echo, D.C. My dear friend: - I have received your report of St. Petersburg. It is very fine. I wish I could have seen all that with you. What a row they are making about the Czar getting a divorce from the Czarina because she bears him only daughters. Why can't he see that he had better cling to his first love and get the laws changed so that a woman can succeed to the throne. It is too cruel to read the gossip. He had better remember Napoleon. To put Josephine away was the most wicked thing done by him. I wish you would write to the Czar. The little family of four daughters looks so beautiful, and the mother so sad. It is quite as likely that he is at fault as that she is. Are you going to New Orleans to the Suffrage Convention? I shall go, Providence permitting. It will be a great thing to see how that South West corner of our country take a dose of Equal Rights. Affectionately yours, Susan B. Anthony Page 2 Glen Echo, Md., November, 28th 1902 Miss Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. My dear friend: - It was charming of you to take the pains to read my little Report and speak of it. I am going to send you anoth er paper just published by Mr. Tillinghast, who accompanied me especil ly as it is very much better worth reading than mine. I heard little or nothing in Russia concerning the so call ed divorce of the Czar, and am always wondering if a good deal of this speculation which we hear from foreign sources may not be due to our enterprising reporters and world-wide travellers, who for various rea sons want to say something. If you were once to see the face of the Czar you would question within yourself if any cruelty dwells in his heart. He seems to me to be kind and just, but his surroundings may be very rigid; true he is an absolute Monarch, but the laws which he has to administer are quite absolute. The thought of divorce at their age, seems absolutely prepos terous. Can they not wait? Josephine was not divorced because she bore only daughters, but because from age she could not bear anything. I give Russia credit for better sense. I wish I could go to New Orleans; I cannot say how much I enjoyed-2- [th]e Suffrage Convention here, and New Orleans will take its dose of "Equal Rights" all kindly, if for nothing else for your sake, for you are beloved there. I may not speak of the great heart gone before; all the world knows what it is to you, and for that matter for themselves; all reach the hand of sympathy. Affectionately yours, Clara Barton ----- National American Woman Suffrage Association Member National Council of Women Honorary Presidents {ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York { SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW 4104 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON Warren, Ohio Auditors { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y. Office of the Honorary President, Rochester, N. Y. Jan. 25, 1903. My dear Miss Barton Have you a plate of yourself better than this we used in the first Edition of Woman Suffrage? - You remember we borrowed from the Bradley of Philadelphia - I am getting out a Second Edition of the history of woman suffrage - 1000 - in [?] - Can you either lend me a plate - or get 1,000 prints for me - I suppose I can get the plate from Mr Bradley again - - But say what I shall do - How are these winter days - Well I hope - I am pretty well - you can imagine - or should not be getting out Vol. IV - which by the way will soon be ready - is your set of the cloth binding - or the leather - I want to send you Vol. IV - and getting out a second edition - of the other three volumes - and looking over - writing in - all my old books & papers for the Congressional Library - I ambusy with it all - but am praying to be left here long enough to get it all done - I don't want to go hence - until my attic and all is cleared of the rubbish - that it seems to the uninitiated - for lo these fifty years - Will tell me what about your shadow as old Sojourner Truth sold pictures of herself Affectionately yours, Susan B. Anthony ----- February 27th, 1903. Miss Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison St. Rochester, N. Y. Dear Miss Anthony: Referring to you enquiry concerning photographs of Miss Barton I am instructed to say; that Mr. Francis Atwater is prepared to furnish them from a negative obtained in Russia during the past Summer, that Miss Barton particularly likes. Please send him the size and he will forward without delay to you. Miss Barton's time is so occupied with matters of a less pleasing nature that is not able at this moment to make personal reply to your esteemed letter, but requests me to assure you of her appreciation of your kind words, and that it is her most earnest prayer that you be permitted to accomplish your work in such way as commends itself to you as right and proper. This she has come to believe, is too much to be hoped for herself. Miss Barton further asks me to assure you of her continued good health, and unalterable regard for yourself. Very respectfully, M. A. Hines Secretary[*37*] National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary Presidents {ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York. { SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW 4104 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON Warren, Ohio Auditors {LAURA CLAY, Lexington Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y. Office of the Honorary President, Rochester, N. Y. March 2, 1903 Mr. M. A. Hines, New York City. My dear Sir:- Your letter referring to steel plate of Miss Barton is just received. On looking at the picture in the book, it is so beautiful to me, with her as she was in 1850, 1860 and 1870, before she lost her hair. It is so beautiful, the eyes are so sparkling, that I think we better hold on to that picture, rather than to put her as she is and as she was when last in Russia. To do this [will] would make her 25 years older than she was when she did the work of which we give an account in Volume II of the History, so unless you order to the contrary, I have given my order to the J.C. Buttrie Co, of New York City, 17 E. 16th. St. to use the same picture in this edition which we had in the old one!! It is too beautiful, to have her look as she did in her youth, with that wealth of hair. If she thinks she looks prettier now, she is as much mistaken as I should be if I thought I looked better than I did at 40, and I appear at 40, in Volume I of the same work. Now I have just read of the [modern] recent effort to supplant Miss Barton. It is a most mean and despicable business, whoever is behind the matter. If Miss Barton saw anybody who was fit to fill the place, she would quite likely be willing to resign the position to younger hands, but to no man I hope, will she surrender. I think there is a cat in the meal, and that cat is a woman, and she had her quite close to her National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary Presidents {ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York. { SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW 4104 Powelton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON Warren, Ohio Auditors {LAURA CLAY, Lexington Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y. Office of the Honorary President, Rochester, N. Y. Hines, #2. when in Russia the last time. She must not give up hope, for I think the whole truth will be exposed before the deed is consumated of getting a man or any other woman President of the Red Cross. My sympathies are with her, and I hope she'll win out gloriously. With regard for her, as unalterable as hers is for me, I am, Respectfully yours Susan B. Anthony P.S. I read Mrs Logan's article on supplanting the elderly people & the young in the Journal of New York - and I think I know to whom she refers - She went with in the carriage to the Capital last spring - If all that interest was to get in with the powers that be - Well I have no use for such relationships! S.B.A.[*00- no reply*] National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary Presidents { ElLIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York. { SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 7443 Devon St., Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio Auditors { LAURA CLAY, Lexington Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL, 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK OFFICE, HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N. Y. June 25, 1903. My Dear Friend,- I see by the books of 1888 that you had the first three volumes of the History of Woman suffrage. Do you not want Vol. IV to place by their side? Enclosed is a circular which describes it. If you have not the books yourself and do not wish to purchase Vol. IV, will you see that the public library of your city, and your college, normal or high school have the entire set? Sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony ------ A Few Leading Questions. Q. Under a representative form of Government, such as ours, who should make the laws? A. The people. Q. Do the people make the laws? A. No; one-half the people are forbidden any share in law-making. Q. Who do make the laws? A. Men. Q. Who gave men the right to make the laws? A. Men. Q. Do not the laws concern women? A. They certainly do. Q. May not women take part in making the laws which they must obey? A. They may not. Men alone make the laws for women and men. Q. If a woman transgress the law, who decides the penalty, tries, convicts and punishes her? A. Men. Q. Who sit on the juries before whom women are tried? A. Men only. Q. Is this what the constitution means by "the judgment of his peers"? A. Evidently not.Q. May not mothers help make the laws which decide their legal relations to their children? A. No ; men make the laws, and in only nine States of the Union and the District of Columbia has the married mother the legal right to her children. Q. Why is the law so one-sided? A. Because it is the product of one sex alone. Q. Who makes the laws which decide the rights of husband and wife in case of separation? A. Men only. Q. When a husband brutally assaults his wife, who determines the penalty? A. Men. Q. Who make the laws concerning the property-rights of husband and wife? A. Men. Q. Who pays the taxes? A. Men and women. Q. Is the property of women taxed the same as that of men? A. Higher, as a rule. Q. Who assess, collect, and expend the tax money paid by men and women? A. Men only. Q. May not a woman who manages her own business have a vote in elections which directly concern her own interests? A. No ; but the most incapable man in her employ may do so. Q. May not an educated, temperate, moral and law-abiding woman vote? A. No ; but an ignorant, intemperate, immoral and law-breaking man may do so. Q. May not women who teach the boys in our schools vote? A. No ; but the boys they teach, when 21, may do so. Q. The mothers who have brought forth, carefully reared and given their sons to the State-may they not vote? A. No. Q. Why not? A. Because they are women. Q. Would women vote if the privilege were granted them? A. Women have had the full suffrage in Wyoming since 1869: in Colorado since 1893; in Utah and Idaho since 1896. In Wyoming women form about one-third of the adult population, and the estimate of those best informed is that they cast 33 per cent. of the entire vote at the last national election. Although there are over 30,000 more men than women in Colorado, the official estimate is that 52 per cent. of the vote was cast by women. In Idaho, although women are greatly in the minority, the most trustworthy estimate gives their vote as over 40 per cent. of the whole number cast.Why do Women want to vote? 1st. Because they are American citizens, and the United States Constitution says: "The citizen's right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." 2d. Because they are tax-payers, and it is a principle of our government that taxation and representation are inseparable. 3d. Because every citizen should help select those who make the laws which he or she must obey. 4th. Because every citizen in a free republic is entitled to representation, and no person having but one vote can represent himself and another, even with the latter's consent. 5th. Because a vote means power, and women need this power to protect the interests of themselves, their children, their homes and society. 6th. Because politics, which means the government, needs the combined influence of men and women. Without the ballot, woman's influence is indirect, negative and irresponsible. Votes talk, votes count, votes compel respect, votes decide every question. — Issued by The Rochester (N. Y.) Political Equality Club, January 1, 1903. ---------- [*Ansd- Sent three (3) dollars*] National American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Honorary Presidents { ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 250 West 94th Street, New York. { SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 7443 Devon St., Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio Auditors { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL, 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK OFFICE, HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N. Y. July 15, 1903. Clara Barton, New York City. My Dear Friend,- You have had Vols 1 & 11 and probably Vol. 111, and I want to send you Vol. IV of the History of Woman Suffrage. How do you do and how are you getting along with the fight on you? I see now and then a little scrap[e] in the papers but nothing more. Sincerely yours, Susan B. AnthonyThe History of Woman Suffrage Volume IV Now Ready The first three volumes of the History, prepared by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony, Brought the record of the movements to the early '80's. The present volume, by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, brings it to the beginning of the new century and shows the fruit of the early struggles. This book contains not only the complete story of the efforts to secure the franchise but it describes also the collateral gains. The laws for women in every State are set forth, their educational and industrial opportunities, the amount of suffrage they already possess and how it was obtained, the offices they are filling and many other points of general interest One chapter is devoted to the status of the question in Great Britain—where women now have all but the Parliamentary franchise—and in her colonies, including Australia, which has just conferred the full suffrage on its 800,000 women.The chapter on National Organizations of Women is believed to be the most comprehensive statement yet made on this topic. In the chapters describing the many conventions of the National Association is presented the full argument for Woman Suffrage, considered from every point of view by the ablest speakers. This will render the book invaluable to those preparing debates, papers for clubs, articles for newspapers and magazines or simply making a general study. The volume is filled with live, up-to-date, trustworthy information, and is so thoroughly systemized and fully indexed that there that there will not be the slightest difficulty in finding any desired subject, although it contains over 1,000 pages. As this question is destined in the near future to be one of the leading issues before the people, and as information concerning it is scattered and unreliable, this new book cannot fail to be regarded as a most interesting, important and much needed contribution. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, may be ordered of Miss Susan B. Anthony, No. 17 Madison St., Rochester, N.Y. Price, expressage prepaid, sheep, $3.50; muslin, $3.00. Full set, sheep, $14; muslin, $12.[*Anthony*] National American Woman Suffrage Association Members National Council of Women Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 160 Bay 31st St., Bensonhurst, N. Y. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, 7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON, 1800 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio Auditors { LAURA CLAY, Lexington Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL, 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN, OHIO NATIONAL PRESS COMMITTEE, ELNORA BABCOCK, DUNKIRK, N. Y. OFFICE OF THE HONORARY PRESIDENT, 17 MADISON ST., ROCHESTER, N. Y. July 28, 1903 Miss Clara Barton, 49 East 58th St., New York City. My Dear Friend,- Your letter with $3 was received yesterday. I was glad enough to hear from you and glad you want Vol. IV of The History of Woman Suffrage, for it records the doings and the gains of the last twenty years, and there never was more crowded into any score of years than during the last. I am very glad that you are in good health and never felt better. The old saying that "all things work together for good" is true provided we work them the right way. I am glad if the women who have worked for your dethronement have placed you more firmly in the chair of the Red Cross. It was too bad that the President put his foot in it; not only in that but in the W. C. T. U. and one or two other little affairs that he could not know about, hence should not have taken any part in them. I should be glad to get papers that tell of the work you are doing in the Red Cross now; I do not care for the fight; all of the [them] reports I think I have had and run through [it] them. I hope you will get everything in good trim so that your successors will be able to see that you did everything for the best. I am rejoiced more than I can tell that I let go the helm of the National ship of Suffrage when I did for since that time I should not have been able to have carried it forward had I held on. I am good to go to social functions, to go to meetings and look on and listen with just as much pleasure as I ever did, but when it comes -2- to planning and doing the work of the movement I should fail!! Should you come this way, please let me know or come direct to the house. Affectionately yours, Susan B. Anthony[*Anthony*] National American Woman Suffrage Association Member National Council of Women Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 160 Bay 31st St. Bensonhurst, N.Y. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON, 1880 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors { LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. { MARY J. COGGESHALL, 554 Seventh Street, Des Moines, Iowa. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN, OHIO. NATIONAL PRESS COMMITTEE, ELNORA BABCOCK, DUNKIRK, N.Y. OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, 17 MADISON ST., ROCHESTER, N.Y. July 28, 1903 Miss Clara Barton, 49 East 58th St., New York City. My Dear Friend,- Your letter with $3 was received yesterday. I was glad enough to hear from you and glad you want Vol. IV of The History of Woman Suffrage, for it records the doings and the gains of the last twenty years, and there never was more crowded into any score of years than during the last. I am very glad that you are in good health and never felt better. The old saying that "all things work together for good" is true provided we work them the right way. I am glad if the women who have worked for your dethronement have placed you more firmly in the chair of the Red Cross. It was too bad that the President put his foot in it; not only in that but in the W.C.T.U. and one or two other little affairs that he could not know about, hence should not have taken any part in them. I should be glad to get papers that tell of the work you are doing in the Red Cross now; I do not care for the fight; all of the [them] reports I think I have had and run through [it] them. I hope you will get everything in good trim so that your successors will be able to see that you did everything for the best. I am rejoiced more than I can tell that I let go the helm of the National ship of suffrage when I did for since that time I should not have been able to have carried it forward had I held on. I am good to go to social functions, to go to meetings and look on and listen with just as much pleasure as ever I did, but when it comes to planning and doing the work of the movement I should fail!! Should you come this way, please let me know or come direct to the house. Affectionately yours, {signed} Susan B. Anthony