NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Harper, Ida Husted [*Daughter of Martha Wright & niece of Lucretia Mott*] COPY Rochester, N.Y. Nov. 30, 1897. Dear Mrs. Osborne:- I have not seen your letter to Miss Mary Anthony which came today, but I understand you told her there was no hurry about the letters. I am extremely sorry they were not kept out for you as it would have been an easy matter to do. I have a basket full that I laid aside for different people as I was reading them over, and I spoke to Miss Anthony about your Mother's, but as you said nothing to us in regard to saving them for you, while we were in Auburn, she thought perhaps you had so many that you did not care for them. None of them have been destroyed, however, and all will be returned to you. In the preparation of the biography I shall have examined not less than 25.000 letters and I can truthfully say that those of your Mother were the most beautifully written of all that vast number. The chirography was perfect, so clear and dainty that I lingered over the letters with pleasure. They were always brief, very gracefully expressed, strong and brave in sentiment and filled with a delicate humor that was most delightful. They were so characteristic that I felt a personal acquaintance with the writer and, when I came upon her sudden death, I exclaimed to Miss Anthony, "Oh, how sorry I am that I shall read no more of these charming letters." When you consider the dreadful task of reading so many thousand, you may imagine that your Mother's must have possessed a peculiar interest to make me regret the end of them. I mention her a number of times in the biography, but as I am obliged to condense at every point, I fear it will be impossible to do full justice to her noble character. Miss Anthony came home yesterday, and will not go away again until February. You will be pleased to know that we expect to send the (COPY) (2) book to the publishers in January. In my letter, which I wrote to Miss Anthony the next day after returning home from Auburn last June, I asked her to express to you my appreciation of your hospitality. I hope she did not fail to do so, as relying upon that, I did not write to you personally. I am so overwhelmed with writing that every letter is simply an additional burden. I have pleasant memories of those two or three restful days. I called on Mrs. Stanton when I was in New York in September. Please do not forget that you are to send me that old-fashioned drama of hers. I have not written you in regard to it as I shall not be able to do anything with it until my work here is finished, then I shall prepare it for publication in some magazine. It is too valuable not to be used. Hoping to see you at Washington, I am, Very sincerely yours, Ida H. Harper. Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, PRESIDENT BUREAU OF SUFFRAGE EDUCATION [ROSE YOUNG, DIRECTOR] Department of Editorial Correspondence MRS. IDA HUSTED HARPER, CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE 4818 MURRAY HILL 171 Madison Avenue New York, Nov. 8, 1921. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock St., Boston, 25, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell:- Your letter of yesterday is here, where I am spending the "holiday" at my desk as usual. It seems to me that if you cut your part of the chapter any further there will be nothing left. It will make considerable difference in the length of your chapter and some others whether we have one volume or two. I am preparing the chapters with a view to two volumes and shall be much disappointed if the Leslie Commission tries to condense the material into one, as it will be nothing but a skeleton. Do you not think that you would better close up your work on the Massachusetts chapter and send it to me as you would like to have it appear and if I can possibly avoid any further cutting I shall certainly do so? If, however, any further cutting becomes absolutely necessary, I will do it with the greatest care and all the judgment I possess. If you agree to this, please send the chapter on as soon as you can make it convenient. Sincerely yours, IHH-H Ida Husted Harper. Ida H Harper My dear Miss Blackwell:- Your letter is here and I am glad to know that your task nears the end. I would like to have the chapter by Monday or sooner but it is not absolutely necessary. Sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper. 171 Madison Ave, New York City, Oct. 11, 1921. My dear Miss Blackwell:- Secretary Colby issued his proclamation August 26, 1920. Anything of special importance during the remainder of the year can be described if you think it necessary. Very truly yours, 171 Madison Ave., New York City. Sept. 28, 1921 Ida Husted Harper. [*Ida H. Harper*] Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Boston, Mass. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, 25, Boston, Mass. [*Ida H. Harper*] [*1*] [*2 copies*] #245 West 51st St. New York, April 28. My dear Miss Ryan:- I did not answer your question about the "appeal" sent out by the Natl. Assn. because I thought you would find out that the Journal had already published it. I had no copy. I have another letter from Miss Mirovitch in which her address is the way you had it Arbat N, Log. 47, which I imagine means apartment. I will see her at Budapest. Perhaps you may want to make an item of the enclosed. The Journal has always copied my foreign articles from the Boston Transcripts but its present editor, Burton Kline, will not join my syndicate this time. I guess he is a new editor. I wish I could get track of the old one, F. B. Tracy. You can get them all summer from the Sunday New York Tribune, beginning about May 25. Don't send the Journal to this address any more. I will send you a foreign address before I leave, and will try to get foreign subscribers for you. In haste yours, Ida Husted Harper [*April 24*] [*Put on for 2 copies complimentary*] [*Answered*] [*Dec 31 1918*] [*BHJ*] [*1*] [*2*] My dear Miss Ryan:- Until now I have not had an address to which I could have the Journal sent since I came from Europe. My recollection is that just before I sailed May 3 I wrote you giving an address over there where I wanted it sent, but as I never rec'd. a copy I must have forgotten to do so. I bought it at the headqrs. here in Washtn. thro November but they never have had a copy since then. For years I've had 2 copies each week complimentary, which I've appreciated greatly, and in return I've had it shown at my lectures and gov subscribers wherever I could and have mentioned it many times in my articles. I am sending a subscription for only six months, as I shall probably go abroad again before the end of that time. Please begin with Dec. 6, but send all the numbers for that month in a roll to Miss Nettie Louisa White, [*sent Dec 6*] The Cairo, Washington, D.C., as she has given me her December numbers. Begin mine with January 3d [*sent Jan 3*] and address as below. Am sorry I did not get to talk with you at the convention. With the season's greetings [*sent Jan 5, 1914 [Jan 1915] 2 copies 6 m compl*] Fraternally yours, Ida Husted Harper. Farragut Apartments, [*SBM 1/2/4*' Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 1913. March 25, 1913 Mrs. Ida Husted Harper 245 West 51st Street, New York City Dear Mrs. Harper: Your letter of March 25 has just come and I am sorry to know that you cannot advertise with us. I realize of course that you have published your books at a great sacrifice and financial loss. I realize how valuable they are. For our sakes I am glad we have a set of the books in the office. For your sake I wish we could have a copy in exchange for advertising. I will ask if the Massachusetts Association has a set and if it has not perhaps I can get them to buy one. I know however that they are very hard pressed financially. It is forbidden by law for us to sell space in the regular reading matter columns. We can give a book review but anything that is in the nature of advertising must be clearly marked in accordance with the law which went into effect last year. If you can compose a short paragraph, which can be regarded as news and yet will call attention to the biography it might accomplish your purpose and I would see that it goes into the paper once. Won't you send us such a paragraph for we should like to help you sell the book? We are grateful to you for correcting our statement about President Wilson. I hope you won't mind if we quote from your letter what you said about seeing President Wilson and giving him a copy of the Woman's Journal. I am glad to know what you tell me of Mrs. Charles F. Robbins. We shall gladly send her the papers which give Judge Lindsey's words. I hope she will become a subscriber. I am glad to see one of "the" stickers. It is enlightening. I shall never forget how surprised I was over that performance! Yours sincerely, AER.SEH [*I imagine that Mrs. Woodhull at the present day would be consider quite respectable or would have to go into the Natl Woman's Party.*] [*1634*] [*I St. N. W.*] [*Oct. 29, '28.*] [*Affectionately yours, Ida H.H.*] National Headquarters and Club of the American Association of University Woman 1634 Eye Street N.W. Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Catt: Your first letter was sent to an address here which I never had and never heard of but it found me at last struggling with a sketch of Dr. Shaw for the Dictionary of American Biography, which they were in a hurry for. It has made me a great deal of trouble for Lucy Anthony has refused to let me have any of the material which I took to Moylan with me and I had to go to the Library of Congress and I have only now finished the sketch. However, I wrote to Mrs. Raymond Brown immediately and told her [*over*] the new Life of Miss A. had not been received at the Library of Congress, where I could have got it, and I found that at Prentano's the price was $5, which I didn't want to pay. A few days ago she sent me her copy and I have merely skimmed thro' it. She simply said to write her "what I thought of it." As I don't want to do any unnecessary work I have written her for more definite instructions. My first judgment is that if we didn't all rush in and attack it the book would fall flat. A very large part of it is taken from my Life and dressed over. The Beecher scandal is put in to sell the book and is too old to arouse interest. I judge it is taken from Paxton Hibben's Life of Beecher. He wrote me where he was creating that [*page2*] and demanded access to Miss Anthony's Journals and Letters,. He got nothing from me and Lucy didn't have much. I saw to that. I think that (9) what they got came from Mrs. Blatch. Anyhow you will notice they connected Miss Anthony with it so little that is has no business to be a part of her Biography. I haven't read the last of the book but as Mrs. Dorr is a member of the Natl. Woman's Party she probably has no more honor than the rest of them. She has not forgiven you for the position you took at Copenhagen when she was en route home from her "spree" in St. Petersburg, which ended so disastrously for her. We all felt just as you did. She told me that it "knocked a good deal of Socialism out her." (over) Mrs. Woodhull was only indirectly concerned with the division in the Natl. Assn. George Francis Frai[?] was the principal factor. Lucy Stone and her following tried to make out that Miss A. and Mrs. Stanton were taking the association on to the rocks. Neiss A. had to be continually trying to save it from Mrs. Stanton's indiscretions. No wonder she wanted her Life written which she was yet alive! I often long for a talk with some of the old suffragists. The oldest of them are gone. I rarely ever meet any one here who ever saw any of them. Most of those here know you principally through your work for peace and never heard Miss Shaw. They are very kind to me but I can never talk with them. The women and men I used to know best are all dead, and I often feel very lonesome, I hope you'll stay awhile after the Peace Conference, and visit. [*Answered April 12 1913*] 245 West 51st Street New York, April 11, 1913. Dear Miss Ryan:- I never heard of the book you mention by Margaret Ladd Franklin. Thank you very much for the notice you gave to the Biography in last week's Journal. It will be a great help to me. Can you do something for the writer of this postal Mmme. Zeneide Mirovitch, Arabatt W - 44, Moscow. She has written me several times what she has put on this postal and I know there must be some mistake. She is a very cultured woman and a leader of the movement in Moscow. I go to Washington, Sunday, for a week and my address there will be "The Olympia." Very truly yours, Ida Husted Harper. Enclosure Shall attend the D.A.R. Congress in Washtn. and the Executive meeting of the National Council of Women. Do you see Equal Rights, organ of the Natl. Woman's Party? I see it on the club table here. I believe you would consider it worth reading. You might try it for six months - $1. Miss Dora Y. Ogle. business Manager, 19 West Chase St., Baltimore. It is fighting for Hoover. Monthly Statement. New York, May 23 1923 Leslie Woman Suffrage To J.J. Little & Ives Co., Dr. Telephone Connection. Printers and Bookbinders, Terms Cash. 425 to 435 East 24th Street. To Balance To Bill rendered Jan 23 Mfg. Hist of W.S. 10322.69 29 Postage 111.31 29 " 19.91 Feb 8 Express 101.90 16 " 4.42 Mar 14 [???] 29.70 13 Bdy 257.17 Apr 19 " 48.85 10895.95 Cash Oct 7/22 Cash 5000.00 Mar 31/23 " 3000.00 May 21/23 " 1000.00 9000.00 $1895.95 Less credit 5/25/23 41.02 $1854.93 RECEIVED PAYMENT June 19 1923 J.J. Little & Ives Co. Per MS. Please receipt & return Received J.J.LITTLE&IVESCO Jun 19 1923 8 49 AM 425-435EAST.24STREE Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. Carrie Chapman Catt, President Bureau of Suffrage Education Rose Young, Director Department of Editorial Correspondence Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, Chairman Telephone 4818 Murray Hill 171 Madison Avenue New York, January 1, 1919 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Pres. Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, New York. My dear Mrs. Catt: In preparing Volume V of the History of Woman Suffrage, I feel that I must have someone to share with me the great responsibility for what it will contain. I ask therefore that I may have the privilege of submitting to yourself and to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw the various chapters for your approval. I also ask that I may confer with you, and others whom you may suggest, as to the method of treating controversial subjects, such as the Anti-Suffrage Association, the so-called National Woman's Party and others. It will be my endeavor to make these chapters conform to our combined judgment. If you will write on the copy of this letter the word "approved", I shall consider myself bound by it. Sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper. AGREEMENT The Leslie Commission and Ida Husted Harper agree to the preparation of Volume V, History of Woman Suffrage on the following terms: Mrs. Harper's present contract with the Commission shall be cancelled by mutual consent and a new one entered into January 1, 1919, whereby her present salary of $4,000 a year shall be continued until May 1, 1920. Mrs. Harper agrees to have the MS. of the History completed by that time unless unavoidably prevented, and in that case she agrees to finish it at the earliest possible moment without further payment. It shall then be the property of the Commision, which shall copyright the book when published, but Mrs. Harper's name shall appear on the cover and title page as its author. For the preparation of this History the Leslie Commission agrees to provide Mrs. Harper with a suitable room properly equipped for the work; with a competent stenographer; with the necessary letterheads, postage and other office supplies, and to allow for needed multigraphing, mimeographing, telegraphing, etc., not to exceed the amount appropriated for the purpose by the Commission. The Commission agrees that, if funds are available for the purpose, the printing, proof-reading and indexing shall follow immediately the completion of the MS., and that Mrs. Harper's salary shall be continued two months longer, with such desk room and stenographic help as are necessary. In case funds are not available the Commission agrees that, when they shall be, the conditions named in this paragraph shall be fulfilled. -2- fulfilled. The Commission agrees to use its best endeavors to have the volume published as soon after it is finished as shall be justified by that status of the Federal Amendment. During the preparation of this book Mrs. Harper shall control her own time and movements and shall not be called on for any other kind of work. She agrees, however, to write each month a letter for the International Suffrage News until such time as Mrs. Catt shall see fit to transfer it to another. Carrie Chapman Catt President The Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission Ida Husted Harper. January 1, 1919. The six states lacking on Mrs. Shuler's list, Alabama [Oklahoma] Vermont Delaware New Hampshire Rhode Island Miss Blackwell:-- Do not return. I.H.H. Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President History of Woman Suffrage Volume V now in Preparation Mrs. Ida Husted Harper Editor Telephone 4818 Murray Hill 171 Madison Avenue New York December 31, 1920 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Dorchester, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: I have been trying to run down the State federations of women's clubs which [who] have not endorsed woman suffrage. I remember you used to publish the list in the Woman's Journal at intervals and I always preserved it but have not access to my old files. Mrs. Shuler and I have run the matter down to five States, a list of which I enclose, and I am pretty sure that one or two of these have endorsed it. The Delaware Federation voted it down. I do not want you to go to any trouble at all to look this matter up but if you happen to have the information, I would be glad of it. Thank you for the Christmas greeting, which you always find time to send. I seem to have given up all the amenities of life. I had a most beautiful dinner and evening with Mrs. Catt, which made the day memorable. How are you coming on with your chapter? I never was faced with a greater problem than how I am to condense these forty-eight state [little] chapters. With my best wishes for a pleasant and profitable year for Mrs. Boyer and yourself, I am, as ever, Very sincerely yours. Ida Husted Harper. Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. Carrie Chapman Catt. President BUREAU OF SURRAGE EDUCATION [Rose Young, Director] Department of Editorial Correspondence Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. Chairman Telephone 4818 Murray Hill 171 Madison Avenue New York, Sept. 23, 1921. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock St., Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell:- What in the world has become of you and your chapter? I am expecting to send all of the State chapters to Mrs. Catt on Monday for her reading. This does not mean that they will be ready for the printers by any means but simply that she has to do her reading now before she moves into town, which will be early in October. I hope you can let me have your chapter. Mrs. Upton finally got to work on the Ohio chapter about two weeks ago, expecting to "dash it off" in a few days. On the contrary she has been at it ever since and has Elizabeth Hauser there to help her and has written that there was so much more work on it than she expected that it will be some little time before she can send it! That was the trouble with most of the writers--they expected to treat their chapters as they would a magazine article and the result has been to delay my work for about a year. I know you did not feel that way for you had already prepared one chapter for the History. Doubtless you are still at Chilmark but I will take the chance of sending this to Boston. Very sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper IHH*H Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. Carrie Chapman Catt. President BUREAU OF SURRAGE EDUCATION [Rose Young, Director] Department of Editorial Correspondence Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. Chairman Telephone 4818 Murray Hill 171 Madison Avenue New York, Oct. 25, 1921 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Boston, 25, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell:- If you can send the completed chapter in the near future I would rather you would wait until it is entirely finished. It has taken me more than a solid week to insert the little additions which Mrs. Catt wanted made to the National chapters when she had read them. Most of them were only a few lines but it consumed a great deal of time to find the proper place and work them in. I have not yet come to Massachusetts in the State chapters and can wait a little longer. I sympathize with the work and anxiety you have had over the chapter and if you will multiply them many times, you will know what the writing of this book has been to me. Very sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper. IHH-H Letter from Ida Husted Harper to M.G. Peck replying to inquiry about Dr. Comfort, whose name was proposed for inclusion in the Honor Roll Tablet, Memorial to prominent workers for woman suffrage in New York State, which was placed in the Capitol at Albany. Interesting comments on Susan B. Anthony's Diaries - Mrs Harper's work on History of Woman Suffrage - reason why there is no complete file of Minutes of the annual conventions of the NAWSA in existence. I. R. CORNELL, Manager 250 ROOMS-100 WITH BATH ATHENAEUM July 13, 1930 Chautauqua New York My dear Miss Peck:- Your letter followed me here, where one can not get time to write a postal. I gave it to a very enthusiastic admirer of yours, Dr. Richard Burton, and, if he has found time to draw his breath, you have probably heard from him. He thinks the Lord didn't make many women in the same class with you and Frances Potter. He is a very popular lecturer here. I evidently didn't unearth Dr. Anna Manning Comfort in my writing of the Life and History or she would have been mentioned. Miss Sherwin wanted me to serve on the Committee for making up the Honor Roll but I refused to take the responsibility. In the proof sheets (2 of the names selected, which were sent me, were a number that never had lifted a finger for woman suffrage. I have never learned how they were received by the convention at Louisville. My own name was not in the first list that was sent out. I rarely ever see any of the old suffragists and their names don't seem to have much meaning to the Club in which I live. I took good care of Miss Anthony's Diaries till I had finished with them and then I begged Lucy Anthony to let me destroy them but she would not consent, so I left them at Moylan. The last I heard, that iconoclast who wrote the life of Beecher was trying to get them for Rheta Childe Dorr, but I don't know whether he succeeded. In 1884 the National Board in its wisdom decided that there should not be any more "reports" of (3 National Conventions! Miss Anthony struggled along to raise the money and get out the one for 1884 and there was not another I think till 1891. I had a hard time to write the History for those years. Yes, I nearly "worked my head off" to get out than History and only my loyalty to Miss Anthony enabled me to do it, but words cannot express how thankful I am that I stuck to it. I should not consider that my life was worth living if I hadn't written those books. But I was never the same woman after the History was finished. I shall be in New York the last of September and shall try to see you. It was too hot for anything social when I was on the way here, the last of June. Love to Mrs. Catt and yourself, Sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper. October 11, 1920. My dear Mrs. Shuler: I am very glad indeed that you think the answers to the questions I asked will make your report better. I am sure that the same thing can be said in regard to every chapter--in fact many of the women have written me to that effect, although a few have been unwilling to answer the questions or follow my suggestions. Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard wrote the Wyoming chapter and, after struggling with it for a day or two, I simply re- wrote every word of it from beginning to end and sent it out to her and asked her if she would be willing to sign it. She answered that I had improved it in every paragraph and that she was very thankful to me and very glad to sign it, or words to that effect. I think if Mrs. Catt would know why I have had to spend so much time on these chapters and what a vast improvement has been made in them, she would not think that the time had been wasted. My brother came up from Washington to register Saturday and spent Sunday here. He felt dreadfully to see how behind I was with my work and said; "Simply straighten out those chapters a little and let them go in as they are without all this work on them." I asked him to read two or three of them and then give me his opinion. After he had done so he said; "I should think those chapters had been written by women of weak intellect and I don't see how you can do anything at all with them." I have the feeling that I would far rather work without salary than to have an unreliable, irresponsible lot of chapters and I know that you agree with me on this point. I am not going to write to Miss Pierce or do anything with her chapter until I get through with Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Biggers and Mrs. Stephens, and then I will take out what little information I can get from Miss Pierce's chapter and ask her for what else is needed, but before sending the letter to her I will submit it to Marjorie and see what she can do with it Yours Sincerely, Ida Husted Harper. ROBERT N. PATTERSON. Prop. P Hotel Potomac One Square South of the Capitol NEW JERSEY AVENUE AND C STREET S. E. Washington, D. C. May 12, 1923. My dear Mrs, Algeo:- I am quite willing for you to use Mrs, Spencer's and Miss Yate's chapters on Rhode Island provided due credit is given to their and to the History and its authors, I would advise you to search Vols. I,II and III of the History also for matter on Rhode Island. Please notice that everything in all volumes is copyrighted. Like all the State chapters Miss Yate's had to be much condensed and perhaps she has preserved some of the interesting material which she will turn over to you. Sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper. 171 Madison Avenue, New York, January 6, 1920 My dear Miss Blackwell: Your letter is just received and I am glad to say in regard to the endorsement of the Federations, that they have sent out a questionnaire from the headquarters. I am indeed glad [that] you are to have some help on that chapter. I wish I had some of [this] it on the forty-seven other States. Nothing in my entire life has been as great a strain on me as these State chapters and I have really wondered whether even my fine constitution could stand it. I am glad to say, however, that the worst is over and that Ohio is the only State from which I have not been able to get a line. Although I have sent back literally thousands of questions and some of them are still unanswered, yet I can see my way through, and the State chapters will be far more complete than those in Volume IV. I wrote two thousand letters from Miss Anthony's attic to get the information which went into that volume. I have kept no account of those sent out for Volume V. Those which have been sent to every writer have asked for the full names: exact dates: address of persons who have special mention. For instance, the writers would give half a dozen names in a paragraph with the address for all but one or two. I would want the address of all or of none. These have gone to every writer. In legislative action, for instance, the [*of every man could not be given but only those of the pres. of Senate, Speaker, in producers of measures, and so on.*] I know how you feel about giving the names of friends I cannot remember whether I gave you a limit or not but I should say that you should keep as near within one hundred as possible and use the most of this number for the old workers. The names of those who came in when the cause was popular and sure of success, are of little consequence compared to those of the early workers. As you say, nobody will care --2-- about these names except their descendants, but they are the very ones I have in mind. I want those noble women to have been able to hand down this heritage to their children. I regret very much to hear that your health does not improve but I am as thankful as you are that you are to have the most efficient help of Mrs. Crowley. Very sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper Telephone: 1960 VICTORIA Telegrams: "VOICELESS, LONDON." NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES. Parliament Chambers, 14, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S.W. Treasure: President: Hon. Secretaries: Mrs. Auerbach Mrs. Henry Fawcett, LL.D. Miss Edith Palliser (Parliamentary) Miss K. D. Courtney Office Hours 9:30-5:30 Saturdays - 9:30-1. PRESS DEPARTMENT,-- Please reply to Hon. Sec., Miss E. M. Leaf 5th August, 1913 Mrs. Husted Harper, 245, West 51st Street, New York. Dear Madam, I enclose a short account of "Suffrage Saturday", the culmination of our great Pilgrimage throughout England, in the hope that it may be of some use to you, and that you may be able to get it published. This account was written by Miss Collum, who is one of the staff in this Department, and who acted as Special Correspondent during the Pilgrimage to one of the London daily papers. Yours faithfully, M. Cummings Secretary of Press Department. 4th volume History of US. To Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, In memory of the almost three years we worked together in the attic, at 17 Madison Street-saw the chestnut trees in front of the large windows bud and blossom to the full in the Spring, and in the leaves fall in the autumn, this volum, after much labor on your part, came [??] forth all clothed for the battle to be placed by the side of its three predecessors- the four huge volumes completing the records of the Nineteenth Century Your sincere friend and co-worker Susan B. Anthony February 15, 1903 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.