Elizabeth Cady Stanton General Correspondence 1900-28 [Rev. Robert Collyer to Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Sweet Heart I have been west have just returned am ever so busy clearing my table of - letters, and as soon as I can let loose I will come and see you you ask "will I come" I answer will a duck swim Yours always Robert Collyer 1672 Broadway New York May 9th 1900 that Minot Savage is his assistant. When I see him I will tell him of your "faux pas". and my un happy state of much as a "careless gossip" Oh : Julius! Julius, what did possess you? National-American Woman Suffrage Association MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Honorary President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 West 94th Street, New York. Honorary President, Susan B Anthony, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, Carrie Chapman Catt, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors, Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK. Office of Honorary President. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1900 Dear Mrs. Stanton, A happy birth-day to you, there is something magic about eighty-five!! Glad you have reached it, hope you'll stay yet many a year! blessed with all your children. Wish I could be with you tomorrow, but I am going to try and be equal to celebrating the birthday a month, yes or three weeks after the fact. If all is well, and I go on improving the next three weeks at the rate I have been making, I shall go, and I think there is no doubt but I shall. 2/18 I shall start the 20th or the 1st at latest. You must be in good trim to do all the talking, and we'll sit up in our big chairs & behave just the prettiest?! Good Bye. With love to Harriot & Nora, Maggie & Bob, Will & wife, & Gerrit & wife. You wont have Theodore and his wife & children! but you'll enjoy those you have & all you have. as ever yours Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Mrs. C. B. Colby. New York, November 12, 1900. Dear Mrs.Colby: Many thanks to the Washington Suffrage Association for the kind words you sent on my birthday. I have had so many congratulatory letters and telegrams and gifts that the reproaches and ridicule of half a century ago are quite forgotten. The sweet words of affection that I am receiving from all points of the compass make the sunset of my life bright and cheering. We may already rejoice in the triumph of our cause. With equal political rights in four states of the American Union, the others must speedily follow suit. You may congratulate yourself that the Woman's Tribune has done essential service in securing this grand consummation. Your friend as ever, [*4*] 781 Madison Avenue, New York, April 12th 1901. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 250 W. 94th Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Stanton: Your favor of April 4th was fuly received, and should have been acknowledged earlier but for my great indisposition. The volumes have come to hand and I thank you very much for them. We will take them away for our vacation when I hope to be able to read them. I have always followed your work with great interest, even whenI have not been in accord with some of your positions. It would be a great pleasure to call upon you and present my personal respects, if I were in stronger health. As it is,I am just holding myself together until my vacation, doing nothing that I can avoid doing in order to be able to do what I am obliged to do. So, if I should not succeed in calling upon you, please put it down to this reason and believe that I regret it very much. My wife joins me in cordial regards. Very sincerely yours, R Heber Newton [*6a Haber Newton to Mrs. Stanton.*] 250 West 94th St New York, Sept 15th 1902 Dear Susan, Hattie and Nora arrived this morning at nine o'clock, both in good health and spirits. I want you to take it on yourself to see that Hattie has an official invitation to attend the State Convention in Buffalo, and to all other important convocations in this [*State*] state. For some reason, Mrs. Chapman Catt does not seem disposed to push her to the front, why, I do not know; unless she is jealous of her as a speaker. Now, we must make the most of her eloquence in our woman-suffrage movement. I hope she will be able to build up a successful association in this city 2 Do you intend to publish my appeal at the end of Vol. IV.? A forecast of our battle for the next half-century, should it take so long. We have just returned to the city, and are now all together at 250 West 94th St happy, I assure you, in the re-union. Yours as ever, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Per Sec. 250 West 94th " St. New York Sept 25. 1902- Dearest Susan- I am so glad to be with Mother again . She has failed sadly since last spring, and needs Maggy or me to be near her constantly I wish you could be in New York at the time of the 87th birthday, as I'm sure there wont be another. Tomorrow Theodore is to arrive on the Savoie, so the "children" will all be at hand. My co-workers seem all out of town, so it is difficult to begin my work. Last evening Miss Hay was to have called, but the storm kept her away. Is she a good, sound, dependable worker? I should love to come to Rochester, but if anything is to be done here, I must stick close. It is my inclination not, to leave New York once this winter. The work and mother seem to point to that course as wisdom. I am glad you are nearing the seed of Vol. IV. Add to it the very best Index money can command. All Mrs. Harper's facts on the State laws are invaluable, but without the Index, the best Index, would be lost. A book of reference, such as that will be, is useless, maddening, without the guidepost. I will call and see the portrait, as soon as this Storm abates. Bob & Maggy, went one Sunday by appointment to see it, & lo! no one was in. Better luck to me. My operation was nothing serious, -for hemorrhoids only, but I must be careful not to overdo for some months. Give our best regards to your sister Mary and to Mrs. Harper. Affectionately, Harriet S.B. Oct 15 - 1902 - Chicago [* 2545 N. Oakley Ave. *] Todays 'American' has a half-page that should be _framed_ or better still _writ_ _large_ or _megaphoned_ everywhere. How many hearts today will thrill in response & how many heads will begin to think? It is by a G.O.W. God bless her! So say all of us! Florence Everett (nee Florence Bacon) [*15*] [*[ac. 3458-1]*] POSTAL CARD - ONE CENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY. Chicago, IL Oct 15 [?] 1902 Mrs. Cady Stanton 250 N. 94th St New York N.Y. Form No, 168. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in the transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. ECEIVED at Main Office, Nos. 15, 17 and 19 Reynold's Arcade, Oct 26 1902 ROCHESTER, N. Y. ated No New York 26 Susan B Anthony 17 Madison St Roch Mother passed away today Harriet Stanton Blatch RECEIVED at Main Office, Nos. 15, 17 and 19 Reynold's Arcade, Oct 26 1902 ROCHESTER, N. Y. Dated New York NY To Miss Susan B Anthony 17 Madison St Rochester Private funeral for you and ourselve only, wednesday eleven, apartment fu[?] trained nurse Magg is ill. Harriet Stanton Bla This Telegram has just been received at main office, Reynold's Arcade, where any reply ALWAYS OPEN. should be sent. CABLE AND MONEY ORDER OFFICE. XXX Nu New York, Oct 27 02 Mary S Anthony. 17 Madison St Rochester, N.Y. Am at Moshers, Graham, court one hundred sixteenth St. and Seventh Avenue. Susan B Anthony. [1909] Form No, 168. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in the transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. 468 RECEIVED at Main Office, Nos. 15, 17 and 19 Reynold's Arcade, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Ny 216 Iy Mq. 13 Paid. 512 Pm Briar-Cliff, Manor, N.Y.Oct 27., 1902 Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison, st., Rochester,N.Y. Are you going New-York do you want me answer [dare] Horticultural School pleasantville. Rachel Foster.Avery. Replied to her that you left Rochester for New York at 9 this morning. [MSQ] [*First telegram--of Mrs Stanton's death--or indeed of her illness!! Oct 26th Sunday P.M.*] [See Telegram from Harriet Stanton Blatch, Oct. 26, 1902 ] Oct 26 [New York?] {[?y] [?] Madison [K???] [?neral] Wednesday Department of State, Washington, October 27, 1902. My dear Mr. Stanton: - I received at the same time this morning your letter of the 24th and the paper containing the sad news of your mother's death. Your natural grief will be mitigated and consoled by the recollection of her long and fruitful life, which has been so honorable to herself and so profitable to her country. She leaves to her children the heritage of a blameless character and a righteous fame. Yours faithfully Theodore Stanton, Esquire, reform Club, 233 5th Avenue John Hay RECEIVED at Oct 30th 1902 Dated Ossining NY Oct 30 via Rd. 1053 Third Ave N.Y. To Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Lapham; Would you like me to go to you for tonight or tomorrow night wire reply Pleasantville care Agricultural school Rachel Foster Avery. SEND the following message subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to. Oct. 30. 1902. 190 Sing Sing, N.Y. To Dear Aunt Susan, Thinking Mrs. Lapham had a telephone I have tried to phone you from here - failing that I have just telegraphed you [tha] asking whether you would like me to run down for tonight or tomorrow. Lucy sent me Mrs Lapham's address - I wired and wrote you to Rochester. The paper (World) READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK. said the funeral would be private and now I hear the word (too late) that it was public. Had I known that in time I should have gone of course, My regards to Mrs. Lapham - Very lovingly, Rachel. ???????????? the following message and ???? company, that said Company shall not be liable for mistakes of delays in the transmission of delivery, or for non-delivery of any UNEREPEATED message, beyond the amount received for sending the same; nor for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for non-delivery of any REPEATED MESSAGE, beyond fifty times the sum received for sending the same, unless specially insured, nor in any cases for delays arising from unavoidable interruption in the working of its lines, or for errors in cipher or obscure messages. And this Company is hereby made the agent of the sender, without liability, to forward any message over the lines of any other Company when necessary to reach its destination. 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The Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. Company when necessary to reach its destination. Correctness in the transmission of a message to any point on the lines of this Company can be INSURED by contract in writing, stating agreed amount of risk, and payment of premium thereon, at the following rates, in addition to the usual charge for repeated messages, viz, one per cent. for any distance not exceeding 1,000 miles, and two per cent. for any greater distance. No employee of the Company is authorized to vary the foregoing. No responsibility regarding messages attaches to this Company until the same are presented and accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of the Company's messengers, he acts for that purpose as the agent of the sender. Messages will be delivered free within the established free delivery limits of the terminal office. For delivery at a greater distance, a special charge will be made to cover the cost of such delivery. The Company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. School of Agriculture and Practical Horticulture TRUSTEES Frederick Hull Hon. John G. Carlisle Ernesto G. Fabbri E. Morgan Grinnell Theodore Havemeyer Rev. J. W. Hegeman Francis W. Holbrook William A. Keener Rudolph H. Kissel Walter W. Law Mrs. Charles R. Lowell Miss C. R. Lowell V. Everit Macy Miss Delia W. Marble Hon. Jacob F. Miller Charles E. Pellew William Jay Schieffelin James Speyer Mrs. Gordon Wendell Monray Williams OFFICERS PRESIDENT Theodore Langdon Van Norden VICE-PRESIDENTS Hon. Abram S. Hewitt Hon. Wm. E. Dodge TREASURER R. Fulton Cutting SECRETARY Thatcher T. P. Luquer GEORGE T. POWELL, DIRECTOR. AGRICULTURALIST S. Fraser HORTICULTURALIST M. G. Kains ASS.T. HORTICULTURALIST W. D. Hurd Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1902. My dear Aunt Susan, I saw the notice of Mrs. Stanton in the N.Y. World late yesterday afternoon and wired you at once asking whether you were going to N.Y. and wished me to meet you there. No answer coming may mean you had left home before my telegram reached Madison St. or that you were not going. I know you must be glad the passing over was so quick and so easy but even that gladness can't keep you from [3/22] feeling sorrowful and lonesome just now. I want to go to visit you very soon after thanksgiving. How will that be? When shall I come? With sympathy and love Rachel. 1902 Form No. 168 THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. This company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following Errors can be guarded against only be repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within after the message is filed with the Company for transmission. This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above. THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. 24[9] RECEIVED at Main Office, Nos. 15, 17 and 19 Reynold's Arcade, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Bu 99 ay p ll paid llo p Ma Buffalo NY Oct 27 Miss Susan B Anthony , 17 Madison St,Rochester N.Y. Am grieved for you Do not abandon Buffalo it needs you Mrs Richard Williams This Telegram has just been received at main office, Reynold's Arcade, where any reply should be sent. ALWAYS OPEN. CABLE AND MONEY ORDER Indianapolis, Ind, October 27 02 Miss Susan B Anthony,. 17 Madison Ave. Rochester, N.Y. Dear General, I know you are sad this day happy are you to have experience such a friendship. May Wright. Sewall [3/24] New York, Oct 27 02 Miss Susan B Anthony. Rochester, N.Y. Dear Miss Anthony most sincere sympathy for your great loss. Arthur Lawrence [3/25] Hampton Con Oct 28 1902 My Dear Friend Miss Anthony The Banger Comercial of this morning says Dear Mrs Stanton has passed on to the Higher Life only says She died from old age how could anyone ever think of Mrs Stanton as being old I would have loved to look into those lovely eyes and clasp those beautiful [*3/26*] hands. but it is all right I cannot say a word more I have just written you. With Love Jane H Spofford [*3/27*] Oct 28th, 1903 East Pembroke Mass Dear Miss A, The expected picture came safely and is now in the the hands of those who have the future disposal of it. I did not think, as I was looking at it, and thinking of you and Mrs. Stanton, that she would pass on so soon, though I have often wondered how, in the inactive manor which she has indulged for several years, she could hold out as long as she has. But I think it was her unusually active brain at work [3/29] that has helped her to hold out bodily. As you, with your always active habits, and healthy, natural way of living, are likely to do good work here for many years longer, do not expend strength in grieving over the loss of so well spent a life as hers has been. I shall expect soon to hear that you have worked up something original, some work for the younger suffragists to do, to help on the day when women who desire to accomplish more for the good of humanity, can have the opportunity to do so. Let it be one of the brightest thoughts of your life, and give the present workers an inspiration to urge on the work with the consecration and unselfishness that you have done all these years. With thanks I am Aff'y yours Lavina A. Hatch [*Miss Hatch died very soon after - S.B.A.*] 304 The Woman's Tribune. (Established 1883.) TERMS: One Dollar a Year. Five Trial Copies, Ten Cents. 2420 Fourteenth Street, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct-29 1902 My beloved friend My heart turns lovingly + tenderly to you in these early days of our loss. Yet I can hardly imagine the situation. I had not seen Mrs Stanton for a little over three years but had been planning to go to the National W.C Y. particularly to stop in New York + see her. But there is so much to do + plan in the early autumn both with paper + house + also in connection with all the societies to which I belong. so that I could not go, which I shall now ever regret. [*3/31] [*3/32] I trust you are well + will not be thinking that because our dear friend slipped away you are to do so too when you get to be her age - because you are spare, take exercise, + eat frugally + have a much better chance for longevity than did she. The romance, the picturesqueness the delights of the dear old days of individualism, centred around you + Mrs Stanton. May you live long to be [?? these] for us the embodiment of these. Ever yours in the bonds of personal love, united grief, and devotion to the Holy War. Clara Bewick Colby [*[1902, Oct.]*] My dear queen mother I wish you a very very happy birthday. You must reciev heaps letters dont you. I hope you got the photo of me in indian costume. I am so glad you think of me and that you write me such kind letters. If you have got a good photo of you that has been taken latly I would be very glad to have one with your signature. You have no idea how glad I will be When I shall be able to give you a good kiss and how proud I am to be your grandchild. I would be very glad [I] if you could rewrite me some lines after your birthday party so tell me all that hapned on that day. Is not my pony pretty on the photo. I am very proud for there is here a young gentelman a cousin of one of my aunts who is known in France because he rides so well [that] which told me whilst we were hunting that I rode exceedingly well. I found this letter in Nellie's room one day during the Easter holidays, when she was away, in 1903. The letter was already to send, when she got word of mother's death. P. Mrs. E. C. Stanton New York city Etats- Unis d'Amerique [*209*] [*206*] From Helen Stanton, grand daughter of Eliz. Cady Stanton to her grand mother or Queen Mother as she was called by her grand children. We went to the trou du Cabel last Sunday it is a big grotto we were terribly dirty in coming out. We play tennis from time to time I like it very, very much. I hope we will skate this winter. Lisette and I can do the outside edge and go backwards. We are very numerous here now for aunt Françoise from the Montagnet invited three young gentelmen and a lady. We are eleven when we go out hunting. I hope my aunts and uncles are quite well and many good kisses to you dear queen mother, Yours ever loving. Helen. [*308*] ?nt: ?wright, Gisborne. ?etary: ?nderson, ? Street Christchurch. ?surer: ?amson, Wangunui. The National Council of the Women of New Zealand. GISBORNE NEW ZEALAND December 22 1902 [1902] Miss Susan B. Anthony Rochester U.S.A. Dear Madam, In this hour of separation from the life-long friend, who has lately received a summons to come up higher, the Executive [t]of the National Council of the Women of N,Z. feels constrained to offer you its heartfelt sympathy. We can scarcely hope that the feeling of irreparable loss will ever be quite healed; but, gradually, we trust sweet memories of the grand and fruitful work you and Mrs Stanto n have accomplished together will take the place of sadness, and you will realize how fitting it seems, that you, who have always borne the hardest burdens, should also have found yourself chosen to meet this final blow. Wherever the English tongue is spoken, there will the [na] names of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton by by-and-by cherished, loved and venerated by a now rapidly evolving humanity. Praying that you may be long spared to see of the travail of your soul, and to have your heart's dearest desire granted, We remain, dear Madam, Yours faithfully W.H. Sievwright President Christina Henderson Secretary [*[From Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook #33*] 307 7443 Devon St., Mt. Airy, .Philadelphia. October 31, 1902. My dear Aunt Susan, When I read of the going away of Mrs. Stanton, my first thought of course was of you for I knew that it would bring an awful aching to your soul and I did feel so sorry for you. I am glad that you could go to New York, and am very anxious to know how you are. I wonder whether you returned to the New York Conveyion or whether you are still in New York. Percy C. Anthony [*[From Susan B Anthony Scrapbook #3]*] THE AUSTRALIAN.... Woman's Sphere. The Best Advertising Medium to reach Women all over Australia. Price, One Penny Monthly. List of Annual Subscribers open to Advertisers' Inspection ... Office: 88 OXFORD CHAMBERS, BOURKE STREET, MELBOURNE. December 26th 1902 My dear Miss Anthony I don't know how to express my sympathy for you in the great loss you have sustained through the death of your dear friend Mrs Cady Stanton. Under ordinary circumstances the death of such a co-worker would mean a wrench, but when that co-worker was also your close personal friend of fifty years, the loss is the harder to bear. Among the many blessings of my trip to the United States I shall always regard my meeting Mrs Stanton as one of the greatest, the books she gave me are next to yours in my most precious possessions. I wonder just where our world would be today if she had not summoned that Seneca Falls Convention! At its annual meeting held just after we received news of Mrs Stanton's death the following resolution was passed by the United Council for Women's Suffrage:- that the United Council for Women's Suffrage desires to place on record its deep sense of loss at the death of Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, + to testify to its appreciation of the valuable services she rendered to the Cause of Womanhood suffrage all over the world. I am going to try + get an account of her life into our leading newspapers. With loving sympathy, my dear Miss Anthony I am Ever yrs. affectly Vida Goldstein 302 1902 How sorry we all are to know of Mrs. Stanton's passing away. Somehow I cannot think of her with any sadness, though, because to me she was always jolly, she had the things she cared for in this world, she did a great deal for humanity, and she had plenty of her own to care for her in her later years. Of course it is sad when we think of one of us really stopping, but I feel less sadness about Mrs. Stanton than most people. I am asked to talk about her at a club next Tuesday. I shall tell only the funny things I knew of her and the great things she did. She would not want us to have any sadness about it. I am missing Elizabeth in the office, but still I am getting on. Very lovingly yours, Harriet Taylor Upton Dictated- J.O. [From Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook #3] 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, Philadelphis, 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 COMMITTE, ELNORA BABCOCK, DUNKIRK, N.Y. OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, 17 MADISON ST., ROCHESTER, N.Y. May 18, 1903. Theodore Stanton, Paris, France. My Dear Theodore,- I mailed you Vol. IV of the History on the 16th, prepaid, and Uncle Sam promises to take it to you free, so I hope it will go straight. I meant to have sent it to you sooner but, alas, I do so often the thing last which should have been done first. The book was directed to care of that, [?] that is published in French [?] - no - it was to [?] -. so you will [?] Now, I think I have a list of the cities in which you placed the other three volumes. Before I mail this I will see if I can find it. Now, how would you advise me to get this volume placed by the side of them? Can I send each book by mail? I want you to be particular to tell me what your book costs you, because if my payment of 35 cents will take it to you without further charge it will take it to the libraries of Germany, etc. without further cost, and this will be a great deal cheaper than to have to first send them to you and trouble you to scatter them. I hope you will write me and tell me all about it, Dear me! how lonesome I do feel, not to have any Mrs. Stanton to write to, to think of going to see, and talking to! It was a great going out of my life when she went, but she is gone not to return and we only can follow, where? and Echo answers, where? With love to Marguerite and the girls and the boy, Affectionately yours Susan B. Anthony This has reference to my letter to her mother on her 85th Birthday - written the evening of Nov. 11th 1900 [From Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook #1] Written in the spring of 1903 Dear Susan, This was to Mother on her 85th birthday. It was among her papers. I have found her first speech written after the first Convention at Seneca Falls. 'Tis beautifully written in her hand, tied with blue ribbon, & fairly well preserved. [*1*] (over) Where shall I send it? It ought to be treasured somewhere. Harry goes to Castine, Maine Thursday. I follow in ten days time. Lovingly, Harriot B. Miss Nora Stanton Blatch Ithaca - N.Y. The first three volumes of this History are the grand monument builder by your grand-mother - "Queen Mother" - I should have said - Elizabeth Cady Stanton. That you may be fully worthy her noble character - is the hope of yours and your mother's and and Queen Mothers sincere and affectionate friend, coworker Susan B. Anthony 17. Madison Street Rochester - N.Y. Nov. 18, 1903 [*63*] History of Woman Suffrage. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Illustrated with steel engravings. In three volumes. Vol. I. 1848-1861. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." Second Edition. Susan B. Anthony. Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann. London: 25 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Paris: G. Fischbacher, 33 Rue de Seine. 1889. [*64*] Copyright, 1881, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Copyright, 1887, by Susan B. Anthony. History of Woman Suffrage. Edited By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Illustrated with steel engravings. In three volumes Vol. II 1861-1876 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. Susan B. Anthony, 17 Madison St., Rochester, N. Y. [*65*] Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CHARLES MANN PRINTING CO., Rochester, N. Y. HISTORY of WOMAN SUFFRAGE. edited by ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. ILLUSTRATED WITH STEEL ENGRAVINGS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. 1876-1885. "WOMEN ARE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, ENTITLED TO ALL THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES GUARANTEED TO CITIZENS BY THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION." SUSAN B. ANTHONY. ROCHESTER, N. Y.: CHARLES MANN. LONDON: 25 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. PARIS: G. FISCHBACHER, 33 RUE DE SEINE. 1887. [*66] Copyright 1886, by Susan B. Anthony. Charles Mann, Printer, Rochester, N.Y. The History of Woman Suffrage Edited by Ida Husted Harper Illustrated with copperplate and photogravure engravings In Six Volumes Volume V 1900-1920 After Seventy Years Came the Victory National American Woman Suffrage Association [*68*] Copyright, 1922, by National American Woman Suffrage Association Printed and bound by J. J. Little & Ives Company New York THE HISTORY of WOMAN SUFFRAGE edited by IDA HUSTED HARPER Illustrated with Copperplate and Photogravure Engravings IN SIX VOLUMES VOLUME VI 1900-1920 IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY EVERY CITIZEN HAS A VOTE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Of the six volumes the first three were edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Grace. The fourth was edited by Susan B Anthony and Ida [?] Harper, and the last five volumes by Ida [?] Harper. 100 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION PRINTED AND BOUND BY J. J. LITTLE & IVES COMPANY NEW YORK 679 [*Title pages of VOL. IV of The History of Woman Suffrage which was regarded by one of its leading publishers of New York as one of the most questionable misrepresentations in library annuals.*] THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE EDITED BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY & IDA HUSTED HARPER ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATE AND PHOTOGRAVURE ENGRAVINGS IN FOUR VOLUMES VOL. IV 1883-1900 "PERFECT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS FOR WOMAN, CIVIL, LEGAL AND POLITICAL" SUSAN B. ANTHONY 17 MADISON STREET, ROCHESTER, N. Y. [*67*] Melrose, Mass., April 10, 1905 Dear Mrs. Blatch, In the early part of my acquaintances with your mother, we corresponded frequently, chiefly in reference to the difficulties existing between Lucy Stone and Miss An- thony. I knew nothing about them, and yet they were an annoyance. Later, they were destroyed, as the misunder- When the split came between the National Woman Suffrage association and the "Boston wing" as it was called, all sorts of rumors & scandals floated out from the hall. But calmer views developed when it became apparent that the "Boston Wing" could not make the American Woman suffrage society a success. Mrs. Livermore though very critical at one time declares in 1905 that she knows "nothing about" the friction. 31a Both Mrs. Blatch and Mr. Stanton posed the same question to Mrs. Livermore - Mr. Higginson, viz., What was the fundamental cause of the split of the Boston group from the National Woman Suffrage Association. [32] April 12 '05. Dear Theodore, This is Mrs. L.’s reply to my appeal. Her answer is interesting as it lays on Susan the row. I gather the same version from lots of Mother's letters to Susan. She begs Susan again & again to let Lucy alone to do her work in her own way. I have taken a little place up the Hudson for the summer, 'tis near Ossining where Harry still works joyously. Today I am running up there to meet a painter & paperer who is to do some work for me. Nora did not come down for the spring vacation, but plugged away on her thesis. Dean Crow sent me word by Nora that he would call last Saturday night! An olive branch. I kept him on to dinner, he seemed quite his old self. So his injury whatever it was has healed. Love, H I am on Vol III, Vol IV of the Rev. standings ceased and a kindly feeling prevailed. If I had preserved the letters you would not [have] now publish[ed] them. It seems to me that your brother may be able to make an interesting collection of your mother's letters from what I know of her as a correspondent and her racy letters as she travelled and wrote for the "Revolution," and other periodicals. Yrs. truly, M. A. Livermore Sept 20, 1910 Ipswich, Mass. Dear Mr. Stanton, I am taken from the Brevant followed me, where I am spending a short time near my married daughters. I shall be returning to my Cambridge Lane in about ten days. I cannot give the question you but any answer from memory. In the old period of controversy I had a bundle of your mother's letters; but I think that they may have disappeared with the controversies which led to them & at any rate will ascertain & let you know. I had seen the notice of your coming back & then read it with interest. You are right in thinking that I have not been in Europe for some years & it is fully forbidden me by reason of age; I being now 86-1/2 years old--the oldest of Harvard graduates, except five. Should you be in Cambridge or Boston after Oct 1, you will find me easy of access, on Buckingham St. just off the Observatory Ground, on the South side. -- called Huron Avenue branch Yours very truly & cordially Thomas Wentworth Higginson My wife wishes also to be cordially remembered. [*326*] see them and know of this incident. There were women at Brighton at the time your mother was there, who knew nothing of womens suffrage, and to these Mrs. Stanton was an education. She did us all good and I rejoiced that she came. She said she enjoyed it and I think you will be glad to have this reminder of that visit. With all good wishes for you, the cause you represent. I am sincerely yours. Laura C. Langford [*as, 3458-1*] 147 Willow Street Brooklyn N.Y. June 14th 1911 Dear Mrs Blatch [*not encl*] The enclosed photograph was taken at Brighton Beach many years ago when your honored mother was a guest of the Seidl Society at the Brighton [*33*] while it is not a finished photograph it is a good likeness. I was President of the Seidl Society and was instrumental in having both Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony as its guests at different times. Last week while putting my house in order before leaving the city for the summer I came upon these pictures, and it occurred to me that perhaps it would give you pleasure to (page 2) Beach Hotel The Seidl Society -- was given its regular Summer Season of Orchestral Concerts under the directorship of Anton Seidl, and Mrs. Stanton has worked to spend a week there. She came and gave us great pleasure by so doing. One of the members took her picture as she sat on the piazza, and From Helen: A fourteen-year old granddaughter who has the most lofty devotion to her grandmother, though she has never seen her, cabled from France: "Cut a curl from Queen mother's hair. Desperately sad. Place wreath immortal flowers from me on grave" Evidently the child sent this pathetic message by herself and leaving all the small words in it must have drawn heavily on her little savings. This cablegram was received in New York and a wreath of flowers was laid on the grave by me. Theodore Stanton. Paris, August, 1911 This letter though not belonging to those of 1896 in date does belong here because of its subject matter The Society for Ethical Culture of New York (Founded 1876) Central Park West and 64th Street [Felix Adler to Theo. Stanton] Office of the Executive Secretary, 2 West 64th Street May 11, 1914 Dear Mr. Stanton: I receive your lines just as I am making preparations to go abroad for a short trip. The question I answer in the affirmative, but perhaps the following explanation will not be superfluous. Nothing perhaps is more characteristic of the religion of Israel than its benedictions. Some hundred of them were spoken day by day,--life was embroidered with blessings. There are in particular three classes. One class relating to every kind of enjoyment. There are blessings to be spoken in smelling sweet fragrances, when tasting wine, when seeing the flowers first bloom in the spring, when catching sight of mountains or the great sea, when seeing beautiful persons; but also, and this is characteristic, when seeing those who are afflicted with loathsome disease,-- the blessing in this case being a humble acceptance of the divine decree. The second class of benedictions are pronounced in connection with the performance of religious duties. It was esteemed a high privilege to perform religious duties of any kind, a mark of the chosen people; and because women were exempt from many onerous religious duties, and in general were not required to be students of the law in the same sense that men were, the benediction was spoken "Blessed art Thou who hast not made me a woman." It is in line with the other benediction, "Blessed art Thou who hast not made me a pagan." The phrase sounds so harsh, and is capable of such sweeping misinterpretation, that the above remarks may possible be useful to you. Of course we must remember that among the Hebrews, despite these discriminations, the mother and wife were always regarded with tender reverence. Among a people who in their sacred books possess the last chapter of Proverbs it could hardly have been otherwise. [224] I shall return by way of Paris, leaving on the morning of July 1st on the Bremen boat, but I may be in Paris only a single day. If you happen to be within reach, and will send me a line "Care of American Express Company", it is possible that we may be able to arrange a meeting. Yours very truly, Felix Adler Mr. Theodore Stanton 7 Bis, rue Raynouard Passy, Paris, France P.S.--The third class of benedictions, on which I did not dwell, are liturgical. Graduate Council Union College Schenectady, New York May Sixth 1915 Mr. Theodore Stanton 7815 Rue Raynouard, Passy, Paris. My dear Mr. Stanton: In reply to your inquiry of April fourteenth I would say that the statistics of the early days are very meagre and the only information I can give you concerning Eleazer L. Cady is that he entered Union College from Johnstown, N. Y., graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1826 and died in that same year at Johnstown, N. Y. Regretting that I can not supply you with more facts, I am Sincerely yours, C. N. Waldron Secretary. McR. [*Eleazer was Judge Cady's only son. His loss was a Terrible blow, so in his desolation he constantly said to Elizabeth, "Oh, my child, if you were only a boy." The effect of this is described by Mrs. Stanton in the book entitled "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" [Harper Bros 1922] vol. 1, p.22.] The "story" referenced to was an occurrence at a dinner given by Mrs. McLaren, wife of Charles McLaren, M.R. After dinner, stories of psychic experience were being given. Mrs. Stanton's daughter gave one about her mother. This story wandered into the records of the Society for Psychical Research, Sir Henry Lucy's "Sixty Years in the Wilderness." 15, Waterloo Place, London. S.W. 1- Sept 1915 Dear Sir, You are quite right--the story (though without names) occurs in Sir Henry Lucy's Sixty Years in the Wilderness--since published in book form-- It was first published in the "Combile" fr July 1912, page 112. If you quote the story, you will no doubt make the customary acknowledgment in your biography of the late Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I am dear Sir, Yours faithfully The Editors Theodore Stanton Esq. 7 fis Rue Raynouard Passy France August 23, 1916 HOTEL GRAMATAN LAWRENCE PARK BRONXVILLE, N.Y. My dear Mr. Stanton: - Your letter found me here, a half-hour by train from New York and many degrees cooler. I arrived only last week from California, where I went early last February. I expected to remain till autumn but have crossed the continent in mid- summer to attend the Atlantic City Convention. It will be, I am sure, the most important ever [*39*] The hotel rates will be high and many of us will go to the good boarding houses that abound in that resort. Should you decide to go I will have a program, etc sent you. The Natl Headqrs are now at 171 Madison Avenue, twice as large as the old ones. We are at a very critical stage now and great care and foresight are necessary. In answer to your question: In the early days of the Congressional Union Miss Paul called me on the telephone one day in Washington- in the winter of 1914 - and asked if Miss Anthony were not the "author" of the Sixteenth Amendment. I answered that no one could be called the "author" as it was simply a copy of the Fifteenth, with "sex" substituted for "race, color, etc." "But didn't Miss Anthony prepare it?" she persisted. "As Senator Sargent was the first to introduce it I imagine he prepared it," I replied, "but it belonged to all the pioneer suffragists." The next thing I knew about it held by the old association founded in 1869 by your mother and Mrs. Stanton. Let me urge you to be present, as it will give you a large insight of our movement which you could not get in any other way. It begins the 6th of Sept. but you would not need to get there until the 7th. We are to decide the future policy of the association and especially if it shall abandon its non partisan policy of almost half a century. I am opposed to its doing so and shall lead one section of the debate. HOTEL GRAMATAN LAWRENCE PARK BRONXVILLE, N.Y. the Union had adopted the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" as its slogan. This seemed to "catch on" throughout the country and is now universally used. In former days it was always referred to as the "Sixteenth Amendment" -- now it will be the Eighteenth if another does not get in ahead of it. I suppose in preparing your mother's speeches you used those she carefully revised, which after her death were sent to your brother's on Long Island. I remember the last time I visited her with what pride she had her secretary show me how carefully they had been wrapped and put away. I am indeed glad they are to be published. None like them are being made in these days. I used many extracts from them in Volume IV of the History. Miss Anthony could hardly endure to see them scissored. I don't wonder that you wanted to get away from that awful hell in Europe. Very sincerely yours, Ida Husted Harper. From Ida Husted Harper to Theodore Stanton. 39b Lawyers Doctors Business Women National Advisory Council Chairman, Mrs. John Rogers, N. Y. Secretary, Miss Maude Younger, Cal. Mrs. Robert Adamson, N. Y. Mrs. Chas. F. Amidon, N. Dak. Miss Jessie Ashley, N. Y. Mrs. Mary Austin, Cal. Mrs. Cyrus Beard, Wyo. Mrs. Adolphus Clay Bartlett, Ill. Mrs. Mary Ritter Beard, N. Y. Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, N. Y. Mrs. Alfred H. Bright, Minn. Reverend Olympia Brown, Wis. Miss Mary A. Burnham, Pa. Mrs. Dora Phelps Buell, Col. Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon, Utah Mrs. John Carey, Ind Mrs. Joseph Carey, Wyo. Mrs. Lillian Harris Coffin, Cal. Mrs. William L. Colt, N. Y. Mrs. Frank Cothren, N. Y. Mrs. Lucius M. Cuthbert, Col. Mrs. George H. Day, Conn. Dr. Maria Dean, Mont. Mrs. John Dewey, N. Y. Miss Lavinia Dock, Pa. Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, N. Y. Mrs. Crystal Eastman, N. Y. Mrs. J. Andre Fouilhoux, Ore. Miss Susan P. Frost, So. Car. Mrs. Emma Maddox Funck, Md. Mrs. Elizabeth Gerberding, Cal. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, N. Y. Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin, Cal. Mrs. Adolphus E. Graupner, Cal. Mrs. Edwin C. Grice, Pa. Mrs. Jennie Law Hardy, Mich. Mrs. W. E. Hardy, Neb. Mrs. F. R. Hazard, N. Y. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, Cal. Mrs. George Hendrie, Mich. Mrs. Frederick C. Howe, N. Y. Miss Mary Ingham, Pa. Mrs. Agnes M. Jenks, R. I. Miss Helen Keller, Mass. Mrs. Florence Kelley, N. Y. Mrs. John B. Kendrick, Wyo. Dr. Cora Smith King, Wash. Mrs. William Bross Lloyd, Ill. Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye, D. C. Mrs. Ida Finney Mackrille, Cal. Mrs. Lionel S. Marks, Mass. Miss Julia Marlowe, N. Y. Miss Helen Marot, N. Y. Mrs. Harris Masterson, Tex. Miss Edyth Wynne Matthison, Conn. Mrs. Lilla Day Monroe, Kans. Mrs. John T. Morrison, Idaho Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, D. C. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson, Ind. Mrs. Marsden Perry, R. I. Mrs. Bernice McCoy, Idaho Mrs. William Spencer Murray, Md. Mrs. Annie Porritt, Conn. Mrs. William Predergast, N. Y. Mrs. Nina G. Proctor, N. Y. Mrs. James Hayden Rector, Ohio Mrs. Henry Ridgly, Del. Miss Margaret Roberts, Idaho Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Ill. Mrs. Charles Edward Russell, D. C. Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, N. Y. Mrs. Frederick Sanborn, Cal. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Ind. Mrs. Austin Sperry, Cal. Mrs. Albert Steinfeld, Ariz. Mrs. Julius Stone, Ohio Mrs. David D. Terry, Ark. Mrs. Mary C. Therkelsen, Ore. Mrs. Robert Gibbes Thomas, S. C. Mrs. W. I. Thomas, Ill. Miss Clara L. Thompson, Mo. Mrs. Shelley Tollhurst, Cal. Mrs. Richard Wainwright, D. C. Mrs. Hettie D. M. Wallis, Tex. Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, D. C. Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe Watson, Cal. Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, N. J. Mrs. John Jay White, D. C. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, D. C. Dr. Marian Walker Williams, Ariz. Miss Bird Wilson, Nev. Mrs. S. B. M. Young, Mont. Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, LAFAYETTE SQUARE WASHINGTON, D. C. Colors-Purple, White and Gold National Executive Committee Miss Alice Paul, N. J., Chairman Miss Lucy Burns, N. Y. , Vice-Chairman Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, N. Y. Mrs. John Winters Brannan, N. Y. Mrs. Gilson Gardner, D. C. Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, Md. Mrs. William Kent, Cal. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Pa. Miss Anne Martin, Nev. District Chairmen Middle Atlantic States Mrs. Henry Bruere, N. Y. North Middle Western States Mrs. A. R. Colvin, Minn. Inland Suffrage States Mrs. E. M. Garnett, Utah Pacific Coast States Miss Frances Joliffe, Cal. National Committee of State Chairmen Mrs. W. D. Ascough, Conn. Mrs. Frances C. Axtell, Wash. Mrs. Ethel Barriger, Mo. Miss Eleanor Barker, Ind. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, N. Y. Mrs. Edward Breitung, Mich. Mrs. Dan Casement, Kans. Mrs. Margaret Zane Cherdron, Utah Mrs. A. R. Colvin, Minn. Mrs. J. Borden Estee, Vt. Mrs. Bertha W. Fowler, Col. Mrs. John Gibbs, S. C. Miss Emily Stearns, D. C. Mrs. C. S. Haire, Mont. Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, Del. Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins, N. J. Miss Ada James, Wis. Mrs. Edward M. Jarrett, Ark. Miss Gail Laughlin, Cal. Mrs. Harry Lowenburg, Pa. Dr. Florence Manion, Ore. Miss Anne Martin, Nev. Mrs. Cyrus Mead, Ohio Mrs. Sophie G. Meredith, Va. Mrs. Walter Morey, Mass. Mrs. Robert Morton, Wyo. Mrs. Elizabeth Darrow Oneil, N. Dak. Mrs. Joshua Raynolds, New Mexico Mrs. W. H. Sawtelle, Ariz. Mrs. Townsend Scott, Md. Mrs. Bertram Sippy, Ill. Mrs. Edward G. Uhl, Conn. Mrs. F. W. Walker, Idaho Mrs. Hugh L. White, Tenn. Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse, Me. Mrs. Clara Snell Wolfe, Tex. National Departments Finance Chairman, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Pa. Legislative Chairman, Miss Anne Martin, Nev. Membership Chairman, Miss Emily Stearns, Va. National Headquarters, Committee of 200 for Maintenance of Chairman, Mrs. William Kent, Cal. Organization Chairman, Miss Doris Stevens, Nebr. Pageant Chairman, Miss Hazel MacKaye, Mass. Press Chairman, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, D. C. Research Chairman, Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, Conn. Treasurer Miss Joy L. Webster, Nebr. Executive Secretary Miss Virginia Arnold, N. C. Field Secretaries Eastern States Miss Margaret Whittemore, Mich. Central States Miss Elsie Hill, Conn. Southern States Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson, N. C. Western States Miss Mabel Vernon, Del. 35 40 West Avenue September 2, 1916. Norwalk, Conn. My dear Mr. Stanton: So far as I know the name "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" like Topsy "just growed". My own use of it when writing of the long-sought Federal amendment, was inspired by a desire to separate it, in the minds of the general public from the Shafroth-Palmer Federal Amendment, then under consideration. As far as I can recollect--though I have no records at hand to verify my recollection--the first use of this name, as a designation for the "Federal Amendment" was in the anniversary number of the Suffragist, in honor of Susan B. Anthony's birthday, of February 13, 1915, in which I made a comparative study of the defeated Bristow-Mondell Amendment and the Shafroth-Palmer Amendment. My reasons for calling it the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" were: first, to clearly define to the general public (uninitiated in the legislative procedure of naming bills by the introducer's name in each session) which was the bill to which Miss Anthony had given her life support since September 24, 1865. (see last paragraph -253, Volume 1) ; and, second, to sharply define for Members of Congress which was the old universally endorsed amendment and which was the new amendment, so violently opposed by the majority of suffragists. Unless one was in Washington and on the lobby work, we could scarcely conceive the abyssmal ignorance of even the friends of suffrage--let alone the indifferent and opposed-on the difference between the two amendments. -2- I do not know whether or not this article of February 13, 1915 was the first time Bristow-Mondel amendment was designated as the Susan B. Anthony amendment. I think it was. Certainly my use of the name at the time (though I had no idea the name would persist) was to define sharply both for public and Congress which was the time honored, universally supported amendment and which was the new and generally execrated one. The fact that the public at once took up the designation showed that there was need of a designation that would persist in every Congress instead of changing with each new introduction. Now that so many in both Houses, introduce the new bill each year the situation would be most confusing did "The" amendment not have a permanent name. Had I realized the name would stick, I would have called it the Anthony- Stanton Amendment. Perhaps it is not too late to make the change. I will suggest to Miss Paul that an editorial on the subject be written, telling how the new designation chances to come into use, and asking all FederalAmendment workers in future to call "The" amendment, the Anthony-Stanton Amendment. By quoting the passage above referred to in Mrs. Harper's history, the story could be emphasized and equal credit given-- as indeed it should be given-- to your mother. Her opening speech at the first Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association should be quoted at the same time. I am more than sorry if my effort to be explicit resulted in robbing Mrs. Stanton of the equal credit due her and I earnestly hope the Union will at once officially redesignate "The" Amendment as the "Anthony-Stanton" amendment. I am sure with the reasons fully explained, all suffragists would at once use the new title. I am looking forward with intense interest to your book. It will be a veritable mine for political workers for the "Anthony-Stanton Amendment." Very cordially yours, Helena Hill Weed 37A TELEPHONE MAIN 5437 THE SUFFRAGIST WEEKLY ORGAN OF THE CONGRESSIONAL UNION FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE Editorial and Business Offices Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. September 2, 1916 Mr. Theodore Stanton, Shoreham, Long Island, New York Dear Mr. Stanton: Mrs. Weed has forwarded to me a letter of yours to her asking when and how the term "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" came to be used. This name was adopted for the old federal suffrage amendment shortly after the Shafroth-Palmer amendment was introduced in Congress in March 1914, at the suggestion of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. I enclose a copy of the Shafroth-Palmer amendment. Very serious objections were brought against this bill and in an effort to arouse sentiment for the old measure and to remind suffragists of its long history, it was called by the name of Miss Anthony, who, I believe, drafted the measure in 1875. Since that time the name has been adopted by all suffragists and by members of Congress as well. I have your postal asking for a copy of our campaign text book. This book is not quite ready, but I will send you a copy as soon as it comes from the printer. Very sincerely yours, Lucy Burns VICE-CHAIRMAN LB/p [37B] SHAFROTH-PALMER AMENDMENT "Whenever any number of legal voters of any State, to a number exceeding ten per cent of the number of legal voters voting at the last preceding election held in such state, shall petition for the submission to the legal voters of said State of the question whether women shall have equal rights with men in respect to voting at all elections to be held in such State, such question shall be so submitted and if, upon such submission, a majority of the legal voters of the State voting on the question shall vote in favor of granting to women such equal rights, the same shall thereupon be deemed established, anything in the constitution or laws of such State to the contrary notwithstanding." SUSAN B. ANTHONY AMENDMENT "Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. "Section 2. The Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article." [37c] 2 yrs to the time of the placing of the Klumpke portrait of Mrs. Stanton in the Smithsonian Institute, which required all the influence Mrs. Helen Gardner could exert on the National American Woman Suffrage Association, nothing existed in the Suffrage exhibit to show Mrs. Stanton's connection with the movement. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON D. C. OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY IN CHARGE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM November 17, 1924 Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Women's University Club, 106 East Fifty-second Street, New York City. Dear Madam: Referring to your letter of November 5 addressed to Mr. T. T. Belote, our Curator of History, I beg to formally acknowledge the receipt, as a gift from the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, through you, of the portrait of your mother, Mrs. Elziabeth Cady Stanton, therein mentioned. It has been placed on exhibition with the other objects contributed to the national historical collections by the Association, and I would assure you of my appreciation of your interest. Very respectfully yours, [Signature] W.deC.Ravenel, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary. Sm 44 National Woman's Party NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 21 FIRST STREET NORTHEAST WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION--"EQUAL RIGHTS" INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL Austria Dr. Marianne Beth Frau Helene Granitsch Frau Yella Hertzka Frau Gisela Urban Belgium Mme. Lucie Dejardin Cuba Mrs. L. S. Houston Czecho-Slovakia Milena Illova Egypt Mme. Hoda Charaoui Pacha Mlle. Ceza Nabaraouy France Mlle. Marcelle Capy Mme. Camille Drevet Mme. Gabrielle Duchene Mme. 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Business Sue White, Tenn. Rowena Dashwood Graves, Col. Dentists Dr. Gillette Hayden, Ohio Farm Women Mrs. Isaac H. Dixon, Md. Home-Makers Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, D.C. Industrial Mrs. Mary Murray, N.Y. Journalists Florence Brewer Boeckel, D.C. Lawyers Burnita Shelton Matthews, Miss Nurses Lavinia Dock, Pa. Annie W. Goodrich, Conn. Pageant Directors Hazel MacKaye, Mass. Marie Moore Forrest, D.C. Physicians Dr. Mary O'Malley, D.C. Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, N.Y. Scientists Alice Eastwood, Cal. Sculptors Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, D.C. Students Victoria Buell, N.Y. Teachers Mrs. Rose M. Kavana, Ill. NATIONAL COUNCIL President, Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont, N.Y. Chairman, Jane Norman Smith, N.Y. Advisory Chairman Alice Paul, N.J. Vice-Chairmen Gail Laughlin, Me. Florence Bayard Hilles, Del. Anita Pollitzer, S.C. Secretary Margaret Lambie, D.C. Executive Secretary Mabel Vernon, Del. Treasurer Emma Wold, Ore. Edith Ange, N.Y. Mrs. Anne Archbold, D.C. Laura Berrien, Ga. Florence Brewer Boeckel, D.C. Mrs. John Winters Brannan, N.Y. Mrs. Isaac H. Dixon, Md. Zona Gale, Wis. Sara P. Grogan, Ga. Edith Houghton Hooker, Md. Inez Haynes Irwin, N.Y. Mrs. William Kent, Cal. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Pa. Mrs. John C. Martin, Pa. Burnita Shelton Matthews, Miss. Sophie G. Meredith, Va. Mrs. Stephen H.P. Pell, N.Y. Dr. Caroline E. Spencer, Col. Doris Stevens, N.Y. Mabel Vernon, Del. Mrs. Richard Wainwright, D.C. Margaret Whittemore, Cal. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, D.C. Mrs. Valentine Winters, Ohio Maud Younger, Cal. February 6, 1928 Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, 24 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Dear Mrs. Blatch, I was much interested in your letter and wish it were possible for me to give some time to helping in the peace movement, as you suggest. I am engrossed at the present moment, however, in trying to finish a book on the movement for equality for women, which I began long ago when I was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and which was accepted as my thesis when I took my Ph.D. degree at the University. Now that the Woman's Party seems at last to be well enough organized to be capable of doing effective work both nationally and internationally, I have seized the opportunity of withdrawing altogether from the campaign, in order to complete this book which has been so long delayed. I feel that since I have already put so much hard work into it, it is worth while going forward with it until it is finished, and I think moreover that it will be a help to the Equal Rights campaign by making available to everyone the general facts upon which our campaign is based. To finish this will take, I think, another year. Mrs. H.S.B. -2- I have gone into this detail in order to show you how tied up I am at the present - but even if I were free and had the time and money to plunge into another active campaign, I would want to devote it all to the Equal Rights movement, for that is where my heart is most of all. I feel that there are many, many people interested in peace compared to the number interested in Equal Rights for men and women, and that it is most necessary, therefore, for all who are interested in the feminist movement to concentrate upon it. I am, of course, dwelling in my book on the work that your wonderful mother did for the woman movement and the work that you so gallantly carried on. One of my hopes with regard to this book is that it may bring more widespread appreciation of the achievement of women such as Mrs. Stanton and yourself. Again let me express to you the deep gratitude that I personally feel for the years of brilliant and devoted work which you gave to the woman movement. Sincerely, Alice Paul [629] Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.