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My Dear Mrs. Stanford

Your note of yesterday was under my plate this A.M. at breakfast- - I am awfully sorry I ventured to make my request of the 4th- -and brought such an added humiliation to you in your position as equal- -in that great corporation- -and yet- -perhaps it is well for you to be made fully sensible as to extreme length of the rope for woman member- -as compared with that for a man. I am just as grateful to you as if you had sent the papers- -for I know how earnestly you wished to do so. I do not know whether I shall have the courage to go to Mr. Crocker- -I will see! I'll venture to say that he has given scores if not hundreds of passes to the Republican speakers & others who can serve his interests politically- -And I know, too, that if we women could serve his special interests- -he would just as readily accord you the rights he takes to himself- -It is most humiliating- -but so help us heaven we'll work to make woman a power that command for her all the courtersies of life- -to say nothing of rights- -of this is a denial of your right as an equal member of that R.R. Corporation- -it makes my soul burn with indignation- -How long- -how long oh lord- -must these things be!? All we can do is to try and shorten the time- -I am just up from my breakfast- -Miss Shaw & myself are going over the Bay to some sort of meeting- -We are getting chances to speak to political audiences of all the different parties- -

Now my dear dont say me "Nay"- -but comeup and sit woth us on the platform at tomorrow nights meeting- -I sent you platform tickets yesterday- -lesst the clerks did not put in enough- -to send more n this- -now do us this honor- -and yourslef the justice- -of showing thise men thay you bodly take your stnad by the side of the women who are bearing the brut of the battle- -did I not have to speak to day- - I would go to you at once- -and put my arms around you- -& tell you it shan't be always this way for the women of the world- -Do come & love & faith & gratitude- -I am so glad you like- -and are helping us to work out this problem

In jumping haste- -affectionately- -

Susan B. Anthony