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[preprinted] National-American Woman Suffrage Association.

Honorary President: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 26 West 61st St., New York.

President, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N. Y. / Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Somerton, Philadelphia, PA. / Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, Somerton, Philadelphia, Pa. / Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. / Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. / Auditors: H. Augusta Howard, Georgia & Anna L. Diggs, Kansas. / Chairman Committee on Organization, Carrie Chapman Catt, 183 "World Building," New York. / Chairman Press Committee, Ellen Battelle Dietrick, 20 Lowell Street, Cambridge, Mass.

Office of the President. [/preprinted]

Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1895

Mrs. Leland Stanford, Palo Alto, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Stanford :-

I find this envelope addressed, with the clipping from my brother's paper, the "Leavenworth (Kansas) Daily Times," containing an interview, which was really a sort of diary of my trip in California, in which I spoke of you among the various other fortunate incidents of my journey. I fully intended to have called on you at your Palo Alto home, but every hour was filled with me, and I knew that you were over-whelmed with the law-suit, and so came off without making the call. Miss Shaw was equally desirous to call on you, but she has now returned to California for a month or six weeks, and I hope she will be permitted to see, and learn to know and love you as I have [insert] & do; [/insert] and, my dear, I hope now the time has come when you will give your name to dear Mrs. Cooper as one of the Vice-Presidents of her campaign committee, because that great movement in your state needs the weight and influence that your name will give to it. I am sure if the Senator were alive he would give his name to help along the cause, and perhaps you have done so already. And then, I wanted to ask you to make yourself a patron of the National Council of Women. I inclose you a copy of the program of the Council, which is to be held at the Atlanta Exposition next week, on next to the last page of which you will find a list of the men and women who have already become patrons. All that is required is the payment of $100, which makes the person a member for life with the right to attend all its public meetings for business or entertainment; and as the suffrage cause of California needs your name and influence to help it along, so does this National Council need it also.

I have read every item in the papers about that government suit, and I do hope it will be eventually decided in your favor, as it seems to me justice demands. I am glad that you were able to go forward with the University in spite of all the hindrances thrown in your way, and I rejoice every day at your strength and courage in carrying forward the great work left you by your good husband.

With best wishes, ever and always, I am

Yours affectionately

Susan B. Anthony