Correspondence (incoming): Anthony, Susan B., 1894-1898

The Vendome New York Mon 10/95

My Dear Mrs Stanford

Your most welcome letter is forwarded me here -

I do hope you will be able to be at Mrs Stanton's Celebration the evening of the 12th - And I enclose you a ticket for seat in our National Society's Box - a most desirable place I am told -

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CONFERENCES OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES

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UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE Women's Congresses of the Board of Women Managers OF THE Cotton States AND International Exposition ALANTA, GEORGIA,

To be held in the Auditorium at 2.30 P. M., October 7th to 12th, Inclusive, 1895.

OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL: MARY LOWE DICKINSON, President. REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Vice-President. LOUISE BARNUM ROBBINS, Cor. Sec. EMELINE BURLINGAME CHENEY, 1st Rec. Sec. HELEN FINLAY BRISTOL, 2d Rec. Sec. HANNAH J. BAILEY, Treasurer.

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Should it prove impossible for you to be at the Metropolitan Opera House Tuesday evening - I trust you will be able to call on Mrs. Stanton on Wednesday P.M. 4 to 6 - at the Vendome - where the friends are to have an opportunity of seeing her -

With love and faith

Susan B. Anthony

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[preprinted] National-American Woman Suffrage Association.

President, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N. Y. / Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Somerton, Philadelphia, PA. / Cor. Sec., Rachel Foster Avery, Somerton, Philadelphi, Pa. / Rec. Sec., Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. / Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. / Auditors: May Wright Sewall; Ellen Battelle Dietrick / Honorary Presidents: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 26 61st St. . New York.; Lucy Stone, Dorchester, Mass. [/preprinted]

Rochester N. J. Feb. 22, 1896

My dear Mrs. Stanford

At 6.30 - while my sister & I were at the tea table - a boy brought your telegram saying you had sent the passes to dear Mrs. Cooper - and I wired back my thousand thanks - but I want to write them also - and when I get to San Francisco I shall want to speak them too - And as I said in my telegram - I expect to reach there 8 March [6am?]

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It is splendid of you to thus renew your kindness of last Spring [insert] to glorious Mrs. Stanton & me [/insert] & your dear devoted husband's of 25 years ago!! - I am writing the good news to Miss Shaw - I do hope the educational work we shall do will result in a majority of the voters casting their ballots for the Amendment.

About the first thing on my arrival, I want an hour of your most valuable time to tell you how we can secure the end we all so much desire.

I do hope the Supreme Court decided in your favor - but I shall hear all about it when I meet you - Somehow - I