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[modern notation] 2/22/1896 - p.3
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have missed seeing the decision - as I missed seeing you in Washington.
I am very busy getting my work picked up to be absent months - I do not know how many of them -
I want tell you upon what hinges all our hopes - our very fate - but I cannot scribble it - nor could you take the time to read it. So my dear friend & best helper- Good Bye until we meet.
Gratefully & affectionately
Susan B. Anthony
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[modern notation] 2 /22 1856 - p.4 [/modern notation]
[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, Philadelphia, 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]
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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
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[Transcription]
Post Script to Oct 4 1895 letter (unable to be photocopied)
P.S. In dictating to my secretary -- which I have not yet learned how to do -- I forgot to speak of the celebration of Mrs. Stanton's 80th birthday -- in the Metropolitan Opera House New York on Nov. 12th -- where she will be the central figure on the stage -- with groups around her of pioneer Doctors, Ministers, Newspaper women -- while young women will make the speeches telling them what their early work has resulted in for the present generation -- I wish you as the pioneer woman to own & manage a great university could be with us that Nov. 12 evening to show what wonderful power has come to you to help the young people --
The National Council of Women has the entire management of the celebration -- as you will see it is composed of twenty great national bodies -- so it is not suffrage women alone who extend the honor to Mrs. Stanton -- but women of all professions, aims and objects together --
pardon this scribble--
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Letter head: National-American Woman Suffrage Association.
Rochester, N. Y. Feb. 22. [crossed out] 1896---
My dear Mrs. Stanford
At 6:00- -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 meant 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 by March 6- -
It is slendid of you to thus renew your kindness of last spring & your dear devoted husband's to glorious Mrs. Stanton & me 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 have mssed seeing the decision--as I missed seeing you in Washington---
I am very busy getting my work picked up to be absent month-- I do not know how many of them--
I want tell [sic] you upon what hinges all our hopes--our very fate--but I cannot scribble it--nor could you take the time to read it--So my dear friend & best helper--Good Bye until we meet--
Gratefully & affectionately
Susan B. Anthony