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

naming $5, 000 as the sum. She sent Mrs Sargent $1,000 and since, it has come to me that she might not feel like giving any more.

The Committee is in dire need of money, and without telling anyone, I make this appeal to you, to make an appeal to Mrs Hearst to give them at least another $1,000. She says she doesn't quite believe in suffrage, and yet acknowledges that the great freedom and equality which women enjoy to day, is the result of our agitation. Oh, & I do hope you can prevail on her to help the women of California, still further. It seems to me impossible for a woman in her

but she is very busy - has just left to speak at Healdsburg to night, and tomorrow goes on & on into Lake [Carmel ?] a long stage ride included. Mrs Chapman Catt & myself are to be at Sacramento on Wednesday at a convention. We are all kept mighty busy & shall be so until Nov 2nd, when, if victory perches on our harness, we are to hold a grand jollifcation meeting on the evening of Nov. 6 in Metropolitan Temple and then you must surely come out & hold the bonnets of easterners while we shout the Hallelujahs for the women of California.

If I could but see you for an hour we could talk lots of our hopes for Nov 2nd.

So good bye with gratitude & faith in you my dear friend

Susan B. Anthony

p.s. Isn't all this grotesque - but the girls say it will educate everybody connected with the mails - & both ends of the [routes?].

Sept. 21. 1896.

My dear, dear Mrs Stanford

Yours of Saturday was delivered this A.M. - do pardon me for asking you to do that thing. I ought to have known better, so don't remember it against my sense of propriety will you?

But I must tell you that on Saturday P.M. 4:00, as I went on the Ferry Boat, a lady said, you don't recognize me, Miss Anthony, and before I could call her name, she said "Mrs Hearst." She was going out to her new home, near Pleasanton, had invited a large number of friends to go out with her to spend Sunday. Therefore had

a special car attached to her train and invited me to take a seat in it, with herself and guests, which I did.

On the boat as well as on the car, she was very free in her talk. Told me of her many experiences since she became manager of her estates, which have done much toward making her see & feel the need of women's possessing political power - as well as financial freedom - I am sure she will grow into the full realization of the importance of women's enfranchisement, so I am profoundly thankful that you did not accede to my wish.

She spoke of you & your great & grand enterprise, and told me of her own plans to lift women educationally.

I hope Miss Shaw is going to find the time to go to see you in your lovely Menlo Park home.

1630 Folsom St. San Francisco Sept 21, 1896

My dear Mrs Stanford

Your good note is here to-day. You remember the old saying, "One good turn deserves another" Well if that is so, then good turns for a whole quarter of a century may warrant my asking for more, may it not?

When giving you names, I thought only of the Eastern lecturers. Mrs Chapman Catt & Miss Mills. I will now give you the names of California women who are travelling, speaking, and organizing under the State Committee

Mrs Kate Tupper Galpin Mrs Laura G Biddell Mrs E. G. Green Miss Mary G. Hay Mrs Emma B. Sweet Miss Lucy E. Anthony

[sideways note at top: The time [?] there need not extend further [?] Nov 15/96