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Colby--Series: Correspondence - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1887-1902, undated (Clara Bewick Colby papers, 1860-1957; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Box 2, Folder 10)

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As you asked me to let you read it, I sent it to you

Have you got it, or is it in the waste-basket, with my four important resolutions? I send you my tribute to Susan - on her birthday - if you have room in your columns, please publish

Yours

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Tell Susan to tear up the copy I sent her, this is much better I am sending it to several papers If you have no room to spare, put in some [illegible]

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following questions?

I - How long will they remain in this country?

II. Will they come to New York? How many of them are there, and what are their names?

If you will answer these questions I will be much obliged to you with kind regards

Elizabeth Cady Stanton per sec

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Basingstoke,

June 24.

Dear Mother;

Just two week ago today was Helen's last day with us here. We knew she was ill, but all thought there were weeks if not months before her, and I felt she would recover. It was not till Thursday morning about 6.30 that we saw a change in her. In an hour the little spirit had slipped away. I had never seen any on [one] die before, and in her case there was nothing but a sweet sliding away. There

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sent were tied to the the wheels, making it look like a chariot of flowers. Round the coffin were great branches of white laburnum, and on the tops were lovely copper-coloured roses and quantities of maidenhair fern. Nora & Dolly in white sat at the foot of the perambula, Tor, and Theodore & Harry & I, & the rest of the children were in the green-house too. The clergyman from London, Mr. Farrington, an American, read some beautiful poems, Esther Bright played on the violin, and a friend, who is a concert singer & who knew & loved Helen, sang exquisitely.

After one pretty service, Alice & the nurse took Helen in an open carriage with the beautiful June sun

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shining down upon her and drove to the crematory near Woking. Theodore, Harry, Mrs. Savile & I went by train. I am having made a silver vase for the ashes, and when I die I want dear little Helen's dust mingled with mine & buried.

Your letter & Maggie's have just been given me by Harry. No, there is no comfort except in the sympathy & love given by friends at such a crisis. But I am not broken down by my loss. Life and death are equal mysteries.

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There seems a sweet calm about all the things connected with her. I love to be in the rooms where she was, & touch and handle the things she liked. She seems to be there.

I have much to tell you, and will soon write again.

With fond love, H.

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Colby--Series: Correspondence - Anthony, Susan B., 1887-1901 (Clara Bewick Colby papers, 1860-1957; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Box 1, Folder 7)

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{ Amelia Bloomer }

copied

Council Bluffs, Iowa

March 19, 1888

Dear Miss Anthony

I have hoped to be with you, and the other grand women who are to join you in Council next week; but as the time draws near I find my strength not equal to the fatigue of the long journey and attendance upon a week's session, so must reluctantly abide at home while the rest of you go up to our nations capitol to discuss great questions deeply affecting the interests of humanity.

It would give me great pleasure to meet face to face, and take by the hand once again the old time workers and pioneers in woman's cause; but as this may not be I will be with you in spirit, take my place among the pioneers, wish you yet many years of usefulness in the cause you have served so well. Please think of me as with you, and give me one thought for old time sake. I shall especially be with you on pioneers

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day, and in thought go back over all those early years when I was a co laborer with you, and with voice and pen gave my feeble aid to the cause in its infancy and days of great trial, ere it had grown so strong as to command the respect and attention of the world, as it does to day.

It needed not the letter you sent me of our fore score years old friend, to show that The Lily did a good work. Such testimony has come to me all down through the years since it first issued to the public. I know that all over our land there are hundreds of people who gained their first knowledge of the principles which underlie the woman's movement by reading that little paper. You and Mrs Stanton, and Frances D. Gage, and many others, lent helping hands to me in that work, but be sure the little messenger of good tidings went on its way scattering seed where our voices could not reach - and

not strong or experienced, but it was such as was needed in the infancy of our cause and made an impression where the strong minds of to day would at that time have failed. I gave my best years to the work, but my seventy lectures, in addition to the care of the paper, overtaxed a constitution never strong, so that my later years have been passed in enforced inactivity.

I am glad to know that at the head of the army of recruits who have rallied to the standard set up forty years ago, Mrs. Stanton, Lucy Stone, Antoinette Brown and yourself still stand the respected and honored leaders of the [hour?] with armor on ready for whatever further effort and sacrifice may be required of you. May you live to see and enjoy the full triumph of your labors.

In running my mind's eye over the list of prominent actors in the drama first brought upon the worlds stage near forty years ago, I miss many whose words were dear to us -- many who if living would have honored seats in your council. Lucretia Mott, Ernestine Rose, Frances D.

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Gage, Clarina C. Nichols, Paulina W. Davis Jane G. Swisshelm, Lydia Jane Pierson Emily Clark, Mary C. Vaughn, and others - pioneers all have finished their work upon earth and gone to their reward -[blessed?] be their memory! May we not believe their spirits are hovering over this council with benedictions of peace and love.

In your pioneer session shall [?] be remembered who gave their hearts and hands to the [?] humanity in the days when to be identified with the unpopular movement was to take up a [cross?]

I suppose you are so absorbed in the present, and in the new friends who come to your support, that you have no time for the past and the old [?] in my quiet home, unable to share [?] active work of the present, can [?] over again all the past and enjoy in [?] communings with the friends of [?] be they in the flesh or in the spirit.

Wishing great success, both in council and in convention, I am yours Very Sincerely Amelia Bloomer

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does. You say Alice asked you to prevent me if possible writing anything that would raise antagonism. Why not ask her to prevent her father doing & saying anything to raise antagonism especially not to falsify the facts of history? He made a direct & rude attack on me in Washington, then he went home & penned that insulting editorial. Then he pitches into my Reminiscences. Can Alice in justice ask silence on one side while The Woman's Journal allows their attacks in its columns. Blackwell is determined if possible to kill me.

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