Wisconsin Women's History

is here. you will have received report of Mrs. Stanford's not feeling like asking for any more R.R. passes So we shall have to give up having Hattie unless the R.R. Courtesy can be obtained at that end of the line. I should be so glad so proud to introduce her to a San Francisco audience as the representative of her noble mother whom all admired & honored here a quarter of a century ago. But when she arrives in October have her hold herself ready to start for if it should be possible to get the Committee to pay her expenses I will send a telegram to you instanter They are just going wild over Mrs Colts eloquence, hearts & fower and what wouldn't they do over our Harriet? Your letter to the Gold Dem. [Nominee is?] [good?] In due time the W.J. will [bring?] yours to McKinley Remember Frank Birds saying in 1881 - as we sat in that hotel parlor waitg for the [banquet?] to be announced. "Mrs Stanton Blackwell is an Ass" and all his stuff to women about their position toward the parties proves Mr Birds assertion Truly yours Susan B. Anthony

The Woman's Tribune,

[Founded in 1883.]

TERMS, $1.00 PER ANNUM.

TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION FIVE WEEKS FOR TEN CENTS.

CLARA BEWICK COLBY, Editor and Publisher.

1325 10th Street N. W.,

Washington, D. C., June 15, 1898.

Dear Miss Anthony:--

Although I have written to you since yours of May 10, I see there is one point I had not referred to and as I think I had promised our committee I would write you about it I must do so now. We had a meeting about two or three weeks ago of the bust fund committee and it was decided to incorporate a committee to receive the busts and take charge of them until the time shall come when they may be placed where the contract calls for their placing, that is in the National Capitol. You know the bust of no living person can be placed there. This committee would be the legal custodians of the busts and could be compelled by any suffragist to make all proper effort to place them in accordance with the terms of the contract. The committe [committee] would of course include the present committee and their consent as well as Mrs. Johnson's would have to be obtained to carry out this idea.

I was requested to ask you to send on the amount in your posession to Mrs. Tindall, the treasurer of our fund, as it will be necessary to make the final payment before we can ask Mrs. Johnson to go into such arrangement. ^{#and it is all on hand but this amount} I dare say ere this the other members have heard from Mrs. Spofford, Mrs. Greenleaf and Mrs. Banker, but I have not seen them for some time. It is likely that such an incorporated committee would serve not only to settle the matter but also to enable us to legally contract for memorials of other suffragists from time to time.

The committee should be enlarged and take in the local bust fund committee who have raised nearly a thousand dollars of the complete payment. As the original committee, while the only ones authorized to deal with Mrs. Johnson have not for years felt any responsibility in the matter, you can see how necessary it is that they should be merged into a corporate body, which is responsible to every contributor. The National Association cannot take charge of the busts because they have repeatedly disavowed all responsibility for the affair and it is therefor a personal matter between the contributors and Mrs. Johnson.

Yours affectionately,

Clara B Colby

Racine, Wis. March 21- 1890

Dear Mrs. Colby, I congratulate you upon the fair way in which you treated Mrs. Gage's compensation. The editorial on the subject in March 15 I thought very good indeed. My paper of March 8 has not come to hand. or at least I have not seen it. I have been gone it may have been destroyed. Please send me another. I enclose a few lines which I hope you will print in your paper I have not generally been successful in getting my communications either into the Tribune or Journal. But I am persevering If you had printed my articles on the work of last year it would have saved the publication of that "Statement of facts" & my article was far milder. Now I hope

you will publish this reply to the misstatements of the Union Signal. Of course that paper ought to take it back but they wont. now all I can do is to reach as many as possible with my denial. so if you will put it in your paper you will help.

How do you get lithographs of Mrs. Stanton & Miss Anthony? I think you offer them as prizes if you could aid me to get a lithograph of Miss Anthony without very much expense it would be a great favor, and speaking of pictures reminds me that I did not get a chance sign my name to that list of those who joined in presenting the pictures to Mrs. Spafford although you remember I paid my dollar. I should like to be counted in- perhaps I can add my name

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of the opening of clubs I think you might write to Mrs. [Scend?] about that club in Milwaukee & to Madison & other places to see if you can not get some clubs that will take you for a definite price in which case you could doubtless get the money. I wish you would write to Marilla Ricker & ask her to give us a hundred dollars toward our printing. we could

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outside. If our state society had the money to pay me even fifty dollars a month or in fact anything I would devote my time to their work but they can't do it. If we had not been unfortunate financially I could have done differently, as it is, I am glad to earn my board.

Of course I am not bound to stay here forever if anything better offers. I could work all the time for the Federal if they could pay me anything but they can not. However I can do something both for the state & the federal I can go abroad & hold meetings in this state whenever it seems that there is an opening or when circumstances seem to [illegible]

Oct 12 1903

Dear Mrs Colby,

Your two letters enclosed in one envelope received. So sorry that you are overburdened as you are. I fancy that the matter of feeling your life opportunities possibilities" relates to Mr Colby of course I am totally ignorant of the whole matter causes conditions and whatever you do or whatever is done I do hope you will have a regular allowance for your support stand for that at all hazards as to [illegible] it is no use for me to express an opinion, but I do think you are overburdening

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then have an edition of the Tribune devoted to our work & ask you for a large number of copies.

Of course it would be useless to ask to become auxiliary to anything of which Mrs. Catt is the secretary but there will be changes, we must bide our time & watch now about the annual in Washington I think it would

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be well to ascertain whether the Universalist Church or the Quaker Church can be had & on what terms I think we should obtain a list of all the clubs & societies of women in Washington & send a written invitation to each inviting the entire membership to be present & sit in a body and inviting each to appoint a representative who

Woman Suffrage Association.

If I do visit your state, I hope I shall be able to do good work for you.

I am not acquainted with the leaders of the work there, but, have no doubt I can soon become so. I confess that I have a little shrinking feeling on account of the fact that Nebraska women do not want "foreign help." Mrs. Brooks has written to Mrs. Stone that the prejudice against foreign speakers has mostly passed away. I feel that we all owe it to the cause to help you there in this great struggle, and I shall come with the intention to do my best and trust to the kindness of your people to make it as pleasant for me as they can. I am not corresponding with any one there; Mrs. Stone is writing to them about it. It will give me great pleasure to meet you again and to help you all I am able to. Hoping for the success of the cause in Nebraska, I am yours sincerely Margaret H. Campbell.

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For instance, when elected Ch Ex Com in '88, the name of the Chairman in list of officers was omitted (and, for which you were not responsible, my name as Ch. Ex. Com on membership card)

Last winter my name appeared no where on list of officers of the assn I helped to form and in which I have done so much work for which I have written so many calls, appeals &c as well as speeches. At the Ex Com. meeting held at the Riggs Miss Anthony Indeed I was on as a member of the Ex. Com. If so, there was no official or Tribune announcement of such fact. Again, I was several times