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Dec. 23 1870
Dear Man "Who dares"!!
One thing don't you dare not to do again, that is when a Lecture Committee write you to engage S.B.A - don't dare not to tell them her Post Office address -
I learned you did this dare not to do - to the Sowville Com. and they wrote me to New York and to Philadelphia and had their letters returned
I'll tell you a little private opinion of mine - "I think the Bureaus an real humbug that is, my dealings with them doesn't give me much faith — "The dog In the manger" principle" - The "rule or ruin" idea is their basis of action -
I'll tell you what I I've done thrown such and all overboard - until I see them in brighter light
Oh Redpath - it was so funny — I never thought what you meant - by the
man who dares - until after I started that half sheet back to Boston-rich Please give me Anna's Dates the first two weeks of January - also wasn't it Mr, Phillips - I want to meet one and both
I now want a long talk - and hope I may be able to run across his track in the West Somwhere -
I am at Washington 11th & 12th Jan. and hope to hit Anna E.D. before this, then at Ann Arbor, Colawater and Grand Rapids Mich and at Chicago Jan 20th - Kansas City Mo Jan 22d -
Now If you have western Invitations for me and will pass them along to me
Redpath, do tell me how to keep on the right side of you terribly true business fellows - & oblige
Susan B. Anthony
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Watertown N. Y.
Dec. 23 1870
Dear Man "Who dares"!!
One thing don't you dare not to do again, that is when a Lecture Committee write you to engage S.B.A - don't dare not to tell them her Post Office address -
I learned you did this dare not to do - to the Sowville Com. and they wrote me to New York and to Philadelphia and had their letters returned unopened - and here I am today by the N.J. Bureau's order and the Com. here have no Notice from them of my coming — You found out two women who knew how to do business I am finding some men who know as little as all the others of Womankind save those two —
I'll tell you a little private opinion of mine - "I think the Bureaus an real humbug that is, my dealings with them doesn't give me much faith — "The dog In the manger" principle" - The "rule or ruin" idea is their basis of action -
If there were a co-operative Bureau it might greatly help — But as now Boston against both New York and Brooklyn and they against each other - each and all trying to defeat the success of every lecturer in the hands of any but self - Why you send the poor things an ground to founder between the Mill Stones.
I'll tell you what I I've done thrown such and all overboard - until I see them in brighter light than now — I like my own self no business Management best
Oh Redpath - it was so funny — I never thought what you meant - by the
man who dares - until after I started that half sheet back to Boston-rich Please give me Anna's Dates the first two weeks of January - also wasn't it Mr, Phillips - I want to meet one and both of them, heard Phillips In Rochester last week - and called on him a few minutes.
I now want a long talk - and hope I may be able to run across his track in the West Somwhere -
I am at Washington 11th & 12th Jan. and hope to hit Anna E.D. before this, then at Ann Arbor, Colawater and Grand Rapids Mich and at Chicago Jan 20th - Kansas City Mo Jan 22d -
Now If you have western Invitations for me and will pass them along to me at Rochester N.Y. - I shall be hoping to pay you your percentage and every dollar I make out of them -
Redpath, do tell me how to keep on the right side of you terribly true business fellows - & oblige
Susan B. Anthony