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National American Woman Suffrage Association.
MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, New York.
Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.
President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT,
2008 American Tract Society Building, New York.
Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW,
1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia Pa.
Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL,
3 Park Street, Boston, Mass.
Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON,
Warren, Ohio.
Auditors-
LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.
CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH,
The Rookery, Chicago, Ill.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y.
OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Dear Nora:-
I send you a package of literature of which I wish to give you a little history.
I-—The first convention ever called by women to discuss the status of woman, industrial, educational, civil and political in 1848. The first demand for the franchise ever made. Three years before I had even seen your Grandmother. I had heard much of her from the convention at Rochester to which place on August 2nd. the Seneca Falls convention adjourned. Lucretia Mott was to speak at the 1st. of August celebration in that city, so the friends, Amy Post and Sarah D. Fish, decided to avail themselves of Mrs. Mott's presence to hold a meeting in Rochester. I was then teaching school at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, and in the middle of August, with my cousin Margaret Read Caldwell and her husband, I made a visit to my mother's and father's home, three miles west of the city, and there I heard from my parents and my sister Mary, who still lives, the most glowing account of the meeting, of Mrs. Stanton with her black curls and ruddy cheeks, and of Mrs. Mott with her Quaker cap and her crossed handkerchief of the finest muslin, both speaking so grandly and looking so magnificent. Then I returned to my school and heard no more until I was down to Mr. Garrison's and George Thompson's meeting at Seneca Falls in the Spring in 1851 when I just saw your "Queen Mother" in the street. In January 1852 I read a letter from Mrs. Stanton at the Albany Temperance meeting, and in April of that year we held a State Woman's temperance convention in Rochester where Rev. Wm. Henry Charming presided, and she was elected president of the
MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, New York.
Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.
President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT,
2008 American Tract Society Building, New York.
Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW,
1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia Pa.
Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL,
3 Park Street, Boston, Mass.
Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON,
Warren, Ohio.
Auditors-
LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.
CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH,
The Rookery, Chicago, Ill.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y.
OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Dear Nora:-
I send you a package of literature of which I wish to give you a little history.
I-—The first convention ever called by women to discuss the status of woman, industrial, educational, civil and political in 1848. The first demand for the franchise ever made. Three years before I had even seen your Grandmother. I had heard much of her from the convention at Rochester to which place on August 2nd. the Seneca Falls convention adjourned. Lucretia Mott was to speak at the 1st. of August celebration in that city, so the friends, Amy Post and Sarah D. Fish, decided to avail themselves of Mrs. Mott's presence to hold a meeting in Rochester. I was then teaching school at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, and in the middle of August, with my cousin Margaret Read Caldwell and her husband, I made a visit to my mother's and father's home, three miles west of the city, and there I heard from my parents and my sister Mary, who still lives, the most glowing account of the meeting, of Mrs. Stanton with her black curls and ruddy cheeks, and of Mrs. Mott with her Quaker cap and her crossed handkerchief of the finest muslin, both speaking so grandly and looking so magnificent. Then I returned to my school and heard no more until I was down to Mr. Garrison's and George Thompson's meeting at Seneca Falls in the Spring in 1851 when I just saw your "Queen Mother" in the street. In January 1852 I read a letter from Mrs. Stanton at the Albany Temperance meeting, and in April of that year we held a State Woman's temperance convention in Rochester where Rev. Wm. Henry Charming presided, and she was elected president of the
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Nora. (2)
State Society, and made a splendid speech on Temperance, demanding the right of divorce for drunkeness. During the next three years I visited Seneca Falls quite often.
II -— In 1854 she made her first speech "before the New York-Legislature. I went to her house and stayed with the children, (Your Aunt Maggie mast have been the baby, for your mother was not yet born.) While she went to Rochester to Mr. William and Mary Post-Halloway's, and there she read her speech before the Rev. Wm. Henry Channing who was then preaching in Rochester. (Afterwards you know he lived in London, and married your Father and Mother). He pronounced her speech fine, but added that it lacked legal reference. Then she went back home, hunted up the laws and added them. In February she went to Albany, made her speech before the Convention and before the Legislature and I had 20,000 printed, and laid a copy on every members desk, and circulated the rest throughout the State in my campaigns of that year and 1855.
III—The speech of the silver tongued orator, Wendell Phillips. You can find no better than that, made by any one today.
IV—-The speech of Geo. Wm. Curtis given in the Constitutional Convention of 18671 It is a splendid argument and covers the whole ground. (I have the speech your Grandmother made before the convention and over the State prior to the convention, but I cannot let you have it, because I have only one copy of it.)
Mr. Curtis was a handsome, elegant man. He was a grand and good champion of our cause in the early days.
V—The duties of women, by Francis Power Cobb. You know she is an English woman, and a splendid one.
VI—The speech of Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister of Henry Ward Beecher . She gives a little account of my trial for voting in 1872.
VII—-The speech and hearings given by your grandmother 1869 to until 1891, I have not duplicates of, so don't send them.
VIII—-In 1891 she made her speech "The Matriarchrate" to the National
State Society, and made a splendid speech on Temperance, demanding the right of divorce for drunkeness. During the next three years I visited Seneca Falls quite often.
II -— In 1854 she made her first speech "before the New York-Legislature. I went to her house and stayed with the children, (Your Aunt Maggie mast have been the baby, for your mother was not yet born.) While she went to Rochester to Mr. William and Mary Post-Halloway's, and there she read her speech before the Rev. Wm. Henry Channing who was then preaching in Rochester. (Afterwards you know he lived in London, and married your Father and Mother). He pronounced her speech fine, but added that it lacked legal reference. Then she went back home, hunted up the laws and added them. In February she went to Albany, made her speech before the Convention and before the Legislature and I had 20,000 printed, and laid a copy on every members desk, and circulated the rest throughout the State in my campaigns of that year and 1855.
III—The speech of the silver tongued orator, Wendell Phillips. You can find no better than that, made by any one today.
IV—-The speech of Geo. Wm. Curtis given in the Constitutional Convention of 18671 It is a splendid argument and covers the whole ground. (I have the speech your Grandmother made before the convention and over the State prior to the convention, but I cannot let you have it, because I have only one copy of it.)
Mr. Curtis was a handsome, elegant man. He was a grand and good champion of our cause in the early days.
V—The duties of women, by Francis Power Cobb. You know she is an English woman, and a splendid one.
VI—The speech of Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister of Henry Ward Beecher . She gives a little account of my trial for voting in 1872.
VII—-The speech and hearings given by your grandmother 1869 to until 1891, I have not duplicates of, so don't send them.
VIII—-In 1891 she made her speech "The Matriarchrate" to the National
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Nora, (3)
Woman's Council, and "The degradation of disfranchisement" to our National Convention,
IX—In 1892 she made the greatest speech of her life, I think, before the House Judiciary Committee of Congress, entitled, "The solitude of self." It will be nice for you to read extracts from that at any time.
X—The hearing of 1894 containing an excellent report of Wyoming, by Mrs. Clara B. Colby.
XI—-1896, The Senate Judiciary hearings. Your Grandmother was in Europe at that time.
XII—-1898, hearings before both Houses. That of the House contains reports of every form of suffrage,-school, municipal, and full suffrage. It was called the "Practical workings of Suffrage", and the Senate contains various speeches and quotations called "The Philosophy of the movement."
XIII—-In the hearing of 1900 an effort was made to present the same, the philosophy and the workings, and here the anti-suffrage women piped in their little say. I think they said their best, and all there was to be said against suffrage.
XIV—-In 1902 contains the hearing which consisted of foreign women telling of the status of women in their own countries.
XV—-Wm. Henry Charming's review of Volume I of the History of Woman Suffrage, in which you will see his estimate of your Queen Mother and the cause, in the year 1882 I think.
XVI—-The status of Woman by S.-B.-A. That shows all the gains up to the time it was written, but there have been many since 1897I
XVII-—A summary from the favorable congressional reports.
XVIII--Two copies of the reports of the Constitutional convention held in New York in 1894. There are many able speeches in it beginning with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacoby and ending Mr. Lauterbach.
I think this will do for the first installment of reading matter for the members of your club.
Woman's Council, and "The degradation of disfranchisement" to our National Convention,
IX—In 1892 she made the greatest speech of her life, I think, before the House Judiciary Committee of Congress, entitled, "The solitude of self." It will be nice for you to read extracts from that at any time.
X—The hearing of 1894 containing an excellent report of Wyoming, by Mrs. Clara B. Colby.
XI—-1896, The Senate Judiciary hearings. Your Grandmother was in Europe at that time.
XII—-1898, hearings before both Houses. That of the House contains reports of every form of suffrage,-school, municipal, and full suffrage. It was called the "Practical workings of Suffrage", and the Senate contains various speeches and quotations called "The Philosophy of the movement."
XIII—-In the hearing of 1900 an effort was made to present the same, the philosophy and the workings, and here the anti-suffrage women piped in their little say. I think they said their best, and all there was to be said against suffrage.
XIV—-In 1902 contains the hearing which consisted of foreign women telling of the status of women in their own countries.
XV—-Wm. Henry Charming's review of Volume I of the History of Woman Suffrage, in which you will see his estimate of your Queen Mother and the cause, in the year 1882 I think.
XVI—-The status of Woman by S.-B.-A. That shows all the gains up to the time it was written, but there have been many since 1897I
XVII-—A summary from the favorable congressional reports.
XVIII--Two copies of the reports of the Constitutional convention held in New York in 1894. There are many able speeches in it beginning with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacoby and ending Mr. Lauterbach.
I think this will do for the first installment of reading matter for the members of your club.
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Nora, (4)
I have more of Mr. Curtis' speech, and if I have not sent enough to give each of your members a copy, you let me know and I will forward more.
Of course all these things which I have told you are in the History of Woman Suffrage, or will be when you get Volume IV sodded to the other three huge_ volumes, and then you want the life and work of Susan B. Anthony added, because it gives a great deal more in detail the story of very many of the occurences that have happened all along.
With love, I am,
Affectionately yours,
Susan B. Anthony
I have more of Mr. Curtis' speech, and if I have not sent enough to give each of your members a copy, you let me know and I will forward more.
Of course all these things which I have told you are in the History of Woman Suffrage, or will be when you get Volume IV sodded to the other three huge_ volumes, and then you want the life and work of Susan B. Anthony added, because it gives a great deal more in detail the story of very many of the occurences that have happened all along.
With love, I am,
Affectionately yours,
Susan B. Anthony
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Alma Lutz Collection
COPY
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
Office of the Honorary President, Rochester, N.Y.
Nov. 24, 1902.
Dear Nora:-
I send you a package of literature of which I wish to give you a little history.
I-—The first convention ever called by women to discuss the status of woman, industrial, educational, civil and political in 1848. The first demand for the franchise ever made. Three years before I had even seen your Grandmother. I had heard much of her from the convention at Rochester to which place on August 2nd. the Seneca Falls convention adjourned. Lucretia Mott was to speak at the 1st. of August celebration in that city, so the friends, Amy Post and Sarah D. Fish, decided to avail themselves of Mrs. Mott's presence to hold a meeting in Rochester. I was then teaching school at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, and in the middle of August, with my cousin Margaret Read Caldwell and her husband, I made a visit to my mother's and father's home, three miles west of the city, and there I heard from my parents and my sister Mary, who still lives, the most glowing account of the meeting, of Mrs. Stanton with her black curls and ruddy cheeks, and of Mrs. Mott with her Quaker cap and her crossed handkerchief of the finest muslin, both speaking so grandly and looking so magnificent. Then I returned to my school and heard no more until I was down to Mr. Garrison's and George Thompson's meeting at Seneca Falls in the Spring in 1851 when I just saw your "Queen Mother" in the street. In January 1852 I read a letter from
COPY
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
Office of the Honorary President, Rochester, N.Y.
Nov. 24, 1902.
Dear Nora:-
I send you a package of literature of which I wish to give you a little history.
I-—The first convention ever called by women to discuss the status of woman, industrial, educational, civil and political in 1848. The first demand for the franchise ever made. Three years before I had even seen your Grandmother. I had heard much of her from the convention at Rochester to which place on August 2nd. the Seneca Falls convention adjourned. Lucretia Mott was to speak at the 1st. of August celebration in that city, so the friends, Amy Post and Sarah D. Fish, decided to avail themselves of Mrs. Mott's presence to hold a meeting in Rochester. I was then teaching school at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, and in the middle of August, with my cousin Margaret Read Caldwell and her husband, I made a visit to my mother's and father's home, three miles west of the city, and there I heard from my parents and my sister Mary, who still lives, the most glowing account of the meeting, of Mrs. Stanton with her black curls and ruddy cheeks, and of Mrs. Mott with her Quaker cap and her crossed handkerchief of the finest muslin, both speaking so grandly and looking so magnificent. Then I returned to my school and heard no more until I was down to Mr. Garrison's and George Thompson's meeting at Seneca Falls in the Spring in 1851 when I just saw your "Queen Mother" in the street. In January 1852 I read a letter from
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Nora. (2)
Mrs. Stanton at the Albany Temperance meeting, and in April of that year we held a State Woman's temperance convention in Rochester where Rev. Wm. Henry Charming presided, and she was elected president of the State Society, and made a splendid speech on Temperance, demanding the right of divorce for drunkeness. During the next three years I visited Seneca Falls quite often.
II -— In 1854 she made her first speech "before the New York-Legislature. I went to her house and stayed with the children, (Your Aunt Maggie mast have been the baby, for your mother was not yet born.) While she went to Rochester to Mr. William and Mary Post-Halloway's, and there she read her speech before the Rev. Wm. Henry Channing who was then preaching in Rochester. (Afterwards you know he lived in London, and married your Father and Mother). He pronounced her speech fine, but added that it lacked legal reference. Then she went back home, hunted up the laws and added them. In February she went to Albany, made her speech before the Convention and before the Legislature and I had 20,000 printed, and laid a copy on every members desk, and circulated the rest throughout the State in my campaigns of that year and 1855.
III—The speech of the silver tongued orator, Wendell Phillips. You can find no better than that, made by any one today.
IV—-The speech of Geo. Wm. Curtis given in the Constitutional Convention of 18671 It is a splendid argument and covers the whole ground. (I have the speech your Grandmother made before the convention and over the State prior to the convention, but I cannot let you have it, because I have only one copy of it.)
Mr. Curtis was a handsome, elegant man. He was a grand and good champion of our cause in the early days.
V—The duties of women, by Francis Power Cobb. You know she is an English woman, and a splendid one.
VI—The speech of Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister of
Mrs. Stanton at the Albany Temperance meeting, and in April of that year we held a State Woman's temperance convention in Rochester where Rev. Wm. Henry Charming presided, and she was elected president of the State Society, and made a splendid speech on Temperance, demanding the right of divorce for drunkeness. During the next three years I visited Seneca Falls quite often.
II -— In 1854 she made her first speech "before the New York-Legislature. I went to her house and stayed with the children, (Your Aunt Maggie mast have been the baby, for your mother was not yet born.) While she went to Rochester to Mr. William and Mary Post-Halloway's, and there she read her speech before the Rev. Wm. Henry Channing who was then preaching in Rochester. (Afterwards you know he lived in London, and married your Father and Mother). He pronounced her speech fine, but added that it lacked legal reference. Then she went back home, hunted up the laws and added them. In February she went to Albany, made her speech before the Convention and before the Legislature and I had 20,000 printed, and laid a copy on every members desk, and circulated the rest throughout the State in my campaigns of that year and 1855.
III—The speech of the silver tongued orator, Wendell Phillips. You can find no better than that, made by any one today.
IV—-The speech of Geo. Wm. Curtis given in the Constitutional Convention of 18671 It is a splendid argument and covers the whole ground. (I have the speech your Grandmother made before the convention and over the State prior to the convention, but I cannot let you have it, because I have only one copy of it.)
Mr. Curtis was a handsome, elegant man. He was a grand and good champion of our cause in the early days.
V—The duties of women, by Francis Power Cobb. You know she is an English woman, and a splendid one.
VI—The speech of Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister of
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Nora (3)
Henry Ward Beecher . She gives a little account of my trial for voting in 1872.
VII—-The speech and hearings given by your grandmother 1869 to until 1891, I have not duplicates of, so don't send them.
VIII—-In 1891 she made her speech "The Matriarchrate" to the National Woman's Council, and "The degradation of disfranchisement" to our National Convention,
IX—In 1892 she made the greatest speech of her life, I think, before the House Judiciary Committee of Congress, entitled, "The solitude of self." It will be nice for you to read extracts from that at any time.
X—The hearing of 1894 containing an excellent report of Wyoming, by Mrs. Clara B. Colby.
XI—-1896, The Senate Judiciary hearings. Your Grandmother was in Europe at that time.
XII—-1898, hearings before both Houses. That of the House contains reports of every form of suffrage,-school, municipal, and full suffrage. It was called the "Practical workings of Suffrage", and the Senate contains various speeches and quotations called "The Philosophy of the movement."
XIII—-In the hearing of 1900 an effort was made to present the same, the philosophy and the workings, and here the anti-suffrage women piped in their little say. I think they said their best, and all there was to be said against suffrage.
XIV—-In 1902 contains the hearing which consisted of foreign women telling of the status of women in their own countries.
XV—-Wm. Henry Charming's review of Volume I of the History of Woman Suffrage, in which you will see his estimate of your Queen Mother and the cause, in the year 1882 I think.
Henry Ward Beecher . She gives a little account of my trial for voting in 1872.
VII—-The speech and hearings given by your grandmother 1869 to until 1891, I have not duplicates of, so don't send them.
VIII—-In 1891 she made her speech "The Matriarchrate" to the National Woman's Council, and "The degradation of disfranchisement" to our National Convention,
IX—In 1892 she made the greatest speech of her life, I think, before the House Judiciary Committee of Congress, entitled, "The solitude of self." It will be nice for you to read extracts from that at any time.
X—The hearing of 1894 containing an excellent report of Wyoming, by Mrs. Clara B. Colby.
XI—-1896, The Senate Judiciary hearings. Your Grandmother was in Europe at that time.
XII—-1898, hearings before both Houses. That of the House contains reports of every form of suffrage,-school, municipal, and full suffrage. It was called the "Practical workings of Suffrage", and the Senate contains various speeches and quotations called "The Philosophy of the movement."
XIII—-In the hearing of 1900 an effort was made to present the same, the philosophy and the workings, and here the anti-suffrage women piped in their little say. I think they said their best, and all there was to be said against suffrage.
XIV—-In 1902 contains the hearing which consisted of foreign women telling of the status of women in their own countries.
XV—-Wm. Henry Charming's review of Volume I of the History of Woman Suffrage, in which you will see his estimate of your Queen Mother and the cause, in the year 1882 I think.
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Nora (4)
XVI—-The status of Woman by S.-B.-A. That shows all the gains up to the time it was written, but there have been many since 1897I
XVII-—A summary from the favorable congressional reports.
XVIII--Two copies of the reports of the Constitutional convention held in New York in 1894. There are many able speeches in it beginning with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacoby and ending Mr. Lauterbach.
I think this will do for the first installment of reading matter for the members of your club.
I have more of Mr. Curtis' speech, and if I have not sent enough to give each of your members a copy, you let me know and I will forward more.
Of course all these things which I have told you are in the History of Woman Suffrage, or will be when you get Volume IV sodded to the other three huge_ volumes, and then you want the life and work of Susan B. Anthony added, because it gives a great deal more in detail the story of very many of the occurences that have happened all along.
With love, I am,
Affectionately yours,
Susan B. Anthony
(Typewritten letter signed by
Susan B. Anthony - Inserts in her handwriting).
Inserts underlined in red.
This letter was written to NOra, the daughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch, now Nora Stanton Barney.
XVI—-The status of Woman by S.-B.-A. That shows all the gains up to the time it was written, but there have been many since 1897I
XVII-—A summary from the favorable congressional reports.
XVIII--Two copies of the reports of the Constitutional convention held in New York in 1894. There are many able speeches in it beginning with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacoby and ending Mr. Lauterbach.
I think this will do for the first installment of reading matter for the members of your club.
I have more of Mr. Curtis' speech, and if I have not sent enough to give each of your members a copy, you let me know and I will forward more.
Of course all these things which I have told you are in the History of Woman Suffrage, or will be when you get Volume IV sodded to the other three huge_ volumes, and then you want the life and work of Susan B. Anthony added, because it gives a great deal more in detail the story of very many of the occurences that have happened all along.
With love, I am,
Affectionately yours,
Susan B. Anthony
(Typewritten letter signed by
Susan B. Anthony - Inserts in her handwriting).
Inserts underlined in red.
This letter was written to NOra, the daughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch, now Nora Stanton Barney.
