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Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Date: 1866
Text: 1866 Ludlow Patton Esq. Dear Sir The undersigned members of the American Equal Rights Association Executive Committe - ask you to pay Mrs. Abby H. Patton's pledge- fifty dollars- to Mr. R. J. Johnston, to go to his account for printing report of proceedings of the May Meetings - Susan B. Anthony E. Cady Stanton Edwin A. Studwell-Copy Alma Lutz Collection (1866) Ludlow Patton Esq. Dear Sir: The undersigned members of the American Equal Rights Association Executive Committe- ask you to pay...
Show more1866 Ludlow Patton Esq. Dear Sir The undersigned members of the American Equal Rights Association Executive Committe - ask you to pay Mrs. Abby H. Patton's pledge- fifty dollars- to Mr. R. J. Johnston, to go to his account for printing report of proceedings of the May Meetings - Susan B. Anthony E. Cady Stanton Edwin A. Studwell-Copy Alma Lutz Collection (1866) Ludlow Patton Esq. Dear Sir: The undersigned members of the American Equal Rights Association Executive Committe- ask you to pay Mrs. Abby H. Patton's pledge- fifty dollars- to Mr. R. J. Johnston, to go to his account for printing report of proceedings of the May Meetings Susan B. Anthony E. Cady Stanton Edwin A. Studwell-
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Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Date: 1860-08-25
Text: (Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Worcester, Aug. 25, 1860. Dear Mrs. Stanton I learn through Stephen Foster and Lydia Mott of your Invitations to attend political Anti-Slavery Conventions is Cleveland and Worcester - I would be delighted to (?) Women attend, and speak and act with them - but of course it can be only these who really feel that it is best for men, even, at this moment, to stop to organize the mere handful of voters, who would cast their ballots...
Show more(Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Worcester, Aug. 25, 1860. Dear Mrs. Stanton I learn through Stephen Foster and Lydia Mott of your Invitations to attend political Anti-Slavery Conventions is Cleveland and Worcester - I would be delighted to (?) Women attend, and speak and act with them - but of course it can be only these who really feel that it is best for men, even, at this moment, to stop to organize the mere handful of voters, who would cast their ballots for principle - and not for what they deemed the"least of the two evils", one of which the nation must surely have in the presidential chair - You see Stephen is but repeating the Liberty Party Experiment - Men who cannot or will not hear their testimony against the two great Political Parties, by non voting, can not & will not by voting for a man for principles sake whoso election is not possible. It requires precisely the same material to make a true Political abolitionist that it does to make a Non voting Disunion Abolitionist - the only difference is the mode of expressing opposition to the prevailing pro Slavery action. Antoinette Brown is the only woman who could go into Foster's Movement with right good Will - for she is a politician in philosophy - while you and I & others are agitators to make public sentiment - So it seems to me - But if you feel right for the work go ahead - Stephen wants you to read an address on the true government at one of their evening sessions, & to act on their business Committee - Parker Pillsbury, in the Money Committee, when Stephen asked an appropriation to pay your expenses to his Convention - Said,(Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S. Aug. 25, 1860. -2-) "I have great faith in Mrs. Stanton, & would vote her expenses to any place where there was an audience for to address, no matter by whom or for what called together - sure that her word would be true & grand anywhere -" Why don't you go to the Liberty Party Convention at Syracuse - Stephen expects to be there, to try & get Goodell & Gerritt Smith & all to join him - they make nominations & the Worcester Convention endorse their Nominees - I wish Henry would go & report to the Tribune & the World, without scandal prejudice or irony - just what they propose & do - I hope they may unite - Stepehen thinks Frederic Douglas will unite with him - I hope he will - for he stands so isolated alone now - If you go to Syracuse, you'll get an idea of what Stephen's plan is & can then decide whether you had better go to Worcester. If you see your way clear to help both Woman & the Negro, or only the Negro - then go by all means - Write me at Albany, Care Lydia Mott - We got the Money voted for our Albany Depository. Love to All - S. B. Anthony.
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Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Date: [February 1861]
Text: (Letter from Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S. probably about February, 1861.) Dear Mrs. Stanton Your note came yesterday - most sincerely do I regret that your household must give you such greeting on your return - it is a shame that those large boys, Young Men - do not begin to feel a pride in helping to keep good order - But I will only rejoice that you & the cause have had the little you have of this Winters experience - I have sent you the Utica Papers - & hope you get them - We had...
Show more(Letter from Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S. probably about February, 1861.) Dear Mrs. Stanton Your note came yesterday - most sincerely do I regret that your household must give you such greeting on your return - it is a shame that those large boys, Young Men - do not begin to feel a pride in helping to keep good order - But I will only rejoice that you & the cause have had the little you have of this Winters experience - I have sent you the Utica Papers - & hope you get them - We had two excellent meetings in Zions (Colored) Church, Rochester, on Sunday - Mrs. Stanton - The Hon. Phelps of Boston is determined to execute the law on me - I pray you impart nothing of my action to the sister Mrs. Garnsey - I'd like you to get her account of the whole affair, reveal her whereabouts - Moreover tell her, if anything - that I know it not - I have a letter from Mr. Garrison, begging me to reveal her hiding place - he says there is not spot or blemish on Phelps character - get Mrs. Garnsey's opinion on his chastity to his Marriage Vow - You will of course slip over to Auburn one of the days - It is a shame that you can never be released from constant presence at your home - I shall make a contract with the Father of my children to watch & care for them one half the time. I cannot write much - Mr. Green was down yesterday - bright & pure as ever and fresh for the Wars Spiritual - Garrison is clearly with us says they expect a severe time - but shall go on as if there was nothing but sunshine in prospect -(Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S. Feb. 1861) & such is more & more clearly our duty - Poor dear Mr. Mays philosophy, is just the one to best please his Satanic Majesty - & we can even spare the test for Syracuse - No, No, that city of loudest pretentions must be put to the test - I hope you may steal down there one day -. S. B. A. P. S. (On upper margin of first page) I have asked Lydia to see Ramsey about the Divorce hearing before the Judiciary -
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Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Date: 1862-02-27
Text: (Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S.) Rochester, Feb. 27, 1862. Dear Mrs. Stanton Well, here I am at home, without a call at Auburn or Seneca Falls - When I got to Albany last Friday - I found letter from Phillips, wishing me to arrange a lecture for him here on Wednesday next - There was no time to be lost - I spent Saturday writing letters to all the neighboring County Weekly Papers - Last night I got letter, asking me to arrange lecture here for Dr. Cheever the 18 or 19 March ...
Show more(Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S.) Rochester, Feb. 27, 1862. Dear Mrs. Stanton Well, here I am at home, without a call at Auburn or Seneca Falls - When I got to Albany last Friday - I found letter from Phillips, wishing me to arrange a lecture for him here on Wednesday next - There was no time to be lost - I spent Saturday writing letters to all the neighboring County Weekly Papers - Last night I got letter, asking me to arrange lecture here for Dr. Cheever the 18 or 19 March - he, the Dr. is going to address the Military Committee of our Legislature - March 20th - and we hope to get a Second hearing & Gerritt Smith to address them - on the duty of Emancipation - I got your letter & Valentine - I reckon Gatt must have perpetrated the latter - we all laughed over it - Do you see, the Tribune calls on all lovers of order & decency to roll up their names to Petitions against the Divorce Bill - and a friend writes there is an amendment of the New Married Women's property bill before the Legislature - Do you keep watch of the State, as well as the National Legislature - & keep them strait - Think of Gen. Grant returning those 13 slaves to their Masters - such gratuitous outrage should be met with instant death - without judge or jury - if any offense may - But the action of the House, & the talk of the Senate, looks a little hopeful - it was in Wednesdays Tribune -(Susan B. Anthony to E. C. S. Feb. 27, 1862 -2-) I had two meetings in Western Massachusetts - capital ones - got my speech finished up pretty good - - Did you read Fred Douglas Cooper Institute speech - it is a grand thing - Do you see Garrison has not published Parkers Albany speech, nor nothing but your letter - that shows where you stand with him - May be, he will give more this week - Oh, there are always so many things to talk over - pen & paper are no go - I enclose Petition put your own name to it, & get a few more and send it to Albany without delay - to help agitate - I hope to give you a few days yet this Spring - for you to slip out & breathe the soft air of Peterboro - Lydia has taken a nice house - for about six boarders - two nice rooms- parlors with bedrooms - & two single rooms - It is a good deal of a risk - but I hope she will get two good peoples - You will see Mr. Greens speech in this weeks Standard I expect - I thought it very fine - Brother Merritt gone to Leavenworth - alone - his wife still in New York - Truly & Affectionately S. B. Anthony
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Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Date: June 17, [1856]
Text: (Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony et al. to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Rochester NY June 17 Mrs. E. C. Stanton Dear Friend, We are in Council about the Anti-Slavery picnic for July 4. We decide it will be an addition to the value and interest of the occasion for you to speak. You can easily be heard out of doors, for a half hour or so, at least - as the crowd will not be vast. Therefore, we have put your name on the handbills, doubting not you will be ready and willing to help, on an...
Show more(Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony et al. to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Rochester NY June 17 Mrs. E. C. Stanton Dear Friend, We are in Council about the Anti-Slavery picnic for July 4. We decide it will be an addition to the value and interest of the occasion for you to speak. You can easily be heard out of doors, for a half hour or so, at least - as the crowd will not be vast. Therefore, we have put your name on the handbills, doubting not you will be ready and willing to help, on an occasion which partly at least, grew out of your suggestion at first. Should you shrink from the post Miss Anthony has just been telling how, in Albany, you induced your friend Gerritt Smith to make an excellent speech in an Anti Slavery meeting by urgent solicitations, which he even called "scolding". It would not be pleasant to try the same process with you, it will be needless probably;- but we are prepared for such an emergency. Trusting you will be with us, and be heard, we remain Yours friends truly - G. B. Stebbins Amy Post Catharine A. F. Stebbins Susan B. Anthony
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Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Date: 1856-05-26
Text: (Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony to ELizabeth Cady Stanton) Rochester May 26/56 Dear Mrs. Stanton: Taking It for granted that you are at home once more, I'll say a word to you by way of "exhortation and prayer". I ought to be more pious than formerly, since I travelled all the way from Seneca Falls to Schenectady in company with President Finney & Lady - & heard Garison Parker & all of us Woman's Rights actors duly denounced as "Infidels". I told...
Show more(Copy of letter from Susan B. Anthony to ELizabeth Cady Stanton) Rochester May 26/56 Dear Mrs. Stanton: Taking It for granted that you are at home once more, I'll say a word to you by way of "exhortation and prayer". I ought to be more pious than formerly, since I travelled all the way from Seneca Falls to Schenectady in company with President Finney & Lady - & heard Garison Parker & all of us Woman's Rights actors duly denounced as "Infidels". I told him our cause was Infidel to the popular Theology & popular interpretation of the Bible - Mrs. Finney took me to another seat & with much earnestness enquired all about, what we were doing & the growth of our Movement - said she you have the sympathy of a large proportion of the educated women with you - In my circle I hear the Movement much talked of & earnest hopes for its spread expressed - but these women dare not speak out their sympathy - What a shame that you don't live where I can run in & tell you all I know in five minutes & be back to my work again - I saw Lucy and almost made her promise to call on you - she has left Cincinnati for all - was going to look at Orange, Chapaqua & other places in the vicinity of N. Y. for a home & if not suited, going to Wiscon to look - but I can't bear to have her & Nette settle in the far West - they ought to be at the Centre of Civilization - The Anniversary Meeting was good - though the weather was very rainy - I attended the Anniversary of the "American Woman's Educational Association" headed by Catharine E. Beecher - it was at(Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton -2-) Prof. Webster's (?) 14 Lexington Avenue - some parts of the secretary's report were very fine - I said to Mrs. W. I would rather see the weight of your influence exerted to open the doors of the existing colleges to Woman - far greater good would be done for woman by such work, than by the establishment of separate Colleges, said she that is my mind exactly - isn't it strange that such women as those, Miss Barrker, Mrs. Kirkland Mrs. Stevens, S. G. Hall &c, are so stupid, Yet so false as to work for any thing secondary - any thing other than their highest conviction - but of those women are all bound by the fashionable Church & dare not take sides with the unpopular - Mrs. W. said she knew one of our leaders very well, Mrs. Stanton of Seneca Falls. I am now just done with house fixing and ready to commence operations on that Report.- Don't you think it would be a good plan to first state what we mean by educating the sexes together - then go on to show how the few institutions that profess to give equal education fail in the Physical, Moral & Intellectual departments & lastly that it is folly to talk of giving to the sexes, equal advantages, while you withhold from them equal Motive to improve those advantages - Do you please mark out a plan & give me as soon as you can - Oh, that I had the requisite power to do credit to Womanhood in this emergency - why is nature so sparing of her gifts - When will you come to Rochester to spend those days, I shall be most happy to see whenever it shall be - only let me know a few days before - that I may be as much at leisure as may be - Amelia & the two babies of course & as many more as convenient - With Love Susan B. Anthony
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