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[National Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead]
Tenafly N.Y.
Nov 1st
Charles. P. Sumerby
Dear Sir,
Accept my sincere thanks for the very interesting volume you sent me. I have read it through with great pleasure and only regret we do not know more of the long line of noble women who have stood firmly in all ages as the representation of some
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principle. As I do not know the author or her address please tell her for me she has accidentally made one blunder on page 259, in saying that the name of Ernestine Rose was not mentioned in “Eminent Women” Tell her to turn to page 362, and she will find 24 lines, and it was Mrs. Rose own fault that there was not three times that number. I was obliged to write that article in great haste and found it difficult to get out of people what I wished to know
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Mrs. Underwood having just written sketches of women will now appreciate my shortcomings. No woman was ever so radical that I feared to do her justice. On Page 227, I would strike out the first six lines if you ever publish another edition. Why refer to faults in women, more than in biographies of men. I say one moral code for man and woman. In sketches of Jefferson Franklin Webster Clay Beecher you will find no shadowy
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reference to something in their lives there should not have been, but in Encyclopedias, Histories, biographies of great women, there seems to be always some dark page that cannot be opened. Francis Wright’s private life was unexceptional. She was unhappy in her married life, as most men and women are, she was unfortunate in her choice of a husband but I never heard of any private vice which she was guilty; of what faults had she; none so glaring that could be easily stated. I hope if another
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[written along left edge of first page]
edition is made all such unwise references of admissions will be stricken out respt [sic] yours
[written in left margin of first page]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
Centennial Headquarters
National Woman Suffrage Association
1431 Chestnut Street
Pres., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, N.J.
First Vice-Pres., Lucretia Mott, Pa.
Chair. Ex. Com., Matilda Joslyn Gage, N.Y.
Cor. Sec’y, Susan B. Anthony, N.Y.
Tenafly, N.J.
Nov. 1st., 1876
Charles. P. Sumerby
Dear Sir;
Accept my sincere thanks for the very interesting volume you sent me. I have read it through with great pleasure and only regret we do not know more of the busy time of noble women who have stood firmly in all ages as the representation of some principle. As I do not know the author or her address, please tell her for me she has accidentally made one blunder on page 259, in saying that the name of Ernestine Rose was not mentioned in “Eminent Women”. Tell her to turn to page 362, and she will find 24 lines, and it was Mrs. Rose’s own fault that there was not three times that number. I was obliged to write that article in great haste and found it difficult to get out of people what I wished to know. Mrs. Underwood having just written Sketches of Women will now appreciate my shortcomings. No woman was ever so radical that I feared to do her justice. On Page 227, I would strike out the first six lines if you ever publish another edition. Why refer to faults in women, more than in biographies of men. I say one moral code for man and woman. In sketches of Jefferson Franklin Webster Clay Beecher you will find no shadowy reference to something in their lives there should not have been. But in Encyclopedias, Histories Biographies of great women, there seems to be always some dark page that cannot be opened. Francis Wright’s private life was unexceptional. She was unhappy in her married life, as most men and women are, she was unfortunate in her choice of a husband, but I never heard of any private vice which she was guilty; and what faults had she; none so glaring that cannot be easily stated. I hope if another edition is issued all such unwise references of admissions will be stricken out.
Respt. Yours,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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[National Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead]
Tenafly N.Y.
Nov 1st
Charles. P. Sumerby
Dear Sir,
Accept my sincere thanks for the very interesting volume you sent me. I have read it through with great pleasure and only regret we do not know more of the long line of noble women who have stood firmly in all ages as the representation of some
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principle. As I do not know the author or her address please tell her for me she has accidentally made one blunder on page 259, in saying that the name of Ernestine Rose was not mentioned in “Eminent Women” Tell her to turn to page 362, and she will find 24 lines, and it was Mrs. Rose own fault that there was not three times that number. I was obliged to write that article in great haste and found it difficult to get out of people what I wished to know
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Mrs. Underwood having just written sketches of women will now appreciate my shortcomings. No woman was ever so radical that I feared to do her justice. On Page 227, I would strike out the first six lines if you ever publish another edition. Why refer to faults in women, more than in biographies of men. I say one moral code for man and woman. In sketches of Jefferson Franklin Webster Clay Beecher you will find no shadowy
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reference to something in their lives there should not have been, but in Encyclopedias, Histories, biographies of great women, there seems to be always some dark page that cannot be opened. Francis Wright’s private life was unexceptional. She was unhappy in her married life, as most men and women are, she was unfortunate in her choice of a husband but I never heard of any private vice which she was guilty; of what faults had she; none so glaring that could be easily stated. I hope if another
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[written along left edge of first page]
edition is made all such unwise references of admissions will be stricken out respt [sic] yours
[written in left margin of first page]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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[typed transcript]
Alma Lutz Collection
Centennial Headquarters
National Woman Suffrage Association
1431 Chestnut Street
Pres., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, N.J.
First Vice-Pres., Lucretia Mott, Pa.
Chair. Ex. Com., Matilda Joslyn Gage, N.Y.
Cor. Sec’y, Susan B. Anthony, N.Y.
Tenafly, N.J.
Nov. 1st., 1876
Charles. P. Sumerby
Dear Sir;
Accept my sincere thanks for the very interesting volume you sent me. I have read it through with great pleasure and only regret we do not know more of the busy time of noble women who have stood firmly in all ages as the representation of some principle. As I do not know the author or her address, please tell her for me she has accidentally made one blunder on page 259, in saying that the name of Ernestine Rose was not mentioned in “Eminent Women”. Tell her to turn to page 362, and she will find 24 lines, and it was Mrs. Rose’s own fault that there was not three times that number. I was obliged to write that article in great haste and found it difficult to get out of people what I wished to know. Mrs. Underwood having just written Sketches of Women will now appreciate my shortcomings. No woman was ever so radical that I feared to do her justice. On Page 227, I would strike out the first six lines if you ever publish another edition. Why refer to faults in women, more than in biographies of men. I say one moral code for man and woman. In sketches of Jefferson Franklin Webster Clay Beecher you will find no shadowy reference to something in their lives there should not have been. But in Encyclopedias, Histories Biographies of great women, there seems to be always some dark page that cannot be opened. Francis Wright’s private life was unexceptional. She was unhappy in her married life, as most men and women are, she was unfortunate in her choice of a husband, but I never heard of any private vice which she was guilty; and what faults had she; none so glaring that cannot be easily stated. I hope if another edition is issued all such unwise references of admissions will be stricken out.
Respt. Yours,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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