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(Copy of letter from Susan B* Anthony to Robert L, Stanton, Mrs* Stanton1a youngest son.)
April 15, 1904 -
Dear Bob -
Well - how do you get along - acting as book publisher & agent of "Eighty years & more" - I was reading the book last evening - it seems to me your Mother gave an undue proportion of the pages to her life long friend - - But, be that as it may - it is, all we have of her in book form - much - very much of her we have in our memories, but when we throw off this mortal coil - there will be nothing else left - but this book - and the History of woman suffrage - I am so thankful that she stuck to the work of those volumes - they really contain the most of her great speeches -until 1885 - and then Vol. IV contains extracts of all her speeches to 1900 - So the four books are really the record of her public life - and then in my "life & work" - there Is about as much of your mother as of me - and then if Hattie ever materialises the volumes of her letters that she now hopes for - the world will have something of her life - beside tradition -1 do hope she will make a good selection - But I hope she will not put in her Mother's lapses in grammar & rhetoric - which she often made in her hasty letter writing - Mrs. Harper told me she - Harriet "was not going to change a word"- Mrs Harper told her that get to do so - would be a great injustice to her Mother!
Hattie wants me to go down to Ithaca next week - I think it will have to be the week after - as tilings now look!
I have three middling sized scrap-books pretty nearly filled with clippings of your Mother - but I find I had put a greet many of my clippings
April 15, 1904 -
Dear Bob -
Well - how do you get along - acting as book publisher & agent of "Eighty years & more" - I was reading the book last evening - it seems to me your Mother gave an undue proportion of the pages to her life long friend - - But, be that as it may - it is, all we have of her in book form - much - very much of her we have in our memories, but when we throw off this mortal coil - there will be nothing else left - but this book - and the History of woman suffrage - I am so thankful that she stuck to the work of those volumes - they really contain the most of her great speeches -until 1885 - and then Vol. IV contains extracts of all her speeches to 1900 - So the four books are really the record of her public life - and then in my "life & work" - there Is about as much of your mother as of me - and then if Hattie ever materialises the volumes of her letters that she now hopes for - the world will have something of her life - beside tradition -1 do hope she will make a good selection - But I hope she will not put in her Mother's lapses in grammar & rhetoric - which she often made in her hasty letter writing - Mrs. Harper told me she - Harriet "was not going to change a word"- Mrs Harper told her that get to do so - would be a great injustice to her Mother!
Hattie wants me to go down to Ithaca next week - I think it will have to be the week after - as tilings now look!
I have three middling sized scrap-books pretty nearly filled with clippings of your Mother - but I find I had put a greet many of my clippings
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(Susan B. Anthony to Bob -2-)
about her in my other book - 40 of them - which are in the Congressional Library - I intend these three to go there- when I am through with them! -
I have a speech on "Educated Suffrage" partly type written - which I am sure she must have sent to be read at the Washington Convention of 1902 - or else for the Hearing before the Congress Committees - Can you give me any clue to the date of its sending - There were so many foreign women to speak that year - I think her speech might have been crowded out - Can't you tell me about it - She was very strenuous about Educated Suffrage - and I do not find that she had any carefully prepared argument - but this - I shall be in New York a day or two before sailing on May 19th - I shall be very glad to receive a call from you -
Affectionately -
Susan B. Anthony
P. S. I shall be at my Cousin's - Mrs. S. N. Lephams, No 10 - East 68th Street - New York -
Isn't this Introduction pretty nearly as well written as your Mother's Introduction - in the 1st volume - written when she was 70 years "young" - that makes me think of George Francis Train - he always told of 70 - or "80 years young - Poor fellow, he is gone over the big river.
about her in my other book - 40 of them - which are in the Congressional Library - I intend these three to go there- when I am through with them! -
I have a speech on "Educated Suffrage" partly type written - which I am sure she must have sent to be read at the Washington Convention of 1902 - or else for the Hearing before the Congress Committees - Can you give me any clue to the date of its sending - There were so many foreign women to speak that year - I think her speech might have been crowded out - Can't you tell me about it - She was very strenuous about Educated Suffrage - and I do not find that she had any carefully prepared argument - but this - I shall be in New York a day or two before sailing on May 19th - I shall be very glad to receive a call from you -
Affectionately -
Susan B. Anthony
P. S. I shall be at my Cousin's - Mrs. S. N. Lephams, No 10 - East 68th Street - New York -
Isn't this Introduction pretty nearly as well written as your Mother's Introduction - in the 1st volume - written when she was 70 years "young" - that makes me think of George Francis Train - he always told of 70 - or "80 years young - Poor fellow, he is gone over the big river.
