Access Control
Date
1856-05-26
Subject (Topical)
Details
Member of
Identifier
vassar:46732,vcl_Susan-B-Anthony_F01-01_1856-05-26
Extent
1 item
Type
Rights
These materials are made available for research and educational purposes. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine the copyright status of materials in the Vassar College Digital Library.
: vcl_Susan-B-Anthony_F01-01_1856-05-26_001_tr
(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
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
: vcl_Susan-B-Anthony_F01-01_1856-05-26_002_tr
(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
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
