Colby--Series: Correspondence - Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1887-1902, undated (Clara Bewick Colby papers, 1860-1957; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Box 2, Folder 10)

26, West 61st N.Y. Feb 15"

Dear Mrs Colby,

Add my Lion to the committee speech as it is not at the end of the other.

Will you or Miss Anthony read it? Will it be published in The Congressional Record? If so be sure & close with the Lion. You can take 25 copies of my Book to your office to sell as pecuniary

Do what you can to help their sale in the Theatre this week. I suppose an agent will stay there during the press meetings..Tell our friends that the proceeds come to me & not some rich publisher as my son borrowed $1000 to do the work & we hope to sell enough to make him whole. Several of our rich women here have taken five, ten, & twenty copies to give to impecunious friends & relatives. I have asked

26. West 61 N.Y. March 3rd 1898

Dear Mrs Colby,

Did you get possession of any of my leaflets. Mrs Blackwell did not send me a single copy. I wanted some to send in letters all over the country. It was a grave oversight to send none to me, when I paid for them all

It cost me $30.00 to send my books to Washington & not a dozen sold!! I fear my suffrage daughters did not come to [?]

you make a mistake in telling them that all were published in The Fortune. Not one half of the material as it is in the book was in the Tribune. Your readers naturally think they have had it all & so do not buy the book.

However it is selling well to the general public & most of the reviews are very complementary. I hear from all suites how well you read many speeches, many thanks With kind regards

Yours sincerely Elizabeth Cady Stanton

26, West 61 N.Y. Jun 24 [1898]

Dear Mrs Colby

I send you my speech for the convention, which you can read if you choose. Susan will have enough to do. Read it over around several times, so that you can more than