Wisconsin Women's History

National American Woman Suffrage Association,

MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, New York.

Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.

[page torn] CHAPMAN CATT, [page torn] American Tract Society Building, New York.

[page torn]-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

[page torn] ng Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Philadelphia, Pa.

Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass.

Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio.

Auditors LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y.

OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N. Y.

17 Madison St.,

June 11, 1900.

My Dear Mrs. Stanton: --

I find that Miss Anthony dictated a letter to you before she left, which her secretary has just copied. I will add a few words. We felt very sorry to see Miss Anthony start off for that long, hot journey when she was not at all well, although it is as much as one's life is worth to suggest this latter fact. A telegram from Leavenworth, however, says that she arrived there safely Saturday night, and that her brother was buried Sunday afternoon. His wife started for California to visit her son less than twenty-four hours before he died, so his death must have been wholly unexpected. They overtook her with a telegram and she returned home. The letters received show that they had made great preparations for Miss Anthony at the Longwood meeting, and doubtless they will be very much disappointed if she does not return for it. She said if she was not needed to help settle up Merritt's business she would return immediately, in which case she may be able to go to Longwood. I shall be very sorry if she misses the Republican convention, as she may not go to another and it would be a great pity if their committee could not have the pleasure of turning her down once more.

I must say that the editorials and press dispatches which come to me from the clipping bureau show just about as much hostility and as many lies against woman suffrage as ever existed, and the most discouraging

National American Woman Suffrage Association,

MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, New York.

Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.

President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York.

Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Philadelphia, Pa.

Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass.

Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio.

Auditors LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y.

OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER, N. Y.

June 11, 1900.

My Dear Friend, --

Mrs. Harper has just read me your letter. I wonder whom you are going to visit at West Hampton, and after that you say you are to be at the beautiful old home of Sarah Hallock at Milton-on-the-Hudson.

I hope Mrs. Helen Bright Clark will be able to find you when she goes to New York. Their son is to marry a New York girl on June 18th, and after that they are to make a trip to Niagara Falls. They sail for home on July 4th.

William Loyd Garrison is to speak at the Longwood Progressive Friends meeting, Kennett Square, on June 15th, and we have a Woman Suffrage Day there with Miss Shaw and Mrs. Catt on the 16th. Miss Shaw is to preach a good Quaker sermon on the 17th. Mr. Garrison and the Clarks will all remain over until the end, so do write them there if you think best and tell them you will be ready to receive them.

I am starting for Kansas this evening. A telegram from Brother Daniel brings the sad word of the death of Brother Merritt. So I am rushing westward as I did on May 11, 1875, just twenty-five years ago, when Brother Daniel was shot you remember. Merritt's death is very unexpected. I had a letter from him a few days ago in which he made no reference whatever to his health. I shall doubtless return very soon, but may not be able to attend the Longwood meeting, and if so I shall not see the Clarks again, for which I shall be very sorry.

Lovingly yours,

Susan B. Anthony.

Per. A. E. D. (Sec'y.)

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THE ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.

Mrs Clara Bewick Colby

Ed The Womans Journall

Beatrice Nebraska

U.S.A.

I find that the present Tribune just received has Chapter XXX. so you will have to change the three I have sent to 31.32.33. Hae you received four packages from me, one speech, three Rems? Now you must stop [scribbling?] seeing that I am faithfully at work once more. I am awfully sick of these Rems. do you insist on my giving an account of myself for the twenty remaining years, running on until next April? Or do you say no[?] enough. There is so much in the living present to write about. Will what I have written in the Tribune thus far what is to be found in the history Ballot Box, Citizen. I think my descendents can write me up fuller than the public will ever care to read. I am glad to

see you are in Dakota tent they are the poor to give you many subscribers

250 West 94th St

Dec 26/1900

Dear Mrs. Colby,

Thanks for your papers, just received. I have read every word, and have sent them all to be read by others, in different directions. I want you to give space, in your next paper, to the enclosed article.

I wish to show such men as Bishop Potter & Rev. Mr. Parkhurst the radical work to be [done?] on the social vice. I want to make men in high places feel that their [sentiment?]

As you asked me to let you read it, I sent it to you

Have you got it, or is it in the waste-basket, with my four important resolutions? I send you my tribute to Susan - on her birthday - if you have room in your columns, please publish

Yours

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Per Sec

Tell Susan to tear up the copy I sent her, this is much better I am sending it to several papers If you have no room to spare, put in some [illegible]

following questions?

I - How long will they remain in this country?

II. Will they come to New York? How many of them are there, and what are their names?

If you will answer these questions I will be much obliged to you with kind regards

Elizabeth Cady Stanton per sec

Basingstoke,

June 24.

Dear Mother;

Just two week ago today was Helen's last day with us here. We knew she was ill, but all thought there were weeks if not months before her, and I felt she would recover. It was not till Thursday morning about 6.30 that we saw a change in her. In an hour the little spirit had slipped away. I had never seen any on [one] die before, and in her case there was nothing but a sweet sliding away. There

sent were tied to the the wheels, making it look like a chariot of flowers. Round the coffin were great branches of white laburnum, and on the tops were lovely copper-coloured roses and quantities of maidenhair fern. Nora & Dolly in white sat at the foot of the perambula, Tor, and Theodore & Harry & I, & the rest of the children were in the green-house too. The clergyman from London, Mr. Farrington, an American, read some beautiful poems, Esther Bright played on the violin, and a friend, who is a concert singer & who knew & loved Helen, sang exquisitely.

After one pretty service, Alice & the nurse took Helen in an open carriage with the beautiful June sun

shining down upon her and drove to the crematory near Woking. Theodore, Harry, Mrs. Savile & I went by train. I am having made a silver vase for the ashes, and when I die I want dear little Helen's dust mingled with mine & buried.

Your letter & Maggie's have just been given me by Harry. No, there is no comfort except in the sympathy & love given by friends at such a crisis. But I am not broken down by my loss. Life and death are equal mysteries.