Manuscripts

Bound volumes; copies of correspondence

Description: The collection contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities. There are four large letterbooks of Joseph Anthony, three loose-leaf binders of typed copies of Susan B. Anthony letters in other libraries, and an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony. Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. Anthony Family members represented in the collection include Jessie Anthony, Joseph Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy E. Anthony, Katherine Boyles, Maude Anthony Koehler, and Frank Anthony Mosher. Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass.
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Production date: 1844-1945.

Correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities. There are four large letterbooks of Joseph Anthony, three loose-leaf binders of typed copies of Susan B. Anthony letters in other libraries, and an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony. Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. Anthony Family members represented in the collection include Jessie Anthony, Joseph Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy E. Anthony, Katherine Boyles, Maude Anthony Koehler, and Frank Anthony Mosher. Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass.

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Joseph Anthony letter books

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Anthony, Joseph. Letter books of copies of correspondence

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Manuscripts

The collection of 162 pieces contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities, dating from 1844 to 1945. This group of papers was assembled by Una R. Winter, Director, and Alice L. Park, Associate Director, of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. There are four large letterbooks which contain letterpress copies of approximately 1372 pages of correspondence written by Susan B. Anthony's cousin Joseph Anthony (Box 4). There is also an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony (AF 79) and a manuscript by Joseph Anthony titled "A Trip to the Bahama Islands" (AF 76). Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. There are several letters which discuss a bust of Susan B. Anthony by the artist Lorado Taft, and one letter promoting a recent volume of The History of Woman Suffrage (AF 28). Anthony family members represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony and her relatives: cousin Jessie Anthony (1856-1918) and Jessie's father, Joseph Anthony (1829-1897), and grandfather John Anthony (Susan's uncle); niece Lucy E. Anthony (1859-1944); second cousin Katherine Boyles; niece Maude Anthony Koehler (1865-1950); and nephew Frank Anthony Mosher.Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include: Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass. Note: 49 original letters [AF 18 (1-43) and AF 24 (1-6)] written by Susan B. Anthony to Jessie Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt were removed and placed in Box 5, which is restricted. Typewritten copies of these letters have been filed in Box 1 of the collection for research use.In Box 3, there are two loose-leaf binders and one envelope of typescripts of Susan B. Anthony letters from collections held in other libraries. These materials are from the Anna Dann Mason collection (47 letters), Sophia Smith collection (58 letters) and Alma Lutz collection (52 letters).

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