Manuscripts

Susan B. Anthony letter to an unnamed editor

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Description: Letter by Susan B. Anthony addressed to "Mr. Editor, Dear Sir," written on letterhead of Fowler & Wells, Phrenologists and Publishers. Fowler & Wells published the first two volumes of Susan B. Anthony's History of woman suffrage (1881). The letter reads: "By my request our publishers mail to you tonight, the advances sheets of "The History of Woman Suffrage," that you may be able to bring out your notice of it as early as our New York papers -- the book will not be handed them until Friday. Hoping that your reviewer will give these pages a careful reading and a just if not generous report thereof. I am Sir - Respectfully yours Susan B. Anthony."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1881 May 17.
Call number: mssHM 83495
Creator: Anthony, Susan B (1820-1906)

Anthony, Susan B. To Anthony, Joseph. Rochester, N.Y

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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