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COLLECTION Identifier: A/A628d: M-42

Letter from from Susan B. Anthony, 1900

Overview

Letter from Susan B. Anthony, suffragist and reformer.

Dates

  • Creation: 1900

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Access. Originals closed; use digital images.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Susan B. Anthony as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.

Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.

Extent

1 folders

Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Miss Wetherell, re: a speaking engagement.

BIOGRAPHY

Best known for her lifelong crusade for woman's suffrage, Anthony was first active in the temperance and anti-slavery movements. In May 1869 she organized the National Woman Suffrage Association, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. From 1891 to 1900, she was the second president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. For further information, see Notable American Women (1971).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession number: 205

This letter from Susan B. Anthony to Miss Wetherell, re: a speaking engagement, was given to the Schlesinger Library by Doris Fleischman Bernays and Edward L. Bernays in 1961, and was microfilmed in 1980 under a grant from George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Related Material:

For additional Susan B. Anthony manuscript materials at the Schlesinger Library, see A/A628, A/A628a, A/A628b, A/A628c, A/A628e, A/A628f, A/A628g, and A-143.

Title
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906. Letter from Susan B. Anthony, 1900: A Finding Aid
Author
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
Language of description
eng
EAD ID
sch00174

Repository Details

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