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^ 261 reads, “Polygamy is an institution unjust and degrading” without the reference to womanhood. (Report of the Thirty-first Convention, 1899, pp. 15–16, Film, 39:722ff.) ••••••••• 112 • From the Diary of SBA [2–6 January 1899] Mon. Jan. 2, 1899. At Bensonhurst— Business Com. began work in real earnest this a.m.& kept it going until dinner,then until supper,then until 10 p.m— Rachel & Harriet as usual slept or lay awake together—hence were sleepy all the day— Mr Catt went to Office in New York—& returned full of aches—which grew worse until at 7.30 Mrs Catt walked a mile to call his doctor—who came gave him big dose of Quinine—then Blue Mass—then a Setlitz Powder—all of which he vomited up strait way 1 —so that Mrs Catt just out of a severe gripp siege was up with Mr C. all the night— 1. Quinine was used to reduce fever. Pharmacists formulated blue mass pills according to their own recipes,but all of them contained mercury.Seidlitz Powder was used for its laxative powers. Tues. Jan. 3, 1899. At Bensonhurst Mr C. worse—& kept in bed all the day— Mrs Upton began feeling Grippy—so we had a lame feeling in our Com. meeting— At noon Mrs Marianna W. Chapman of Brooklyn came & lunched with us—& invited all to Luncheon with her tomorrow—but it proved that not one—save Alice Blackwell could accept— Rachel & Shaw were to leave in morning—Mrs Upton’s Grip had developed so that she would stay over with Mrs Catt— In p.m. Mrs Ida H. Harper came—so we had her to talk Press work—& there was much talking but very little actually decided Wed. Jan. 4, 1899. Left Bensonhurst 2 p.m Shaw—Foster Avery & Blackwell left in forenoon—Mrs Harper & self after Lunch— we called at Sun Office—Mr Paul Dana 1 came out to see us—and seemed ready & willing to grant us space in the Sunday Sun—for expression of sentiments from stand point of woman—and had Mrs Harper prepare an article such as we desire for the Sun of Sunday Jan 15th so we felt we had gained a splendid page for our cause 2 january 1899 262 & Then we called on Mrs Westover Alden—of the Tribune— there found that my old clerk on Revolution in 1869 2 —who had been on Tribune ever since had married several years ago a foreigner some 28 years her junior oh! oh!— 1. Paul Dana (1852–1930) succeeded his father as editor of the New York Sun in 1897 and held that position until July 1903. His office was at 170 Nassau Street. (WWW1; NCAB, 8:253.) 2. Nelly, or Ellen, Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz (c. 1849–1933), once a clerk in the offices of SBA’s newspaper,moved rapidly into journalism in 1869,first as New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial and then as a reporter for the New York Tribune. She stayed at the Tribune, working for many years in the book review department, while also publishing poetry. SBA remarks on her marriage in 1897 to the Tribune’s young art critic Royal Cortissoz (1869–1948). (Rev., 22 July, 18 November 1869, 28 September 1870, Film, 2:22, 154, 519; Federal Census, Caledonia, N.Y., 1860, and New York, 1880; Woman’s Who’s Who 1914; WWW1; Papers, 2:299–300.) Thur.Jan.5,1899.InNewYork—atCousinS.V.L.MrsHarpercametomy cousin S.V.Laphams with me last night—& met a cordial welcome— This a.m. Cousin sent us in carriage to Mrs E. Cady Stanton’s—250 West 94th st— Mrs H.remained to Lunch—had a nice talk with Mrs S.& her charming younger daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch—& left about 4 p.m. for Washington— Cousin Carrie Vail Ladd 1 came for me about 6—and I went back to cousins No 10 East 68th street— 1. Caroline Ruth Elizabeth Vail Ladd (1836–1913), or Carrie Vail Ladd, as SBA referred to her, was Semantha Lapham’s niece. Before the death of her husband in 1882, Ladd lived in East Orange, New Jersey, but thereafter she divided her time between her aunt’s house in New York and her native Vermont. (Albridge, Laphams in America, 183; SBA to Emilie Van Biel, 19 December 1894, Film, 33:44–45; Vail, Moses Vail, 222; Federal Census, 1880.) Fri. Jan. 6, 1899. In New York— Cousin Semantha sent me over to Mrs Stantons again n439—West 88th streetp where I...

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