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^ 363 Gannett—$1500— with Mrs G. 500— 2,000 and Mr Sam. Wilder guaranteeing the other $200— 1 My last speech—was made to the Ex. Com. of the Board of Trustees— They refused to take Mr Wilders guarantee—so I told them I was good for it— not a trustee—has given anything—though there are several millionaires among them— Dr Moore 2 —afterward told me he was ashamed that Sister Mary had to come forward with 2,000— of her hard earned money— 1. SBA makes several errors in recording numbers. See 10 September 1900 above for accurate record. 2. Edward Mott Moore (1814–1902) was a distinguished surgeon and heart specialist who also served as a trustee of the University of Rochester. On November 7, SBA called on him to talk about the university and her health; of the latter, “he said absolutely nothing could be done— Nature must do the remedy.” (NCAB, 12:55; WWW1; SBA diary, 1900, Film, 40:363ff.) Y Excelsior Diary 1900, n.p., SBA Papers, DLC. ••••••••• 165 • SBA to ECS Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 11, 1900— Dear Mrs Stanton— A happy birth-day to you—there is something magic about eighty-five!! Glad you have reached it—hope you’ll stay yet many a year, blessed with all your children— Wish I could be with you tomorrow—but I am going to try and be equal to celebrating the birth day a month—yes a three weeks after the fair— 1 If all is well—and I go on improving the next three weeks at the rate I have been making—I shall go—and I think there is no doubt but I shall— I shall start the 30th or the 1st at latest— You must be in good trim to do all the talking—and we’ll sit up in our big chairs & behave just the prettiest !!— Good Bye—with Love to Harriot & Nora—Maggie & Bob—Kitt & Wife 2 & Gatt & wife— 3 You wont have Theodore and his wife & children! but you’ll enjoy those you have & all you have—as ever yours U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead, ECS Papers, DLC. 10 november 1900 364 & 1. SBA calculates the time between her anticipated trip to New York in December and the start of the twentieth century on 1 January 1901. She and ECS were scheduled to be guests of honor at a “grand octogenarian reception” to open the week-long National Suffrage Bazaar at Madison Square Garden’s Concert Hall on 3 December 1900. “Though still frail,” as the Woman’s Journal observed, SBA joined Antoinette Blackwell, Isabella Hooker, Anna C. Field, and Charlotte Wilbour as the honored pioneers. ECS could not make it to the event, although reporters from the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Tribune thought they saw her. (New York Times, 29 November 1900; New York Sun, 4 December 1900; Woman’s Journal, 8 December 1900; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 4 December 1900; New York Tribune, 4 December 1900.) 2. Henry Stanton, or Kit, married Mary O’Shea (c. 1873–?) in 1892. Mary Stanton was the daughter of Patrick O’Shea, a prominent publisher of Catholic books. (New York Times, 8 November 1892, 5 March 1906; Federal Census, 1900.) 3. Along with ECS’s son Gerrit, or Gat, SBA refers to his wife, Augusta E. Hazleton Stanton (1850–?). (William A. Stanton, A Record, Genealogical, Biographical , Statistical of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and His Descendants, 1635–1891 [Albany, N.Y., 1891], 463; Papers, 3:306–7.) ••••••••• 166 • SBA to Fannie Rosenberg Bigelow Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 22, 1900. My Dear Friend:— Owing to the fact that my health is not such as to warrant a great outlay of strength in any one direction,and the probabilities are that with increasing years it will not improve, my friends strenuously urge me to abandon my cherished plan of securing a large standing fund for the N.A.W.S.A. They think it would be wiser for me to use what strength I have along lines of work in which I shall be able to influence present, or near future, conditions ,rather than attempt to secure a “fund”for the use of younger workers. I have at last come to feel that I must accept their view of the situation, and the question arises, what shall be done with money on hand, of which there are $2,250? 1 Two plans present themselves to me,one of which is that it might be...

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