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^ 465 Brigham Young, was a prolific writer and especially active in the National Council of Women. She also attended the International Council’s meeting in London in 1899. She divorced her first husband in 1877 and married Jacob F. Gates in 1880.(Encyclopedia of Mormonism,2:535–36; Carolyn W.D.Person,“Susa Young Gates,”in Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah,ed.Claudia L.Bushman [Logan, Utah, 1997], 198–223.) ••••••••• 227 • SBA to Elizabeth Smith Miller Rochester, N.Y. Feb. 4, 1903. My dear friend:— Your note with the enclosed from Mrs. Henry 1 shows that she is bound to throw the weight of her influence with the Nationals, or in other words she looses her influence by going in with those men!! That Miss Closz 2 you remember, was the one whose book on agnosticism Mrs. Stanton circulated so widely. I guess it was the last document she had sent out in quantity. It looks as if Nannie made a speech at the hearing yesterday. 3 I hope she did break the silence. Nannie could be a first rate speaker if she could only forget everything and everybody but just her thought; that is always good. You saw Hattie too, at Albany? How did she speak. She wrote me sometime ago that she was not well, that the whole burden of settling up affairs came upon her. Are Bob and Maggie living at 250 W. 94th. St. now? I should have liked very much to have been at Albany, but I am just now getting my books and papers ready to go to the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. Volume IV has not yet appeared. They had a fire in the bindery and all the covers and a part of the printed sheets were destroyed so that they have had to print over again. 4 It is about time for them to come now as they said the fire would delay them two weeks, and the two weeks were up on Monday,so I am hoping every mail to get word that they will be here.Hattie wrote me she was going to New Hampshire. 5 I am glad of it. Nothing will do her so much good as to come in contact with the people. [in SBA’s hand] Are you & Nannie going to New Orleans— 6 I shall not start until near the date—the delay about Vol. IV—makes it very hard for me—all the work comes at last moment— Affectionately yours U Susan B. Anthony 26 january 1903 466 & Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Smith Family Papers, Manuscript Division, NN. Directed to Geneva, N.Y. 1. Josephine Kirby Williamson Henry (1846–1928), a native of Kentucky, had been a leader in the Kentucky Equal Rights Association until her work on the Woman’s Bible put an end in 1899 to her collaboration with Laura Clay.SBA refers to Henry’s leadership in the National Liberal party, founded in 1901 by dissident members of the American Secular Union.Late in January 1903,Henry won reelection as the party’s vice president at a meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. (American Women; New York Times, 11 January 1928; Paul E. Fuller, Laura Clay and the Woman’s Rights Movement [Lexington, Ky., 1975], 38–41, 184n; Blue Grass Blade, 27 October, 29 December 1901, 2 February, 16 November 1902, 11 January 1903; Free Thought Magazine 20 [March 1902]: 159–65, and [November 1902]: 662–63; Atlanta Constitution, 26 January 1903.) 2. Harriet Marie Bonebright Closz (1861–1940), later Carmichael, a teacher and writer in Webster, Iowa, was an ally of Josephine Henry in the freethought movement and an officer of the National Liberal party. She published Woman and Her Relation to the Church, or Canon Law for Women in January 1902. In hopes of breaking the connection between women and the church,Closz compiled a history of canon law, showing its degradation of women in the distant past and, through persistence in custom and civil law, into the present. She credited Matilda Gage for many of her historical examples. In July 1902, ECS asked Closz for fifty copies of the pamphlet and praised the work.“A knowledge of this fragment of the Canon Law you have given us,” ECS wrote, “is surely enough to rouse a woman who has one particle of self-respect to action.I feel it my imperative duty to begin this battle with the planet. You are on the right track to begin the campaign...

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