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^ 539 Hoping that you will have received the box of books, and that you will go forward and write the article, 4 I am Sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Records of the Kansas State Historical Society, Correspondence Received, Department of Archives, KHi. Directed to Topeka, Kas. 1. George Washington Martin (1841–1914) became secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society in 1899, after a career as newspaper editor and Republican politician. (NCAB, 15:267; WWW1.) 2. Martin first answered her (missing) letter of 27 December 1904 on 14 January 1905, when he declined her invitation to write a biography of D. R. Anthony. “Web Wilder is the man to do it,” he wrote then, because Wilder knew Anthony better and through more history. But he also complained that Wilder was “letting down ten years before he should.” Before responding to Martin on January 20, SBA appealed directly to Web Wilder and “urged upon him the importance of his writing what he thought was the truth about my brother.” While awaiting his reply, she asked Martin if Wilder might agree “to block out what he thinks is the proper thing to be said of my brother D. R., and submit it to you to complete.” (Film, 44:426, 433.) 3. Two transactions with Martin were underway at the same time. Ready to donate more historical sources to the Kansas State Historical Society, SBA sent Martin a list provided her by Herbert Putnam indicating books from her donation that duplicated holdings at the Library of Congress.Martin returned a list showing which of those duplicates the society wanted, and the forty-six books and seventeen pamphlets were shipped from Washington to Topeka. (G. W. Martin to SBA, 6, 14 January, 1 February 1905, SBA to H. Putnam, 10 January 1905, H. Putnam to SBA, 17, 18 January 1905, SBA to G. W. Martin, 20 January 1905, Film, 44:416–21, 426, 431–33, 450–51.) 4. Martin later reported that Dan, Jr., agreed to find someone to write about his father. (G. W. Martin to SBA, 1 February 1905, Film, 44:450–51.) ••••••••• 267 • SBA to Julia Dodson Sheppard1 [Rochester,] February 11, 1905. My Dear Friend:—I was glad enough to hear from you, and glad to hear that you are going to celebrate the 15th of February, my birthday. I am glad that so many of your women will be pleased to attend the reception at your house, whether they believe in suffrage or not. 28 january 1905 540 & I was before the House Judiciary Committee at Washington a few years ago, when Speaker Henderson, 2 of Iowa, who was then Chairman of the committee said to me,“Now,Miss Anthony,at the hotel where I live I don’t know of a woman who is in favor of suffrage; my wife,even,doesn’t want to vote.”She whispered to me that she had told him twenty years ago,that she didn’t want to vote, but she had told him many and many a time since that she did. The committee of fifteen were all present and I said to her, “Now, Mrs. Henderson, I want you to tell the committee exactly what you have whispered to me.” She said, “I can’t, but you may,” so I told the committee of it and Senator Henderson just laughed at the story. Now, I hear that Delegate Rodey, 3 of New Mexico, says that his wife doesn’t want to vote,and yet I have a letter from that same wife,from Albuquerque , saying that a club, of which she is president, is going to celebrate my birthday and would like a letter from me. Isn’t that pretty good? The men take up with something a woman said years ago, but they never hear her speak of the subject after she is converted and believes in woman suffrage . Now I trust that many of your friends that come to your house on the 15th will really believe in woman suffrage. I do not think there is a woman under the shining sun, who, if the question were put to her as to how she would vote on any given moral or social question, wouldn’t tell you how she would vote on it, and she would never vote in favor of whiskey, in favor of loose morals, etc., etc. Your town has voted upon some tax question of late, I saw, and the taxpaying women...

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