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568 & [in SBA’s hand] p.s. The inevitable Postscript—how long would be best to allow the essays—how many words— Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Rush Rhees Papers, NRU. Square brackets surround letters that ran off the page. 1. Film, 44:791–93. They discussed plans for the third year of competition for the Susan B. Anthony Prize, sponsored by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association,for the student or students at the University of Rochester who submitted the best essay on an aspect of woman suffrage. The topic and terms described in this letter were published in Fifty-sixth Annual Catalogue of the University of Rochester, A College of Liberal Arts, 1905–1906 (Rochester, 1906), 127. 2. Enclosure was SBA to Ella H. Crossett, 28 December 1905, Film, 44:804. 3. See Rush Rhees to SBA, 4 January 1906, Film, 44:866–67. 4. Joseph Henry Gilmore (1834–1918),once a Baptist minister,was professor of rhetoric, logic, and English at the University of Rochester from 1868 until 1908. (DAB.) ••••••••• 285 • SBA to Grace A. Woodworth1 Rochester, N.Y. Jan. 8, [1906]— Dear Miss Woodworth The photo are received—also your beautiful letter putting down the price to the lowest figure— I want to do a little more than accept your lowest price for this dozzen— I add $5— for those you have given me heretofore —or if you prefer call the V a new years present—any way so you have the extra $5— The pictures are very nice—and I thank you very much for them— I do wish I could sit—or stand for some pictures full length—but I am too lazy to get dressed & go down to your Studio—but may be if I live till warm weather comes—I will accomplish the feat— With my wishes for your success—I am Sincerely yours U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead, SBA Papers, Seneca Falls Historical Society. Envelope addressed to 30 Main street East, Rochester. SBA wrote 1905. 1. Grace Adelle Woodworth (1872–1967), a photographer with a studio in Rochester, took pictures of SBA and Mary Anthony both alone and together on 8 February 1905, in advance of SBA’s birthday celebration. Writing an endorsement of Woodworth’s talent, SBA expressed a preference for the pictures of the sisters 3 january 1906 ^ 569 together: “those taken separately, it seems to me—are not so perfect— the fault was in both of ourselves—not in the picture taker.” She went on to say, “but they please all the friends exceedingly—and it is the friends who are the best judges— after all.” Woodworth grew up in Seneca Falls, where an uncle had attended the woman’s rights convention and signed the Declaration of Sentiments. (Amy S. Doherty, “Grace Woodworth’s Portrait of Susan B. Anthony: ‘Outside the Common Lines,’” in Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825–1940, ed. David Tatham [Syracuse, N.Y., 1986], 243–51; program for SBA’s eighty-fifth birthday, 15 February 1905, SBA Collection, NRM; SBA to G. A. Woodworth, 14 June 1905, Film, 44:559–60.) ••••••••• 286 • Jenkin Lloyd Jones to SBA [Chicago] January 20, 1906. My Dear Friend:— Greetings. It was good to get word from you and heart-warming to know that I carry your continued sympathies. A day or two after your letter arrived the Lincoln Centre hall was well filled with men and women summoned to promote the woman suffrage plank in the new charter. 1 We mean to push it for all it is worth.There is a bare fighting chance that it will succeed. Very cordially yours, Y TL, carbon, Jenkin Lloyd Jones Papers, ICMe. 1. On 18 January 1906, a coalition of reformers in Chicago rallied to launch a campaign for municipal suffrage for women. SBA sent a message to the event, quoted in the Tribune: “O, do what you can in Chicago now. It is your great oppportunity . If you miss it, it will be a grief to the whole world.” A commission to draft a new charter for the city of Chicago began work in committees in December 1905, while advocates of women’s municipal suffrage organized. Clubs, temperance groups, social settlements, professional societies, and suffrage associations collaborated through the Women’s Committee for the Extension of Municipal Suffrage to Women. In addressing the mass meeting, Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Jane Addams were joined by other local notables. The Abraham Lincoln Center, a kind of...

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