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^ 579 ••••••••• 289 • Lucy E. Anthony to Ida Husted Harper Rochester, N.Y. Feb. 28, 1906. 1 My dear Mrs. Harper— I am glad to tell you that Aunt Susan is again better. It seems to be a very steady gain and of course that is the best kind. I do not know whether I have told you that she has had a temperature of 103 but it was down to 99 yesterday and is today a little over 100, but of course it would naturally go up and down somewhat for a time, I suppose. 2 She is much better, you may know, because she occasionally asks a question and I am making it a point to go in three or four times a day and read her bright little bits from letters and tell her all the good news that I can think of or make up. Today I read her the part of your letter in which you said that you would never again refuse to speak when you were asked. She laughed right out at what you said of the stage presence of the college women,always excepting Miss Thomas, of course, and she said she was delighted that you had come to your senses. She said that your voice always carried well and that everybody liked to hear you and that she did very much indeed. She says she is so glad that you are beginning to feel your responsibility in that line. She thinks that her bringing up of you has not been in vain. Now if you have any more nice things like that to write, just send them on. Y TL incomplete, on NAWSA letterhead, Ida Harper Woman Suffrage Scrapbook 6, Rare Books, DLC. Not in Film. Directed to Washington, D.C. In margins , in hand of I. H. Harper, “Letter from Lucy Anthony. My last message to nfrompMiss Anthony, who died at 12.40 a.m. Mar. 13.” 1. Lucy Anthony did not accompany her aunt on the trip from Washington to Rochester, according to Ida Harper’s biography, but arrived sometime later. (Anthony, 3:1415.) 2. In the first phase of her illness, the press reported “facial neuralgia,” “extreme weakness,” and “a stroke of paralysis.” See, for example, New York Times, 21 February 1906. 28 february 1906 ...

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