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84 & 1 august 1896 Well—you got poor Phoebe off—& sent me back my check—2 I am sort of sorry you did the latter—still it will keep & may be needed to help her out of the next financial hole she gets into!! I am awfully sorry for her— but very grateful to each & all who helped her to get off & into her own native state [in margin of first page] Hastily though Lovingly U Cousin Susan B. A. Y ALS, on Joint Campaign Committee letterhead, AF 18(13), Anthony Family Collection, CSmH. In margin of second page, SBA mistook this for the enclosure and wrote “Read & hand to Mrs Mc”. 1. Enclosure missing. 2. Phoebe Wilson Couzins (1839?–1913), a lawyer and lecturer from St. Louis, was a founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and occasionally one of its officers. Her attempts to support herself as a lecturer were often frustrated by illness and a difficult personality. SBA takes note of her departure from Los Angeles, after suffragists paid for her transportation and covered some of her debts. In California since early 1895, Couzins was unable to make enough money from lectures to support her style.Ellen Sargent and Sarah Knox-Goodrich helped with large gifts while she stayed in San Francisco the first year, but in May 1896, newspapers across the country carried her complaint that Sargent would not do more for her. She dismissed the upcoming amendment campaign as futile; “there has never been a suffrage campaign conducted by women that ended in anything but overwhelming defeat,” she told the press at the end of 1895, and this campaign would be no different. Back in St. Louis, Couzins continued to claim that suffragists were denying her her rightful salary. (NAW; ANB; San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 1896, SBA to J. Anthony, 21 June, 1, 3, 10, & 13 July 1896, and SBA to Clara D. B. Colby, 11 October 1896, all in Film, 35:782, 818–23, 839–48, 863–74, 878–87, 36:28–35; San Francisco Call, 24 March & 27 November 1895, 20 July 1896; Milwaukee Journal, 22 May, 8 June 1896. See also Papers 3 & 4.) ••••••••• 32 • SBA to Jenkin Lloyd Jones1 1630 Folsom St., San Francisco, Aug. 4, 1896 Dear Friend: Your letter of July 11th with inclosures has been forwarded to me here.It is impossible for me to respond to your call financially. I am up to my ears in hard work in the suffrage amendment campaign here in California, and do not expect to return east until after its fate has been decided at the ballot ^ 85 box on Nov. 3rd. I hope enough other women, and men also, will find time and heart to look after your Liberal Christian work so that I shall not be missed.It certainly fills every thought and every moment with me to devise ways and means to carry forward the educational work in the direction of securing the ballot to the women of this nation.“Justice”to women,“Love” to women,“Reverence”to women,“Knowledge”for women—one-half the people of the world—give me about all the work I am equal to. I know the Liberals say that if all the people would believe in liberal religion, women would have their rights, but I prefer to work for them straight to getting them through any religious movement. You will think me exceedingly narrow , as does Mr. Gannett and the whole lot of you; but, nevertheless, you will have to think that way, and I shall have to work my way. So, with hope that everything will work to your best understanding, I am, Very sincerely, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Jenkin Lloyd Jones Papers, ICU. 1. Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1843–1918), pastor of the Unitarian All Souls’ Church in Chicago,organized the American Congress of Liberal Religious Societies in 1894, in the wake of the World’s Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exposition. He prevailed on SBA to be one of its officers, and in his missing letter to her, he requested that she speak at the annual conference in Indianapolis in November 1896.Jones also published this letter from SBA in New Unity,the journal affiliated with the congress. (ANB; Film, 35:940.) ••••••••• 33 • SBA to Clara Bewick Colby Aug. 11, 1896— San Francisco Cal— Dear Mrs Colby Mrs Sargent—yesterday—authorized Miss Hay—as Chair of Central Com for Lecture work of Campaign—to write you—the ins & outs of the campaign—but...

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