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94 & 29 august 1896 ••••••••• 37 • SBA to Jessie Anthony 1630— Folsom street— San Francisco Cal—Aug 29/96 My Dear Cousin Jessie Miss Mary G. Hay is to reach the Hollenbeck Hotel on Monday a.m.— from San Francisco— she stops there to attend the meeting—your Campaign has called for Monday—of all southern California women who favor organizing a Southern Com. to control southern California—without any connection with the State Committee—1 I came near starting out—but I must be back here Sept. 10— so will wait until I can remain two or three weeks— It does seem too bad that the women of Los Angeles want to secede so badly that they can do nothing until they have thus declared themselves out of union with the State Com— It would be too funny—if it weren’t jeoparding the amendment—to thus fritter away the time— If it is an open meeting can you go & see & hear & tell me what the hitch is!! Lucy E.2 & Miss Shaw are here—all well as usual—and so is your affectionate Cousin U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead, AF 18(14), Anthony Family Collection, CSmH. 1. Mary Hay and Nellie Blinn made the trip together in response, according to the San Francisco Call, to a recent decision by a large majority of Los Angeles suffragists “that the work of this county should continue as heretofore—co-operative, but not auxiliary.”They met with the city’s executive committee on Monday morning , attended a mass meeting and a parlor meeting later that day, and ate lunch with local leaders on Tuesday,before they headed north.“As State organizer,”Hay explained on her return, “it was incumbent upon me to note the progress of the work in every section of the State.” (San Francisco Call, 1 & 3 September 1896.) 2. A real niece, Lucy Elmina Anthony (1860–1944) was the daughter of SBA’s brother Jacob Merritt Anthony of Fort Scott, Kansas. After graduation from the Rochester Free Academy in 1883,she found a variety of roles in the suffrage movement and became both partner and secretary to Anna Shaw. She accompanied Shaw to California and worked on the campaign. (Anthony, Anthony Genealogy, 189; New York Times, 6 July 1944.) ...

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