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72. 29 October 1897: ECS to Harriot Stanton Blatch
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174 & ••••••••• 72 • ECS to Harriot Stanton Blatch New York, October 29, 1897. Dear Hattie: As I date this letter I am impressed with the idea of the swift running of time. I wrote some rhymes for Maggie’s forty-fifth birthday. At that age, I had seven children, all life’s hard experiences upon me, my home on the outskirts of the town, no sidewalks, mud up to the hub, poor servants, older chicks to fit out every morning with lunches for school,younger ones to be amused and cared for all day; and, in addition, the woman suffrage work,—appeals, speeches, conventions, hearings; for Susan and I carried that on our shoulders too. But I had Amelia, 1 and would have given up the ghost without her. Delightful reminiscences! All well this side. Adieu, U Mother. Y Typed transcript, ECS Papers, NjR. 1. Amelia Willard (c. 1825–c. 1920) went to work for the Stantons at a young age in Seneca Falls and became the family’s housekeeper, moving with them to New York and Tenafly.She died in Ypsilanti,Michigan,at age ninety-six.(History, 3:477n; Eighty Years, 203–5; G. Smith Stanton, “How Aged Housekeeper Gave Her All to Cause of Woman Suffrage,” unidentified and undated clipping, Seneca Falls Historical Society; Federal Census, Tenafly, 1880. See also Papers 1–5.) ••••••••• 73 • Article by ECS [November 1897] Two Valuable Gifts. Miss Julia McClintock 1 of Philadelphia has just sent me the table on which the Woman’s Declaration of Rights and the resolutions were written which were presented at the convention in Seneca Falls, July 19, 1848. This was the first organized protest made by women against their civil and political disabilities. 2 29 october 1897 ...