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^ 275 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Assembled in a General Convention, Held in the City of Washington from October 5 to October 25 Inclusive, In the Year of Our Lord 1898 [N.p., 1899], 88–90, 214, 215, 273–74, 280–81, 357, 388–89, 555–56, 586–87; Pamela W. Darling, New Wine: The Story of Women Transforming Leadership and Power in the Episcopal Church [Cambridge, Mass., 1994], 18–28.) ••••••••• 121 • Henry B. Blackwell to SBA Boston, March 6, 1899 Dear Miss Anthony Next week’s Woman’s Journal will contain my review of Mrs. Harper’s memoir of yourself and your work for the Woman Suffrage cause. 1 In making it, I have felt it due to the truth of history to state briefly, but distinctly, the causes of the division between the National and American societies. I have tried to do so in a spirit of candor and with avoidance of personalities. As the facts must sooner or later be stated, I have thought it fairer to all concerned, that it should be done now during the lifetime of many of the principal participants, rather than later when we all have passed away. I need not add that if any corrections or explanations or counter-statements are desired by yourself or Mrs.Stanton,the columns of the Woman’s Journal are as free to yourselves as to me. If mistakes have been made in the past, they will serve as guides to the future action of those who are to take up the work when we lay it down, for we can hardly hope or expect to see its consummation. Hoping you will feel that my statement is made with a cordial appreciation of the great work you have done for women, I am, Yours truly, U Henry B. Blackwell Y Transcript in hand of Ida P. Boyer, Blackwell Papers, DLC. 1. Copies of the family’s letters by Ida P. Boyer, such as this one, were apparently made while Alice Blackwell prepared her biography of her mother, when donations allowed her to hire Boyer to assist in “collecting and arranging the material.” What then happened to the originals Boyer copied is not known. (Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman’s Rights [1930; reprint, Charlottesville, Va., 2001], xxx.) 4 march 1899 ...

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