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364 & 1. SBA calculates the time between her anticipated trip to New York in December and the start of the twentieth century on 1 January 1901. She and ECS were scheduled to be guests of honor at a “grand octogenarian reception” to open the week-long National Suffrage Bazaar at Madison Square Garden’s Concert Hall on 3 December 1900. “Though still frail,” as the Woman’s Journal observed, SBA joined Antoinette Blackwell, Isabella Hooker, Anna C. Field, and Charlotte Wilbour as the honored pioneers. ECS could not make it to the event, although reporters from the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Tribune thought they saw her. (New York Times, 29 November 1900; New York Sun, 4 December 1900; Woman’s Journal, 8 December 1900; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 4 December 1900; New York Tribune, 4 December 1900.) 2. Henry Stanton, or Kit, married Mary O’Shea (c. 1873–?) in 1892. Mary Stanton was the daughter of Patrick O’Shea, a prominent publisher of Catholic books. (New York Times, 8 November 1892, 5 March 1906; Federal Census, 1900.) 3. Along with ECS’s son Gerrit, or Gat, SBA refers to his wife, Augusta E. Hazleton Stanton (1850–?). (William A. Stanton, A Record, Genealogical, Biographical , Statistical of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and His Descendants, 1635–1891 [Albany, N.Y., 1891], 463; Papers, 3:306–7.) ••••••••• 166 • SBA to Fannie Rosenberg Bigelow Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 22, 1900. My Dear Friend:— Owing to the fact that my health is not such as to warrant a great outlay of strength in any one direction,and the probabilities are that with increasing years it will not improve, my friends strenuously urge me to abandon my cherished plan of securing a large standing fund for the N.A.W.S.A. They think it would be wiser for me to use what strength I have along lines of work in which I shall be able to influence present, or near future, conditions ,rather than attempt to secure a “fund”for the use of younger workers. I have at last come to feel that I must accept their view of the situation, and the question arises, what shall be done with money on hand, of which there are $2,250? 1 Two plans present themselves to me,one of which is that it might be turned over to others who would undertake to carry out the “standing fund” idea. This, however, would place the matter in the hands of those who are now constantly appealing for money to help the work at present, and would doubtless prove ineffectual. The other plan is one by which the money can be invested so as to help 11 november 1900 ^ 365 in carrying on the work through the coming years, and that is to assist me in the publication of the fourth volume of the History of Woman Suffrage, which is being prepared under the splendid supervision of Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, my biographer. This money would enable me to publish the work and place it with the other three volumes now in the libraries of the country, where it would be a means of continual education in the progress of the suffrage movement. The three volumes already published ended before the actual granting of full suffrage in the four States of our nation or in most other countries. This volume will complete the history of the movement for the nineteenth century, and leave the twentieth century in the hands of the younger women.If you approve of the plan and are willing your contribution should be used for this purpose due credit will be given you in the History. Please indicate to me your wish in the matter at your earliest convenience and greatly oblige, Very sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, SBA Collection, NR. Directed to S. Union St., Rochester. 1. Pledges to the Standing Fund were $30,000 in January 1900, but only this sum had been paid up. Other surviving copies of this form letter are addressed to Cordelia A. Greene, 20 November, and Sarah Williams Bentley, 23 November. See Film, 41:575–76, 582–83. Ida Harper acknowledged the contributions in History, 4:viii–ix. ••••••••• 167 • ECS to the Editor, New York EVENING POST 1 [New York, before 28 November 1900] To the Editor of The Evening Post: Sir: It is a sad commentary on the acknowledged moral power of women, that in their various convocations they should manifest such...

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