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^ 405 4. According to SBA, Elizabeth Harbert carried out a request from the sculptor Lorado Zadoc Taft (1860–1936). See SBA to E. M. B. Harbert, 12 August 1901, Film, 42:221–22. 5. Published as “The Duty of the Church to Woman at This Hour,” Boston Investigator, 4 May 1901, Film, 41:1072. It was an exact reprint of her letter to the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1886, in Papers, 4:473–75. Clippings in a scrapbook document some of the criticism. “Her language, indeed,” said one unidentified paper, “resembles something very nearly like intolerance and bigotry .” According to the Minneapolis Journal, 3 June 1901, “To the delegates the reading [of ECS’s letter] meant merely the annoyance of hearing an offensive point reargued.” The paper also quoted Henry Blackwell: “I not only do not indorse Mrs. Stanton, but I think she has done much harm by continually obtruding her theological views before conventions.”(Scrapbook 1892–1901,SBA Papers,DLC.) ••••••••• 187 • SBA to Anna E. Dann Rochester, N.Y., Aug 4th 1901 Dear Anna E. Dann— Well—how did you get through the day yesterday— No Postal was in the mail this noon—so we don’t know yet whether Mrs Harper met you— nor how you got on— But we believe well— 1 Margaret 2 said last night “It is so lonesome”—“Ill bet Anna is lonesome to night”— We all spoke of you—and this morning wondered what you were getting for breakfast—& all—whether you would go to church— You must not forget the big Cathedral —at 50 street & fifth Avenue on Margarets account—she will want to know all about nit.p 3 I wonder if Mrs Harper & Winnifred & Mr Cooley 4 are going up to the Park about now— Mary & I have been out to Mt Hope 5 —and called at Mrs Wolcotts 6 —and have just got back almost 6 Oclock—and I will just scribble to tell you we miss you—the bedroom seems forlorn enough— Well take all the comfort you can—while you are there— I can imagine how happy Mrs Harper is to have you—by the way I miss you— Well—who do you think popped in when I went down— Why Nellie—just as bright & brisk & brisk as need be— 7 she thought she would come & see the two old ladies—for they would be lonesome—with Anna gone— She ate supper with us— Aunt Mary told her to sit in Annas place—so make believe it is Anna I said—& she responded yes as bright as could be— She is going to 25 july 1901 406 & Mrs [Minors?] tomorrow—says Mrs Cole 8 wants her to stay—but she will not—but goes to her new place— Well—she is down stairs talking away to Aunt Mary— Oh! she has on the lawn dress—she says you made while we were gone—and now she says she ironed it herself—it looks very nice—so I think she will do splendidly at Mrs [Minors?]— Good bye— Give my love to the trio U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead, SBA Collection, NR. Square brackets surround uncertain readings. Envelope addressed Care Mrs Ida H. Harper 214— West 92d street New York City. 1. Anna Dann moved to New York City for two months to assist Ida Harper with final work on volume four of the History of Woman Suffrage. 2. Margaret E. O’Neil, known as Maggie, was the housekeeper at 17 Madison Street. Her wages first appear in SBA’s accounts in September 1900, and she continued at the house into 1902. That she was Roman Catholic becomes evident in this and subsequent letters. (City directories, 1900, 1902; pages of accounts, SBA diaries, 1900, 1901, Film, 40:363ff, 41:649ff.) 3. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, at Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street, is the church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. 4. George Elliott Cooley (1871–?) married Winnifred Harper in 1899, after he graduated in theology from St.Lawrence University and accepted a post as Unitarian minister in Rutland, Vermont. The couple left Vermont in 1901, when Cooley settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the All Souls’ Liberal Church. He resigned in 1906, due to “ill health and nervous collapse,” and returned to New York City. There he taught at Stuyvesant High School from 1908 to the 1930s.He and Winnifred apparently divorced sometime before 1920.(Federal Census,Hartford,Conn., 1880,Rutland,Vt.,1900,New York City,1910,1920; St.Lawrence...

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