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418 & Henry Roberts,” Journal of the West 17 [January 1978]: 45–52; Iversen, Antipolygamy Crusade, 191–92, 199, 216.) 3. Founders of great fortunes who became philanthropists, these men were Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), of the steel industry; John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937), of the oil business; and John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), financier. 4. The late Charles Mann (c. 1861–1899), a son of Rochester’s former Unitarian minister, Newton Mann, headed the Charles Man Printing Company. When he was printing volume three of the History of Woman Suffrage, SBA paid him an enormous compliment: his recommended changes to the text “often very much improve even Mrs Stanton’s best sentences.” He was a special friend of Lucy Anthony, possibly from school in Rochester. When he was dying, SBA, Lucy, and Mary Anthony all spent time helping and visiting at the Manns’ house. After his death on 19 November 1899, his widow, Frances A. Mann (c. 1860–1916), a printer herself,ran their publishing company.(Federal Census,1880,1900; Rochester Post Express,21 November 1899,SBA scrapbook 31,Rare Books,DLC; city directories, 1900,1909,1910,1911; Mt.Hope and Riverside Cemetery Interment Records; SBA to Elizabeth B. Harbert, 26 October 1885, and SBA diary, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19 November 1899, Film, 24:585–94, 39:13ff.) 5. That is, Isabel Howland and her ailing mother, Hannah Howland. 6. Anna Shaw traveled for three months to the West Indies and South America with Lydia Coonley Ward. Back in time for meetings in Washington in February, she described her experiences in addresses to the National Council of Women and International Woman Suffrage Conference. See Woman’s Journal,22 March 1902, Washington Evening Star, 17 February 1902, Washington Post, 18 February 1902, all in Film, 42:517–19, 527, 533–34; Washington Post, 21 February 1902; History, 5:42. 7. William Howland and his son, Herbert Slocum Howland (1863–1939). ••••••••• 196 • M. Carey Thomas1 to SBA [Bryn Mawr, Pa.] January 20, 1902. Dear Miss Anthony:— I hope you understand that our great wish is to have you address the students at the college and that Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller’s address at the same time is of secondary importance, 2 so that, if the date selected by Mrs. Catt for Mrs. Miller to accompany you to Bryn Mawr is inconvenient to you,we should like to change it and arrange for her to address the college at some other time. As I asked Mrs. Harper to tell you, Dr. Kelly 3 would like to present the relief of you that he is to give the College when you are 15 december 1901 ^ 419 here, so that there might be an opportunity for him and me to say a few words about the work that you have done for women and,in short,to make of your visit to Bryn Mawr also a little occasion in honour of you. I am also anxious, if you would not be too tired, to ask the members of the senior class and our graduate students to meet you at tea in the afternoon . If the 25th of February does not suit you, will you not let me know at once, so that we may arrange some other date? Will you not also tell me frankly whether you would, or would not, prefer Mrs. Miller to come at the same time. It would be entirely possible to arrange for her to come at some other time. I want also to tell you that Mrs. Harper’s biography of you is already in the students’library.I bought it for the library when it first appeared.From the fact that Mrs. Harper has several times sent me a notice of it, I thought perhaps she did not know that it was already in the library.Believe me,with very kind regards, Sincerely yours, U M Carey Thomas Y TLS letterpress, M. Carey Thomas Papers, Archives, PBm. 1. Martha Carey Thomas (1857–1935), a niece of Hannah Whitall Smith raised in Baltimore, became president of Bryn Mawr College in 1894 and established herself as a leader in setting standards for women’s higher education. This is the earliest known letter about scheduling SBA’s visit to the college; once everyone agreed on a date,SBA became gravely ill,and on her recovery,the correspondence resumed to find a new date. SBA spoke on April 21. (NAW; ANB; M. C. Thomas to SBA, 29 January, 10 February, 8 April...

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