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454 & ••••••••• 220 • SBA to Friend 250—West 94 street New York Oct. 27n8p, 1902 Dear Friend at Buffalo— 1 It seems to me you must forgive me for not going to Buffalo—tomorrow nights train—after the funeral—which is to be at 11 Oclock—the burial about 2 p.m.—but may be I shall come— I will send you Mr Conway’s 2 remarks—but—then dear Rev Anna H.Shaw will be a host in herself— she will say all & better than I could—for I have no language to express the feelings that surge throug my brain— I shall be with you in spirit on Thursday—when you have a memorial — I should think you had better announce the last evening session as such— We have lost our great leader of thought— the young women cannot try too hard to imitate her—taking “Truth for Authority not authority for truth”—in the language of her friend & coworker Lucretia Mott— Her very last letter said with regard to Divorce—she did not care to take the myths & fables of the past ages—rather than the “Science of the Twentieth Century”— 3 When women come to care more for scientific facts—than the myths & superstitions of the past—we shall grow more rapidly than we can imagine now— With love & sympathy U Susan B. Anthony p.s. N.B.—It is my wish that N.Y. State Suffrage Association shall set the pace—and urge all the Woman Clubs throughout the nation to celebrate— Nov. 12th her 87th birth-day— If we could have that done all over—it would tend to rouse the women as nothing else can— talk to Miss Shaw— and see if it is not best to make that a memorial day—Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, SBA Papers, MCR-S. In Film at 29 October 1902. 1. SBA probably answers a telegram from Anna L. Osborn Williams, president of the Buffalo Political Equality Club and host of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association convention, that said, “Am grieved for you Do not abandon Buffalo it needs you.” Williams (1833–?), founder and head of a boarding and day school for young ladies and children in Buffalo and known as Mrs. Richard Williams, led the club until 1910. During the ECS memorial session on opening 28 october 1902 ^ 455 day, Anna Shaw read this letter. (Woman’s Who’s Who 1914; Federal Census, 1880; Commerce, Manufactures and Resources of Buffalo and Environs: A Descriptive Historical and Statistical Review [Buffalo, N.Y., 1880], 35; A. O. Williams to SBA, 27 October 1902, and Buffalo Daily Courier, 30 October 1902, Film, 42:834, 847–49.) 2. Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907), a Unitarian minister and writer, lived in London from 1863 to 1885 and became a friend of ECS there in 1883. A handwritten copy of his speech made by family members can be found in ECS Papers, DLC; Conway published it in Free Thought Magazine 21 (January 1903): 11–13. (ANB. See also Papers 3–5.) 3. Above at 27 October 1902. ••••••••• 221 • SBA to Ida Husted Harper 250—West 94th street New York—Tuesday—Oct. 28, 1902— Dear Mrs Harper— I found my nephew Arthur 1 at the Station last night—went direct to his house—Graham Court—Corner of 116th & 7th avenue— after dinner —first, I had Arthur telegraph you—& then after dinner I telephoned Hattie Stanton that I was there—and she came over immediately—with Nora—who had arrived in the a.m.—and Bob & their Cousin— Well, it is an awful hush—it seems impossible—that the voice is hushed—that I have longed to hear for 50 years—longed to get her opinion of things—before I knew exactly where I stood— It is all at sea—but the Laws of Nature are still going on—with no shadow or turning— What a world it is—it goes right on & on—no matter who lives or who dies!! They have had nap cablegrams from Mrs Jacob Bright of England— showing how one the nations are— The whole world knows of the fact!— The Sun had good Editorials this a.m.— The Tribune very good 2 —The Times—I do not know—I can think of nothing— The Telegram—(Evening )—had reporter at my nephews this a.m. 3 —and the Sun Reporter met me as I came out—but oh the lack of knowledge— I wish Vol IV—was done—so we could...

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