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480 & from New Jersey, and a leader in the state suffrage association. She grew up in the movement as the daughter of the late Cornelia Collins Hussey, a member of the American and the National associations. On a visit to Tuskegee at the time of SBA’s visit, she had joined the party on its homeward journey, including a stop at Clark University in Atlanta. (David Lawrence Pierson, History of the Oranges to 1921; Reviewing the Rise, Development and Progress of an Influential Community [New York, 1922], 4:198–201; Anson and Jenkins, Marlborough Monthly Meeting, 61; Atlanta Constitution, 1 April 1903.) ••••••••• 237 • Theodore W. Stanton to SBA Paris, June 9, 1903. 1 My dear Susan: I have duly received your letter of the 18th of May. 2 I should have liked to see the 4th vol., but it has not come to hand. It is not perfectly clear in your letter how you sent it to me. You appear to have sent it in care of the Figaro. I have enquired there & they know nothing about such a volume. And as I cannot imagine why you should send it to me through that paper, or through any paper,for that matter,I write back to you first,before searching any farther, to get more light on the subject. If you cannot find that list of libraries to which I sent the three other volumes of the History, let me know. It is just possible that I have it. Yes, I miss poor old mother very much. Not one day has passed since she died that I have not thought of her at least once. It was too bad that she had to go as she liked this world so much & was still working. I read with so much interest the letters Mrs. Harper printed in a recent number of the Independent. 3 I have been trying to get Hatty to come over here for next winter so that we could take hold of mother’s biography.Nellie & I will be alone here next winter.Why couldn’t you & Mrs.Harper come over too? You two,Hatty & I could all take hold of the work & get out promptly a nice biography. We could all eat here at the house. Right next door is a boarding house where bed rooms could be had if we hadn’t enough in this apartment. You could take a good rest & the rest of us could “pitch in” to the book. We could pass a charming winter. How does this plan strike you, Mrs. H. & Hatty? With kindest regards to Mrs. Harper, I am, as ever, yours affectionately, U Theodore. 25 may 1903 ^ 481 Y ALS, on stationery imprinted with address, HM 10699, Ida Harper Collection , CSmH. 1. Theodore Stanton’s return address showed as 9 Avenue du Trocadéro. 2. SBA to T. W. Stanton, 18 May 1903, Film, 43:566. In a poorly written, partly illegible sentence, squeezed between typed lines, SBA thoroughly confused Stanton : “The book was directed to care of that paper that is published in French & English—no—it was to the Figaro—so you will have [illegible].”Le Figaro was and is a daily newspaper published in Paris.For a summary of Stanton’s work distributing the History of Woman Suffrage to the libraries of Europe, see Papers, 5:450. 3. Ida H. Harper, “Early Letters of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” Independent 55 (21 May 1903): 1188–94. ••••••••• 238 • William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., to SBA Boston, June 12, 1903. My dear Friend, Until your letter of the 10th arrived I was not aware of Vol. 4, my desk being heaped up with months of accumulated matter & the book was underneath. I am delighted to have it and thank you sincerely. I think the portraits admirable and shall dip into the reading as soon as possible. 1 You and Mrs. Harper have preserved material of great value to the future historians of the movement and your work is a monument of labor and industry. After five months in California I got back a fortnight nagop and Ellie has just returned from St. Louis via Auburn. She spent two weeks helping nurse her brother Frank 2 who seems fatally ill. We met many of your friends on our travels. The winter in Southern California proved delightful. I hope you are well and not overtired. What a relief it must be to have the last volume completed! With the loving regards of Ellie & myself Sincerely U Wm Lloyd Garrison. The fourth line of...

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