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^ 487 Y TLS, letterpress, Library of Congress Archives, Secretary’s Office, DLC. 1. Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908) was Librarian of Congress from 1864 to 1897 and Chief Assistant Librarian from 1897 to 1908. At this writing, he was Acting Librarian of Congress while Herbert Putnam traveled in Europe. (ANB.) 2. See her letter of July 18 above at its date. In a cover letter, also to Herbert Putnam and dated July 17, SBA asked, “Am I correct in thinking that although it is necessary to scatter the books in the library they will all be catalogued under the same collection?” She also wanted to see the bookplate that would mark her donation. 3. Elihu Vedder (1836–1923) was a prominent American painter and illustrator who created murals and a mosaic for the new Library of Congress building. Most of SBA’s donations contain a bookplate credited to Herbert Putnam, showing an eagle atop a circular seal that reads, “The Library of Congress 1800.” Each scrapbook was also stamped, “GIFT SUSAN B. ANTHONY Ack’l 2 Ap ‘03.” (ANB; Marcus Benjamin, “Some Government Bookplates,” Bookman 39 [August 1914]: 652–53; John Y. Cole, “Symbols of a National Institution: Bicentennial Background ,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 59 [February 2000]: 28–29, 37.) 4. SBA started to collect printed material for scrapbooks at the suggestion of her father. In the winter of 1854 and 1855, he asked her, “Would it not be wise to preserve the many and amusing observations by the different papers, that years hence,in your more solitary moments,you and maybe your children can look over the views of both the friends and opponents of the cause?” She did not keep up with the cutting and pasting; when work began in 1897 on Harper’s biography of SBA, teams of young women were hired to help organize the clippings into large account books discarded by insurance agents. There are thirty-four volumes in the Rare Book Division, and several more making up a part of SBA’s papers in the Manuscript Division. (Anthony, 1:125.) ••••••••• 242 • SBA to Ainsworth R. Spofford Rochester, N.Y. July 24, 1903. My Dear Friend,— I was very glad to get your pen-tracks with the good words with regard to the books I have sent to your library. I shall be very glad, indeed, to get a sight of the new book-plate when you get it. I have no doubt but that you will do the best thing possible with the books. I am very glad if you think my scrap-books amount to very much. They 22 july 1903 488 & are a heterogenous mass; everything is put in as nearly as possible in chronological order and that makes a wonderful mixing up of the subjects. If I could have commanded time, patience, eyesight, etc. etc, I would have made an index to them. They are a perfect swamp of things, which, if indexed , would be of a great deal of value. I wonder if you can not set some of your boys or girls, when they have nothing else to do, about the work? I shall send you in a few days my grandmother’s old Bible and hymn book, with some other books that have been dug up out of the mass here. My attic, though, is quite cleared out; I am now making a scrap book of all of Mrs. Stanton’s speeches that I have. There will be three large books; I shall send them to your library together with the rest as soon as done. 1 I am trying to get things cleared up ready to go over, and hope I shall have as little to worry about leaving behind as the old Pope had. 2 Sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Ainsworth Rand Spofford Papers, DLC. Directed to Washington, D.C. 1. These scrapbooks are part of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. 2. Pope Leo XIII (1810–1903) served from 1878 until his death on 20 July 1903. His decline was chronicled by American newspapers, and as he neared his end, a handful of articles described his few possessions. The New York Tribune, 11 July 1903, declared, “To tell the truth, Leo has little to leave.” On the day SBA wrote to Spofford, newspapers reported on the opening of the pope’s will. ••••••••• 243 • SBA to Helen Leslie Gage Rochester, N.Y. July...

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