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^ 117 ••••••••• 49 • SBA to Caroline Bartlett Crane 1 Rochester N Y Jan 4, 1896n7p My dear Miss Bartlett Your New Year's Eve—announcement brought great surprise to me— but to my ejaculation Sister Mary said you had told her of your agitation of mind on the subject—when you were here last spring—after I had left for California— Well—I cannot say whether I rejoice over the act—until time shall tell whether the marriage proves a help to you in your chosen profession— I cannot see into the result upon your aims & purposes—as a human—& as a preacher— My feeling is that nearly every woman who undertakes any sort of public life—makes a mistake to try to adjust herself to too many dividing and distracting kinds of work—after the old saying—“they have too many irons in the fire”— I believe marriage & maternity a profession by themselves—incompatible with what the world calls a career!! Either the home or the Profession—or more likely both suffer— But this is an age of experimenting—with women—that is sure— But you didn’t expect advice nor philosophy— at any rate—my dear—I hope all the good possible may be yours—in your new combination—that you may find more in the man you have married than you expected—& he find more in you—and thus that both lives may reap added power from the copartnership—and that the world may be the better because of the united work of the twain made one— So with the old nlovep & a Happy New Year I am as ever yours— U Susan B. Anthony Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead, Caroline B. Crane Papers, Regional History Collection, MiKW. 1. Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane (1858–1935) married on 31 December 1896.She was the Unitarian minister in Kalamazoo,Michigan,where she settled in 1889.She and SBA knew each other through Michigan suffrage meetings and the National Council of Women. Augustus Warren Crane (1868–1937), her new husband, was a physician and pioneer radiologist. (NAW; Cynthia Grant Tucker, Prophetic Sisterhood : Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880–1930 [Boston,1990],passim.) 4 january 1897 ...

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