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160 & obituaries in Scrapbooks 1892–1901 and 1876–1903,SBA Papers,DLC; SBA diary, August 1897.) 4. ECS spoke at the Harvest Home Festival to farmers in Ontario County in late August 1897. See Woman’s Journal, 18 September 1897, not in Film. 5. While ECS stayed with Eliza Wright Osborne (1830–1911) in Auburn in June 1897, SBA visited for a week. Osborne, a daughter of Martha Coffin Wright, was active in the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, following in the footsteps of her mother who was its first president. (SBA diary,7–14 June 1897; Wright genealogical files, Garrison Papers, MNS-S; Garrison, Letters, 6:214n; Woman’s Journal, 12 August 1911.) 6. Annie Wood Besant (1847–1933), long one of England’s most prominent radicals but now living most of each year in India, was the international leader of Theosophy. She had arrived in the United States in March 1897 and lectured from coast to coast, in part to counter organizing by an American secessionist group of Theosophists. During her stay in Rochester, as in many other places, Besant organized a band of Theosophists aligned with her branch of the movement. SBA, who met Besant in London in 1883, introduced her in Music Hall, at the first of her Rochester lectures on August 26. (Oxford DNB; Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville, Dictionary of Labour Biography [London, 1977], 4:21–31; Arthur H. Nethercot,The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant [Chicago,1963],56–61; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 27 August 1897; SBA diary, 26–28 August 1897.) ••••••••• 65 • SBA to ECS Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1897. My Dear Mrs Stanton I have rejoiced all day long that the sun had lessened its scorchings— 1 It was so fearfully hot yesterday when I reached home—that I felt like telegraphing not to start for New York this morning—but my first thought this a.m. was how much cooler & how much nicer for Mrs Stanton—& so all day as I have plodded on my old papers I have rejoiced for you—and when at 6.30 Sister Mary & I sat down to supper—I said well—Mrs Stanton is in her flat by this time—& I am very glad the weather is so cool & nice!! Well—I am glad I went to Geneva and that we have had another chat over everything & everybody—not excluding Educated Suffrage— and now— while I plod on until my job is done—I do hope you will give your thought to saying your best word—the first session of the 50th Anniversary—on the 23 august 1897 ^ 161 The first organized demand of woman for liberty— Seneca Falls July 19 1848!! In the State, the church, the home!! I feel sure you will be inspired for this occasion—this rounding out of your half-Century’s magnificent utterances for Woman’s Emancipation—perfect equality of rights in the State,the church,the home!— And I hope,too, that darling Harriot will be inspired to come over & help make the occasion glorious— Lovingly yours—& Margarets & Bobs also U Susan B. Anthony [in margin of first page] It is such a comfort to feel that you haven’t been broiling all day & that you are now at home—cool and comfortable!! Y ALS, on NAWSA letterhead for 1897, Smith Family Papers, Manuscript Division , NN. 1. SBA yielded to pleas that she visit ECS at Elizabeth Miller’s house in Geneva on 3 September 1897 and stayed until September 6, during a record-breaking heatwave east of the Rocky Mountains. “Spent day talking about 50th anniversary celebration,” she noted in her diary on September 4, “but her hobby-craze—now is Educated Suffrage—as if all were included in that one qualification I do hope she will get out of it into a view of the whole great half century’s work.” (SBA diary, 3–6 September 1897, Film, 36:247.) ••••••••• 66 • SBA to Anna H. Shaw Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 8, 1897. My dear Anna,— I found yours of Sept. 3, from Shenandoah, on my arrival home from Geneva,Monday afternoon. 1 I had a good visit with Mrs.Stanton and Mrs. Miller.Miss Mills had been there,and Mrs.Miller has invited the New York State Convention to Geneva. 2 So now Miss Mills is after you. She says the constitution requires the convention to be held in the month of November, so if you have a November date open that you can give to Geneva,write her at once...

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