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^ 209 ••••••••• 87 • ECS to Olivia Bigelow Hall1 26 West 61 N.Y. March 8 1898 Mrs Israel Hall Dear Friend, Have you read my Book “Eighty years & more”? If so will you not push its sale in your state, by notices in your papers. I am asking my rich friends to take five or ten copies & give them to their impecunious relatives & neighbors. You can get them direct from me, at $2.00 a copy. 2 The reviews have been thus far very favorable & the sales moderately good. 3 You might place one copy in your college library It is many years since we met but I have occasionally heard of you through Miss Anthony who reports you as wide awake as ever on the woman question. I think my book will stir women up to new thought on many questions & desire it to reach as many as possible I am publishing it myself & cannot afford to give it away,which I should be glad to do With kind regards sincerely yours U Elizabeth Cady Stanton U ALS, Olivia Bigelow Hall Papers, DLC. 1. Olivia Bigelow Hall (1822–1908) lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was active in local and statewide suffrage associations and had frequently hosted ECS and SBA. (Clark Waggoner, ed., History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio [New York,1888],712; Samuel W.Beakes,Past and Present of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Together with Biographical Sketches [Chicago, 1906], 458; Patricia Bigelow, The Bigelow Family Genealogy, vol. 2, Seventh and Eighth Generations of John Biglo (1617–1703) of Watertown, Massachusetts [Flint, Mich., 1993], 77. See also Papers 2 & 5.) 2. As soon as her book was available, ECS wrote to a number of friends with similar requests that they sell and publicize Eighty Years and help her recover the costs of its publication. See ECS to Benjamin F. Underwood, 17 February 1898, to Emily Howland, 18 February 1898, to Martha Mott Lord, 19 February 1898, to M. Louise Palmer Thomas, 19 February 1898, to Clara B. Colby, 23 February 1898, and to Madam, 3 March 1898, Film, 38:273–75, 279—81, 287–90, 298–301, 316–17. 3. Early reviews for Eighty Years appeared in the New York Journal and Advertiser , 30 January 1898; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 6 February 1898; Woman’s Journal, 12 February 1898; New York Times, 12 February 1898; and New York Sun, 13 February 1898. 8 march 1898 ...

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