The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . Imissed the night before at the Hallowells. Kind regards to them. Tell her lunch tasted good about midnight, as I entered Syracuse. Miss Anthony managed the usual series of lectures thiswinter. When she sent Mr. Tilton his check he returned thisrollicking answer: Dear S. B. A.: I received your letter and its enclosure, which latter baaalready vanished like April snow, to pay the debts of the subscriber. . .Our morning ride with our good friend Fre
The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . Imissed the night before at the Hallowells. Kind regards to them. Tell her lunch tasted good about midnight, as I entered Syracuse. Miss Anthony managed the usual series of lectures thiswinter. When she sent Mr. Tilton his check he returned thisrollicking answer: Dear S. B. A.: I received your letter and its enclosure, which latter baaalready vanished like April snow, to pay the debts of the subscriber. . .Our morning ride with our good friend Frederick gives me pleasure when- 218 LIFE AND WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY. ever I think of it. Those pictures of Mount Hope and the waterfall werebetter than any in the Academy of Design. As to yourself, I have had sometalk with Kev. Oliver Johnson about your sphere, and we both agree thatyou are defrauding some honest man of liis just due. I recommend that3ou form an acquaintance, with a view to prospective results for life, withsome well-settled, Old-School Presbyterian clergyman, and send me some ofthe cake. A <f-*^^ , J*r^^. In 1862, as the previous year, Miss Anthony was determinedto hold a National Womans Rights Convention in New York,but her efforts met with no favorable response and so, for thesecond time, she was obliged to give up the annual protestwhich seemed to her a sacred duty. She did not then acknowl-edge, nor has she ever admitted, that there is any question ofmore vital importance than that relating to the freedom ofwoman. Defeated here she decided to start out again in theanti-slavery lecture field, since, as she wrote her friendLydia: It is so easy to feel your power for public work slip-ping away if you allow yourself to remain too long snuggledin the Abrahamic bosom of home. It requires great will-forceto resurrect ones soul. In her tour she visited Adams, ac-companied by her loved niece, Ann Eliza McLean, and wroteback an amusing account of how she lecture
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