Overview
Letter from Susan B. Anthony, suffragist and reformer.
Dates
- 1900
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Access. Originals closed; use digital images.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Susan B. Anthony as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 foldersLetter from Susan B. Anthony to Miss Wetherell, re: a speaking engagement.
BIOGRAPHY
Best known for her lifelong crusade for woman's suffrage, Anthony was first active in the temperance and anti-slavery movements. In May 1869 she organized the National Woman Suffrage Association, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. From 1891 to 1900, she was the second president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. For further information, see Notable American Women (1971).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 205
This letter from Susan B. Anthony to Miss Wetherell, re: a speaking engagement, was given to the Schlesinger Library by Doris Fleischman Bernays and Edward L. Bernays in 1961, and was microfilmed in 1980 under a grant from George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Creator
- Title
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906. Letter from Susan B. Anthony, 1900: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00174
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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