The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty YearsHarper, Ida Husted
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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
Harper, Ida Husted
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Saturday morning, with Mr. and Mrs. Garrison and Sarah Pugh, I
visited Mount Auburn. What a magnificent resting-place! We could
not find Margaret Fuller's monument, which I regretted. I spent
Sunday with Charles Lenox Remond at Salem, and we drove to Lynn
with his matchless steeds to hear Theodore Parker preach a sermon
which filled our souls. We discussed its excellence at James
Buffum's where we all dined. Monday Mr. Garrison escorted me to
Charlestown; we stood on the very spot where Warren fell and
mounted the interminable staircase to the top of Bunker Hill
Monument. Then we called on Theodore Parker; found him up three
nights of stairs in his library which covers that whole floor of
his house; the room is lined with books to the very top--16,000
volumes--and there at a large table in the center of the apartment
sat the great man himself. It really seemed audacious in me to be
ushered into such a presence and on such a commonplace errand as to
ask him to come to Rochester to speak in a course of lectures I am
planning, but he received me with such kindness and simplicity that
the awe I felt on entering was soon dissipated. I then called on
Wendell Phillips in his sanctum for the same purpose. I have
invited Ralph Waldo Emerson by letter and all three have promised
to come. In the evening with Mr. Jackson's son James, Ellen
Blackwell and I went to see Hamlet. In spite of my Quaker training,
I find I enjoy all these worldly amusements intensely.
Returning to Worcester, I attended the Anti-Slavery Bazaar. I
suppose there were many beautiful things exhibited, but I was so
absorbed in the conversation of Mr. Higginson, Samuel May, Jr.,
Sarah Earle, cousin Seth Rogers and Stephen and Abby Foster, that I
really forgot to take a survey of the tables. The next day Charles
F. Hovey drove with me out to the home of the Fosters where we had
a pleasant call.[20]
[Autograph: Theodore Parker]
Miss Anthony visited a baby show but she considered it "a sad
exhibition, unless it may be the crude and rude beginning of arousing
an interest in the laws which govern the production of strong, healthy,
beautiful children." She heard Mr. Higginson preach every Sunday, and
of one sermon on the "Secret Springs of True Greatness" she writes
home:
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