The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 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 2 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
T. W. PALMER.
My wife and I send you our hearty congratulations on your birthday.
May you have many happy returns of the day, with increasing honor
and affection from your numerous friends, amongst whom we hope you
will let us count ourselves. Yours very truly,
CHARLES NORDHOFF.
I congratulate you with all my heart upon your health and happiness
on this your seventieth birthday, and wish to say that I believe no
woman lives in the United States who has done more for her sex, and
for ours as well, than yourself. The great advancement of women,
not alone in the direction of suffrage, but in every field of labor
and every department of the better and nobler life of manhood and
womanhood, during the past generation, has sprung from the work
which you inaugurated years ago. Mrs. Carpenter joins me in
congratulations and good wishes. Very truly yours,
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Cordial greetings were received from Neal Dow and Senator Dawes, and
letters and telegrams came from distinguished individuals and societies
in every State and from many foreign countries. Over 200 of these are
preserved among other mementoes of this occasion. Among the telegrams
were these, representing the great labor organization of the country:
We congratulate you on the seventieth anniversary of a useful and
successful life. May you enjoy many years of health and happiness.
HANNAH POWDERLY, T. V. POWDERLY.
May your noble, self-sacrificing life be spared to participate in
your heart's dearest wish--woman's full emancipation.
LEONORA M. BARRY, _Grand Organizer K. of L._
[Illustration: Autograph: "Faithfully yours, Clara Bewick Colby."]
Mrs. Colby issued a birthday edition of the Woman's Tribune containing a
history of Miss Anthony's trial, a fine biographical sketch written by
herself and many beautiful tributes from other friends, among them this
from Laura M. Johns: "Always to efface herself and her own interests and
to put the cause to the fore; to be striving to place a crown upon some
other brow; to be receiving and giving, but never retaining; ever
enriching the work but never herself; to be busy through weariness and
difficulty and resting only in a change of labor; to bear the stinging
hail of ridicule which fell on this movement, and to receive with
surprised tears the flowers that bloomed in her thorny path; to be in
the heat of the noonday harvest field at seventy, with years of activity
and usefulness still remaining to add to her glorious life and crown it
with such dignity as belongs to few--this is the story of Susan B.
Anthony."
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