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
Saturday Rachel and I drove four hours in Miss Mueller's carriage
and called on Lady Wilde, a bright, quaint woman. Sunday morning I
went to Friends' meeting and had a look at John Bright, though I
was not sure it was he until after the meeting was over; then he
was gone, and I not introduced to him! In the afternoon I called on
Miss Jane Cobden, daughter of Richard Cobden, a charming woman.
Yesterday I presented her with a set of our History in memory of
her noble father, and for her own sake also. I will not foreshadow
the coming days but they are busy indeed. You will see that the
Central Committee have put both my name and Mrs. Stanton's on the
card for the meeting of July 5....
LONDON, June 28.
MY DEAR SISTER: It is now just after luncheon and at 4 o'clock we
are to be at Mrs. Jacob Bright's reception, tomorrow evening at one
at Mrs. Thomasson's, which she gives to friends for the special
purpose of meeting Stanton and Anthony, and Saturday at Frances
Power Cobbe's--and so we go. Yesterday morning Miss Frances Lord--a
poor law guardian--escorted us through Lambeth workhouse. It has
1,000 inmates and 700 more in the infirmary, and gives out-door
relief to 2,000 besides.
[Jacob Bright presided over the Prince's Hall meeting, and William
Woodall over that at St. James' Hall.[17] All of the prominent
newspapers in Great Britain contained editorials on the meetings, and
noted especially the addresses of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton,
speaking of them in a dignified and respectful manner.]
LONDON, July 13.
MY DEAR SISTER: My last letter was mailed the 3d. That afternoon I
was at Rebecca Moore's reception. We dined at Miss Mueller's and
afterwards went to Horn's assembly rooms to a suffrage meeting. Her
sister Eva, wife of Walter McLaren, M.P., was one of the
speakers.... At 9 P. M., we went to a Fourth of July reception at
Mrs. Mellen's, given in honor of Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony, and
a brilliant affair it was. About 150 were there; she had elegant
refreshments; and the young American girls gave songs, recitations,
violin music, etc. Grace Greenwood recited her "Mistress
O'Rafferty"--a woman's rights poem in Irish brogue--very rich and
racy; her daughter Annie sang, also Mrs. Carpenter, of Chicago;
Kate Hillard, of Brooklyn, Adelaide Detchon, the actress, and
Mildred Conway recited; Frank Lincoln impersonated; Nathaniel
Mellen sang a negro jubilee melody; Maude Powell played the violin.
She is not fifteen yet and is a charming player. The company did
not disperse until after one.
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