Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Anthony, Susan Brownell

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Date

1853 ?

Description

Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, 1853? Anthony share with Post the names of possible speakers at an upcoming woman's rights convention in Chicago.

Subject

Post, Amy Kirby, b. 1802

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

967

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

Dear Amy
                    Should Mary F.
Davis be in the City, and not
able to see me, will you see if
we may rely on her attendance
at our National Woman’s Rights
to be held (probably) at Chicago
toward the last of October- im-
mediately following the Disu-
nion Convention at Cleveland-
       I am delaying to decide
both time & place, until I can
get replies from the different
speakers to whom I have written
on the subject – I do hope
Mrs. Davis can arrange to be
at our Convention- tell her
( private ) that Lucy Stone cannot
be with us, this year, hence the

(Page 2)

the greater need for Mrs.
Davis- I have written Aunt
Fanny Gage, J. Elizabeth Jones
& Mrs. Tracy Culter, of the West,
to see if they can go to Chicago-
      Where are the women to fill
the places of those who are (at
least temporarily ) withdrawn
from the public Service?- Echo
answers, Where ?
                          I am thinking to
go to Binghampton, Monday
by 9 Oclock A.M. Train -
    Should I do so, I may not be
able to see you- I hardly know
how I can spare the time,
and should I feel just as I
do this minute- I should, when
Monday comes, stay at home-
The summer is almost gone,
and not a lithe of the work
done, I had contemplated-
     Why wont you side up to

(Page 3)

the Farm tomorrow P.M.
W. H. Fapp will be here -
I should like to talk over
matters very much-
                 Truly Yours
                       Susan B. Anthony
Saturday A.M.

Annotations

Susan B. Anthony, a woman’s rights activist, writes to fellow activist, Amy Post.

Mary Fenn Robinson Love Davis was a woman's rights activist and a Spiritualist. Spiritualists believed that through mediums they could communicate with the dead. Anthony alludes to a rift between activists, Lucy Stone and Paulina Wright Davis. Anthony mentions activists: Frances Dana Barker Gage, J. Elizabeth Jones and Tracy Culter.

Tags

Personal; Women's Rights

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Anthony, Susan Brownell, “Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 24, 2024, https://rclomeka2.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3257.

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