ANTHONY, Susan B. (1820-1906), Suffragette, Feminist . Eight autograph letters signed ("Susan B. Anthony") and one typed letter signed ("Susan B. Anthony") to Burt Luther Anthony, her nephew, 1900-1905. Together 20 pages, 4to, most on National American Woman Suffrage Association stationery, many with original envelopes and two additional pieces of Anthony family correspondence . THE FEMINIST LEADER BLASTS HER NIECES FOR DROPPING THEIR MAIDEN NAMES AND "BURY[ING] THEMSELVES UNDER THE NAME OF THE MAN THEY LOVE!" A series of family letters in which the feminist leader expresses some strong opinions about marriage and notions of manliness. 26 June 1900: "I do hope everything will work together for the happiness of Anna O. & Leon A. Everything will hinge on their capacity to conform one to the other, or at least to be happy in seeing the other not conform, but acting out his or her own individual idea." But the marriage - and name change -- of her nieces upsets her. 11 July 1900: "So the nieces of Susan B. Anthony blot their own and their family names out of existence at one fell swoop of the pen. Well, if her nieces have no love for their identity, no reverence for a name they have been known by for 26 years, how can we expect the daughters & nieces of other people to care or do other than bury themselves under the name of the man they love!" She has several words of advice on proper male behavior: 2 April 1900: "There are but few things necessary for you to reach the height of your avocation, and those are the strictest integrity, patience and perseverance, and continuance in what I hope are now your fully established habits of eschewing the so-called pet vices of men." 23 May 1900: She mentions attending the Republican national convention in 1900 and hopes Burt is "living up to your highest ideal of true manliness." Several letters also mention her lecturing at Chautauqua and other places, and several letters mention fellow feminists Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna H. Shaw. She takes a jibe at lawyers and thinks about mortality on 11 January 1905, when she summons her nephew to a family meeting on estate-planning: "Your Mother wants to fix her property so that the lawyers wont get the major part of it when she dies. She doesn't calculate to die, but then nobody does, so everybody should be prepared for it." Together 11 items . (11)
ANTHONY, Susan B. (1820-1906), Suffragette, Feminist . Eight autograph letters signed ("Susan B. Anthony") and one typed letter signed ("Susan B. Anthony") to Burt Luther Anthony, her nephew, 1900-1905. Together 20 pages, 4to, most on National American Woman Suffrage Association stationery, many with original envelopes and two additional pieces of Anthony family correspondence . THE FEMINIST LEADER BLASTS HER NIECES FOR DROPPING THEIR MAIDEN NAMES AND "BURY[ING] THEMSELVES UNDER THE NAME OF THE MAN THEY LOVE!" A series of family letters in which the feminist leader expresses some strong opinions about marriage and notions of manliness. 26 June 1900: "I do hope everything will work together for the happiness of Anna O. & Leon A. Everything will hinge on their capacity to conform one to the other, or at least to be happy in seeing the other not conform, but acting out his or her own individual idea." But the marriage - and name change -- of her nieces upsets her. 11 July 1900: "So the nieces of Susan B. Anthony blot their own and their family names out of existence at one fell swoop of the pen. Well, if her nieces have no love for their identity, no reverence for a name they have been known by for 26 years, how can we expect the daughters & nieces of other people to care or do other than bury themselves under the name of the man they love!" She has several words of advice on proper male behavior: 2 April 1900: "There are but few things necessary for you to reach the height of your avocation, and those are the strictest integrity, patience and perseverance, and continuance in what I hope are now your fully established habits of eschewing the so-called pet vices of men." 23 May 1900: She mentions attending the Republican national convention in 1900 and hopes Burt is "living up to your highest ideal of true manliness." Several letters also mention her lecturing at Chautauqua and other places, and several letters mention fellow feminists Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna H. Shaw. She takes a jibe at lawyers and thinks about mortality on 11 January 1905, when she summons her nephew to a family meeting on estate-planning: "Your Mother wants to fix her property so that the lawyers wont get the major part of it when she dies. She doesn't calculate to die, but then nobody does, so everybody should be prepared for it." Together 11 items . (11)
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