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Susan B Anthony to
Henry Cabot Lodge
petitioning for woman suffrage

ANTHONY, SUSAN B. (1820-1906). American woman-suffrage advocate. Highly Important Typed Letter Signed, “Susan B. Anthony,” on blue-imprinted National American Woman Suffrage Association letterhead. One page, quarto. Rochester, N.Y., January 10, 1900. Mounted to a larger leaf, else very fine condition. To “The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington, D.C.” Anthony writes:

“My Dear Sir, Enclosed is a petition from the national woman suffrage association of your State, duly signed by its president and secretary, which I wish to ask you to present in the Senate at the earliest opportunity. Since the right of petition is the only political means by which women can speak to Congress, I trust that you will present this appeal from your disfranchised constituents with the most earnest request for its careful consideration. Hoping to hear from you favorably, I am, Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony.”

Susan B. Anthony, an advocate of women’s rights and co-founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, was a powerful force throughout her life. Traveling thousands of miles each year in the United States and Europe, Anthony gave between 75 and 100 speeches annually for 45 years. Undaunted by the failure of numerous attempts to secure voting rights for women over the previous four decades, Anthony was eighty years old when she sent this letter and the attached petition of Massachusetts’ suffrage supporters to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on January 10 1900. At ten in the morning on February 13, Anthony, for the first time in the 32 years she had been traveling to the nation’s capital, was admitted into the Marble Room of the U.S. Senate to present her case. Speaking for two hours before five members of the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, Anthony and her fellow activists tirelessly continued the struggle for suffrage that eventually led to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 26, 1920. A remarkable letter written at a historic moment for both the suffrage movement and one of its guiding lights, Susan B. Anthony.

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Susan B Anthony to Henry Cabot Lodge petitioning for woman suffrage ANTHONY, SUSAN B. (1820-1906). American woman-suffrage advocate. Highly Important Typed Letter Signed, “Susan B. Anthony,” on blue-imprinted National American Woman Suffrage Association letterhead. One page, quarto. Rochester, N.Y., January 10, 1900. Mounted to a larger leaf, else very fine condition. To “The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington, D.C.” Anthony writes: “My Dear Sir, Enclosed is a petition from the national woman suffrage association of your State, duly signed by its president and secretary, which I wish to ask you to present in the Senate at the earliest opportunity. Since the right of petition is the only political means by which women can speak to Congress, I trust that you will present this appeal from your disfranchised constituents with the most earnest request for its careful consideration. Hoping to hear from you favorably, I am, Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony.” Susan B. Anthony, an advocate of women’s rights and co-founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, was a powerful force throughout her life. Traveling thousands of miles each year in the United States and Europe, Anthony gave between 75 and 100 speeches annually for 45 years. Undaunted by the failure of numerous attempts to secure voting rights for women over the previous four decades, Anthony was eighty years old when she sent this letter and the attached petition of Massachusetts’ suffrage supporters to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on January 10 1900. At ten in the morning on February 13, Anthony, for the first time in the 32 years she had been traveling to the nation’s capital, was admitted into the Marble Room of the U.S. Senate to present her case. Speaking for two hours before five members of the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, Anthony and her fellow activists tirelessly continued the struggle for suffrage that eventually led to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 26, 1920. A remarkable letter written at a historic moment for both the suffrage movement and one of its guiding lights, Susan B. Anthony. For more details or to buy this item, please contact us. $8,500
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