Susan B. Anthony to Isabella Beecher Hooker, September 13, 1878
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 (Author)Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907 (Addressee)
Anthony writes about how she wants to visit everyone in the movement to see the progress being made, but knows that is impossible. She continues to describe her mother's worsening condition, and that she must do it as their care-giver got married. Says also that Slayton is going to give her a "New England Route" in, November and, December (presumably for a speaking tour) and that she hopes that she can visit Hooker. Anthony then refer to the ongoing Tilton-Beecher scandal and writes: "my heart aches for her -- But I can see nothing that I can do to help her- the world is sick to death of the whole affair - and whether she speaks the truth or a lie- it wont [sic] believe her any the more... the part that she told me her story in 1870- as she now tells it to the public ... and now, more than ever before- is it wise for all outsiders to keep outside ." Anthony goes on to ask that Hooker stay on with the national organization until after the next convention as she fears Hooker’s public withdrawal from the NWSA "would look like a quarrel..."
Isabella Beecher Hooker and John Hooker Papers
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1878-09-13
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