Letter, Susan B. Anthony to Daniel Read Anthony
A letter from Susan B. Anthony to her brother, Daniel Read Anthony. Susan reports that the Berkshire County Historical Society will hold its annual meeting at the Anthonys’ old family home in Adams, Massachusetts, and would like for as many family members as possible to attend. Susan hopes to use the occasion for a family reunion and wants her brother and his wife to be there.
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[Letterhead: National-American
Woman Suffrage
Association]
Rochester, N.Y. May 26, 1897.
My Dear brother D.R.
I am just in receipt of
letter from the Berkshire County Historical
Society – saying they have voted to hold their
Annual Summer Meeting – a sort of
fire-me-in the door-yard of our
Grand-father Anthony – on Thursday –
July 29th They had a large meeting there
two years ago – & tried to get me there – but I
couldn’t go – So now they have my pledge
to attend – & my promise to get as many members
of the families of Read-Rubardson – & Anthony & Lapham –
as I possibly can – And I want you to put – down
that day – July 29. –And hold it sacred – for
Adams – & the re-union of the families – they
will ask you to speak – without doubt – they ask
me to suggest – & I have proposed that the
old people should tell their stories of the olden days
in the forenoon – then dinner in the old
210 n 50 feet long kitchen & under the trees –
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and then in the afternoon have speeches
from young people Rev Anna Shaw –
Mrs Chapman Catt & c – just where you & I
would come in – with the old & young – well we’ll
see when the time comes – this is only to
ask – to beg you – to make some time & plan so
as to be there without fail – I wonder
if Merritt would go too – It would do
him ever so much good – and I
wish too that Anna & Mary S. could both
go – In all human probability it will
be the last & only time any number
of our different families can ever meet
in “The Old Hine” as Grand-father used
to call the old house – in which our
dear father was the first born –
What do you say? Will you
plan to be there? – I can see how
very difficult it will be for both you & Anna
to leave without your Maud there – and
without your Dan. Jr – to hold the fort –
but if you try real hard – things can be
for this once all by themselves –
Lovingly your sister
Susan B. Anthony
P.S. Is Anna home?
When does Dan “jump her broom-stick”?