resses were
presented with sets, and there are hundreds of letters on file from
prominent persons in England and this country acknowledging the receipt
of the books.

[Illustration: Autograph: "Faithfully yours, H B Anthony"]

Chapters might be made of commendatory letters received from officials,
writers, public workers and friends in private life. A few specimens
must suffice. A letter from Senator H. B. Anthony to his "dear cousin,"
closed by saying: "The three volumes form a valuable history of the
important enterprise in which you have borne so conspicuous and
honorable a part, and you have added to the reputation of the name that
we both bear."

Mary L. Booth, the gifted editor of Harper's Bazar, thus expressed her
opinion of the work:

You and your colleagues have industriously placed on record a
copious mass of documentary evidence which will be of the utmost
value when the time arrives to sum up the final results. When this
era comes, you will be foremost among the band of heroic pioneers
who have endured discomfort, obloquy and privation of much that is
dear to women for the sake of those who will profit by your labors
while failing to recognize them. Posterity will do you this
justice, whether your contemporaries do or not; but indeed, it is
universally known to those with any knowledge of the facts, that
among all the champions of women, none has been more distinguished
for utter self-abnegation, single-heartedness and devotion to her
life-work than Susan B. Anthony.

As you know, I have always felt the deepest interest in the
elevation of women, which is synonymous with that of humanity, for
man must be always on the plane of his wife, sister and mother....
The antagonism to political equality is rapidly disappearing, as it
is beginning to be recognized that in politics, as in everything
else, woman's help is needed, and the republic can not afford to
have her stand aloof. But this phase of the subject has been so
much misunderstood, both by men and women, that time is needed to
clear away the mists of misconception which envelop it; and to
prove that the co-operation of women in political life is not only
just and expedient, but absolutely indispensable to the public
weal.

[Illustration: Autograph: "I am now and always, Yours faithfully, Mary
L. Booth"]

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