en
years nobly devoted to the welfare of humanity, to unremitting
labor for temperance, for the abolition of slavery and for equal
rights of citizenship, irrespective of sex or color. We have lived
to see the end of slavery, and I hope thou wilt live to see
prohibition enforced in every State in the Union, and sex no longer
the condition of citizenship. God bless thee and give thee many
more years made happy by works of love and duty. I am truly thy
friend,

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

[Illustration: Autograph: "John G Whittier"]

My heart honors, loves and blesses you. Every woman's would if she
only knew you. You'll have a statue some day in the Capitol at
Washington, but your best monument is built already in your
countrywomen's hearts. God bless you, brave and steadfast elder
sister! Accept this as the only valentine I ever wrote. May you
live a hundred years and vote the last twenty-five, is the wish and
prediction of your loyal sister,

FRANCES E. WILLARD.

Miss Anthony's sole and effective fidelity to the cause of the
equal rights of her sex is worthy of the highest honor, and I know
that it will be eloquently and fitly acknowledged at the dinner,
which I trust will be in every way successful. Very respectfully
yours,

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.

It is a grief to me that I can not be present to honor the birthday
of our dear Susan B. Anthony; long life to her! I should have been
delighted to respond to the toast proposed, and to bear my
heartfelt tribute of respect and love for the true and unselfish
reformer, to whom women are no more indebted than are men. "Time
shall embalm and magnify her name." Very sincerely yours,

WM. LLOYD GARRISON.

I know her great earnestness in every righteous cause, especially
that most righteous of all, woman suffrage, which I hope may
receive a new impulse from your gathering. As I grow older I feel
assured, year by year, that the granting of suffrage to women will
remedy many evils which now are attendant on popular government;
and if we are to despair of that cause we must despair of the final
establishment of justice as the controlling