er of a century and generally had been her own manager. The
preceding year she had given the Slayton Lyceum Bureau a partial trial
and at the beginning of 1877 made a contract with it, commencing the
last of January. The entire first page of the circular for the season
was devoted to this new engagement and began:

The manager takes pride in announcing the name of Susan B. Anthony,
the most earnest, fearless advocate of the ballot for woman. She
has hitherto confined herself entirely to this one question, which
to her is most sacred and righteous, but this season we are to have
something different, as will be seen from the titles of her new
lectures. Her great speeches, "Woman and the Sixteenth Amendment,"
and "Woman wants Bread, not the Ballot," will still be called for,
and committees will have their choice in all cases.... A certain
gentleman frequently wrote us last year to avoid "all night rides"
after his lectures; Miss Anthony never makes such a request. She
can lecture every night in the season.... When a list of fifty or
one hundred engagements has been mapped out and fixed, nothing but
an act of God will prevent her filling them.... Of nearly fifty
consecutive lectures, delivered by Miss Anthony last spring in the
State of Illinois alone, only two failed to realize a profit....
She is always making converts among the men as well as the women.

Among the notices quoted is one from Col. John W. Forney, of the
Philadelphia Press, saying: "I must accept woman suffrage as I did
negro emancipation; as a necessity made urgent and imperative by the
times in which we live. Put me down then, if you please, as being an
ardent woman's rights man, fighting under the banner of Susan B.
Anthony, and proud of following such a leader."

[Autograph:

Very truly yours.
J W Forney]

Miss Anthony found both advantages and disadvantages in this new
arrangement; for while it relieved her of much responsibility, it took
away the control of her own time and movements, a situation which she
soon found very trying. She lectured through February and March, but by
this time her sister, Mrs. Hannah Mosher, whose failing health had sent
her to Kansas in the hope of benefit, was declared by the physicians
beyond recovery. Miss Anthony's first impulse was to hasten to her
side, but she was confronted with her lecture engagements and told that
it would be impossible to r