CHAPTER XXV — PASSING ON THE TORCH
[422] Rachel Foster Avery, Ed., National Council of Women, 1891 (Philadelphia, 1891), p. 229.
[423] Dec. 1, 1898, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. Mrs. Elnora Babcock of New York was in charge of the press bureau.
[424] Miss Anthony was enrolled as a member of the Knights of Labor and invited this organization to send delegates to the International Council of Women in 1888.
[425] To Ellen Wright Garrison, 1900, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
[426] Harper, Anthony, III, p. 1137. A few years later, militant suffragists, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, were active in London. Mrs. Pankhurst heard Miss Anthony speak in Manchester in 1904.
[427] Ida Husted Harper Ms., Catharine Waugh McCulloch Papers, Radcliffe Women's Archives.
[428] Nov. 20, 1899, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library.
[429] History of Woman Suffrage, IV, p. 385. Miss Anthony was "moved up," as she expressed it, to Honorary President.
[430] Peck, Catt, p. 107, Washington Post quotation.
[431] To Laura Clay, April 15, 1900, University of Kentucky Library, Lexington, Kentucky.
[432] Ibid., March 15, 1900.
[433] Ibid.
[434] Ibid., Sept. 7, 1900.
[435] Ms., Diary, Nov. 10, 1900.
[436] Ibid., Sept. 26, 1900. A separate woman's college was established at the University of Rochester and not until 1952 were the men's and women's colleges merged.
[437] May 20, 1901, Note, Susan B. Anthony Memorial Collection, Rochester, New York.
[438] History of Woman Suffrage, V, pp. 741-742.
[439] Harper, Anthony, III, p. 1263.
[440] Oct. 28, 1902, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library.
[441] Oct. 27, 1904, Elizabeth Smith Miller Collection, New York Public Library. A few years later, Mrs. Blatch made a vital contribution to the cause through the Women's Political Union which she organized and which brought more militant methods and new life into the woman suffrage campaign in New York State.
[442] Jan. 27, 1904, Lucy E. Anthony Collection. Mrs. Blake who had been a candidate in 1900 had by this time formed her own organization, the National Legislative League.
[443] History of Woman Suffrage, V, p. 99.
[444] Harper, Anthony, III, p. 1308.
[445] Ibid.