CHAPTER XVIII — SOCIAL PURITY
[314] Ms., Diary, Nov. 4, 1874.
[315] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 457. Frances Willard took her stand for woman suffrage in the W.C.T.U. in 1876.
[316] Ms., Diary, Sept., 1877.
[317] To James Redpath, Dec. 23, 1870, Alma Lutz Collection.
[318] New York Graphic, Sept. 12, 1874. Mrs. Hooker believed her half-brother guilty and repeatedly urged him to confess, assuring him she would join him in announcing "a new social freedom." Kenneth R. Andrews, Nook Farm (Cambridge, Mass., 1950), pp. 36-39. Rumors that Mrs. Hooker was insane were deliberately circulated.
[319] Harper, Anthony, I, p. 463.
[320] Ibid. Only a few entries relating to the Beecher-Tilton case remain in the Susan B. Anthony diaries, now in the Library of Congress, and the diary for 1875 is not there.
[321] Ibid., p. 462.