“I wish I could be present in your happy home on that day, but the marriage of my younger sister’s son, on April 17th, takes me to Cleveland to witness the starting out of two dear young people on the way you have traveled so long and so well.
“So, with gratitude for the good work done in the first fifty years of your married life, and wishing for you many more equally happy, and hoping that both you and I and Mrs. Stanton and others of the pioneers of our great movement may live to see not only Wyoming fully in the Union but many others redeemed from the curse of sex aristocracy, hoping and believing I am
“Very sincerely yours,
“Susan B. Anthony.”
The following telegram was received from Bishop Perry, of Iowa:
“Davenport, April 15th, 1890.
“Hon. D. C and Mrs. Bloomer:—
“Congratulations and benedictions. Fifty golden years exhaust neither love nor hope.
“William Stevens Perry,
“Bishop of Iowa.”