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.
322 Ibid., II, pp. 1007-1009.
323 Ibid., I, p. 468.
324 Ibid., p. 470. Miss Anthony interrupted her lecturing for nine weeks to nurse her brother Daniel after he had been shot by a rival editor in Leavenworth.
325 Ibid., p. 472.
326 Ibid., p. 473.