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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.