History of Woman Suffrage, The…Vol. IV.

Anthony, Susan B. and Ida Husted Harper, Editors. History Of Woman Suffrage Vol. IV. 1883-1900. Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].

8vo, 1144pp; including 40 Index and 29 Appendix; maroon cloth; title and authors stamped in gold on the spine; corners bumped; covers a little rubbed; back hinge starting; generally very good, and unusual thus due to the volume’s thickness; illustrated with eight half-tone portraits, including frontispiece portrait of Miss Anthony.

First edition. Inscribed by Susan B. Anthony on her 82nd birthday. February 12-18 was the occasion of the 34th Annual Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Conference held at the First Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. It was immediately followed by the Annual Convention of the NAWSA. Vol. V of History of Woman Suffrage notes that February 15, the birthday of their beloved leader, was a day “always commemorated by suffragists,” and 1902 was no different. Although Anthony had retired officially in 1900 (hence, the ending date for Volume IV), she was still the movement’s vital center. Miss Anthony began her birthday with the foreign delegates attending her at breakfast and presenting a birthday greeting read aloud by Florence Fenwick Miller of England. Thereafter followed more tributes and gifts (a feather boa, a cup made from the wood of the floor on which the Declaration of Independence was signed, etc.). Anthony then made a moving speech to the Convention, which reduced the delegates first to tears and then wild applause for their 82-year old leader. Mary Garret Hay, the NAWSA’s champion money-raiser, asked for the tribute Miss Anthony would like best: contributions to the treasury of NAWSA. $5,000 was immediately given from the audience; since she lived in Washington, DC it is more than likely Mrs. Temple was among those who heard and responded to the appeal.

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