Albany Feb. 14, 1867
Dear Friend Amy
I find this envelope
in my port-folio
today – ready superscribed
– as if to remind me I
ought to tell you how
we are getting on with
our meetings – well, the
very best kind – at Cohoes
Thurs. & Friday nights – Capital meetings
At Herkimer last Mon. & Tues. –
Splendid – The Ex. Surrogate
and present Surrogate Judges
both gave their good word
The Revolution,
No. 37 Park Row. (Room 17.)
New York Sept. 15th 1868
To ^the^ Working Women’s Association of Chicago
Of Rochester –
By the enclosed you will
see that all organizations for the
amelioration of woman’s labor, as well
as mans, may send delegates to the Working
Mens National Congress to be held the 21st inst.
next Monday – Steps are being taken here
to send appoint delegates – I hope Rochester
will be represented – Your suffrage
association’s object is the elevation of
Woman – therefore fully competent –
It will be a great thing to secure
a good word for woman in the
world of work from this National
Convention of workingmen –
Sincerely Yours
Susan B. Anthony
Dear Friend Amy Post
Here is the Call for
our National W. R. Convention. I know
you will rejoice in it, if not another
woman in the country – Now we
mustn’t draw on the thousand dollars
the Committee have set apart for the
work of the N. York State Constitutional
Convention – to pay the expenses of this
National Convention – can’t you get
something from that Mr. Watson now?
I hope you will be at the Convention,
we shall need every woman & man who really
believes now is the hour for Woman to demand
the ballot – I think of William & Mary,
all of my Rochester friends – but writing
them is out of the question.
The nation waits some move of
Congress now, as they used to for McLellan
then Burnside, then another-
The Third
Equal Rights
County Convention
The American
Equal Rights Association
invite the friends of universal
suffrage of the County of
Monroe to meet in convention
in Corinthian Hall
in the City of Rochester on
Tuesday evening Dec. 11th at
7 ½ Oclock – and Wednesday ^Dec. 12th^ at
10 A.M. and 2 and 7 ½ P.M.
The object of the convention
is to adopt measures to engraft
the principle of universal suffrage
upon the constitution of the state.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Parker Pillsbury,
Lucy Stone, Bessie Bisbee,
Charles Lenox Remond
(Frederick Douglass probably)
Susan B. Anthony
Giles D. Stebbins and
others will take part in
the discussions –
Admission to the day
sessions free. To the
evening sessions 25 cts.
The Association specially
desires the attendance of
women who earn their own
bread and will furnish
complimentary tickets to all
such who will call for them
at ----
Henrietta Sept 3d '51
My Dear Mrs. Post and Mrs. Bush
When I was in
Rochester the matter in regard to my lecturing
was left undecided and I told Mrs. Bush
I should be in the city again in a week
or two. My business did not call me there,
and as I am now much occupied in
preparing a course of lectures I can save
time by dropping you a line.
Mrs. [Cox?] told me your Convention would
be postponed until Spring, and since this
is so would it not be best to defer my
lectures until after the Fair, and then
perhaps give a course of three or four. It
will then be more in the season for lectures.
A lecture sometime this week was spoken
of. I am ready if it is thought best; but
should think perhaps it would be well to
have it deferred.
They give fine reports of the prospect
for the Worcester Convention. they have
1867
Dear Husband
I hardly know which is duty – whether to come immediately home or write, we are having so good a time listening to the discussions on suffrage for paupers – black men and women that I hardly know how to live, yet I know that I am wanted at home. Curtis has not yet spoken but is watching his opportunity with anxious vigilance, yesterday and day before was on his feet half a dozen times but could only say Mr President when some other name would be announced by the chairman – and down he must sit.
Last evening Lucy Stone spoke at the same rostrum to a very good audience, most of the members present. I think the impression she made was good, seemed much as she
used to on the Antislavery platform and I was rejoiced to find her alive again her husband followed [w] a few pertinent remarks commenced half past nine o clock, but was well received
Lucys pathetic flights, touches the hearts of the people as well as her arguments the intellect – I hope Anna Dickinson will come before the subject is ended – there is some hopes of its being left to the Women to vote upon it next June – whether they will accept it or not – which I hope will be done – then if a majority of us reject the boon, we will have a twenty years more of labor and waiting - Susan is here – it seems that she & Mrs. Stanton were here at the time we were first notified and spoke before a committee of the whole, but the papers were as they are this morning as silent as the grave upon it –when will party politicks learn to be just
Be of good cheer, I think to be home tomorrow eve,
Affectionately thine Amy
Oct. 26, 1869
Box 299 P.O. New York
Isaac & Amy Post
Rochester, N.Y.
Dear friends
There is to be a
Convention in Cleveland, as you will
see by the enclosed Call, to form an
American Woman Suffrage Association,
which will not attack the 15th Amendment
nor complicate the question of Woman
Suffrage with side issues. The Call has
been extensively circulated & all that is
now needed to make the Convention a
great success is a general attendance of
delegates from all the States. As N York
is entitled to as many representatives in the Convention as its Congressional delegations & as
the N.Y. State society will not be likely to
send more than two, or three—it is very
important that the number should be increased
Jericho the 15 of 10 M, 1848
Esteemed Sister,
I thought when I received that Rochester
paper giving an account of the woman's convention and of their
rights and what they wanted, and what they intended to petition
for, untill they had obtained it, that I would write up
to Isaac and request him to persuade his wife to try to have
a little more stability, and to act more like a sensable
woman, in your Declaration you say that the history of
mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on
the part of man towards woman having in direct object
the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. If thee
means Isaac when thee says all that thee might as well
leave him and come to L. Island an [sic] live. and a gain you
say he (meaning man) has created a fals [sic] sentiment by giving
to the world a different code of morals for men an [sic] women
by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society
are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man
If I understand what is ment [sic] by morral [sic] delinquencies it is
woman that has made the difference and not man, and
what thee seams to complain the most of is not having
the [privilage] of going to the poles [sic] and giving thy vote, and
not being drawn to serve on [Jurory?], and to be appointed
sheriffs and [?] fast every office that man fills thee
wants the [prebelage] [sic] of having.---. I have lately heard
of a society in Boston that I think would suit thee
and Sarah and some of the rochester women [especially?] well
theire [sic] whole business as I understand it is, to take charge
of other people concerns, and to see that every thing is
[done] as it should be, and in the right time, this would
keep you in plenty of business, -- without [running?] all over
with your petitions to get signers in order to send to
the legeslator for them to pass a law giving you the
privilage [sic] of voting which I presume they never will do.
There is a resolution I wish thee to explain it is [wicked?]
that the assumption of law to settle estates when men
die without wills leaving widows is an insult to woman
and [?]---- some folks think that property, accum-
ulated by parents ought not to go to theire children
but to the state in which they live; is that thy notion
or where would thee have it to go? I would like for
thee to give me the particulars in [regard] to property
when the husband dies leaving a widow and [chil]
children all of age, weather [sic] thee would have the husband
or the wife to make a will so neither of them or boath.
the resolution respecting marriage you think for a woman
to [promise] to be a faithull [sic] and loving wife. is a barbour-
ous and an unrighteous practice and you mean to persua-de all the unmarried women to make no more promesses
in the marriage contract. you seam [sic] to want a great
many things granted by the men that you do not enjoy
at present and I think I can put you in a way to have
every thing granted you that can be desired and that is to
get up an instrument of writing in verry [sic] strong language
and let every unmarried woman pledg [sic] her self that she
will not marry any man untill the laws are so
altered as to place woman on an equality with man
in every respect even to wearing of pants if she wishes to
do so, and if the unmarried women will all sign it and
stick to it for a few years ^say about 20^ I am persuaded you will
bring them to any terms you may wish and I believe
that is the only way that your Prayer can ^be^ obtained
I would like to hear all about the new Yearly [Meeting] Do
write and let us no [sic] the particulars also about your [free?]
meeting at rochester--weather [sic] it is like friends meeting
or an abolition meeting or [wat?] kind of a meeting and
how many attend [and when they are?],--- their is
a [free?] meeting lately setup at Jerusalem I believe
it is held on first day afternoon and attended by
Henry Titus Edward Seaman Adam Eighmie and
two or three that are not friends, all Preachers or
speakers I do not know what [crossed out: what] the [sic] call it but
I believe preaching, Edward Seaman I believe is a
practicing and trying to learn the art of Preaching
the Gospel, I wish they were all up at rochester
so that they might attend your meeting and Preach
for you I think thaire preaching would suit you better
than it does us -- we have heard verry little about Sarah
for some time would like to know how she is getting along
weather she is ingaged about abolition or womans rights
or temperence or free soil or weather she is attending to
her own concerns, If she is attending to the latter I think she
may stand a pretty good chance to get a husband unless
she concludes to take the plidg [sic] to marry no man untill
[crossed out: untill] the laws are so altered as put woman on equality
with man on every subject