Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Isabella Beecher Hooker, January 6, 1873

Rochester Jan. 6. 1873
My Dear Mrs. Hooker

Do not, I beg you, allow
your feelings to be wrought upon because
of another's falseness to facts or theories - it
is doubtless as much better to wait the
natural crisis of a moral disease,
as that of the physical (u) - & if there be
any truth in your old orthodox theory - it
is probably Gods purpose to give all these
people their wayward(u) heads(u) until
they shall have filled their own cups
to the brim with his wrath(u) - all the
parties connected with that fearful tragedy
seem to have put their heads together to
lie(u) through(u) the(u) whole(u) with a perfect(u)
God(u) & Truth(u) defying(u) spirit(u) - & they
must go their own way to destruction.
I(u) at least, cannot leave my life
work to try and set them(u) right - but
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I sure must
have

Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Isabella Beecher Hooker, January 6, 1873

feel more & more that I must push
the work of breaking(u) the(u) political(u)
chain(u) that binds all women in
subjection to mean - all real(u)
service(u) (need?) women to help
renovate the great social(u) & moral(u)
wrongs(u) of family(u) & society(u) - must wait
women's(u) enfranchisement(u) - while
she is practically a subject(u) & serf (and?)
dependent on man for subsistence - "We
might as well buy(u) the(u) moon(u)' - an essay
to establish our equal(u) moral(u) code(u)
for woman(u) - But you know & feel
all this - So I pray you, do be (philosophical?0
- nay more - stoical if need be -
and not waste one more breath
on people whose faces(u) are(u) set(u) in an
opposite direction - Your brain is too
valuable to the world to be thus squandered,
- I wish I could see you & comfort
you - but do possess your soul in a
heavenly calm - you(u) have(u) surely(u) tried(u) to
do(u) right(u) - & that ought to comfort you - (let/set?)
us (cease/ease?) to connect(u) those nearest(u) us(u) socially(u)-
it is of no use - if our(u) every(u) day(u) life(u) doesnt((u) do(u) it(u)-

Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Isabella Beecher Hooker, January 6, 1873

no amount of argument will avail -
I do hope your dear husband may get
physical(u) health(u) & strength - & you(u) too(u) - I
wish every one of our best women had such
good(u), sound(u), bodies(u) as(u) I(u) have(u) - I can't
tell you how thankful I feel, every day -
for mine-
I haven't said a word to you
about Washington - because I thought
your not able to go - but I should
dearly love to have, the good(u)
argument(u) you(u) [illegible] make(u) - made
in our Convention - if you do
feel equal to it. We have
Mrs Stanton, Mrs (Milhorn?), Mrs. (Gaye?)
Miss Cousine, Mrs Lockwood & myself -
- of Olympia, I am not quite sure
but hope (u) for her - E. M Davis & his
brother [illegible] Ron. Morris Davis [illegible]
[illegible] - & I shall go on & try to
get Old [illegible name] to make
a speech for us - I have refused(u)
every affiliation to speak on the
marriage or any social questions
[illegible] [illegible] brief, that this(u) Washington