Anthony Family Collection: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Jennifer L. Martinez, September 25, 2000.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Manuscripts Department

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, California 91108

Phone: (626) 405-2191

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Overview of the Collection

Title: Anthony Family Collection

Dates (inclusive): 1844-1945

Collection Number: mssAF 1-82

Creator: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.

Extent: 162 pieces in 5 boxes.

Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, California 91108

Phone: (626) 405-2191

Email: reference@huntington.org

URL: http://www.huntington.org

Abstract: This collection primarily contains letters and some manuscripts concerning the family affairs and women's suffrage activities of the family of American women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906).

Language: English.

Access

Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

Administrative Information

Publication Rights

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Anthony Family Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Gifts of Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California, 1944-1953.

Related Materials in the Huntington Library

Clara Bradley Burdette Papers, 1843-1954 (Call number: mssBurdette papers)
Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby Papers, 1882-1914 (Call number: mssCC 1-49)
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert Papers, 1863-1925 (Call number: mssHarbert papers)
Maude Anthony Koehler Correspondence, 1940-1950 (Call number: mssHM 42561-42572)
Alice Park Papers, 1798-1953 (Call number: mssPK 1-338)
Una Richardson Winter Papers, 1895-1954 (Call number: mssUW 1-102)

Historical Note

Various members of the family of American women's rights activist Susan B. (Susan Brownell) Anthony were active nineteenth- and twentieth-century reformers, but she stood out among them. Although early involved in the temperance and anti-slavery movements, her main concern became woman suffrage. Most of her time was spent in lecturing and campaigning. She was also an officer in the National Woman Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was the daughter of Daniel Anthony (1794-1862) and Lucy Read Anthony (1793-1880). Her siblings included Guelma Anthony McLean (1818-1873); Hannah Anthony Mosher (1821-1877); Daniel Read Anthony (1824-1904); Mary Stafford Anthony (1827-1907); Eliza T. Anthony (1832-1834); and Jacob Merritt Anthony (1834-1900).

Scope and Content

The collection of 162 pieces contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities, dating from 1844 to 1945. This group of papers was assembled by Una R. Winter, Director, and Alice L. Park, Associate Director, of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California.

There are four large letterbooks which contain letterpress copies of approximately 1372 pages of correspondence written by Susan B. Anthony's cousin Joseph Anthony (Box 3B). There is also an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony (AF 79) and a manuscript by Joseph Anthony titled "A Trip to the Bahama Islands" (AF 76). Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. There are several letters which discuss a bust of Susan B. Anthony by the artist Lorado Taft, and one letter promoting a recent volume of The History of Woman Suffrage (AF 28).

Anthony Family members represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony and her relatives: cousin Jessie Anthony (1856-1918) and Jessie's father, Joseph Anthony (1829-1897), and grandfather John Anthony (Susan's uncle); niece Lucy E. Anthony (1859-1944); second cousin Katherine Boyles; niece Maude Anthony Koehler (1865-1950); and nephew Frank Anthony Mosher.

Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include: Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass.

Note: 49 original letters [AF 18 (1-43) and AF 24 (1-6)] written by Susan B. Anthony to Jessie Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt were removed and placed in Box 4, which is restricted. Typewritten copies of these letters have been filed in Box 1 of the collection for research use.

In Box 3A, there are two loose-leaf binders and one envelope of typescripts of Susan B. Anthony letters from collections held in other libraries. These materials are from the Anna Dann Mason collection (47 letters), Sophia Smith collection (58 letters) and Alma Lutz collection (52 letters).

Notable Persons Represented in the Collection

The individuals listed below are represented in the correspondence section (Boxes 1-2) of the Anthony Family collection. Authors and addressees found in the copies of letters in Box 3A and in the letterpress books in Box 3B are not included in this list.

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.

As Author: AF 14-28
As Addressee: AF 29, 40, 44, 66, 68-69

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950.

As Author: AF 30
As Addressee: none

Boyles, Katherine [second cousin of Susan B. Anthony]

As Author: AF 31
As Addressee: AF 9 (1-6), 35, 42, 50-53, 54, 59, 67, 72-73

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.

As Author: AF 35-39
As Addressee: none Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
As Author: AF 43
As Addressee: none

Koehler, Maude Anthony.

As Author: none
As Addressee: AF11 (1-5), 27 (1-3), 36, 55, 58

McCrackin, Josephine Woempner Clifford, b. 1838.

As Author: AF 49
As Addressee: none

Mosher, Frank Anthony [nephew of Susan B. Anthony]

As Author: AF 51
As Addressee: AF 39

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

As Author: AF 54
As Addressee: none Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
As Author: AF 60-63
As Addressee: none

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.

As Author: AF 66
As Addressee: AF 24 (1-6)

Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936.

As Author: none
As Addressee: AF 22 (1-3), 46, 71

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following manner:

Correspondence, 1844-1897 (Box 1)
Correspondence, 1900-1945 (Box 2)
Oversize items, bound volumes, copies of correspondence (Box 3A)
Joseph Anthony letter books (Box 3B)
Selected original Susan B. Anthony letters not available for research use (Box 4 - restricted)

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.

Subjects

Anthony, Lucy E., 1861-1944 -- Archives.

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 -- Archives.

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 -- Correspondence.

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 -- Correspondence.

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977 -- Correspondence.

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 -- Correspondence.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 -- Correspondence.

Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 -- Correspondence.

National American Woman Suffrage Association.

National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)

Feminists -- United States -- Archives.

Suffragists -- United States -- Archives.

Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.

Women's rights -- United States.

Forms/Genres

Family papers -- United States.

Letter books -- United States.

Letters (correspondence) -- United States.

Additional Contributors

Anthony family.

Anthony, Lucy E., 1861-1944.

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950.

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977.

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.

Correspondence

Box 1

Correspondence, 1844-1897 (94 pieces)

Folder 1

1844 Dec. 9. Anthony, Joseph. To Anthony, Elizabeth Wadsworth. Poplar Ridge Seminary, N.Y. AF 4

Folder 2

1847 Mar. 14. Anthony, Joseph. To Anthony, John. Auburn, N.Y. AF 5

Folder 3

1848 June 11. Anthony, Susan B. To Anthony, Daniel Read. Canajohari, N.Y. AF 14

Typewritten copy with marginal pencil notes in the handwriting of Maude Anthony Koehler.

Folder 4

1856 Sept. 3. Anthony, Jacob Merritt. To his parents. Osawatomie. AF 1

Folder 5

1867 July 21. Train, George Francis. To Anthony, Susan B. Stamford, Conn. AF 68

Folder 6

1867 July 27. Anthony, Susan B. To Dear Cousins, One & All." Rochester, N.Y. AF 16

Typewritten copy.

Folder 7

1872 July 20. Anthony, Susan B. To Anthony, Joseph. Rochester, N.Y. AF 17

Folder 8

1881-1905. Anthony, Susan B. To Anthony, Jessie. AF 18 (1-43)

Typescripts of 43 letters; originals in restricted Box 4.

Folder 9

1883 Dec. 25. Anthony, Joseph. Coleta, Ill. AF 6

Folder 10

1856, 1880. Anthony, Susan B. To "Dear Uncle and Aunt" [John and Ann Eliza Anthony]. Rochester, N.Y. AF 15 (1-2)

2 letters.

Folder 11

1887 June 15. Pillsbury, Parker. To Eddy, James. Concord, N.H. AF 56

Folder 12

1888, 1898. Anthony, Susan B. To Eddy, Sarah J. Rochester, N.Y. AF 19

2 letters.

Folder 13

1890 Jan. 6. Tucker, Gideon J. To Anthony, Susan B. New York, [N.Y.] AF 69

Folder 14

1890 Oct. 21. Anthony, Susan B. To Whitfield, A. A. Buffalo Gap, S.D. AF 20

Folder 15

1890 Oct. 26. Shaw, Anna Howard. To Whitfield, A. A. Rapid City, S.D. AF 60

Folder 16

1890 Oct. 27. Anthony, Susan B. To Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Piedmont, S.D. AF 21

Folder 17

1890 Oct. 29. Shaw, Anna Howard. To Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Whitewood, S.D. AF 61

Damaged.

Folder 18

1890. Holmes, Mary E. To Willard, Frances Elizabeth. Galva, Henry Co., Ill. AF 45 (1-3)

3 letters.

Folder 19

1890 Oct. 29. Shaw, Anna Howard. To Holmes, Mary E. Whitewood, S.D. AF 62

Damaged.

Folder 20

1890, 1892. Willard, Frances Elizabeth. To Taft, Lorado. Evanston, Ill. AF 71

2 letters

Folder 21

1891 July 3. Holmes, Mary E. To Taft, Lorado. Henry Co., Ill. AF 46

Folder 22

1892 Dec. 24. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. To Anthony, Susan B. New York, [N.Y.] AF 66

Folder 23

1892, 1904. Anthony, Susan B. To Taft, Lorado. Rochester, N.Y. AF 22 (1-3)

3 letters.

Folder 24

1893 Feb. 11. Barker, Helen M. To Whitfield, A. A. Chicago, Ill. AF 32

Typewritten.

Folder 25

1893 July 4. Blackwell, Alice Stone. To Eddy, Sarah J. Boston, Mass. AF 30

Folder 26

1894 Sept. 7. Anthony, Susan B. To Bowman, [Thomas Mead?]. Rochester, N.Y. AF 23

Includes typescript.

Folder 27

1894 Nov. 23. Douglass, Frederick. To Eddy, Sarah J. Anacostia, D.C. AF 43

Folder 28

1894-1898. Anthony, Susan B. To Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. AF 24 (1-6)

Typescripts of 6 letters; originals in restricted Box 4.

Folder 30

1895 June 11. Blackmar, Frank Wilson. To Anthony, Susan B. University of Kansas AF 29

On reverse: Anthony, Mary S. to Susan B. Anthony, 1895 June 17.

Folder 31

1896 Nov. 20. Shaw, Anna Howard. To Anthony, Jessie. Rochester, N.Y. AF 63

Signature cut out.

Folder 32

1896. Anthony, Susan B. To Keith, Mary McHenry. San Francisco, Calif. AF 26 (1-2)

2 letters; pencil copies made by Mrs. Keith, approximately 1940.

Folder 33

[Approximately 1896?]. Cooley, Winnifred Harper. To Anthony, Susan B. AF 40

Poem

Folder 34

1896-1905. Anthony, Susan B. To Koehler, Maude Anthony. Rochester, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif.; Chico, Calif. AF 27 (1-3)

2 letters and a postcard.

Folder 35

1896, 1907. Anthony, Lucy E. To Anthony, Jessie. AF 7 (1-2)

2 letters

Folder 36

1897 Mar. 11. Webser, Robert M. To Anthony, Jessie. Pasadena, Calif. AF 70

Box 2

Correspondence, 1900-1945 (94 pieces)

Folder 1

1900 Feb. 14. Lippincott, Sara Jane Clarke (pseudonym Grace Greenwood used). Poem: "A Valentine for Susan B. Anthony." Washington, [D.C.?] AF 48

Folder 2

1902 Jan. 10. Anthony, Mary S. To Anthony, Jessie. Rochester, N.Y. AF 13

Folder 3

[1902]. Post, Jessie M. To Anthony, Jessie. [Rochester, N.Y.] AF 57

Folder 4

1903 June 16. Anthony, Susan B. To "My Dear Friend." Rochester, N.Y. AF 28

Folder 5

1904 Nov. 22. Duniway, Abigail Scott. To Anthony, Susan B., and Anthony, Mary S. Portland, Ore. AF 44

Folder 6

1905. Anthony, Susan B. To Sargent, Ellen Clark. Rochester, N.Y. AF 25

Typewritten copy.

Folder 7

1906 Oct. 24. Anthony, Lucy E. To Dye, Eva Emery. Swarthmore, Pa. AF 8

Typewritten.

Folder 8

1911 July 7-August 5. Anthony, Jessie. "The Diary of a Newsy" : on selling suffrage papers on a London street corner. London AF 2

Folder 9

1914 Feb. 10. Cushing. To Boyles, Katherine. Bismarck, N.D. AF 42

Folder 10

1915 Oct. 9. Wilson, Fanny B. To Boyles, Katherine. Boontown, N.J. AF 72

Folder 11

1916 May 6. Stearns, Cora M. To Boyles, Katherine. New York, [N.Y.] AF 67

Folder 12

1916. Anthony, Jessie. 3 pieces; notes of Susan B. Anthony relics presented to the Los Angeles County Museum. AF 3 (1-3)

Folder 13

1917 June 18. Paul, Alice. To Boyles, Katherine. Washington, D.C. AF 54

Typewritten

Folder 14

1917. Spencer, Anna Garlin. To Eddy, Sarah J. AF 65 (1-4)

4 letters

Folder 15

1919. McCracken, Josephine Woempner Clifford. To Anthony, Bertha Rungler. Santa Cruz, Calif. AF 49

2 letters; also includes printed clippings.

Folder 16

1920 Sept. 17. Wold, Emma. To Boyles, Katherine. Washington, [D.C.?] AF 73

Folder 17

1923 Dec. 9. Burt, Amy Anthony. To Benson, Mary Ann. Corfu, Greece AF 33

Contemporary copy.

Folder 18

1925 May 3. Catt, Carrie Chapman. To Boyles, Katherine. New York, [N.Y.] AF 35

Typewritten.

Folder 19

1925 Dec. 28. Powel, Harford [Willing Hare]. To Koehler, Maude Anthony. Boston, Mass. AF 58

Typewritten; marginal note in Mrs. Koehler's handwriting.

Folder 20

1934 Feb. 17. Capper, Arthur. To Anthony, Daniel Read. Washington, D.C. AF 34

Folder 21

1937 Feb. 27. Catt, Carrie Chapman. To Koehler, Maude Anthony. Los Angeles, Calif. AF 36

Folder 22

1938 July 29. Catt, Carrie Chapman. To Eddy, Sarah J. New Rochelle, N.Y. AF 37

Typewritten contemporary copy.

Folder 23

1939 Jan. 24. Catt, Carrie Chapman. [A tribute to Susan B. Anthony]. New Rochelle, N.Y. AF 38

Typewritten.

Folder 24

1940 Mar. 22. Shohan, Jessie. To Anthony, Lucy E. Reinbsk, N.Y. AF 64

Contemporary copy.

Folder 25

1940 June 18. Boyles, Katherine. To Anthony, Bertha Rungler. Orange City, Fla. AF 31

Typewritten.

Folder 26

1940-1943. Anthony, Lucy E. To Boyles, Katherine. Moylan, Pa. AF 9 (1-6)

6 pieces (includes photograph.

Folder 27

1941 June 2. Anthony, Lucy E. To Anthony, Bertha Rungler. Moylan, Pa. AF 10

Typewritten.

Folder 28

1941 June 4. Radley, Guy Richardson. To Boyles, Katherine. Milwaukee, Wisc. AF 59

Typewritten.

Folder 29

1941 June 13. Newcomb, Rexford. To Boyles, Katherine. Urbana, Ill. AF 52

Typewritten.

Folder 30

1942 May 12. Cronkhite, Kittie M. To [Mrs. D. R Anthony -- Bessie]. Coarsegold, Calif. AF 41

Marginal note in the handwriting of Maude Anthony Koehler.

Folder 31

1942, 1943. Anthony, Lucy E. To Koehler, Maude Anthony. Moylan, Pa. AF 11 (1-5)

5 pieces.

Folder 32

1943 Apr. 6. Phillips, Lena Madesin. To Koehler, Maude Anthony. New York, [N.Y.] AF 55

Folder 33

1943 Aug. 13. McCulloch, Catherine Waugh. To Boyles, Katherine. Evanston, Ill. AF 50

Contemporary copy.

Folder 34

1944 January 11 and February 8. Parker, Arthur Caswall. To Anthony, Lucy E. AF 53 (1-2)

2 letters; typewritten.

Folder 35

1944 Jan. 19. Howard, Martha. To Anthony, Lucy E. Rochester, N.Y. AF 47

Typewritten; contemporary copy

Folder 36

1944 July 17. Mosher, Frank Anthony. To Boyles, Katherine. Rochester, N.Y. AF 51

Typewritten; contemporary copy

Folder 37

[1945 Jan.]. Anthony, Lucy E. To Editor, Christian Science Monitor. Philadelphia, Pa. AF 12

Carbon copy; newspaper article included.

Folder 38

1945 Apr. 23. Catt, Carrie Chapman. To Mosher, Frank Anthony. New Rochelle, N.Y. AF 39

Typewritten; contemporary copy.

Oversize items, bound volumes, copies of correspondence

Box 3A

Oversize items, bound volumes, copies of correspondence (10 pieces)

Conditions of Use

In Box 3A, there are two loose-leaf binders and one envelope of typescripts of Susan B. Anthony letters from collections held in other libraries. Although these typed copies are available for research use, they may not be photocopied or published, as the Huntington does not own either the original letters nor the literary copyright for these letters. For access to the originals or for more information about copying and reproducing any or all of these letters, please contact the Smith College Library (Sophia Smith collection) and the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College (Anna Dann Mason and Alma Lutz collections).

1848-1880. Anthony, Joseph. Cash account book (octavo volume) AF 75

1912. Anthony, Joseph. "A trip to the Bahama Islands." AF 76 (a-b)

1888. International Council of Women. Autograph album. AF 77

1922-1937. Joseph, Helen Marie Anthony. Poems written by a young Los Angeles girl. AF 78

1854-1856. Anthony, Susan B. An address on Women's Rights. AF 79

1855-1905. Anthony, Susan B. Letters to various persons. AF 80

Typescripts of 47 letters in the Alma Lutz collection from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College (in loose leaf binder).

1856-1905. Anthony, Susan B. Letters to various persons. AF 81

Typescripts of 58 letters in the Sophia Smith collection, Smith College (in loose leaf binder).

1898-1940. Anthony, Susan B. To Mason, Anna Dann. AF 82

Typescripts of 52 letters in the Anna Dann Mason collection from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College (in loose leaf binder).

Joseph Anthony Letter books

Box 3B

1860-1896. Anthony, Joseph. 4 letter books of copies of correspondence. AF 74 (Volumes 1-4)

Box 4

Restricted originals

Access Information

NOT AVAILABLE. Please use the typescript copies interfiled in Boxes 1 and 2.

49 original letters [AF 18 (1-43) and AF 24 (1-6)] written by Susan B.(Susan Brownell) Anthony to Jessie Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt were removed from boxes 1 and 2. Typescripts have been substituted and interfiled in Boxes 1 and 2.