Manuscript/Mixed Material Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of chapters; Nos. 9-10
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Image 1 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … Elizabeth Cady Stanton SPEECHES WRITINGS FILE Reminiscences Chapters 910 Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 2 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … Reminiscences by Elizabeth Cady Stanton No IX Marriage To return to my personal trials triumphs my engagement was a season of doubt conflict doubt as to the wisdom of changing a girlhood…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 3 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 3 but Mr Stanton coming up the North river was detained on âMarcyâs overslowâ the bar in the river where boats were frequently stuck stranded for hours As Marcy then governor of…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 4 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 5 settled the next difficulty was to persuade him to leave out the word âobeyâ but as I obstinately refused to promise to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 5 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 7 Sister Madge had stood by me bravely through all my doubts anxieties went with us to New York saw us on board the vessel My sister Harriet her husband Daniel C…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 6 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 9 of them in the History of Woman in suffrage Vol I page 392 I should only say in passing that my visit there was pleasant profitable As they lived simply did…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 7 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 11 of others in a general way the drift of his discourses on manners conversation had a nearer application that he intended I should discover though he hoped I would profit by…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 8 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 13 presence of strangers which is not permissible in polite society you should always say Mr Stanton You have taken three moves back in this game Bless me I replied what a…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 9 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 15 However as we travelled with Mr Birney for nine months in England Scotland Ireland France had the advantage of his strict ideas of etiquette at every turn we really were improved…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 10 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 17 They were all stolid middle class English people returning from various parts of the world to visit their native land A Mrs Noseworthy from Zanzibar on the coast of Africa afforded…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 11 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 19 in whatever extraordinary way I could obtain it was necessary to my existence yet as it was deemed unimportant that I should thoroughly understand the status of the antislavery movement in…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 12 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 21 uniformly returned to my reading with more zeal after a frolic with the Captain As I was the only young person on board I sat on the Captains right at dinner…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 13 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 23 The pilot said âwe are now only two miles from shore but the only way you can reach there to night is by a row boat As we had no provisions…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 14 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 25 was a bower of roses I have never imagined anything so beautiful as the drive up to Exeter on the top of a coach with four stout horses trotting at the…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 15 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 27 In Exeter we had our first view of one of the grand cathedrals in the old world we were all alike deeply impressed with its grandeur It was just at the…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 16 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 29 Sitting in the hotel that evening wanting something to read we asked the waiter for some of the daily papers As there was no public table or drawing room for guests…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 17 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 31 At the boarding house in London a paper was left for half an hour each morning then it was taken to the next house thus serving several families of readers It…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 18 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 33 boarding house in Queen Street it struck me as the dreariest human abode I had ever seen Though London has the reputation of being the cleanest city in the world The…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 19 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 34 abolitionists To me there was no question so momentous and important as the emancipation of woman from the old theories dogmas of the past political religious social It struck me as…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 20 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … Reminiscences by Elizabeth Cady Stanton No X England 1840 Our chief object in visiting England at this time was to attend the Worlds Antislavery convention to convene June 12th in Freemasons Hall…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 21 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 3 Women according to English prejudiced at that time being were excluded by scriptural texts divine decrees from sharing equal dignity authority with men in all reform associations hence it was to…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 22 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 5 compelled to listen in silence to the masculine platitudes on womans sphere one may form some idea of the general feeling of indignation among the unprejudiced friends of woman especially among…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 23 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 7 to shock the heavenly hosts Their all sustaining conceit gave them abundant assurance that their movements must necessarily be well pleasing to the celestials whose ears were often to the proceedings…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 24 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 9 gather together every bible in the universe make a grand bonfire of the whole of them It was really pitiful to hear these narrow minded bigots pretending to be teachers leaders…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 25 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 11 who scorned to sit in a convention that ignored the rights of women who had fought side by side with them in the antislavery conflict After battling so many long years…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 26 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … Accidental duplication of page 25 Can this be removed Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 27 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 13 a contingency possible where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty She had not much faith in the sincerity of abolitionists who while eloquently defending the natural rights of…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 28 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 15 to woman As Mrs Mott I walked home arm in arm commenting on the incidents of the day we resolved to hold a convention as soon as we returned home form…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 29 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 16 12 The acquaintance of Lucretia Mott in particular who was a broad liberal thinker on politics religion all questions of reform opened to me a new world of thought As we…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 30 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 18 abundant opportunity to know the general feeling among them towards Lucretia Mott Even Elizabeth Fry seemed quite unwilling to breathe the same atmosphere During the six weeks after the convention that…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 31 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 20 was so pointedly directed to Lucretia Mott the followers of Elias Hicks Lucretia Mott in particular that I whispered to Lucretia at the close that she should now pray for Mrs…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 32 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 22 We devoted a month sedulously to sightseeing in London in the line of the travelers duty we explored St Pauls Cathedral the British Museum the Tower various prisons hospitals galleries of…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 33 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 24 being the chief speakers as we were generally invited to stay with Friends it gave us a good opportunity to see the leading families such as the Ashursts the Alexanders the…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 34 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 26 simply have a nice light crust over it If there is a woman or man either that know how to make a crisp undercrust bake it well done let them produce…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 35 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 28 his brother John Joseph Gurney were at that time leading bankers in London Some one facetiously remarked that the Jews were the great bankers in London until the Quakers crowded them…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 36 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … Add to No X Reminiscences XI by Elizabeth Cady Stanton No XI England France English Homes It surprized us very much at first in driving into the grounds of some of these…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 37 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 3 the beau ideal of comfort order the cuisine faultless while peace reigned over all The quiet gentle manners the soft tones in speaking the mysterious quiet in their well ordered Quaker…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 38 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 5 soon after we arrived the Dutchess with her brother Mr Fry her state carriage six horses out riders drove us to the door Mr Gurney was evidently embarrassed at the prospect…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 39 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 7 distinguished guests in turn had many questions to ask in regard to American slavery We found none of that prejudice against color in England so inveterate among the American people The…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Image 40 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of … 9 a daughter of Mr Buxton standing by my side said What are your American girls made of not a girl in all England could have gone through that ceremony with such…
- Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Date: 1848-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902; Books; Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of chapters; Nos. 9-10
Names
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Created / Published
- 1848 - 1902
Headings
- - Women--Education
- - Feminism
- - National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
- - Social problems--United States--History--19th century
- - Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--19th century
- - Women--Suffrage
- - Women's rights
- - Reformers
- - Suffragists
- - Feminists
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- mss41210, box 2; reel 1
- series: Speeches and Writings, 1848-1902
Source Collection
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers
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