Mathilde Franziska Anneke - Women's Suffrage Correspondence, 1866-1884 (Box 5, Folder 4)

[handwritten note in margin] [unclear initials] Shall we make any changes in the officers for Wisconsin? Hadn't we better add some of those northern women's names?

Constitution and Officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Article 1.--This organization shall be called the National Woman Suffrage Association. Article 2.--The object of this Association shall be to secure National Protection for women citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. Article 3.--All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the Association, with the right to participate in its deliberations. Article 4.--The Officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice-President from each of the States and Territories, Corresponding and Recording Secretaries, a Treasurer and an Executive Committee of not less than five. Article 5.--A quorum of the Executive Committee shall consist of nine, and all the Officers of this Association shall be ex-officio [in italics] members of such Committee, with the power to vote. Article 6.--All Woman Suffrage Societies throughout the country shall be welcomed as auxiliaries, and their accredited officers or duly appointed representatives shall be recognized as members of the National Association.

OFFICERS FROM MAY, 1881 TO MAY 1882. President Elizabeth Cady Stanton....Tenafly, N.J. Vice- Presidents-At-Large Susan B. Anthony....Rochester, N.Y. Matilda Joslyn Gage....Fayetteville, N.Y. Honorary Vice-Presidents. Alabama..............Priscilla Holmes Drake..........Huntsville. California.............Sarah J. Wallis.......................Mayfield. " .............Clarina I. H. Nichols..............Pomo. " .............Elizabeth T. Schenck..............San Francisco. Colorado...............Mary F. Shields......................Colorado Springs. Connecticut...........Julia Smith Parker..................Glastonbury. District Columbia...Rosina M. Parnell..................Washington. England.................Ernestine L. Rose..................London. Illinois...................Catherine V. Waite.................Chicago. Indiana..................Zerelda G. Wallace.................Indianapolis. Iowa......................Amelia Bloomer.....................Council Bluffs. Kansas...................Mary T. Gray..........................Wyandotte. Kentucky................Sarah P. Carr..........................Louisville. Louisiana...............Emily P. Collins......................Ponchachogue. Maine....................Ann T. Greeley.......................Ellsworth. " ....................Lucy A. Snowe.......................Rockland. Maryland...............Anna Elia Carroll................. Pikesville P.O. Masachusetts.........Mrs. Fenno Tudor...................Boston. Michigan................Catharine A. F. Stebbins..........Detroit. Minnesota..............Charlotte O. Van Cleve............Minneapolis. Missouri..................Caroline Johnson Todd...........St. Louis. Nebraska................Harriet S. Brooks....................Omaha. New Hampshire......Eliza E. Morrill.......................Concord. " " ......Sarah Sargent Pillsbury.......... " New Jersey..............Lucinda B. Chandler..............Vineland. New York................Sarah H. Halleck....................Milton. " " ................Amy Post...............................Rochester. North Carolina........Elizabeth Oakes Smith............Hollywood. Ohio.......................Sophia O. Allen......................South Newbury. " .......................Sarah R. L. Williams...............Toledo. Oregon...................Mary Thompson, M.D. ...........Portland. Pennsylvania..........Sarah Pugh.............................Germantown. Rhode Island...........Catherine C. Knowles..............East Greenwich. " " ...........Mary T. Channing...................Providence. Utah.......................Sarah A. Cooke.......................Salt Lake. Wahington Territory.Abbie H.H. Stuart...................Olympia. Wisconsin................Mathilde Franceske Anneke....Milwaukee. [wisconsin line is marked with an x and red ellipses]

Vice-Presidents Arkansas..................Helen Martin...........................Little Rock. California.................Laura DeForce Gordon.............San Francisco. Colorado...................Alida C. Avery, M.D. ................Denver. Connecticut...............Esther E. Jewell.......................Hartford. Delaware...................Mary A. Stewart.......................Greenwood. District Columbia.......Belva ? Lockwood....................Washington. Dakota Territory.........Susan J. Barnes........................Fargo. Illinois.......................Elizabeth Boynton Harbert.......Evanston. Indiana......................Mary E. Haggert......................Indianapolis. Iowa..........................Jane C. McKinney.....................Decorah. Kansas.......................Jennie St. John.........................Topeka. Kentucky....................Sallie Clay Bennett...................Richmond. Louisiana...................Elizabeth L. Saxon....................New Orleans. Maine........................Ellen French Foster...................Portland. Maryland...................Nancy M. Baird.........................Cumberland. Massachusetts............Harriet R. Shattuck....................Malden. Michigan...................Fannie Holden Fowler................Manistee. Minnesota..................Sarah Burger Stearns.................Duluth. Missouri....................Virginia L. Miner........................St. Louis. Nebraska...................Clara Berwick Colby...................Beatrice. Nevada.......................Hannah R. Clapp......................Carson City. New Hampshire..........Eliza J.C. Gilbert........................Keene. New Jersey..................Cornelia C. Hussey....................East Orange. New York....................Lillie Devereux Blake................New York City. Ohio...........................Rose L. Segur............................Toledo. Oregon.......................Abigail Scott Duniway................Portland. Pennsylvania..............Martha McClellan Brown...........Pittsburgh Rhode Island...............Anna E. Aldrich........................Providence. Tennessee...................Elizabeth Avery Meriwether.......Memphis. Texas..........................Jennie Beauchamp.....................Denton. Utah...........................Emmeline B. Wells.....................Salt Lake City. Vermont.....................Lydia Putnam............................Brattleboro. Virginia......................Sally Holly.................................Lottsburg. Washington Territory...Mary Olney Brown....................Olympia. Wisconsin...................Laura Ross Wolcott....................Milwaukee. Wyoming Territory......Mara B. Post...............................Cheyenne.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE May Wright Sewall, Chairman, 405 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind.

Alabama.........................Buel D. M'Clung......................Huntsville. Arkansas........................Louisa M. Oliver......................Little Rock. California.......................Ellen Clarke Sargent................San Francisco. " .......................Sarah L. Knox Goodrich...........San Jose. Connecticut....................Isabella Beecher Hooker..........Hartford. District Columbia............Caroline B. Winslow, M.D. .......Washington. " " ............Harriet Forten Purvis............... " Kansas............................Mary A. Humphreys.................Junction City. " ............................Anne C. Wait...........................Lincoln Center. Kentucky.........................Mary B. Clay................................................. Louisiana........................Harriet E. Keating, M.D. ...........New Orleans. Maine..............................Charlotte A. Thomas.................Portland. Massachusetts..................Harriet H. Robinson.................Malden. Michigan..........................Cordelia A. Briggs....................Grand Rapids. Missouri...........................Phoebe W. Couzins.................. St. Louis. Nebraska..........................Barbara J. Thompson................Hebron. New Hampshire................Marilla M. Ricker......................Dover. " " ................Mary Powers Filley...................North Haverill. New Jersey........................Phebe A. Hanaford...................Jersey City. New York..........................Mary R. Pell.............................Flushing. " " ...........................Clemence S. Lozier, M.D. .........New York City " " ...........................Mathilde F. Wendt ................... " " " " " ...........................Augusta Lilienthal ................... " " " " " ...........................Helen N. Loder.........................Poughkeepsie. Ohio..................................Louisa Southwick......................Cleveland. Pennsylvania..................... M. Adaline Thomson................Philadelphia. Rhode Island.....................Elizabeth C. Hinckley.................Providence. Virginia..............................Orra Langhorne........................Lynchburg. Wisconsin..........................Rev. Olympia Brown..................Racine.

RECORDING SECRETARIES. District Columbia..................Ellen H. Sheldon...................Washington. Pennsylvania.........................Julia T. Foster........................Philadelphia.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Rachel G. Foster ................1,909 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. England..........................Caroline A. Biggs..................London. " ..........................Lydia E. Becker.....................Manchester. France............................Mme. Marguerite Berry Stanton...Paris.

TREASURER. Jane H. Spofford...................Riggs House, Washington, D.C.

AUDITORS. Ruth C. Denison...................Washington, D.C. W.F. Denison........................Washington, D.C.

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My honored and Dear friend Susan B. Anthony, Vice President of the N.W.S.A. [Jan, 1884} ["copied MFA to SBA" in what looks like the same hand at top of letter]

In response to your letter of Jan 18th, I am compelled to be content with being with you only in letter and spirit. when you learn by the hand of another that for the past year and a half I have been unable to do anything. Have been compelled to give up my life work of teaching and writing and submit to great bodily suffering almost without intervals of rest. Cared for constantly by my devoted children. You can well understand how unfitted I am to do more that express by another my heartfelt sympathy with you in your approaching meeting, I has been my cherished wish for years to stand once more among you in Lincoln Hall and reiterate my life-long sentiments and hopes

and hopes, in our noble cause-- (which time has but strengthened) But that hope has been resigned with so many others, of an active life. And I must be resigned to let my sympathies and good wishes suffice instead [struck] sent from a bed of suffering suffice instead--- I longed to give you a "God Speed" upon your embarking to carry the good work of Woman Suffrage across the ocean, to my fellow country-women, of the old world, who need so much, a helping hand to teach them to think and act for their enfranchisement. And I also should have rejoiced to welcome you back. which I now do, in letter and spirit--- I am glad of this opportunity to once more assure you of my untiring and unchanging