Oct 29, 2009 - Sale 2192

Sale 2192 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"ONE HALF OF THE PEOPLE--THE WOMEN--ARE DENIED THEIR INALIENABLE RIGHT" ANTHONY, SUSAN B. Autograph Letter Signed, as President of the NAWSA, to an unnamed recipient ("My dear Sir"), urging him to support the political equality of women. 1 page, 4to, "National American Woman Suffrage Association" stationery; short closed vertical tear through signature, minor toning at top edge, remnants of prior mounting at corners verso, folds. (RKM) Rochester, 10 Oct[ober] 1894

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In full: "Yes . . . [y]ou shall have my pen-tracks--with the hope that the best energies of your young life shall be given to the work of educating yourself and all who come within your influence, into the great principle of justice & equality for women!! What an anomaly it is in this so called free republic that one half of the people--the women--are denied their inalienable right to self-government, which can come only through the possession of the right of choice as to the laws, the law-makers & executors!"