HOPING FOR FAVORABLE REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE

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HOPING FOR FAVORABLE REVIEW OF "THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE" (SUFFRAGISTS.) SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed editor ("Mr. Editor, Dear Sir"), sending an advance copy of The History of Woman Suffrage [not present] and hoping for a favorable review. 1 page, 4to, "Fowler & Wells, Phrenologists and Publishers" stationery, pale blue paper; several short closed tears at edges repaired verso with cello tape, two small holes at upper edge, minor smudge to text affecting few letters, folds. New York, 17 May 1881

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"By my request our publishers mail to you, to night, the advance sheets of 'The History of Woman Suffrage,' that you may be able to bring out your notice of it as early as our New York papers. The book will not be handed them until Friday. Hoping that your reviewer will give these pages a careful reading and a just if not generous report thereof."

Fowler & Wells--a New York publisher of science, education, and phrenology--began publishing the first volumes of The History of Woman Suffrage in 1881; the sixth and final volume was published in 1922 by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

WITH--A complete copy of the May 1866 issue of the American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, published by Fowler & Wells. 164 pages. 4to, self-wrappers, stapled binding. This issue includes an announcement of the Eleventh National Woman's Rights Convention on the 10th of May at the Church of the Puritans at Union Square in New York.

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.