ALS, one page both sides, 8.25 x 11, National Woman Suffrage Association letterhead, May 10, 1882. Letter to Ms. Daney, in part: "Are you well again? Are you at home again? If so report yourself to Miss Rachel G. Foster—to care of Mrs. May Wright Sewall, 405 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind—as she, Miss Foster, is going to stop with Mrs. Sewall, the Chair Ex. Com. & Cor. Sec'y, to put their heads together to plan how to kill the enemy in Nebraska the November 7th next—and she wants to stop over with you to train, if there is the slightest hope of your helping her to get any ammunition for the war. We must raise $10,000 soon—to fight this battle—and it looks as if we might win in Nebraska…if the rich women will only help us to bring out guns to bear on the arch enemy‚ ignorance & prejudice…Let me know, too, how you are—and if you can give us a good lift now." In very good to fine condition, with small edge tears and splitting along the mailing folds.
Nebraska took center stage in the women's suffrage movement in 1882, as an amendment allowing women to vote was put before the male electorate on November 7th. Despite the best efforts of Anthony and her associates, the measure was swiftly defeated. It would not be until 1917 that the Nebraska legislature passed a limited suffrage act, giving women the right to vote in municipal elections and for presidential electors. Anthony's dreams finally came to fruition on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment took effect and gave women the right to vote in all elections.
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