Identifier: lifeworkofsusanb01harp (find matches)
Title: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
Subjects: Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
Publisher: Indianapolis and Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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ling cymbal. Those who know Miss Anthony intimately will readilytestify to the accuracy of this analysis. It seems remarkablein view of the fact that the examiner was in utter ignoranceof the subject, and that, even if he had known her name, shehad not, at the age of thirty-three, developed the character-istics which are now so familiar to the general public. On this trip Miss Anthony was invited to spend an eveningwith Mr. and Mrs. Greeley and met for the first time CharlesA. Dana, Alice and Phoebe Gary, Elizabeth F. Ellet, with anumber of other literary men and women of New York. Mr.Greeley himself opened the door for them and sent them hunt-ing through the house for a place to lay their wraps. Afterawhile Mrs. Greeley came down stairs with a baby in herarms. She had put her apron over its face and would not letthe visitors look at it because their magnetism might affectit unfavorably. During the evening she rang a bell and aman-servant came in. After a few words with her he retired
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY. At the Age of 32. from a Daguerreotype. TEMPERANCE AND TEACHERS CONVENTIONS. 87 and presently brought in a big dish of cake, one of cheese anda pile of plates, set them on the table and went out. Therewas a long pause and Mr. Greeley said, Well, mother, shall Iserve the cake? Yes, if you want to. So he went over tothe table, took a piece of cake and one of cheese in his fingers,putting them on a plate and carrying to each, until all wereserved. The guests nibbled at them as best they could andafter a long time the man brought in a pitcher of lemonadeand some glasses and left the room. Mr. Greeley again asked,Well, mother, shall I serve the lemonade? Yes, if youwant to, she replied, so he filled the glasses, carried to eachseparately, and then gathered them up one at a time, insteadof all together on a waiter. Both Mr. and Mrs. Greeley werethoroughly cordial and hospitable, both intellectually great,but utterly without social graces. Yet the conversation attheir recep

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