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Susan B. Anthony is well-known as a prominent women's rights leader and abolitionist. She invested most of her life advocating for the social and legal equality of women, especially the attainment of women's suffrage in the United States. She co-founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Although she did not live to see the suffrage that she so tirelessly fought for, her lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in 1920, guaranteeing women's right to vote. Offered here is a 5.76" x 8.5" letter dated October 17, 1895, personally handwritten by Anthony to Cornelia Hull Carey, gratefully recognizing her contribution to the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Reads, in full: "To Ms. Cornelia H. Carey, Brooklyn, N.Y. In grateful recognition of her generous gift to the New York Woman Suffrage Association, Jean Brooks Grenleaf, Pres., Mary S. Anthony, Cor Sec'y, to aid the great work of rolling up the mammoth petition: 625,000, to the Constitutional Convention of 1894, asking the enfranchisement of the women of the State on equal terms with men. From her sincere friend & coworker, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y." A fantastic collectible with direct relation to the Women's Suffrage Movement! The letter contains professional repairs to the separation along the fold line and the small chip in the lower corner, not at all affecting the text. In otherwise good condition. Authenticated & encapsulated by Beckett Authentication Services (BAS).