Lot 180: Autograph - Susan B. Anthony

Pioneering American social activist (1820-1906) who was one of the leading figures in early feminism and whose efforts on behalf of women's suffrage were instrumental in the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. AQS, in purple ink, on a 3.75 x 2.25 off-white card. Anthony writes "Perfect equality of rights for women; civil and political. Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. March 2/82." On the reverse, Anthony writes "Spending this year 1882 at Tenafly, New Jersey at work on the History of Woman Suffrage - - S.B.A." A touch of light soiling to quote side, and adhesive remnants to reverse, some lightly affecting a few words of Anthony's note, otherwise fine condition.Between 1881 and 1885, Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda, Joslin Gage, and Ida Husted Harper collaborated on the History of Woman Suffrage-the historic accounting that the suffragist mentions being at work on in her message here. That work was published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922. This same quote was used in a letter sent by Anthony to President James A. Garfield in support of the suffrage movement, and is a paraphrase of a similar line in her 1876 Declaration of Rights for Women. A fabulous quotation and great reference to the movement by one of its greatest pioneers.