First President of the National Women’s Suffrage Movement. AQS on a 7.5 x 4.75 album page. Stanton writes, “Our republic has proved it possible to have a state without a king; a church without a pope: - a currency without a gold basis - a family without a divinely ordained head. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New York, March 27, 1878 Aged 62." A second integral page bears a signed quote by Stanton's daughter, Margaret L. Stanton, dated March 27, 1878 from Charles City and reads, "If what we long for may not be one…The longings still will lead to another life.” On the next page the autograph of poet and lecturer Gigi Reiniger, a poet and lecturer. The inscription dated October 23, 1877 from Brighton, Ill reads, “To Mrs. B.F. Wright. How pleasant are the flowers that a kind god has given us his gladden the eye and refresh the weary spirit - but whom would be their finely tinted leaves their exquisite coloring if no sun ever cheered them if the dews of the quiet night were withheld - Just so my dear friend is the human heart - it must have sympathy if you would have it bloom in strength and grow in beauty.” Light toning and water staining to edge and some light wrinkling, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
