[The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) CHAPTER IX 2/29
Will you let us know what your engagements are, and, if you can enter into this agency, when you will be ready to commence? The committee passed no vote as to compensation.
We would like to be informed what would be acceptable.
It is quite probable that your field of service at first would be western and central New York.
An early answer will much oblige. A previous chapter has told how Miss Anthony longed to take part in anti-slavery work, and behold here was the coveted opportunity! And then to have such a recognition of her ability by this body of men and women, who represented the brains and conscience of this period of reforms, was the highest compliment she could receive.
The salary, even though small, would relieve her from the pressing anxiety of making each day's work pay its own expenses, and while she should be laboring in a reform in which she was greatly interested, she could at the same time even more effectually advance the cause which lay nearest to her heart.
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