Susan B. Anthony's dedication on the first volume of the Chicago Legal News.

Susan B. Anthony's dedication on the first volume of the Chicago Legal News.

Susan B. Anthony's inscription

Transcription: "The first legal paper edited by a woman – Myra Bradwell – This file is from 1868 & 1869 – It was Mrs. Bradwell whose right to be admitted to the Bar of Illinois was carried up to the United States Supreme Court. Senator Matthew Carpenter made the argument for her."
Susan B. Anthony donated her copy of the first volume of the Chicago Legal News to the Library of Congress with this inscription on the back of the cover page. Anthony and Bradwell did not agree on many issues; for example, Anthony resented that Bradwell did not argue for women’s suffrage within her Supreme Court case, perhaps explaining the short inscription. Anthony also thought judges to be “old foogies” that were stubborn against reform.
Whatever their relationship, Anthony at least recognized Bradwell’s work and thought it important enough to preserve.

Susan B. Anthony

United States Law Library - https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/05/the-chicago-legal-news-myra-bradwell-and-susan-b-anthony-pic-of-the-week/

Library of Congress, National Women Suffrage Association Collection

Jan. 1, 1903

Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division: The Library of Congress is not aware of any copyright restrictions in the National Women Suffrage Association Collection

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The first legal paper edited by a woman – Myra Bradwell – This file is from 1868 & 1869 – It was Mrs. Bradwell whose right to be admitted to the Bar of Illinois was carried up to the United States Supreme Court. Senator Matthew Carpenter made the argument for her.

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