Stanton, the mother of seven children, was an elegant writer and astute legal thinker, known for her advocacy of many radical reforms. Anthony, who opted to remain a single woman, was an outstanding organizer, who trained several generations of women to mobilize and lobby for their rights. Papers are the documents, the primary sources from which we learn about history and biography. They can be as private as the pages of a diary or as public as a petition sent to Congress and filed away in the National Archives.
Letters are papers.
So are newspaper reports of the thousands of speeches that Stanton and Anthony delivered while traveling the United States. No one leaves a perfect archives of her papers, and the papers of Stanton and Anthony were no exception. When this project set out to locate all the papers of Stanton and Anthony, staff found them in more than two hundred different libraries. A combination of federal and private money supports the ongoing work. The offices are located at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Department of History.