“It is really delightful to see dear sister so happy in this work....  Some Friends come to hear us, but I do not know what they think of the meetings—­or of us.  How little, how very little I supposed, when I used so often to say ‘I wish I were a man,’ that I could go forth and lecture, that I ever would do such a thing.  The idea never crossed my mind that as a woman such work could possibly be assigned to me.”

To this letter there is a postscript from Sarah, in which she says:—­

“I would not give up my abolition feelings for anything I know.  They are intertwined with my Christianity.  They have given a new spring to my existence, and shed over my whole being sweet and hallowed enjoyments.”

Angelina’s next letter to her friend is dated, “2d Mo. 4th, 1837,” and continues the account of the meetings.  She mentions that, at the last one, they had one male auditor, who refused to go out when told he must, so he was allowed to stay, and she says:  “Somehow, I did not feel, his presence embarrassing at all, and went on just as though he had not been there.  Some one said he took notes, and I think he was a Southern spy, and shall not be at all surprised if he publishes us in some Southern paper.”

Truly it was a risky thing for a lord of creation to intrude himself into a woman’s meeting in those days!

Angelina goes on to remark that more Friends are attending their meetings, and that if they were not opened with prayer, still more would come.  Also, that Friends had been very kind and attentive to them in every way, and never said a discouraging word to them.  She then discourses a little on phrenology, at that time quite a new thing in this country, and relates an anecdote of “Brother “Weld,” as follows:—­

“When he went to Fowler in this city, he disguised himself as an omnibus driver.  The phrenologist was so struck with the supposed fact that an omnibus driver should have such an extraordinary head, that he preserved an account of it, and did not know until some time after that it was Weld’s.  He says that when he first had his head examined at Utica, he was told he was deficient in the organ of color, his eyebrow showing it.  He immediately remembered that his mother often told him:  ’Theodore, it is of no use to send you to match a skein of silk, for you never bring the right color.’  When relating this, he observed a general titter in the room, and on inquiring the reason a candle was put near him, and, to his amazement, all agreed that the legs of his pantaloons were of different shades of green.  Instead of a ridge all around his eyebrow, he has a little hollow in one spot.”

A society for the encouragement of abstinence from the use of slave products had just been formed in Philadelphia, and Angelina desired her friend to put her name to the pledge, but not Sarah’s.  In a postscript Sarah explains this, saying:—­

“I do abstain from slave produce as much as I can, just because I feel most easy to do so, but I cannot say my judgment is convinced; therefore, I would rather not put my name to the pledge.”