country, but some division of opinion among those who had it in control.  Miss Anthony would use all of it in the work of propaganda, lectures, conventions, tracts and newspaper articles.  Lucy Stone wished to use part in suits to prove the unconstitutionality of the law which taxes women and refuses them representation.  Antoinette Blackwell wanted a portion to establish a church where she could spread the doctrine of woman’s rights along with the gospel.  Most of the women lecturers and some of the men wished to be engaged immediately at a fixed salary.  Miss Anthony writes for advice to Phillips, who replies:  “Go ahead with your New York plan as sketched to me.  I am willing to risk spending $1,000 on it.  Never apologize as if you troubled me; it is my business as much as yours, and I am only sorry to be of so little help.”  Brief records in the little diary say: 

Sister Mary and I passed New Year’s Day, 1859, most quietly and happily in the dear farm-home.  Mother is in the East with sister Hannah, and father dined in the city with sister Guelma, who sent us a plate of her excellent turkey....  In the afternoon Mary and I drove to Frederick Douglass’ and had a nice visit; stayed to tea and listened to a part of his new lecture on “Self-Made Men."...  Father and Mary gone to their work in the city, and I am writing on my lecture “The True Woman.”  Ground out four commercial-note pages in five mortal hours, but they are strong....  Ten degrees below zero.  Mother home; no writing today; all talk about the eastern folks....  Antoinette Blackwell preached here yesterday, and we have had a good visit together today.  Just helped two fugitive slaves, perhaps genuine and perhaps not....  Went to the city to hear A.A.  Willit’s lecture on “A Plea for Home.”  Gives woman a place only in domestic life—­sad failure....  Twenty letters written and mailed today.  Took tea with the Hallowells.  Am glad to learn that the money forwarded to the Anti-Slavery Bazar and lost was sent by a man instead of a woman....  Heard Bayard Taylor on “Life in Lapland.”  Hundreds could not gain admittance.  Curtis lectured on “Fair Play for Women”; great success, but I feel that he has not yet been tried by fire.  Afterwards visited with Curtis and Taylor, and Mr. Curtis said:  “Rather than have a radical thinker like Mrs. Rose at your suffrage conventions, you would better give them up.  With such speakers as Beecher, Phillips, Theodore Parker, Chapin, Tilton and myself advocating woman’s cause, it can not fail.”

[Autograph: 

  Respectfully yours,
  E.H.  Chapin”]

Miss Anthony did not hesitate to criticise even Mr. Curtis, writing him in reference to his great lecture, “Democracy and Education”:  “When all the different classes of industrial claimants for a voice in the government were enumerated, there was not one which could be interpreted to represent womanhood.  Hence only the few who know that with George William Curtis, the words ‘man,’