This was written while they were in New York City, and on her way home Mrs. Hooker wrote, while on board the train, an enthusiastic letter regarding details of the work, ending, after she arrived:  “I give you my hand upon it.  I have read the above to my two Mentors, and they approve in the main.”  In a few days, she said in a long letter: 

I wish Mrs. Stanton’s “editorial welcome” to us might be in the dignified style of her best essays or speeches, not in the least gossipy or familiar, but stately and full of womanly presence.  She ought to have a copy of Mrs. Stowe’s editorial the moment it is written, for approval and suggestion.  If Mr. Pillsbury would stay for a month or two and initiate Phoebe Cary, and we all work well as we mean to, I think she might get on....  I shall go to the Washington convention to work, not to speak.  Tilton should be secured by all means—­his wife, too.  Our parlor needs her demure, motherly, angelic sweetness, as much as our platform needs him.  These little, quiet, domestic women are trump cards, nowadays.  I wish we had a whole pack of them....  Mr. Burton will hunt up a capital motto or heading, and he will write, I am sure.  Mrs. Jewell met me in the street and said, “Is it true that you and Mrs. Stowe are going to help The Revolution?” I told her what we proposed and she was much delighted.

In reply to a letter asking her opinion, Mrs. Stanton wrote:  “As for changing the name of The Revolution, I should consider it a great mistake.  We are thoroughly advertised under the present title.  There is no other like it, never was, and never will be.  The establishing of woman on her rightful throne is the greatest of revolutions.  It is no child’s play.  You and I know the conflict of the last twenty years; the ridicule, persecution, denunciation, detraction, the unmixed bitterness of our cup for the last two, when even friends have crucified us.  We have so much hope and pluck that none but the Good Father knows how we have suffered.  A journal called ‘The Rose-bud’ might answer for those who come with kid gloves and perfumes to lay immortelle wreaths on the monuments which in sweat and tears we have hewn and built; but for us, and that great blacksmith of ours who forges such red-hot thunderbolts for Pharisees, hypocrites and sinners, there is no name but The Revolution.”

Miss Anthony consulted many newspaper men and all advised against the proposed change, saying that experience had shown this to be fatal to a paper.  Acting upon this advice, and also upon her own strong convictions, she decided to retain the original title.  Meanwhile, tremendous pressure had been brought to bear upon Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. Stowe not to identify themselves with The Revolution.  After Mrs. Stowe’s salutatory had been prepared, Mrs. Hooker wrote as follows: