On election day, her work finished, she started on a stage ride of eighty-five miles to Denver.  The collections at her twenty-four meetings amounted to $165.  Her fare to Colorado and return, exclusive of some passes furnished by her brother and including sleeper and meals, was $100, and her expenses during the tour more than used up the other $65, so it hardly could be called a good financial speculation.  Soon afterwards she received from Mr. and Mrs. Israel Hall, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a deed for 320 acres of well-timbered land in St. Francis county, Ark., “as a tribute to her life-work for woman suffrage and especially her hard campaign in Colorado.”  There came also a letter from the ever-generous and faithful Mrs. Knox Goodrich, of San Jose, Cal., with a draft for $50 “to be used for your campaign expenses;” and in her diary Miss Anthony writes:  “It is a great comfort, after all these years of financially unrequited work, to receive such marks of appreciation.”

At Denver she met Margaret Campbell, of Iowa, and Matilda Hindman, of Pennsylvania, who also had been campaigning in Colorado.  They had an amusing time comparing notes, but as Mrs. Campbell had travelled in her own carriage with her husband, and Miss Hindman had spoken mostly in towns along the railroad, their experiences had been less picturesque and less harrowing.  She also met here Abby Sage Richardson, who was giving a course of readings in Denver.  It was in this locality that her sister Hannah had spent many weary weeks the year before, seeking for health, and Miss Anthony hunted up every person who had known her, hoping each would recall some incident of her stay; visited every spot her sister had loved, and felt the whole place haunted with her hallowed memory.

Dr. Alida C. Avery was going East for some time, but was to leave two young women medical students in her house and she invited Miss Anthony to stay there while she remained in Denver.  She was soon installed in the large, airy front chamber of this lovely home, looking down on a grassy and well-irrigated lawn and outward towards the rugged and massive Rocky mountains.  It was an inspiring spot and, as she had promised a new lecture for the Slayton Bureau, she decided to remain and write it here.  Her surroundings recalled the many charming homes made and maintained by unmarried women whom she had visited, and so in the three weeks that she enjoyed Dr. Avery’s hospitality, she wrote her lecture, “Homes of Single Women.”  During this time she spoke at Boulder; and also in the opera house at Denver under the auspices of a committee, receiving $100.