hould attend your Decade Meeting. Few things would give me
such satisfaction as to find myself in America, especially
after your noble invitations and promises of a cordial
reception everywhere. But--and how many buts there are in
life--I dare not leave my work at present in England. There
are several very important movements just now resting almost
entirely upon me, and having put my hand to the plow, I dare
not look back. I am at present the only regular lecturer
here on this subject, and I am full of engagements up to
April next--north, south, east, and west--and the discussion
society I have started in London is still too young to run
alone, and yet promises such good things for the future,
that I feel it ought to be carefully tended.

I can only add that I shall watch with great interest for
the accounts of your meeting on the 19th. I long for the day
when I can see you in the flesh--those with whose spirits I
now ever hold communion. Excuse haste. I have just returned
from the North, and find my table overwhelmed with
invitations to lecture and appeals for help. The learned
meetings and social discussions of the British Associations
at Liverpool, and the Social Science Congress at Newcastle,
have all been crowded into the last fortnight. Wishing you
and your noble workers God-speed, believe me,

Yours, most truly, EMILY FAITHFUL.

DEAR LADIES:--It would give me great pleasure to accept your
kind invitation to be present at your meeting to-day, if it
were possible, but it is not.

Go on with your great work; it is arduous, but it is
sublime! You are doing good that you know not of in old
Europe. You have taken the initiative, and she is following
hard after. I wish to recommend to you the appeal of Mme.
Gasparin to the American women to join in her heart-cry for
peace. Coming so recently as I have, from the seat of
war--from Paris and from Rome--I can testify to the earnest,
the beseeching appeal of European women to their sisters in
America to give them help in this their hour of calamity and
need--the help of sympathy, the succor