considerable research am able to send you but very little. Many
mixed meetings were held through the county before 1847.
Woods-meetings, with decorated stands, were fashionable in
Chester in warm weather, for several years before we branched off
with a call for a public meeting. That brought quite a number
together in Friends' Meeting-house at Kennett Square, where we
discussed plans for work and appointed committees to carry them
out.

Sidney Peirce, Ann Preston, and myself, each prepared addresses
to read at meetings called in such places as the Committee
arranged; and with Chandler Darlington to drive us from place to
place, we addressed many large audiences, some in the day-time
and some in the evening; scattered appeals and tracts, and
collected names to petitions asking for a law against licensing
liquor-stands.

In 1848, we went to Harrisburg, taking an address to the
Legislature written by Ann Preston, and sanctioned by the meeting
that appointed us. The address, with our credentials and
petitions, was presented to the two Houses, read in our presence,
and referred to the Committee on "Vice and Immorality," which
called a meeting and invited us to give our address. Sidney
Peirce, who was a good reader, gave it with effect to a large
roomful of the Committee and legislators. It was listened to with
profound attention, complimented highly, and I think aroused a
disposition among the best members to give the cause of
temperance more careful consideration. The Local Option Law was
passed by that Legislature.

We also aided the mixed meetings by our presence and addresses,
and by circulating petitions, and publishing appeals in the
county papers; helping in every way to arouse discussion and
prepare the people to sustain the new law. But the Supreme Court
of the State, through the liquor influence, declared the law
unconstitutional, after a few months' successful trial. Drinking,
however, has not been as respectable since that time. We
continued active work in our association until the inauguration
of the Good Templars movement, in which men and women worked
together on terms of equality.

Respectfully yours, HANNAH M. DARLINGTON.

TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

A Temperance Conve