require, however, an accurate, clear-headed,
and industrious person, with plenty of time to bestow. Better not
have it done at all, than not have it done thoroughly, carefully,
and dispassionately. Let me say distinctly, that I can not be a
candidate for either duty, in my own person, for want of time to
do it in; though I think I could render some assistance,
especially in preparing materials for the third essay. I would
also gladly subscribe toward a fund for getting the work done.

Permit me, finally, to congratulate you on the valuable results
of every Convention yet held to consider this question. I find
the fact everywhere remarked, that so large a number of women of
talent and character have suddenly come forward into a public
sphere. This phenomenon distinguishes this reform from all others
that have appeared in America, and illustrates with new meaning
the Greek myth of Minerva, born full-grown from the head of Jove.
And if (as some late facts indicate) this step forward only
promotes the Woman's Rights movement from the sphere of contempt
into the sphere of hostility and persecution--it is a step
forward, none the less. And I would respectfully suggest to the
noble women who are thus attacked, that they will only be the
gainers by such opposition, unless it lead to dissensions or
jealousies among themselves.

Yours cordially,
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
MISS LUCY STONE.

LUCY STONE remarked: This letter, you see, proposes that we shall
find some way, if possible, by which our complaints may be spread
before the people. We find men and women in our conventions,
earnest and thoughtful, who are not drawn by mere curiosity, but
from a conscious want of just such a movement as this. They go
away and carry to their villages and hamlets the ideas they have
gathered here; and it is a cause for thankfulness to God that so
many go away to repeat what they have heard. But we have wanted
the documents to scatter among the people, as the Tract Society
scatters its sheets. And now Mr. Higginson proposes that we have
these essays.

The President of Oberlin College, Rev. Asa Mahan, was present during
all the sessions of the Convention, and took part in the debates. On
the sub