ion without representation." It has
seemed long in coming, but I think the time draws near when woman
will be acknowledged as equal with man. Heaven grant the day to
dawn soon!

Mrs. Catharine A. F. Stebbins (Mich.), who had attended the Seneca
Falls Convention and signed the Declaration of Rights, sent an
interesting descriptive letter. Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone (Mich.), the
mother of women's clubs and a pioneer on educational lines, wrote:

You wanted I should write you any anecdotes of early interest in
woman suffrage. The remembrance of Dr. Stone's waking up to that
subject has come to me, and I have thought I would tell you about
it.

It was some time in the forties that he was requested to deliver
a Fourth of July oration in Kalamazoo. I can not tell the exact
year, but it was before I had ever heard of the Rochester
Convention, or of you or Mrs. Stanton, and he was looking up all
that he could find in the early history of our Declaration of
Independence, and the principles of Jefferson and the early
revolutionists. I remember his coming in one day (it must have
been before 1848), seeming very much absorbed in something that
he was thinking about. He threw down the book he had been
reading, and said to me: "The time will come when women will
vote. Mark my words! We may not live to see it, we probably shall
not, but it will come. It is not a woman's right or a man's
right; it is a human right, and their voting is but a natural
process of evolution." ...

Mrs. Esther Wattles, who helped secure School Suffrage and equal
property laws for women in the State constitution of Kansas in 1859,
sent this message: "My attention was first called to the injustice
done to women by a lecture given near Wilmington, Ohio, by John O.
Wattles in 1841. He devoted most of his time to lecturing on Woman's
Rights, The Sin of Slavery, The Temperance Reform and Peace. I heard
him on all these subjects, off and on, till 1844, when we were
married.... Seventy-nine summers with their clouds and sunshine, make
it fitting I should greet you by letter rather than personal presence.
May the cause never falter till the victory is won."

Most of the letters were sent to Miss Anthony personally. Among these
were the following:

We, the members of the National Association of Woman
Stenographers, take great pleasure in extending cong