han we had borne together, for the
inspiration of her companionship and the joy of her affection. They were
the greatest blessings I have had in all my life, and I cherish as my
dearest treasure the volume of her History of Woman Suffrage on the
fly-leaf of which she had written this inscription:

REVEREND ANNA HOWARD SHAW:

This huge volume IV I present to you with the love that a mother
beareth, and I hope you will find in it the facts about women, for you
will find them nowhere else. Your part will be to see that the four
volumes are duly placed in the libraries of the country, where every
student of history may have access to them.

With unbounded love and faith,

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

That final line is still my greatest comfort. When I am misrepresented
or misunderstood, when I am accused of personal ambition or of working
for personal ends, I turn to it and to similar lines penned by the same
hand, and tell myself that I should not allow anything to interfere with
the serenity of my spirit or to disturb me in my work. At the end of
eighteen years of the most intimate companionship, the leader of
our Cause, the greatest woman I have ever known, still felt for me
"unbounded love and faith." Having had that, I have had enough.

For two days after "Aunt Susan's" death she lay in her own home, as if
in restful slumber, her face wearing its most exquisite look of peaceful
serenity; and here her special friends, the poor and the unfortunate of
the city, came by hundreds to pay their last respects. On the third
day there was a public funeral, held in the Congregational church,
and, though a wild blizzard was raging, every one in Rochester seemed
included in the great throng of mourners who came to her bier in
reverence and left it in tears. The church services were conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. C. C. Albertson, a lifelong friend of Miss
Anthony's, assisted by the Rev. William C. Gannett. James G. Potter,
the Mayor of the city, and Dr. Rush Rhees, president of Rochester
University, occupied prominent places among the distinguished mourners,
and Mrs. Jerome Jeffries, the head of a colored school, spoke in behalf
of the negro race and its recognition of Miss Anthony's services.
College clubs, medical societies, and reform groups were represented by
delegates sent from different states, and Miss Anna Gordon had come on
from Illinois to represent the Woman's National Christian Temperance
Union. Mrs. Catt delivered