s of her labors
for publication, she wrote:

"The work in New England has been conducted with so much simplicity, and
universal co-operation, that there have been no persons especially
prominent in it. Rich and poor, wise and simple, cultivated and
ignorant, all--people of all descriptions, all orders of taste, every
variety of habit, condition, and circumstances, joined hands heartily in
the beginning, and have worked together as equals in every respect.
There has been no chance for individual prominence. Each one had some
power or quality desirable in the great work; and she gave what she
could. In one instance, it was talent, in another, money,--in another,
judgment,--in another, time,--and so on. Where all gifts were needed, it
would be impossible to say what would make any person prominent, with
this one exception. It was necessary that some one should be at the head
of the work: and this place it was my blessed privilege to fill. But it
was only an accidental prominence; and I should regret more than I can
express to you, to have this accident of position single me out in any
such manner as you propose; from the able, devoted, glorious women all
about me, whose sacrifices, and faithfulness, and nobleness, I can
hardly conceive of, much less speak of and never approach to.

"As far as I personally am concerned, I would rather your notice of our
part of the work should be of 'New England women.' We shared the
privileges of the work,--not always equally, that would be impossible.
But we stood side by side--through it all, as New England women; and if
we are to be remembered hereafter, it ought to be under that same good
old title, and in one goodly company.

"When I begin to think of individual cases, I grow full of admiration,
and wish I could tell you of many a special woman; but the number soon
becomes appalling,--your book would be overrun, and all, or most of
those who would have been omitted, might well have been there too."

In the same tone of generous appreciation of the labors of others, and
desire that due honor should be bestowed upon all, Miss May, in her
final Report of the New England Women's Auxiliary Association, gives
utterance to the thanks of the Executive Committee to its
fellow-workers:

"We wish we could speak of all the elements that have conspired to our
success in New England; but they are too numerous. From the
representatives of the United States Government here, who remitted the
dut