_Corresponding Secretary_, Nina Moore, Hyde Park. _Recording
Secretary_, Charles C. Whipple, Boston. _Treasurer_, E. D. Draper,
Hopedale.
[113] Mary F. Eastman, Ada C. Bowles, Lorenza Haynes, Elizabeth K.
Churchill, Hulda B. Loud, Matilda Hindman and other agents in the
lecture field have also done a great deal of missionary work.
[114] The committee of arrangements were Mrs. Isaac Ames, Harriet
H. Robinson, Sarah B. Otis, Philip Wheeler, Jane Tenney, Mrs. A. A.
Fellows, Mrs. Jackson, Miss Talbot and Miss Halsey.
The speakers were: Wendell Phillips, Mary A. Livermore, Frederick
Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth K. Churchill, Margaret
W. Campbell, Mary F. Eastman, Henry B. Blackwell, Lucy Stone and
others. Julia Ward Howe and Mr. C. P. Cranch, read original poems.
Two old-time tea-party songs, curiosities in their line, were read.
One, dated Boston, 1773, entitled "Lines on Bohea Tea," was written
by Susannah Clarke, great-aunt of W. S. Robinson; the other, copied
from Thomas' _Boston Journal_, of December 2, 1773, was written by
Mrs. Ames, a tailoress.
[115] _Committee of Arrangements_--Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster,
Thomas J. Lothrop, Timothy K. Earle, Sarah E. Wall, Harriet H.
Robinson and E. H. Church. At this public gathering, Athol, Boston,
Haverhill, Leicester, Leominster, Lowell, Malden, Melrose, Milford,
North Brookfield, Taunton, and many other Massachusetts towns were
well represented.
[116] The speakers were Lucy Stone, Rev. W. H. Channing, Mary A.
Livermore, Mary F. Eastman, Kate N. Doggett, Rev. F. A. Hinckley,
Ednah D. Cheney, T. Wentworth Higginson, Isabella Beecher Hooker,
Anna Garlin Spencer and Julia E. Parker. Harriet H. Robinson read a
condensed history of Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement.
Interesting letters were received from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, F.
W. Bird, H. B. Blackwell, Margaret W. Campbell, Mrs. C. I. H.
Nichols and Frances D. Gage. Two original woman suffrage songs,
written by Anna Q. T. Parsons and Caroline A. Mason, were sung on
the occasion.
[117] Board of officers for 1885: _President_, Miss Abby W. May;
_Vice-president_, Mrs. Edna Dean Cheney; _Secretary_, Miss Brigham;
_Treasurer_, Miss S. F. King; _Assistant-secretary_, Miss Von
Arnim; _Directors_, Miss H, Lemist, Mrs. J. W. Smith, Mrs. M. P.
Lowe, Mrs. H. G. Jackson, Mrs. L. H. Merrick, Mrs. G. L. Ruffin,
Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Whitman, Miss Rogers, Miss E. Foster, Miss Shaw,
Miss Lougee, Miss L.
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