er, for that matter, but Julia Smith not only
did this, but translated it five times,--twice from the Hebrew,
twice from the Greek, and once from the Latin; and thirty years
later, or after the age of eighty, published the translation; and
then, to crown the list of marvels, married at the age of
eighty-five.

[Illustration: Phebe A. Hanaford]

One point more, and the one nearest my heart. You ask me about my
"dear friend Mrs. Buckingham." I can give no details of her
suffrage work, but her heart was in it, and her name should be
handed down in your History. She was at one time chairman of the
executive committee of our State association, and she would, if
she had thought it necessary, have spent of her little income to
the last cent to help along the cause. She made public addresses
and wrote many suffrage articles and letters that were published
in different papers, but she made no noise about it; her work was
all done with her own characteristic gentleness. Generous to a
fault, winning and beautiful as the flowers she scattered on the
pathway of her friends, she passed on her way; and one memorable
Easter morning she left us so gently that none knew when the
sleep of life passed into the sleep of death; we only knew that
the glorious light of her eyes--a light like that which "never
shone on sea or land"--had gone out forever.

"She died in beauty like the dew
Of flowers dissolved away;
She died in beauty like a star
Lost on the brow of day."

The Hartford Equal Rights Club[169] was organized in March, 1885,
and holds semi-monthly meetings. Its membership is not large, but
what it lacks in numbers it makes up in earnestness. Its
proceedings are reported pretty fully and published in the
_Hartford Times_, which has a large circulation, thus gaining an
audience of many thousands and making its proceedings much more
important than they would otherwise be. It is managed as simply
as possible, and is not encumbered with a long list of officers.
There are simply a president, Mrs. Emily P. Collins;[170] a
vice-president, Miss Mary Hall; and a secretary, Frances Ellen
Burr, who is also the treasurer. Debate is free to all, the
platform being perfectly independent, as far as a platform can be
independent w