a just and natural right to the ballot in a country claiming
to be republican. The following beautiful tribute to his memory,
by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, is found in a letter to his daughter:

LONDON, July 27, 1873.

My last letter from America brought me the sad intelligence
of your dear father's departure from amongst you; and I
cannot refrain from at once writing and begging you to
accept the sincere sympathy and inevitable regret which I
feel for your loss. The disappearance of an old friend
brings up the long past times vividly to my remembrance--the
time when, impelled by irresistible spiritual necessity, I
strove to lead a useful but unusual life, and was able to
face, with the energy of youth, both social prejudice and
the hindrance of poverty. I have to recall those early days
to show how precious your father's sympathy and support were
to me in that difficult time; and how highly I respected his
moral courage in steadily, for so many years, encouraging
the singular woman doctor, at whom everybody looked askance,
and in passing whom so many women held their clothes aside,
lest they should touch her. I know in how many good and
noble things your father took part; but, to me, this brave
advocacy of woman as physician, in that early time, seems
the noblest of his actions.

Speaking of the general activity of the women of Orange, Mrs.
Hussey says:

The Women's Club of Orange was started in 1871. It is a
social and literary club, and at present (1885) numbers
about eighty members. Meetings are held in the rooms of the
New England Society once in two weeks, and a reception, with
refreshments, given at the house of some member once a year.
Some matter of interest is discussed at each regular
meeting. This is not an equal suffrage club, yet a steady
growth in that direction is very evident. Very good work has
been done by this club. An evening school for girls was
started by it, and taught by the members for awhile, until
adopted by the board of education, a boys' evening school
being already in operation. Under the arrangements of the
clu