chestnut,
untouched with gray; her face has lost the color of youth, but
her eyes have still their fire, toned down by the sorrow they
have seen. Madame Neyman is also new to the Washington platform.
She is a piquant little German lady, with vivacious manner, most
agreeable accent, and looked in her closely-fitting black-velvet
dress as if she might have just stepped out of a painting. In
direct contrast is Mrs. Miller of Maryland--a large, dark-haired
matron, past middle age, but newly born in her enthusiasm for the
cause. She is a worker as well as a talker, and is a decided
acquisition to the ranks. The other novice in the work is Mrs.
Amy Dunn, who has taken such a novel way to render assistance.
Mrs. Dunn is tall and slender, with dark hair and eyes. She is a
shrewd observer, does not talk much socially, but when she says
anything it is to the point. Her character sketch, "Zekle's
Wife," will be a stepping-stone to many a woman on her way to the
suffrage platform.

Two women who have done and are doing a great work in this city,
and who are not among the public speakers, are Mrs. Spofford, the
treasurer, wife of the proprietor of the Riggs House, and Miss
Ellen H. Sheldon, secretary of the Association. To these ladies
is due much of the success of the convention. Mrs. Sheldon is of
diminutive stature, with gray hair, and Mrs. Spofford is of large
and queenly figure, with white hair. Her magnificent presence is
always remarked at the meetings.

The following were among the letters read at this convention:

10 DUCHESS STREET, PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON, Eng., Jan. 12.

DEAR MISS ANTHONY: To you and our friends in convention
assembled, I send greeting from the old world. It needs but
little imagination to bring Lincoln Hall, the usual fine
audiences, and the well-known faces on the platform, before
my mind, so familiar have fifteen years of these conventions
in Washington made such scenes to me. How many times, as I
have sat in your midst and listened to the grand speeches of
my noble coaedjutors, I have wondered how much longer we
should be called upon to rehearse the oft-repeated arguments
in favor of equal rights to all. Surely the grand
declarations of statesmen at ever