ROME, NO. 75 VIA NAZIONALE, March 22.

MY DEAR SISTER: Here it is a whole month tomorrow since we took a
last glimpse of each other and scarce a decent letter have I
written you; but it is fearfully hard work to find the minutes.
There is so much to tell, and the spelling and pronunciation of the
names are so perfectly awful.... At Liverpool we drove two hours in
the Princess and Sefton parks and then went to the city museum,
where the most interesting things to us were the portraits of all
the Bonapartes--men and women, old and young--Josephine's very
lovely; and to the city library, which is free. There is also an
immense free lecture hall, which was built for an aquarium but
found impracticable, so it is an enormous circle, seated from the
circumference down to the center, with a large platform at one side
and every step and seat cut out of solid stone. Here the most
learned men of the English colleges give free lectures, the city
fund being ample to meet all expenses. The librarian, on hearing we
were Americans, took great pains to show us everything. Of course
when he said, "We have over 80,000 volumes," I asked, "Have you
among them the History of Woman Suffrage, by Mesdames Stanton,
etc., of America?" And lo, he had never heard of it!

Thursday morning we took train--second-class carriage--for London.
Mrs. Stanton was at the station, her face beaming and her white
curls as lovely as ever, and we were soon landed at our
boarding-house. Lydia Becker came to dinner by Mrs. Stanton's
invitation, so she was the first of England's suffrage women for us
to meet. Friday afternoon we glanced into the House of Commons and
happened to see Gladstone presenting some motion. Spent the evening
chatting with Mrs. Stanton--a world of things to talk over....

Saturday we went again to Bayswater to see Mrs. Rose--found her
very lonely because of the death of her devoted husband a year ago.
She threw her arms around my neck and her first words were: "O,
that my heart would break now and you might close my eyes, dear
Susan!" She is vastly more isolated in England because of her
non-Christian views than she ever was in America. Sectarianism
sways everything here more now than fifty years ago with us.

That afternoon I left for Basingstoke, the new home of