nd suffrage for women in France now, when they are yet
without their civil rights. I wanted so much to tell him that
political power was the greater right which included the less....

Miss Foster has gone to London for presentation at Court. She had
the "regulation" dress made in Berlin--cream-white satin, low neck,
_no sleeves at all_, and a four-yard train!... I have not decided
when I shall go home, but before many months, for I long to be
about the work that remains undone. The fact is, I am weary of mere
sight-seeing. Amidst it all my head and heart turn to our battle
for women at home. Here in the old world, with its despotic
governments, its utter blotting out of woman as an equal, there is
no hope, no possibility of changing her condition, so I look to our
own land of equality for men, and partial equality for women, as
the only one for hope or work.

PARIS, May 24.

MY DEAR RACHEL: I am glad to hear that you were not cheated out of
teetering through the palace halls in front of the princess, and
that you are not utterly prostrated by it.... I attended the
suffrage meeting last evening, and heard and saw several men
speak--_well_, I inferred from the cheering and shouting of
"bravo!"

This afternoon I visited the tomb of Napoleon. It surpasses every
mausoleum I have ever seen, not excepting that of Frederick the
Third and Queen Louise in Berlin. It is well that his memory should
be thus honored, for had he been born a hundred years later, when
the march of civilization had pointed to some other goal to gratify
his great nature than that of bloody conquest of empire, I believe
he would have stood at the head of those who strive to make free
and independent sovereigns of all men and all women. Everywhere
here are reminders of the ravages of war, the madness of ignorance
and unreason. I want to get away from them and their saddening
associations. You will think I am blue. So I am, from having lived
a purposeless life these three months. I don't know but the women
of America, myself in particular, will be the greater and grander
for it, but I can not yet see how this is to be....

LONDON, June 7.

MY DEAR SISTER: For the hundredth time I