Frances Power Cobbe. Tomorrow I go shopping,
Thursday Millicent Garrett Fawcett is to dine with us, and Mrs.
Peter Taylor is to call here, and all are to take "substantial tea"
with dear, noble Mrs. Lucas, and then go to hear Henry Fawcett on
the political issues. Friday afternoon we receive at Miss Mueller's.
Saturday morning I leave for Bristol to visit Miss Mary Estlin,
Mrs. Tanner and the Misses Priestman, three sisters-in-law of John
Bright, who give a reception in my honor. The 12th I visit Margaret
E. Parker, at Warrington, and the next afternoon Mrs. Stanton and I
both go to Alderley Edge, near Manchester, to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Bright.[18] On the 14th we attend the annual meeting of
the Manchester Women's Suffrage Association, and on the 16th go to
Liverpool where a reception will be given us in the afternoon. That
evening we shall spend at our hotel with the friends who go to see
us off, and on the 17th we give ourselves to old ocean's care in
the Cunarder Servia.

[Illustration: Autograph: "Believe me, yours very truly, M. G.
Fawcett."]

Don't worry now if you do not hear from me again until I touch
Yankee soil; and don't worry if the wind blows or if you learn the
vessel is late or lost. If the Servia fail to land me safe and
sound, don't repine or stop because I am not, but buckle on a new
and stronger harness and do double work for the good cause of
woman. You have the best of judgment in our work and are capable of
doing much if only you had confidence in yourself, so whatever
comes to me, do you be all the more for the less that _I_ am.

Half of Miss Anthony's nine-months' trip abroad had been spent in Great
Britain. To her all the other attractions of the old world were as
nothing compared with its living, breathing humanity. On the continent
she was deprived of any exchange of thought with its people because she
spoke no language but her own, and this made her prefer England; but
there was another and a stronger interest--the great progressive
movement which was going forward in regard to woman. Here she found
women of fine intellect and high social position engaged in the same
work to which she had given more than thirty years of her own life; and
here she met sympathy and recognition which would have been impossible
in any other country in Europe. Her central thought in goin