nner. Of all the eminent women who are here, no one is
such a favorite with a Boston audience as Susan B. Anthony. Her
courage and strength and the patient devotion of a life consecrated
to the advancement and the elevation of womanhood, her invincible
honor, her logic and her power to touch and sway all hearts, are
felt and reverently recognized. The young women of the day may well
feel that it is she who _has made life possible_ to them; who has
trodden the thorny paths and, by her unwearied devotion, has opened
to them the professions and higher applied industries; nor is this
detracting from those who now share with her the labor and the
glory. Each and all recognize the individual devotion, the purity
and singleness of purpose that so eminently distinguish Miss
Anthony.

The convention closed with a reception at the elegant home of Mrs. Fenno
Tudor, on Beacon Hill.

After leaving Boston, this distinguished body of women, made the sweep
of New England, holding conventions in Providence, R. I.; Portland, Me.;
Dover, Concord and Keene, N. H.; Hartford and New Haven, Conn. The
national board of officers received an infusion of new blood this year
through the election of May Wright Sewall, chairman executive committee,
and Rachel Foster, corresponding secretary. Miss Anthony writes, "It is
such a relief to roll off part of the burden on stronger, younger
shoulders." This entire round of conventions was arranged by Miss
Foster, a remarkable work for an inexperienced girl.

At Concord Miss Anthony was entertained in the family of her old friend
and co-laborer, Parker Pillsbury, and after her departure Mrs. Pillsbury
wrote: "I am so very happy to know you personally, and I thank you for
the compliment you bestow in asking me to enroll my name among the most
grand and noble women of our land. I shall enjoy being counted worthy to
place it in company with dear Miss Anthony. Mr. Cogswell says many men
(some members of the Legislature among them) in talking with him have
expressed unexpected satisfaction in the speeches of the convention just
holden--especially in yours, and he says, 'She is a host in herself, I
like her practical common sense.'"

There was comfort in a letter received at this time from Elizabeth
Boynton Harbert, president of the Illinois Suffrage Association and one
of the Inter-Ocean staff:

Before entering upon our usual business talk, I