t of the National Commission replied that the board
of lady managers must outline their own policy and perform their
own work to their best judgment. There was no work performed by
the committee on woman's work at this meeting.

The second meeting of the board of lady managers was held in New
York City, November 17, 1902. The chairman of the committee on
woman's work asked to have added to this committee Mrs. John M.
Holcombe, Mrs. Edward L. Buchwalter, Mrs. Daniel Manning, and
Mrs. Richard Knott. The chairman of the committee called a
meeting at that time, to which call only Miss Anna L. Dawes and
Mrs. Daniel Manning responded. At this second meeting of the
board of lady managers in New York the president of the board
instructed the committee on woman's work to proceed to St. Louis
not later than March, and there receive instructions from the
National Commission in regard to the line of work they should
take up at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It became apparent
at this meeting that it would be necessary to specialize the
work of the board of lady managers, thus relieving the committee
on woman's work of much responsibility and labor.

The chairman and Mrs. Daniel Manning, as members of the
committee on woman's work, spent January, 1903, in the city of
Washington, and during their stay endeavored to acquaint
themselves with the work performed by women in each and every
vocation in life.

In accordance with the instructions of the president, Mrs.
Blair, at the meeting held on November 17, the committee on
woman's work met at the Southern Hotel, in St. Louis, March 10,
at 11 o'clock, Mrs. Montgomery, chairman. There were present
besides the chairman Mrs. Manning, Mrs. Holcombe, and Mrs.
Buchwalter, three members being unavoidably prevented from
coming, viz: Miss Gould, Miss Dawes, and Mrs. Knott.

The interest that this committee felt in developing on broad
lines their part in the exposition is shown in the following
extracts taken from my report, which was not read, however,
until the meeting of the board held April 28, 1903:

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According to appointment, the committee on woman's work met the
executive committee of the Exposition Company at the Laclede
Building, March 11, 1903. Mr. Corwin H. Spencer, acting and
firs