Boston, was obtained for a course of
five lectures by these ladies, and was filled every evening by
a dense crowd. Angelina was the finer speaker and gave three
lectures out of the five. This was the only time the Odeon was
ever opened to Anti-Slavery. They were members of the Friends'
Society, which undoubtedly prevented them from embarrassment in
addressing mixed audiences.

Wendell Phillips says of them, "No man who remembers 1837 and
its lowering clouds, will deny that there was hardly any
contribution to the Anti-Slavery movement greater or more
impressive than the crusade of these Grimke sisters from South
Carolina, through the New England States."

You see my answer to the question would be emphatically
_Angelina and Sarah M. Grimke_.

Very truly,

SARAH H. SOUTHWICK.

WELLESLEY, Mass.

PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT.

The Publishers and Editors of THE BAY STATE MONTHLY, in compliance with
urgent suggestions from many friends, and in the belief that its
interests will be in every way promoted by the change, have decided to
enlarge the scope of the Magazine so as to include in its plans not only
the "Bay State" but _all_ of its sisters in the historical New England
group.

THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE will, therefore, aim to become a treasury of
information relating to matters of special interest to citizens of
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and
Maine, and to be of incalculable value as an authoritative _recorder_
and medium of interchange and information for all Libraries and
Historical Societies especially, and for all history and literary loving
people generally.

Especial attention will be given to the features which have made the Bay
State Monthly so acceptable, and NEW features will be introduced which
it is believed will add greatly to the interest and value of forthcoming
numbers.

[Illustration: MADAM SARAH ABBOT.

FOUNDER OF ABBOT ACADEMY, ANDOVER.

_From the original portrait in the possession of the Academy, supposed
to have been painted by T. Buchanan Read._]

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The New England Magazine, Volume 1,
No. 1, January 1886, by Various

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