y hard
daily toil provided for her support. But those were very dark days
that followed. Then this same brave sister, through the influence of
an eminent lady at the White House, obtained a clerkship at the
Treasury, at Washington, brought her sister from Baltimore and
established her in a little unpretending family home, which she has
sustained to this day.

Note.--Owing to the confusion attendant upon Miss Carroll's
well-nigh fatal illness and her subsequent removal to Baltimore,
a trunk and box marked A. E. C. were left behind at the Tremont
House, in Washington.

After the severe three years' prostration ended, Miss Carroll
inquired for this trunk and box, and learned that the Tremont
House had gone into other hands after the death of Mr. Hill; that
all its contents had been sold off, and to this day she has
sought in vain to learn what has become of that box and trunk.
They contained a great number of letters, a completed history of
Maryland, and her materials for several projected works.

Thus, through the cruel neglect she had experienced, the world
has lost the benefit of works which, from her exceptional ability
and her exceptional opportunities, would have been of inestimable
value to our future literature.

If any one knows of the fate of that trunk and box they are
requested to send word to Miss Carroll or to the present writer,
and if ever that history of Maryland comes to light it will be
claimed for Miss Carroll, as there are internal evidences which
would establish its identity.

Governor Hicks a few days before his death committed to Miss
Carroll all his papers with a request that she would write the
history of Maryland in connection with the civil war, and the
part performed by him in the maintenance of the Union.

Cassius M. Clay also sent to her his letters and papers desiring
that she should write his biography.

During Miss Carroll's long and apparently hopeless illness Mr.
Clay's letters were sent for and returned to him.

Another ray of light, too, had come to cheer the invalid. A new power
was rising upon the horizon in the growing thoughtfulness and
development of women, now banding together in clubs, societies, and
confederations, with their own journals, newspapers, and publications,
and with the avowed determination of never resting until women