Hosmer and Miss Peck invited, but a
carriage was specially sent to take them to it.

In March, 1869, Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony again visited St.
Louis. In a letter to _The Revolution_ the former said:

We went to the Mercantile Library to see Miss Hosmer's works of
art, and there read the following letter to Wayman Crow, who had
been a generous friend to her through all those early days of
trial and disappointment. One of the best of her productions is
an admirable bust of her noble benefactor:

BOSTON, October 18, 1857.

DEAR MR. CROW: Will you allow me to convey through you to
the Mercantile Library Association "The Beatrice Cenci."
This statue is in execution of a commission I received three
years ago from a friend who requested me not only to make a
piece of statuary for that institution, but to present it in
my own name. I have finished the work, but cannot offer it
as my own gift--but of one who, with a most liberal hand,
has largely ministered to the growth of the arts and
sciences in your beautiful city. For your sake, and for
mine, I would have made a better statue if I could. The will
was not wanting, but the power--but such as it is, I rejoice
sincerely that it is destined for St. Louis, a city I love,
not only because it was there I first began my studies, but
because of the many generous and indulgent friends who dwell
therein--of whom I number you most generous and indulgent of
all, whose increasing kindness I can only repay by striving
to become more and more worthy of all your friendship and
confidence, and so I am ever affectionately and gratefully
yours,

_Wayman Crow, Esq._ H.G. HOSMER.

The very active part that the women of Missouri had taken in the
civil war, in the hospitals and sanitary department, had aroused
their enthusiasm in the preservation of the Union and their sense
of responsibility in national affairs. The great mass-meetings of
the Loyal Women's Leagues, too, did an immense educational work in
broadening their sympathies and the horizon of their sphere of
action. So wholly absorbed had they been in the intense excitement
of that period, that when peace came their hands and hearts,
unoccupied