se of the United States.

The next morning we went to hear Laura Curtis Bullard read her
sketch of Mrs. Stanton, which is to go into Famous Women, the same
book for which Mrs. Stanton is writing me up. In the afternoon we
called on Miss Mueller, who purchased a house and lives in it that
she may be a householder, as is necessary to hold office. She too
is a member of the school board. Miss Mueller insisted that I should
talk to the ladies there, about thirty of them, and so I did,
sitting under the trees in her garden, where we had our tea. Thence
we went to the women's suffrage parlors and met some fifty or
sixty, and then to the Albemarle Club of both ladies and gentlemen,
the only one of the kind in London. Then came a meeting at the
Somerville Club--all ladies. A paper was read on the topic,
"Sentiment is not founded on reason and is a hindrance to
progress," and followed by a bright discussion, in which both
Rachel and I were invited to take part. A pretty full afternoon and
evening!

Wednesday morning I studied on my speech for the 25th under the
auspices of the National Women's Suffrage Society. Harriot has so
divided the subject, that Mrs. Stanton is to take the educational,
social and religious departments, and S. B. A. the industrial,
legal and political. That evening we went to the Court Theater with
Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller, another member of the London school
board. The nights are all days here now--daylight till after 9
o'clock and again at 3. Rachel and I lunched with Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Bright, and had a splendid visit; then went to the school
board meeting.

[Illustration: Priscilla Bright McLaren (Signed: "Your loving friend
Priscilla Bright McLaren.")]

[Illustration: Autograph: "Cordially yours, Helen Taylor"]

Saw there five of the seven women members, among them Miss Helen
Taylor, stepdaughter of John Stuart Mill, and the senior woman
member of the board. Today I spent an hour with Mrs. Lucas, sister
of John and Jacob Bright, and this afternoon Rachel and I are going
to a Women's Poor Law Guardian meeting, at which Mrs. Lucas is to
preside and other ladies to speak....

Just back from the meeting. In all England there are thirty-one
women poor law guardians. There are 19,000 of the guardians elected
and 1,000, mainly