clergymen, are honorary. They have over 1,000,000
paupers to look after. The secretary, Mrs. Chamberlain, stated that
in her section of London there were 16,000. The guardians overlook
everything about the workhouses and asylums, get no pay, and yet
the public hesitates to put women on the board. One man stirred up
the handful present by saying, "suffrage not only for widows and
spinsters, but for married women."

June 26.--Well, the ordeal is over and everybody is delighted.
Moncure D. Conway said: "I have learned more of American history
from your speech than I ever dreamed had been made during the past
thirty years." Even the timid ones expressed great satisfaction.
Mrs. Stanton gave them the rankest radical sentiments, but all so
cushioned they didn't hurt. Mrs. Duncan McLaren came down from
Edinburgh and Mrs. Margaret Parker from Dundee. Rachel said I made
a good statement of the industrial, legal and political status of
women in America. We went to tea with Mrs. Jacob Bright; then I
took dinner with Mrs. Stanton at Mrs. Mellen's, getting up from
table at 9:15 P. M.

[Illustration: Autograph: "Most sincerely yours, Jane Cobden"]

Saturday Rachel and I drove four hours in Miss Mueller's carriage
and called on Lady Wilde, a bright, quaint woman. Sunday morning I
went to Friends' meeting and had a look at John Bright, though I
was not sure it was he until after the meeting was over; then he
was gone, and I not introduced to him! In the afternoon I called on
Miss Jane Cobden, daughter of Richard Cobden, a charming woman.
Yesterday I presented her with a set of our History in memory of
her noble father, and for her own sake also. I will not foreshadow
the coming days but they are busy indeed. You will see that the
Central Committee have put both my name and Mrs. Stanton's on the
card for the meeting of July 5....

LONDON, June 28.

MY DEAR SISTER: It is now just after luncheon and at 4 o'clock we
are to be at Mrs. Jacob Bright's reception, tomorrow evening at one
at Mrs. Thomasson's, which she gives to friends for the special
purpose of meeting Stanton and Anthony, and Saturday at Frances
Power Cobbe's--and so we go. Yesterday morning Miss Frances Lord--a
poor law guardian--escorted us through Lam