from Mr. Phillips and others who had visited England. We had a
most cordial welcome from Mrs. Nichol--a queenly woman. She is now
seventy-seven, and lives in this handsome house, two miles from the
center of the city, with only her servants....

Mrs. Nichol has gone to her room to rest and Mrs. Moore and I are
writing in the little, sunny southeast parlor. I have an elegant
suite of three rooms, the same Mr. Garrison occupied when he
visited here in 1867 and in 1877. Mrs. Nichol is one of the few
left of that historic World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840. We
are going to a "substantial tea" with Dr. Agnes McLaren, daughter
of Duncan McLaren. She is very bright--spent four years in France
studying her profession--has a good practice, takes a house by
herself, and invites to it her friends. So many young Englishwomen
are doing this, and indeed it is a good thing for single women to
do.

The suffrage society--Eliza Wigham, president, Jessie M. Wellstood,
secretary--has invited a hundred or more of the friends to an
afternoon tea on Tuesday next in honor of my visit, and I am to
make a brief speech, so what to say and how to say it come
uppermost with me again....

[Illustration: Elizabeth Pease Nichol (Signed: "Elizabeth Pease
Nichol")]

THE RAVEN HOTEL, DROITWICH, August 5.

MY DEAR FRIEND SUSAN B. ANTHONY: I have often wished to write thee
since we parted in London, my heart has been so full of loving
thought. It has been a greater trial than I can describe that I
have been denied the pleasure of receiving thee in my home in
Edinburgh. If it had been only for an hour, I should have looked
back on that hour as one of great privilege. But even if we should
not meet again, I have had a pleasure which seems almost like a
dream to me, in having made the personal acquaintance of thyself
and dear Mrs. Stanton....

That thou shouldst have been on the 1st of August with the
Elizabeth Pease of those grand anti-slavery times, revived in me
the thought I expressed in moving a vote of thanks to thee and Mrs.
Cady Stanton for the noble addresses you gave at the Prince's Hall
Meeting in London; ... that you had been brought here to give us
the hand of rejoicing fellowship; and that it gave me great faith
to believe the Go