st of an old schoolmate,
Elizabeth Ford Proudfit. The meetings closed December 3, and Miss
Anthony wrote Mrs. Spofford:

I intend now to make straight for Washington without a stop. I
shall come both ragged and dirty. Think of two solid months of
conventions, speaking every night! Don't worry about me. I was
never better or more full of hope and good work. Though the apparel
will be tattered and torn, the mind, the essence of me, is sound to
the core. Please tell the little milliner to have a bonnet picked
out for me, and get a dressmaker who will patch me together so I
shall be presentable. Now for the Washington convention: Before
settling upon the Universalist church, you would better pocket the
insults and refusals of the Congregational church powers that be
and send your most lovely and winning girls to ask for that. If you
can't get it or the Metropolitan or the Foundry or the New York
Avenue or any large and popular church, why take the Universalist,
and then tell the saints of the fashionable churches that we dwell
there because they refused us admission to their holy sanctuaries.
Don't let us go into the heterodox houses, much as I love them,
except because we are driven away from the orthodox.

In December the third volume of the History of Woman Suffrage at last
was ready for the public, another book of nearly 1,000 pages. It
completed the story up to 1884, and like its predecessors was cordially
received by the press. The money swallowed up by this work hardly will
be credited. Mrs. Stanton not being able or willing to revise the last
volume until it was put into proof slips, and then making extensive
changes, the cost for re-setting type was over $900. The fifty fine
steel engravings and the prints made from them cost over $6,000. For
proof reading $500 was paid, and for indexing, $250. Mrs. Stanton and
Mrs. Gage, seeing that there never would be any profits from the books
and that Miss Anthony proposed to give most of them away, sold out their
rights to her, the former for $2,000 and the latter for $1,000. She
also, as has been stated, bought out the interest of Fowler & Wells.
When the first edition of the three mammoth volumes finally came into
her sole possession, they represented an outlay on her part of $20,000.

While there were many criticisms from certain quarters as to various
errors and so-called misstatements,