who was a prime factor of this
movement. While there she had a charming visit with Harriet Hosmer, the
great sculptor, who afterwards wrote her:

It was a real treat to see you once more.... How well do I remember
our first meeting in the office of The Revolution. I do not know of
anything that would give me so much pleasure as being present at
the Washington convention, and if I am in America next January you
may rest assured I shall be there.... Yes, you are quite right;
there ought to be a National Art Association of women who are real
artists, and it would be a good thing all round. There is nothing
which has impressed me so much and so favorably since my return
here as the number of helpful clubs and associations which are of
modern growth, and one of the best fruits of the work that has been
done among women. Not only are they full of pleasantness but where
unity is there is strength.

Now that we have come together, don't let us permit a vacuum of
twenty years to intervene again; we have a great deal to say to
each other.

[Illustration: Autograph: "Keep me in your heart as I keep you in mine
and hold me even [illegible] H. Hosmer."]

Miss Anthony went from Milwaukee to the Minnesota State Convention at
Minneapolis, and addressed the students of the university. She also
visited the Bethany Home for the Friendless and writes in her journal:
"I saw there over forty fatherless babes, and twenty or thirty girls who
must henceforth wear the scarlet letter over their hearts, while the men
who caused their ruin go forth to seek new recruits for the Bethany
homes!" At Duluth she was the guest of her faithful friends, Judge J. B.
and Sarah Burger Stearns, speaking here in the Masonic Temple. The judge
introduced Miss Anthony in these words: "The first quality we look for
in men is courage; the next, ability; the third, benevolence. It is my
pleasure to present to you tonight a woman who has exhibited, in a
marked degree, all three."

On November 11, 1889, at the beginning of the northern winter, she went
from here to South Dakota. A woman suffrage amendment had been submitted
to be voted on in 1890, and Miss Anthony had been receiving urgent
letters from the members of the State Suffrage Association to assist
them in a preliminary canvass and advise as to methods of organization,
etc. "Every true woman will welcome you to South Dakota," wrote