air culminated last
evening, the nuptial ceremony being a housewarming tendered by the
club. The reception was a complete success, and the rooms were
crowded for several hours, the number of visitors being estimated
at no less than 300. The house was brilliantly lighted and
everywhere was a profusion of cut flowers and potted ferns. At the
entrance the visitors were greeted by Mrs. Greenleaf, president of
the club, who presented them to Miss Anthony. In greeting each
new-comer the hostess displayed her remarkable power of memory and
brilliance as a conversationalist, having a reminiscent word for
every one. In the parlor before the fireplace stood the old
spinning-wheel which in 1817 had been a wedding gift to her mother.
It was decked with marguerites and received no small degree of
attention....

A short time after the housewarming, her cousin, Charles Dickinson, of
Chicago, stopped over night and, after he had gone, Miss Anthony found
this note: "It makes me blush for the wealthy people of the country,
that they forget their duty to others. Here art thou, with thy moderate
income, spending all of it for humanity's cause, thinking, speaking,
doing a work that will last forever. Please take rest enough for good
health to be with thee, and to make this easier I enclose a check for
$300. Call it a loan without interest, already repaid by the good done
to our fellow-beings."

In June she made a long-promised visit to her friend Henrietta M. Banker
at her home in the Adirondacks, which she thus describes:

Rev. Anna Shaw and I have had a lovely week. Almost every day we
drove out among the mountains; one day to the Ausable lakes,
through beautiful woods, up ravines a thousand feet; another to
Professor Davidson's summer school, high up on the mountainside.
But the day of days was when we drove to the farm-home of old
Captain John Brown at North Elba. We found a broad plateau,
surrounded with mountain peaks on every side. We ate our dinner in
the same dining-room in which the old hero and his family partook
of their scanty fare in the days when he devoted his energies to
teaching the colored men, who accepted Gerrit Smith's generous
offer of a bit of real estate, which should entitle the possessor
to a right to vote. Of all who settled on those lands, called the
"John Brown opening," only one