which his mother never
recovered.

With her debts pressing upon her and an array of lecture engagements
ahead, Miss Anthony could neither pause to indulge her own grief nor to
console and sympathize with the loved ones. The very night of the
funeral she again set forth. By the New Year she had lessened her debt
$1,600. This trip extended through New York and Pennsylvania, to
Washington and into Virginia. Of the last she writes: "A great work to
be done here but the lectures can not possibly be made to pay
expenses." In Philadelphia she spoke in the Star course, was the guest
of Anna Dickinson and was introduced to her audience by Lucretia Mott,
then seventy-seven years old. The diary relates that Mrs. Mott came
next morning before 8 o'clock to give her $20, saying it was very
little but would show her confidence and affection. The lecture given
on this tour was entitled "The False Theory" and was highly commended
by the press. It never was written and probably never twice delivered
in the same words, Miss Anthony always depending largely upon the
inspiration of the occasion.

The middle of December she slipped back to Rochester to see her
bereaved sister, and speaks of their receiving a letter of sympathy
from Rev. J.K. McLean, which, she says, "is the first philosophical
word that has been spoken." While at home she was invited to the
Hallowells' to see Wendell Phillips, their first meeting since their
sad difference of opinion concerning the Fourteenth Amendment. They had
a cordial interview and she went with him to his lecture in the
evening. The entry in the journal that night closes with the
underscored sentence, "Phillips is matchless."

[Footnote 54: On the platform or in the audience were to be seen the
beloved Quaker, Mrs. John J. Merrit, of Brooklyn, Margaret E.
Winchester, Mrs. Theodore Tilton, Mrs. Edwin A. Studwell, Catharine
Beecher--her plain face illuminated with the fire of indignation--Jenny
June Croly, writing rapidly for the New York World, Cora Tappan, Hannah
Tracy Cutler, president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, Phoebe
Couzins, Mrs. Benjamin F. Butler, Mrs. James Parton, better known as
Fanny Fern, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Elizabeth B. Phelps, two nieces of
Mrs. U. S. Grant, Laura Curtis Bullard. Frances Dietz Hallock, Ella
Dietz Clymer, Anne Lynch Botta, Mary F. Gilbert, Mrs. Moses Beach,
Julia Ward Howe, and many other well-known women.]

[Footnote 55: The demands for woman everywhere