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we reached Olympia ten days ago. The grass and shrubbery are as
green and delightful as with us in June, and roses and other
flowers are blooming all fragrant and fresh. The forests are
evergreen--mainly firs and cedars--and on the streets here are
maple and other deciduous trees. The feeling of the air is like
that during the September equinoctial storm. The sound, from twenty
to forty miles wide, with inlets and harbors extending full two or
three miles into the land, is the most beautiful sheet of water I
ever have seen.

I go to Port Madison this afternoon, and on Monday to Port Gamble;
back to Olympia for the Territorial Convention Wednesday; then down
to Portland and thence southward. I have traveled 1,800 miles in
fifty-six days, spoken forty-two nights and many days, and I am
tired, tired. Lots of good missionary work, but not a great deal of
money.

The last letter from Portland, November 16, said:

The mortal agony of speaking again in Portland is over, but the
hurt of it stings yet. I never was dragged before an audience so
utterly without thought or word as last night and, had there been
any way of escape, would have taken wings or, what I felt more
like, have sunk through the floor. It was the strangest and most
unaccountable condition, but nothing save bare, bald points stared
me in the face. Must stop; here is card of Herald reporter.

Before the reporter left, some ladies called, among them Mrs.
Harriet W. Williams, at whose house we all used to stop in Buffalo,
in the olden days of temperance work. She is like a mother to me.
Mrs. Eliot, wife of the Unitarian minister, also came. They formed
a suffrage society here Tuesday with some of the best women as
officers. What is more and most of all I received a letter from a
gentleman, enclosing testimonials from half a dozen of the
prominent men of the city, asking an interview looking to marriage!
I also received a serenade from a millionaire at Olympia. If any of
the girls want a rich widower or an equally rich bachelor, here is
decidedly the place to get an offer of one. But tell brother Aaron
I expect to survive them all and reach home before the New Year, as
single-handed and penniless as usual.[60]

Miss Anthony was invited to address the legislature while at Olympia.
Notwithstanding her extreme need of mone