At this time Parker Pillsbury wrote to Lydia Mott: Is there work down among you for Susan to do?
Any shirt-making, cooking, clerking, preaching or teaching, indeed any honest work, just to keep her out of idleness! She seems strangely unemployed--almost expiring for something to do, and I could not resist the inclination to appeal to you, _as a person of particular leisure_, that an effort be made in her behalf.

At present she has only the Anti-Slavery cause for New York, the "Woman's Rights Movement" for the world, the Sunday evening lectures for Rochester and other lecturing of her own from Lake Erie to the "Old Man of Franconia mountains;" private cares and home affairs and the various et ceteras of _womanity_.

These are about all so far as appears, to occupy her seven days of twenty-four hours each, as the weeks rain down to her from Eternal Skies.

Do pity and procure work for her if it be possible! [Footnote 17: From 1840 to 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ernestine L.
Hose, Lydia Mott and Paulina Wright (afterwards Davis), circulated petitions for a Married Woman's Property Law and, in presenting them, addressed a legislative committee several times.] [Footnote 18: The W.C.T.U.

was organized in 1874 and the temperance work passed almost entirely into the hands of women.].