Not that I think any cause will suffer, but simply to save myself a great deal of annoyance and not feel when I am a guest in a family that they are mortified if other persons happen to come in.

I was at Lucretia Mott's a few weeks ago, and her daughters took up a regular labor with me to make me abandon the dress.

They said they would not go in the street with me, and when Grace Greenwood called and others like her, I think it would have been a real relief to them if I had not been there.

James and Lucretia defended me bravely.
This was received by Miss Anthony while at the Albany convention, and she wrote: Your letter caused a bursting of the floods, long pent up, and after a good cry I went straight to Mrs.Stanton and read it to her.

She has had a most bitter experience in the short dress, and says she now feels a mental freedom among her friends that she has not known for two years past.