Out of this she sent Mr.Phillips the $50 he had advanced, but he returned it saying he thought she had earned it.
The diary relates that it was the common practice in those days for the husband, upon coming to an eating station, to go in and get a hot dinner, while the wife sat in the car and ate a cold lunch.

It tells of an old farmer who came with his wife to her lecture and went into the dining-room for the best meal the tavern afforded, while the wife sat in the parlor and nibbled a little food she had brought with her.

Miss Anthony and her companions were the only women who dared go out when the train stopped, to walk up and down for air and exercise, and they were considered very bold for so doing.
In 1855, to Miss Anthony's great regret, Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown were married.

Both were very active in the reforms of the day, and there was such a dearth of effective workers she felt that they could ill be spared.

Their semi-apologetic letters and her half-sorrowful, half-indignant remonstrances are both amusing and pathetic.