The newspapers were very complimentary; the Whig, however, declared, "The business of the convention was to advocate woman's right to do wrong." It was here that Mary L.Booth, afterwards for many years editor of Harper's Bazar, made her first public appearance, acting as secretary.
She decided to go for a while to the Worcester Hydropathic Institute conducted by her cousin, Dr.Seth Rogers, and she found here complete change and comparative rest, although occupying a great deal of her time in sending out tracts and petitions.

Her account-books show the purchase of 600 one-cent stamps, each of which meant the addressing of an envelope with her own hand, and her letters to her father are full of directions for printing circulars, etc.

She was, however, enabled to take some recreation, a thing almost unknown in her busy life.

On September 18 she attended the Massachusetts Woman's Rights Convention, and wrote home: I went into Boston with Lucy Stone and stopped at Francis Jackson's, where we found Antoinette Brown and Ellen Blackwell, a pleasant company in that most hospitable home.

As this was my first visit to Boston, Mr.Jackson took us to see the sights; and then we dined with his daughter, Eliza J.Eddy, returning in the afternoon.
In the evening, we attended a reception at Garrison's, where we met several of the literati, and were most heartily welcomed by Mrs.
Garrison, a noble, self-sacrificing woman, loving and loved, surrounded with healthy, happy children in that model home.