Miss Anthony's oratory is in keeping with all her belongings, her voice well modulated and musical, her enunciation distinct, her style earnest and impressive, her language pure and unexaggerated.
Judging from other friendly notices this must be an accurate description of Miss Anthony at the age of thirty-five.

The experiment of a woman on the platform was too new, however, and the doctrines she advocated too unpopular for it to be possible that she should receive fair treatment generally, and there were few papers which described her in as unprejudiced a manner as the one quoted.

A letter from her father during this trip said: "Would it not be wise to preserve the many and amusing observations by the different papers, that years hence, in your more solitary moments, you and maybe your children can look over the views of both the friends and opponents of the cause ?" This was the beginning of the scrap books carefully kept up for nearly half a century.
The journal for that year gives a detailed account of the hardships of this winter, one of the coldest and snowiest on record.

Many towns were off the railroad and could be reached only by sleigh.

After a long ride she would be put for the night into a room without a fire, and in the morning would have to break the ice in the pitcher to take that sponge bath from head to foot which she never omitted.