Now am I willing, if successful, to give all to purchase her a purer aliment.

I have faith enough in the cause to move mountains, but if I speak at present I forfeit all claims on my home forever.
Lucy Stone when appealed to with the intimation that she was losing interest in the work, replied: "Now that I occupy a legal position in which I can not even draw in my own name the money I have earned or give a valid receipt for it when it is drawn or make any contract, but am rated with fools, minors and madmen, and can not sign a legal document without being examined separately to see if it is by my own free will, and even the right to my own name questioned, do you think that, in the grip of such pincers, I am likely to grow remiss ?...

I am not at all sanguine of the success of the convention.

However much I hope, or try to hope, the old doubt comes back.

My only trust is in your great, indomitable perseverance and your power of work." That the answers were not always favorable and that the women constantly found themselves between two fires, the following letters will show.