Miss Anthony writes for advice to Phillips, who replies: "Go ahead with your New York plan as sketched to me.

I am willing to risk spending $1,000 on it.

Never apologize as if you troubled me; it is my business as much as yours, and I am only sorry to be of so little help." Brief records in the little diary say: Sister Mary and I passed New Year's Day, 1859, most quietly and happily in the dear farm-home.

Mother is in the East with sister Hannah, and father dined in the city with sister Guelma, who sent us a plate of her excellent turkey....

In the afternoon Mary and I drove to Frederick Douglass' and had a nice visit; stayed to tea and listened to a part of his new lecture on "Self-Made Men."...
Father and Mary gone to their work in the city, and I am writing on my lecture "The True Woman." Ground out four commercial-note pages in five mortal hours, but they are strong....