She writes a friend: "Well, I am a member of the lobby but lacking the two most essential requisites, for I neither accept money nor have I any to pay out.

Dr.
Cheever speaks tonight in the Assembly chamber on 'The Guilt of the Slave Traffic and of the Legislation by which it is Supported.' I have been going about all day to collect enough to defray his expenses." Phillips, Garrison, Pillsbury and all the host were at the convention.
They dined in Lydia Mott's simple little home and had a merry time.
Between the meetings the party visited the Legislature, Geological Hall, Palmer's studio and other places of interest and managed to get a bit of holiday recreation.

Miss Anthony stayed with her friend Miss Mott, visited Rev.Mayo, called often on Thurlow Weed, went to Troy to hear Beecher lecture on "The Burdens of Society," to Hudson to hear Phillips on "Toussaint L'Ouverture" and, whenever she could spare a day from her work with the Legislature, held woman's rights meetings in neighboring towns; thus every hour was filled to overflowing.
In March she finished her lecture, "The True Woman," and plunged into the preparations for the approaching woman's rights convention.

She also indulged the love for gardening which her busy life so seldom permitted and, judging from her diary, must have given the hired men more attention than they ever received before or afterwards: Uncovered the strawberry and raspberry beds....

Worked with Simon building frames for the grape vines in the peach orchards....