George William Curtis accepted her invitation in this characteristic letter: I think of no title for your course, but why have any?
Why not say simply, "A Course of Independent Lectures ?" To call them woman's rights would damn them in advance, so strong is prejudice.

The only one I have at all suited to your purpose is "Fair Play for Women."[26] I hate the words "woman's rights," nor do they properly describe my treatment of the question which, in my mind, is not one of sex but of humanity.

My lecture is a plea for the recognition of the equal humanity of women and an assertion that they have rights not as women but as human beings.

In respect to terms, I leave it with you.

I usually receive $50, but you will understand that I should prefer to pay the expenses myself rather than that you or any one interested should expend a penny; so if you can not justly give me anything, I shall be content.
[Autograph: Yours very faithfully George William Curtis] Miss Anthony always came out of these lecture courses in debt, but she would call upon her friends or borrow from sister or father enough to make up the deficit, and replace the loan out of her scanty earnings.
She persisted in having them to educate the public on the progressive questions of the day.