From M. Chailley-Bert, Journal des Débats, Paris:

M. J. Chailley-Bert presents his best compliments to Mrs. May Wright Sewall, and begs to inform her that he will be very much pleased to publish in Le Journal des Débats anything concerning the highly commendable Congress of Women at the World's Fair.

From Jane Cobden Unwin, London:

I hope that you will excuse the delay in my letter, and at the same time express to the members of the Committee of the Woman's Branch of the Auxiliary my sincere thanks for their invitation to speak on Thursday, the 18th May. I look forward with much pleasure to being present during one or two days of the week's Congress.

From Madame Aline Valette, Secretary of the Fédération Française des Sociétés Féministes, Paris:

Les semaines et les jours passent avec une effrayante rapidité. À peine nous étiezvous arrivée, et déjà vous étiez repartie; si bien que, quand je pense à votre passage à Paris, je crois avoir fait un joli rêve, et il me faut, par une preuve matérielle, me convaincre du contraire. De mon côté, je m'engage à vous faire part de ce qui surgira de saillant relativement à notre cause, à Paris, ou ailleurs, en France. Recevez, Madame, le bon souvenir d'une Soeur française qui ne demande qu'à aider à faire moins grande la distance qui la sépare de vous.

From Madame Vincent, Representative of the Fédération Française, etc., Paris:

La Fédération Française des Sociétés Féministes, in a meeting held on the 2d of February, has named a commission with the object of seeking and arranging practical means for sending out delegates to the Congress of Chicago. I beg of you to give me all particulars which are necessary to us.

From Madame Griess-Traut, Vice-Présidente de la Société pour l'Amélioration du Sort de la Femme, Paris:

Je reponds à votre bonne et intéressante lettre, qui m' a rappelé non seulement le souvenir de votre personne sympathique, mais aussi celui de la mission de dévouement dont vous vous êtes si bien acquittée à Paris. Les duplicata des mémoires que vous m' avez addressés ont été distribués au mieux possible à des femmes de progrès, les sociétés connues s'étant trouvées déjà pourvues. Recevez tous mes voeux pour votre bonheur personnel, et pour le succès de votre grande et magnifique œuvre. From M. Guy Tomel, Rédacteur au Figaro, Paris:

Je me tiens entièrement à votre disposition pour continuer la propagande en France. Vous n'aurez qu' à m' adresser les documents relatifs à votre œuvre au fur et à mesure de leur publication.

From Madame Wiggishoff, Montmartre, Paris:

Je vous suis reconnaissante de votre bon souvenir. J'espère que l'esprit a raison du corps, et il faut bien que cela soit ainsi, pour que vous puissiez faire face au travail qu'il vous faudra faire encore d'ici six mois, après ce que vous faites depuis un an, pour nous préparer un Congrès digne de notre grande cause. Croyez, chère madame, que je garderai toujours un souvenir précieux de la visite que nous avons faite ensemble dans nos écoles; votre enthousiasme communicatif, chère madame, prouve combien était bien placée la confiance que votre comité vous a témoignée en vous déléguant sur notre continent; tant d'efforts ne sauraient être méconnus, et nous vous devrons beaucoup, Mesdames.

From Fanny Zampini Salazar, Naples, Italy:

Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad that I can deliver in English my address on “ Woman in New Italy." I am starting this week for my tour through Italy, so as to study better my subject, making the personal acquaintance of our most promi

nent women, whom I already know by correspondence. I can not tell you how impatient I am to take part in your most interesting Congress, where I am sure to learn a great deal about all that is being done throughout the entire world to elevate our sex. From Frau Hanna Bieber-Boehm, President Jugendschutz Verein, Berlin:

Is there no possibility of postponing the World's Congress of Representative Women until July? It is impossible for me to travel without my husband, and he can not come so early; and this Congress is what, above all things, I want. It will be a great pain not to be there, but, unhappily, before August it is impossible.

From Frau Mathilde Weber, Philanthropist and Author, Tübingen. Thus closes a long and helpful letter:

I send you hearty greetings over the ocean, with the wish and belief that your great Congress may conquer many old prejudices against our sex.

From Frau Henriette Goldschmidt, President Verein für Familien und Volkserziehung, Leipsic:

I hope the inspired labor of Froebel, and the principles of education developed by him, will be among the subjects considered by your great Congress, the influence of which must be so wide and so lasting.

From Fräulein Augusta Förster, Kassel. She writes with the greatest enthusiasm of the Congress, and says:

Whether I come as a private person, or as the delegate of the Allgemeine Deutsche Frauenverein in Leipsic, or of the Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerinnen Verein, my participation will be in education and philanthropy; although it will please me better to keep silent in this great Congress where the greatest will be presen: to speak. From the Contessa Emilia Peruzzi, Florence, Italy:

The documents, preliminary addresses, etc., concerning the proposed Congress of Representative Women have been read with profound interest. I send the names and addresses of many Italian ladies of Eigh standing, to whom I hope the plans of the Congress will be communicated, and pray that its success may equal the hopes of the committee.

From Lady Aberdeen, London:

I must crave your forgiveness for not having answered your letter at an earlier date. I shall be glad to take up the subject that you suggest" Women as a Force in Politics." [Lady Aberdeen's interest in the Congress is so great that she comes over to attend it, although she will be obliged to leave again before its close to keep engagements in London.]

From the United States Minister at Madrid - Hon. A. Loudon Snowden:

I have had much pleasure in bringing to the notice of the Spanish Government the subject of the Woman's Congress. I will inform you at once if I should be successful, and meantime I beg to express to you and to your co-workers the admiration I feel for this admirable undertaking, which promises to be one of the noblest and most elevating occurrences of the century.

From the United States Minister at London - Hon. Robert T. Lincoln: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and to acquaint you in reply that I have had pleasure in forwarding a copy of the same to Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to whom I at the same time wrote a note expressing the hope that it might be possible for the government of this country to comply with the request of the Woman's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary, and appoint two ladies of influence and distinction who have interested themselves in the education of women, in philanthropy, literature, or art, as delegates to the proposed Congress.

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[For the preparation of this Index the Editor is indebted to the courtesy
of the Publishers.]