This visit was rich in experience as I was introduced by my acquaintances made in July to a great number of the leading women in the anti-slavery cause. From these I learned how the anti-slavery bazaars were managed, and I obtained a promise to provide a table at our New York fair in December, as well as the names of several ladies who would superintend it, so that accommodations for their sojourn in New York might be made. Another table was promised by Dr. Blackwell’s English friends to whom she had appealed by letters. I also visited a number of the smaller towns around Boston for the same purpose but without success. A list of the Boston people in whose houses I spoke, creating enthusiasm, and who subscribed towards the half of the Infirmary rent as well as towards the table for the Fair, is still in my possession and I will here copy the names: Miss Lucy Goddard Miss Abby May Miss Mary Jane Parkman Mrs. George Hildreth Mrs. George Hilliard Miss Anna Lowell Mrs. Mary G. Shaw Mrs. Sarah S. Russell Mrs. W. L. Garrison Mrs. E. D. Cheney Miss Sarah Clarke Mrs. James Freeman Clarke Mr. George W. Bond Mr. Samuel E. Sewall besides a goodly number of others not so prominent in benevolent and advanced work for women. CHAPTER XIX _Boston’s help for the Infirmary stimulates New York, sometimes to unconscious humor--Meeting with Fanny Kemble--Dr. Zakrzewska obtains entrée into the variety of social “circles” then existing--The Cary sisters--Women of the Press--The educational circle--The esthetic group--The so-called Free Lovers--The artistic circle--Mrs. Z.’s social circle--The philanthropic circle--The Fourierites--The demonstrating Spiritualists--Woman’s Rights meetings--Dr. Zakrzewska and Horace Greeley opposing speakers in discussion on “Divorce”--Dr. Emily urges Dr. Blackwell to give up New York for London, opposition there being lessened by Florence Nightingale’s work--The Fair finally materializes and is successful--Dr. Emily Blackwell returns from Europe, making the third physician working upon the Infirmary plans. (Twenty-seven years of age: 1856.)_ Meanwhile, the letters from Dr. Emily Blackwell, who was completing her medical studies in England, urged Dr. Blackwell to give up her life in America and come to England as a more promising field for developing the introduction of medical women into practice. But Dr. Blackwell held fast to the fact that in America the first Woman’s Medical College (Philadelphia) had been in existence for several years, and she felt that it would be unwise to desert this beginning.