We met and loved, ne’er more to part, Hand clasped in hand, heart bound to heart. We’ve travelled West, years together, Day and night, in stormy weather: Climbing the rugged Suffrage hill, And bravely facing every ill: While resting, speaking, everywhere; Quite often in the open air; From sleighs, ox-carts, and mayhap coaches, Besieged with beetles, bugs and roaches: All this for the emancipation Of the brave women of our Nation. III. Now, we’ve had enough of travel, And, in turn, laid down the gavel. In triumph having reached fourscore, We’ll give our thoughts to art and lore. In the time-honored retreat, Side by side, we’ll take a seat, To younger hands resign the reins, With all the honors, and the gains. United, down life’s hill we’ll glide, Whate’er the coming years betide; Parted only when first, in time, Eternal joys are thine, or mine. The following letter sent me by Miss Anthony, just as I was putting the finishing touches on this book, shows that she is still active enough to give personal attention to a large correspondence: * * * * * “MY DEAR FRIEND: I have just found your card of Christmas and New Year’s greeting of 1898 and 1899--among _autograph letters_--a huge pile of them--that I have undertaken to demolish this beautiful July Sunday morning. How your card found its way into the pile is past my knowledge, for I am sure the rest of the envelopes are not farther back than six weeks. It seems but a very short time since I made a general clearing up and out of a similar pile. “Do you remember how Henry Ward Beecher used to say he enjoyed writing his name for the boys and girls? Well, how few there are left of the pioneers in either anti-slavery or woman’s rights. I feel almost like a _Spared Monument_ of both crusades. “I hope you are well and that all is well with you. “Very sincerely yours, “SUSAN B. ANTHONY, “July 22, 1900. “Rochester, N. Y.” * * * * * [Illustration: JULIA WARD HOWE] Julia Ward Howe comes from a long line of Puritan ancestry. She was an ardent worker in the anti-slavery cause. In 1856-57 she and her husband, Dr. Howe, edited an anti-slavery paper, _The Boston Commonwealth_, and were leaders with Garrison, Sumner, Phillips, Higginson, and Theodore Parker. It was Dr. and Mrs. Howe who brought about meetings in Boston for the discussion of the problems of the Abolitionists on one side and pro-slavery advocates on the other. Robert Toombs of Georgia, who boasted that he would hold his slaves under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument, and Colonel Sam Houston of Texas, took part. “I remember,” said Mrs. Howe, “we had lively times.”