In our own enthusiasm for Miss Buss and her work it seemed to Miss Jones and to me that all that was needed was to make the case known. We were both accustomed to the use of our pens, and placed ourselves at Miss Buss’ service, beginning first by an appeal to our own personal friends, with enough of success at the outset to justify our going on. But we soon discovered that beyond this range things were of a different order. I had seen so much of the kindness shown by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall to all sorts of philanthropic effort that I fully counted on their help. In addition to the _Art Journal_, Mr. Hall was editor of _Social Notes_, and Mrs. Hall had not given up the _St. James’ Magazine_; so that we saw here our way to a wider public. The reply to my appeal seems worth giving _in extenso_, as a measure of the public opinion of that day. If a woman who had made her own mark on the world in ways out of the beaten track, could so write, what must have been the feeling of the average woman, to say nothing of the narrowminded and ignorant? Mrs. Hall was, besides, amongst the foremost who showed interest in higher education in being one of the earliest of the lady-visitors at Queen’s College. Here is the letter— “15, Ashley Place, Oct. 31, 1870. “MY DEAR ANNIE, “I dare say you learned a good deal at the Social Science meetings. But women have no business on platforms. They have enough, and more than they can accomplish, in performing the duties which God and Nature have assigned them.... “I too am most anxious to find employment for women, and would give every female, rich or poor, a _trade_—call it a profession if you like—so that she could help herself. But this is not to be done by sending her to _College Examinations_. “There are not a greater set of ‘_muffs_’ and extravagant fellows in life than our College lads. It is not by _them_ that the _business_ of _life_ is carried on. Do you want to educate girls in the ‘arts’ as practised in the Universities? “I have no fault to find with the arrangements of the _Lower_ School, except its incompetence to provide the means which will enable women to exist. They should be taught trades—painting on glass and china; hair-weaving; certain branches of watchmaking (as abroad); confectionery; _cooking_—each half-dozen going into training for this at least once a week; clear-starching;—_trades_, in fact. When I was a girl I went down once a week into the housekeeper’s room to see how jellies and blanc-mange, soups, and pastry were made; to learn the quantities _and help to do all she did_. “This did not prevent my accomplishments going on; or my riding and enjoying all the amusements a country girl could have.