In passing, it may here be noted that during the year following this meeting Mr. Rogers succeeded in securing the required site and teachers, and thereupon made his appeal for the girls—the “sisters of the boys.” For the boys, _in one single meeting_, he had obtained promises of £60,000, to which another £10,000 was added. It was the work of months to collect for the girls the sum of £5000, much less than one-tenth of what had been given for the boys. What eventually became of this £5000 will be told in due course. On the strength of Mr. Rogers’ speech at Mrs. Grey’s meeting, I wrote a letter to the _Daily News_, stating that the Camden School was in full possession of the essential points of teachers and pupils, and now needed only £5000 for a suitable building. To this appeal there was no response in money; but, on July 6, 1871, I had a note from Miss Buss which showed that interest had been excited— “DEAR MISS RIDLEY, “Miss Mary Gurney has been here to-day, and she talks of writing a paper for the Leeds meeting of the Social Science. I told her about you, and asked her to write to you, and I also said that a sketch of this, the only public school for girls, would probably lead to more useful, because more positive, results than another paper on the general question of girls’ education. “Miss Gurney is the daughter of the shorthand writer to the House of Commons, and is deeply interested in all educational questions. “She has made our acquaintance _only_ from your newspaper paragraph. “I felt what the little children call naughty on Monday—wearied, dejected, worried, and over-anxious!! But body prevails, as you know, over mind, and I felt very sorry for what I said to you. “I send you a _Daily News_ of to-day. The leader will help on our appeal. Only the editor, all the way through, speaks of ‘boys’ instead of ‘children,’ which would include boys and girls. “We meet to-morrow? “Always yours, “FRANCES M. BUSS.” Early in July a letter of mine in _Public Opinion_ had been followed by a discussion on endowments for girls’ schools, which I finally summed up as follows:— “Now, however, we may hope. In this implied support of the Lord Mayor we see far more than help to the Camden School. We see in it a hope of some large and united public effort, through which the Camden School will be only the first of a series encircling London, and everywhere meeting the same want. A great step has been taken in the City, in Mr. Rogers’ proposed new schools there. Two other City schools are also proposed. It must be remembered, however, that the resident City population is steadily diminishing. To benefit girls truly the schools should come to them in the suburbs.” Referring to this hope, Miss Gurney writes—