Mr. Cabot gives in his Memoir (p. 455) a letter which Mr. Emerson wrote, five years before this speech was made, to a lady who asked him to join in a call for a Woman’s Suffrage Convention. His distaste for the scheme clearly appears, and though perhaps felt in a less degree as time went on, never quite disappeared. At the end of the notes on this address is given the greater part of a short speech which he wrote many years later, but which he seems never to have delivered. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson is reported in the _Woman’s Journal_ as having said at the New England Women’s Club, May 16, 1903, that Mr. Cabot put into his Memoir what Mr. Emerson said in his early days, when he was opposed to woman’s suffrage (the letter above alluded to), and “left out all those warm and cordial sentences that he wrote later in regard to it, culminating in his assertion that, whatever might be said of it as an abstract question, all his measures would be carried sooner if women could vote.” This last assertion, though not in the Memoir, Mr. Cabot printed in its place in the present address, and the only other address on the subject which is known to exist, Mr. Cabot did not print probably because Mr. Emerson never delivered it. [201] _Page 406, note 1._ This passage from the original is omitted:— “A woman of genius said, ‘I will forgive you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.’” [202] _Page 411, note 1._ This sentence originally ended, “And their convention should be holden in a sculpture-gallery.” [203] _Page 412, note 1._ From _The Angel in the House_, by Coventry Patmore. [204] _Page 413, note 1._ Milton, _Paradise Lost_. Because of the high triumph of Humility, his favorite virtue, Mr. Emerson, though commonly impatient of sad stories, had always a love for the story of Griselda, as told by Chaucer, alluded to below. In spite of its great length, he would not deny it a place in his collection _Parnassus_. [205] _Page 413, note 2._ From “Love and Humility,” by Henry More (1614-87). [206] _Page 414, note 1._ These anecdotes followed in the original speech:—