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aesthetic conceit, but carry the weight of my experience in humility, in all charity, and in a loving and serviceable spirit.”
The last entry in the Journal for 1892 strikes the keynote of what was to prove the most absorbing interest of the coming year.
“December 31. Farewell, dear 1892.
You were the real quattro centenary of Columbus's discovery, although we have been so behind time as not to be ready to celebrate this before 1893. 1492 was indeed a year momentous to humanity.”
To her many cares was added now work for the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago.
The Woman's Department of the World's Fair was ably administered by Mrs. Potter Palmer, who consulted her frequently, her experiences in the New Orleans Cotton Centennial proving useful in the Columbian Exhibition.
The “Twelve-o’Clock talks,” so successful in the Crescent City, were, at her suggestion, repeated at Chicago, and proved most valuable.
The Association for the Advancement of Women and many other associations were to meet in Chicago this year.
She writes to the Reverend Jenkin Lloyd Jones concerning the Parliament of Religions and the Unitarian Congress; to Aaron Powell touching the Congress on Social Purity.
There are letters, too, about the Alliance of Unitarian Women, the Congress of Representative Women, and the Association of Women Ministers and Preachers.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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