Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson” in chapter 17, page 362 of Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1:
... The idea of woman suffrage had long been repugnant to our mother.
The demand for it seemed unreasonable; she was inclined to laugh both at the cause and its advocates; yet when, in November, 1868, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson asked her to give her name to a call for a meeting in behalf of woman suffrage she did not refuse.
It would be a liberal and friendly meeting, the Colonel said, without bitterness or extravagance....
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