From collection Frances Willard Journal Transcripts
physicians" & had come into the "region of calms." It seemed to me she regarded us white ribbon women as [entry continues in space for 10/16] secular which thing I resented. She spoke of building on hay, wood, & stubble-I told her that was much better than nothing-that we claimed every realm-science, invention, reform, philanthropy-all for Christ & as radiations from His Cross which is the central figure of civilization. She evidently thought me a "poor dear" & I knew she was a dear. I got a little constrained & was sorry afterward & said so. Cable from Cossie-all going well-cable from world's convention- Colossians second-fifth. I sent Proverbs 25-25 & "Love never faileth." I rejoice & am glad about the convention & know it will go well.
[the page numbers jump from 10/17 Tuesday to 10/22 Sunday and 10/18 is four pages beyond 10/22. FEW notes this on p. for 10/22. ]
October 18, 1893
Hannah went to London WCTU Ex. Com. I went to ride-2 hours with R.P.S.-the governess& grandchildren. Lord Egmont's, the requisite maple avenues, the Roman road-Heaven below. Wrote on sketches, reviews &c. Bebel's book on Women & the like o' that. Lovely telegram from dear Fan Barnes at Convention of National WCTU. Proverbs 31, 29. So generous of them all! So good & kind as they have been to me-dear comrades-we shall live together I believe in latter worlds! I looked over my "poor dear" speech when I thought beautiful Isabel was giving 40 minutes of the best of it. How little do I take in their goodness Yonder; their prayers, their love. Perhaps it is a mercy that I don't & can't!-"Lord make me beautiful within & may mine eyes the good behold in everything but sin."
-am reading Phaedo over again-began it at 20-while Esther "does my hair" of a morning.-Ate Brazil nuts-following Mrs Bramwell Booth's plan-& almost for the first time in history knew "that I had a stomach!"
October 19, 1893
Drove again to Aldworth, Tennyson's home and left our cards.
After all, nothing quite so really elates a worker as to see that he "makes the fur fly" (as my father used to say) in getting done the things he wants to do. So this has been a specially glad day, inside & out-golden in the sky, gay in my 50 year old heart. I've had little Edith here & dictated promised articles, important letters "& the likes o' that." Had boofulum cable from convention "Illimitable love & loyalty." I don't know why I should be so blessed-with such a heredity, ancestry, parentage, kinship, home, ability, opportunity, vocation, comradeship, success, Love of God & love of Humanity-Expectations well &sweetly growing, of Immortal Life. Why should two such rare women as Lady Henry &
