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 To 
 MRS. BERTHA HONORE PALMER, 
 
 President 
 
 of the 
 
 Board of Lady Managers 
 
 of the 
 
 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 
 
 and 
 
 Representative of Woman's Work before the World, 
 
 This Memorial Volume of the Life and 
 Public Services of 
 
 MRS. HARRIET ANNE LUCAS, 
 
 is by permission 
 respectfully dedicated.
 
 Memorial. 
 
 HARRIET ANNE LUCAS, 
 
 wife of John Eucas, 
 
 died at her Philadelphia residence, 
 
 1913 Arch Street, 
 
 May 8th, 1893. 
 
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 Harriet Anne Lucas 
 
 Her singularly noble and useful life, 
 
 lier wide range of practical effort for the 
 
 best interests of the whole people, her 
 
 C vigor and success in elevating Woman's 
 
 Work, and her unequaled sweetness and 
 
 simplicity of personal character, created 
 
 a wide circle of personal and devoted 
 In friends. Much as she had suffered from 
 
 i overwork at intervals for two or three 
 years, all were shocked at the announce- 
 
 P ment of her death. All felt it as a great 
 
 5 public loss, and all felt it keenly as a per- 
 
 'i sonal ^rief. 
 
 < The tributes of respect and affection 
 sent to her husband on this occasion are 
 
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 very striking in their earnestness and sin- 
 cerity. They do honor to their writers, 
 not less than to the object of their sorrow. 
 They have been placed in my hands to 
 properly arrange them in a memorial 
 volume which will express, in addition 
 to these personal tributes, a further and 
 more general history of the noble work 
 of Mrs. Lucas. In arranging them, it 
 appears to me proper to give them the 
 direct order of date as received, and to 
 give in most cases the entire matter of 
 the notes as received. 
 
 This body of testimony to Mrs. Lucas' 
 worth will, therefore, have the first place, 
 and following it will be given the best 
 statement of my own knowledge of her 
 singularly great public services first, and 
 of her wonderful power to influence even 
 the Senate of the United States to do acts
 
 of public service which her own genius 
 proposed. 
 
 For a period of nearly twenty years I 
 have been honored by her confidence, and 
 permitted to aid her to the best of my 
 ability in these public services, and if no 
 other person had given expression to the 
 honor she had earned before the whole 
 people, I would myself have done so, in 
 order to teach the lesson of high duty as 
 well as of high power on the part of those 
 who have her ability in any degree, or who 
 can, as she did, create the largest oppor- 
 tunities, instead of waiting for them to 
 fall to their hands. And I hope this 
 Memorial will be most widely distributed, 
 and will be taken by the women of this 
 country in the highest sense as a public 
 service, and as a memorial of her personal 
 right to public honor. It would not be
 
 right or just to lier memory to limit this 
 testimonial to the single point of her per- 
 sonal worth or the devotion of her personal 
 friends ; yet there was not a shadow of 
 formalism or a suggestion of officiousness 
 in all her efforts. She did not seek com- 
 binations or committees, or have occasion 
 for the use of many of the usual agencies 
 to influence public bodies. Her own 
 words, direct and unaffected, were more 
 eloquent and more powerful, as I can per- 
 sonally testify, than all the machinery of 
 committees or conventions. 
 
 And again it must be said that no hour 
 of public service, nor any one among 
 the hundreds of efforts made by her to 
 do this superior work, ever separated her 
 for a single moment from such devotion 
 to her home, her husband and her family, 
 as gave her equal honor as a leader and
 
 guide in purely personal and social duty. 
 But on this point these earnest and 
 respectful tributes from her immediate 
 personal friends are, perhaps, the best 
 expression. 
 
 It is a first duty of those who would 
 do justice to Mrs. Lucas' memory to see 
 that her acts and works in the public 
 service are not forgotten nor neglected. 
 The latest of these, representing her 
 designs and plans for the World's Fair 
 at Chicago, is still a vigorous and living 
 issue. If that Fair is to exercise the 
 wide influence intended by her, the women 
 of Pennsylvania should maintain their 
 active interest in every phase of it. It 
 would be possible to use the County 
 Associations, and their personal agencies, 
 in distributing the practical conclusions 
 reached at the Fair.
 
 Perhaps the most important of these 
 is the proved capacity of woman's direc- 
 tion in these great social advances. It 
 was not a mistake to recognize and estab- 
 lish a Woman's Department, and especially 
 it was not a mistake or an ineffective 
 branch to establish the Pennsylvania 
 Committee of Woman's Work. A vast 
 service to the whole social order has 
 already been rendered by this committee, 
 and it must not be dropped or subordi- 
 nated as the Fair is brought to a 
 conclusion. The ladies of this com- 
 mittee, remaining in its charge, are less 
 self-assertive, perhaps, than they should 
 be, and it is quite certain that the 
 Governor and the chiefs of the Commis- 
 sion will readily permit the fullest degree 
 of reporting upon Woman's Work as the 
 Fair progresses. The plan having been 
 
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 laid with sucli elaborate care and full- 
 ness, it cannot be possible that it will 
 fail to be shown in tbe results as fully 
 as it bas done in tbe outline of design. 
 It is proper, bowever, to limit tbis state- 
 ment of tbe general relation Mrs. Lucas 
 beld to public affairs, to tbe cbanges 
 produced immediately by tbe sbock of 
 ber illness and deatb. Tbe emotions felt 
 by all tbe circle of ber friends, official 
 and personal, were overwhelming at tbe 
 time. Tbe letters of condolence bere 
 given are none of tbem formal, and 
 none of tbe acts or resolutions passed 
 by tbe Boards or Committees are with- 
 out strong evidence that their authors 
 felt tbe loss as a great and personal 
 one. It is, therefore, better to limit the 
 present statement to this mere introduc- 
 tion, and to refer those who may read
 
 it to the more extended history of her 
 public career which constitutes the second 
 part of this Memorial. 
 
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 Letters of Condolence.
 
 Letters of Condolence. 
 
 The following telegrams and letters of 
 condolence were received at their several 
 dates, as the immediate expression of 
 sympathy and respect of their writers. 
 They are here given, nearly in fnll, as 
 received : 
 
 Harrisburg, Pa., May 9, 1893. 
 From Robert E. Pattison, Governor : 
 
 You have my warmest sympathy in this hour 
 of sad bereavement. The interests of the State 
 have lost in Mrs. Lucas a warm advocate. She 
 made a deep impression by her interest in the 
 silk culture, and by her efforts in behalf of 
 Pennsylvania at the Exposition. 
 
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 World's Fair Grounds, 
 
 Chicago, May 9, 1893. 
 From A. B. Farquhar, Executive Commissioner : 
 Accept my heartfelt sympathy in your great 
 misfortune ; your gentle, beautiful wife was dear 
 to us all. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 9, 1893. 
 From Rev. Herman L. Duhring : 
 
 I have just heard of your dear wife's death, and 
 the loss to you must certainly be a great one, 
 and to the children even greater. But what a 
 record she has left of so many good works for 
 our blessed Master! Truly she went about 
 doing good everywhere, and verily she has gone 
 both to her rest and her reward, in that blessed 
 home where sorrow and sickness are no more a 
 burden. 
 
 4027 Walnut Street, 
 Philadelphia, May 10, 1893. 
 From Bishop O. W. Whitaker : 
 
 I beg leave to tell you of my sympathy with 
 you in the great loss you have sustained. I have 
 feared for more than two years that Mrs. Lucas 
 
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 was overtaxing her strength, and that the Church 
 might soon be deprived of her invaluable aid. 
 Everywhere she will be greatly missed, and 
 everywhere she has been her works will follow 
 her. 
 
 With heartfelt remembrance of the good she 
 did, and greatest sympathy with you, 
 
 I am, sincerely yours, 
 
 O. W. Whitaker. 
 
 June 30, 1893. 
 From Bishop A. C. Coxe : 
 
 Need I say how much I am pained to learn 
 of the decease of that amiable and remarkable 
 Christian lady, your excellent and exemplary 
 wife? You have the condolence of multitudes 
 whom her life and labors have blessed ; and 
 through our common and valued friend. 
 Dr. Ashton, I have learned so much of her life 
 and character that mine is no common tribute 
 of sympathy and regret. 
 
 Faithfully yours, in the love of Christ, 
 A. Cleveland Coxe, 
 Bishop of Western New York. 
 
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 Trenton, N. J., May ii, 1893. 
 From Bishop John Scarborough : 
 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : Though I could not be 
 with you to-day, you have my prayers and 
 sympathy in your great loss and sorrow. I had 
 the most profound reverence and regard for your 
 dear wife's character ; she was the most unselfish 
 woman. The sad news of her death was 
 brought to me in the Convention by Mr. Milby, 
 and while I was not wholly unprepared for it, I 
 still find it hard to realize that I will never again 
 hear her greeting or see her face on this side of 
 the veil. She won my admiration, many years 
 ago, as a woman of affairs, and every year my 
 admiration grew. She will be missed as few 
 others would be — your loss of course, the 
 greatest, then the children next. But she filled 
 a large place in the world, and outside the home 
 there will be many an aching void. My own 
 personal obligations to you both have been very 
 large for the generous gift of Church property at 
 Gibbsboro. I wish now that in some way that 
 little Church that she named and loved might be 
 made a memorial of her. 
 
 I need not tell you where to look for comfort 
 in this hour ; the words of friends, though well 
 
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 meant, will sound empty. There is but one that 
 can pour balm into your aching heart. Look to 
 Him and He will enable you to bear what He 
 sends. 
 
 My wife joins me in messages of love and 
 condolence, and though she did not know 
 Mrs. Lucas as well as I did, yet she knew her 
 well enough to recognize her wonderful power 
 and great goodness. May God comfort you, and 
 strengthen you by His grace to bear what he 
 sends you. Remember me kindly to your 
 children and believe me. 
 
 Your friend sincerely, 
 
 John Scarborough. 
 
 The Deanery, Denver, Colorado, 
 
 May i6, 1893. 
 From Rev. H. Martyn Hart : 
 
 My Dear Old Friend : I was thinking of you 
 
 when the postman put the black-edged letter 
 
 into my hand, and I felt she had gone. Well, all 
 
 I pray is, that you and I may be where she of a 
 
 certainty is. Good, dear, capable and blessed 
 
 woman ! Mrs. Hart wrote two or three months 
 
 ago, but she got the wrong address, and the 
 
 letter came back through the dead letter office. 
 
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 She would like to hear how it all came, from 
 Nellie. But I know that the thread of life 
 gradually wound off the spool and she departed. 
 
 I am far more sorry for you — to have such a 
 wife, and then to be without her, is indeed to 
 feel a want. Try to feel she is near you, and try 
 to be and do what she would like you to be. 
 But the heart knoweth its own bitterness, and 
 no other intermeddleth with it, and nothing on 
 earth will make up for your loss. I only hope 
 God will give you help to "go softly" the bit 
 of the way you have left to go, and then we 
 will all soon be there. 
 
 My wife, of course, sends her love to you all. 
 She often, often talked of her. She made a great 
 impression on her. 
 
 Ever in much sympathy, yours, 
 
 H. Martyn Hart 
 
 1240 South Broad Street, 
 Philadelphia, June 27, 1893. 
 From Rev. James S. Stone : 
 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas: I will do as you wish 
 me and have the sermon printed in a form that 
 will please you and all who may read it. I am 
 so glad you liked it. It was my great desire to 
 
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 say words that in themselves would be worthy of 
 my subject — or to put it in another way, my love 
 for you and yours was such, that I wanted the 
 sermon to be both an exact delineation of Mrs. 
 Lucas, and also as far as I could possibly make 
 it, a finished piece of art. My affection must 
 be understood in my effort. 
 
 I would have done more — anything for you 
 that was in my power. God bless you iu these 
 sad days, and make still more real the assurance 
 that she is at rest. 
 
 Will you kindly fill up the blanks in the 
 enclosed, so that I may add it to the sermon? 
 With love to you all, I remain, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 James S. Stone. 
 
 1224 Chestnut Street, 
 Philadelphia, May 9, 1893. 
 From Rev. T. A. Femley : 
 
 You will pardon the liberty taken by a com- 
 parative stranger, but my sincere sympathy with 
 you in your great sorrow will be a sufficient 
 apology. 
 
 I had the pleasure of some acquaintance with 
 your departed wife. I knew her as a positive 
 
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 friend of tlie Christian Sabbath. I admired her 
 for the noble stand she took on the Ladies' 
 Board in favor of Sunday closing of the Colum- 
 bian Exposition, and I had learned to esteem 
 her as a Christian lady. 
 
 Her works do follow her — she has done her 
 part, and has entered upon her great and eternal 
 reward. While you are sitting under the 
 shadow of this great sorrow, may I remind 
 you, my dear brother, that He doeth all things 
 well. You mourn not as those without hope. 
 The beautiful, gone out from your earthly home, 
 has expanded into a better and happier life — in 
 the House not made with hands, eternal in the 
 Heavens. 
 
 Board of Lady Managers, World's Columbian 
 Commission. 
 
 Office of the Secretary, 
 
 Chicago, May lo, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas: 
 
 Dear Sir: In accordance with the following 
 resolution, adopted by the Executive Committee 
 of the Board of Lady Managers, I have the 
 honor to transmit you herewith a copy of a 
 communication adopted by said committee at 
 
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 a meeting lield May ninth, eighteen hundred 
 and ninety-three. 
 
 Most truly yours, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 Resolved, That a communication conveying 
 suitable expressions of sympathy and regret be 
 sent to Mr. John Lucas, of Philadelphia. 
 
 Whereas, Our Heavenly Father, on the eighth 
 day of May, one thousand eight hundred and 
 ninety-three, called to a better world our 
 esteemed colleague, Mrs. Harriet Anne Lucas, 
 of Pennsylvania, who has during previous meet- 
 ings of our Board, been one of our number, 
 sitting in our councils and taking part in our 
 deliberations ; and. 
 
 Whereas, It is fitting that we pause at this 
 time to heed the admonitions which are 
 suggested to us by this, another visitation from 
 the messenger of death ; and. 
 
 Whereas, It is appropriate that we express 
 our appreciation of one who with willing hands 
 has ever been ready to labor for the advance- 
 ment of her sex, and to carry out in every 
 possible way the plans and purposes of our 
 Board; therefore be it 
 
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 Resolved, That in the death of Mrs. Harriet 
 Anne Lucas, the Board of Lady Managers of 
 the World's Columbian Commission, has lost 
 one of its most loved and useful members, one 
 who was recognized by all as a high type of 
 Christian womanhood; and further be it 
 
 Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved 
 ones our heartfelt sympathy in this their hour 
 of great loneliness. 
 
 Resolved, That this tribute to the memor>^ of 
 our loved associate be spread upon our minutes, 
 and an engrossed copy of the same sent to 
 the afflicted family. 
 
 Mrs. E. W. Allen, 
 Mrs. Belle H. Perkins, 
 Ellen A. Ford. 
 
 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true 
 and correct copy of the proceedings of the 
 Executive Committee of the Board of Lady 
 Managers, at its session in Chicago, Illinois, 
 May ninth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 ninety-three. 
 
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 Chicago, May 9, 1893. 
 From A. B. Farquliar, 
 
 Executive Commissioner : 
 Mr. John Lucas: It was good of you to 
 telegraph me. You knew how deeply I would 
 sympathize with you all. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas was altogether one of the most 
 lovely women whom it has ever been my good 
 fortune to meet. "To see her was to love her, 
 to know her a liberal education." Her death 
 has cast a gloom upon every one here. Mrs. 
 Palmer has several times asked me about her. 
 You have your children — one of the loveliest 
 families I have ever been favored to know. 
 But nothing can ever take the place of the 
 wife and the mother. Words of mine can 
 bring no comfort. I am not attempting to offer 
 consolation ; but a suggestion I may offer — that 
 is — that you keep occupied, push your business, 
 and everything that will take up your time; 
 and encourage the daughters to be busy at 
 something. Work during the day until tired 
 nature forces sleep at night, and time — the great 
 healer — will eventually soothe. 
 
 I am very sincerely your friend, 
 
 A. B. Farquhar, 
 Executive Commissioner. 
 
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 Harrisburg, May lo, 1893. 
 John Lucas, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir: Since I have been associated with 
 your wife on the State Columbian Board, I have 
 come to know her so well, and to esteem her 
 so highly, that perhaps in some remote degree 
 I can appreciate what your great sorrow must 
 be. She was so earnest, so sincere, so lovely 
 in disposition and character, that every one 
 who met her must feel her loss, even while 
 believing that she is happier now, being freed 
 from human shackles and human pain. 
 
 I have feared for some time that she was 
 working beyond her strength, but I hoped that 
 rest would again restore her energy. 
 
 Our entire Board will miss her deeply, and 
 mourn with you with truest sympathy. 
 
 Mabel Cronise Jones. 
 
 Woman's Building, 
 
 Chicago, May 8, 1893. 
 
 Miss Estelle Russel writes: 
 
 It was with the greatest sorrow that I heard 
 to-day, through Mrs. Palmer's secretary, of the 
 
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 death of dear Mrs. Lucas. I cannot tell how 
 badly I feel. I only wish that I was in 
 Philadelphia, that I might possibly be able to 
 do something. I felt the last time I saw her 
 — the day before I left for Chicago — that she 
 could not last much longer; yet when the 
 worst came, it was such a shock. How every 
 one will miss her! Still we should not grieve, 
 for she was a great sufferer, and is happy 
 now, and at rest 
 
 Philadelphia, May 8, 1893. 
 Mr. Wm. Underdo wn writes : 
 
 I was greatly surprised this morning to hear 
 from Dr. Stone of the death of your beloved 
 wife. Please accept my deepest sympathy (in 
 which my dear wife and daughter will unite) 
 in this hour of sorrow and bereavement ; but try 
 and not think of her as dead, but only gone to 
 her eternal rest, after a life of noble work for the 
 good of others. How many in this City of 
 Brotherly Love, and other places, will remember 
 her affectionately. I will call and see you as 
 soon after the funeral as possible. 
 
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 Shawmont, May 8, 1893. 
 Another friend writes: 
 
 I heard with sorrow, this noon, of the 
 departure of your beloved. Her earthly cares 
 have at last been brought to a close, to receive 
 that Heavenly blessing she has so well earned. 
 Hov/ nobly she bore the cross, and well she 
 deserves the crown ! All those who knew her 
 good and kind nature must join in asking 
 God's blessing. 
 
 A more fond mother never lived, and with 
 all her family cares she was ever ready to 
 reach out and help lighten the burdens of 
 others, much beyond her physical strength. 
 This earth has certainly parted with a Queen 
 of her sex. 
 
 What we look upon as a disaster is, after all, 
 a great promotion. If ever Heaven welcomed 
 a pure and holy spirit the occasion exists now 
 with your beloved. I am reminded now of 
 the consoling lines inserted in this notice, 
 of the departure of my beloved daughter : 
 
 The tomb is not a blind alley, it is a thoroughfare ; 
 It closes in the twilight to open on the dawn. 
 
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 Atlantic City, N. J., May 9, 1893. 
 Henry Wootton writes: 
 
 I have just been informed of the death of 
 your dear wife; no words can make amends 
 for the great loss you have sustained. 
 
 A true wife and a devoted mother, no 
 higher eulogy can be pronounced upon any 
 woman. Truly the great central sun of your 
 household has gone down; and I most truly, 
 deeply sympathize with you in your great 
 affliction. 
 
 1832 Thirteenth Street, N. W., 
 
 Washington, May 9, 1893. 
 From Thomas Y. Yeates, Secretary of 
 St. George's North American Union : 
 I have this a. m. been informed by Brother 
 Underdown of your great loss, and I hasten to 
 tender the sympathies of a husband who has a 
 noble, faithful and loving wife, and who can 
 therefore, to some extent, appreciate what the 
 loss of such a wife as yours is to you. 
 
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 Romaine, Baltimore, May 9, 1893. 
 From Hon. Edgar G. Miller : 
 
 I cannot refrain from writing a little word to 
 you. The sad intelligence reaches us to-day of 
 the departure of your companion and our 
 friend. Her poor health and weakness of frame 
 must have led you to the consciousness of this 
 coming ; but the blow falls heavily, not only 
 upon her beloved family, but upon all with 
 whom she was associated. She was so gentle, 
 yet so energetic; so intelligent, so kind, so 
 untiring. Her monument is already raised in 
 her good works, and in her admirable family 
 around you still. May you and they be com- 
 forted by the thought of her attained peace, 
 and the loving memory in which she will be 
 held by so many. 
 
 Shawmont, Philadelphia, May 9, 1893. 
 From Mrs. Cora Shaw Wilson : 
 
 From the depths of my heart I feel a 
 daughter's sympathy and affection for you in 
 the heavy sorrow that has fallen upon you. 
 
 I have felt the weight of the " Cross," and 
 know how the heart cries out against the hand 
 of death ; but above and beyond it all, like a star, 
 
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 has risen the ascension, the glorious promises 
 of "The Christ" and the hope of Heaven, and 
 I am comforted. 
 
 May you feel the loving consolation of the 
 Saviour who is ever with us all, in the sunshine 
 and shadows of life. 
 
 Surely in all the realms of Heaven there can 
 be no more beautiful spirit than Mrs. Lucas. 
 Womanhood has been elevated by her charity, 
 tenderness and godliness of purpose. 
 
 Well may we wonder how it is that such an 
 one should be taken ; but Heaven hath her needs 
 as well as earth, and thus it is that the flowers 
 of earth to-day become the flowers of Heaven 
 to-morrow. 
 
 Shawmont, Philadelphia, May 9, 1893. 
 From Joseph Wilson : 
 
 The true, gentle, womanly Mrs. Lucas has 
 gone beyond the low-hanging white clouds, 
 and the high blue dome above ; but a fragrance 
 like the odor of the white violet pervades the 
 memory of that " Sister of Mercy " to mankind, 
 and though no sympathy of mine can alleviate 
 your sufiering, yet I would have you know at 
 this period that my eyes are wet with yours, 
 
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 that lier lovely form stands before me magnified 
 and glorified with the sanctity of the life I loved 
 to quote as the exemplification of an unselfish, 
 loving mother. May God bless the memory of 
 such a mother — I say this as a son. 
 
 Camden, N. J., May lo, 1893. 
 From George F. Fort, Esq. : 
 
 In common with your host of friends, sympa- 
 thizing with you just now, let me also send my 
 line of sorrows for the loss of your wife — a 
 calamity so great, that no words are equal to 
 expressing it. 
 
 I had always looked upon your household as a 
 typical one, and where such thorough sympa- 
 thetic affection existed as between yourself and 
 Mrs. Lucas it would be impossible to imagine 
 one more so. 
 
 Washington, May 11, 1893. 
 From Charles F. Benjamin, Esq. : 
 
 You have the true sympathy of friends and 
 fellow-countrymen here for the loss that has 
 come upon you and your household, and there are 
 some of us that cannot soon forget the gracious 
 one from whom you are parted for a time. 
 
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 New York, May ii, 1893. 
 From Jotin F. Cannon : 
 
 I know that this letter will find yon filled with 
 grief at the loss of your dear wife. You have 
 indeed sufiered a great afiliction ; a more faithful 
 partner never lived, and few men, I venture to 
 say, ever enjoyed more domestic tranquillity 
 than yourself " A true wife and a devoted 
 mother;" no higher eulogy can be pronounced 
 upon any woman. Truly the great central sun 
 of your household has gone down, and I most 
 truly, deeply sympathize with you and yours in 
 your afiliction. I deeply realize that expressions 
 of condolence wholly fail to restore the loved and 
 lost one, yet I cannot but hope that the heartfelt 
 sympathy of a sincere friend will not be deemed 
 intrusion on your grief 
 
 May 12, 1893. 
 From Mrs. Julia Trenwith : 
 
 I do not think there is any one who can 
 sympathize more with you than we can in your 
 very severe loss of your noble and good wife. 
 Oh, how sad it is to give up our loved ones ! 
 But we must bow with submission to our Holy 
 Father, and say, "Thy will be done." I have a 
 
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 precious legacy from Mrs. Lucas, in a beautiful 
 letter which she wrote to us while in bed, and I 
 shall always treasure it. 
 
 1 8 Hopper Street, Utica, N. Y., 
 
 May 12, 1893. 
 From Daniel Batchelor, Esq. : 
 
 A letter from Mr. Underdown, received on the 
 ninth instant, brought me the sad news of your 
 bereavement. I know well enough that without 
 my using the conventional words of condolence, 
 yoii will believe me when I say I deeply sympa- 
 thize with you in your great affliction. More 
 than thirty years ago I lost a dear wife and have 
 since then been afflicted many times by the loss 
 of daughters, son, sisters, brothers, and last 
 month a dear grand-daughter in her nineteenth 
 year. Dear John, it is an adage that " the 
 penalty of longevity is that our friends die away 
 from us." I think that it is one of the penalties 
 of living at all. 
 
 Yesterday's mail brought me a letter in your 
 own handwriting, and enclosing a copy of most 
 tenderly pathetic verses, composed by you, for 
 your dear one, dated December 16, 1892. There 
 is an exquisitely natural pathos in your lines and 
 
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 most admirably expressed. I have read them to 
 my wife who said on hearing them, "How 
 sacred that poem must be to Mr. Lucas now." 
 
 " But if the Spring, ah ! if the Spring led on 
 to Summer." Let it not be doubted but that 
 the Spring led your dear one on to the eternal 
 Summer of everlasting bliss. 
 
 May the blessings of Heaven come to you in 
 the sweet remembrance of the dear departed. 
 
 Olean, N. Y., May 12, 1893. 
 From Rev. J. W. Ash ton : 
 
 I have been unable to write while feeling the 
 pangs of grief which dear Mrs. Lucas' death has 
 occasioned. And now, although all is over, as it 
 were, I cannot convey any idea of my sense of 
 personal loss, or the deep sympathy that I feel 
 for you and the dear bereaved family. 
 
 I can only say, she was a woman of unques- 
 tioning faith and unbounded love, and will be 
 missed more and more as years roll on. Such 
 love, such friendship, such heroic devotion to 
 what she deemed her duty, has rarely been 
 equalled, never surpassed. 
 
 It was impossible, of course, for me, under the 
 circumstances, to attend the funeral, and I did 
 
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 not encourage Mrs. Ashton's going for similar 
 reasons. It is a comfort to have been with her 
 a few times before she passed away, as it was her 
 wish that I should be, and in any way to have 
 ministered to her happiness. Her memory is 
 cherished, as she was one of our dearest and 
 truest friends. 
 
 St. Louis, May 12, 1893. 
 From T. M. Page, Esq. : 
 
 I have this moment seen a notice of your 
 bereavement, and am moved to write to you by 
 recollection of your last interview with my 
 father, in November, 1891. He lived until the 
 following February, and often told me how 
 glad he was to have seen you once more on 
 earth. 
 
 It is in times of sorrow that men feel the need 
 of honest sympathy of their fellow-men. I 
 know that lesson by heart. For three 3^ears it 
 has been brought home to me. In that time I 
 have lost both father and mother, and now, an 
 only child, unmarried, I am living alone in the 
 old home. 
 
 Fortunately, you have children to lighten your 
 loss by sharing it with you. But at your time 
 
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 of life such separation is hard for mortal strength 
 to bear. 
 
 That the love yet left to you may give you 
 precious cheer is the wish of 
 
 T. M. Page. 
 
 1329 South Broad Street, 
 
 May 13, 1893. 
 
 John Lucas, Esq. : 
 
 Dear Friend : I felt the deepest regret at the 
 announcement of the death of Mrs. Lucas, and I 
 feel it my duty to prepare a memorial of her 
 singularly great and honorable public services, 
 for publication both in the journals, probably the 
 " Press," and in permanent form for presveration. 
 
 Her purposes were so much above the usual 
 objects and ambitions of even the best of those 
 who engage in the public service, that she 
 commanded the respect and secured the action of 
 the highest authorities in whatever she proposed. 
 I was very much struck with this fact, when she 
 visited Washington to obtain an appropriation in 
 the aid of silk culture, and I am quite sure that 
 no other person could, and certainly no other 
 person ever did, exercise an equal influence in 
 such a case. 
 
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 It is a great misfortune that her health and 
 life could not have been spared to continue the 
 direction of women's interest in the World's 
 Fair at Chicago ; she would have honored Penn- 
 sylvania, and the whole country indeed, much 
 beyond what I fear will be the result now. 
 
 I have had such especial opportunity to 
 participate in Mrs. Lucas' efforts in the public 
 service that I think it my first duty to prepare 
 the memorial I have here referred to. I shall be 
 g-lad to know if you have any wishes or sugges- 
 tions in regard to it, and to conform to them in 
 whatever I do. 
 
 Very truly and respectfully, 
 
 Lorin BlodgeL 
 
 Clifton Springs, N. Y., May 15, 1892. 
 From Henry Foster, M. D. : 
 
 It is with great sorrow that we have heard 
 that Mrs. Lucas has left you, and we hasten to 
 express to you, and to your family, the sincere 
 sympathy of Mrs. Foster and myself in this 
 great bereavement. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas seemed so frail last autumn, that 
 we feared the result of the great responsibili- 
 ties which she was carrying ; but her indomitable 
 
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 will seemed to rise above her physical condi- 
 tion, and we hoped she might be enabled to 
 complete her work. 
 
 May God help you all to bear this sorrow, 
 and comfort your hearts in this time of 
 trouble. Mrs. Foster joins me in the expres- 
 sion of our sympathy, and the assurance of 
 our regard. 
 
 Louisville, Ky., May 13, 1893. 
 From J. R. Goldsborough : 
 
 I have just read in a letter from the office 
 the sad notice of your recent lamentable 
 bereavement, and while I know that the ten- 
 derest expressions of sympathy and condolence 
 can do but little to assuage the deep grief that 
 must come with such dispensations, the heart 
 promptings of one who has been befriended, 
 not only by the living, but by the loved one 
 gone to her reward, cause me to proffer to you 
 in your sorrow the sincere sympathy and 
 sorrow I feel for you, and which is extended 
 with equal feeling to all the members of your 
 bereaved and sorrow-stricken household. 
 
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 Clifton Springs, N. Y., May 15, 1893. 
 From Bradford Loveland, M. D. : 
 
 I was mucb. pained to learn, as I did only a 
 few days since, of your very sad bereavement, 
 and my beart bas gone out toward you in 
 your affliction. 
 
 Few men could bave sucb a bereavement, 
 for few men bave sucb a wife to lose. 
 
 But I suppose we must look to " Him wbo 
 knowetb all tbings, and never afflicts willingly 
 tbe cbildren of men," and in Him and from 
 Him, get tbe strengtb and patience to bear 
 wbat be puts on us. 
 
 Tbe remembrance of ber life will be to you 
 as tbe last sweet fragrance of roses tbat tbougb 
 fallen, bless tbe air about tbem, till you go to 
 meet ber wbere tbere is no sickness, no 
 parting and no deatb. 
 
 You may feel assured tbat you bave tbe 
 beartfelt sympatby of all your friends and 
 acquaintances bere. 
 
 Pbiladelpbia, May 14, 1893. 
 From Henry E. Dwigbt, M.D. : 
 
 I tbank you for tbe kind remembrance of 
 our bousebold in tbe mourning card received 
 
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 yesterday. For thirty years, ever since my 
 return from Europe at the completion of 
 certain studies incidental to professional life, I 
 have had the privilege of knowing yourself 
 and wife. To me it has been a great privi- 
 lege, both in social life and in our common 
 duties as citizens, to observe her remarkable 
 ability, fitness and grace in every circle of 
 society in which she moved— in Church and 
 State, among the rich, in the higher walks, 
 among the poor in their poverty, she was 
 always the same dignified, intelligent, eminently 
 attractive and useful woman. 
 
 To have trained such a family from infancy 
 to adult years, is more than most women 
 accomplish in life ; to have been the guiding 
 mind, not in female circles only, nor in one 
 church merely, nor in beneficial societies 
 simply, but over and above all these, to be 
 recognized as a social leader in our best 
 society, in all forms of activity, in organiza- 
 tions, which begin with the cradle, and follow 
 the poor, the sick, and the helpless to the 
 grave, is to be a queen among women, 
 wearing a coronet of the highest rank, honored 
 and beloved by all mankind. 
 
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 Such, my dear friend, was your beloved 
 partner in life. We all share with you this 
 loss, for we all have lost a friend, a partner in 
 our common work, as citizens, as parents, as 
 churchmen, in our families, and our beloved city. 
 
 This is the Lord's day, fit time for reflection, 
 for sympathy with those in sorrow and distress. 
 I would say more, but at the remembrance of 
 thirty long years of such usefulness for God 
 and humanity, the record speaks for itself. It 
 needs no eulogy. With the tenderest sympathy 
 for yourself and family, 
 
 Henr>' E. Dwight. 
 
 Roanoke, Va., May 14, 1893. 
 Messrs. John lyucas & Co., 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Gentlemen : Yours of the 9th inst. at hand. 
 I am very sorry to hear of Mr. Lucas' sad 
 bereavement in the death of his wife. I never 
 had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Lucas, but 
 have heard much of her many noble and 
 charitable acts and Christian virtues. My 
 friend, Hugh Mcllheny, of Staunton, Va., told 
 me of a reception she gave him and a com- 
 mittee of gentlemen sent to Philadelphia from 
 
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 Virginia, on some charitable mission, and how 
 pleasant and gracefully she received them, with 
 a beautiful and appropriate address. 
 
 From all that I have heard of her she must 
 have been a very superior woman. Please 
 extend my sympathy and regards to ]Mr. lyucas. 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 J. M. Westmoreland. 
 
 lyctter sent by the firm of John Lucas & Co. to 
 its representatives : 
 
 Philadelphia, May 9, 1893. 
 
 We regret to announce the decease, on the 
 eighth instant, of Mrs. Harriet A. Lucas, wife of 
 Mr. John Lucas. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas had been quite unwell for nearly 
 two years, but it was only within the last few 
 months, that her indomitable energy would 
 succumb to the feebleneness of the body. 
 Notwithstanding the enforced confinement to 
 her room, she, by means of a secretar}', carried 
 on the work assigned her, as a Commissioner 
 of the World's Fair from Pennsylvania, also 
 her interest in the Woman's Silk Culture 
 Association (with which she was so long 
 
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 identified) and otlier public and private 
 charities. Her last appearance in public, was 
 as presiding officer at a meeting of the Penn- 
 sylvania Commissioners, and in a reception 
 tendered its members by herself. Although 
 suffering intensely, she went from her room, 
 successfully carried out the programme, and 
 returned never to leave home again. 
 
 There was hardly a cause needing help but 
 what Mrs. Lucas came to the front with 
 assistance, both in time and means. The energy 
 displayed m sustaining the almost innumerable 
 charitable interests, public-spirited endeavors, 
 and private benevolences, with which she was 
 connected, doubtless overtaxed the hitherto 
 vigorous constitution, until now the working 
 time is over, and she rests from her self- 
 sacrificing labors. 
 
 To Mr. John lyUcas, who has been confined 
 to his house for nearly a year, the separation is 
 most sad and painful, while the sons and 
 daughters have lost one of the kindest and 
 most devoted of mothers. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 John lyucas &. Co. 
 
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 3809 Chestnut Street, 
 
 May 15, 1893. 
 From John Sparhawk, Esq. : 
 
 Not having seen you when I called at your 
 house, last week, I wish to avail myself of this 
 opportunity of saying how deep and earnest has 
 been the sympathy we all have felt for you and 
 yours in this your season of great bereavement. 
 The removal of your dear wife, however, is not 
 a loss confined to your own immediate home- 
 circle. It is a sorrow which comes to take its 
 place at innumerable firesides, which have been 
 made brighter by her life and influence. It is a 
 loss to her city and her race. 
 
 I shall never forget the days we all spent 
 together in the South, — her sunshine and her 
 cheer. I especially recall her kindly words to 
 the widow of the man who was accidentally 
 killed in the changing of the gauge in North 
 Carolina. It was only a part of that abundant 
 charity which " thinketh no evil, and which 
 seeketh not its own." 
 
 Undoubtedly the days of her years have been 
 shortened by the ministrations which spent her 
 strength and drained her vital energies. From 
 
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 labors such as tliese she falls asleep, and through 
 the great silence passes on "to where beyond 
 these voices there is peace." 
 
 Clifton Springs, N. Y., 
 
 May i6, 1893. 
 From Mrs. Alice F. Tatum : 
 
 My thoughts have often turned to you and 
 your family in the last few days, since I heard 
 of the great sorrow that has come to you, — a 
 trial so great, that I felt it was beyond the 
 power of words or human sympathy to reach. 
 I don't know any one of whom it could be so- 
 fitly said, "None knew her but to love her, 
 none named her but to praise." I do thank 
 you very much for sending me the verses, 
 which reached me yesterday ; they are very 
 lovely, and I prize them highly. There have 
 been many expressions of kind feelings and 
 sympathy for you from the various officers of 
 this household, and from the servants who 
 waited upon both of you. Dr. Loveland 
 intends writing to you, and Dr. Foster would, 
 I am sure, send a special message, if he knew 
 I was writing. 
 
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 Washiugton, May 17, 1893. 
 Hon. Jolin Lucas : 
 
 Dear Friend : Just received notice that your 
 good wife had passed to her reward. The good 
 works and lovely Christian example she has 
 perfumed this earth with, will live after her, 
 and in imperishable characters. It is inscribed on 
 the hearts of all that knew her. Why such good 
 women should be taken, and those left who but 
 cumber the ground, is beyond my ken. I do know 
 the world is better that Mrs. Lucas lived in it. 
 
 It must be a comforting solace, that the good 
 deeds done by your dear wife, will also rise up 
 to call her blessed and be a benediction to you. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. W. Dudley. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 17, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 I am gratified by your kind thoughtfulness 
 in sending me the affectionate remembrance 
 card of one who was so active and devoted to 
 all good, benevolent and patriotic work. 
 
 In the death of your beloved wife Philadelphia 
 and the country at large has been deprived of 
 the inestimable services of one who was 
 eminent in her zeal and activity in matters of 
 
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 common weal, as well as in active Christian 
 benevolence. Her place cannot be supplied. I 
 am sure I feel and express but the general 
 sentiment. Permit me to express also my deep 
 sympathy, both to you and those around you, 
 in your deep affliction, and believe me. 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Edward Shippen. 
 
 13 16 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 
 
 May 18, 1893. 
 From Robert C. Ogden, Esq. : 
 
 In common with your large circle of friends 
 
 and the entire community, myself and family 
 
 have been mourning with you and yours the 
 
 loss of Mrs. Lucas. I have no theory upon 
 
 which to explain the mystery of sorrow, and 
 
 can only, out of an experience of bereavement, 
 
 tender you the poor comfort of my sympathy, 
 
 in this period of darkness and loss. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Robert C. Ogden. 
 
 Chicago, May 19, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 I was much pained in taking up a paper here, 
 
 of last week, to read of the death of your 
 
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 good wife. I must send just a line to express 
 my sympathy in this great trial. 
 
 I thought of her the other day as I was in 
 the Fair Grounds, looking at some of the 
 springing flowers. I saw one named "Director 
 Lucas." Her influence was no doubt greatly 
 felt in this greatest of the World's Fairs. 
 
 I think much of her and her hard faithful 
 work for our Home of Rest, and know that we 
 are much indebted to her for faithful service 
 at a time when it must have been a great 
 strain upon her health. With sincerest 
 sympathy, I remain, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Robert A. Edwards, 
 Rector of Church of St. Matthias, 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Kingston, Ont, May 19, 1893. 
 Dear Sir and Brother: 
 
 I am in receipt to-day of the mourning card 
 in memory of your late and excellent wife, 
 Harriet Anne Lucas. Her death came with 
 terrible force. I had always anticipated the 
 pleasure of entertaining her here whenever 
 the Convention should be held in this city. 
 
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 It was one of the greatest pleasures I looked 
 forward to. On behalf of the Brethren I beg 
 to tender you and the members of your family 
 our heartiest sympathy and condolence at the 
 irreparable loss you have sustained. 
 With kind regards, I am, 
 
 Yours, fraternally, 
 
 A. W. Smythe, 
 President St. George's Union. 
 
 Springfield, Eden Bridge, 
 
 Kent, England, May 20, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 On opening the envelope just received from 
 you I was saddened and startled to see the 
 news of the great bereavement which has 
 fallen upon you by the loss of your wife, 
 whom to know was to respect and admire. 
 For the bright spirit which has passed away, 
 and now pursues her upward and onward 
 course in a fuller and freer life, we need not 
 grieve, but for those she has left behind, and 
 upon whose lives her beneficent light was cast, 
 my sympathy flows out, and I would beg them 
 never to think for one moment that her life 
 has passed from their reach, but to believe that 
 
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 that self-sacrificing, sympathetic and enthusiastic 
 spirit, which once tenanted that mortal frame, 
 is still with them, for God's children in Heaven 
 and God's children on earth are both in their 
 Father's arms, the only difference being that 
 the former may be able to see the Father's 
 face more clearly than the latter. 
 
 Fraternally would I grasp your hand in this 
 dark period of your life and express my 
 sympathy with you, and that God will comfort 
 you and yours, as He only can, while you 
 learn this hard lesson of submission, is the 
 belief of your sincere friend, 
 
 Edward B. Gilburt. 
 
 Carlton Club, London, May 20, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 I received yesterday the papers with the 
 very sad intelligence of Mrs. Lucas' death, and 
 I hasten to offer yon my heartfelt condo- 
 lence. I sympathize with you sincerely in 
 your heavy afiliction. I well know how you 
 must feel, and I will not attempt to write at 
 length at such a time. 
 
 Remembering always your courtesies and 
 kindness to me, and regretting that there is 
 
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 nothing that I can say or do that will lessen 
 your great grief, I am, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Sir) John H. Puleston. 
 
 34 Redcliffe Gardens, South Kensington, 
 
 May 20, 1893. 
 My Dear Uncle John : 
 
 I cannot tell you how inexpressibly grieved 
 
 I was to find from the paper I received from 
 
 you to-day of the terrible blow you have 
 
 received in losing your dear wife on the 
 
 eighth of this month. No words of mine can 
 
 possibly convey comfort to your bereaved 
 
 heart. I can but pray that the Great Comforter 
 
 will be with you Himself. May He teach you 
 
 to say, as dear old George Herbert says, 
 
 ' ' Yet take Thy way ; for sure Thy way is best. ' ' 
 
 I know by bitter experience the awful blank 
 in one's life, when a dearly-loved one 
 is taken from us, and how hard it is to 
 look up through our tears and say, " Thy will 
 be done." For her I know you will rejoice 
 that after the months of weary suffering she 
 is at peace and happy forever. Many will miss 
 her active ministry, I know, and the blank in 
 
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 tiie home-circle will be inexpressible. Your 
 own health is no doubt suffering greatly from 
 the shock, but I do trust you will soon be 
 
 strong again. 
 
 May He who knew what it was to weep at 
 the grave of a dear friend comfort you all, 
 dear Uncle and Cousins. 
 
 With much love and heartfelt sympathy, 
 your loving niece, Harriet (I^ucas). 
 
 581 Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, Canada. 
 
 May 21, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 My sister, Mrs. Stanley Bagg, has asked me 
 to enclose her card to the family ; and in doing 
 so I desire to send a few lines and unite with 
 your many other friends in expressing our very 
 sincere and deep sympathy in the great and 
 overwhelming sorrow and loss that has come to 
 yourself and once happy home. 
 
 As my memory goes back over the many 
 years of our acquaintance, and I recall the 
 invariable courtesy and kindness of yourself 
 and dear Mrs. Lucas, I feel that our friendship 
 was mutual and unfeigned ; and though my 
 absence from Philadelphia has deprived me of 
 
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 the privilege of often meeting your lovely wife, 
 
 I have always entertained a very high respect 
 
 for her gracious accomplishments and Christian 
 
 character, as exemplified by her interests and 
 
 efforts in many good works. After a most 
 
 useful and well-spent life she is now " forever 
 
 with the Lord." 
 
 " The Saints of God their vigils keep, 
 While yet their mortal bodies sleep, 
 Till from the dust, they too shall rise 
 And soar triumphant to the skies. 
 Oh ! happy Saints ; forever blest, 
 At Jesus' feet how safe your rest." 
 
 Accept, dear sir, for yourself and all with 
 
 you, our united kind regards and sympathy, 
 
 and believe me. 
 
 Very faithfully and respectfully, 
 
 Fanny M. Mitcheson. 
 
 30 King's Road, Brighton, England, 
 
 May 21, 1893. 
 My Dear Brother : 
 
 We received a newspaper on Friday last, 
 
 conveying the sad news of dear sister Harriet's 
 
 death, with great sorrow. We sympathize 
 
 with you very much in the loss of one with 
 
 whom you have been treading life's pathway 
 
 for so many years. To your home circle the 
 
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 loss must be irreparable, as no one could 
 bear your cbildren speak of ber witbout see- 
 ing bow tenderly sbe was loved. 
 
 Wbile sbe was in England last, sbe won 
 tbe love of botb Alice and myself, and until 
 tbe last few montbs we bave looked forward 
 to seeing ber again in England. Her later 
 letters bave breatbed sucb a tone of illness, 
 tbat we feared tbe day of parting was not far 
 off; but as years pass on and old age gains 
 upon us all, tbe time seems not far distant 
 wben we, too, sball bave joined tbe growing 
 circle in Heaven. 
 
 Let us know bow you are, wben you bave 
 time and feel like writing. We often speak 
 of you, and wonder if you bave found relief 
 for your rbeumatism. Witb our love and 
 sympatby to all your family and to yourself, 
 Believe me, my dear brotber. 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 (Mrs. Edward Lucas) M. Lucas. 
 
 Tallabassee, Florida, May 21, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 Some one bas sent me from Pbiladelpbia a 
 card announcing tbe deatb of your mucb- 
 
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 beloved wife, and my beloved friend. It is a 
 long- time since I beard either from or of 
 ber, tbougb I wrote often to inquire, and 
 I feared tbat eitber berself or some member 
 of ber family was in suffering bealtb, but 
 I was not prepared for sucb distressing 
 news, wbicb wberever beard will carry 
 sorrow. Wbile I express to you my sincere 
 sympathy I feel tbat I need consolation my- 
 self, as do so many friends. I sincerely 
 believe there never lived a more lovely 
 woman, a more beautiful character. I am too 
 much grieved to even attempt condolence. I 
 see nothing to comfort ; her loss is irreparable, 
 and alone in sweet memories can we rest ; 
 with me she will always thus live. I wish 
 one of her daughters would write me of her 
 last days. It is a year since I received any 
 communication from ber, she was then dis- 
 tressed about the health of her youngest 
 daughter and one son. 
 
 Present me most affectionately to your 
 family, and I hope that they and yourself will 
 remember that you have a friend in Florida. 
 I am, with great esteem, yours truly, 
 
 Ellen Call Long. 
 
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 Highbury Moor, 
 Birmingliam, England, May 27, 1893. 
 From Hon. Joseph Chamberlain : 
 
 Dear Mr. Lucas: I have received with much 
 regret your card announcing the bereavement 
 which you have recently sustained. I beg to 
 recall myself to your recollection, and to assure 
 you of my sincere sympathy in your affliction. 
 Believe me to be, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 J. Chamberlain. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 24, 1893. 
 
 Mr. John Lncas : 
 
 My Dear Friend : Although some little time 
 has elapsed since I heard of the death of 
 your wife, I have not been unmindful of you, 
 and desire to be permitted to add my poor 
 tribute to the hosts of your friends, and to 
 say how sincerely I sympathize with you and 
 your family in your irreparable loss. 
 
 I had not the privilege and pleasure to be 
 much acquainted with Mrs. Lucas, but have 
 met her within the past few years two or 
 three times. But I knew of her, and of 
 many of her good works, and in common 
 
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 with the entire community, entertained for 
 her a very high regard and admiration. 
 
 To you and her children she was a precious 
 wife and mother — a gift from God. He gave 
 and He hath taken. The work on earth 
 completed, He called her home to be forever 
 with Him in that blessed abode prepared for 
 those who have faithfully loved and served 
 Him. 
 
 Sincerely your friend, 
 
 Robert J. Shoemaker. 
 
 74 Chatham Street, Liverpool, 
 
 May 24, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 Mrs. R. Wilson has sent me a Philadelphia 
 paper containing the notice of dear ]\Irs. Lucas' 
 death. In April she wrote me a most affection- 
 ate letter, telling me of her very serious illness. 
 On the 13 th of May I received from her 
 a pamphlet and her photograph, which I 
 shall greatly treasure ; and though knowing 
 her to be seriously ill, I had hoped she 
 would recover, but it has pleased our 
 Heavenly Father to call her to her well 
 earned rest. To you and her large family it 
 
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 is a sad loss, and it is difficult to find words 
 to express my grief and sympathy in such a 
 time of sorrow. How blessed the memory 
 must be of such a devoted well-spent life, 
 though comparatively short. We had indulged 
 the hope of her paying us another visit to 
 " Kirkby," where amidst its quiet surroundings 
 she would have regained health. 
 
 I hope your own health is much better 
 than when your late dear wife wrote to me. 
 With deepest sympathy and kind remem- 
 brance, believe me to be. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Catharine E. Slack. 
 
 Kirkby-on-Bain, Horncastle, England, 
 
 May 24, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas: 
 
 I feel quite inadequate to express to your- 
 self and family my grief and sympathy for 
 the loss of so good a wife and mother. It 
 is only eight days since I received her last 
 token of remembrance and kindness to me 
 and little Robbie ; a short time previous 
 Mrs. Slack sent me a letter she had received 
 from your dear wife. We were both grieved 
 
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 to note how very ill and weak she was. Often 
 have we expressed a wish that we could have 
 further opportunities of spending quiet times 
 together in my little home. She must have 
 been a hard worker, and now she will be 
 enjoying the rest of her faithful stewardship. 
 Hoping yourself and family will be sustained 
 in this sad trial, and with affectionate sympathy, 
 I remain. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 M. Wilson. 
 
 Green Bank House, Birkdale, 
 
 near Liverpool, England, 
 
 May 27, 1893. 
 From William Gibson, Esq. : 
 
 My Dear Sir : The receipt of your remem- 
 brance card, also of newspaper conveying the 
 melancholy information of the death of your 
 good wife, caused me much and sincere regret. 
 I remember so well her kindly treatment to 
 myself when a stranger and in a strange land, 
 and her conversation as regards your numerous 
 offspring made me look upon her as a truly 
 good wife, and mother. And I need not say 
 that most sincerely do I sympathize with you 
 
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 under this great trial and bereavement and offer 
 my condolence under it. Young in years, com- 
 paratively, I did not expect to liear of her being 
 so early called away from a life in which she has 
 been of so much use to so many of her fellow 
 creatures. A life so spent that it must leave to 
 you naught but pleasing reflections in your 
 old age. 
 
 Vancouver, B. C, May 25, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 It is with great sorrow that I learn from a 
 letter received from Mrs. Mason of the mourn- 
 ful bereavement you have been called upon to 
 suffer in the loss of your dear wife. 
 
 Such a wife and such a mother are not often 
 met with, and far beyond her own family circle 
 the many estimable qualities of heart and mind 
 of which Mrs. Lucas was the happy possessor 
 endeared her to all who had the privilege to 
 know her. 
 
 Being away out on the Pacific Coast I have 
 only just heard of the sad event, but I assure 
 you I feel it as a personal loss, and tender you 
 my most heartfelt condolence in this the time 
 of your tribulation. 
 
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 Having passed througli a similar ordeal 
 myself, I can the more readily enter into your 
 feelings and sympathize with you in your 
 loneliness and grief, and I pray that you and 
 Miss Lucas may be sustained and consoled by 
 Him who alone can comfort the mourner, who 
 is too wise to err, and too good to be unkind, 
 and whose every act and purpose we must 
 believe to be prompted by love. 
 
 Knowing how little human help or sympathy 
 
 can avail in assuaging sorrow such as yours, 
 
 I can only assure you of my deep sympathy, in 
 
 which I am sure my wife joins, and with our 
 
 very kind regards to yourself and Miss Lucas 
 
 I remain, 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 J. Herbert Mason. 
 
 The Old Hall, Stone, Staffordshire, England, 
 
 May 26, 1893. 
 From Miss Annie Masfield : 
 
 We were indeed very sorry to hear of the very 
 
 sad loss you have had, and we all beg you will 
 
 accept our very sincere sympathy. We see from 
 
 the card you sent that Mrs. Lucas died on the 
 
 eighth of this month, the same day on which 
 
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 our dear mofher passed away, thirteen years 
 since. 
 
 We can quite understand how very mucli 
 Mrs. Lucas will be missed, not only by her own 
 family-circle, but by all who knew her. Hers 
 was a very valuable and useful life. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 30, 1893. 
 From W. Waterall : 
 
 My Dear Old Friend : I have purposely 
 deferred writing you an expression of sympathy 
 in your bereavement until I could more 
 review the closing of an important chapter in 
 my own life's experience, and a sorrow that 
 must move your life to its innermost depths. 
 The light that has just gone out has been 
 visible on the pathway of my life's pilgrimage 
 for thirty-five years. My thoughts in tender 
 memories instinctively turn towards those 
 earlier years of our friendship, when the light 
 of that intelligence cheered and heightened all 
 things in "The home by the Lake and the 
 Wood." Especially when she, with her gifted 
 mother, gave pure and lofty tone to the 
 intellectual atmosphere that ever pervaded the 
 walks in the dear old woods, and the talks by 
 
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 the Lake and fire-side. I shall always love 
 best to think of Harriet as the charming 
 young wife and mother, making that country 
 home attractive and beautiful, surrounded by 
 her interesting young family, whose tender 
 minds she would continually impress with her 
 own intense love for the English Church. 
 
 Permit me in all sincerity to express the 
 hope that both you and your dear children 
 may do all that you can to strengthen and 
 perpetuate the life of "St. John in the 
 Wilderness," and thus make it the most 
 appropriate and enduring memorial of one who 
 devoted so much loving energy in planting 
 and stimulating its early growth. 
 
 Trusting that kind Heaven will deal gently 
 
 with you in your two-fold afiliction, 
 
 I am, sincerely your friend, 
 
 W. Waterall. 
 Mr. John Lucas. 
 
 4400 Spruce Street, May 31, 1893. 
 From Mary E. Ashman. 
 
 Mr. Dear Mr. Lucas : The thoughtful 
 remembrance in sending the Memorial card of 
 your dear wife is most gratefully appreciated 
 
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 by both Mr. Ashman and myself. I mentioned 
 to your daughter Bessie, at the " Boys' 
 Temporary Home," a short time before 
 Mrs. Lucas went to her other home, how 
 sorry both Mr. Ashman and I were to hear of 
 her severe illness, and also to say how much 
 Mr. Ashman always admired her as a woman, 
 her sprightliness and ability. She certainly 
 was a remarkable woman — one that you will 
 miss every hour of your life, and that the 
 kindest attention of your children cannot 
 replace. 
 
 Please accept our warmest sympathy. I hope 
 your health is improved. 
 
 With kind regards, I am, 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Mary E. Ashman. 
 
 132 Longacre, London, England, 
 
 June 6, 1893. 
 From George Slatter, Esq. : 
 
 On my return to London, after a continental 
 
 trip, I found the newspaper announcing your 
 
 sad bereavement. I look back to remember the 
 
 short time I was in your company, when 
 
 Mrs. Lucas was with you here. She seemed to 
 
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 have liigh intellectual gifts and boundless 
 impulses towards every good work ; and who 
 shall number the people whose lives have been 
 made better and prospects brighter by her 
 influence and grand endeavors. Think what 
 the world would be if a small percentage of 
 the people we live amongst had such a record. 
 Will you please express to your kind family my 
 most ample sympathy and condolence. 
 
 (Mr. Slatter was a personal friend of the 
 late Honorable John Welsh.) 
 
 Philadelphia, June 7, 1893. 
 John Lucas, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir : The ladies of the Tenth Ward 
 Charity Organization desire me to communi- 
 cate to you their sympathy and sorrow for the 
 loss of your beloved wife, the much honored 
 President of our Association. 
 
 She was with us from the beginning, nearly 
 twenty years ago. 
 
 She was ver>^ highly esteemed for her unusual 
 business capacity and great generosity, and also 
 for her untiring willingness to assist in every 
 call for aid. 
 
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 Her loss to us is a very serious one, and we 
 
 heartily sympatiiize with you in your and our 
 
 bereavement. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 Frances Cooper, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Junior Athenaeum Club, ii6, Piccadilly, W., 
 London, England, June 7, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 It was with feelings of deep distress I 
 received the very sad news of the death of 
 your greatly respected and much loved wife. 
 
 Allow me, in all sincerity, to offer you and 
 your family-circle, my heartfelt sympathies in 
 this the day of your great trouble, and to 
 hope and believe that your loss is her eternal 
 gain. With every good wish, believe me, 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 James T. Tumbull. 
 
 Chicago, June 10, 1893. 
 From Mrs. E. W. Allen : 
 
 World's Fair Commission : 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : You have probably long 
 since been informed that your telegram to our
 
 President, Mrs. Palmer, announcing the death 
 of your dear wife was read in the meeting of 
 the Executive Committee. We were all pro- 
 foundly impressed with a sense of our great 
 loss, and sympathize with you most deeply in 
 your bereavement, realizing, as we do, that one 
 of the most able and earnest members of our 
 Board will be no longer with us in our work 
 on earth, and that there must be a great 
 blank in the home from which such an one 
 has departed. 
 
 In the midst of our mourning, however, let 
 us remember that she has gone to a better 
 home, where there will be no more pain, and 
 where we may meet her again with no 
 thought of parting. Though we linger yet a 
 little longer she has already heard the welcome 
 greeting : " Well done, good and faithful 
 servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 Whether the gates of the World's Fair are 
 open on the Lord's day or not, let us rejoice 
 that she was permitted to utter her protest in 
 words which were no less firm than gentle. 
 In deepest sympathy, 
 
 Mrs. E. W. Allen. 
 
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 13 13 Somerset Street, Philadelphia, 
 
 June 19, 1890. 
 From Robert Watchorn, Esq. : 
 
 This is a very late date on which to express 
 one's sympathy for you in a great bereave- 
 ment, but I assure you that my sympathy 
 and sorrow is none the less sincere and pro- 
 found on that account, for ever since I learned 
 that ]\Irs. Lucas was dead I ha\'e been con- 
 stantly thinking of you and yours, and my 
 heart has been very sad for yoii all. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas was always very kind to me, 
 and took a deep interest in the work of my 
 department, and I feel a personal loss in her 
 departure. I have read the poems of her 
 mother (book which you kindly gave me), and 
 when I recall that the authoress was born in 
 the same grand old historic town as I, it 
 furnishes another cause for my interest in her 
 memory. 
 
 West Jersey Press, Camden, June 20, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas : 
 
 Dear Sir: The world can never know the 
 great loss you have sustained in the death of 
 your estimable wife. But it will in a measure 
 
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 feel that in her departure humanity is deprived 
 of one who lost no opportunity to show that 
 her thoughts were ever alert in its behalf. 
 
 Your truly, 
 
 S. Chew. 
 
 1520 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 
 June 23, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 I regret exceedingly that absence from the 
 city will prevent my being present at the 
 services to be held in memory of your dear 
 wife at Gibbsboro on to-morrow. 
 
 I should feel it a duty to pay this last 
 tribute of respect to the memory of one who 
 in life, though afEicted with sickness, was ever 
 extending a helping hand to the needy and 
 sorrowing, no matter how lowly their condi- 
 tion, or what their race or color. 
 
 I recall with much satisfaction the delightful 
 conversation I had with her two years ago at 
 Atlantic City, in regard to the distressed and 
 downfallen, and though she has left us, her 
 memory will be ever held in loving remem- 
 brance by her friends, and the many she has 
 aided by her benevolence. 
 
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 Trusting that you are in the enjoyment of 
 health, I remain, 
 
 Ever cordially your friend, 
 
 Ferdinand J. Dreer. 
 
 Chicago, June 29, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas 
 
 My Dear Sir : Your invitation to the ser- 
 vices in remembrance of Mrs. Lucas has just 
 been received. We have a monument here in 
 her memor>^, you know, in the beautiful Silk 
 Exhibit. I looked upon this as a dying 
 request, and aside from the fact that I believed 
 in it, I was determined upon that account to 
 see it through to the successful termination, 
 and you will all be glad to know that it 
 is more than a success, — a vast crowd of 
 people around it all the time. Miss Ford 
 tells me that while watching the interest of 
 the people in it, she would give anything 
 to have dear Mrs. Lucas there for just five 
 minutes ; but, after all, maybe she was there — 
 who knows? We take great pleasure in the 
 thought. 
 
 I think that you and your daughters all 
 should come out to the Fair. It is an educa- 
 
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 tion that you could not afford to miss, and 
 the dear wife and mother took such deep 
 interest in it that you could look upon it as 
 part of her work. When you come please 
 let me know, as I shall want to see you all. 
 Yours truly, 
 
 A. B. Farquhar, 
 Executive Commissioner. 
 
 Chicago, June 30, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 While passing through the great White City 
 I came across the exhibit of the Women's 
 Silk Culture Association. I stood still for a 
 moment, a mist clouded my eyes, and in the 
 midst of the throbbing multitude of people 
 my tears fell fast and unchecked. Before 
 me stood the monument — the silk flags, the 
 loom, the reels, the cocoons — while beside 
 me I seemed to feel the spirit of the founder, 
 the promoter, the noble, earnest, beloved 
 Mrs. John Lucas. I do not write to open the 
 wounds (for they can never close) but to tell 
 you that the whole atmosphere of the exhibit 
 is hers, hers only, and must ever remain 
 so. In her memory I bought a little souvenir 
 
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 of the exhibit, and brought away several 
 copies of the tribute to her noble worth — one 
 of which I enclose, and with kindest regards 
 to yourself and the members of your family, 
 I am. 
 
 Always yours, most gratefully, 
 
 Joseph R. Wilson. 
 
 ~ Philadelphia, July 20, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas : 
 
 My Dear Sir : I regret that my absence in 
 Chicago, on the 24th of June, deprived me 
 of the opportunity of attending the Memorial 
 services in the " Little Church in the Wilder- 
 ness," of which Mrs. Lucas spoke with so 
 much interest and affection. 
 
 I have read the interesting address on that 
 occasion, and it does no more than justice to 
 one of the noblest women of the age ; and 
 her work and example have done much to 
 bring the women of these closing years of the 
 Nineteenth Century to the front in all the 
 departments of active industry. 
 
 You and your family have my deepest 
 sympathy in your ajSliction, and it may be a 
 pleasant thought when you remember that the 
 
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 world is better because Mrs. Harriet Anne 
 Lucas lived in it. Yours truly, 
 
 John W. Woodside. 
 
 Commissioner. 
 
 All Saints' School, 
 Germantown, Philadelphia, May 9, 1893. 
 From Sister Mary Raphael of All Saints : 
 
 When I was told of dear Mrs. Lucas' death 
 this morning my heart went out to you with 
 so great a sympathy, I felt I must write and 
 let you know how I felt for you and yours. 
 I know, too, what Carrie would have thought 
 and done, and I know you will miss her 
 doubly at this time; but you have many 
 loving sympathizers in your own children, 
 and Carrie will help you in some special way, 
 even now. 
 
 You must not let this hea\'y trial weigh you 
 down too much, for your children will have 
 more need than ever of you now. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 11, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas and family: 
 
 At a meeting of the Executive Board of the 
 Woman's Homoeopathic Association, held this 
 
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 day, tTie announcement of Mrs. Lucas' death 
 being made, tlie Secretary was instructed to 
 send to you an expression of sympathy. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas was with us from the inception 
 of our work as an Association, and has always 
 shown the deepest interest in its objects. 
 
 Although for the past year or more, on 
 account of failing health and manifold duties, 
 she was unable to take so active a part as 
 formerly in our affairs. Even so late as a few 
 weeks ago she showed practically her interest 
 by collecting and sending to our Treasurer 
 the money from her annual subscribers. 
 
 A personal friend to many of us, and to all 
 of us dear through mutual interest and 
 cooperation, she will long be missed, and it 
 is not a formal, but a heartfelt sympathy that 
 we extend to you in your great bereavement. 
 For the Board : 
 
 Fanny L. Skinner, Secretary. 
 
 727 Walnut Street, May 11, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 At our meeting yesterday, as you may well 
 believe, the sad loss you have sustained in 
 
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 the death of your excellent wife was upper- 
 most in every mind. And they endeavored 
 feebly to express their own sorrow, and their 
 desire to join with you, and the members of 
 the family, in their appreciation of the sad 
 bereavement. The resolutions which I enclose, 
 in some degree express those feelings ; but 
 over and above all that language can express, 
 let each of us say, that we sincerely condole 
 with you, and with them. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 W. T. Pratt. 
 
 The Hayes Mechanics' Home, 
 
 Philadelphia, May ii, 1893. 
 
 The Managers of the Hayes Mechanics^ 
 Home have to record upon their minutes 
 with affectionate remembrance the death of 
 Mrs. Harriet A. Lucas, wife of John Lucas, 
 which occurred on the morning of Monday, 
 May 8. ' 
 
 The deceased was active in the organization 
 of this Home, became one of the Managers 
 and subsequently Vice-President, and during 
 the years that have passed evinced the most 
 earnest interest in its welfare, in words, as well 
 as by active attention to its administration. 
 
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 Endowed with admirable executive ability and 
 possessing that warmth of heart that caused 
 her to become interested in many institutions 
 that were devoted to charity, or the good of 
 humanity in any form, she was yet able to 
 give a portion of her valuable time to the 
 advancement of this Home ; and we record our 
 heartfelt appreciation of those services in its 
 cause, with our personal grief that we shall 
 not again meet her kindly smile, and that her 
 valued life is so soon brought to a close. 
 
 In the death of this estimable lady the cause 
 of humanity has lost one of its most efficient 
 workers, this Institution a devoted advocate, 
 and to us, personally, a kind associate and 
 friend. 
 
 W. T. Pratt, Secretary. 
 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 
 Philadelphia, May 13, 1893. 
 To Mr. John Lucas and family : 
 
 Dear Sir : At the regular monthly meeting of 
 the W. C. T. U. of Philadelphia, held May 12, 
 1893, it was unanimously Resolved, that in the 
 death of our Honorary Member, IMrs. John Lucas, 
 
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 we have lost a valued friend and sympathizer. 
 While Mrs. Lucas' friends are not confined to 
 one city or one State, yet here in the city of 
 her home, where she was best known, and 
 most esteemed for her true benevolence, we 
 realize a keener sense of loss, and desire as a 
 "Union" to express to her husband and family 
 our sincere sympathy for them, in this their 
 time of bereavement. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Adelaide V. Button, 
 Corresponding Secretary. 
 
 May 1 8, 1893. 
 The Teachers of the Chinese Class of the 
 Epiphany, desire to testify to their sense of 
 loss in the removal from earth of their dear 
 friend, Mrs. John Lucas. They feel that they 
 have lost one who was much to each of them 
 personally, and who was a trusted leader, whose 
 whole heart was in the work of the School. 
 Her presence itself was an inspiration to 
 faithfulness in the cause she loved, because it 
 was her Master's work. 
 
 Her co-workers in the class desire to tender 
 their warmest sympathy to the husband and 
 
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 family of their dear friend in this their sad 
 bereavement ; and may the Lord, whom she 
 loved, strengthen and help them in their 
 aflQiction. 
 
 St. Peter's Rectory, May 19, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Potter : 
 
 Your blessed mother had passed to her rest 
 sometime before I had heard of it. Many times 
 have we spoken of her. Our Home is indebted 
 to her for its success during its infancy. Her 
 zeal, liberality and courage were most remark- 
 able. When we were faint-hearted she was equal 
 to the emergency, and in her generous offerings 
 carried us over the shadow into light again. 
 I have been many times quickened by her 
 zeal and strengthened by her courage. Though 
 her loss to her family must be beyond their 
 comprehension, I can but think of her 
 blessedness in Paradise, waiting for her 
 resurrection, when she shall " behold Him and 
 be satisfied." 
 
 Do, dear friends, retain your interest in our 
 Home. It needs constant help, and do, for 
 your mother's sake, and in loving memory, 
 plead for our sustenance. 
 
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 Will you give to each member of your 
 family my tenderest sympathy. Her vacancy 
 will be keenly felt, and I humbly pray our 
 great God and Father to help us all to be 
 just as ready when our "call cometh." 
 Yours most sincerely, 
 
 Annie J. Rumney. 
 
 Bullitt Building, 
 Philadelphia, May 20, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas : 
 
 My Dear Sir: Permit me as Secretary of 
 the Trustees of the Italian Mission to enclose 
 to you the original draft of the Minute adopted 
 by the Board a few days since, relative to 
 the great loss so many have sustained in the 
 death of Mrs. John Lucas, and most especially 
 the organization I have the honor to represent 
 
 Truly, 
 
 John Marston, Secretary. 
 
 Minutes adopted by the Board of Trustees 
 of the Italian Episcopal Mission, May 16, 
 1893: 
 
 The removal of one so largely and actively 
 identified with works of benevolence as 
 
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 Mrs. John Lucas, may well be regarded as a 
 public loss. Her labors of love and sympathy 
 are known throughout the community. 
 
 It is rare indeed to find one combining 
 such force of character with a true woman's 
 amiability, and with such untiring activity and 
 zeal directed by a wise judgment and executive' 
 ability. She was one of the earliest friends 
 and laborers in the Italian Episcopal IVIission, 
 and maintained an interest in it to the last 
 moments of her life. 
 
 The Rector and Trustees have placed this 
 Minute on their Records in grateful remem- 
 brance of her services, and request their 
 Secretary to convey to Mr. Lucas their deep 
 sympathy in his bereavement. 
 Rev. M. Zara, Rector. 
 John E. Baird, Chairman of Trustees. 
 John P. Rhoads, Treasurer. 
 Attest : John Marston, Secretary. 
 
 Atlantic City, May 31, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas : 
 
 Dear Sir: I am very sony you loss the 
 wise ladie, Mrs. Lucas, she stay with God 
 forever. When she live that time and said, 
 
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 we have to be end, we will stay with God 
 forever. And hope you far away off not be 
 weary and take good care yourself, and look 
 back your children and grand children and 
 you have the best in the world, but we hope 
 her stay on this world longer, and do more 
 good for our Chinaman. When I talk to my 
 friends who know her, they be sad when she 
 gone, so our friend member her forever when 
 she is live every year the scholars remember 
 the Lake Side Park. Now I do not know 
 how the Park is to be. So who do good the 
 name is fame. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 Joe James, 
 
 Wing, Wah, Lee & Co. 
 
 Oregon World's Fair Commission, 
 
 Terre Haute, Ind., May 23, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Lucas : 
 
 I have just learned of the death of your dear 
 wife. It gave me great sorrow to my heart. 
 I thought when I met her in the Fall she 
 wouldn't recover, but did not think that it 
 would be so soon as this. 
 
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 I never met any person with such a short 
 acquaintance that has made such an impression 
 on me as Mrs. Lucas. I know you will miss 
 her more than tongue can tell. I miss her so 
 much in the convention; but I must leave it to 
 Him that doeth all things well. I am afraid 
 to write any more, as words only cut the wound 
 deeper. 
 
 I remain, sincerely yours, 
 
 Mrs. Mary Payton, 
 
 Lady Manager. 
 
 St. George's Society, 
 Washington, May 24, 1893. 
 John Lucas, Esq. : 
 
 Dear Sir and Brother: A recent vote of 
 this society has placed upon me the duty 
 of communicating to you the sympathy felt by 
 our members for you and your household at 
 the calling away of the admirable wife and 
 mother, that some of us had opportunity to 
 know and esteem in life, and whose death we 
 lament with you. 
 
 It is a gratification to us to believe that 
 the many expressions of those who feel with 
 
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 you and for you may make your bereavement 
 a little tlie easier to bear. 
 I am, dear sir and brother, 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 John H. Howlett, 
 
 President of the Society. 
 Attest: Chas. F. Benjamin, Secretary. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 23, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas : 
 
 Dear Sir : The ladies of the Board of Managers 
 
 of the " House of Rest," Germantown, desire 
 
 me to convey to you and your bereaved family 
 
 their heartfelt sympathy. We feel that we have 
 
 lost a noble and sympathetic friends-one whose 
 
 life was spent for others. 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 Mrs. James A. Bennett 
 
 Rebecca F. Bennett, Secretary. 
 
 St. Jude's Rector}^, 816 Franklin Street, 
 
 June I, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas: 
 
 At the last meeting of the Board of Managers 
 
 ■of the House of Rest I was instructed to draw 
 
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 up a minute in regard to the death of Mrs. 
 Lucas, and forward the same to you. With 
 deep sympathy, believe me, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 J. R. Moses. 
 
 Philadelphia, June i, 1893. 
 
 Extract from minutes of Board of Managers 
 of the House of Rest for the Aged. The 
 Secretary was instructed to prepare a minute 
 in regard to the death of Mrs. Lucas. This 
 minute to be sent to the family and to be put 
 upon the minutes. 
 
 "This Board desires to express its deep 
 sense of loss in the removal from among us 
 of Mrs. John Lucas. From the beginning of 
 the work, until the time when ill health 
 compelled her to resign the Presidency of the 
 Board of Women Managers, her indefatigable 
 energy contributed in a great measure to the 
 success of the undertaking. With deep appre- 
 ciation of her faithful and efficient service, 
 the Board desires to express its hearty sympathy 
 with her bereaved family." 
 
 J. R. Moses, Secretary. 
 
 95.
 
 Memorial Notices of the Press. 
 
 Many generous and instructive notices of the 
 life and services of Mrs. Lucas were given in 
 the public journals of this city, New Jersey and 
 New York, on the occasion of her death. 
 
 It would be a grateful task to transcribe 
 these notices in this connection if space per- 
 mitted. Their strong expressions of personal 
 regard for her singular devotion to works of 
 mercy, were the most prominent feature, and 
 next the ample statements made as to her 
 practical connection with so many institutions. 
 But as the leading events of her practical life 
 are given in the second portion, or historical 
 part of this Memoir, it is not necessary to 
 repeat them here. 
 
 Mr. Lucas desires to make grateful acknowl- 
 edgment of these Memorial notices. The list 
 is so large that it is scarcely practicable to 
 even cite them more definitely in this place. 
 
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 Newsboys' Home, 
 251 South Sixtli Street, June 6, 1893. 
 Mr. John Lucas : 
 
 Dear Sir: At the last meeting of the Board, 
 on June 2, the following Resolutions were 
 adopted : 
 
 The Board of Managers of the Temporary 
 Home for Young Men and Boys have learned 
 with profound sorrow of the death of their 
 honored President, Mrs. John Lucas, which 
 occurred on Monday, May 8. In view of this 
 sad bereavement it is fitting and proper that 
 this Board should give expression to the sense 
 of heartfelt sorrow which this dispensation of 
 Divine Providence has occasioned. 
 
 Resolved, That the death of Mrs. Lucas, our 
 President, has caused a vacancy which we 
 deeply mourn, and which has filled our hearts 
 with grief and sadness. 
 
 Resolved, That we hereby testify to the rare 
 intelligence, wise counsel and sincere devotion 
 of Mrs. Lucas to the cause of the IVIaster, 
 during the many years of her consecrated life. 
 Resolved, That the Church of Christ, the 
 Christian community, and the world at large, 
 have sustained an irreparable loss in her transi- 
 
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 tion from earth to heaven, and from the cross 
 to the crown. 
 
 Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with 
 her honored husband, and sons, and daughters 
 in this hour of their severe affliction, with the 
 earnest prayer that their grief-stricken hearts 
 may find comfort and consolation in the "God 
 of all comfort" in this time of their sad 
 bereavement. 
 
 Resolved, That this record be entered on 
 our minutes, and that a copy be transmitted 
 to the afflicted family. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Russel T. Boswell, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 History of the Principal Services of 
 Mrs. Lucas in Public Affairs. 
 
 It is essential to a proper memorial to 
 the memory of Mrs. Lucas to review witH 
 some definiteness her successful efforts to 
 advance the interests and improve the 
 condition of many classes. Her work was 
 not all that of simple benevolence in the 
 ordinary sense, so much as it was of 
 deliberate and careful plans, far-reaching 
 in their influence, and in most cases alike 
 beneficial to the whole people. It was 
 this breadth of character, joined with her 
 
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 singular persistence and untiring faith- 
 fulness, that constituted her chief 
 distinction. 
 
 I regret that it is not possible to make 
 this review of her services complete and 
 exhaustive as it should be made. Much 
 has been incidentally stated on these points 
 by the writers of the letters of condolence 
 here printed ; but there should be some one 
 acquainted with the exact details of her 
 works of strict benevolence, as well as one 
 to do the work I here attempt of citing 
 her more general efforts to influence public 
 affairs. Having at her command a private 
 fund with which to assist worthy objects, 
 making no mention of what she did to 
 others — not even to members of her own 
 family — all that she did was so unobtrusive 
 and so absolutely without the usual 
 blazoning of publicity, that it is difficult 
 
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 to trace all of her acts or to get back 
 to the beginning in each case. 
 
 The following sketch will therefore be a 
 collection of citations and of incidents such 
 as have come under my immediate notice, 
 rather than an assumption to make a com- 
 plete history. 
 
 And I may also say that a greater 
 purpose entertained in the present case 
 is to relieve all her recent work of any 
 doubt as to its practical success, or as to the 
 appreciation in which it was held by her 
 immediate associates. It is too often the case 
 that what is said of a person intending a 
 public service is, that while it was well in- 
 tended, it required some other hand to make 
 it practically successful. Such was not the 
 case with the works undertaken by her. 
 
 It may be said generally that these 
 active works have occupied somewhat 
 
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 more than twenty years, in a position 
 of mucH prominence. Undoubtedly they 
 began earlier, and in the singularly 
 interesting account which I find in her 
 own handwriting of the founding of the 
 church at Gibbsboro, an admirable 
 illustration is given of her persistence 
 in purpose often kept in design some 
 years before the complete execution. In 
 this case she says that in 1856, the first 
 of her residence at Gibbsboro, active 
 efforts were undertaken to build up a 
 social and religious influence, and while 
 these were not all she desired, or rather 
 all that they should be, for almost twenty 
 years afterward they were still prosecuted 
 in good faith and were really of much 
 service. This was an alternative residence 
 only, however, her permanent residence 
 being in Philadelphia, and all her more 
 
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 important works were undertaken and 
 conducted in this city. The history of 
 the founding of the Gibbsboro Church 
 is of so much interest, however, that her 
 manuscript is here printed in full. 
 
 With the various societies organized 
 in part by her, for benevolent purposes, 
 she was always in active co-operation, 
 was not merely a member and contributor, 
 but most active in suggesting and the 
 
 most persistent in enforcing the practical 
 form to all these efforts. This was 
 especially true of those which are the 
 most difficult in themselves, the charities 
 which were new and without the 
 experience of routine which attaches to 
 so many. In this respect, also, some 
 most striking testimonials are afforded 
 in the letters of condolence before given. 
 The Chinese benevolent efforts, and that 
 
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 with tlie Italians also, are illustrations of 
 the vigor and success of movements in 
 which she had the leading place. They 
 were all intended to be instructive and 
 beneficial in the most direct degree, and 
 never represented any sectarian feeling, 
 or any propagandism of the views of one 
 church over another. When efforts such 
 as hers are so openly and unselfishly 
 made, all these limits and distinctions 
 break down of themselves. 
 
 Perhaps her more active career, from 
 about 1872 to the present year, will 
 represent the more conspicuous of her 
 efforts and services. During this period 
 she was connected with about twenty 
 societies and organizations, in several of 
 which she took the leading part. With 
 enough, as it is usually supposed, of 
 occupations and burdens in her family 
 
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 relations, there was still no time in whicli 
 she hesitated or declined to act when she 
 consistently could for the public. She 
 did so as unconsciously and without 
 effort, as might be supposed if she had 
 no other occupation or purpose whatever. 
 
 It must be again said that it is impos- 
 sible to arrange the evidences of this 
 work in strict chronological order, or to 
 give the whole history connected with it 
 as it should be given. The best will be 
 done, however, which is practicable with 
 the papers at hand. 
 
 Among the earliest of the efforts of 
 Mrs. Lucas, in acts of what might be 
 called permanent benevolence, was an 
 effort for the establishment of a Retreat 
 for Aged Divines of the Church. The 
 matter is alluded to in a letter to 
 Mrs. Lucas, of February 6, 1879, from 
 
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 tlie Hon. Jolin Welsli, then Minister of 
 the United States at London. The letter 
 of Mr. Welsh is before me, acknowledg- 
 ing the receipt of Mrs. Lncas' proposition, 
 and in this letter Mr. Welsh discusses 
 the principles on which such a retreat, or 
 provision rather, for the maintenance of 
 such persons, should be founded. Not 
 having Mrs. Lucas' letter, it can only be 
 said that she voluntarily took the lead 
 in making such provision, whether by a 
 distinct residence or by an arrangement 
 providing for their residence in private 
 families. It appears that Mrs. Lucas 
 selected the location. Mr. Welsh closes 
 his letter with the statement that he 
 trusts that the zeal of those who have 
 taken the subject in hand will be equal 
 to a successful accomplishment. 
 
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 As a prominent member of the Epis- 
 copal Church, Mrs. Lucas participated in 
 most of the conspicuous charities or 
 institutions which Bishop Stevens was so 
 prominent in founding. The "House of 
 Rest for the Aged," in Germantown, is 
 one of several institutions which passed 
 resolutions of sympathy and sent their 
 condolence to Mr. Lucas and family. 
 
 Among the many benevolent institu- 
 tions in which she took an active part 
 may be named the Tenth Ward Charity 
 Organization, established over twenty 
 years ago, the Hayes Mechanics' 
 Home, the Woman's Homoeopathic 
 Association, the Italian Episcopal Mis- 
 sion, the Chinese Mission, the House of 
 Rest for the Aged Women of the Epis- 
 copal Church, of which she was the first 
 President of the Board of Lady Managers, 
 
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 in regard to which the following striking 
 tribute of respect is furnished by- 
 Mrs. Rumney: 
 
 " Our Home is indebted to her for its 
 success during its infancy. Her zeal, 
 liberality and courage were most remark- 
 able. When we were faint-hearted, she 
 was equal to the emergency, and in her 
 generous offerings carried us over the 
 shadow into light again." 
 
 These were but a few of the institu- 
 tions which she made much more than 
 charity, making them, rather, active and 
 creative agencies for the permanent 
 benefit of all connected with them. The 
 tributes of respect and the acknowledg- 
 ment of services will in many cases be 
 found in the letters of condolence here 
 printed. It would be an appropriate 
 service on the part of some one more 
 directly connected with these establish- 
 
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 ments tlian the writer of this paper, to 
 state in full detail the actual work done 
 in each case by her, and the full list of 
 the charities benefited. 
 
 We will now revert to another class 
 of institutions and of services in which 
 Mrs. Lucas has in all cases been promi- 
 nent and in some of which she has had 
 almost the leading place. These are the 
 several exhibitions of art and industry 
 which have had so prominent a place 
 for thirty years past. She took an active 
 part and gave effective service in the 
 work of the Centennial Exhibition of 
 1876, although as the organizations then 
 existing did not recognize or distinguish 
 women's departments as such, her name 
 does not appear on any Board of 
 Managers, Her activity and influence, 
 however, are gratefully remembered. 
 
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 Soon after this came tlie Frencli 
 Bxliibition of 1878, wHcli enlisted a 
 good deal of interest on the part of 
 Americans. Next in succession was the 
 Exhibition at Atlanta, in 1880-1, which 
 being an exhibit of cotton and other 
 fibres elicited a good deal of attention 
 from the ladies of the Association, then 
 newly organized for the promotion of Silk 
 Culture and silk manufacture within the 
 United States. Mrs. Lucas was very 
 active in the formation of this Association, 
 and in the production of silk fabrics, then 
 first becoming prominent in the United 
 States. Mrs. Lucas threw her whole spirit 
 into this effort to advance silk culture and 
 to produce silk fabrics during the year 
 1880, and she had the aid of many 
 prominent citizens : Governor Pollock, 
 Hon. Thomas H. Dudley, Hon. John W. 
 
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 Forney, and others; also Governor Hoyt, 
 and Hon. Thomas B. Edge, of the State 
 Agricultural Department. So rapid was 
 the advancement of this industry, that 
 it was proposed to make it prominent 
 in the Atlanta Exhibition, and a remark- 
 ably conspicuous and successful exhibit 
 of the products of this industry was made 
 there in the later months of 1880 
 and early in 1881. Very active work 
 was done by the Association during the 
 summer of 1880, and several meetings 
 were held, at which addresses were made, 
 recognizing, on the part of prominent 
 citizens, public officers and manufacturers, 
 the value of their efforts. Mr. William 
 A. Griswold, of the Darby Mills, aided 
 them very much, and introduced silk 
 industry on a large scale in these mills, 
 as did also Hensel & Colladay, whose 
 
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 mills were in Philadelpliia. A large 
 number of mills in Philadelphia took up 
 one or another form of silk industry about 
 this time, and their present product of silk 
 fabrics amounts to many millions of 
 dollars annually. 
 
 To show how well the hopes of Mrs. 
 Lucas were justified as to founding the 
 silk industry on an extensive scale here, 
 I may anticipate by saying that now there 
 are one hundred and twenty silk mills 
 in the State of Pennsylvania, about seventy 
 of which are in Philadelphia, and the 
 product of these mills amounts to nearly 
 $70,000,000 annually. While the culti- 
 vation of the raw silk has not been so far 
 successful as to compete with the immense 
 imports of cheap raw silk from India and 
 China, yet the silk goods themselves are 
 now made here in more than twice 
 
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 tlie quantity of tlie present importation, 
 while twenty-five years ago the wHole 
 requirement of tlie country was imported. 
 
 Exhibits of silk fabrics, raw silk, cocoons 
 and reeling processes were made at several 
 of the county fairs in 1880 and 1883. 
 While this publicity given to the matter 
 invited the location of silk mills in these 
 interior towns, it is to be regretted that 
 but little raw silk is as yet grown in 
 the State. All of the circumstances of 
 the case are favorable to it in the 
 highest degree however. 
 
 The report prepared for the New Orleans 
 Exhibition, credits the Woman's Silk 
 Culture Association with having " conducted 
 an important movement in silk growing, 
 which for three years past has given an 
 impetus to the growing of silk as a 
 domestic resource for families in all parts 
 
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 of the United States, and lias distributed 
 trees, eggs and books of instruction, 
 awarding premiums annually for cocoons, 
 and reeling tbe silk from the cocoons 
 received. From tbis reeled silk, fine 
 articles of brocade, flag silks, ribbons, etc., 
 bave been made for tbe Association, and 
 bave attracted great attention wben 
 publicly sbown." This statement, written 
 in December, 1884, is a compact, but still 
 inadequate expression of tbe work then 
 accomplished by the Association. 
 
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 Appropriations by Congress. 
 
 Various efforts were made by Mrs. Lucas 
 and lier friends to obtain tbe aid of the 
 general government in tbeir work of 
 promoting silk industry. Some aid was 
 afforded in tbe year 1885, by tbe 
 Department of Agriculture, some monthly 
 appropriations being given to aid in silk 
 reeling. In 1886, however, after direct 
 efforts made personally by Mrs. Lucas to 
 tbe Senate and House Committees, an 
 appropriation of $5,000 was got, which 
 was drawn on July 30, 1886. 
 
 It was distinctly placed in the hands 
 of the Silk Culture Association, but with 
 
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 the requirement to report upon the 
 subject to the Department of Agriculture; 
 the first report so made, being for the 
 fiscal year ending June 30, 1887. In 1887 
 Congress made a second appropriation of 
 $5,000, under the same conditions, which 
 was drawn on July 19 of that year. The 
 expenditure of this sum was reported 
 to the Department as for the fiscal 
 year ending June 30, 1888. 
 
 A third appropriation was made, also 
 of $5,000, which was drawn October 6, 
 1888. Report upon this expenditure was 
 made for the year ending June 30, 1889. 
 Some conditions were attached to this 
 appropriation, requiring a free distribution 
 of trees and some specific aid to silk 
 growers, but the expenditure in all these 
 cases was chiefly in the payment of cocoons 
 cultivated by experimental growers. In 
 
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 this last year a considerable sum was 
 also expended in weaving dress and flag 
 silks into fabrics of the highest quality. 
 
 A fourth appropriation of $5,000 was 
 made by Congress in 1889, which was 
 drawn upon October 9 of that year. A 
 report upon the expenditure of this sum 
 was made for the fiscal year ending 
 June 30, 1890. 
 
 At the end of this year, or on July i, 
 1890, about $1,000 remained of the 
 appropriation, and no further appropriation 
 being made, it became necessary to limit 
 the expenditure for trees and the free 
 distribution of articles and directions in 
 aid of silk culture. With its large 
 stock of materials, however, the great 
 confidence of the public in its activity and 
 efficiency continued to fully the end of 
 a second fiscal year, or to July, 1892. 
 
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 Thus the direct aid of the government 
 was carried over a period of about six 
 years, with a result of carrying on an 
 effective encouragement to this great 
 national industry, at less cost than could 
 have been supposed possible. As only 
 the immediate employes of the Association 
 received salaries, the expenditure for such 
 purposes as usually consume public 
 appropriations was very small indeed. 
 It may safely be said that no such 
 inexpensive and effective public service 
 has been rendered by any ofi&cial agency, 
 either at Washington or elsewhere. 
 
 In recognition of the official relations 
 which they desired to establish, but wholly 
 from their own resources and before any 
 appropriations were made, and in 
 vindication of the effectiveness of their 
 work, the ladies of this Association 
 
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 prepared sets of magnificent flags, made 
 of silk grown in the United States, reeled 
 in their own rooms in PhiladelpHia, and 
 woven in our own silk mills. These flags 
 were presented on January 23, 1885, one 
 to the Senate and one to the House of 
 Representatives at Washington, the 
 occasion being made one of the most 
 imposing ceremonial, and the speeches of 
 Senators Beck, Dawes, and Morgan, and 
 of Representative Kelly of the House, 
 being in the highest degree appreciative. 
 These flags were ten by seven feet in size, 
 elaborately furnished and mounted. 
 Resolutions of acceptance were adopted, 
 both by the Senate and House, and are 
 entered at length upon the official 
 records of the Forty-eighth Congress. 
 
 Just previous to this presentation, or 
 on January 22, 1885, the Association 
 
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 presented to tHe Governor and Legisla- 
 ture of Pennsylvania a stand of two 
 very large National and State flags, 
 made of American silk, reeled, dyed and 
 woven in the City of PHiladelpliia, which 
 flags were received by Governor Pattison 
 and a joint Committee of the Senate and 
 House, met in the Executive Chamber 
 at Harrisburg. A full report of this 
 presentation was made by the Joint 
 Legislative Committee, on February 26, 
 1885, and duly recorded in the proceedings 
 of the Legislature. 
 
 Other presentations of flags were made 
 about this time, one through Mrs. E. C. 
 Long, of Florida, to the people of that 
 State, on January 6, 1885, which were 
 received by Governor Perry of that State ; 
 and it may also be said that handsome 
 flags made by the Association were 
 
 no
 
 presented to tlie Atlanta Bxliibition of 
 
 1881. 
 
 A scliedule is given in the Tentli 
 Annual Report of the Association, of 
 forty-nine distinct exhibits of silk cocoons, 
 reeling, and other processes, as well as 
 finished fabrics of silk made by them in 
 the different States and cities of the United 
 States chiefly, although one was in Mexico, 
 and three were in England. This 
 remarkable schedule can be found at 
 page 21 of the Tenth Annual Report. 
 
 A final occasion on which an effective 
 and influential display was made occurred 
 at the meeting of the Pan American 
 Congress, at Washington, in April, 
 1890. A flag of American silk, spun, 
 woven and finished in the City of 
 Philadelphia, was presented to each 
 delegation from the several States of 
 
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 Soutii America and Central America, 
 
 seventeen in number. The replies of the 
 
 several delegations were appreciative and 
 
 patriotic in the highest degree. 
 
 The design in each of these cases is to 
 
 be credited to Mrs. Lucas, and her 
 
 presentation addresses were full of 
 
 suggestion to the people of the several 
 
 American States. In closing her address 
 
 to these South American delegations, she 
 
 said : 
 
 " Gentlemen, bear with you these 
 emblems of the success of our nation, 
 place them in your Legislative halls, 
 and ever regard them as tokens of one 
 hundred years of National prosperity of 
 this Government, of the people, for the 
 people, and by the people, and the 
 devotion of a little band of women to 
 the advancement of home production and 
 industrial education." 
 
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 National Exhibitions. 
 
 On the general subject of the form in 
 which exhibits are now made of social 
 and industrial progress, it is but just 
 to say that to Mrs. Lucas almost 
 exclusive credit is due for the prominence 
 now held by women's work. 
 
 The contrast between the exhibits made 
 at the Centennial, in 1876, with the more 
 complete social and industrial organization 
 of the World's Fair at Chicago, illustrates 
 the statement here made. In the present 
 exhibition there is a recognized depart- 
 ment of woman's work, almost equal in 
 
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 importance to any other. It is recognized 
 everywhere as the representative feature 
 of the exhibition, the distinctive feature 
 which elevates it, and broadens its scope, 
 making it superior as an era of human 
 progress to any that has preceded it. 
 From the outset of the plans and 
 organizations designed to build up the 
 exhibit as a whole, this distinctive feature 
 was introduced and enforced chiefly by 
 Mrs. Lucas. It is scarcely too much to 
 say, that it should be credited to her 
 genius and should be made a monument 
 to her memory. 
 
 In Pennsylvania, particularly, a system 
 of organization of unusual extent and 
 completeness was planned by her at the 
 outset, in the formation of Ladies' 
 Auxiliary Societies in each county. The 
 collections made by these Societies 
 
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 constitute a striking feature of the 
 Pennsylvania Exhibit as a whole; and 
 almost up to the last hour of her life 
 Mrs. Lucas kept in communication with 
 them — her latest circular of instruction 
 and encouragement having been issued 
 on February lo, 1893. No one assumed 
 to change or to dispense with any portion 
 of the efforts originally planned by her, 
 and all now unite in accrediting her with 
 the organizing power which has made the 
 Woman's Department as a whole what 
 it now is. 
 
 In the group of buildings erected at 
 Chicago a very large structure, 200 by 
 400 feet in extent, and covering i 8-10 
 acres of ground, is devoted wholly to 
 Woman's Work. A Board of Lady 
 Managers was created by the concurrent 
 action of Congress and the Columbian 
 
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 Commission, to take entire charge of tlie 
 interests of women at tlie Exposition. 
 This Board has made a most remarkable 
 exhibit, in which educational, artistic and 
 industrial features are almost equally- 
 prominent. They have vindicated the 
 claim which American ladies have here 
 first made, that women do possess creative 
 minds, and do constitute the most 
 important factors in the arts of peace and 
 progress as well as in merely charitable 
 and beneficent institutions. They have 
 here shown that they can create new 
 surroundings, new lines of productive 
 work in the most positive sense, and new 
 methods of labor as well as new rewards 
 for labor. 
 
 The expenditure by the Directors of 
 $200,000 in the erection of this building 
 has been the most instructive and 
 
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 significant of the results at Chicago. 
 In tlie Pennsylvania Book of Instruction 
 and Exhibit this feature is given great 
 prominence, and an admirable statement 
 of the County Societies of Pennsylvania, 
 as well as of the entire plan of collecting 
 and exhibiting there, is given over the 
 signature of Mrs. Lucas, as she was really 
 more than any one else the author of the 
 entire system. This portion of the volume, 
 from page 167 to 187, is worthy to be 
 reprinted and distributed as the most 
 expressive and definite illustration of the 
 gain in woman's position, as well as the 
 elevation of present influences over those 
 prevailing even so recently as the 
 Centennial of 1876. 
 
 It should be borne in mind that the 
 Act of Congress creating the National 
 Commission for conducting the World's 
 
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 Columbian Exposition was passed April 
 25, 1890, and that this Act gave almost 
 equal prominence as members and man- 
 agers of said Commission to the Board 
 of Lady Managers, then created. This 
 National Board of Lady Managers con- 
 sisted of two from each State, and it was 
 incumbent on the Board so created to 
 outline, as far as possible, the work falling 
 to them to do. In this work Mrs. Lucas 
 and her alternate, Miss McCandless, were 
 engaged for more than a year before the 
 passage of the Act of Pennsylvania 
 creating a State Commission, which was 
 signed June 22, 1891. By Section 5 of 
 this Act, ''The Board of World's Fair 
 Managers are hereby empowered to adopt 
 such rules and regulations as may admit 
 the World's Columbian Commissioners 
 and the members of the Board of Lady 
 
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 Managers of the World's Columbian 
 Commission from the State of Pennsyl- 
 vania, or their respective alternates, to 
 be ex-officio members of the Board of 
 World's Fair Managers of the State of 
 Pennsylvania." 
 
 It appears, therefore, that Mrs. Lucas' 
 powers continued to be primarily those 
 given by the Act of Congress, and in 
 accepting the work of the State Commis- 
 sion she did not in any way withdraw 
 from the larger field to which she was 
 originally appointed. 
 
 It is, however, quite apparent that no 
 other State made such provision as was 
 here made for signalizing the Woman's 
 Work of Pennsylvania. Immediately after 
 her appointment under the Pennsylvania 
 statutes she began the systematic work 
 intended to be executed by the several 
 
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 County Committees of Women. But slie 
 gave to the whole of it the most vigorous 
 personal attention, removing difficulties 
 and perfecting all the details until it 
 came to be complete in the form now 
 published at Harrisburg. 
 
 The title of this report is very expres- 
 sive in itself of the scope and broad 
 purposes of the work done by the State 
 Committee of Woman's Work. It is — " A 
 Condensed Statement of the Work done 
 by Women, in Instruction, Reform, 
 Philanthropy and Missions, during one 
 Fiscal Year, in the State of Pennsylvania. 
 To which is added a Statement of the 
 Industrial Work of Women in the State, 
 with Statistics. Compiled under the 
 auspices of the State Committee on 
 Woman's Work, for the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, 1893 : Harriet Anne 
 
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 Lucas, Cliairman; State Committee on 
 Woman's Work for Pennsylvania." 
 
 This work is prefaced by a complete 
 list of tlie Presidents and Secretaries of 
 tlie several County Committees, the full 
 committees in each case being given at 
 pages 64 to 77 of the " Pennsylvania Book 
 of the World's Fair," put forth early in 
 1893. The several County Representa- 
 tives were there designated as " Ladies' 
 Auxiliary Societies," in some cases 
 numbering twenty to thirty members for 
 the larger counties. This method of 
 organization did elicit the most general 
 interest and the greatest activity in 
 almost every county. 
 
 The scope and purpose of the whole 
 movement giving to the ladies of the 
 country an almost equal participation 
 with men in the great work of repre- 
 
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 senting tHe advancement of tlie age at 
 tHe World's Columbian Exposition, is 
 most strikingly shown in the words of 
 Mrs. Lucas' introduction to this volume 
 of the results for Pennsylvania. Brief as 
 the sentences of this introduction are, they 
 are most impressive from their simplicity 
 and from the elevation of thought which 
 they embody. As the last work of the 
 hand of this noble lady, falling almost 
 helpless from the fatigue of a lifetime of 
 elevating labors, they constitute an 
 imperishable monument to her honor. 
 
 " Introduction. 
 
 " When the United States Congress 
 called into duty the women of the country, 
 by appointing from each State and 
 Territory two lady Commissioners to act 
 cooperatively and equally with men in the 
 formation of a United States Commission, 
 
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 for the creation of the World's Columbian 
 Exposition, to commemorate the Four 
 Hundredth Anniversary of the discovery 
 of our country, an honor was conferred 
 upon women such as has never before 
 heen bestowed by a government. 
 
 " It placed women at once, in this great 
 international effort, on an equal footing 
 with man, in the work of developing the 
 great enterprise and bringing her tribute 
 to lay at the world's feet, in many new 
 forms of labor and duty, in which we find 
 her engaged. 
 
 " It was a noble and generous action, 
 thoroughly, however, in harmony with the 
 broad and liberal sentiments of our Consti- 
 tution, which in its one hundred and 
 sixteen years of trial has developed the 
 most progressive nation in the world. 
 
 " Pennsylvania was equally liberal in its 
 action towards the Woman's National 
 Commissioners — calling them into co-oper- 
 ation with the State Board for the World's 
 Fair Exposition — and thus the State Com- 
 mittee on Woman's Work was formed. 
 
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 This Committee at once organized County 
 Committees for work in their own districts 
 among the women, and thus a network of 
 busy women covered the State, acting in 
 behalf of their sex, and bringing to the 
 front much that could not have been 
 otherwise gathered. 
 
 " These statistics of the silent work 
 done by women cannot be shown in the 
 concrete exhibit, and while they will only 
 prove approximate, they will serve to show 
 how her hand and heart worked together 
 in sustaining the weak, relieving the 
 oppressed, instructing the intellect, to 
 beautify the world with the development 
 of taste and art, and ennobling the 
 aspirations of life, until the world of 
 nature is transformed into the world of 
 goodness and beauty." 
 
 It is clearly a duty in the present case 
 to make further record of the influential 
 position accorded to Mrs. Lucas by the 
 Managers of the World's Fair, almost 
 
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 from the outset. To do this completely 
 and to present all the evidences of desire 
 for her aid, and respect for her cooperation, 
 which were actually sent to her, would 
 be difficult, because many of them are 
 now beyond our reach. Many interesting 
 letters are, however, where we can refer 
 to them, and will be cited here. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas appears as a correspondent 
 of the Lady Managers at Chicago, from 
 the outset, ready with her suggestions 
 and encouragement, and responding to 
 their request for assistance. Letters 
 from Mrs. Lucas to them, unfortunately 
 are not preserved, but the responses 
 of Mrs. Palmer, President, Mrs. Susan 
 G. Cooke, Secretary, and others, appear 
 frequently, from February, 1891. The 
 management of the Woman's Department 
 at Chicago was in constant correspon- 
 ds
 
 dence during the years 189 1-2, and all 
 the communications express the most 
 ready and grateful acceptance of 
 suggestions from Mrs. Lucas, as well as 
 communicated to her all the leading 
 points in the work they were then 
 directing. I therefore give a few of 
 Mrs. Palmer's and Mrs. Cooke's letters 
 during that period and down to March, 
 1893. 
 
 It also appears by the circulars issued 
 early in 1891, some of which are herein 
 quoted, that the original plans and 
 direction were practically her work, as 
 she was the most active member of the 
 original National Commission. 
 
 The Act of the State Legislature 
 organizing the State Board of World's 
 Fair Managers, was passed June 22, 1891, 
 and was therefore second to the creation 
 
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 of a Board under the Act of Congress 
 of April 25, 1890. Under that first-named 
 Act Mrs. Lucas had been given official 
 position as Lady Commissioner for Penn- 
 sylvania. The Act of the Legislature 
 confirmed that authority and made it 
 responsible to the State. 
 
 The original authority, therefore, was 
 that of the Act of Congress of 1890, and 
 Mrs. Lucas' action was from the outset 
 on the broadest field of National duty 
 in the advancement of Women's interests 
 in the highest sense. 
 
 The letters that happen to be 
 available for this purpose are several 
 from Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, in 1891 
 to 1893, and also from the National 
 Secretary, Mrs. Susan G. Cooke, covering 
 the same period. They are incidental 
 rather than direct, perhaps in their 
 
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 illustration of tHe points liere made. 
 Of course tHe only purpose is to 
 recognize tlie unselfisli earnestness of 
 Mrs. Lucas, and not to claim any 
 responsibility on tlie part of their 
 writers. 
 
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 Correspondence Relative to the World's 
 Fair Commission. 
 
 It is evident from the correspondence 
 of the officers, both of the National 
 Board and that for Pennsylvania, that 
 Mrs. Lucas was the most active in 
 suggestion and the most fertile in 
 resources of any of those named on 
 either Commission. Her knowledge of 
 the actual condition of the several 
 interests which should be represented 
 was promptly made known to her 
 associates, and as promptly accepted by 
 them. It was this remarkable facility 
 in framing plans on an extensive scale 
 which gave her the prestige from the 
 
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 outset, and made lier services permanently 
 valuable. 
 
 There is hardly an instance in history 
 in which a leading and directive part has 
 been taken with such efficiency and with 
 such valuable and- permanent results. 
 This position was recognized from the 
 outset by the successive officers of the 
 entire Commission. 
 
 From the very organization in 1890, 
 every attitude of the case shows such 
 distinguished service on her part that 
 history will give her the leading position 
 as an actual Director of the World's Fair 
 in all matters coming under her reach. 
 While nominally the Woman's Depart- 
 ment, and the distinction adopted in 
 Pennsylvania for Woman's Work, there is 
 no narrow limiting line, which makes it less 
 interesting or valuable to the entire public. 
 
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 Office of the Pres. Board of Lady Managers, 
 World's Columbian Exposition, 
 
 Chicago, February 20, 1891. 
 
 My Dear Mrs. Ivucas : 
 
 I learn from one of the correspondents in 
 the "Publicity" Department of the Exposition 
 that, during our recent meeting, one of the 
 ladies from Philadelphia, who was particularly 
 well informed about the matter, gave quite 
 a detailed description of the difficulties with 
 which Philadelphia had to contend when pre- 
 paring for the Centennial, and said our trials 
 and delays were small in comparison. The 
 Publicity Department is anxious to have a long 
 and graphic article written on this subject, and 
 so I write to ask if it was you who made the 
 statement referred to, and if you would be 
 willing to write the desired letter? 
 
 I have volunteered to write and ask you, 
 even though I know you are a very busy 
 woman, and I myself have few moments to spare. 
 
 Of course you have heard the good news that 
 our building has been granted us, to cost $200,000. 
 
 I shall send out in a few days an informal 
 report to our ladies. So much time having 
 elapsed since our meeting without anything 
 
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 apparently being done. President Palmer, and 
 the Commissioners, have advised me not to 
 appoint the committees until the Candler report 
 has been acted upon. 
 
 Hoping that your work is progressing 
 favorably in your State, I am, 
 Most cordially yours, 
 
 Bertha M. H. Palmer. 
 
 Chicago, March 19, 1891. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 I have received your very interesting letter, 
 and I learn with regret that it was not you who 
 gave a reporter the interviews on Centennial 
 work. Any report that you can have written 
 about the inside of the work done for the Cen- 
 tennial will be greatly appreciated. Our path 
 now seems relatively smooth before us, as we 
 have been recognized and given an appropriation 
 by Congress, and the Board of Control, which met 
 this week, has given us ample powers and 
 opportunities to develop any work that we may 
 have in contemplation. I regret that you are 
 such a very busy woman, for I fear that you will 
 not be able to give as much time and thought 
 to our work as we would like to claim from you. 
 
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 I learn witli interest what you have done in 
 connection with silk culture, and I feel that 
 your experience will be of great value in our 
 work. 
 
 Hoping to hear from you soon, I am, 
 Yours most cordially. 
 
 Bertha M. H. Palmer. 
 
 Chicago, October 3, 1891. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 The marked copy of the " British American," 
 is received and I have read your eloquent 
 remarks with the greatest pleasure. 
 
 The happy way in which you presented the 
 plans of our Board, after an able rdsumd of 
 the progress of women through the centuries, 
 could not fail to arouse the interest of all 
 your listeners, and I feel that we are much 
 indebted to you for this address. 
 
 Trusting that you are entirely rested from 
 the strain and fatigue of our meeting, and 
 thanking you once more for you valued aid, 
 I am, 
 
 Most sincerely yours. 
 
 Bertha M. H. Palmer.' 
 
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 Chicago, October 14, 1891. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas: 
 
 Through some delay your letter was received 
 only on yesterday. 
 
 I do not wonder that you think the delay 
 long in sending out the minutes. I was 
 extremely anxious to print them as soon as 
 possible after our meeting. It was decided to 
 issue a manual, said manual to contain every- 
 thing of interest pertaining to our Board. I 
 requested this then to be printed for 
 information. 
 
 Mrs. Palmer was absent for two weeks and 
 I was not willing to take the responsibility of 
 printing. We, however, sent out various 
 reports, pamphlets, etc., which I fear from 
 your letter you have not received. 
 
 The standing committees were not appointed 
 during the session. Mrs. Palmer requested the 
 ladies to send in their preferences when they 
 received the classification report, which I 
 re-mail you at once. Miss Beck presented 
 your resolutions, and I enclose type-written 
 remarks. 
 
 I also enclose the blanks from the Director- 
 General's ojBSce. If these do not aflford the 
 
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 desired information, pray let me hear from 
 you again. 
 
 I omitted to say tliat Mrs. Palmer has not 
 announced the standing committees. Many 
 thanks for your very kind personal inquiries, 
 which I regret to say I cannot answer in the 
 affirmative, as I still feel very anxious regarding 
 the minutes. 
 
 If I can serve you in any possible way, dear 
 Mrs. Ivucas, pray command me. I regret the 
 delay in your receiving the pamphlets. There 
 must have been some mistake, as we always 
 check off all names. 
 
 Very hastily and sincerely, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 (Copy of Circular.) 
 
 Chicago, September lo, 1891. 
 Sir: 
 
 I have the honor to transmit you herewith 
 a copy of the following Memorial, adopted 
 by the Board of Lady Managers, at a session 
 held Monday, September 7, 1891, and ordered 
 forwarded to the Presidents of the various 
 
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 World's Fair State Boards and to the Governors 
 of those States that have not yet made 
 appropriations. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke, 
 Secretary Board of Lady Managers. 
 
 At the meeting of the Ladies' Board of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago, 
 September 7, 1891, a full report of the work 
 done by the several States, and their attitude 
 towards this great enterprise, was made by the 
 National Commissioners to that body. 
 
 The animus of this most exhaustive and 
 interesting report was one of general interest 
 and cooperation; general but not universal, for 
 in it we discover that several of the States have 
 not recognized their National Lady Commis- 
 sioners, and have not made any effort, by 
 appropriations, to enable their States to take a 
 representative position with their sister States 
 at this great Exposition of the World's Indus- 
 tries ; and being in hearty sympathy with our 
 sisters from all the States and Territories, and 
 aiming for a complete and exhaustive expression 
 
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 of all the National wealth and products of our 
 great county, and the progress of the women in 
 their many valued lines of reform, as an expres- 
 sion of the voice of this body, be it therefore 
 
 Resolved, That a Memorial, setting forth the 
 importance of Woman's Work in the interest 
 of the Columbian Exposition and urging the 
 appointment of women, including the Lady 
 Managers, upon the several State Boards, be 
 sent by this body to the Presidents of the 
 various State Organizations, without delay, and 
 to the Governors of those States and Territories 
 where no appropriations have been made, giving 
 them power and means to take their position 
 with those more favored Commissioners whose 
 States have thus honored them. 
 
 Mrs. Robert B. Mitchell, 
 
 Mrs. John Lucas, 
 
 Matilda B. Carse, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Chicago, October 28, 1891. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 Your letter of the twenty-sixth is just at 
 hand. I regret so much to hear of your great 
 
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 affliction. I was not aware of any illness in 
 
 your family. I think you are very patriotic to 
 
 do so much in World's Fair Work with so 
 much illness in your household. 
 
 I trust you received my letter of recent date, 
 explaining the detention of our minutes. The 
 vouchers were at first detained in Secretary 
 Dickinson's office, until most of them had been 
 received in order to send all at one time to 
 Washington. 
 
 I send you the enclosed type-written state- 
 ments, which Mrs. Palmer desires sent to the 
 Press in all directions. I think the first 
 paragraph answers your inquiry in regard to 
 exhibits. Director-General Davis said to the 
 Executive Committee, at a recent meeting the 
 morning after our Board adjourned, that all 
 applications, in his opinion, should go to the 
 State Departments when his Department received 
 them, the State Board would be notified and will 
 have a complete record of what has been ofiered 
 and installed. If the applications are first sent 
 to the State Board they can be accepted or 
 rejected before coming here. However, I under- 
 stand that up to the present time no such rule 
 has been established. 
 
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 The committees have not yet been appointed 
 or rules established to govern the work of our 
 building, (the Woman's Building) Mrs. Banks 
 who compiles articles for the Press, in the 
 oJ05ce of Promotion and Publicity, has just 
 informed me that nothing has been decided 
 regarding the hospital. Mrs. Palmer left here 
 yesterday on a trip to Texas. I will present 
 your views on the subject as soon as she returns. 
 
 I trust you have received the reports recently 
 mailed to you. Mrs. Banks assures me that the 
 ladies of our Board will hereafter receive the 
 weekly "slips" issued from their office. 
 Trusting I have replied explicitly to some of 
 the various inquiries that interest us all, and 
 hoping to hear from you soon and often, I 
 remain with great sympathy, 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 Chicago, November 6, 1891. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 Mrs. Palmer has returned and has resumed the 
 duties of her office. I submitted your inquiry 
 regarding the model hospital. She suggests that 
 you send in some proposition from Philadelphia 
 
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 hospitals ; she will gladly receive suggestions, as 
 nothing has yet been decided. The Manual has 
 gone to the printer for the last time, I am quite 
 sure. 
 
 I wish all our ladies realized how much I 
 regret this delay, and that it was caused through 
 no fault of mine that they did not receive the 
 Minutes a month ago. My work was completed 
 a week after our Board adjourned. 
 
 I trust your health is improving. With best 
 wishes and sincere regards, I remain. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 Chicago, November i8, 1891. 
 Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 In reply to your highly esteemed favor of the 
 sixteenth instant, I mail you at this time, under 
 separate cover, three copies of the Classification 
 Pamphlet and Report of Classification Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Please find enclosed an item which will 
 probably interest you, in regard to the Indian 
 Women in Arizona and New Mexico. We 
 hope to keep the members of our Board fully 
 informed in future, and you will receive the 
 
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 regular Bulletins issued by the Department of 
 Promotion and Publicity, as well as some we 
 intend to get up ourselves. 
 
 I do not feel myself in a position to answer 
 your questions in regard to the Women's 
 Exchange of Philadelphia, and I suggest that 
 you put them in regular form, and submit the 
 whole to Mrs. Palmer, upon her return from 
 Boston, which will be in about ten days. 
 
 We mailed the Manual to all the members 
 of the Board yesterday. Hope you have 
 received your copy and find it interesting 
 reading. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 Chicago, June 7, 1892. 
 Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 Your favor of May 31 is at hand. In regard 
 to the Exhibit of Ecclesiastical Embroider}', I 
 cannot say what disposition would be made of 
 it as to place in the building, as all these subjects 
 will be decided by the Committee on Installation 
 yet to be appointed. The separate Guilds should 
 make application by filling out one of our 
 blanks. They can state their wish to be 
 
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 grouped together, but it is impossible to say 
 now whether the idea can be carried out. 
 
 We are in daily expectation of the arrival 
 of the panels from Pennsylvania, as Mrs. Jones 
 wrote that some were ready to send, but your 
 letter explains that you wish to forward 
 all together. The time will be extended to 
 suit your convenience, as we have been obliged 
 to do in a great many cases. 
 
 In regard to the matter of securing space 
 we would like to assure your County 
 Committees that their application blanks 
 are properly cared for under the following 
 routine : Applications for Exhibits of Women 
 in the Main Buildings are sent to this office. 
 I endorse and sign them, to show that they 
 have passed through the hands of the Board of 
 Lady Managers, and they are then referred to 
 the Secretary of Installation, Mr. Hirst, of 
 the Director-General's staff, who, in turn 
 refers them to the proper Department under 
 the classification. They reach their proper 
 destination through our Board, and are 
 classified and distributed as above. After 
 having been referred to the Chiefs of Depart- 
 ments, notice is sent to applicants of the 
 
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 disposal of their blanks, and that further 
 correspondence will be conducted with the 
 Chiefs of the Department to which they have 
 been assigned. 
 
 It gave me great pleasure to call upon 
 your friends from Pennsylvania, and I only 
 regretted not really making their acquaintance, 
 but hope they will be here again. Shall take 
 pleasure in delivering your message to 
 Mrs. Baxter. 
 
 Thanking you for your kind wishes, which 
 have been more than fulfilled, I remain, 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Chicago, June 28, 1892. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 Several letters have come to me in the past few 
 weeks opposing the appropriation for the Silk 
 Industry Exhibit, and it has been intimated that 
 our entire appropriation will be opposed in case 
 we insist on asking for a sum for this purpose. 
 I beg that you will write me a history of the 
 Industry, stating also what the opposition 
 is to this movement, and why it should be 
 
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 opposed, for I am quite uninformed as to the 
 motive that leads to this protest. 
 
 Please let me hear from you as soon as 
 convenient, as I want to be fully informed 
 on the subject. It would be most unfortunate 
 to have our appropriation opposed by naming 
 one item of expenditure which would receive 
 so much antagonism. I have been led to 
 understand that the representatives from 
 Pennsylvania itself will oppose our bill, if 
 we insist upon retaining this item. 
 
 In case Congress should give no funds for 
 making an exhibit of the Silk Industry, have 
 you thought of any other plan, and is your 
 Association preparing to make a showing? 
 Most cordially yours. 
 
 Bertha Honore Palmer, 
 President Board of Lady Managers. 
 
 Chicago, July 20, 1892. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas: 
 
 Your long and interesting letter in regard to 
 the Silk Industry in this country is received. 
 I hope you will write me why you call your 
 Association a National Organization. Is the 
 
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 California Association allied to yours, and 
 have you also branches in other States ? 
 Please let me know in regard to this point fully. 
 Thanking you for your prompt replies to 
 my inquiries, I am. 
 
 Most cordially yours. 
 
 Bertha Honore Palmer. 
 
 Chicago, August 22, 1892. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas: 
 
 Your letter of August i6th is just received, and 
 I write very hastily to say, that as our appropria- 
 tion was reduced from the estimate we furnished, 
 to a considerably less sum, by Congress, I fear 
 that we shall not have any money to aid the 
 Committee on Silk Culture. None of the 
 committees are to receive any financial aid 
 from our meagre purse. 
 
 I am very sorry to hear that you are not 
 well, but trust you will be quite recovered 
 and able to attend our meeting in October. 
 No matter how able your substitute may be, 
 we will feel that she cannot fill your place. 
 
 I shall write more at length later. 
 Very sincerely yours. 
 
 Bertha Honore Palmer. 
 
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 Chicago, August 27, 1892. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas: 
 
 Your communication enclosing blanks for the 
 Woman's Hospital Exhibit has been received, 
 also your letter of August 23d. 
 
 Thank you very much for your kindly 
 Dffers of assistance towards the collection of 
 statistics. I trust our Board will meet in 
 October, when you can present your most 
 excellent plan and no doubt many will be 
 glad to accept your method and suggestion. 
 
 As soon as Mrs. Banks, from the office of 
 Publicity and Progress, returns from her 
 vacation, I will request her to write an article 
 for the papers relating to your Hospital 
 Exhibit. 
 
 Mrs. Palmer returned from Europe about 
 the middle of June. She has been spending 
 the month of August, with her boys, at Camp 
 Elsinor, Adirondacks. She writes that she 
 spends the most of her time out of doors on 
 the Lake ; she, however, manages to keep up 
 with our work, and has just sent for her 
 secretary and stenographer. 
 
 In regard to our funds. Congress appropriated 
 |i 10,000 for the use of our Board. I trust 
 
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 you are feeling quite yourself these days. 
 With continued regards, I am, 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 Chicago, March 3, 1893. 
 Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 We were very glad to hear from you again 
 after the long silence caused by your recent 
 illness, and trust that you are now quite 
 recovered. 
 
 Mrs. Meredith is now in Chicago, her duties 
 as Chairman of the Committee on Awards 
 making it necessary for her to take up her 
 constant residence here. She can be addressed 
 in care of this office. 
 
 We send you, under separate cover, the tags, 
 labels, etc., as requested, also a copy of the 
 Minutes of the Sub-Executive Committee. We 
 are very busy preparing the examination of 
 the exhibits on the 15th, but will say to you 
 that for articles of the first order of merit, 
 about which there will be no doubt, we will 
 give until the first of April. It is the great 
 bulk of the more common work that is 
 wanted for earlier examination, so that if in 
 
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 any particular case more time is needed for 
 anything really excellent, you can exceed a 
 little to the limit Trusting to hear from you 
 as before, 
 
 I am very truly yours, 
 
 Susan G. Cooke. 
 
 Philadelphia, September 17, 1891. 
 Mr. Benjamin "Whitman, 
 
 Executive Commissioner : 
 Dear Sir : I found on my desk this morning 
 your numerous letters of September 14th, and 
 three of September 15th, for all of which I 
 thank you and for the information contained 
 therein. In response I would say, first, that 
 this letter is written on the letter-heads which 
 were suggested and prepared by the original 
 Committee on Woman's Work as appointed 
 by the State Board and whose names appear 
 above. I would respectfully suggest that we 
 waive another letter-head until such time as 
 this Committee on Woman's Work is per- 
 fected, and thereby made more effectual and 
 active. I did understand that Mrs. Jones and 
 Miss McCandless were, by vote of the State 
 Committee, added to the Committee on 
 
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 Woman's Work, aud hope this also meets with 
 your pleasure as it did with the majority at 
 the last meeting. Seems to me that it is the 
 only way in which we can have effectual 
 meetings which will represent Woman's Work 
 from the different committees. It seems to 
 me this would have been a better arrange- 
 ment than having any of the ladies on other 
 committees, they should feel that from all the 
 committees the proportion of Woman's Work 
 done in the lines which they represent will be 
 committed to the care of this Committee on 
 Woman's Work, hence there would be a better 
 concentration of effort and better material 
 created for the report or catalogue, than by 
 spreading the few women we have through 
 the committees. 
 
 I would also suggest here that I should very 
 much like the names of those ladies who are 
 representative women, such as Miss Emily 
 Sartain, President of the School of Design for 
 Women in Philadelphia; Mrs. McHenr>^ Cox, 
 of the Indian School, or Mrs. Mumford, of the 
 New Century Club (a club of women who 
 took their existence from our Centennial) or 
 any other representative women who have been 
 
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 active in any one line of interest where good 
 work has been accomplished ; of course I do 
 not offer these ladies in nomination, I am 
 only writing to you suggestions which I should 
 be very glad to have carried out. The want 
 of action on the part of others puts me in 
 the unenviable position of arrogating to myself 
 more than I desire or feel capable of carrying 
 through, besides the unpleasant position of 
 appearing to work too personally and not 
 collectively with other women. I hope that 
 you fully understand my position. 
 
 Answering your first proposition in reference 
 to ladies from our counties as Auxiliary Com- 
 mittees, may I ask one question? Is it 
 probable that the Chairman of such Auxiliary 
 Committees could be allowed traveling 
 expenses, say quarterly, or half-yearly, to 
 report work at the meetings of this com- 
 mittee, or would any such requisites be 
 allowed? Referring again to this subject, do 
 you think it would be probable that a resolu- 
 tion from the Women's Committee asking for 
 a pro rata share of the whole appropriation, 
 say, one-thirtieth, or one-sixtieth, to defray the 
 whole expense of the Women's Committee, we 
 
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 using our own judgment as to the privileges 
 granted to the Chairman of the Auxiliary- 
 Committee? Of course, thus far we are per- 
 fectly satisfied with what the State Committee 
 has done ; but still as the work progresses 
 other expenses will arise which may not be 
 suggested to us now, and if such resolutions 
 could be passed, the Women's Committee 
 would take care of their own work, and the 
 expenses accruing thereto. This desire to have 
 representatives occasionally from these Congres- 
 sional Districts was my reason for simply 
 suggesting one lady as Chairman ; she, in any 
 way she conceives best, to form another 
 committee of any number such as would 
 represent the work of that district in women's 
 line. 
 
 I observe you say one for each county, as 
 I believe there are sixty counties and thirty- 
 two Congressional Districts. Would it not limit 
 the work a little more to make a District 
 Representative, instead of the county? Please 
 understand this only as a suggestion. I regret 
 that I was unable to answer by return mail, 
 as my family are still out of town. I come to 
 the office two or three times weekly, and 
 
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 found your letter on my return to-day. I 
 would be very glad to have the names for- 
 warded to me just as soon as possible, as we 
 are growing eager for perfect organization and 
 distribution of information. 
 
 For Philadelphia I would respectfully suggest 
 Miss Emily Sartain, Directress of the School 
 of Design for Women. I have a circular 
 passing out to the large bodies of representa- 
 tive women, asking for delegates from their 
 bodies to act with this committee, and find 
 several answers to-day, saying that the letter 
 will be considered at the monthly meeting in 
 September. So that until these letters have 
 been answered I don't wish to name any 
 other Philadelphia ladies. I wish I had a copy 
 of your report. Is it to be printed, and may I 
 have it as soon as possible? Also all printed 
 matter which the State has issued, as I feel 
 greatly in need of having something to guide 
 me, and having left Harrisburg hastily did 
 not bring that which was placed upon the 
 desk. 
 
 Referring to your second clause, I thank 
 you very much for the interest you have taken 
 in asking for me from the National Com- 
 
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 mittee, the printed matter, and will notify you 
 of its reception, I have already received one 
 copy of application for space, but that was sent 
 only to my Association and not to the World's 
 Fair Committee. To your third clause, we wish 
 to open correspondence with these Auxiliary 
 Committees, and this is what we are eager for, 
 and will forward to them our circular, to the 
 women of the State, and any details which we 
 may receive. In what we prepare for the State 
 alone I would certainly feel that it should be 
 necessary for us to confer, and will take no 
 steps without meeting you. Should you be 
 coming to Philadelphia, please notify me of 
 the date, and I will endeavor to meet you at 
 this office. Should I feel it necessary to call 
 for you I will kindly ask for you to come, 
 that we may prepare such form as we may 
 require for the rapid development of the work. 
 I enclose to you a circular which I am 
 about to have printed for the women of the 
 State, but which I will defer having printed 
 until I have your approval and authority. My 
 intention was to send this to the newspapers 
 to be printed and circulated to all bodies of 
 women throughout the State, representing socie- 
 
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 ties or organizations, and especially to tlie 
 chairman of tlie District Auxiliary Associa- 
 tions as soon as I have their names. If you 
 think it best that we should advise together 
 and prepare another circular, I will defer the 
 immediate printing of this until you write me 
 your approval ; also it would be better to defer 
 the printing of letter-heads until we can have 
 the names of the Chairmen of the Auxiliary 
 Committees, and probably make the existing 
 committee more effectual by substituting active 
 people for those who are now inactive. 
 
 Fifth clause. If you think I could do any- 
 thing by talking with the women during any 
 part of the State Fair at Bethlehem, I would 
 be willing to run up for a day and do so, 
 although at present I am not quite well. 
 
 Sixth clause. I would thank you very much 
 if any matter coming to your office on 
 Women's Work would be immediately for- 
 warded to this office. As you again refer to 
 letter-heads, I think we had better defer them 
 for the present, and can no doubt in the new 
 ones improve the quality. 
 
 I thank you in behalf of other ladies of 
 the committee and in behalf of the work 
 
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 whicli I hope we shall accomplisli, for your 
 kind expressions of confidence, and for granting 
 us full correspondence with you on any points 
 where we may feel to need your advice, 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 Harriet Anne Lucas. 
 
 Philadelphia, July 8, 1892. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Having seen some of the issues of your 
 
 paper, and having noticed that you have 
 
 offered some space for notes on the World's 
 
 Columbian Exposition, I desire to forward 
 
 you a copy of a number of circulars which 
 
 have been issued from time to time by the 
 
 State Committee on Woman's Work (whose 
 
 office is as above) for the instruction and 
 
 information of our County Committees. We 
 
 should esteem it a great favor if you would 
 
 promulgate some of the items of information 
 
 from these circulars to the women of the State 
 
 through the columns of your paper. We 
 
 should also be very glad to answer questions 
 
 of interest that may arise in your mind which 
 
 you should desire to know, in reference to the 
 
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 representation of Woman's Work at the World's 
 Columbian Exposition. We are especially- 
 anxious to arouse business women who are 
 making their living through their own business 
 firms to make an exhibit, as this opportunity 
 offers to women a broader field than in former 
 exhibitions for presenting her goods in compe- 
 tition with men's work. 
 
 We may from time to time send you many 
 interesting items in the progress of our work 
 if you can give us the space for such infor- 
 mation. 
 
 Yoitrs truly, 
 
 Harriet A. Lucas. 
 
 July 8, 1892. 
 Circular. 
 
 It is recommended by the State Committee 
 on Woman's Work, to all women who are 
 individually offering work for exhibition at 
 Chicago, or to associations of collective exhibits, 
 to fill out application blanks intelligently, 
 giving a full description of the size, material 
 and kind of work involved in the exhibits, 
 these blanks are to be sent to the Secretary 
 of your County Committee. 
 
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 A faithful record will be kept and you will 
 in due time be notified to what point your 
 exhibit is to be shipped for final destination 
 to Chicago. Do not give yourself any trouble 
 about where or how it will be placed, as in 
 this great Exposition this decision rests with 
 the Classification and Installation Committees 
 at Chicago, and we cannot change the plans 
 and scope of these committees. 
 
 Every exhibitor must be careful to attach 
 to the piece or pieces, their full names and 
 address, the value of the article, if to be sold, 
 and whether or not they shall be placed in 
 competition ; this last suggestion is imperative, 
 as without this, it will be impossible to know 
 how to return the goods to their rightful 
 owners. From these statements a faithful 
 record will be kept by the County and State 
 Committees. To adjust all the goods at 
 Chicago does not rest with this committee, 
 but with the general Commission. 
 
 If exhibits represent business interests, the 
 State is not responsible for these exhibits, but 
 individuals must be at the expense of preparing 
 such protection for their exhibit as they will 
 need, but applications for space must be 
 
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 proceeded with as above directed, whether or 
 not the individuals provide the proper cases 
 of protection for their goods. 
 
 Trusting that these explanations will make 
 you feel entirely comfortable with regard to 
 the careful distribution of your personal and 
 collective exhibits. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Harriet A. I^ucas. 
 
 1 200 Walnut Street, 
 
 January 23, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 You are more than kind in taking the 
 trouble to write to me. I called simply to 
 pay my respects, and do not need to tax 
 you by business matters. It gave me genuine 
 pleasure to tell your daughter the kind ap- 
 preciative remarks which I have heard in 
 Chicago. I was there but two days, and 
 during both, the thermometer was 14 degrees 
 below zero. Our State Building is in all 
 ways admirable, and far on towards comple- 
 tion. Besides that I saw only the Woman's 
 Building and the Horticultural. Things looked 
 
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 well advanced, and people talked hopefully, but 
 there is an undercurrent of cholera scare. 
 
 I do indeed agree with you that the County 
 Committees are a valuable body and worthy 
 of consideration. It was delightful to again 
 come in contact with them at Mrs. Brock's. 
 Mrs. Brock herself spoke appreciatively of 
 the work which you have done. I met Mr. 
 Brownfield on Tuesday at the private view 
 of the pictures intended for the Fair ; his son 
 and mine are old friends. 
 
 At the end of a busy day I have only time 
 to scratch oflf this in acknowledgment of yours. 
 Believe me, my dear Mrs. I^ucas, that the 
 patient endurance which you so evince towards 
 those about you will have its reward. 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 Matilda Hart Shelton. 
 
 Philadelphia, February 13, 1893. 
 Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 I have your letter enclosing circular in refer- 
 ence to Advisory Committees, also the kindly 
 caution in regard to overwork. I never come 
 to the office without feeling it is of direct 
 
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 use, there is really a gi'eat deal to do. I 
 find Miss Russel, and Miss Ford, admirable 
 helpers, and the work with them goes on 
 smoothly. 
 
 The extra key for 1224 Arch Street will 
 be sent to-morrow to Mrs. Eltonhead. The 
 Silk Culture Association meet at 11 o'clock 
 on Thursday ; this I learned from Miss Russel. 
 If you should prefer any other time than 
 that for sending your man for some books, 
 please name the time and Miss Ford will be 
 there. 
 
 The receipts for Dormitory stock will be 
 forwarded. 
 
 I greatly regret that there are so few 
 exhibits booked from business women in 
 Philadelphia, and not more from artists 
 in public and private studios. Were it not 
 that I am told that it is too late to receive 
 more applications for space, I would indeed 
 take active measures by applying to them 
 direct, but the time has gone by. 
 
 When in Chicago, Mrs. Palmer spoke to 
 me about the great advisability of having 
 New York assume charge of the Colonial 
 Exhibit. Mrs. Trautman also spoke to me 
 
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 on tlie same subject, and expressed the 
 
 same view, I said I agreed with them, if 
 
 Mrs. Kidder would consent to the plan. They 
 
 said it might be a great relief to her, owing 
 
 to New York being likely to have a large 
 
 amount of funds for the purpose. In New 
 
 York I was recently told that they hoped to 
 
 put aside $10,000 for the Colonial loan. In 
 
 that case I feel they can do it better than any 
 
 other State. Your letter to the Congressmen 
 
 will go out to-day. 
 
 The room at 1224 Arch Street will be open 
 
 to-morrow from nine to eleven, and Miss Ford 
 
 will be there. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Matilda Hart Shelton. 
 
 Harrisburg, March 10, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 In response to a note from Miss Ford, in regard 
 to the printing of the statistics, would say, that 
 the whole work can be printed here, and of course 
 it should be done here, since there will be no 
 money to spare from the Women's Fund. 
 You speak of wanting the book bound like 
 the special copy, in morocco. Suppose you 
 
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 would only like a few copies so bound ; tHe 
 rest would have paper covers, like our Penn- 
 sylvania book. I should think 10,000 copies 
 would be amply suflEicient to go around, but 
 you might be the best judge of this. 
 
 You will simply have to express the manu- 
 scripts, plates, etc. ; we would take charge of 
 it, and have it printed for you. 
 
 At the Executive Committee meeting, last 
 night, I brought up the subject, and your 
 number of letters bearing upon the Silk 
 Exhibit. All favorable ; offered nothing against 
 it, and spoke strongly in favor myself of the 
 exhibit. I told them you claimed that this 
 exhibit was planned while you were acting 
 head of the Women's Work; that you had 
 made your arrangements and obtained space; 
 that it was too late to talk of giving it up; 
 that I personally believed it would be a very 
 interesting exhibit. Mr. Buchanan was of the 
 same opinion, etc. They however, on account 
 of scarcity of funds resolved to lay it over 
 until our meeting next week, and, in the 
 meantime, request me to obtain from you 
 further information. Governor Watres' reso- 
 lution in brief was: "That the Executive 
 
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 Commissioner be requested to ascertain how 
 far we are committed to this Silk Exhibit ; 
 whether Mrs. Lucas has made arrangements 
 and promises which commit, etc." I told 
 them that I thought you had ; but you can 
 write me a letter which I may receive before 
 the time named. 
 
 We were very sorry not to see Mr. Blodget ; 
 he did not put in an appearance. Possibly 
 he may come to the next meeting, seven 
 o'clock Thursday evening, which is called to 
 discuss finances and further appropriation. No 
 action was taken about your position in the 
 Board, for the reason that that has never been 
 disturbed. Your title is just the same as it always 
 was ; it was simply resolved that the work 
 was to be turned over to Mrs. Shelton, and 
 all responsibility pertaining thereto ; and as 
 I have already told you, if the Executive 
 Committee were 5^our brothers, it was just what 
 they ought to have done. All feel kindly 
 toward you, and at any rate you know well 
 that I do. I cannot say more than that, for I 
 am very sincerely 
 
 Your friend, 
 
 A. B. Farquhar, Ex. Commissioner. 
 
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 Harrisburg, March i6, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 It was proposed that we give $1,000 to the 
 Children's Home, sometime since, though it was 
 never definitely turned over. This $1,000 I am 
 going to divert to you for the Silk Exhibit. 
 Presume it would meet your approbation. It 
 would be of more interest to Pennsylvania. 
 
 Our work seems to be going on very nicely 
 now. You will be glad to hear, and if Mrs. 
 Shelton does not work herself to death we 
 will probably make a very creditable exhibit. 
 
 Mrs. Palmer writes that she is going to 
 give us all the time possible, but the exhibits 
 all ought to be there early in April, and they should 
 know immediately the amount of space wanted. 
 
 We have a meeting of the Commission 
 to-night. Am sorry you will not be able to attend. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 A. B. Farquhar, 
 Ex. Commissioner. 
 
 Harrisburg, March 23, 1893. 
 Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 It is always pleasant to know that we have 
 friends. Yesterday I told you to go ahead with 
 
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 the Silk Exhibit, if the funds could not be 
 furnished otherwise, you might command them 
 from me individually, and upon my return 
 home, I found the enclosed telegram from Mrs. 
 Palmer, which relieves me entirely. 
 
 They have plenty of money now I believe in 
 Chicago for the Children's Home, and every- 
 thing else. 
 
 I send you the dispatch, for its kind words 
 of you. Hoping that you are better, I am, 
 Yours truly, 
 
 A. B. Farquhar, 
 
 Ex. Commissioner. 
 
 Wilmington, N. C, February 7, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas: 
 
 Your last letter, with a copy of the one you 
 purpose sending your Representatives, is at 
 hand, and I hasten to notify you of the fact 
 that the petition has at last gone to Senator 
 Ransom, who I trust will take prompt and 
 immediate action in the matter, so I shall be 
 glad to have you send your circular letter as 
 early as possible to your Senators and Con- 
 gressmen, and I am sure such a letter coming 
 from you will carry its influence. And let me 
 
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 thank you, my dear Mrs. Lucas, for your compli- 
 ment to me, which I feel all undeserving, but 
 which I greatly appreciate. I received a few 
 days ago a letter from Mrs. Troutman, saying 
 that the New York State Board was going to 
 make a proposition to me, which she advised 
 my accepting, and this morning's mail brought 
 me a letter from the Secretary of the Local 
 Committee presenting the proposition as follows : 
 " You are authorized to say to your committee 
 that it is proposed that New York take charge of 
 the Colonial Exhibit of the whole country, and 
 assume the care and protection thereof, provided, 
 the State of New York make the appropriation 
 in the bill now pending in the Legislature, and 
 provided that the Board of Lady Managers of 
 the World's Columbian Exposition appropriate 
 $25,000 for that purpose and place the amount 
 at the disposal of the Colonial Committee of the 
 Woman's Board of Lady Managers from New 
 York, and provided the exhibit can be made in 
 the Government Building." 
 
 Now what do you think of this proposition? 
 It is a question that of course I cannot individu- 
 ally decide. I shall put the proposition before 
 the seven States who have signified their inten- 
 
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 tion of uniting in a co-operative exhibit and 
 eacii must decide for itself. I fancy the States 
 which have no funds to meet the expense of a 
 Colonial Exhibit will be glad to get under the 
 wings of New York, but I doubt very much if a 
 great State like your own will accede to this 
 plan. So I write first to hear the voice of 
 Pennsylvania upon this important project. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Florence H. Kidder. 
 
 Wilmington, N. C, March 7, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas: 
 
 Knowing your feeble health, it is always with 
 reluctance that I impose one of my letters 
 upon you, but not only as a member of the 
 Centennial Committee, but also because you 
 are so helpful and suggestive to me, do I 
 often feel the impulse to write to you. 
 
 I received some days ago your communi- 
 cation enclosing Mr. O' Neil's. I refrained 
 from answering it at once, because I have 
 been waiting further developments, and also 
 awaiting some authentic information from 
 Senator Ransom about our bill. I have not 
 heard direct from him, but heard from my 
 
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 friend and alternate, Mrs. Gotten, who is 
 representing me on the Federal Legislative 
 Committee, now in Washington. She writes 
 me that we will not get our $25,000 appro- 
 priation. I fancy from what she writes that 
 it was simply referred to the Committee on 
 Appropriations, and never did go before either 
 the House or the Senate. I do not state 
 this authoritatively, but it is only an inference ; 
 however, the fact remains that the Fifty-second 
 Congress has adjourned and we did not get 
 our money. 
 
 There is but one thing left for us to do, 
 and that is to unite the Colonial Exhibits of 
 Pennsylvania, New York and North Carolina, 
 with the addition of heirlooms from Territories 
 and States other than Colonial. And I have 
 had the offer of many historic relics from 
 California to Maine. From Montana comes 
 the offer of a most interesting collection, and 
 the State Board will pay all costs. Our North 
 Carolina State Board has given not a penny 
 to the Colonial work, but through my indivi- 
 dual effort and personal appeal to our people, 
 I have collected a sufficient sum for all expenses 
 for insurance, transportation, etc., and we can 
 
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 make a most interesting and historic display. 
 I am seriously thinking of going on to New 
 York and Philadelphia next week and see if 
 I cannot make arrangements with the Colonial 
 Committee of those States, and have them 
 consent to a united exhibit of the three States. 
 Do you think it advisable that I should do 
 so? Please tell me frankly. 
 
 We have so little time to lose that what is 
 to be done must be done promptly, and letters 
 are at the best unsatisfactory. I have had 
 some correspondence with Mrs. Frederick R. 
 Jones, of the New York Board, and she thinks 
 that both Massachusetts and New Jersey could 
 be secured for a united exhibit, although their 
 Representatives on the Colonial Committees, 
 Mrs. French and Miss Russel, answered that 
 their articles would go with their building. 
 
 I shall be glad to have a line from you as 
 to the practicability of my seeing the New 
 York and Pennsylvania State Boards. 
 
 I beg that you will pardon this hurriedly 
 written letter, which, I fear, you have scarcely 
 found legible. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Florence H. Kidder. 
 
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 Wilmington, March 20, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 I am sure Mrs. Gillespie, wlio was in Wash- 
 ington with Mrs. Troutman and Mrs. Gotten, 
 has told you of the space accorded us in the 
 rotunda of the Government Building, and that 
 it is decided to place our Colonial relics there. 
 The necessarily limited space greatly curtails the 
 plan and scope of our exhibit, and I cannot carry 
 out my original plan of a large and compre- 
 hensive display in the Woman's Building. But 
 I fancy it will be more unique and historic, 
 and more in keeping with the dignity of the 
 Government, and with the assurance of Govern- 
 ment protection. 
 
 I find the apathy which has heretofore per- 
 vaded many of the States has been dispelled, 
 and many whose exhibits were to be placed 
 in their State buildings will now make a 
 Colonial display in the Government Build- 
 
 ing. 
 
 The space allotted us comprises six alcoves, 
 thirteen feet wide and three feet deep with 
 about fifteen feet of wall space. The idea was 
 to apportion one alcove to two States, but I 
 think there will be many of the States which 
 
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 will make no Colonial display, and this, of 
 course, will give the others an extension of 
 room. I do not believe that either Georgia or 
 South Carolina will come in. In my own 
 State, North Carolina, I have by individual 
 effort raised the amount necessary to cover the 
 cost of our Colonial display, which I trust will 
 be interesting. 
 
 I hope you have had sent you from 
 Washington the blue print, showing our posi- 
 tion in the Government Building. It is in 
 close proximity to the Department of State 
 and of Justice, where will be displayed the 
 Declaration of Independence, the Constitution 
 of the United States, and many other kindred 
 documents. 
 
 The whole building will be patrolled night 
 and day. The Board has reserved the right 
 to pass in detail upon all the articles exhibited, 
 and the display will be subject to all the rules 
 and regulations of the Government Board, both 
 as to the selection of the articles and the 
 manner of installation. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Florence H. Kidder. 
 
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 Rome, Italy, March 29, 1893. 
 Mrs. John Lucas, Philadelphia: 
 
 Dear Madam : I beg to submit to your 
 approval the following report concerning the 
 work done in Japan to interest the ladies of 
 that country in the Woman's Department. 
 
 Upon my arrival in Tokio I had a long 
 talk on the subject with Mr. Edwin Dun, 
 Charge d'Afiaires ad interim of the United 
 States, who told me that up to that time (March 
 1892) it had been impossible to interest the 
 Japanese in the Woman's Department. He 
 was very anxious to do all he could, but he 
 did not think that the Government and the 
 Imperial Commissioner were in favor of a 
 Woman's Exhibit. Yet, he thought that if the 
 Empress could be interested in the matter she 
 might do something, as she is very liberal 
 and progressive ; but he considered it impos- 
 sible to approach her, and was convinced that 
 no woman in Japan would take an interest 
 in the Exposition unless she should first 
 approve of it. Mr. Dun told me that the 
 address by you to the Empress had been sent 
 to him by the State Department, and that he 
 had given it to H. E. Yashitane Sannomiya, 
 
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 Vice Grand Master of tlie Ceremonies of the 
 Imperial Court, whom he considered the best 
 man likely to be interested, as he had traveled 
 much, is very progressive and liberal, and 
 that his wife is English. I requested Mr. Dun 
 to introduce me to Mr. Sannomiya, which he 
 kindly agreed to do. The following morning 
 he took me to the Imperial Household, where 
 I had a long talk with Mr. Sannomiya. Your 
 letter had not yet been given to Her Majesty, 
 but he promised me that it would be pre- 
 sented to her at once. I told him what 
 the Government and ladies of the different 
 European countries were doing, which inter- 
 ested him greatly. 
 
 Two days after, being Madame Sannomiya's 
 "at home," I called on her, accompanied by 
 a mutual friend. General Legendre, Vice 
 Minister of the Home Department of the King 
 of Corea. Madame Sannomiya did not think 
 that the women of Japan would possibly have 
 anything to do with the Exposition, and to 
 use her own expression, when she spoke of it 
 later, "she simply sat on me," and told me 
 I was losing my time. She and the other 
 ladies, whom I met afterwards, were convinced 
 
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 that the Japanese women had nothing of 
 interest to send. 
 
 Two following days I studied the matter 
 deeply, found many things of interest, which 
 could be sent by the Japanese ladies — not 
 only their beautiful work, but that of the 
 women of the poorer classes, and many things 
 to illustrate the schools, hospitals. Society of 
 the Red Cross, etc. 
 
 I found out that women had had much to 
 do with the Histor\', Literature and Arts of 
 the country, and armed with many sugges- 
 tions, and a better knowledge of the question, 
 I called again on Madame Sannomiya ; in 
 fact, I called several times, and from that time 
 she became a warm supporter of my plans — 
 though she had little hope in their success. 
 One day she exclaimed : "If the Empress 
 could only be interested." It was clear that 
 nothing could ever be done unless the Empress 
 should approve. But to approach her was 
 declared to be an impossibility by the United 
 States IMinister and all my friends. 
 
 I had taken with me to Japan a powerful 
 stereopticon apparatus and views of all the 
 places of interest in the United States, and 
 
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 also views of all the buildings, palaces and 
 gardens of tlie Exposition as they now appear. 
 I proposed to give a lecture before their 
 Majesties — a proposition which made most of 
 my friends smile as it was considered altogether 
 impossible. 
 
 Napoleon said long ago that " impossible " was 
 not French, and very fortunately it was French I 
 had to use in my dealings with the Court. Meet- 
 ing every day in a social way persons connected 
 with the Court, I did not lose an opportunity 
 of getting nearer and nearer, and after several 
 weeks of difficult, delicate, strategetical and 
 diplomatic manoeuvres, I succeeded in being 
 received by their majesties and delivered my 
 lecture before them and the ladies of the Court. 
 This success I owe greatly to the efforts of 
 Mr. Dun, Mr. and Madame Sannomiya and 
 Marquis Kido. The lecture was such a success 
 that the United States Charge d' Affaires sent a 
 special telegram about it to the State Depart- 
 ment. In the lecture I said all I could in favor 
 of the Woman's Department, showing views 
 and plans of the buildings and a photograph 
 of the President. Her Majesty was very much 
 interested, and a few days afterwards I had the 
 
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 pleasure of hearing that she was thinking of 
 appointing a Commission. I had been charm- 
 ingly entertained at the Palace, and the Emperor 
 was so pleased with the views that he sent me 
 for presents two fine pieces of Cloisonn^, by 
 Namikarva, the great Japanese Artist. At that 
 time I left for China, and was absent nearly 
 one month. Upon my return I received a call 
 from Marquis Kido, Master of Ceremonies of 
 the Court, who brought the good news that 
 her Majesty had appointed a Commission 
 composed of the most prominent women of 
 Japan. Furthennore she had given from her 
 own purse the money to carry on the expenses 
 of the Lady Commissioners. I said at the 
 beginning of this letter that the Imperial 
 Commissioners were against the appointment 
 of such a Commission. They were especially 
 afraid to have to pay the expenses of the 
 Government's appropriations. But when they 
 saw that the Empress herself was interested, and 
 would furnish the money, they changed their 
 minds and became warm supporters of the 
 Ladies' Commission. Mr. Sannomiya, and 
 Marquis Kido, were appointed by her Majesty 
 as advisors to the Ladies' Commission. Marquis 
 
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 Kido, frankly admitted that it was a new work 
 to him and to the ladies. I suggested that I 
 might be able to advise them and to explain 
 what was the aim and purposes of the Woman's 
 Department. IVIy proposition was accepted at 
 once. Princess Mari, called a meeting of the 
 ladies at one of the Imperial Palaces, and there 
 I had the honor to address them. After giving 
 them a full history of the Woman's Department, 
 I explained what had been done in other coun- 
 tries, and suggested many things which could 
 be done successfully by Japanese ladies. I 
 showed them plans of the buildings, explained 
 that the Exposition would be divided into several 
 rooms, and that therefore it was necessary' for 
 them to decide at once upon the amount of space 
 they needed in each room. After they had 
 offered me a delightful supper, the ladies decided 
 that they would need one thousand square feet. 
 I knew it would be diflBcult to give so much 
 space, and as it was absolutely necessary that the 
 ladies should know as soon as possible whether 
 they could have it or not before beginning their 
 work, I promised them that I would see you 
 personally and cable them how much space you 
 could afford to give them. 
 
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 Upon my arrival in Chicago I heard that 
 you were in the Adirondack Mountains, and 
 the Secretary, Mrs. Cooke, told me that she did 
 not think that the Japanese women could be 
 given more than four hundred feet. I imme- 
 diately decided to see you in person, and went 
 to Paul Smith's, in the Adirondack Mountains, 
 where I had the honor to report to you. 
 
 After our interviews I was able to cable to 
 Mr. Sannomiya, "eight hundred feet assured, 
 probably two hundred more later." Two weeks 
 later I sailed again for Japan, where I found 
 the ladies delighted with the space given to 
 them. Her Majesty and the most prominent 
 ladies of Japan, were taking great interest in 
 the Exposition. I called the attention of 
 these ladies to the presence in Tokio of 
 Mrs. Frederick Winston, and suggested that 
 she might give them some advice. A reception 
 was organized by Mrs. Coombs, at the United 
 States Legation, where Mrs. Winston met all the 
 lady Commissioners. A few days afterward (the 
 evening before my departure) Princess Man 
 entertained at dinner Mrs. and Mr. Winston 
 and myself; at that dinner all the members of 
 the Commission were present 
 
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 This is, Madam, liow the Lady Commission 
 of Japan was formed. Thanks to the interest 
 of her Majesty, to the efibrts, first of Mr. and 
 Madam Sannomiya, and Marquis Kido, and 
 then to those of Princess Mari and other ladies, 
 it will doubtless send a most interesting 
 exhibit 
 
 I am most happy to have been able to do 
 this much to thank you for all your kindness, 
 and for the interest shown me by the Board of 
 Lady Managers. 
 
 Believe me, Madam, 
 
 Yours very respectfully, 
 
 A. B. de Guerville, 
 Honorary Commissioner. 
 
 At the request of Mr. de Guerville, who is 
 ill, the above report has been copied and 
 forwarded to you. B. 
 
 428 South Thirteenth Street, 
 
 Philadelphia, April 10, 1893. 
 My Dear Friend Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 I am very very sorry to hear that you have 
 been so ill. I hope you will be better soon, and 
 will be able to teach our Chinese friends again. 
 
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 If it is not so, of course our Heavenly Father 
 knows what is best for you and us all. I visited 
 your Sunday-school yesterday afternoon. I must 
 say you have faithful teachers at your school, I 
 met many of them whom I had met before, and 
 I am often thinking of my warm friend 
 Mrs. Lucas, who has done so much for our 
 countrymen in this Christian land. Shall we 
 not appreciate your kindness ; certainly we will 
 not forget your kindness, what you have done 
 for our men before. I am sure we are greatly 
 indebted to you for your kind heart, lady. May 
 the dear Lord bless thee, and keep thee. 
 With kind regards to you and family. 
 Very faithfully yours, 
 
 Moy Shoo Po. 
 
 May I, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 The Auxiliary of Bucks County have just 
 held a meeting to take a r^sum^ of our work, 
 and to act upon the proposed "Permanent 
 Organization;" but I feel that I cannot draw the 
 work to a conclusion without a note of thanks 
 to you for your very acceptable and cordial help 
 through the difficult parts of it. I received 
 
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 your last circular, and fully understood and 
 appreciated your position, and felt sincere 
 regret that your health had prevented you 
 from continuing in active work to the end, 
 and finishing what you had so successfully 
 planned and carried on almost to completion. 
 
 I thank you personally for your prompt and 
 helpful response in all times of difficulty, and 
 assure you that your kindness will be one of the 
 pleasant memories of the occasion. 
 
 The committee join with me in expressions of 
 appreciation and thanks. 
 
 Believe me, very sincerely yours, 
 
 (Miss) Louise H. Smith, 
 Chairman Berks County Aux. 
 
 Chicago, May 4, 1893. 
 Dear Nellie : 
 
 From Miss Ford I hear of the extreme illness 
 of your dear sweet mother. She has been so 
 lovely to me, and, Nellie dear, my love for her is 
 strong and I know she was fond of me. It does 
 seem hard that neither General McClelland or 
 your lovely mother could see the consummation 
 of their hopes. 
 
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 I wrote a long letter to your mother, but feared 
 that reading might worry her. Mrs. Shelton 
 has carried out our plans, and Pennsylvania is 
 behind no State. Instead of ours, I should have 
 said Mrs. Lucas' plans. 
 
 Give your mother much love, from her 
 attached friend, 
 
 Mary E. McCandless. 
 
 143 East Thirty-fourth Street, 
 
 New York City, May 5, 1893. 
 My Dear Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 In a letter which I received from Miss Mary 
 F. Smith, a contribution from you toward 
 St. John's College was enclosed with one from 
 her. I want to say a hearty "thank you" 
 to you, and tell you how much I appreciate your 
 remembrance of my work. It is very kind of 
 you in the midst of ill health to think of 
 me and of St. John's College. 
 
 I wish I could have met you and talked over 
 the work among the Chinese in America, for I 
 am told you inaugurated the Chinese Sunday- 
 school at Epiphany Church. 
 
 You will be glad to learn that so far I have 
 secured over $14,000 of the $20,000 I want to 
 
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 raise. I still hope to be able to raise the 
 balance. 
 
 Hoping this will find you in better health, 
 and that it may please God to spare you for 
 many years to come, to carry on the work for 
 his Kingdom, I am, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Rev.) F. ly. Hawks PotL 
 
 Philadelphia, July 20, 1893. 
 My Dear Mr. Lucas: 
 
 I sincerely appreciate your sending me the 
 Memorial Sermon. I read it with much 
 interest last evening. It is a beautiful tribute 
 to Mrs. Lucas' memory, and the record of her 
 life as given by Dr. Stone, should be an 
 incentive to all her friends. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 Wm. M. Coates. 
 
 Erie, Penna., July 29, 1893. 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 If you can conveniently, be kind enough to 
 send me a copy of the Memorial of Mrs. Lucas, 
 
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 a notice of whicli I see in the Philadelphia 
 papers. I am one of those who greatly honored 
 Mrs. Lucas, and remain true to her memory. 
 Excuse haste and form, as I am just leaving 
 home, and write at the depot, in order that 
 I may not be too late to receive a copy. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Benjamin Whitman. 
 
 No. 112 W. Fourteenth Street, 
 
 New York, June 14, 1888. 
 Mr. Lorin Blodget : 
 
 Dear Sir : Your letter, with others, I received 
 just as I was coming away for a short visit to my 
 son in New York, and I take this spare moment 
 to thank you for your kind appreciation of my 
 effort in behalf of " Home Missions." I greatly 
 believe there is a missionary spirit in me, which 
 while God has given me a Home Mission to do 
 in my family, also finds (for I do not really seek 
 it) a duty to many not of that household, but 
 of the great brotherhood of God. The Chinese, 
 a race which it seems to me, God has placed in 
 the direct line of duty for this American people, 
 
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 the Italians, wlio are now forming a composite 
 part in daily and public labor in our large cities, 
 (see Carl Spreckel's work) and in any other work 
 or race who may cross my path, and need my 
 advice, or any helping hand. 
 
 Is not this the Mission Christ came to teach ? 
 I can find no other, not of creeds and doctrines, 
 etc., though all those as He and His Apostles — 
 so Divinely taught — I respect and revere, and 
 these only. 
 
 I am glad to tell you that our appropriation 
 of $5,000 for 1888-89 is secure. I fear we 
 are not, in the Woman's Silk Culture 
 Association, living up to our opportunities. 
 I want to see John Cutter while he is here, 
 I want to be a missionary to him. Do you 
 think we could open a small plant of 
 machinery and manufacture our own silk 
 into underwear or knitted goods? There is 
 a little trouble in regard to our market for 
 the silk we have. Call on Mrs. Souder and 
 ask her to see a copy of my letter just sent 
 to Cutter. Remember Strange, Tilt, Dexter, 
 Lambert and others. 
 
 I would like to talk to you on my return 
 next week. My sons at Garden City, Yale 
 
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 and Sing Sing, are having commencement 
 exercises this week for which I am here. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Mrs. John Lucas. 
 
 i86
 
 Summary of the Results of Woman's Work. 
 
 The Report of the Woman's Work Committee 
 for the State of Pennsylvania, forms a volume 
 of 135 pages, in which the results of the 
 examination made by that committee are stated 
 with full details first, and ultimately in the 
 summary form. 
 
 This report is of itself a marked departure 
 from the usual exhibits of charitable and 
 industrial occupations. The intention is to 
 give the distinctive work of women, and it 
 will surprise all ordinary readers to find so 
 many institutions for Instruction, Reform, 
 Philanthropy and Missions. Full descriptions 
 are given of one hundred and forty-six insti- 
 tutions of this class, founded and directed by 
 women; the name, the location, the date of 
 founding, the name of the Principal, a brief 
 
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 of the purpose of each, and the means of 
 support being given in each case. In the first 
 portion of the voltune a description of the 
 building and a handsome engraved design is 
 given for most of these institutions. The 
 leading facts in the history and the founding 
 of these institutions, with the names of those 
 connected in any manner with the direction 
 are given in each case. This report, therefore, 
 constitutes a complete directory to all institu- 
 tions chartered for the purposes before named, 
 in the State of Pennsylvania, founded by 
 women. 
 
 The educational features of several of these 
 institutions are also prominent, and they are 
 all designed to elevate and instruct all their 
 beneficiaries, so as to fit them for active life 
 as independent citizens. 
 
 This department of the work done by women 
 closes with page lOO of the report, with the 
 tabulation showing the total work done by 
 one hundred and forty-six institutions. 
 
 The second portion of the work relates first 
 to "Industrial Statistics of Women's Work in 
 Pennsylvania." In this portion a summary is 
 given, first of the textile industries proper, 
 
 1 88
 
 and next of book publishing and printing and 
 the lighter industries, there being in Phila- 
 delphia looi establishments of this class, 
 employing 74,946 women and 75,744 men, 
 with 15,645 classified as youths. There are, 
 therefore, fully 83,000 females to the 83,000 
 males, or an equal number of each sex. This 
 is really a very remarkable change from the 
 condition of things ten or fifteen years since. 
 It is undoubtedly true that in the regularly 
 compensated employments described as indus- 
 trial, or engaged in creative labor rather than 
 in merely routine or servile labors, that there 
 is now an equal number of women and girls 
 receiving fairly liberal payment, at least in all 
 other than the great iron works. And in most 
 cases the surroundings are made pleasant and 
 attractive and the working girls are as careful 
 in dress and manners as could be desired. 
 While not paid quite as much for their labor 
 as men and boys are paid, the difference is 
 not large and is only on the part of men who 
 have positions of direction or of management 
 This report also shows what great improve- 
 ments in the employment and comjDcnsation of 
 women have been introduced with the silk 
 
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 and silk-mixed goods manufactured. Most of 
 these mills are comparatively new, and there 
 are over seventy in Philadelphia alone and 
 over thirty in the smaller cities and towns in 
 the Eastern part of the State. This report 
 being for 1891, there are about ten thousand 
 women and girls reported in the eighty-five 
 silk mills then existing. It is remarkable that 
 the American methods of weaving silk are 
 wholly conducted by young women, while the 
 Lyons silk fabrics are woven by men alone. 
 
 A detailed list of the silk mills and those 
 on fine mixed goods in Philadelphia is given 
 on pages 106 to 118, this list being made 
 from the return of the factory inspectors for 
 that year, and generously furnished to the 
 Woman's Committee by the Lady Inspectors. 
 Further lists of silk mills and of most other 
 fabrics employing women in the Northeastern 
 and Northwestern and Northern counties, are 
 also given on pages 109 to 112. These new 
 and most interesting details being also 
 furnished by the Lady Inspectors for the year 
 1 89 1. A recent law placed the inspection of 
 these factories, in which women are employed, 
 in the hands of lady inspectors, and they have 
 
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 discharged their duties of inspection with 
 remarkable firmness and success. 
 
 The Woman's Committee, therefore, performed 
 a most valuable service in bringing out the 
 facts as to the industrial employment of women 
 and girls. Their report shows the most 
 striking change in this respect, and that even 
 in Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, and in the 
 iron and steel works and glass works particu- 
 larly, a large number of women and girls are 
 employed. 
 
 In Pittsburgh and Allegheny alone the 
 numbers reported are 3842 women and 17 17 
 girls, in a total of 53,242 of both sexes employed 
 in one hundred and eighty-six mills. 
 
 In Lancaster and York Counties it is 
 surprising to find that the number of women and 
 girls employed in the greater industries is 
 much in excess of the number of men and 
 boys. 
 
 The next division of this report includes a 
 summary of mission work in the churches, 
 which gives some new and valuable state- 
 ments of the leading work of each denomi- 
 nation in each of the several counties of the 
 State. 
 
 191
 
 Some interesting details conclude the report, 
 in the designation of the literary women of 
 the State, and the principal works of which 
 they became authors. 
 
 192
 
 Review of the Official Minutes of the Committee 
 on Woman's Work. 
 
 The extent and completeness of the plan laid 
 down by Mrs. Lucas for representing Woman's 
 interests at the World's Fair was very remark- 
 able. A report of the proceedings of the 
 Congressional District Delegates, representing 
 the State County Committees, held at Phila 
 delphia, November 30, 1892, affords the most 
 ample and instructive proof of the value of 
 Mrs. Lucas' direction and the effectiveness of 
 her plan of work. 
 
 For the general purpose of the Woman's 
 Exhibition, at Chicago, the State appropriated 
 $10,000, with a further appropriation for specific 
 purposes of $5,500. This general appropriation 
 was practically controlled by Mrs. Lucas, who 
 was Chairman of the Committee ou Woman's 
 Work. The plan was so large and generous 
 
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 as to bring into active co-operation a com- 
 mittee in each county. This extension of the 
 working machinery, as it may be called, neces- 
 sarily involved contributions of articles and 
 even of expenses on the part of such County 
 Committees. The cost of gathering the results 
 and of transmitting and putting in form at 
 Chicago, was the principal use to which the 
 appropriation would be placed, and so careful 
 and economical had the management been, that 
 up to December i, 1892, only 1 1,800 had been 
 spent by the Woman's State Committee. There 
 had, however, been a diversion of $2,500 to the 
 Art Committee, $2,000 to Miss Garrett's School, 
 $1,000 to the Children's House, leaving $8,200 
 on December i, 1892. These facts are stated 
 only to show that this singularly effective and 
 complete organization of county committees 
 cost very little indeed. It was most wisely 
 directed at the outset and most honorably con- 
 ducted throughout. 
 
 The extended report of this final meeting of 
 thirty-two pages must be consulted to show 
 the real magnitude of the work. 
 
 Every page of this report shows the original 
 and directive force exercised by Mrs. lyucas. 
 
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 She presided at the opening, and, indeed, she 
 directed at every stage of the proceedings the 
 succession of events. She called on each 
 responsible officer in turn, first those of the 
 State Commission, and next those of the 
 County or District organizations, bringing out 
 in each case the amount and character of the 
 preparation and of the exhibits to be made. 
 This report itself is very instructive, because it 
 shows most remarkable developments of 
 artistic, professional and practical skill on the 
 part of prominent women in the State in 
 almost every county. Any one who had no 
 precedent in such cases would see here the 
 fullest vindication, both of the purpose to 
 make such exhibits, and of the capacity of 
 the women of the State to do honor to the 
 occasion, and to show that an enlarged 
 department of actual science, of artistic and 
 professional skill, as well as of mere skill in 
 the industries and in education, actually exists 
 on the part of the women of the State of 
 Pennsylvania. It was therefore a duty to elicit 
 these facts and to make them a part of the 
 State's exhibit, and it is not too much to say 
 that both in design and in execution this 
 
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 work is to be credited to Mrs. lyUcas above 
 all others. 
 
 The following extracts from the official 
 minutes of the meeting of the Congressional 
 District Delegates, held at Philadelphia, on 
 November 30, 1892, give the leading points of 
 the direction exercised by Mrs. Lucas : 
 
 Mrs. Harriet A. Lucas, of the State 
 Committee, presided. After a brief opening 
 address by Hon. John W. Woodside, Mrs. Lucas 
 then introduced the Executive Commissioner, 
 Hon. A. B. Farquhar, who made a short address. 
 Then followed the introduction of Miss Mary E. 
 McCandless and Mrs. Yarrow. After the roll- 
 call of delegates from each of the twenty-eight 
 districts, Mrs. Lucas informed the ladies that 
 reports would be read in the order of their 
 Districts. As this extremely interesting succes- 
 sion of reports proceeded, Mrs. Lucas explained 
 the especial features in many cases. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas stated that Chester County would 
 exhibit the Convent work of that County, and 
 it was explained that Philadelphia would not 
 encroach on Chester County's exhibit of Convent 
 work. On a request by Mrs. Wade, of Pitts- 
 burg, as to the order of the several reports, 
 
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 Mrs. Lucas informed Mrs. Wade that as tlie 
 business of the meeting was to hear State 
 reports, the whole State would be heard from 
 in the order of their Districts. 
 
 The Chester County Auxiliary Board reported 
 some very important collections ; also the 
 Delaware County Board, which had sent a 
 carved panel to decorate the Women's Building 
 at Chicago, and a block of Delaware County 
 Granite, cut in the shape of a keystone. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas spoke of the letter which the 
 Pope had sent to Mrs. Potter Palmer, offering 
 to distribute copies of it, and hoping it would 
 induce the Convents to exhibit. 
 
 A report from Mrs. Wilson, for Bucks and 
 Montgomery Counties, embodied some very 
 important statements, showing the establish- 
 ment of many institutions in those counties, 
 controlled or founded by them. Other eastern 
 counties were, in some cases, extremely well 
 represented, while the mining counties of the 
 East and North were not so fortunate. North- 
 ampton County, however, was rich in antiques 
 and Colonial relics. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas suggested that Monroe County 
 send photographs of its scenery. 
 
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 From the Nintli District, important reports 
 of silk mills and other industries were given. 
 In most cases the personal eflforts of the ladies 
 of the committee, secured the desired infor- 
 mation. From Lancaster County, the artistic 
 representation was the statue of Maud Muller, 
 and other pieces of equal merit Also from 
 this county report was made of a woman's 
 owning and publishing a newspaper. 
 
 Careful and complete reports were made 
 from Schuylkill, Lebanon, Dauphin and Perry 
 Counties. It was reported that 80,000 women 
 were represented in the Fourteenth Congres- 
 sional District, many of them being employed 
 in the finer and more valuable industries. 
 
 The Lebanon Industrial Works employ 1200 
 women, and the silk factory at Harrisburg 
 employs 350 women. Dauphin County reports 
 many leading charities, and Lebanon County 
 reports an art school and a school of art needle- 
 work, both of which will send exhibits. Large 
 numbers of women profitably employed were 
 reported from all these counties. 
 
 Various reports from the interior counties, 
 Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne and others, were 
 next made ; in some cases without obtaining 
 
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 miicli to exhibit In Potter County however, 
 some valuable artistic work was reported and 
 fine needle-work, also embroideries. From 
 Clinton County a silk quilt of original design, 
 made of the badges of the Women's Relief Corps 
 in the United States. 
 
 Mrs. L/Ucas suggested that from agricultural 
 counties, the committees should endeavor to have 
 the agricultural work of women exhibited. 
 
 Columbia County's exhibit in the Woman's 
 Building was prepared chiefly of silk fabrics, 
 done wholly by women employed in the 
 Bloomsburg Silk Mill. Sixty women employed 
 in that mill received the same wages as men 
 so engaged, the work being managing silk 
 looms. 
 
 A volume of poems was reported, composed 
 by Miss Drinker, of Bloomsburg ; also designs 
 for decorative work in laces, carpets, etc., by 
 Miss Wooley. Miss Wooley will design a carpet 
 to be woven by a woman in the Bloomsburg 
 Carpet Mill. The Normal School of Blooms- 
 burg will be represented by twelve girls in the 
 joinery or carving of native woods. The 
 Woman's Auxiliary of Huntingdon, report a 
 fine stained glass window, made by a young 
 
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 ladj. For Franklin and Juniata Counties, fine 
 artistic work will be produced. 
 
 For Cumberland and Adams Counties 
 Mrs, R. H. Thomas, made an important report, 
 specifying the several exhibitions at Atlanta, 
 New Orleans, and elsewhere, and declaring their 
 purpose to co-operate in making the World's Fair 
 of 1893 the crowning glory for all World's Fairs. 
 
 From Carlisle, Cumberland County, valuable 
 reports of Memorial Buildings erected by 
 women, were made. 
 
 From Cambria, Blair and Somerset Counties, 
 interesting reports of the employment of women, 
 were made, but exhibits were not important. 
 A report of active efforts in Westmoreland, 
 Armstrong and other western counties was 
 made. Some suggestion being made that the 
 entire collective exhibits could hardly find room, 
 Mrs. Lucas assured the committee that it would 
 be received, but perhaps not collectively placed. 
 
 The report from Allegheny County was 
 especially full of striking illustrations of the 
 advancement of Women's Work. The exhibits 
 will be artistic, literary' and educational, from a 
 large number of the bright women of Pittsburgh 
 and Allegheny. 
 
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 From Washington County an advanced state 
 of educational and artistic progress was made. 
 
 Very interesting exhibits were reported from 
 the remaining counties, much exceeding the 
 anticipations of the original committee, but 
 apparently fully sustaining Mrs. Lucas' original 
 plan. 
 
 Mrs. IvUcas, at the close of the reports of the 
 Congressional Delegates, commended the women 
 of the counties for the varied and admirable 
 reports they had made, realizing that the scat- 
 tered nature of the work of women in the 
 counties had made their duties in many respects 
 arduous and complicated, and expressed her 
 satisfaction at the variety and interest of the 
 statistics and the exhibits offered. 
 
 She felt that the plan of interesting the 
 ladies of the counties had been excellent, inas- 
 much as it had brought many of the women of 
 the State together in one common interest ; she 
 expressed her hope that there might be a grand 
 re-union of Pennsylvania women at the coming 
 Exposition, and that we shall all meet together 
 in our State Building as the promoters of 
 woman's interests on high and broad grounds 
 for her ftirther advancement and success in life. 
 
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 The session closed witli the transaction of 
 many items of executive business and with 
 some important directions made by Mrs. Lucas. 
 She directed that badges be secured for mem- 
 bers of committees, and a sub-committee was 
 appointed to receive any such designs. She 
 also directed that two books be collected from 
 each authoress, one for the Library in the 
 Woman's Building, the other in the State 
 Building, with a sketch of the life of the 
 authoress. Further directions were given by 
 her that the bills of expenses should be sent 
 to Philadelphia, where they would be paid. 
 She also proposed to originate a Colonial 
 Memorial Museum, to preser\'e the historic 
 relics that might be exhibited. An account 
 was then reported by her Secretary showing a 
 balance of $8,199 still remaining of the entire 
 appropriation of $15,500, the larger share of 
 which had been given to special committees as 
 before stated. This was almost the complete 
 duty of direction required at the hands of the 
 committee originally, and the subsequent work 
 was confined to the faithful execution of the 
 plans so perfected by the direction of 
 Mrs. Lucas. 
 
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 Papers in Review of Mrs. Lucas' Work. 
 
 The personal manuscripts of Mrs. Lucas are 
 remarkable for the evidence they afford of her 
 persistent efforts to secure a continuance of the 
 aid of the Government to the development of 
 the silk industry in the United States. 
 
 These efforts were especially directed to the 
 obtainment of some form of appropriation in 
 the Session of 1890-91. She addressed leading 
 members of both the House and Senate, as well 
 as the chairman of the leading committees, 
 with the most conclusive arguments, writing to 
 Senators Paddock and Allison. She had also 
 written in September, 1890, to Secretary Blaine, 
 as well as to Mr. McKinley, who had succeeded 
 Judge Kelley as Chairman of the Ways and 
 Means Committee. The principal reason for the 
 failure of these efforts was the open and deter- 
 mined opposition of the silk manufacturers of 
 
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 New Jersey, who preferred to rely entirely 
 upon imported raw silk, and who did not 
 content themselves with passively awaiting the 
 growth of silk in the United States ; they 
 opposed such growth to the best of their 
 ability at all times. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas had no interest whatever in any 
 partial development, or in the progress of the 
 silk weaving alone without benefit to the 
 farmers and producing interests of the United 
 States, and her broad-minded purpose was 
 thwarted by the narrowness and greed of these 
 Paterson silk manufacturers in the first 
 instance. 
 
 Another and perhaps equal reason for the 
 failure of Congress to appropriate in these later 
 years, 1890 to 1892, was the inordinate demands 
 of Managers of the Silk Culture office at 
 Washington, of the Bureau, as it hoped to be, 
 for the Promotion of Silk Culture formed in 
 the Department of Agriculture. 
 
 A complication of offices with excessive 
 salaries was to be established there at an annual 
 cost of $150,000, and bills appropriating this 
 sum, with an elaborate detail of services, 
 were reported at each Session from 1888 to 
 
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 1892. They could not be, and ought not to 
 have been, agreed to by Congress, and as the 
 Department would accept no less, the whole 
 system fell, and the work has been abandoned 
 by that Department. A moderate and proper 
 course of action on the part of that Depart- 
 ment would undoubtedly have secured the 
 approval of Congress. 
 
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 The Silk Exhibit at the World's Fair. 
 
 It was the especial desire of Mrs. Lucas, 
 both for herself as a Directress of the World's 
 Fair, and for the Women's Silk Culture Associa- 
 tion, to secure a working exhibit illustrating 
 the production of silk from cocoons and the 
 weaving of silk fabrics. 
 
 There was much difficulty in obtaining any 
 specific appropriation for this purpose, and still 
 more difficulty in obtaining the proper space 
 for the loom and reels. All these difficulties 
 were overcome, however, the small space offered 
 them in the Women's Building was applied to 
 another purpose and a much larger space was 
 given them in the Agricultural Building, about 
 i8 X 30 feet, in a very favorable position. This 
 space has been very handsomely decorated, 
 rich flags, woven by this Association, and a 
 very effective silk reel is constantly at work, 
 
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 with their Jacquard loom, weaving ribbon 
 souvenirs, which are readily sold to the 
 visitors. 
 
 The interest in the reeling, especially, is 
 very great, and crowds are at all times in 
 attendance ; it has, therefore, been very satis- 
 factory to the Managers of the Building and 
 instructive to the public. 
 
 The appropriation obtained by them was 
 ^i,ooo from the State appropriation of $300,000, 
 and this sum would have paid the attendants 
 about to the middle of August; but so liberal 
 has been the purchase of souvenirs that the 
 profit on these will suffice to carry the whole 
 exhibit through to the end of the Fair. 
 Miss Ford is entitled to great credit for her 
 skillful management of the questions as to the 
 rooms themselves, and her intelligent manage- 
 ment of the whole exhibit after its final 
 location in the Agricultural Building. 
 
 There was much discussion at the several 
 meetings at the State Board of World's Fair 
 Managers as to the introduction of the Exhibit 
 prepared by the Women's Silk Culture Associa- 
 tion into the State Building. The Exhibits of 
 Women's Work were so numerous and occupied 
 
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 so mucli space that there were various questions 
 raised and objections made to giving the 
 necessary space for the machinery of the Silk 
 Exhibit. Commissioner Farquhar took pains to 
 obtain the opinions of the ladies of the Com- 
 mission, and to adjust the matter in accordance 
 with their wishes. 
 
 Ultimately a better opportunity, and in one 
 sense a more appropriate one, was offered in the 
 Agricultural Building, thus making it, in a great 
 degree, National, 
 
 Several of the correspondents of Mrs. Lucas 
 spoke with so much energy in behalf of this 
 Exhibit that it would have been a grateful 
 recognition to quote their letters here; but it 
 may be sufficient to say that the warm interest 
 felt in it was all justified, both by its successful 
 location in the National Agricultural Building 
 and by its attractiveness and value there. 
 
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 Review by Mrs. Lucas of the Work of the Silk 
 
 Association, as Embodied in a Memorial 
 
 to Congress, 1891. 
 
 To the Honorable Members of the House of 
 Representatives at Washington : 
 The history of the introduction of Silk 
 Culture into the United States, by the Woman's 
 Silk Culture Association, whose office is at 
 No. 1224 Arch Street, Philadelphia, is not 
 unfamiliar to this Body, since in January, 1885, 
 a Committee from this Association presented 
 to your House a National flag, prepared from 
 the pure American product; and following that 
 presentation made application to your Hon. 
 Body for an appropriation to the Agricul- 
 tural Department for the propagation and 
 protection of this industry ; thus enabling 
 this Association to become participants with 
 
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 the Agricultural Department, and more readily 
 pursue the object in view. 
 
 The bill in which this presentation was 
 made was successful in securing your aid; 
 and in the following year an appropriation 
 was made to the Woman's Silk Culture Asso- 
 ciation of l5,ooo per annum, since which, 
 during four years, we have been able to 
 greatly enlarge the scope of our work (acting 
 at the same time in perfect harmony and 
 accord with the Department of Agriculture) and 
 embodying in our work the distributing of 
 mulberry trees for the purpose of the industry 
 to every part of the United States. 
 
 As the growth of trees, giving to the cul- 
 turist, the necessary product for the food ot 
 the silk-worm is the primary and most 
 important division of this new industry-, we 
 recommend this to your consideration as a 
 special branch of our work. 
 
 We come before the Representatives of our 
 Government in an appeal for a continuance of 
 that confidence in our effort, which your 
 former appropriations to us indicated, and 
 of which we have in the last year been 
 deprived, by the action of your Body in 
 
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 giving the whole sum to the Agricultural 
 Department. 
 
 It is the desire of this Association to con- 
 tinue its efforts until the close of the Columbian 
 Exposition, with a hope that that great National 
 event may give us an extended opportunity 
 to form a more thoroughly National Associa- 
 tion than has yet existed. 
 
 We have sent out 40,000 mulberry trees to 
 every part of the United States. 
 
 We have made exhibits at forty-seven 
 different Exhibitions, both State, National, 
 and Foreign. 
 
 We have had upwards of 50,000 corres- 
 pondents ; have received at our office and 
 instructed thousands of visitors. 
 
 Have purchased 12,000 pounds of cocoons, 
 which we have reeled into marketable silk, 
 returning in money to the women and children 
 of the couutr>', for the product of their 
 labor. 
 
 We have presented American flags to our 
 own State Legislature, to the National Congress, 
 to Mexico and every Republic of South and 
 Central America, to the cities of Atlanta, 
 Albany, Boston and Philadelphia, and to the 
 
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 English Teclinical School at Manchester, 
 England. 
 
 We have sent out thousands of Instruction 
 Books in the Art of Silk Culture to every part 
 of the country. 
 
 We have turned the American cocoon into 
 every silk fabric manufactured in the United 
 States to test its quality ; from this material 
 over two thousand yards of silk fabrics have 
 thus found a channel for the raw material. 
 
 To carry on this work we have had one 
 paid Superintendent at $570 a year, the rent of 
 two rooms, one as an office, the other as a 
 reel room or filature, at a rental of $750 a year, 
 with incidentals for printing and publishing. 
 
 You will thus see we are the faithful and 
 economic allies of the Government, and we 
 demand from you, as chivalric Statesmen, that 
 you will continue to us our former appro- 
 priation of $5,000 a year, and that you grant 
 us this appropriation, with a recommendation 
 for its continuance. 
 
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 [From the Congressional Record, January 24, 1885.] 
 
 Native American Silk Flags Presented to Both 
 Houses of Congress. 
 
 Senate. 
 
 Washington, D. C, January 23. — In the 
 Senate to-day the Chair laid before the 
 chamber a memorial of the Women's Silk 
 Culture Association of the United States. 
 The memorial recites the great success through 
 their efforts of the work of Silk Culture in 
 the homes of this country, and craves the 
 good-will, influence and aid of Congress in the 
 development of an industry so important to 
 the women and children of the United States. 
 The memorialists beg the Senate to accept, 
 with their memorial, a truly American national 
 flag, made of silk raised in American homes, 
 by American women and children, reeled, spun,
 
 dyed, woven and mounted in Philadelphia. 
 The flag, which is a large and handsome one, 
 was borne to the desk, and was the subject 
 of much admiration, both from the floor and 
 the galleries. 
 
 Mr. Beck oSered a resolution expressing 
 the high appreciation and thanks of the 
 Senate for the flag, and admiration for the 
 efforts and success of the Women's Silk Cul- 
 ture Association in their patriotic purpose to 
 ameliorate the industrial condition of their 
 countrywomen, and to enlarge and diversify 
 female employment in the United States. 
 
 Mr. Morgan, in a feeling and happy manner, 
 welcomed the flag, with all that it meant, to 
 the hall of the Senate. 
 
 Mr. Dawes congratulated the country on 
 the great advance made in silk culture in so 
 short a time, it being only a few years since 
 the work was undertaken. 
 
 Mr. Beck's resolution was then agreed to. 
 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 When the House met to-day a handsome 
 silk American flag ornamented the wall behind 
 the Speaker's chair, and after the reading 
 
 £14
 
 of the Journal, the Speaker laid before the 
 House a communication from the Philadelphia 
 Women's Silk Culture Association of the 
 United States, tendering the flag to the House 
 of Representatives, and bespeaking for it a 
 place in the Hall of the National Government. 
 Mr. Kelley (Pa.), offered a resolution, which 
 was adopted, accepting the flag prepared for 
 the use of the House, and presented by the 
 Women's Silk Culture Association of the 
 United States, and declaring that the excel- 
 lence of the fabric and perfection of colors it 
 displays afford evidence of the remarkably 
 rapid development of the culture and manu- 
 facture of silk by the American people, and 
 that the House will cause the flag to be 
 displayed within the halls of the House. 
 
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 Presentation of Silk Flags to the Pan- 
 Americans, Washington, April ii, 1890. 
 
 A goodly company, comprising the entire 
 number of the delegates from South and 
 Central America and Mexico, and the Hon. 
 Secretaries, Rusk, Tracy and Windom, met a 
 committee from the Women's Silk Culture 
 Association of the United States, and a large 
 number of Washington ladies and gentlemen, 
 to witness the presentation of seventeen 
 American flags, one to each free State repre- 
 sented in the Pan-American Congress. 
 
 Professor Boswell, of Dickinson College, pre- 
 sided, and after a few well-chosen remarks, 
 introduced Mr. Beaseley, who made a fitting 
 and patriotic address. 
 
 Mrs. John Lucas, President of the Women's 
 Silk Culture Association, then made the pre- 
 sentation address, alluding to agriculturists, and 
 suggesting silk culture as a prominent and 
 practical one for the agriculturists all over the 
 
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 Middle, Southern and Western States. She 
 referred to the lamentable igiiorance of the 
 people on the subject generally, and suggested 
 a small duty on raw material, which could 
 only increase the value of silk goods a few 
 cents per yard. This would form a splendid 
 revenue with which to establish in our country 
 educational and experimental stations, where 
 silk culture could be scientifically illustrated, 
 as it is in European nations. 
 
 She stated that no former efforts had been 
 made, when surrounding conditions were as at 
 the present time, a nation rich, progressive, 
 advancing in taste and art, in elegance and 
 wealth, and demanding the best and finest of 
 goods. There should be silk manufactturing 
 communities, having not less than four hundred 
 mills, with sixty millions of capital, and per- 
 haps 250,000 workingmen and women, all 
 turning out the golden threads of silk for the 
 use and adornment of the race. $25,000,000 
 now annually leave this country for raw silk 
 as raw material. No past condition offered 
 such a picture. 
 
 In closing she said : " Gentlemen of the 
 Sunny South, bear with you these emblems of 
 
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 the success of our Nation. Place them in your 
 Legislative Halls, and ever regard them as 
 tokens of one hundred years of national pros- 
 perity of a government ' of the people, for the 
 people, and by the people,' and the devotion of 
 a little band of women to the advancement 
 of home production and industrial education." 
 
 Response of General Bolet Peraza, Delegate of 
 
 Venezuela. 
 Ladies : 
 
 I thank you in my own name and that of 
 my colleagues for the gift we have just 
 received at your hands. 
 
 This is the emblem of your country, the 
 glorious ensign of this great American nation, 
 with whom our respective Republics have just 
 sealed a family compact. 
 
 Upon reaching these shores, seven months 
 since, that flag greeted us as strangers ; to-day 
 it bids us farewell as brothers. 
 
 It reminds us also of the origin of our inde- 
 pendence, because it was those stars and stripes 
 that dazzled the imagination of our indomi- 
 table grandsires, and which imbued their 
 patriotism with the desire to gain for their 
 sons the same liberties the fathers of your 
 
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 sovereignty acquired for you. And to make 
 this emblem still more valuable and significant 
 in our hands you have endowed it with the 
 prestige of your labor, which can be compared 
 only to that of the indefatigable insect who, 
 by his labor clothes in splendor all the world. 
 You, generous Ladies, have founded a new 
 and rich industry for your country. The day 
 will come when the United States will compete 
 in the production of silks with China, with 
 Persia, with France and with Italy, and they 
 will owe it, in great part to you, who have 
 given hospitable shelter to the modest worm, 
 who have nurtured it with assiduous care, and 
 who, by your devotion have induced it to give 
 you its silver threads, its golden skeins, which 
 you have woven for your brothers of Latin- 
 America into these flags, emblematic of the 
 heroism of the men and the noble worth of 
 the women of this great people. 
 
 To our homes will we carry this precious 
 gift of yours, and there will we place it by 
 the side of our country's flag, united and con- 
 nected as are already the interests and the 
 destinies of all the free countries that brighten 
 the continent of Columbus. 
 
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 Address of Mrs. I,ucas at the Convention of 
 the Saint George's Union. 
 
 Oswego, N. Y., April, 1891. 
 
 The fifth toast, "Women of the Nineteenth 
 Century," was most eloquently responded to 
 by Mrs. John I^ucas, of Philadelphia, Pa. Her 
 address occupied twenty minutes, and the 
 audience listened with deepest attention. It 
 was replete with biblical and historical 
 reference. 
 
 Mrs. lyucas said she would be recreant to 
 the faith she had in the purity and 
 permanence of the progress of women during 
 the nineteenth century, and the elements that 
 have led to it, should she hesitate to defend 
 her position and admit her real emancipation 
 from the thralls that had environed her during 
 many ages of the world's history. To trace 
 and unravel the mysterious manner in which 
 
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 slie was given to man, sliows conclusively 
 that the Divine will was " as part of man, 
 bone of his bone," that man should be 
 satisfied with her ; that he should accord to 
 her the same honor and care that he would 
 lavish on his own body; co-equal with him 
 in honor and power — but looking to him as 
 he to her, and bound to him — links in the 
 great chain of common himianity. Man, the 
 projector of a greater and higher form of 
 creation ; woman, the mother of all. 
 
 The speaker touched at length on the early 
 history of woman as we receive it in the 
 Mosaic history, as proof of the honor and 
 dignity to which she was called, while yet 
 God dealt directly and personally with His 
 chosen people. From history, Mrs. Lucas 
 quoted Helen of Troy, Andromache, Lucille, 
 and even Cleopatra, as examples of woman's 
 love and devotion not to be forgotten. 
 Coming down to the Christian era she referred 
 to the martyrs among women. Down among 
 the ages we find a gradual emancipation of 
 women going on until the Renaissance. After 
 this period, and with the rise of English 
 learning and literature, we find stately Elizabeth 
 
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 on the English throne, grappling with such 
 problems as shook the religions of the world, 
 and opened unto us a reformation from the 
 circles that had seared and tarnished the purity 
 of the Apostolic Church. 
 
 To her wonderful force and intellectual 
 ability we owe this blood-bought and priceless 
 gift — a pure gift. Through the line of litera- 
 ture and art, as it developed in this golden 
 age, woman, as author and artist, destined to 
 live forever. The speaker alluded to the life 
 of women in the home, in the factories, in 
 social and the lower walks of humble home-life, 
 in all of which she casts her strength and influ- 
 ence, and moulds the race. 
 
 Mrs. Lucas alluded to a phalanx of notable 
 women — Lady Blessington, Rosa Bonheur, 
 Mary Wortley Montague, George Eliot, Mrs. 
 Browning, Katharine Tait, Charlotte Bronte, 
 Siddons, Rachel, Jenny Lind, Patti, Scalchi 
 as examples of women in the fields of literature 
 and the stage. As explorers she mentioned 
 Lady Baker and the indomitable Mrs. Peary. 
 
 Speaking of women in the branches of 
 industry, Mrs. Lucas said that in Massachusetts 
 statistics show that women have secured a 
 
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 footing in 4,467 branches of industry. The 
 last census in Massachusetts reported 932,884 
 women and 1,009,257 men employed in gainful 
 occupations. Women working for lower 
 wages than men may have affected these 
 numbers, and it is well for great manufacturers 
 to see this. Let not women become the 
 disturbing factors in upsetting the old condition 
 that man is the bread-winner, and through 
 avarice and false economic views use the low- 
 wage woman to supplant the man, leaving him 
 to periods of idleness and thus to mischief. 
 The rule should be "equal wages for equal 
 work," Not doing this, tends to destroy home- 
 life, and what weakens the home undermines 
 the national prosperity. 
 
 The speaker paid a fitting tribute to 
 England's noble Queen and the advancement 
 that religion, learning, art, science, authorship, 
 domestic and political economy have made 
 during- her reis^n. Mrs, Lucas referred to the 
 available influence and ramifications of the 
 World's Fair, as bringing forward the united 
 results of brain and muscle of both sexes and 
 their stimulating development. She spoke of 
 the appointment of a Woman's Board — two 
 
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 representatives from every State and Territory 
 in the Union, on the Fair's Commission, and 
 concluded her address as follows : " You, 
 Gentlemen, as manufacturers and masters, do 
 her justice ; do not withhold a faithful record 
 of her labor, when appealed to ; give her of 
 the ' fruit of her hand ' and let her have 
 ' honest praise within the gates ' — for as long 
 as the stars shine and the rivers run she will 
 be the companion and the comforter of man.' " 
 At the conclusion of Mrs. lyucas' address 
 she was warmly applauded. 
 
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 St. Jolin-in-tlie- Wilderness. 
 
 From a Manuscript in the Handwriting of 
 Mrs. Harriet Anne Lucas. 
 
 In the year 1850 a property was bought at 
 the village of Gibbsboro', in Camden County, 
 New Jersey, and a manufactory of chemicals 
 and paints started by Mr. John Lucas. In 1856 
 the family of John Lucas removed to this place, 
 and there being no place of public worship, at 
 once connected themselves with the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church of Haddonfield, under the 
 ministration of Rev. Mr. Hallowell, and started 
 a Union Sunday-school at the little school- 
 house in the village. During the years that 
 'followed, various denominations, especially the 
 Methodists and Baptists, held service on the 
 Sabbath afternoons at the school-house, which 
 fluctuated in interest and attendance, but never 
 grew into a body, which seemed animated with 
 
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 a desire to establish anything permanent, and 
 from year to year no eflfort was ever put forth 
 to make the services, occasionally held, either 
 instructive or lasting in their effects by 
 the establishment of a place of public wor- 
 ship. 
 
 At one time Mr. John Lucas introduced into 
 this Union Sabbath School an Episcopal form 
 of service, but after a season, finding it dis- 
 tasteful to many (even to the fact that one old 
 itinerant minister always remained outside the 
 school-house until after the creed was repeated, 
 because "he did not believe in worshiping the 
 Virgin Mary,") and not wishing to place any 
 of our views before the people, if not acceptable 
 to them, this Episcopal form was abandoned, 
 and with it Mr. Lucas resigned from the super- 
 intendence of the Sabbath School. Left to 
 their own desires, but with the regular attend- 
 ance of the family, the school passed through 
 many variations, but was never abandoned. 
 
 Thus, after a quarter of a century of sacri- 
 ficing, in a measure, our own principles to the 
 wills of others, and suffering the privations of 
 the precious ritual and teachings of our beloved 
 church, we as a family felt animated to set up 
 
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 our altar in the midst of these people, who 
 thus far had never made any movement 
 towards such an end for themselves, and in 
 1 88 1 a lot was selected and efforts made to 
 obtain it; but legal difficulties arising, a whole 
 year passed before it was decided where the 
 church should be built. Finally a " parcel " of 
 land was given by Mr. John Lucas, and a sub- 
 scription started by him of $i,ooo. Other 
 subscriptions to the amount of $1,366.36 were 
 collected. Plans were submitted by Mr. J. 
 Durang, and Mr. W. D. Hewitt, Architects ; on 
 August I, 1882, the contract was given to 
 Wm. Bemhouse, on the plans submitted by 
 Mr. W. D. Hewitt. 
 
 In looking back over twenty odd years of 
 union effort in this little village, I am led to 
 feel we have neglected a sacred duty and made 
 shipwreck of many blessings, which might have 
 fallen upon this people and our own family, in 
 evading our duty and failing to rely upon the 
 promises of God; of hesitating to plant the 
 Church of God, and allowing the vacillating 
 opinions and desires of men to set barriers in 
 the way of truth, and that fixedness of purpose 
 and principle which are the outgrowth of truth 
 
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 If our Church is the exponent of truth and the 
 one Apostolic Church, dictated by Christ him- 
 self, why hesitate to plant it everywhere ? The 
 seed once planted in faith, can never die, and 
 thus through sacrifices and real trials have we 
 learned our duty, which properly sought for, 
 would have been made plain long years 
 before. 
 
 On Sabbath afternoon, October i, 1882, the 
 comer-stone of the Church of St. John's in the 
 Wilderness was laid by the Right Rev. Bishop 
 John Scarborough, assisted by other clergymen ; 
 the Bishop and the clergy with the Sabbath 
 School, met at the residence of Mr. John Lucas, 
 and thence walked to the church grounds, 
 singing "The Church's One Foundation is 
 Jesus Christ the Lord." Very interesting ser- 
 vices followed in the presence of a large number 
 of people, and an offertory of about $2,488.14 
 was made. In the box placed in the corner- 
 stone was deposited, one copy of the Book of 
 Common Prayer, one copy of the Holy Bible, 
 one copy of the Hymnal of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, one copy of the services of 
 the laying of the comer-stone, one copy each of 
 "The Churchman," "The Guardian," and "The 
 
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 Episcopal Register," one copy of "The West 
 Jersey Press," some small coins, and tlie follow- 
 ing statement : 
 
 After a residence of many years among the people 
 of the village of Gibbsboro', in the State of New 
 Jersey, during which time the number of inhabitants 
 has materially increased, and yet no church edifice 
 rears its walls in our midst, and having in remem- 
 brance the great debt we owe to Almighty God for 
 his continued goodness to us as a people, inasmuch 
 as He has blessed us with peace and prosperity, and 
 continued our lives in health ; has kept us from 
 great evils ; it seems fitting to rear to his honor and 
 glory, a temple for the worship of Almighty God, 
 according to the rites and usages of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in America. To this end, and with 
 a firm reliance on the help and blessing of Almighty 
 God, through his Son, Jesus Christ, the effort has 
 been made and many have given of their means to the 
 Church fund. 
 
 Faithfully relying on the sure promises of God, 
 that he will give His holy presence to this temple 
 and consecrate every effort here made to draw the 
 hearts of men and women unto him, we name this 
 Church St. John's-in-The-Wilderness, that like as he 
 in the weary waste and among sinful men, pro- 
 claimed, "The Lamb of God that taketh away the 
 sins of the world," the coming of whom was to bring 
 grace and truth ; so may the mission of this holy 
 church be a voice in the wilderness, crying, "Make 
 straight the way of the Ivord," and become to the 
 
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 careless and sinning a "Light shining in darkness," 
 calling them to better life, and to higher and holier 
 purposes, a very promise of good things to come. 
 
 Signed, October i, 1882. 
 John Lucas, Harriet Anne Lucas, 
 
 Mary C. Lucas, John Thomas Lucas, 
 
 William Edward Lucas, Mary W. Lucas, his wife, 
 H. Anne Lucas, James F. Lucas, 
 
 Harry S. Lucas, Albert Lucas, 
 
 Ellen Bown Lucas, Joseph Wilson Lucas, 
 
 Barton Lucas, Robert Suddards Lucas, 
 
 Francis Ethel Lucas, Elizabeth Sanders Lucas. 
 
 Miss A. Elizabeth Wright, 
 
 Architect, William D. Hewitt. 
 Builder, William Bernshouse, 
 
 Services performed by 
 Right Rev. Bishop Scarborough, of New Jersey. 
 Rev. Gustavus Murray, of Haddonfield. 
 Rev. R. Moses, Rev. Mr. Reilly. 
 
 List of contributors : 
 
 Mr. William H. Lucas, $100 00 
 
 Mr. William Waterall, 100 00 
 
 Mr. George W. Childs, 100 00 
 
 Mr. James Moore, 200 00 
 
 Mr. J. Thomas Lucas, 100 00 
 
 Mr. Alfred Lucas, 100 00 
 
 Proceeds of Fair at Lakeside 300 00 
 
 Proceeds of Tableaux, 68 00 
 
 Mrs. John Orne, 25 00 
 
 Mrs. W. E. Lucas, 25 00 
 
 Miss Carrie Lucas, 25 00 
 
 Mr. J. T. Clark, 25 00 
 
 Mr. Robert Smith. 15 00 
 
 Mr. Lewis Risture, 10 00 
 
 Mr. Ed. Rudderow, 5 00 
 
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 Mr. Robt. Hamilton, $ 5 oo 
 
 Mr. Chas. Potter, 5 0° 
 
 Mr. Albert Sayers, 5 00 
 
 Mr. C. Chalten, 5 00 
 
 Mary Hartner, 6 00 
 
 Mrs. Fred Elliott, 25 00 
 
 Mrs. James F. Lucas, 25 00 
 
 Mrs. Ed. T. Lucas, 25 00 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Rank, 20 00 
 
 Mr. Jos. Moore, 10 00 
 
 Sunday-school, 18 75 
 
 Kate Hartner, 5 00 
 
 Annie Haines, 5 °o 
 
 Mrs. C. D. Thum, 5 °° 
 
 Mrs. C. Stoddart, 5 00 
 
 Wm. Burk, i °° 
 
 Mite Box, 3 81 
 Alexander Hamilton, hauling, valued, 15 00 
 
 Albert Lucas, 10 00 
 
 John Stack. 10 00 
 
 Harry S. Lucas, 10 00 
 
 H. Annie Lucas, 10 00 
 
 Jno. W. Snowden, 10 00 
 
 At laying of the Corner Stone, 45 58 
 Including $1,000 from John Lucas the ofiFerings were 
 $2,488.14, as shown above. 
 
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 In Memoriam. 
 
 HARRIET ANNE LUCAS. 
 
 This most appropriate and earnest 
 tribute to Mrs. Lucas' higli character and 
 noble works, bas been circulated largely 
 among ber friends, and bas elicited 
 expressions among ber friends wbicb are 
 bere transcribed and to some extent 
 condensed as an appropriate part of this 
 more permanent form of Memorial to ber 
 bonor.
 
 A Sermon 
 in remembrance of 
 
 HARRIET ANNE LUCAS 
 
 preached in 
 
 Tlie Churcli of St. John's-in-the-Wildemess 
 
 Gibbsboro', N. J. 
 
 On St. Jolin Baptist's Day, 1893 
 
 by tlie 
 
 Rev. James S. Stone, D.D. 
 
 Rector of Grace Church, Philadelphia
 
 "Her Grace is Above Gold." 
 
 Ecclesiastes vii : 19. 
 
 Such is the worth, says the Son of Sirach, 
 of the Wise and Good Woman ; and so impressed 
 was that ancient man with the blessing of 
 such a woman to her husband that again and 
 again, in the course of his book, he pens lines 
 which illustrate and expand the thought of 
 our text. There seems to be experience as well 
 as philosophy in words such as these: "The 
 grace of a wife delighteth her husband," and 
 "A silent and loving woman is a gift of the 
 Lord." The writer, as though he had before 
 him a precious memory, tenderly alludes to 
 "the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of 
 her house," to "the beauty of the face in ripe 
 age," and to "the fair feet with a constant 
 heart;" and he declares of the man that hath 
 a virtuous wife, "the number of his days shall 
 be double — he shall fulfil the years of his life 
 in peace." Of the graceful woman he says, 
 
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 "If tliere be kindness, meekness and comfort 
 in her tongue, tlien is not lier husband like 
 other men." She is to him "a pillar of rest," 
 more than friend and companion, above even 
 children and the building of a city, and like 
 Wisdom herself, adorned with the golden orna- 
 ment and the purple lace, she shall be for him 
 a robe of honor and a crown of joy. 
 
 King Lemuel, taught by his mother, had a 
 like appreciation of the blameless, pure and 
 noble woman, and he, too, after the manner of 
 the Son of Sirach, seems to have had before 
 him, rather than an ideal, a personal recollec- 
 tion, when he says of such, "The heart of her 
 husband doth safely trust in her; she will do 
 him good and not evil all the days of her 
 life; her candle goeth not out by night; she 
 reacheth forth her hands to the needy; in her 
 tongue is the law of kindness ; she looketh 
 well to the ways of her household." Unneces- 
 sary is it to add, "Her children arise up, and 
 call her blessed; her husband also, and he 
 praiseth her." 
 
 " Sisters part from sisters — brothers 
 From brothers — children from their parents — but 
 Such woman from the husband of her choice, 
 Never." 
 
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 And nowhere, indeed, does woman appear to 
 greater advantage than in the home. God has 
 His sanctuaries on earth — places consecrated 
 for His worship and as witnesses to His glory ; 
 but there is no spot on earth more holy or 
 more to be reverenced than is the home in 
 which love and duty, sacrifice and religion, 
 abide. And such virtues can only exist where 
 the housewife is herself true at heart and 
 gentle in mind and manner. The earliest 
 refuge of man was lost by sin, and upon him 
 fell labor and sorrow, but the All-Merciful left 
 him his best earthly belonging to brighten 
 the dark, sad life. Woman is never nobler or 
 more helpful than in times of adversity; and 
 when the gates of Eden were closed against 
 her and her loved one, she took heart and 
 gathered up the strength and sweetness of her 
 God-given graces and made in the desert a 
 new home, and trained even the weeds and 
 thistles of the malediction into flowers of 
 beauty and delight. Thus she created and 
 adorned the resting-place for the weary and the 
 heart-sore, and became for the man more than 
 ever the helpmeet which her Lord intended 
 her to be. Nor is there in this world anything 
 
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 more beautiful, more entrancing and uplifting, 
 than the testimony afforded to grace and virtue 
 by two brave, pure hearts, strong in each 
 other's love — though possibly poor both in 
 friends and in worldly goods — struggling 
 together along the path of duty, through the 
 day of gladness and through the night of 
 sorrow, towards that grand and ultimate goal 
 of all life, heaven and God. 
 
 It is well sometimes to think of woman as, for 
 instance, Dante thought of his divine Beatrice, 
 and as the theologians, poets and painters of 
 the Church have thought of her who was blessed 
 above all daughters of earth, the Mother of 
 our Lord. The world has never had a sweeter 
 conception than the former, or a purer and 
 lovelier reality than the latter. In Mary, verily, 
 have been set forth the fullness of beauty and 
 the sublimity of virtue ; she was pure, hmnble- 
 hearted, trustful — the perfect maiden and the 
 exalted saint; so much so that when we look 
 at her as a Murillo or a Raphael looked at her, 
 without going to extremes that some, swept 
 by the forcefulness of the ideal, have gone to, 
 we realize her to be full of grace, and memories 
 of plaintive, softest music once heard within 
 
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 the holy walls come again to our soul. But 
 the Blessed Virgin, in the plenitude of her 
 splendor, enthroned in the glory which an 
 Angelico imagined was worthy of her, is far 
 beyond the good women of whom the Son of 
 Sirach and King Lemuel wrote, and whom we 
 know in our ever>^-day life. She lives in a 
 realm that few, if any, can approach, possessing 
 a privilege which can never again be possessed 
 by woman ; and the very glory of her character, 
 while it encourages and strengthens every 
 woman who looks steadily upon it, is so rich, so 
 far away, so hallowed, that every woman knows 
 she can never be as is the Handmaid of the 
 Lord. Therefore we come down to lower ideals, 
 if you will, and think of woman, not in extrava- 
 gant and extraordinary^ phases, but in the plainer 
 and more practical way that the philosophers I 
 have quoted thought of her ; for both you and 
 I know that the woman and the wife as these 
 writers of old depicted her still lives, not in 
 rare and isolated instances, but in homes and 
 in families beyond numbering. None of us 
 need go far and not behold such — even more 
 dear and beautiful than poetry' or aphorism can 
 make her; patient, true, pure, loving — her grace 
 
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 above gold. And an example of such I shall 
 show you before I have done, in the good woman 
 whose memory we recall to-day in solemn servdce 
 and in sincere affection. 
 
 What her life was is known to all, for you 
 saw it as it was lived through the many years. 
 Few, indeed, if any, are there present who did 
 not know Harriet Anne Lucas — one as the 
 loving and faithful wife ; others as the patient, 
 sympathizing and affectionate mother; all as 
 the friend whose heart was ever open to the cry 
 of the helpless, and whose hand was ever ready 
 to give proof of the kindly and noble instincts 
 of her soul. But warm as this appreciation 
 may be, it is not every one who can realize the 
 fullness of her life and character. The depths 
 of our nature, whence flow the springs beside 
 the waters of which grow the flowers of kindly 
 deeds, are beyond our ordinary vision ; and I 
 confess I think of such with a consciousness 
 of mystery and a feeling of awe. In truth, 
 such a study, next to the study of God Himself, 
 is most profound. And the difficulty of it 
 appears greater when we remember the isolation 
 of individuality. L,ife itself is mysterious ; but 
 the person is still more so. Not one of us can 
 
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 tell to another all that lies within our own 
 heart and mind. Perhaps we are not aware of 
 the reality ourselves. But what we are, we 
 may judge others to be — the same strange, 
 complex creatures, doing at times the most 
 solemn and the most beautiful things, and at 
 other times the most careless and frivolous 
 things ; having great hopes and small hopes, 
 curiously mingled, so that to-day we think first, 
 say, of Heaven, and to-morrow of some trifle 
 we are ashamed to own up to ; full of ambitions, 
 thoughts that lie deep and silent as the pools 
 of the river, and thoughts that flit as the sun- 
 light runs along the hillside ; amiability and 
 obstinacy, trust and doubt, firmness and irresolu- 
 tion, right and wrong, tangled together in 
 strangest fashion ; at one moment lifted up to 
 heights of purity, holiness, honor and love, 
 till angels' joy seems ours, and at the next 
 possessed with evil so hateful that we dread 
 lest any one should think such possible for 
 us — a curious medley, I repeat; songs and 
 sorrows side by side ; virtues and vices growing 
 together like the wheat and tares — such is the 
 human heart. And down in those depths is 
 a consciousness of the loneliness ; each soul 
 
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 for the most part living by itself; unable to 
 tell to others the thoughts that are too deep 
 for words or tears ; looking upon others 
 without power to make itself understood ; 
 pride battling with justice ; and under all this 
 the hope, the yearning, longing hope, that God 
 will have pity and forgive, and save His child 
 from grief and woe. Our poor, disturbed indi- 
 viduality, therefore, is not wholly bad, nor 
 is it wholly good ; and the outcome corresponds 
 thereto. Man may have gone very far from 
 original righteousness, but he has not reached 
 total depravity ; he may have grown better and 
 truer, but he has not attained to the purity of 
 God. As the Divine grace affects him, so does 
 the chaos tend to order, the darkness lightens; 
 yet so long as he is in this world in his life 
 there will be day and night — a character 
 exalted, but not perfect. Therefore, when we 
 would consider a given person, we must needs 
 remember these evident truths ; and when we 
 see the growth of a useful and a beautiful 
 life, we must know that in the individuality — 
 which we may not look into — righteousness is 
 overcoming wrong, virtue is freeing itself from 
 the cerements and bandages of evil, strength 
 
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 has come to the better qualities, and God's 
 grace is preparing the way for final triumph. 
 This is the only trustworthy test : he who does 
 good, and loves to do good, is good — that is to 
 say, of course, good, not absolutely, but compar- 
 atively. And when through a long life you 
 find the good predominates, the love holds 
 firm, the kindliness, honor, integrity and unsel- 
 fishness prevail, you may be satisfied of the 
 strong and noble character, and of the binding 
 of self to the Divine will. 
 
 This I have said in order that I may lead 
 you not only to acknowledge the good works 
 which Mrs. Lucas did, but also to appreciate 
 and sympathize with her spirit and her life. 
 When I apply to her the words of my text, I 
 desire the application to be fully understood, 
 so that in what she was, as well as in what 
 she did, you may recognize that her grace was 
 above gold. She had her ambitions and her 
 visions — nor would she have been real had 
 she been without such ; but none can say that 
 they were ambitions or visions for herself. 
 Her longings and her hopes, her abundant 
 labors and her persistent energy were indeed 
 constitutional, the expression of her really 
 
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 remarkable individuality, but they were put 
 forth for the sake of her family or her friends, 
 for the good of the afflicted and the needy, or 
 for the glory of Almighty God. A busy, com- 
 prehensive iriind was hers, running out in 
 many directions and concerning itself with 
 many enterprises. She was never idle : truly 
 was it in work that she found her joy, and 
 in toil her rest. A daughter of a mother who 
 had no ordinary share of the poetical tempera- 
 ment, she inherited a love for the beautiful in 
 nature, in humanity, in art and in books — the 
 gift of response to the rhythmic Sowings and 
 the soulful voices of genius, so that under its 
 influence she became impassioned, enthusiastic, 
 excited. Her power of expression was consid- 
 erable. To a degree far from common she had 
 the pen of a ready writer, the ability to 
 give an argument or a description clearly and 
 simply, the readiness to discern truth, and the 
 voice and manner to command the attention of 
 those to whom she spoke. She was earnest 
 and sincere, meaning every word she uttered, 
 and holding fast to her convictions. Nor was 
 she without skill in management, as is shown 
 by her presence on the boards of many societies. 
 
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 Other graces, too, she liad, as will presently 
 appear. 
 
 One of the objects of her affectionate solici- 
 tude was this church in which we are now 
 gathered. Truly could she say, " Lord, I have 
 loved the habitation of thy house ; and the 
 place where thine honor dwelleth." From the 
 day when the foundations were laid until the 
 hour when for her all earthly things faded 
 away, her interest in the welfare of this 
 sanctuary never flagged, She loved the very 
 walls thereof; the services and the duties 
 therein wearied her no more than shall the 
 services and the duties in yonder land of glory. 
 " Our little church in the wilderness," she used 
 to say with winsome fondness ; and then she 
 was wont to add in slightly graver tone, "We 
 must not forget our little church in the wilder- 
 ness." It was very dear to her, and none the 
 less dear will it be to you who love her. I do 
 not know whether she ever read Wordsworth's 
 Ecclesiastical Sonnets, or Isaac Williams's 
 Cathedral Poems, but the spirit which touched 
 those singers touched her also. Born and bred a 
 daughter of the Church, she appreciated the life 
 of the Church — that gentle life which befits the 
 
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 Bride of the Beautiful Clirist, but wliich, like 
 the sweet grace of the wild flowers or the tender 
 loveliness of the hidden soul, is too often over- 
 looked, not only by the world, but also by many 
 who have eyes to see and ears to hear. That 
 life, divine and pure, brought to her benediction 
 and peace, breathing into her soul a holy calm, 
 and speaking to her of that rest into which, 
 by the goodness of God, she has now entered. 
 The Church, to such as comes the inspiration 
 which came to a St. John and a St. Augustine, 
 is personified and transfigured — a beautiful 
 mother, robed in spotless purity ; a second Eve 
 given to the second Adam ; with a voice of 
 wondrous sweetness, and eyes that tell of heart- 
 depths where love abides, and hands that fall 
 beseechingly on the shoulders of the erring 
 and soothe gently the humble and the trustful. 
 To her come Christ's little ones. His dear 
 children, and she loves them because they are 
 His; and as they behold not only her clothing 
 of wrought gold, but also her heavenly graces, 
 they win an attachment, a loyalty which time 
 cannot weaken and which death cannot destroy. 
 She is from above, the Witness of God in this 
 darksome world, and she tells us — sweet Mother 
 
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 as she is — now of duty, and now of the time 
 when her Lord shall wipe away the tears from 
 off all faces. Such a conception can never be 
 theirs whose Christianity is bound up in a sect 
 and whose theology is that of a denomination. 
 And because our beloved friend had something 
 of this ideal, she struggled against the narrow- 
 ness and bigotry which surge around us. She 
 was a Churchwoman from beginning to end — 
 catholic; and her religion, because catholic, 
 was therefore historical, and because historical, 
 therefore scriptural. So she loved, as one of 
 her sensibilities naturally would love, the 
 performance of Divine service and the adminis- 
 tration of rites and sacraments with those 
 ceremonies, many of which are of primitive 
 origin, all of which have been consecrated by 
 time, and in which not a few of earth's choicest 
 spirits have found a happy expression for their 
 devotion. So she loved, too, as one of her 
 sensibilities naturally would love, to hear of 
 the story, the constitution and the doctrine 
 of that Divine society which has come down 
 through the ages and in which dwells the 
 Spirit of the living God. Thus she learned 
 the truth of sacraments and the worth of 
 
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 unity — of unity, not simply with Christians 
 in the present day, but through the centuries 
 with the Church of Apostolic days, and beyond 
 the centuries with the Church which is in 
 heaven. And thus it came to pass that her 
 heart clung to this House of God, and for 
 nothing did she wish and work more than 
 that the people of Gibbsboro' should be gathered 
 into the fold and be taught the ways of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ. "Sanctified in the 
 wilderness," as her words used to run; the 
 wilderness which she helped to make rejoice 
 and blossom as the rose, and never so much 
 as when she wrought for the lifting up of 
 these walls and the setting of the Cross upon 
 a building that should be God's own Zion — 
 the gates of which He should love more than 
 all the dwellings of Jacob. Time passes away ; 
 the Cross remains, and in the coming years 
 when we are all gone — 
 
 "the Sun with his first smile 
 Shall greet that symbol crowning the low Pile : 
 And the fresh air of incense-breathing morn 
 Shall wooingly embrace it ; and green moss 
 Creep round its arms through centuries unborn." 
 
 A woman thus devoted to the Church could 
 not but give herself also to works which tended 
 
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 to the bettering of others. I cannot tell of all 
 her benevolent efforts. She gave freely of her 
 time and means, and when her sympathies were 
 aroused — which commonly happened — she was 
 as generous of the latter as of the former. Never 
 turned she her face away from any poor man. 
 She was active in the Newsboys' Home, in the 
 Italian Mission, in the House of Rest for the 
 Aged, in the Chinese pagans of Philadelphia, 
 and in Indian Missions. Her public spirit 
 was shown in the interest she gave to the Silk 
 Culture Association, and in the labor she did 
 for the Exposition in Chicago. In fact, it is 
 not unlikely that the unceasing toil and the 
 consuming devotion she bestowed upon this 
 last-named enterprise shortened her days. She 
 organized and guided the part which the women 
 of Pennsylvania purposed taking in that work ; 
 and she laid down the management and ceased 
 to dictate letters to her secretaries, not till the 
 hand of death was upon her. Gold is good, 
 but the grace, the self-sacrifice and work of a 
 wise and good woman is above gold. Verily, 
 when the Master rang the bell for His hand- 
 maid, around her lay the work. Long as 
 was her sickness, and weak as her body became, 
 
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 her energy and devotion kept lier at the ap- 
 pointed task ; and when she went to Him who 
 had called her, she went wearied and worn, labor- 
 stained, ready, indeed, to fall asleep. 
 
 There was another love, too, she had, which 
 was to her very sacred. Why she loved England 
 I need not say ; but with an ardency born of true 
 affection she delighted in reminiscences of travel 
 in that country — the dales of Derbyshire, the 
 fields of Kenilworth and Stratford, the busy 
 streets of London. And because she loved the 
 quiet, shady lane, the meadow where purls the 
 brook under the willows, the village church, 
 whose spire points ever heavenward, and whose 
 bells send their sweet melody far across the 
 country-side; the manor-houses, the inns, the 
 cottages — homes of a nation's life ; and because 
 she loved the story of that life — its romance, its 
 grandeur, its struggles, its victories — because of 
 all this, and much more, she cared for the work 
 done in this country to help and relieve distressed 
 wanderers from over the sea. With Societies 
 having such for their purpose, she was in 
 heartiest sympathy. She sometimes went to 
 their festive gatherings, listened with interest to 
 the speeches made on such occasions, and not 
 
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 iinfrequently herself uttered words which, because 
 they were fervid and helpful, always were 
 received with attention and drew forth applause. 
 But much as she may have cherished the 
 memories of England, it may be doubted if a spot 
 on earth was more dear to her than this village of 
 Gibbsboro'. Its associations were most precious 
 to her of all the associations of life. Here she 
 lived, as she told me again and again, her hap- 
 piest years and cultivated her choicest friend- 
 ships. This was home as no other place ever 
 really became; and as nowhere else, here she 
 found health and rest. She did much towards 
 reducing the dreary wild this place was when 
 first she saw it to its present finish and beauty. 
 In her husband's plans, whereby ultimately art 
 triumphed over nature, she took the profoundest 
 interest, and where perseverance and labor made 
 a garden, love and fidelity changed it into a 
 paradise. She was the good housewife, and 
 within the old home yonder were husband and 
 children, affectionate and loyal, great-hearted as 
 herself, and friends rejoiced in the hospitality 
 there given, and innocent merriment prevailed, 
 and never went away man or woman thence a 
 stranger, or with feelings other than of respect 
 
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 for the lady whose grace of disposition mani- 
 fested itself in generous deeds. I do not wish 
 to imply that her life was without its difficulties 
 — every life has such. She had the same 
 complex nature which we all have, and her will 
 and her prejudices were strong — as from her 
 forceful character they could not be otherwise; 
 but she met her difficulties heroically, and she 
 proved herself worthy of being reckoned among 
 the wise and good women whose grace is above 
 gold. Nor would I lead you to suppose that 
 gifted though she was with impulsiveness and 
 imagination, she was to any appreciable degree 
 either contemplative or sentimental. She was 
 too active, too practical, too restless, and found 
 her days too full, to indulge in visions, sweet 
 though they may be. But so quick were her 
 perceptions, so lively her sense of the beautiful 
 and so exact her appreciation of nature, that 
 she caught instantly the thought and the charm, 
 say, of a poem, a painting or a landscape. 
 Hence she understood and loved, strongly and 
 really, the picturesque surroundings of her home, 
 How she delighted in the eventide to look 
 upon the serene and shimmering waters of the 
 lake, and to watch the bending lily-leaves, and 
 
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 the splash of the wavelets, and the woods 
 beyond, rich in their summer splendor or their 
 autumnal red and gold, and the clouds tinged 
 with sun-glory resting in the blue and silent 
 sky ! She loved it all — the green lawn and the 
 spreading elm. The depth and fulness of 
 her love were shown in the last words she 
 spoke in this world— " Take me to Gibbs- 
 
 boro.' " 
 
 It was a simple utterance, but one full of 
 meaning. The river of memories rushing 
 swiftly along, then overflowed its banks. "Take 
 me to Gibbsboro'"— to the old home, to the 
 lakeside, to the birds and trees, to the little 
 church in the wilderness, to the friends 
 of bygone days, to the childhood of the 
 children, to the years of love, to the rest 
 and quiet ! She could not tell all she meant, but 
 it is plain enough — the breaking forth of 
 unutterable affection, the longing to hold back 
 for one dear moment the darkening of time's 
 twilight, the flood of sympathy, love and anxiety 
 for husband, sons and daughters, the cry of the 
 turning tide and the drooping wind. But God 
 had for her better things than even these 
 precious things of earth. The ebb of life went 
 
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 on. Loved ones wept. The angels came — and 
 they carried her away. 
 
 As I utter these words I think of the hold 
 which the truth of immortality had upon her, as 
 it must needs have upon all who consider life 
 and its future. No sermons affected her more 
 than did such as set forth the hope of glory, and 
 told of the good things which God hath prepared 
 for them that love Him. For her there was a 
 blessed home, a sweet country, a heavenly 
 Jerusalem, such as this world had never known 
 and so long as time endures can never know. 
 The grave is not the end ; beyond its gloom lies 
 the endless light — the joy and the rest which 
 they have who behold the sea and the river, clear 
 as crystal, shaded by rare and wondrous trees and 
 bordered by the sweet and pleasant flowers and 
 the streets of pure gold. In that dear land, the 
 glory of which the richest imagination can only 
 faintly suggest, the blessed inhabitants thereof, 
 untouched by sorrow or sin, shall enjoy precious 
 intercourse one with another, and above all else 
 shall see the King in His beauty. This is the 
 joy of heaven — to see God. All else is as 
 nothing compared with Him. No more seeing 
 through a glass darkly ; but face to face. With 
 
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 this assurance we know that it is not death 
 which comes to the Christian in the moment 
 when the eyes behold no more the things of 
 earth ; it is an apotheosis — a transformation of 
 the humanity of the lower life into the vigor 
 and splendor of the heavenly — a breaking of 
 clouds, of clay, of bounds, and the rush of the 
 soul, mightier than though lifted by eagle's 
 wings, to freedom, light, saintship, gladness, and 
 the presence of the Infinite and Eternal. And 
 they sing sweet songs in yonder kingdom which 
 make amends for all the tears of this world — 
 songs like the sound of many waters, full and 
 limitless and free ; and the ebb and the night 
 never come, but the flow and the day continue 
 ever, bringing joys and creating pleasures, the 
 very thought of which might well make us wish 
 that we too were there. This hope which had 
 been our departed one's gladness for many a long 
 year, which stirred her heart to its deepest 
 depths, is now for her a reality. The angels 
 came — and they carried her away. 
 
 Good reason is there for having this service on 
 this day. The festival of St. John the Baptist 
 has been obser\'ed ever in this parish ; and on 
 this day, for years past, Mrs. Lucas loved to 
 
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 gather her friends around her. And good reason, 
 too, is there that I should have sought thus to set 
 before you both the work and the character of 
 this beloved and favored woman. Her example 
 is worthy of emulation, her memory of most 
 loving care. If I have spoken more fully of 
 ideals, say, of womanhood and of the Church, it 
 is partly because she delighted in such, and 
 partly because without doing so I could not 
 fairly suggest, much less display, her life. I do 
 not suppose even now that I have said all that 
 ought to be said. You will, however, bear me 
 witness that I have nowhere exaggerated her 
 great gifts or her remarkable virtues, and 
 nowhere have I given praise that you know full 
 well she did not deserve. The world is poorer 
 for her loss. They who mourn her as a wife or 
 as a mother will indeed find that her place can 
 never be filled, but they will also discover 
 comfort in the recollection of her useful life. 
 They will remember instances of her kindliness 
 of spirit, of her generosity of love, of her gentle 
 and wise counsel, which others know nothing of. 
 They will recall, as time goes on, traits of 
 disposition and deeds of sweetness that will 
 endear to them still more her memory. They 
 
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 will think of her more tenderly, more deeply, 
 more fondly, in the coming years, when the flow 
 of grief has been stayed and the bitterness of 
 bereavement has passed away. She will be to 
 her children a restraining influence: they will 
 remember her, and will stay ere they speak the 
 word or do the deed that would bring dishonor 
 to her name ; they will remember her, and seek 
 to prove themselves worthy of such a mother. 
 And to her children's children she will become 
 an ideal, a vision of glor}^, an illustration of 
 many virtues — sacred, picturesque, inspiring, 
 helpful. A wise and good woman, her grace 
 was above gold. 
 
 The eventide comes on and the shadows 
 lengthen fast. Now, as we sing our hymn, 
 mellow and tender thoughts enter our soul — 
 subdued, unutterable, full of saddest, sweetest 
 melancholy. Soon shall the long summer day 
 be ended, and in the sky shall appear the 
 silent stars. In the night that draweth nigh, 
 peace shall fall upon the weary children of 
 earth ; but to-morrow comes God's day — promise 
 of the rest that remaineth. Therefore Hope, 
 like a kind, good angel, tarries with us — and 
 to these dear friends, who in the gathering 
 
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 twilight have lost sight of her whom they 
 love, Hope whispers comforting assurances: 
 the souls of the righteous are in the hand of 
 God; they are in peace; the care of them is 
 with the Most High ; "therefore shall they 
 receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful 
 crown from the Lord's hand : for, with His 
 right hand shall He cover them, and with His 
 arm shall He protect them." In that blessed 
 country where she is gone — where night never 
 comes, and where the wind breathes against 
 the angels' robes — she shall be led on from 
 glory to glory, until, in the Resurrection, God 
 shall give her back again to her own, 
 resplendent in the everlasting beauty, and 
 happy in the everlasting life. 
 
 God, of His infinite mercy, grant to us, dear 
 brethren, that in the day when men shall lay 
 us with our feet towards the dawn, and the 
 surpliced priest commits our body to the 
 keeping of the earth, we may enter into the 
 rest which we believe to be the heritage of 
 this good woman — beside whose grave, with 
 reverence and affection, as the flowers of 
 remembrance drop from my hand, I say, "Her 
 grace was above gold." 
 
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 PHILADELPHIA
 
 Addenda. 
 
 The following was received too late to be 
 printed in this volume : 
 
 Transcript of the Minutes, as recorded at the 
 Memorial Service, held at the Assembly Room, 
 Woman's Building, Chicago, August 2, 1893. 
 
 Mary E. McCandless, of Pennsylvania, sub- 
 mitted the following Memorial Resolutions for 
 record : 
 
 "But three days after the meeting of the Board 
 of Lady Managers, May 5th, last, Harriet Anne 
 Lucas surrendered her soul to God. High and 
 low, rich and poor, were alike to her. Mourned 
 as she is by the community in which she lived, 
 their grief is but a faint echo of the sorrow that 
 crushes her household. 
 
 "A devoted wife, a loving mother, a true 
 friend, she endeared herself to the Board of 
 Lady Managers by her personal magnetism, her 
 uniform gentleness, pleasing suavity, kindness
 
 of heart and charming courtesy. Especially was 
 she beloved by the Auxiliary Committees of 
 Pennsylvania, who felt that the Chairman ot 
 the Committee of Woman's Work was a true 
 woman, who was just to all and considered 
 the interest of the entire State, and was in 
 thorough harmony with the most remote 
 committee. 
 
 "The Pennsylvania Exhibit of Woman's 
 Work is her best monument, and each new 
 panegyric uttered in its praise is another line 
 added to her epitaph. To her colleagues, who 
 relied on her sound judgment and advice, her 
 loss is irreparable. If the blessings of her 
 friends and neighbors were flowers her grave 
 would be in perpetual bloom." 
 
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