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Lecturer and Author

audience along cheerfully from biscuits to Pi." During the Spanish war she was officially appointed as war correspondent, the first woman to be so recognized.

In 1913 she was appointed by the Governor of Oregon as a delegate to a meeting of the Great International Suffrage Alliance at Budapest, and also to the Peace Congress at the Hague. After attending these meetings she went to England, where she spent an entire season lecturing on literary and philosophical subjects to interested audiences in London, Dublin and other cities. She also gave readings from Whitman and interpretations of his poems.

In recent times her interest in Woman's Suffrage had centered upon efforts to obtain the passage by Congress of a law altering the regulations made by the states in regard to the election of national officers. An account of this effort, and of the Federal Suffrage Society, will be found in Chapters VI and IX of this book.

In the years from 1890 to 1892 a considerable interest was taken quite generally in a plan of suffrage work suggested by Judge Francis Minor of St. Louis. Miss Anthony took the matter up and asked Mrs. Colby to formulate the argument for presentation in the National Convention of 1892. This was done and a new committee, called the Federal