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REGRET that my information in regard to the career of Mrs. Chappellsmith is so limited that I shall not be able to make this sketch as interesting to those who would like to know all about her as I could wish.

But she has for so many years, most of her lifetime in fact, been so thoroughly and enthusiastically identified with the cause of Freethought, both in this country and in her native England, that I could not in justice omit her name from these sketches; and so I give to the reader the fragments which I have gleaned concerning her life.

It is years since her articles on Cooperation and other reform subjects,